Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2010

text: Did you know that Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny , son of French World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , was one of 21 sons of French marshals and generals to be killed in the First Indochina War ?
text: Did you know that the SOE assassination operation Bittern received severe criticism from the Norwegian resistance movement ?
text: Did you know that Lý Anh Tông , the sixth emperor of the Lý Dynasty , was considered the first ruler of Đại Việt who promoted Buddhism as the state religion ?
text: Did you know that after a quiet tour, ball tampering allegations and problems with the review system caused controversy in the third and fourth Tests of the England–South Africa series in 2009–10 ?
text: Did you know that Pirot -born Krastyo Krastev , the first professional Bulgarian literary critic , was a shorthand writer for the National Assembly of Bulgaria while still a schoolboy?
text: Did you know that Nallathambi marked the film debut for C. N. Annadurai , who later went on to become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ?
text: Did you know that during the 2001–02 season , Hibernian F.C. sacked manager Franck Sauzee just 69 days after he had been appointed?
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text: Did you know that at age 19, Felix Barker became the youngest drama critic working on Fleet Street ?
text: Did you know that the Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland is one of the oldest mines in the world?
text: Did you know that 28 people died in a 1922 fire in the Palacio de la Aduana in Málaga , Spain ?
text: Did you know that John Usher was called to the Bar and made an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn at the same time?
text: Did you know that the barbeled houndshark is the only shark with a spherical placenta ?
text: Did you know that if rugby union player Tom Prydie appears for Wales in the 2010 Six Nations , he will become the youngest cap in the team's history?
text: Did you know that the BBC Radio 4 panel game Act Your Age was voted by readers of the British Comedy Guide the "Worst British Radio Panel Show/Satire 2008"?
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text: Did you know that the character actor Tom Greenway , shot down as a pilot in World War II , spent more than a year in Italian and German POW camps?
text: Did you know that in Minuscule 545 iota adscript occurs up to Luke 1:77, then ceases?
text: Did you know that Concordia University in Portland, Oregon , is opening a law school in Boise, Idaho ?
text: Did you know that the land on which Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl , Mexico, stands was under Lake Texcoco until the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the 1925 Rochester Jeffersons season included the final seven games of a twenty-three game streak without a victory?
text: Did you know that the hieroglyphic inscriptions at the Early Classic Maya city of Bejucal in northern Guatemala were all made within a narrow 40-year period?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama 's most recent State of the Union address was almost scheduled to preempt the broadcast of " LA X ", the final season premiere of the television show Lost ?
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text: Did you know that the omissions due to homoioteleuton are unusually frequent in Minuscule 544 ?
text: Did you know that Fritz Bultman , an original Abstract Expressionist of the New York School , missed a photo shoot for the Life magazine article that established his colleagues' reputations?
text: Did you know that Guyanese president Forbes Burnham was president of the Guyana Labour Union twice, from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1963 to 1965?
text: Did you know that the character actor Tom Greenway , shot down as a pilot in World War II , spent more than a year in Italian and German POW camps?
text: Did you know that Elders Colonial Airways ceased flying to Bathurst in The Gambia after its Short Scion Senior sank in the city's harbour in August 1939?
text: Did you know that John Douglas ' design for 78–94 Foregate Street, Chester was so unlike any of his previous architectural styles that it "shocked the City Council Improvement Committee"?
text: Did you know that David Haig-Thomas who rowed for Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics was an ornithologist, arctic explorer and commando officer who was killed in action on D-Day ?
text: Did you know that during the 1960s Air Guinée was managed by Alaska Airlines and Pan American World Airways , each for a short time?
text: Did you know that basketball player Bill Spivey sued the National Basketball Association and its commissioner in 1960, claiming that the league blacklisted him?
text: Did you know that in 1894, after the Pall Mall Gazette mocked what became the Viking Society for Northern Research , a member wrote, "The fiercest warriors, even savages, drink tea and coffee nowadays"?
text: Did you know that settlement money given to the city to close the Harbour Island People Mover was utilized in the creation of an endowment to cover the operating costs of the TECO Line Streetcar in Tampa, Florida ?
text: Did you know that Charles Terront used a prototype pneumatic tyre made by Edouard Michelin when he won the inaugural Paris-Brest-Paris cycle race in 1891?
text: Did you know that on the brink of the American Civil War , there was a movement in the mid-Atlantic states to secede from the Union and form a Central Confederacy ?
text: Did you know that John Smith , a noted 18th century London housebreaker , managed to avoid execution three times, and was eventually transported to Virginia ?
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text: Did you know that in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment ?
text: Did you know that when Townsville financial advice company Storm Financial collapsed in 2009, victims included cricketer Andrew Symonds , who lost at least AU $1 million?
text: Did you know that former actress Esme Church founded a theatre school in Bradford, England, where stars such as Tom Bell , Bernard Hepton and Robert Stephens received their training?
text: Did you know that the mayors of six Parisian suburbs took part in founding the Socialist-Communist Union in 1923?
text: Did you know that the Alfie Atkins children's book series by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström has been translated into twenty-nine different languages and sold over eight million copies worldwide?
text: Did you know that if anyone appeals to the Pashtunwali doctrine of Nanawatai , even his sworn enemy will have to give him sanctuary ?
text: Did you know that Arne Rettedal , county mayor of Rogaland from 1988 to 1991, died on the birthday of his successor Odd Arild Kvaløy ?
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text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Lawson Swearingen in 1990 cast one of three critical votes to sustain Governor Buddy Roemer 's veto of a restrictive anti- abortion bill?
text: Did you know that the 900 South station was the first infill station constructed as part of the UTA TRAX light rail system in Salt Lake City , Utah ?
text: Did you know that Shenandoah and Alison Krauss ' " Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart " won a Grammy Award in 1995, and its b-side " Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do) " was also nominated for one?
text: Did you know that in 1916, William Gilbert Gosling ' s 12-man governing commission of St. John's, Newfoundland , allowed for legal proceedings to be instigated against the town's tax evaders ?
text: Did you know that the Hill 50 Gold Mine was Australia 's most profitable mine between 1955 and 1961?
text: Did you know that during the construction of the Manila Film Center , its scaffolding collapsed, where at least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement?
text: Did you know that Diane Keaton accepted the lead role in Sister Mary Explains It All because she thought she couldn't do it?
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text: Did you know that one of the patrons of The Ypres League was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom , whose son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg , had died in World War I at the First Battle of Ypres ?
text: Did you know that Bob Matthewson , an English footballer and referee , was recently portrayed in the 2009 film The Damned United ?
text: Did you know that forty-three butchers' shops were built around the outside of Borough Market in Halifax , England, along with three pubs ?
text: Did you know that Bracetti Plaza , an NYCHA development in the East Village , New York City , is named after Mariana Bracetti ?
text: Did you know that Scorpions were transported to Cyprus in 1974 to protect the British Sovereign Base Areas during the Turkish Invasion ?
text: Did you know that 13-year-old Emer Jones ' s "Research and Development of Emergency Sandbag Shelters" helped her win the 2008 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition , the youngest ever and her school's debut?
text: Did you know that the Nanodragster is a nanocar which is 50,000 times thinner than a human hair and has a top speed of 0.014 millimeters per hour?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. H. Lawrence Gibbs in 1956 authored legislation which outlawed social events and athletic contests including both African Americans and whites?
text: Did you know that the blind crustacean Polycheles typhlops preys on fish and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an ambush predator ?
text: Did you know that when James Cudworth introduced the 0-4-4T to the South Eastern Railway , they were the first locomotives of this wheel arrangement in England ?
text: Did you know that Starobrno Brewery annually produces a special batch of green beer distributed only on Maundy Thursday ?
text: Did you know that despite being a famous pre-war career criminal with a very controversial war record, Johannes "The Yellow Cheese" Andersen gained the friendship and patronage of King Haakon VII of Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish zoo Skånes Djurpark displays almost a hundred different animal species, most of which are part of the Nordic fauna?
text: Did you know that Chekhov 's White Dacha in Yalta , where he wrote his finest works, was visited by Leo Tolstoy , Feodor Chaliapin , Sergei Rachmaninoff , Maxim Gorky , Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin ?
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text: Did you know that Bredtveit is one of three women's prisons in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the cap of the mushroom Xeromphalina campanella resembles a navel when the mushroom matures?
text: Did you know that after retiring from professional wrestling , Ida Mae Martinez was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients?
text: Did you know that the out-of-service Fairmount Avenue station building still wears the same coat of paint it received in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Naguib , who would later lead a coup d'état in Egypt , was relieved of his command of a brigade for its failures in the Second Battle of Negba ?
text: Did you know that the American Delta blues pianist and singer , Willie Love , never employed his musician friend, Sonny Boy Williamson II , on any of his own recordings ?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Ian Brennan wrote the first draft of the musical comedy-drama Glee with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies ?
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text: Did you know that the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver , Colorado , in 1868?
text: Did you know that 13 and 14-year-old Liam McCarthy and John D. O'Callaghan achieved fame in 2009 for "The Development of a Convenient Test Method for Somatic Cell Count and Its Importance In Milk Production"?
text: Did you know that L'ange de Nisida , an opera semiseria by Gaetano Donizetti , was completed but never performed due to the bankruptcy of the theater company Donizetti contracted?
text: Did you know that in 1991, John C. Ensminger of Monroe defeated Frank Snellings, the husband of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu , for a seat in the Louisiana State Senate ?
text: Did you know that after decommissioning, the Commandant's Quarters of the Dearborn Arsenal was used as a library, American Legion hall, town hall, police station, school, newspaper office, and finally a museum ?
text: Did you know that American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield , who completed his college career for Wisconsin in 2009 , is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie Holliday and Bobby Engram ?
text: Did you know that United States Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia reportedly hates the word " choate " , because it is a back-formation from " inchoate "?
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text: Did you know that John Haworth is the only Burnley manager to date to have led the team to an FA Cup victory?
text: Did you know that the Classic Period Maya site of El Zotz , in Guatemala , takes its name from the enormous quantity of bats that live in a cave under the ruins?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Gillian Welch met her musical partner David Rawlings at a successful audition for the only country band at Berklee College of Music ?
text: Did you know that many of the canopies at the light rail transit stations in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah are designed to resemble the canopy of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building ?
text: Did you know that William Ashwell Shenstone , a published chemist , listed "experimental work" among his recreations in Who's Who ?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese Socialist Party was the sole political party tolerated by the military regime after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état ?
text: Did you know that Donald Goerke invented SpaghettiOs , choosing the "O" over pasta shaped like baseballs, cowboys, and spacemen, and later ran the company's dog food division?
text: Did you know that the Swetman House was known as the "architectural gem" of Seward, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that John Sheridan commanded the bomb vessel HMS Terror during the Battle of Baltimore , the action that inspired the writing of the poem that became " The Star-Spangled Banner "?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Barricades was shelved for three years by Israeli television because of the controversy that would result from airing it?
text: Did you know that centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010?
text: Did you know that former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was initially delighted by the 1975 Stringband song " Dief Will Be the Chief Again " but later refused to comment about it?
text: Did you know that when GNU Oleo became officially part of the GNU Project , a 1996 article in iX magazine dubbed it as "GNU's response to Excel"?
text: Did you know that Jan C. Gabriel is credited for the tagline "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!", along with bringing NASCAR and NHRA to television?
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text: Did you know that coal accounts for 86% of South Africa 's carbon dioxide emissions ?
text: Did you know that Jon Hippe , who suggested higher taxes as a way to reduce the gap between rich and poor, was appointed leader of the Norwegian Financial Crisis Committee by the Ministry of Finance ?
text: Did you know that the Philippine Commission on Elections cited the Bible and the Koran to disqualify the Ang Ladlad LGBT Party from the 2010 party-list election ?
text: Did you know that Victorian psychiatrist L. Forbes Winslow was involved in the cases of Jack the Ripper , Percy Lefroy Mapleton , Florence Maybrick , and Amelia Dyer ?
text: Did you know that in 1920 Hungarian socialists such as Sándor Garbai , Zsigmond Kunfi and Vilmos Böhm , exiled after the crushing of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , founded the Világosság émigré group?
text: Did you know that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui , Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that Cultivator No. 6 was an enormous fighting machine conceived by Winston Churchill and developed in Britain early in World War II ?
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text: Did you know that the March 18–20, 1956 nor'easter left snow drifts 14 ft (4.3 m) high?
text: Did you know that Enoch Cobb left land in his will to be used to raise funds that would benefit public school students of the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that US Project Exploration received a Presidential Award for creating collaborations between scientists and students, especially girls and minorities, traditionally underrepresented in science?
text: Did you know that after scouting him at South Carolina , current Philadelphia Eagles running backs coach Ted Williams advised the Eagles to take Duce Staley with a third-round draft pick in the 1997 NFL Draft ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Justin II had his cousin, the general and former consul Justin , murdered in his sleep as a potential rival to the throne?
text: Did you know that The Black Pearl , a 1996 limited series comic book written by Mark Hamill and Eric Johnson, was originally written as a screenplay ?
text: Did you know that the Suite Vollard in Curitiba , Brazil , is the only building in the world in which floors can independently rotate 360° in either direction?
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text: Did you know that Andy Hayman , the police officer in charge of investigating the 7 July 2005 London bombings , was awarded the CBE for his role?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Barbara of 1953 uprooted trees left standing intact after the more intense Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 ?
text: Did you know that the assembly of the Vermont Republic voted in June 1781 to expand its borders into parts of New Hampshire and New York during the Haldimand Affair ?
text: Did you know that John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond , rescued Edward II of England from being captured by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Old Byland ?
text: Did you know that the Great Western Railway operated ships in connection with their trains to provide services to Ireland , the Channel Islands and France ?
text: Did you know that seed of the flowering shrub Banksia dryandroides made its way from King George Sound to the United Kingdom, before it was finally described from plants growing in Bayswater , then a London suburb?
text: Did you know that after being stranded by Ghana Airways at Banjul's international airport , a group of disgruntled passengers threatened to burn the airline's aircraft and offices at the airport?
text: Did you know that the English Statute of York has been described as "the end of a period of revolutionary experiments in English government"?
text: Did you know that HMS Alcmene 's surgeon for nearly five years was William Beatty , who in 1805 attended the dying Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian Seamen's Church in San Pedro, California , is visited by the crews of about 160 Norwegian ships every year?
text: Did you know that the 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes in British Columbia , Canada , are the only recorded earthquakes in the Canadian Cordillera away from the coast resulting from magma moving in the Earth?
text: Did you know that Samuel Fox helped start the first free adult school in Britain, at Nottingham in 1798?
text: Did you know that National Bolshevik Ernst Niekisch played an important role in formulating the ideological line of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany ?
text: Did you know that Syrian-American Mohammed Loay Bayazid , a former member of al-Qaeda , was noted for "always teasing bin Laden"?
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text: Did you know that in 1974 an Air Mali Ilyushin Il-18 crashed after performing a night-time forced landing on the road from Ouagadougou to Niamey , killing at least 47 people?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 543 , a manuscript of the four Gospels , has additional non-biblical material – Limits of the Five Patriarchates ?
text: Did you know that Milorg pioneer Arne Laudal , who was shot at Trandumskogen in 1944, was honoured with the British King's Commendation for Brave Conduct ?
text: Did you know that according to the 10th century Jain text Dravyasamgraha , the three jewels of Jainism —rational perception, rational knowledge and rational conduct—are essential for achieving liberation ?
text: Did you know that Aaslaug Aasland was Norway 's first female head of a government ministry ?
text: Did you know that the English Statute of Enrolments , believed to have been emergency legislation, contains no preamble and was drafted by the Clerk of the House of Commons rather than a legislator?
text: Did you know that Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha has described the decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt as "an issue of national security"?
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text: Did you know that David Thomas Lenox was the captain of the first wagon train on the Oregon Trail to travel all the way to Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Thor , scheduled for release in 2011, was envisioned and pitched to 20th Century Fox as early as 1990?
text: Did you know that clan tradition states that Iain Borb MacLeod was wounded in the head at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411 and that the wound's reoccurring bleeding caused his death 31 years later?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1914 that American football player Walter Rheinschild had been rated as "the highest salaried amateur athlete in the business"?
text: Did you know that the Stark County Courthouse and the Zanesville Federal Building are both listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and designed by architect George F. Hammond ?
text: Did you know that in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln 's vision for African-American emigration to Central America ?
text: Did you know that a recent outbreak of "hat mania" surrounding RTÉ reporter Paul Cunningham 's "woolly pancake" from "Pakistan's tribal areas" has led to a Facebook campaign for fans to gather in their own hats?
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text: Did you know that 2001's European of the Year Tommie Gorman 's half hour interview with a central figure in the 2002 Roy Keane incident became the most viewed television programme of May 2002?
text: Did you know that Bank Buildings , in Birkenhead , Merseyside , England, was built by the Bank of Liverpool , later occupied by Martins Bank , and now houses shops and offices?
text: Did you know that despite damage from a tramway , the Deffenbaugh Site is one of the most valuable archaeological sites in Fayette County, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that in 1985 the Canadian company Sound Ideas became the first to release a sound effects library on compact disc ?
text: Did you know that the Mastaba of Mereruka , Vizier to king Teti of the sixth dynasty Old Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt , is the largest and most elaborate of all the non-royal tombs in Saqqara ?
text: Did you know that Z Special Unit member F. G. L. Chester gained the nickname "Gort" due to his physical resemblance to the British Army Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort ?
text: Did you know that the American wine critic Robert Parker is credited with popularizing the use of numerical wine ratings ?
text: Did you know that attorney William Lair Hill codified the laws of both the states of Oregon and Washington ?
text: Did you know that the krill species Euphausia crystallorophias was first described from specimens caught from a hole bored during Robert Falcon Scott 's Discovery expedition ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian journalist Ivar Hippe is friends with the current Labour Prime Minister of Norway , Jens Stoltenberg ?
text: Did you know that at the Dong Xuan night market in Hanoi , one can not only buy goods but also enjoy traditional performances such as ca trù or xẩm ?
text: Did you know that the Chester architect John Douglas showed his designs for Wrexham Road Farm, Eccleston , and Saighton Lane Farm at the Royal Academy in 1888?
text: Did you know that in 2001 the Richland County Public Library was named National Library of the Year by the Library Journal and the Gale Group ?
text: Did you know that one of the victims in a recent rare shooting in Habikino , Osaka Prefecture , Japan , was the gunman's mother-in-law?
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text: Did you know that Vimcy received an award from the Kerala State Sports Council for his lifelong contributions to sports journalism ?
text: Did you know that Mallee Cliffs National Park has no public access in order to preserve the mallee eucalyptus habitat of the mallee fowl ?
text: Did you know that poet Simbo Olorunfemi ' s Rhythm of the Coins was described as "a promise that the Nigerian literary scene is not entirely off-course?"
text: Did you know that the Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis , a 12th-century chronicle from Abingdon Abbey , describes the collapse of the abbey's church tower and the narrow escape the monks had?
text: Did you know that Napaljarri artists include Biddy , Daisy , Susie , Kowai , Wentja , Peggy , Doris , Parara , Eileen , Louisa , Lucy , Helen , Linda , Kitty , Sheila , Valerie , Maggie , Topsy , Nora , Ada , Ngoia , Molly , Mona and Norah ?
text: Did you know that the Jain polemic Tamil epic Neelakesi was written as a rebuttal to the Buddhist epic Kundalakesi ?
text: Did you know that Grete Prytz Kittelsen is known as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design "?
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text: Did you know that Northwestern University's appearance in the 2003 Motor City Bowl marked the first time a Big Ten team played in that bowl game ?
text: Did you know that the electors of Inuvik Boot Lake have not voted in a Northwest Territories general election since 1999 , as in every election since only one candidate has registered to run?
text: Did you know that the Star Wars video game Flight of the Falcon lets the player pilot not only the Millennium Falcon , but also an X-wing , a landspeeder , and a speeder bike ?
text: Did you know that an 1867 Tintara claret became the oldest surviving bottle of Australian wine after the previous record holder was accidentally broken by a Christie's office cleaner?
text: Did you know that Brad Johnson , the deputy Lofty Craig on the western TV series Annie Oakley , portrayed one of six unnamed students in Ronald Reagan 's 1951 film Bedtime for Bonzo ?
text: Did you know that the pebble-mound mice of northern Australia construct mounds of stones around their burrows up to 10 m 2 in area?
text: Did you know that Basil Hayden was not only the University of Kentucky's first All-American basketball player, but probably also its shortest?
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text: Did you know that the schools designed by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster in Eccleston and Waverton , Cheshire , are considered to be the best of his village schools?
text: Did you know that in November 1931, American country blues harmonicist Eddie Mapp was found stabbed to death at the age of 20 on an Atlanta , Georgia , street corner?
text: Did you know that the molecularly distinct Abrotrichini group of South American rodents was not recognized as distinct from the Akodontini until the 1990s?
text: Did you know that construction innovator Olav Selvaag started Norway 's first music school?
text: Did you know that the passage of the A.B. 390 by California 's Public Safety Committee marked the first time in United States history that a bill legalizing marijuana passed a legislative committee?
text: Did you know that Frederick Hobbs , after singing leading roles from 1914 to 1920 with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , became its stage manager and then business manager for the last two decades of his life?
text: Did you know that the Cucuteni-Trypillian people experienced a considerable abundance of food , which contributed to why they had no evidence of war throughout their entire existence?
text: Did you know that Nicolas Andry gave the field of orthopedic surgery its name with his 1741 book Orthopédie ?
text: Did you know that parts 2 and 3 of the BBC television documentary series Berlin were watched by approximately one million people in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Yakubu Mu'azu is one of a group of Nigerian former military administrators who formed the United Nigeria Development Forum, a political pressure group ?
text: Did you know that upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts , Hayato Matsuo went straight to work under Koichi Sugiyama , the composer for the Dragon Quest video game series?
text: Did you know that the last known specimen of the Styre , a once-famous variety of cider apple , was felled in 1968?
text: Did you know that Endre Berner , Bjørn Føyn , Carl Jacob Arnholm , Eiliv Skard , Harald K. Schjelderup and Anatol Heintz were among the professors at the University of Oslo who were arrested by Nazis during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Captain George Eyre narrowly escaped death in 1810, when he was hit in the head by a musket ball and three others passed through his clothes?
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text: Did you know that when 30 Bridge Street, Chester was rebuilt in 1890, it was unique at that period in the city because it was no higher than the building it replaced?
text: Did you know that, in Montreal , since a shish taouk is not grilled on a skewer, it would better be called a chicken shawarma ?
text: Did you know that in 2001, when Nina Frisak became the first female leader of the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister , she left the position of Supreme Court Justice ?
text: Did you know that in rodents , the position of the zygomatic plate varies from nearly horizontal to nearly vertical?
text: Did you know that Ossetian jurist and politician Alan Parastaev has been a member of the governments of both South Ossetia and Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Towers Watson is world's largest employee-benefits consulting firm by revenue?
text: Did you know that up to 2 million illegal immigrants are estimated to live in Pakistan 's commercial capital Karachi alone?
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text: Did you know that although he has composed music for over 20 video games and conducts the Video Games Live concert series, Jack Wall has a degree in civil engineering ?
text: Did you know that embryonic development in the bluntnose stingray does not start until several months after mating ?
text: Did you know that the Toledo Rockets played the Boston College Eagles in the 2002 Motor City Bowl , the first time that a bowl game was played in then-new Ford Field ?
text: Did you know that the palm Aiphanes deltoidea , which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts of Colombia , Peru and Brazil , is present at such low densities that it is considered a rare species ?
text: Did you know that in 2009, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Enuk Pauloosie called on the Government of Nunavut to ban all of its employees from flying Air Canada to support Canada's northern airlines?
text: Did you know that Yale University 's Street Hall (1867), designed by architect Peter Bonnett Wight , was the first collegiate art school in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the Italian producer Azienda Agricola Testamatta once had a wine banned in the U.S. because of its label's suggestive imagery that included the Firenze slang term for fellatio ?
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text: Did you know that despite allowing the second most goals in the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships , Swiss goalie Benjamin Conz was selected an all-star and named the best goaltender of the tournament?
text: Did you know that during the Great Northern War , the army that relieved the Siege of Stralsund was forced to surrender when trapped in the Siege of Tönning ?
text: Did you know that musical style of Czech singer Zuzana Navarová was inspired by Latin American music ?
text: Did you know that the town of Chase, Wisconsin , purchased the Daniel E. Krause Stone Barn and it is planning to create a park to preserve this historic barn?
text: Did you know that Julius Gehl , the vice president of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig , was a mason by profession?
text: Did you know that longnose stingrays are born in relatively fresh water , move into saltier water soon after, and then move back into less salty water when they mature ?
text: Did you know that St Cuthbert , according to the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto , caused a Scottish army preparing to fight King Guthred of Northumbria to be swallowed up by the earth?
text: Did you know that in response to the growing National Socialist influence, the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig formed a 4,500-man strong paramilitary force?
text: Did you know that the 2005 Liberty Bowl was the first time Fresno State played a college football bowl game east of the Mississippi River ?
text: Did you know that now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea ?
text: Did you know that although Esenbeckia runyonii is common in parts of Mexico 's Sierra Madre Oriental , the type specimen was collected from a disjunct population of trees in the Rio Grande Valley , Texas ?
text: Did you know that St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex , was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?
text: Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote his novels Bleak House , Hard Times , Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities at his Tavistock House home?
text: Did you know that in response to sightings of Osama bin Laden in the United States , his face was added to facial recognition programs for the 2002 Olympics ?
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text: Did you know that Castle Green in London was named after a castellated house built from around 1800 that survived until 1938?
text: Did you know that Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu , the head of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , is also a member of parliament from Antalya Province ?
text: Did you know that Nigeria 's Bakolori irrigation project , one of the world's most expensive irrigation schemes , adversely affected downstream farming in the floodplains?
text: Did you know that there was a Czech section of the Austrian Republikanischer Schutzbund , associated with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in Austria ?
text: Did you know that British literary critic Clement King Shorter turned his large Brontë -related literary collection into four books on the sisters?
text: Did you know that landslides from the 1981 Irian Jaya earthquake destroyed 150 homes and cut off transportation for more than 2,000 people?
text: Did you know that Olympic freestyle skier Patrick Deneen first skied when he was only 11 months old?
text: Did you know00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the cover of The Byrds ' compilation album, History of The Byrds , features the same David Gahr photograph as the band's Greatest Hits, Volume II album, which had been released just six months earlier?
text: Did you know that comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York 's comedians?
text: Did you know that the present-day Honduran island of Roatán was the site of a battle in the American War of Independence on March 16, 1782?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Ángel Blanco was killed in a car accident that left his long-time tag team partner Dr. Wagner an invalid ?
text: Did you know that Hunter-Schreger bands strengthen the enamel of the incisor in rodents ?
text: Did you know that the American photographer Kenneth Josephson is one of the founding members of the Society for Photographic Education?
text: Did you know that Prince Rupert 's white poodle Boye was given the rank of Sergeant-Major-General , and was believed by some to be the Devil in disguise?
text: Did you know00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Justinian plotted twice to overthrow Emperor Tiberius II , but was pardoned both times when the plot was discovered?
text: Did you know that Nottingham Catchfly is the county flower of Nottingham , even though it is not found anywhere in Nottinghamshire ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand 's historic Arapuni Suspension Bridge received little mention when under construction as it was part of a much larger project?
text: Did you know that Rhodesian cricketer Ray Gripper 's score of 279 not out in a 1968 game against Orange Free State was a Currie Cup record?
text: Did you know that 51 armed mercenaries attempting to overthrow President France-Albert René in 1981 travelled to Seychelles on board a Royal Swazi National Airways flight?
text: Did you know that Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is widely credited with isolation of zinc though he was not the first to achieve that?
text: Did you know that in order to play for the All-American Basketball Alliance , one must be a natural-born US citizen "with both parents of Caucasian race "?
text: Did you know that the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911, establishing a new record time?
text: Did you know that the first Premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , Hiram Blanchard , served for less than three months before his party was defeated in an election?
text: Did you know that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat survived the crash of an Air Bissau aircraft during a sandstorm in the Libyan desert in 1992?
text: Did you know that Orval Prophet was among the earliest Canadian country music artists who recorded in a Nashville, Tennessee , studio?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre- Holocene era in Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that Andy White replaced Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles 's first single , " Love Me Do "?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Clavariadelphus truncatus contains clavaric acid, which slows tumor development in mice ?
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text: Did you know that former strongman Joe Rollino , who died at the age of 104, earned five medals, including three Purple Hearts , for military service during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the German chemist Rudolf Christian Böttger synthesised the first organocopper compound, the explosive copper(I) acetylide Cu 2 C 2 , in 1859?
text: Did you know that Australian government approval of the sale of mining assets including Golden Grove Mine to a Chinese corporation was only given when Prominent Hill Mine was excluded on national security grounds?
text: Did you know that a 19th-century antiquary considered that a saga character named Ljótólfr was the eponymous ancestor of the Clan MacLeod ?
text: Did you know that many rice rats have pits at the back of their palates recessed into a deep depression?
text: Did you know that despite describing county cricket as being "a little over done", Joseph Gibbs made five first-class appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club ?
text: Did you know that Indians perform the second most Google searches for Ayn Rand after Americans ?
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text: Did you know that the start and finish of the Via Crucis in Seville, Spain , have both changed over the years, as has the number of stations of the cross represented?
text: Did you know that Michigan halfback Paul Magoffin later coached the George Washington "Hatchetites" on the White House Ellipse ?
text: Did you know that the yellow nectar of the western Australian wildflower Banksia sphaerocarpa congeals to a thick, olive-green mucus?
text: Did you know that upon completion in 1151, Anping Bridge in present-day Fujian was the longest bridge in China till 1905?
text: Did you know that psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel , whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical therapy, used " Sybil " as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University ?
text: Did you know that thousands of people watched the Action of 31 July 1793 between British and French frigates from the New Jersey shoreline?
text: Did you know that Roxxxy , described as the world's first sex robot , has an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes?
text: Did you know00, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the corporate chambers in interwar Estonia were inspired by the example of Fascist Italy ?
text: Did you know that while at Leeds University , the late Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer wrote a satirical column for the student newspaper titled "Rupert Hamer on Friday"?
text: Did you know that the destroyer HMS Thanet evacuated Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, just hours after the Japanese began their attack ?
text: Did you know that the daisy and pearl stingrays are characterized by a "pearl spine", an enlarged dermal denticle in the middle of their backs?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Vitalian led a large-scale revolt against Emperor Anastasius I , was pardoned and named consul by his successor, Justin I , and was murdered seven months into his consulship?
text: Did you know that South Africa beat Hong Kong in the final of the 2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes by hitting a six off the last ball of the match?
text: Did you know that the last execution by firing squad in France took place in 1963 at Fort d'Ivry in Ivry-sur-Seine , Paris ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian SOE agent Odd Starheim was killed in 1943 when the coastal steamer he and his team had seized off the coast of occupied Norway was sunk by German bombers ?
text: Did you know that Spanish naval officer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán led an expedition in 1779 to Alaska , and performed a formal ceremony of possession at present-day Port Etches ?
text: Did you know that Cathy Davey "despised" performing the songs from her debut album Something Ilk live?
text: Did you know that Beccariophoenix alfredii , a newly discovered species of palm tree native to Madagascar , has a similar appearance to the Coconut palm , but is cold hardier ?
text: Did you know that one of Canada's most prolific mass murderers , Dale Nelson , had been still hiding at the scene of his first killing when police left the scene?
text: Did you know that the video game Obi-Wan's Adventures chronicles the events of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , but from the perspective of Obi-Wan Kenobi ?
text: Did you know that Manchester United Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri , originally had separate doors for men and women?
text: Did you know00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Tim Westoll painted more than ten thousand bird species in watercolour ?
text: Did you know that tufo is a Mozambican dance said to have originated when the Islamic prophet Mohammed migrated to Medina ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628 critically weakened both the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires, allowing the rapid Muslim conquest of Persia , the Middle East, and North Africa ?
text: Did you know that the medieval English monk Thomas of Marlborough wrote the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham to help Evesham Abbey's legal case against Mauger, Bishop of Worcester ?
text: Did you know that Betsy Warland edited a collection of essays named InVersions: Writing by Dykes, Queers and Lesbians which was published in 1991?
text: Did you know that animals recorded from Australian Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary and adjacent waters include the Masked Owl , Spectacled Hare-wallaby , Loggerhead Turtle and Shovelnose Shark ?
text: Did you know that the Lawless Court had only natural light and charcoal to see and write with, could only end its session when a cock crowed, and arose after the local lord discovered a plot to murder him?
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text: Did you know that the books of educator and mayor of Holmestrand, Norway , Fredrik Ording (1870–1929), were still being reissued as late as 1974?
text: Did you know that during certain points in a grapevine's growing season , irrigation is often withheld in order to put the vine through water stress because it is believed to improve wine grape quality?
text: Did you know that Ilya Chaiken's film Liberty Kid won Critics' Pick from both The New York Times and New York magazine ?
text: Did you know that John Ash partially owed his 1865 election to the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island to the Hudson's Bay Company , whose employees constituted the majority of the voting population?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 541 , a fragmentary manuscript of the New Testament, has an unusual number of iotacistic errors?
text: Did you know that 1090 Vermont Avenue was one of five new structures built in the late 1970s which helped rejuvenate Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that the acronym Vorb contained in Tama Easton 's popular New Zealand internet forum vorb.org.nz stands for "Vaguely Organised – Ride Bikes"?
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text: Did you know that the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing , West Sussex , occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel?
text: Did you know that Waddell Wilson built the engine used in the first NASCAR car to exceed 200 miles per hour (320 km/h)?
text: Did you know that although nebulium was discovered spectroscopically in 1864, it took until 1927 to show that it was actually doubly-ionized oxygen ?
text: Did you know that during the 1880s , businessman Guillaume Bresse joined a syndicate which bought a railway from the Quebec government, and sold it to Canadian Pacific Railway for substantial profits?
text: Did you know that the eggs of the Oceanic Gecko have a long incubation period and may take up to 115 days to hatch?
text: Did you know that Rock 'n' Roll Prophet , the only album on which Rick Wakeman sang lead vocals, received criticising reviews that described it as "goofy", "novelty", and like "pressing the self-destruct button"?
text: Did you know that the defunct Wichita Wind ice hockey team once had their coach and a public relations employee on their roster?
text: Did you know that the Gaelic Athletic Association 's inter county championships have taken place since 1887?
text: Did you know that Elton John created the name by which he became famous out of the names of two of the musicians in his previous band Bluesology ?
text: Did you know that Richard Reid , who in 2001 attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoes aboard an aeroplane , used to attend the Brixton Mosque in London , England ?
text: Did you know that plans for St Werburgh's Mount, Chester , should have been submitted at the same time as those for St Werburgh Chambers , but were delayed because its architect John Douglas was ill?
text: Did you know that Israeli chess Grandmaster Ronen Har-Zvi first met his wife playing online chess at the Internet Chess Club ?
text: Did you know that the Schnütgen Museum of religious art in Cologne was founded with the collection of a priest known for his "zealous and sometimes crafty collection tactics"?
text: Did you know that disagreements about the appointment of Johannes Ording as theology professor at Royal Frederick University sparked the foundation of a new school of theology ?
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text: Did you know that King Vasabha (67–111 AD) started a new dynasty and pioneered the construction of large scale irrigation works in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in Galaţi County , the first in Moldavia (eastern Romania ) since 1937?
text: Did you know that the actor - stuntman Paul Stader broke both heels when he fell from the second floor of a burning building in the filming of the 1949 movie Mighty Joe Young ?
text: Did you know that the Ekaterina II -class battleship Georgii Pobedonosets was the only ship of her class to use guns in battle when she fired three rounds at the Goeben during her bombardment of Sevastopol in 1914?
text: Did you know that Togolese painter and sculptor Paul Ahyi , who designed the flag of Togo , was inducted as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2009?
text: Did you know that Meru Betiri National Park in East Java is known as the last habitat of the Javan Tiger which is now considered extinct ?
text: Did you know that future National Hockey League player Tom Martin was traded by his junior team in exchange for a bus?
text: Did you know00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the actor Tyler MacDuff played Billy the Kid in the 1954 film The Boy from Oklahoma , which inspired the Sugarfoot television series ?
text: Did you know that Robbins Island is the largest freehold island in the Australian state of Tasmania ?
text: Did you know that at age 10, fiddler Ruby Jane Smith became the youngest invited player to perform at the Grand Ole Opry ?
text: Did you know that the Topos de Tlatelolco volunteer professional search and rescue team is in Haiti assisting with relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the sixteen-year cabinet term of Stephen Kakfwi is the longest in the Northwest Territories ' history?
text: Did you know that Yukon Eric lost part of his ear after a botched move in a professional wrestling match against Wladek Kowalski ?
text: Did you know that the Gymnasticon was an eighteenth-century exercise machine claimed by its inventor to effectively treat gout , palsy , and other illnesses?
text: Did you know00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King rebounded from the 1931 Beauharnois scandal to be elected to another 13 years in office?
text: Did you know that Mel Brooks credited Sidney Glazier , the producer of the original The Producers , as "the man who made it happen"?
text: Did you know that the February 1969 nor'easter resulted in the first time in history that the New York Stock Exchange closed for a full day due to the weather?
text: Did you know that Henry Stafford became 1st Baron Stafford despite his father being executed for treason ?
text: Did you know that Mickey Cochrane is the only catcher in Major League Baseball history with at least 3,000 plate appearances and a career .400 on-base percentage ?
text: Did you know that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince , in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti )?
text: Did you know that despite being fired from his first job, English entrepreneur Ray Ingleby was a millionaire by the age of 21?
text: Did you know that in the Border Cave of Swaziland a 35,000 years old tally stick was found in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Rudyard Kipling 's 1922 poem, The King's Pilgrimage , describes a journey made by King George V to the World War I cemeteries and memorials being built in France and Belgium?
text: Did you know that due to the insistence of Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose , the record of debates in the Senate of Canada was translated into French as early as 1877 ?
text: Did you know that the European great raft spider eats small fish and tadpoles ?
text: Did you know that because of the Rwandan Genocide , Air Rwanda stopped operating domestic flights within Rwanda in 1994?
text: Did you know that comedian Will Arnett starred alongside his real-life wife Amy Poehler in the Parks and Recreation episode, " The Set-Up "?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Charles Kleibacker earned the nickname "Master of the Bias " for the complex designs of his women's clothing, carefully cut from fabric at a diagonal to the weave?
text: Did you know00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa did not miss a single appearance in his 36 years as the host of TV Asahi 's Sunday Western Movie Theatre until a week before his death?
text: Did you know that the origins of the baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège , usually dated 1107–1118, have been much disputed by art historians ?
text: Did you know that Eunice W. Johnson , who created Ebony together with husband John H. Johnson in the 1940s, suggested the magazine's title to match that of the fine black ebony wood?
text: Did you know that the tail of the Indonesian Long-tailed Starling can be longer than its body?
text: Did you know that researcher Günther Theischinger broke his ribs while on a trip to Tasmania to search for the larva of the dragonfly Synthemiopsis ?
text: Did you know that Afro-Abkhazians may be related to the descendants of Ethiopian Jews , and place names of Abkhazia resemble those in Ethiopia?
text: Did you know that Charles Benham invented a "miniature twin elliptic pendulum harmonograph " described as being "a good means of entertaining friends at home or elsewhere"?
text: Did you know00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that architects in the Pretzinger family designed several buildings in Dayton, Ohio , that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places , including the Dayton Daily News Building ?
text: Did you know that Making Our Economy Right , a free market think tank in Bangladesh , was established in 1991 by Nizam Ahmad?
text: Did you know that the founder of Nassau Valley Vineyards had to lobby the Delaware legislature and even draft the bill that overturned the state's Prohibition-era laws which banned wine production?
text: Did you know that architect George J. Wimberly came to Hawaii in 1940 as a journeyman architect doing naval work at Pearl Harbor before establishing a successful reputation for the design of resorts ?
text: Did you know that traversing all the guns of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Chesma to one side as far as they could go produced a list of 7.6°?
text: Did you know that the German chemist Lorenz von Crell published the first periodical focusing on chemistry in 1778?
text: Did you know that no man could own stock in the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association ?
text: Did you know00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Isaac Crewdson 's book A Beacon to the Society of Friends triggered a split in the Quakers which was like a "volcanic explosion"?
text: Did you know that Mertens' Water Monitors are threatened by poisoning from eating Cane Toads ?
text: Did you know that Kentucky political boss Thomas Rhea was instrumental in getting delegates from Southern states to vote to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention ?
text: Did you know that Bertrand Tavernier's 1996 film Capitaine Conan is based on a 1934 novel by Roger Vercel?
text: Did you know that in 1919 Hungarian and German social democrats in Slovakia formed a party of their own , as they differed with the Slovak social democrats on the Hungarian Soviet Republic ?
text: Did you know that Captain Cedric Howell was awarded the DSO for bringing down eight Central aircraft in a four-day period in July 1918, including destroying five in a single action against ten or fifteen planes?
text: Did you know that nearly half of all horse chestnut trees in Great Britain (used by generations of children for the game of conkers ) are now infected by the potentially lethal disease Bleeding Canker of Horse Chestnut ?
text: Did you know that Saint Indract of Glastonbury was the subject of a lost work by William of Malmesbury ?
text: Did you know that the hand-cranked Saugatuck River Bridge is the oldest surviving movable bridge in the U.S. state of Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that masked Mexican professional wrestler Metro is sponsored by the major Mexico City newspaper "Metro" and has the paper's logo on his tights?
text: Did you know that the Office of Thrift Supervision was the primary regulator for American International Group when it needed a bailout?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus has been described as "beautiful, but bitter-tasting"?
text: Did you know that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society lodged a piracy complaint against the captain and the crew of the MV Shōnan Maru 2 in the Dutch courts following the sinking of the Ady Gil ?
text: Did you know that electronic musician DJ Champion played percussion on a bicycle alongside Benoît Charest and Béatrice Bonifassi at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony?
text: Did you know00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that while serving as State Conciliator of Norway for eleven years, Preben Munthe was also economics professor at the University of Oslo ?
text: Did you know that the early-February 1995 winter storm was the only major nor'easter of the 1994–1995 winter?
text: Did you know that the 13th and 14th century Hebridean chieftains Tormod and Torquil were once believed to have been brothers, and sons of Leod ; but now Torquil is considered as a grandson of Tormod?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1960 general election in Burma , premier-elect U Nu said, "I guess people like us"?
text: Did you know that Wallis Simpson said she fell in love with Prince Edward during a cruise in 1934 on W E Guinness's private yacht Rosaura ?
text: Did you know that singer Robb Johnson based the central character in his song cycle The Ghost of Love on a girl he had taught while working as a schoolteacher?
text: Did you know that during the period of hyperinflation in Germany of 1921–1923 , there were reports of people suffering from zero stroke , a disorder where they had the desire to write endless rows of zeros?
text: Did you know00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that in 1925 the Labour and Socialist International urged the League of Nations to accept the Rif Republic as a member?
text: Did you know that Arthur E. Bartlett co-founded Century 21 Real Estate with a single office in 1971 and saw the firm grow to 7,700 offices worldwide by the time of his death in 2009?
text: Did you know that in Jain cosmology , the universe is made up of six substances, called dravyas — souls , matter , the principle of motion , the principle of rest, space and time ?
text: Did you know that Sir Samuel Shepherd repeatedly refused judicial posts, partially due to his deafness, before becoming Lord Chief Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer in 1819?
text: Did you know that Villagers have toured with Tracy Chapman , are the only Irish act to have signed with Domino Records and were named sixth best band in Ireland by The Irish Times without releasing an album?
text: Did you know that The West Wing actor Dule Hill voiced the audiobook of Jacqueline Woodson 's young adult novel Miracle’s Boys ?
text: Did you know that the daughter of Canadian adventurer Tillson Harrison claims that her father's life served as the inspiration for the Indiana Jones film series?
text: Did you know00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that former Northern Ireland footballer Phil Hughes is the only goalkeeper ever to have won international caps while playing for Bury ?
text: Did you know that early humans inhabited the area surrounding Aransas Bay as early as 6,000 to 8,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that Calgary Flames ' defenceman Adam Pardy grew up in Bonavista, Newfoundland , a town of about 3,800 people?
text: Did you know that Cryptothallus mirabilis is the only bryophyte that grows underground and obtains all its nutrients by parasitizing a fungus?
text: Did you know that it is said that when the 10th-century Viking leader Onlafbald invoked the power of his Norse gods Thor and Odin , he was miraculously killed by the spirit of the 7th-century English saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ?
text: Did you know that the Pullman Company boycotted Transpo '72 after the US government provided millions in funding so military contractors could show their attempts to enter the mass transit field?
text: Did you know that Anandita Dutta Tamuly ate 51 ghost chillis in two minutes and squeezed the seeds of 25 onto her bare eyes in just one minute?
text: Did you know that as the chairman of the U.S. Reform Party , Russ Verney asked its highest elected official, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota , to resign from the party?
text: Did you know that in 2007 the Côte-Rôtie producer Guigal set the record for the most expensive Rhône wine ever released with the 2003 vintage of their single vineyard "La La" wines ?
text: Did you know that the Liverpool businessman Sir Arthur Forwood was the first shipowner to become an Admiralty minister, and the first serving town councillor to be appointed as a privy councillor ?
text: Did you know that poker tool software program SitNGo Wizard has a quiz mode that serves as poker 's electronic analogue to flash cards ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Gurney first rose to fame as a barrister within two months of qualifying ?
text: Did you know that artist Harry Bertoia's sculpture "Textured Screen" was labelled "a piece of junk painted up" when it was unveiled at the Old Dallas Central Library building in 1955?
text: Did you know that Sealyham Terrier Efbe's Hidalgo At Goodspice , best in show at Crufts in 2009, sometimes sleeps next to his owner's toilet?
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text: Did you know that the Anevo Fortress , a medieval castle near Sopot in central Bulgaria , was the capital of a short-lived quasi-independent domain in the late 13th century?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Sinop was the first large warship to use triple expansion steam engines ?
text: Did you know that Arne Kjelstrup from the Norwegian heavy water sabotage team also participated in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine ?
text: Did you know that using the Preston curve , Pritchett and Summers found that more than half a million child deaths in 1990 could have been prevented by higher income growth in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that the Surtees Society was founded in 1834 by James Raine in order to honour the memory of his friend and fellow- antiquarian Robert Surtees ?
text: Did you know that De Hoop and Zeldenrust are two windmills in Dokkum , the Netherlands that are fitted with a pair of Common sails and a pair of Ten Have sails ?
text: Did you know that the 1972 science fiction horror film Night of the Lepus was panned by critics for its failure to make killer bunnies seem scary?
text: Did you know00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that after a falling out in 1877, Georgina Weldon refused to return Gounod 's original score for his opera Polyeucte , forcing him to rewrite it?
text: Did you know that the Yantai , blackish , and Chinese stingrays are the three most commonly sold stingrays in China ?
text: Did you know that Cliffe, Richmondshire , where the " clock stopped, never to go again ", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows , a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground?
text: Did you know that actress Naya Rivera from the musical comedy series Glee had a talent agent before she was even one year old?
text: Did you know that colitis-X is a fatal form of acute colitis in horses , with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
text: Did you know that the leaders of the Bourla-papey revolt in 19th century Switzerland were sentenced to death but then amnestied to defend the government they opposed?
text: Did you know that although the name of the palm genus Aiphanes means "always conspicuous", many of its species are actually small plants which are inconspicuous in the forest understorey?
text: Did you know00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that the ground floor of the Aceh Tsunami Museum is modeled on the design used by Acehnese houses that were best equipped to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster ?
text: Did you know that biographer Andrew Lycett has claimed the spirit named 'Dodd' in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's The New Revelation is that of cricketer Surgeon-Captain John Trask ?
text: Did you know that comparatively warm temperatures following the February 1987 nor'easter caused snow in the affected Mid-Atlantic U.S. states to quickly melt?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Dan Bain , also a champion figure skater , trapshooter , gymnast , roller skater and cyclist , was named Canada's top athlete of the last half of the 19th century?
text: Did you know that John Douglas's design for a shop in Sankey Street, Warrington , Cheshire , was said to be influenced by Ruskin and G.G. Scott ?
text: Did you know that in 1935, the Italian Governor-General in Libya , Italo Balbo , founded the Arab Lictor Youth , a fascist youth movement that trained Arab youth for military service?
text: Did you know that during the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Makropulos Case , tenor Richard Versalle suffered a fatal heart attack after singing the line "You can only live so long"?
text: Did you know that the music of video game music composer Masaharu Iwata has been described as among the most well-recognized in the tactical role-playing game genre?
text: Did you know that after the Battles of Kfar Darom and a prolonged Egyptian siege, the Israelis evacuated the village on July 8, 1948, but not knowing this, the Egyptians staged an offensive on the next day?
text: Did you know that a 66-year-old man named Johnny Lee Wicks opened fire at a Las Vegas federal courthouse on January 4, 2010, allegedly over cuts to his Social Security benefits?
text: Did you know that Byzantine general Peter Phokas was originally born a slave and made a eunuch , but rose to become one of the senior-most commanders of the Byzantine Empire in the 960s and 970s?
text: Did you know that Knut Getz Wold served as a State Secretary in a Labour Party cabinet despite belonging to the Liberal Party ?
text: Did you know that the music video game Just Dance features MC Hammer 's " You Can't Touch This ", Technotronic 's " Pump Up the Jam ", and the Baha Men 's " Who Let the Dogs Out? "?
text: Did you know that one head of the English Court of Chancery was appointed not due to his legal skill, but because the Queen was impressed by his dancing?
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text: Did you know that Michael T. Flynn is the top U.S. military intelligence officer in Afghanistan and has been pushing for closer cooperation with Afghans?
text: Did you know that the Wiltshire hundred of Whorwellsdown was named after a hill on which its court met under an oak or thorn tree ?
text: Did you know that Admiral John Elliot transported the members of the Carlisle Peace Commission to North America ?
text: Did you know that the freshwater whipray is the only Australian stingray restricted to fresh and brackish water ?
text: Did you know that Susan Bower , the Executive Producer of Neighbours , got her break into television writing by providing A Country Practice with medical information?
text: Did you know that the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"?
text: Did you know that despite the masculine pen name , British author George Paston was a woman?
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text: Did you know that Calvisius Sabinus and Marcius Censorinus were the only two senators who tried to defend Julius Caesar during his assassination ?
text: Did you know that the John Tigard House in Tigard, Oregon , was moved and is still listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that Queensland produces 94% of Australia's sugar ?
text: Did you know that Norman Lind , who among other things survived Operation Sunshine of World War II , was killed many years later by a landmine in Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that in a plebiscite of June 18, 1950, 57% of the people in North Rhine-Westphalia ratified its new constitution ?
text: Did you know that the Gaelic Athletic Association 's relaxing of Rule 42 allowed the staging of the 2008–09 Heineken Cup semi-final in Croke Park and the breaking of the rugby union club world attendance record?
text: Did you know that the marriage settlement of Richard Basset (d. before 1144) still survives and assigns his wife Matilda a dowry of four knight's fees ?
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text: Did you know that recently knighted actor Patrick Stewart is the patron of domestic violence charity Refuge , which was founded in Chiswick in 1972 by Erin Pizzey ?
text: Did you know that Paul v. U.S. expressed the principle that the legal theories of res judicata and stare decisis do not apply to Congressional reference cases ?
text: Did you know that the Anemone hupehensis is often called the Japanese anemone, but is actually native to China ?
text: Did you know that the Bethany settlement house in Laredo , Texas , serves nearly 300,000 free meals annually to the homeless and other indigent?
text: Did you know that Shmuel Rechtman was the first member of the Knesset to be sent to prison?
text: Did you know that the marathon course at the 1972 Summer Olympics was designed to represent the first Olympic mascot , Waldi ?
text: Did you know that Cake Man Raven baked the world's tallest wedding cake and unveiled it on Good Morning America in 2005?
text: Did you know that Craig Biggio , a first-round draft pick of the Houston Astros , is a member of the 3000 hit club ?
text: Did you know that cutis rhomboidalis nuchae , a type of actinic elastosis caused by sun exposure to the back of the neck, is preventable with regular sunscreen use?
text: Did you know that using a dynamic aspect weaver has been shown to improve the performance of aspect-oriented software by 26%?
text: Did you know that the Enclave of Treviño in northern Spain is part of the territory of the Castilian-Leonese province of Burgos , but is completely surrounded by the territory of the Basque province of Álava ?
text: Did you know that following the Liberal Wars , the owner of Fonseca Guimaraens had to flee Portugal in an empty Port wine barrel because of his support of liberal reforms?
text: Did you know that one of Bodley's Librarians at Oxford University had been in the King's African Rifles , another wrote about French anarchy, another had sixteen siblings, another used boys for routine library tasks, and another later died of a "surfeit of cherries"?
text: Did you know that amongst the policies included in The People's Manifesto created by British satirist Mark Thomas are introducing a maximum wage and renaming Windsor "Lower Slough "?
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text: Did you know that although the current mayor of the Valle de Villaverde enclave belongs to the Regionalist Party of Cantabria , a previous mayor in 1987 advocated integrating it into the Basque province of Biscay ?
text: Did you know that music journalist Jim Carroll co-founded the Choice Music Prize , known for its tendency to come to "some pretty eccentric decisions"?
text: Did you know that a naval museum in Boca del Río, Veracruz , Mexico, has a battle simulation room based on the technology of the Xbox 360 ?
text: Did you know that, because he was only 17, professional wrestler Jim White needed a signed permission slip from his father in order to wrestle in his first match?
text: Did you know that in 1194, one of the taxes in medieval England imposed a 25% tax on all personal property and income?
text: Did you know that several publications, including GamePro and IGN , consider Jade to be one of video games' greatest heroines?
text: Did you know that the Simon & Garfunkel song " The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine " is about the advertisement on Madison Avenue in New York City?
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text: Did you know that St Oswald's Chambers in Chester , Cheshire , England, was built on land purchased by the architect John Douglas to enhance the view towards Chester Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that while living in Saddam 's Iraq, heavy metal band Acrassicauda was banned from head banging because it looked similar to Jews praying?
text: Did you know that Harrytown Catholic High School originated as a convent school within the 250 year old Harrytown Hall ?
text: Did you know that the oil spill which spread from the Wei River to the Yellow River was ultimately contained in the Sanmenxia reservoir?
text: Did you know that Jain text Atma Siddhi propounds six fundamental truths: the soul exists, is eternal, is doer of action , enjoys or suffers its actions, liberation exists, and means to achieve liberation exists?
text: Did you know that friends of the family raised $3,500 for Laurie Phenix to travel to the 2000 Summer Olympics and see her daughter Erin Phenix win a gold medal?
text: Did you know that Donald Trounson distributed chocolate to soldiers returning from Dunkirk , escorted captive Italians to prison camps in Algeria , and founded the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife ?
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text: Did you know that Haim Bar Lev said that the Battle of Nirim decided the outcome of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that the Dickson Tavern is the oldest building in Erie , Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that publishers at first considered Nora Roberts ' debut novel Irish Thoroughbred to be too ethnic because the heroine was from Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Swedish landscape painter Alfred Wahlberg was awarded with medals at the Paris Salon in 1870 and 1872, and at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris?
text: Did you know that the E-mu Modular System is a modular synthesizer made in the early 1970s that produces musical sounds by the manipulation of patch cords to create connections among its various modules?
text: Did you know that Harrington Bridge is a listed building , except for the central section which crosses the River Trent into Derbyshire, England ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Reay , Under-Librarian at the Bodleian Library , Oxford, was remembered by colleagues for his habit of "hovering over hot-air gratings in search of warmth"?
text: Did you know that the actor Jonathan Cecil , whose film roles include Hercule Poirot 's assistant Hastings , has been called "one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era"?
text: Did you know that until 1974, all visits of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the Soviet Union were hosted by the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee rather than government representatives?
text: Did you know that before it was scientifically described , the stingray Dasyatis acutirostra was often confused with Dasyatis zugei ?
text: Did you know that in 1883, Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann discovered how to synthesise amides from amines and acid chlorides ?
text: Did you know that next to the 19th-century St Botolph's Church in Heene , West Sussex , stand the "somewhat scanty" remains of its 13th-century predecessor?
text: Did you know that with the Peace of Travendal , Sweden forced Denmark-Norway out of the Great Northern War in the first war year?
text: Did you know that Ashley Madison is an online dating service for people currently in a relationship who wish to cheat on their partners?
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text: Did you know that after a meeting in 1940, the English Judges' Council did not meet for another 10 years?
text: Did you know that soon after the annexation of Albania in 1939 Italian fascists set up the Albanian Lictor Youth , a branch of the Italian fascist youth movement?
text: Did you know that Aiphanes bicornis , a palm species known only from two locations in Ecuador , is named for the notched tips of its leaves which are said to evoke the horns of an antelope ?
text: Did you know that Charles Gray was one of the original trustees of the British Museum ?
text: Did you know that no more than 250 mature northern river sharks are estimated to live in the wild?
text: Did you know that Htoo Group of Companies , among Myanmar 's largest privately held companies, has been under sanctions by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since 2008?
text: Did you know that drummer Dave Clark was a stuntman who performed in over 40 films before he formed the 1960s British Invasion band The Dave Clark Five ?
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text: Did you know that the Will & Grace episode " Fagel Attraction " was actor Michael Douglas ' first television acting role in almost thirty years?
text: Did you know that Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford built his Honeymoon House from plans drawn by his wife Clara, using lumber he cut and finished himself?
text: Did you know that the most prominent leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish minority , Karol Śliwka , died in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1943?
text: Did you know that 1960's Tropical Storm Brenda , which made its initial landfall in Florida , dropped record-breaking rainfall on New York City ?
text: Did you know that fairy-like insect people feature in the classic Czech children's book Broučci by Jan Karafiát ?
text: Did you know that Lowell, West Virginia , was first settled in 1770, making it the oldest community in Summers County ?
text: Did you know that Sir John Ramsay was the first Australian surgeon to apply heart massage to revive a dead man?
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text: Did you know that within ten years bass singer Klaus Mertens recorded all vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir ?
text: Did you know that workers employed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were banned from reading the communist newspaper Rahbar , and could be fired if they did?
text: Did you know that the English coin collector Roger Gale (d. 1744) not only donated his collection of coins to Cambridge University , but translated a book that helped new coin collectors avoid being cheated?
text: Did you know that the Snow Patrol song " An Olive Grove Facing the Sea " was recorded in two different studios, The Stables and Substation?
text: Did you know that 21 October is now an annual public holiday in the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali to commemorate a battle victory in 1912 during the First Balkan War ?
text: Did you know that Texas ' northernmost extensive beds of seagrass can be found in Redfish Bay , where they are protected by state law?
text: Did you know that during the English Civil War , Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?
text: Did you know that Duchess of Norfolk , a minesweeper in the Royal Navy during World War I , rejoined the Navy for World War II as Ambassador , but reprised her old role as a minesweeper?
text: Did you know that the Hannah Robinson Tower in South Kingstown, Rhode Island , is named after a woman whose life of poverty had one of her last moments at an overlook over Narragansett Bay?
text: Did you know that the District of Columbia Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. , is responsible for 144,000 trees adjacent to city streets and 241 bridges?
text: Did you know that Lenny Fant , as coach of the University of Louisiana at Monroe men's basketball team from 1957 to 1979, compiled eighteen consecutive winning seasons?
text: Did you know that one day after Mexican soldier Melquisedet Angulo Córdova was honored as a hero at his funeral, his mother and three relatives were gunned down in retaliation by drug cartel hitmen?
text: Did you know that despite snowfall totals exceeding 24 in (60 cm), the effects of the December 2000 nor'easter were minimized due to its weekend arrival?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Castor at the frigate action of 29 May 1794 ?
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text: Did you know that Hans Christian Andersen Award -winning author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch illustrated his first book so his son could boast, "Look, my papa made a children's book"?
text: Did you know that Percnon gibbesi is the most invasive decapod species ever to enter the Mediterranean Sea ?
text: Did you know that Zairean President Mobutu gained renown for treating Air Zaïre as his personal service, and would commandeer its aircraft for shopping trips abroad?
text: Did you know that the Austrian chemist Guido Goldschmiedt determined the structure of the opium alkaloid papaverine in 1889?
text: Did you know that the pitted stingray is one of only two stingrays with a "W"-shaped groove on its underside?
text: Did you know that although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade Unions was able to revive its activities under the rule of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early 1950s?
text: Did you know that an inch-long bristly crab can carry 4000 eggs?
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text: Did you know that a Sunday assassination attempt against Malkiat Singh Sidhu caught Canadian authorities off-guard, as information about the threat received on Friday was not passed along until Monday?
text: Did you know that Hondo Creek , a tributary of the Frio River in Texas , was the site of both an 1842 battle between the Republic of Texas and Mexico , and an 1866 Indian attack ?
text: Did you know that among the recipients of the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award are fiddler Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa , actress Ella Hval , and long term editor of Arbeidermagasinet Nils Johan Rud ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming a St. Louis County park, Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park was a resort and the site of numerous boating events?
text: Did you know that Flower was intended by designer Jenova Chen to fill what he saw as a gap in the "emotional spectrum" offered by video games ?
text: Did you know that the Master of SS Brighton committed suicide in a pub after he was blamed for the collision with the windjammer Preußen in 1905?
text: Did you know that Old Ephraim , a giant grizzly bear that lived in Utah , was known as "Old Three Toes" by shepherds because of a congenital deformity on one foot?
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text: Did you know that Howard C. Hillegas was the first journalist to report that the fighting between Britain and the Boers had started in the Second Boer War ?
text: Did you know that in Santa María Tonameca , Oaxaca , Mexico, there is a group of people called “pintos” or “Ñutis” who have patches of yellow, black, red, white and even blue on their skin due to a genetic mutation ?
text: Did you know that Slovakia recently sent explosives to Ireland on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230 ?
text: Did you know that May Day was first celebrated in Persia in 1922, and during the 1920s thousands of people participated in the May Day rallies of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Tehran ?
text: Did you know that pin-up girl Gloria Nord attracted more than a million people to her rolling skating exhibitions in 1942 and 1943 and later gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that a Spanish vessel blown into Texas ' Saint Charles Bay by a storm, was allegedly stranded in a creek and later taken apart to construct houses?
text: Did you know that the Simpsons episode " Million Dollar Maybe " will feature a new character created by the winner of a fan-contest organized by the staff of the show?
text: Did you know that the Irish novelist Lady Morgan was married to the private physician Thomas Charles Morgan after a meeting engineered by the wife of his employer?
text: Did you know that in 1965 Congo-Brazzaville national airline Air Congo was renamed to avoid confusion with an airline of the same name from Congo-Kinshasa ?
text: Did you know that Emanuel Chobot , chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party in interbellum Czechoslovakia , was active in the cooperative movement ?
text: Did you know that 51-year old Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg will represent Mexico at the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Johannes Andenæs , himself a concentration camp prisoner of Nazis during WWII , criticized the harshness of the legal process against Nazis in Norway after the war?
text: Did you know that the Mary Rose Trust , the charitable trust that salvaged the Mary Rose in 1982, played an important part in preserving historical shipwrecks in the UK from exploitation?
text: Did you know that Andrew Lloyd Webber is concerned about casting a dog in the forthcoming BBC television series Over the Rainbow ?
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text: Did you know that on December 14, 1947, a rival government-supported Iranian union, ESKI , carried out an attack on a club building of the Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Gwenda of the 1998–99 Australian region cyclone season was the most intense Australian tropical cyclone on record?
text: Did you know that the bombing of an Italian courthouse, the arrests of five Indian police officers, and the funeral for Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto 's son are among the events in organized crime so far this year?
text: Did you know that the Blue Vanga is the only vanga occurring outside of Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that the Nigerien politician Issa Lamine ignored the opposition calls for a boycott of the 2009 parliamentary election , and was elected as an independent ?
text: Did you know that Irish film critic Michael Dwyer attended every Cannes Film Festival from 1982 until 2009, months before his death?
text: Did you know that New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was a finalist for the 2009 Cycle Friendly Awards in the 'Cycling Champion of the Year' category?
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text: Did you know that in the first naval engagement of the War of 1812 , the American privateer Dash captured HMS Whiting but the US released her, telling her captain to leave American waters as soon as possible?
text: Did you know that the fungal genus Polytolypa is known from a single specimen found growing on dung of the North American porcupine ?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Richardson wrote "the first significant work of artistic theory in English"?
text: Did you know that during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia the site of the Maritime Museum was used as logistic storage for the Japanese army?
text: Did you know that according to a mediaeval chronicle , saga , and later clan tradition, Páll, son of Bálki blinded and castrated the son of a Manx king—a son who would in time become king himself?
text: Did you know that American basketball player Kobe Bryant has scored forty points or more in 113 games in his career?
text: Did you know that three Canadian Sikhs accused of plotting to blow up Air India Flight 112 in 1986 were released when it was revealed that wiretaps had been mistranslated?
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text: Did you know that the father and daughter, mathematics professor Ralph Tambs-Lyche and women's rights activist Guri Tambs-Lyche , were both members of left-wing organizations, Clarté and the Communist Party respectively?
text: Did you know that the undefeated 1930 Michigan Wolverines football team was led by Harry Newman , referred to by the United Press as the "crack Jewish field general"?
text: Did you know that Rodrigo Pérez de Traba ' s knights unlawfully imprisoned Arias Muñiz, the archdeacon of Trastámara , in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela ?
text: Did you know that although the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation was critically panned, it was considered one of the best comedies of the year during its second season ?
text: Did you know that after losing his House of Commons seat, Denis Shipwright found he "cannot get work" and resorted to advertising in The Times ?
text: Did you know that the Vardy Community School in Hancock County, Tennessee , was started by missionaries to educate children who were barred from public schools because they were Melungeons ?
text: Did you know that during spring training in 1997, Mexican baseball player Tavo Alvarez was mistakenly introduced as Taco Alvarez?
text: Did you know that the crew of the Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets mutinied themselves when they confronted the mutinous battleship Potemkin in Odessa Harbor in June 1905?
text: Did you know that Sigmund Freud visited Worcester State Hospital in 1909 during his only trip to America?
text: Did you know that the first photography subjects of the German photographer Aenne Biermann were her own children?
text: Did you know that the American Journal of Physical Anthropology was selected as one of the top 10 most influential journals of the last 100 years in the fields of biology and medicine?
text: Did you know that Rosario Rodríguez was the youngest baseball player in the National League during the 1989 season?
text: Did you know that the smalleye stingray may have convergently evolved a shape and swimming mode akin to that of manta rays ?
text: Did you know that Tales of Silversleeve , named ninth best album of the decade by The Irish Times , received its title after its creator neglected to wipe her runny nose ?
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text: Did you know that Jason Little won two Ignatz Awards in consecutive years for his graphic novel Shutterbug Follies ?
text: Did you know that Z Special Unit member Major G. S. Carter went on to found the Kundasang War Memorial and Gardens in Sabah ?
text: Did you know that the juvenile leaves of the Australian Queensland rainforest tree Stenocarpus cryptocarpus reach 115 cm long, but the adult leaves only 14 cm long?
text: Did you know that before he won a record seven short course off-road racing championships, Carl Renezeder was an All-American in water polo ?
text: Did you know that the 20-metre (66 ft) tall trestle bridge on the former Noojee railway line is the tallest surviving trestle bridge in Victoria, Australia ?
text: Did you know that cellist Felix Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven, described by NPR as "a church for people who don't go to church," in an abandoned gas station off Route 66 in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Metzgeriales always produce their sex organs on their backs?
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text: Did you know that Eustace fitz John , the founder of Alnwick Abbey who fought against his own countrymen at the Battle of the Standard , had only one eye?
text: Did you know that the release of Game Change , a book about the 2008 United States presidential election , led Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize over remarks he made about President Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that Unė Babickaitė , a Lithuanian actress who appeared in American silent films , was sentenced to five years in a Soviet gulag ?
text: Did you know that Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park , located in East Java , is the only conservation area in Indonesia that has a sand sea ?
text: Did you know that the late Wyoming politician Tom Walsh made 14 trips to Southeast Asia at his own expense looking for Vietnam War POWs and MIAs ?
text: Did you know that the horse Authentic has won three Olympic medals and two World Equestrian Games medals?
text: Did you know that Terminator: TSCC ' s " Self Made Man " references franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger with its Skynet plot to assassinate the Governor of California on New Year's Eve 2010?
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text: Did you know that Carl Sagan 's book Cosmos , which accompanied the Cosmos television series , became the best-selling science book in 1980?
text: Did you know that the Major League Umpires Association 's executive director and 22 umpires were fired after they tried a mass resignation campaign in 1999?
text: Did you know that the Phenes raptor dragonfly is the largest Odonata in Chile ?
text: Did you know that the Todd Manning and Marty Saybrooke rape storylines from the American daytime drama One Life to Live have been the subject of various academic works, as well as outrage from leading anti-sexual assault organizations such as RAINN ?
text: Did you know that reproductions of The Moorish Chief , painted by Eduard Charlemont , are the best-selling paintings at the museum store of the Philadelphia Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that the BBC program Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas was described in the press as Oz Clarke and Hugh Dennis divining that the true spirit of Christmas is " getting hammered "?
text: Did you know that Swiss defenceman Tim Ramholt played just 45 seconds in his National Hockey League career?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stalin imposed a tax on childlessness , which forced bachelors and childless families to pay an additional 6% income tax until the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the anonymous composer of the 15th-century carol " I syng of a mayden " used traditional imagery deriving from Old Testament texts to celebrate the Annunciation of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that at the 2010 Olympics , 20-year-old Drew Doughty is to become the youngest ice hockey player since Eric Lindros in 1991 to represent Canada in a major best-on-best tournament?
text: Did you know that the Colombian palm Aiphanes leiostachys is an endangered species , while two other Colombian endemics in the same genus , Aiphanes duquei and Aiphanes lindeniana , are vulnerable to extinction ?
text: Did you know that the Armenian Iranian communist leader Ardeshir Ovanessian spent eleven years in Qasr prison ?
text: Did you know that the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion is the administrative organisation responsible for monitoring the accounts of professional football clubs in France ?
text: Did you know that while recording their album Fight the Tide , Sanctus Real 's guitarist tried putting nail polish on his fingertips because they were raw from continuous playing?
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text: Did you know that Glamorgan County Cricket Club 's 1921 promotion to first-class status was strongly aided by early fund-raisers organised by Vernon Hill ?
text: Did you know that Billfrith , the Northumbrian saint whose name appears in the Durham Liber Vitae , is credited with providing the original gold , silver and jewel ornamentation for the Lindisfarne Gospels ?
text: Did you know that the Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially available CD player?
text: Did you know that John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Ernle-Erle-Drax raised and supported the East Kent militia during the 1830 Swing Riots ?
text: Did you know that the Gulf Snapping Turtle was described as " Australia 's first living fossil freshwater turtle, an extant population of a Pleistocene taxon "?
text: Did you know that Ange Diawara , the leader of the Congolese rebel group M 22 , sought inspiration from Che Guevara and the Cameroonian UPC ?
text: Did you know that in 1992, the Greece men's national junior ice hockey team lost 1–47 to Latvia ?
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text: Did you know that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois , Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century?
text: Did you know that in 1831 John D. Defrees founded the first newspaper in Northern Indiana ?
text: Did you know that after ten years of service in the Royal Navy , the brig-sloop HMS Curlew became involved in the drug trade , and sold £330,000 worth of opium in China in 1833?
text: Did you know that The Terrorist Hunters was originally banned from sale by a High Court injunction issued the day of its official release?
text: Did you know that it is unclear who designed the Majestic Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri , due to conflicting records on the building's plans and permits?
text: Did you know that State Representative Lanny Johnson was inducted in 1982 into the Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame for the 1958–1962 seasons at the University of Louisiana at Monroe ?
text: Did you know that Clayton, West Virginia , was named after a balloonist from Cincinnati who landed in the community after a record-setting 300-mile (480 km) flight in 1835?
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text: Did you know that the satirical radio comedy The News at Bedtime is based on a column in Private Eye magazine?
text: Did you know that Laumeier Sculpture Park in Sunset Hills, Missouri , does not have any recreational facilities because its founder wanted a passive park ?
text: Did you know that the cellar of 23 Northgate Street , Chester , Cheshire , England, contains the remains of columns from the principia of the Roman fortress that previously stood on the site?
text: Did you know that no member of the U. S. Congress has been appointed to the United States Supreme Court since the 1949 nomination of Sherman Minton ?
text: Did you know that the Sovetsky Soyuz -class battleship Sovetskaya Belorussiya was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after it was discovered that 70,000 rivets used in her hull plating were of inferior quality?
text: Did you know that between 2000 and 2009, ten singles sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that after his ship was torpedoed , Captain Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice was picked up from the water, apparently with his monocle still firmly in place?
text: Did you know that the Etzioni Brigade participated in the first ever Israeli Haganah operation that deployed more than one brigade?
text: Did you know that, according to a medieval source, the Anglo-Saxon Fenland noble Æthelstan Mannessune donated a piece of the True Cross to Ramsey Abbey ?
text: Did you know that at the 1949 congress of the government-sponsored Iranian trade union centre ESKI , only two out of 36 delegates were workers?
text: Did you know that Bertrand Tavernier directed Safe Conduct because of his interest in reviving films from 1942 to 1944 and because he has friendships with key figures from those films?
text: Did you know that the employers' organization in French Equatorial Africa , COLPAEF , was significantly weaker than its West African counterparts, as employers in Equatorial Africa were highly individualistic?
text: Did you know that Claude d'Abbeville was a Franciscan missionary who wrote in 1614 about the dispatch of Brazilian Tupinambá Indians to the French king Louis XIII ?
text: Did you know that the edible mushroom Hygrophorus agathosmus smells like almonds ?
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text: Did you know that the attack on Camp Chapman in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009, was the most lethal sustained by the CIA in 25 years?
text: Did you know that Patrick Whelan allegedly assassinated Thomas D'Arcy McGee four months after warning the police about a similar plot against the Canadian politician?
text: Did you know that the civil flag of Monaco utilizes the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi ?
text: Did you know that after having covered the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent journalist Lise Lindbæk worked to aid Spanish refugee children in France?
text: Did you know that De Cornwerdermolen , Cornwerd is the most westerly windmill in Friesland ?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz created the first transgenic mouse by injecting DNA from Simian virus 40 ?
text: Did you know that Blind Willie Johnson 's gospel-blues song " Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground " was included on the Voyager Golden Record to represent human loneliness to extraterrestrial life?
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text: Did you know that American artist William Allen Rogers worked with Harper's Weekly as a political cartoonist for 25 years, and with the New York Herald for an additional 20 years?
text: Did you know that artifacts uncovered in Kafr Misr , an Arab village located to the south of Mount Tabor , Israel, attest to Jewish , Christian and Muslim habitation over the centuries?
text: Did you know that Thomas Humber was apprenticed as a blacksmith and went on to found the Humber bicycle company in 1869 which evolved into Humber automobiles ?
text: Did you know that Flight of the Red Tail chronicles the second restoration of a P-51 Mustang bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Minuscule 536 is one of the manuscripts purchased by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906)?
text: Did you know that in 2003 Curtis Gatewood became the first college football recruit from Memphis to sign with Vanderbilt since 1997?
text: Did you know that the top half of the Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light was part of another tower originally used at the Vidal Shoals near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ?
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text: Did you know that approximately 6,000 years ago in central Oregon, Lava Butte exploded, and eventually created Benham Falls ?
text: Did you know that as a child, Jerry Kennedy , who later produced for legendary musicians such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis , recorded several songs with Chet Atkins for RCA Records ?
text: Did you know that the Wayang Museum in Jakarta contains the tombstone of Jan Pieterszoon Coen ?
text: Did you know that after turning down an invitation to play with the Americans, Brandon Kozun scored the shootout winning goal for Canada to defeat the United States during round robin play at the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ?
text: Did you know that Lykke Friis , the current Danish Minister for Climate and Energy , was not a member of the party Venstre before becoming a minister?
text: Did you know that while filming The Restorers , director Adam White stumbled upon the Red Tail Project , which led to the production of Red Tail Reborn ?
text: Did you know that, to promote their Glacier Mints (iconified by Peppy the polar bear ), Fox's Confectionery used to exhibit a stuffed polar bear at public events?
text: Did you know that Icelandic modernist Einar Bragi , one of the original Atom Poets , translated poetry from all major European languages?
text: Did you know that the Jakarta History Museum was formerly used as the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company ?
text: Did you know that same-sex marriage under United States tribal jurisdictions has been allowed in the Coquille Tribe of Oregon despite the state's defense of marriage amendment ?
text: Did you know that installation of about 25,000 pail closets in 19th-century Manchester, England helped clear the city's drains and rivers of up to 3,000,000 gallons of waste?
text: Did you know that Uniontown, Washington, D.C. 's first " suburban " community, is part of the Anacostia Historic District ?
text: Did you know that Sarraounia is an award-winning film that depicts a real-life battle between French Colonial Forces and an African queen ?
text: Did you know that William Gurney Benham collected and arranged over fifty thousand quotations in one of his books?
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text: Did you know that The Candidate was an 2009 Afghan reality TV show that pitted youth against each other in a mock presidential election ?
text: Did you know that semi-professional footballer Dean Clark made over one hundred appearances for Northwood F.C. ?
text: Did you know that the High Court of Andalusia is the highest court of not only Andalusia , but also the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla ?
text: Did you know that it is uncertain whether the brown and white American star-footed Amanitas are different species?
text: Did you know that Obie Award -winning actor John Douglas Thompson only took up acting after being laid off from his job as a traveling computer salesman?
text: Did you know that Mashallah Shamsolvaezin , who founded and edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's independent newspapers, was arrested at his Tehran home in the aftermath of the 2009 Ashura protests ?
text: Did you know that the episodes of the anime series Baccano! do not tell the events in chronological order?
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text: Did you know that William L. Reilly 's twelve-year tenure as president of Le Moyne College was the longest in the Jesuit school's history?
text: Did you know that the archaeological finds from Steeple Langford include a Bronze Age palstave and a Romano-British painted pebble ?
text: Did you know that Clay Buchholz , a first-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox , threw a no-hitter in only his second major league start?
text: Did you know that the director of the 2009 film The French Kissers chose to use mostly untrained actors because he feared that professional actors would be too egotistical?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama nominated former United Mine Workers official Joe Main to serve as the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration ?
text: Did you know that Time magazine described Aake Anker Ording , who initiated the international fundraiser United Nations Appeal for Children , as "Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer"?
text: Did you know that in 1122 Suero Vermúdez donated his private monastery at Cornellana to the Abbey of Cluny , but in 1128 gave it instead to the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo , sparking a centuries-long dispute?
text: Did you know00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that prior to the 10th century in Western art , no attempt was made to portray God the Father in terms of a human form?
text: Did you know that while Stan Benjamin was a scout , the Houston Astros used his evaluation of Jeff Bagwell as the basis to make a trade for him on August 30, 1990?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Scarman report into the 1981 Brixton riots , the independent Police Complaints Authority was established in 1985?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana sheriff Elliot D. Coleman was one of the police bodyguards on duty at the time of the 1935 assassination of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that Royal Marine Francis Harvey , the mortally wounded commander of HMS Lion ' s 'Q' turret, was awarded the Victoria Cross for ordering the magazine flooded, which saved the ship during the Battle of Jutland ?
text: Did you know that the Goose Creek Oil Field in Galveston Bay had the first offshore oil wells in Texas , U.S. , and the removal of oil led to subsidence of the overlying terrain?
text: Did you know that in June 2005, Intel threatened photo printing company FotoInsight with legal action over their use of the name "The 'INSIDE' format" saying it infringed their trademark " Intel Inside "?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian ocean liner SS Bergensfjord was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1940 and used as a troop ship throughout the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the oil in the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill , which killed upwards of 10,000 birds and numerous other creatures along the coast of California , U.S. , came from the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field ?
text: Did you know that Swiss writer Dominique Caillat briefly worked as an international lawyer before turning to literature and the stage, which helped her receive a basic training in acting and directing?
text: Did you know that Petalura hesperia dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are semi-aquatic?
text: Did you know that Slade's Case has been called a "watershed" moment in English law?
text: Did you know that Frederick Brocklander became a Major League Baseball umpire during a 1979 strike and continued umpiring for 12 more years in the National League ?
text: Did you know that a skimmington , a custom in which victims were mocked and humiliated in a noisy public procession, occurred in England as late as 1917?
text: Did you know00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that Ya'qub Bilbul , an Iraqi Jew who wrote in Arabic , is considered a pioneer of the Iraqi novel and short story?
text: Did you know that five Fablok Luxtorpeda trains were constructed under the leadership of Klemens Stefan Sielecki ?
text: Did you know that the Xian H-6K , which made its first flight in 2007, has been described as " China 's first proper strategic bomber "?
text: Did you know that French team handball player Mariama Signate was selected into the all-star team at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China?
text: Did you know that the Kukaniloko Birth Site was speculated to be a Hawaiian Stonehenge ?
text: Did you know that Loren Singer ' s 1970 book The Parallax View , later made into the 1974 thriller starring Warren Beatty , allowed Singer to leave a job as a printing salesman?
text: Did you know that the floral clock in Frankfort, Kentucky , has a face that is 34 feet (10 m) in diameter and is composed of more than 10,000 individual flowers?
text: Did you know00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
text: Did you know that upon the death of Louisiana newspaper publisher Sam Hanna , his state's press association in 2006 renamed its "Best Regular Column" award in his honor?
text: Did you know that it took six weeks for developer Garry Kitchen to write and complete the iPhone and Nintendo DSi video game Arcade Hoops Basketball ?
text: Did you know that during the recording process of Stone Sour 's second album Come What(ever) May drummer Joel Ekman decided to leave the band following the diagnosis of his son's brainstem glioma ?
text: Did you know that Rev. Elias Bond (1813–1896) used proceeds from a Hawaiian sugar plantation to fund his church and a girls' seminary?
text: Did you know that a previously undescribed species of coral called Pocillopora sp. was found off the coast of Puerto Ángel , Mexico?
text: Did you know that Harlan Sanborn coached the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team to their lowest offense score ever with the team only scoring eight points during a game?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Brad Falchuk tried to stand out in high school by wearing a tie every day and declaring himself a Republican ?
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text: Did you know that Norwegian musicologist Christian Leden was the first person to record film in the northern Arctic ?
text: Did you know that disagreement over the relocation of a nursery during construction of the Washington Metro 's Anacostia station required an Act of Congress to resolve?
text: Did you know that Sir William Garrow , a barrister from the Regency England period whose work was largely forgotten for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was recently cited in a 2006 Irish Court of Criminal Appeal case?
text: Did you know that the Comerica Bank New Year's Parade , originally held for the Cotton Bowl Classic , is still held annually in Dallas even though the Cotton Bowl has moved to Arlington, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Sir Hugh Norman-Walker was forced to decline the appointment of the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in 1973 because his wife would not take up the new post with him?
text: Did you know that the palm Aiphanes chiribogensis is considered to be vulnerable to extinction because none of the seven known populations lie within Ecuador 's network of protected areas?
text: Did you know that author and anti-globalization advocate Tim Costello started his writing career in the back of his truck while traveling as a long-haul truck driver?
text: Did you know that the British monitor Lord Clive was stationed in the Thames Estuary in 1916 to shoot down approaching German Zeppelins with shrapnel shells fired by her 12-inch (305-mm) main guns?
text: Did you know that Greek professor Albert Pattengill played on Michigan 's 1867 baseball team, nominated "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors, and was one of the founders of the Big Ten Conference ?
text: Did you know that Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is the most successful detective series produced by the ZDF ?
text: Did you know that coloratura soprano Alice Verlet gave a 1922 opera and song recital at Carnegie Hall accompanied on violin by a young Xavier Cugat , who later achieved fame as the "rhumba king"?
text: Did you know that the European Court of Human Rights in Smith and Grady v UK found that the discharge of personnel from the British Army on the basis of sexual orientation was a breach of their right to a private life?
text: Did you know that Red Tail Reborn , which chronicled the Red Tail Project 's restoration of the P-51 Mustang , won regional Emmy Award recognition?
text: Did you know that, although champion boxer Jack Dempsey refused a challenge from Billy Sandow to fight professional wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis , the Chicago Tribune predicted that Lewis would win in 38 minutes?
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text: Did you know that the underwater volcanoes of the Vance Seamounts are pocketed by multiple calderas , many of which have been almost erased by newer flows?
text: Did you know that Rebbie Jackson felt that her brother Michael would "spin in his grave" if he thought that his children were going to appear in The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Josef Hora was one of the seven Czech Communist writers who denounced the new Stalinist leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in 1929?
text: Did you know that the Spanish Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park hosts at least 2170 plant species , 34 of them found nowhere else?
text: Did you know that actor Leonid Kharitonov's lyrical singing in the war film , The Soldier Ivan Brovkin , made him an all- Soviet heart-throb in 1955?
text: Did you know that Matford Vic , a two-time winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was purchased at one time for only £2?
text: Did you know that 1930s NFL fullback "Iron Mike" Mikulak got his nickname because he wore a metal chest protector over his protuding sternum ?
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text: Did you know that between 1926 and 1938, HMS Arpha served as a steam yacht for W E Guinness ?
text: Did you know that the 1950 Salad Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona , drew nearly 20,000 fans, setting a new statewide attendance record for football ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Law for the Conservation of Cultural Properties provides for the existence of Living National Treasures ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Christian Aug. Thoring tried several times to become mayor of Rogaland County , but lost out to Beint Bentsen in 1975, John S. Tveit in 1979 and Lars Vaage in 1983?
text: Did you know that the eight volcanoes of the President Jackson Seamounts are heavily pocketed by 29 calderas and pit craters ?
text: Did you know that five houses with pilasters are preserved in the Manlius Village Historic District near Syracuse, New York ?
text: Did you know that ten married couples were candidates in the 2004 Wyre Forest Council election in Worcestershire , England ?
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text: Did you know that two months after the final five Green Line stations on Washington, D.C. 's Metro opened, more than 30,600 riders per day boarded at the stations—three times as many as originally estimated?
text: Did you know that World War II German fighter ace Heinrich Hoffmann was the first non-commissioned officer and first posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves ?
text: Did you know that the infant massage of preterm babies has been shown to have many benefits, including the gaining of extra body weight ?
text: Did you know that although SS Elisabethville was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport during World War II, she did not become an Empire ship until 1947?
text: Did you know that Kevin Hopps, writer of the Spectacular Spider-Man episode " The Uncertainty Principle ", kept in mind previous battle sequences in the series in order to "up the stakes"?
text: Did you know that in 792 the Bulgarians captured the tent and treasury of the Byzantine emperor during a battle at the fortress of Markeli near modern Karnobat , Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that 2004 Olympic gold medalist Rhi Jeffrey left competitive swimming just four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for Beijing ?
text: Did you know that during the inter-war period, Helge Krog was known as a member of the "radical triumvirate" in Norway , along with Øverland and Hoel ?
text: Did you know that Liverpool businessman Sir William Bower Forwood raised money for the building of the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Lincoln Hall at Portland State University was used as classroom space for several years despite being condemned?
text: Did you know that before making his major league debut, pitcher Alfonso Pulido drew comparisons to Fernando Valenzuela after winning 17 games in the Mexican League in 1983?
text: Did you know that the body of Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of Ely Abbey while the guards taking it to Ramsey Abbey were drunk?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian mathematician Samuil Shatunovsky developed axiomatic theory independently from David Hilbert ?
text: Did you know that the pine trees for which the community of Pine Grove, Oregon , was named were cut down in 1957?
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text: Did you know that the British cargo ship Empire Builder was handed over to the Polish Government on completion in January 1942?
text: Did you know that researchers finally collected a larva and an adult female Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli which match an earlier male specimen?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Maryang San is regarded as one of the Australian Army 's greatest victories of the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the Polish–Czech Friendship Trail was closed to tourists outside the two countries until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993?
text: Did you know that Temple Israel of Dayton, Ohio , was one of the founding members of the Union for Reform Judaism ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Lund 's former mayor Kjell Erfjord lost a vote to become board chairman of the Norwegian Missionary Society ?
text: Did you know that the Black-fronted Tern of New Zealand is known as the ploughboy or ploughman's friend for its propensity to eat worms and grubs in newly ploughed ground?
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text: Did you know that the existence of Outer Temple , a body that is thought to be one of the ten Inns of Chancery and was disestablished in the 16th century, was only confirmed in 2008? [ dubious – discuss ]
text: Did you know that the Royal Indian Navy auxiliary patrol vessel Jamnagar was originally built for HH The Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar ?
text: Did you know that Theobald Burke , son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley , was born at sea in 1567, shortly before his mother's fleet engaged in a battle with Barbary pirates ?
text: Did you know that from 1999 to 2003 the Cal Golden Bears had five consecutive Pac-10 Conference swimmers of the year; Marylyn Chiang , Haley Cope , and three-time winner Natalie Coughlin ?
text: Did you know that Woody Freeman , one of the Republicans defeated by Bill Clinton for governor of Arkansas , claimed he began a computer software business in 1985 with $3 in his account?
text: Did you know that Blanche Cave , in Australia 's Naracoorte Caves National Park , used to exhibit an indigenous man 's mummified remains , which were stolen in 1861 and never returned?
text: Did you know that the letters "IXL" in the IXL Historical Museum in Hermansville, Michigan , are a derivative of the words "I excel"?
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text: Did you know that as early as 1978 the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas , Lynn Lowe accused Bill Clinton of having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943?
text: Did you know that former Parliament of Norway member Inger Lise Husøy is currently the manager of the Norwegian Burma Committee ?
text: Did you know that Bryan Adams sang backing vocals on Glass Tiger 's 1986 hit single " Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) "?
text: Did you know that Fritz Crisler developed the platoon system of American football in which separate squads play offense and defense and designed the winged football helmet used by the Michigan Wolverines ?
text: Did you know the H.W. Wilson Company considered Albert Payson Terhune 's 1922 novel Further Adventures of Lad one "of the most useful books covering all classes of literature"?
text: Did you know that when LeT militants barged into her home in Rajouri , Rukhsana Kausar started a counter-attack wielding an axe, and later drew praise from the President , Prime Minister and Home Minister of India ?
text: Did you know that the winemaking technique of ripasso involves adding the pomace of leftover grape skins from the fermentation of Amarone to Valpolicella to give the wine more body , color and flavor ?
text: Did you know that anti-nuclear activist Ole Kopreitan is known for spreading leaflets and selling campaign buttons from a cart in Norway's main street, Karl Johans gate ?
text: Did you know that while voicing the character of Doctor Octopus in the The Spectacular Spider-Man episode " Reaction ", Peter MacNicol chose to base it on late actor Laird Cregar ?
text: Did you know that the first child of European descent born along the Hudson River was born on Beeren Island near Albany, New York ?
text: Did you know that two sections of the British 1973 Sale of Goods Act were completely identical?
text: Did you know that, according to the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto , Eadred , abbot of Carlisle , tried to take the body of St Cuthbert to Ireland , but was thwarted by the weather?
text: Did you know that prominent American Jewish leader Alan Solow called President Barack Obama "the first Jewish president"?
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text: Did you know that because of his race, U.S. President Barack Obama has been the subject of multiple assassination threats and alleged plots ?
text: Did you know that besides mechanical failures, fuel leaks and collisions, the passenger liner SS Iberia also suffered multiple fires and blackouts, and twice grounded in the Suez Canal , before she was finally decommissioned in 1972?
text: Did you know that Quality Bicycle Products is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry , with revenues of $150 million in 2008?
text: Did you know that the video game Down in Flames is a simulation of dogfights between World War II fighters and feature such planes as P-47 Thunderbolt , PZL.23 Karaś and five variants of Messerschmitt Bf 109 ?
text: Did you know that during the Italian occupation Tefik Mborja was, as General Secretary of the Albanian Fascist Party , included in the Albanian cabinet as an ex-officio member?
text: Did you know that in A Letter to Lord Ellenborough , Percy Bysshe Shelley made an argument for tolerance of all published opinion, even when false?
text: Did you know that John Cage caused a sensation at the 1963 Music Biennale Zagreb by crawling under the piano during his stage performance, despite promising not to?
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text: Did you know that Guillermo Algaze received the MacArthur "Genius" Award two years in a row?
text: Did you know that Pro Bowl guard Jahri Evans attended Bloomsburg University not on an athletic scholarship , but rather an academic scholarship ?
text: Did you know that according to a BBC Radio 2 poll, The Gruffalo , which was adapted into a film in 2009, is the UK's favourite bedtime story?
text: Did you know that Joseph K. Yamagiwa was a Research Bombing Analyst for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey which took place in Washington D.C. and Tokyo ?
text: Did you know that the Jewel Box in St. Louis, Missouri , is a greenhouse but doesn't have a glass roof because of frequent hailstorms ?
text: Did you know that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years?
text: Did you know that in the 1946 French legislative election the incumbent parliamentarian from French India , Deiva Zivarattinam , received only 18 votes?
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text: Did you know that Michigan sprinter Clayton Teetzel coached the BYU basketball team to an 11–1 season and later coached the Utah State football team to an undefeated season outscoring opponents 164 to 0?
text: Did you know that the music of the Russian band Lesopoval is inspired by the six years its co-founder Mikhail Tanich spent in a Soviet labor camp ?
text: Did you know that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 has begun core testing even though its only application, the Cessna Citation Columbus , has been canceled?
text: Did you know that Political Correspondent with The Irish Times Harry McGee described the Irish budget, 2010 as maybe "the most austere Budget in the history of the State"?
text: Did you know that Lynn A. Davis stopped illegal gambling in Hot Springs in a 128-day career as head of the Arkansas state police?
text: Did you know that the Persian cat breed has won the CFA International Cat Show's "Best of Show" a record ten times as of 2009?
text: Did you know that the important Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Montana , in Guatemala , was a colony founded by the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan , in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that at age 36, Populist Party Chairman Marion Butler of North Carolina obtained his law degree from the University of North Carolina while serving in the U.S. Senate ?
text: Did you know that Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India , surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining?
text: Did you know that Riverside Theater in Jacksonville was the first theater in Florida , and the third in the United States , equipped to show sound film ?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov served as the stand-in for the Potemkin during the filming of Sergei Eisenstein 's The Battleship Potemkin ?
text: Did you know that the South American rice rat Oryzomys gorgasi is threatened by competition with the Black Rat ?
text: Did you know that only one of the thirty-nine DART Light Rail stations in Greater Dallas , Texas , is located underground?
text: Did you know that at the 2008 Great Brook Run , English politician David Cameron ran through a muddy stream faster than a man dressed as Spider-Man ?
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text: Did you know that Friedrich Nietzsche suggested the crest on the frontispiece of Richard Wagner 's autobiography , Mein Leben , be composed of a vulture and the constellation The Plough ?
text: Did you know that in Cross v. United States , the United States Supreme Court established the principle that the Court of Claims could rehear Congressional reference cases ?
text: Did you know that The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman , the 22nd album by Sparks and their first pop musical , was commissioned by Swedish national radio ?
text: Did you know that Blumea balsamifera is a flowering plant which belongs to the Asteraceae family and is used in the Philippines as a diuretic and treatment for the common cold ?
text: Did you know that the Democratic Association of Victoria , the first Australian socialist organisation founded in 1872, lasted only ten months?
text: Did you know that in January 2009, a lorry burst through the stern doors of the fast ferry Stena Voyager while the ship was at sea?
text: Did you know that in 1971, Cambodian army officer Um Savuth offered Richard Nixon his pet elephant as a gift?
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text: Did you know that The Irish Filmography is a reference source for nearly 2,000 films made from 1896 to 1996 in Ireland , about either Ireland or the Irish?
text: Did you know that 1938–39 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team player Bobby Anet broke the NCAA Tournament trophy during the championship game, which Oregon won?
text: Did you know that at 26 million years, the Taney Seamounts are almost as old as the seafloor they stand on?
text: Did you know that Peter P. Dubrovsky , Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed libraries during the time of the French Revolution ?
text: Did you know that as a result of 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision Glidden Co. v. Zdanok , the Court of Claims did not accept new Congressional reference cases until 1966?
text: Did you know that the neo-romantic Chłopomania movement based in Young Poland 's fascination with folk culture inspired Polish playwright Stanisław Wyspiański to marry a peasant wife in 1900?
text: Did you know that fossilized remains of giant sea turtles have been found at an elevation of 7,696 feet (2,346 m) within Vega State Park in Colorado ?
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text: Did you know that the Montserrat national football team has only won two matches in their history , both victories coming against Anguilla ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the now British overseas territory of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that "Canonsburgh Comet" Leo Koceski , halfback for Michigan 's 1948 national championship and 1950 Rose Bowl championship teams, was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame?
text: Did you know that " Kashi ", the name of an all natural , seven whole grain food company based in La Jolla, California , means "happy" in Chinese and "energy" in Japanese ?
text: Did you know that Pavel Antseborenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for detonating a live hand grenade to avoid capture, killing himself and several German troops in the process?
text: Did you know that Jesse G. James ' company West Coast Choppers earns 60% of its revenue from sales of T-shirts and other tie-in merchandise?
text: Did you know that Wally Teninga played football for Michigan 's undefeated 1947 and 1948 championship teams and later became vice chairman and chief financial officer of Kmart Corporation ?
text: Did you know that the song " La Cima del Cielo " recorded by Ricardo Montaner became his first number-one single in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart ?
text: Did you know that the mechanism of the Winchester Model 1911 , an autoloading shotgun made from 1911 to 1925, is so tricky that in 2005 four people shot themselves accidentally while clearing the weapon?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater was said to have overseen the "cleanest mayor 's election in modern times" in New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that the eastern Yorkshire peninsula Holderness is thought to have taken its name from Thurbrand the Hold , killer of Uhtred the Bold ?
text: Did you know that the Argentinian Labour Party , which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón 's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color ?
text: Did you know that between 19,500 and 50,000 Japanese military personnel are estimated to have surrendered during World War II , despite being prohibited from doing so?
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text: Did you know that in 1997, Steve Carell played chef Yorgo Galfanikos in the ABC sitcom Over the Top ?
text: Did you know that Kevin Rockett is considered one of the pre-eminent authorities on the history of Irish cinema?
text: Did you know that INFORM , a British charity providing impartial information on new religious movements , was established with the support of the Home Office and Britain's mainstream churches?
text: Did you know that Alice Greenough Orr became a rodeo star after she found her preferred job of forest ranger largely unavailable to women during the era after World War I ?
text: Did you know that Roanoke, Virginia , television station WROV-TV was the first UHF station in the United States to shut down?
text: Did you know that P. Munuswamy Naidu became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency after the 1930 election ?
text: Did you know that Howard Yerges began his football career with the Ohio State Buckeyes and finished it as the quarterback of Michigan 's 1947 "Mad Magicians" national championship team ?
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text: Did you know that one local architectural historian disparaged the combination of two older houses into the current Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House in Claverack, New York , as a "growth"?
text: Did you know that credit for describing the Jolthead porgy goes to both Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Schneider in 1801, though Bloch died in 1799?
text: Did you know that the 1931 film Alice in Wonderland was the first talking picture to be based on Lewis Carroll 's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ?
text: Did you know that current Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos is a professional magician who has performed in both Las Vegas and Hollywood ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of millions of Chinese Soft-shelled Turtles are raised every year in Asia's turtle farms ?
text: Did you know that the Genoese have contributed significantly to Gibraltar 's architectural and culinary heritage ?
text: Did you know that despite being a clone of the Apple II , the Soviet Agat computer cost as much as twenty times the average monthly Soviet salary?
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text: Did you know that American professional wrestler Jigsaw was trained by Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush ?
text: Did you know that the Maharishi University of Management stabbing drew international attention because it occurred at an institution with a founding principle of reducing crime?
text: Did you know that Cheryl Cole debuted her song " Parachute " whilst performing a Latin dance with Derek Hough on the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In ?
text: Did you know that the first religious leader of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio , was Simon Lazarus , a clothing merchant who founded what would become Lazarus department stores ?
text: Did you know that Mamajuda Island in the Detroit River , which once contained a lighthouse, has since been eroded away to nothing more than a few boulders seen only during times of low water levels?
text: Did you know that Ragnar Kalheim was one of the main architects behind the formation of the Socialist Electoral League in Norway ?
text: Did you know that with their extensive vineyard holdings in the Douro and many Port wine brands, the Symington Family Estates are considered a "Port empire "?
text: Did you know that the 9th Bomber Regiment was tasked to lead groups of Soviet fighters and attack aircraft (over 2,000 aircraft in total) to their targets during 1941 because their pilots could not navigate on their own?
text: Did you know that while recording swordfights for Barbarian , the video game's designer Steve Brown nearly took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the film Conan the Destroyer ?
text: Did you know that plans were shelved for the Southside Connector over concerns that it would pollute aquifers that were later found to be polluted inadvertently by the military?
text: Did you know that as a consequence of Earl Rivers ' reversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697, the name of the Lyon's Paw Hotel in Frodsham , Cheshire , England, was changed to the Bear's Paw ?
text: Did you know that Johan Kling , a Swedish filmmaker whose career started with making TV shows and McDonald's commercials, won the award for best Swedish film for his debut movie, Darling ?
text: Did you know that chef Aaron McCargo Jr. became host of the Food Network series Big Daddy's House as the grand prize for winning the fourth season of the reality series, The Next Food Network Star ?
text: Did you know that Spanish singer-songwriter Bebe received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album for her second studio album titled Y. ?
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text: Did you know that Margaret Formby , the daughter of Texas ranchers , was the founder of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth ?
text: Did you know that on December 26, 2009, Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a Football Bowl Subdivision bowl game, when she served as line judge for the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park , Australia, encompasses about 1/10th of New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that Swedish history painter Johan Fredrik Höckert died of natural causes at the age of 40, only two years after becoming professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts ?
text: Did you know that the actress cast as Amy Pond , a companion character to the Eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who , had previously portrayed a soothsayer on an episode involving the Tenth Doctor ?
text: Did you know that between the years 2000 and 2009 in North Carolina , the deadliest tropical cyclone was Tropical Storm Allison ?
text: Did you know that the Little Zigzag River begins on Zigzag Glacier , flows down Little Zigzag Canyon, over Little Zigzag Falls, and enters the Zigzag River upstream of Zigzag, Oregon ?
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text: Did you know that Matilda of Brandenburg might have had an affair with Henry IV Probus before their marriage?
text: Did you know that Benigno Fitial , the current governor of the Northern Mariana Islands , once sued the Marianas Variety News & Views newspaper for defamation ?
text: Did you know that the 1894 Michigan football team played Chicago in a sleet storm as the grandstand was "packed with yelling collegians" and the carriage rooms "filled with society people"?
text: Did you know that the flamboyant Louisiana Sheriff F.O. "Potch" Didier once spent seven days in his own jail upon conviction, after a sensational trial, of malfeasance in office ?
text: Did you know that after running aground at Sharpness , SS Stancliffe was cut into two separate sections and then sailed to Cardiff, Wales , in 1947?
text: Did you know that, on the orders of King Edward the Elder and Ealdorman Æthelred , the English thegn Uhtred bought back land at Hope and Ashford in Derbyshire from the Vikings ?
text: Did you know that the Swaraj Party refused to form a government despite winning the 1926 election in Madras Presidency ?
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text: Did you know that there are different theories about the parentage of Piast princess Constance , who ruled over Wodzisław Śląski until her death in 1351?
text: Did you know that the third season and its episodes of the animated sitcom Home Movies won two Pulcinella Awards in 2003?
text: Did you know that Anna Mendelssohn , who spent five years in jail over Angry Brigade bombings, later became a published poet?
text: Did you know that the second Fred Quilt inquiry into the Tsilhqot'in 's death at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found that injury was caused by a blunt force applied by an unknown object?
text: Did you know that the French Minister of Cooperation Pierre Abelin initiated the process that culminated with the signing of the Lomé Convention in 1975?
text: Did you know that Dane Erik Holtved was the first university-trained ethnologist to study Greenland 's Inughuit ?
text: Did you know that Hereford , Texas , broadcaster Clint Formby 's daily commentary is the longest-running program by a single host in radio history?
text: Did you know that the French resistance activist Michel Zunino was the sole former socialist Popular Front parliamentarian who was later re-elected as a communist ?
text: Did you know that the Council on Religion and the Homosexual once held a fundraiser dance despite intimidation from San Francisco police?
text: Did you know that in the late 1480s, students of the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli presented the first Senecan tragedy mounted since Antiquity?
text: Did you know that the San Diego neighborhood of Old Town was the site of the first European settlement in present-day California ?
text: Did you know that twice in the Dakar Rally , a Mercedes-Benz support truck for the Citroën team got caught up in armed conflicts resulting in the driver's death ?
text: Did you know that stand-up comedian Louis C.K. is writing, directing, editing, producing, and starring in his upcoming FX comedy series, Louie ?
text: Did you know that in 1989, a block of flats in Worthing , England, was named in commemoration of the Capella , wrecked off the coast in 1891 , but the name was accidentally misspelt?
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text: Did you know that Colonel J. Thomas Scharf , who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy , later became New York 's Chinese Inspector?
text: Did you know that Nepal 's capital Kathmandu only had one restaurant in 1955?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Rep. Raymond Laborde defeated future Governor Edwin Edwards in 1943 in the race for senior class president of Marksville High School?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Chinese mathematician Li Zhi solved polynomial equations and advised Kublai Khan ?
text: Did you know that the 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team won the inaugural game in the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry by a score of 34 to 0?
text: Did you know that Polish publicist and politician Jan Ludwik Popławski was one of the first chief activists and ideologues of the right-wing National Democracy political camp?
text: Did you know that the 1692 Jamaica earthquake , which destroyed Port Royal , occurred at 11:43 a.m., according to a stopped pocket watch found in the harbour?
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text: Did you know that the Rugrats episode " At the Movies " introduced the character of Reptar , who became a heavily recurring character throughout the series and the basis of countless merchandising tie-ins?
text: Did you know that Sir Denys Roberts was the first and only Colonial Secretary and Chief Secretary who was appointed Chief Justice in Hong Kong ?
text: Did you know that although the original text of the Đại Việt sử ký was lost during the fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam , its contents were still preserved in other books such as the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian politician Beint Bentsen was a member of four different municipal councils ?
text: Did you know that microchromosomes are very tiny gene -rich chromosomes which are a typical genetic component in birds , and some groups of non-mammalian animals?
text: Did you know that the longest retreat of the U.S. Army was 120 miles (190 km)?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler "Dr. Death" Steve Williams has called working on the sitcom Learning the Ropes the "most painful $2,000" he ever earned?
text: Did you know that in Das Erbe , a Nazi propaganda movie, a friendly professor shows a young blonde woman how animals pursue "racial policy"?
text: Did you know that ambulanceman Stanley Skinner was awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions in the aftermath of the train crash at Marden , Kent in 1969?
text: Did you know that the Three Parishes pilgrimage churches in the Slovenian village Rosalnice contain a 15th-century Gothic sanctuary with wall paintings depicting the crucifixion and Saint Christopher ?
text: Did you know that John Pittenger , former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education , was the first legislator to regularly employ high school seniors as legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine does not display frontal nudity or human genitalia in order not to go against Filipino values ?
text: Did you know that former football official Lencie Fred was the first Vanuatuan to be included on the FIFA list of referees ?
text: Did you know that David Hockney took two weeks to paint a moment that lasted two seconds in his 1967 painting A Bigger Splash ?
text: Did you know that when Francis Close retired as Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England ?
text: Did you know that Pocheon , a South Korean city located between Seoul and Gangwon province is famous for makgeolli (unfiltered rice wine) and galbi (marinated short beef ribs)?
text: Did you know that human barricades, coordinated by the Dresden Without Nazis alliance, blocked Europe's largest annual neo-Nazi demonstration in February 2010?
text: Did you know that George Meredith 's book The Adventures of Harry Richmond first appeared in Cornhill Magazine between September 1870 and November 1871, with illustrations by George du Maurier ?
text: Did you know that biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov won the gold medal at the mass start event at his first Olympics three months after winning his first World Cup race?
text: Did you know that the 9th century Pustakasala Hindu temple was discovered under the library construction site of Indonesia Islamic University?
text: Did you know that Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon is considered a pioneer of fire insurance in England?
text: Did you know   that the Aketajawe-Lolobata   National Park on Halmahera island of Indonesia , is considered vital for 23 endemic bird species?
text: Did you know  that despite serving the Chalcedonian Byzantine Empire ,   the Ghassanid ruler Al-Harith ibn Jabalah actively contributed to the  revival  of the monophysitic Syriac Church ?
text: Did you know that infragravity  waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica ?
text: Did you know  that Paula Dow ,   the New  Jersey  Attorney General , is  the first African American woman to serve that post in the state's history?
text: Did you know   that while both U-117 and U-66 were attacked by aircraft from the USS Card on 7 August 1943, only U-117 was sunk?
text: Did you know  that the appearance of Raphael Friedeberg at the Monte Verità sanatorium turned Ascona into a center for itinerant anarchists ?
text: Did you know that fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the Patrick Henry Brittan House in Montgomery, Alabama , was built in 1858 by the 10th Secretary of State of Alabama ?
text: Did you know that Putsy Caballero is the youngest player ever to play in a game at third base in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that Archiinocellia is the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada ?
text: Did you know that designated heritage designs by the early 20th-century Canadian architect Neil R. Darrach can be found in both St. Thomas, Ontario , and Regina, Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you know that Memories Off 5: Encore 's PlayStation Portable port includes a built-in screen capture feature to download images onto a memory stick ?
text: Did you know that former professional footballer Tony Larkin helped to establish Britain 's first football academy for visually impaired players?
text: Did you know that a class action lawsuit was brought against a Pennsylvania school district for allegedly using webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home?
text: Did you know   that at just over 18 millimetres (0.71 in), Fibla carpenteri is the largest species of snakefly known from amber ?
text: Did you know that in the four largest  cities within the Greater Austin metropolitan area (US) the  percentage of college-educated individuals in each is over 39% (compared to  the national average of 24.4%)?
text: Did you know that Tom Walley managed Watford 's  1982 FA Youth Cup winning team, which included John Barnes , Nigel Gibbs and Neil Price ?
text: Did you know that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards , most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck , the first all- Dave Brubeck string quartet recording?
text: Did you know  that Iro ni Ide ni  Keri Waga Koi wa was the result of both Windmill 's staff and fans wanting a game  that was set in a school setting?
text: Did you know that the inaugural inductees into the University of  Connecticut Huskies of Honor included 23 basketball players and four head coaches , including Hall of Fame coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma ?
text: Did you know  that the short story " The Congress " by Argentine writer Jorge Luis  Borges was published  in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold ?
text: Did you know that former Scotland international rugby union player Andrew Balfour led a health initiative that reduced malaria deaths in Khartoum , Sudan , by 90%?
text: Did you know  that 1967's  Hurricane Doria was described as "one of the most  erratic storms ever observed"?
text: Did you know that after her European Parliamentary career, Anne André-Léonard served as the Assistant Commissioner for Belgium at the World Expo in Zaragoza from 2006 to 2008?
text: Did you know  that in Fort Geldria in South India there is a well-preserved Dutch  cemetery, with tombstones carved in the Netherlands , cared for by the Archeological  Survey of India ?
text: Did you know  that the Latin poem Carmen Priami features an artificially archaic language as a reaction to the Hellenizing trend in Latin poetry led by Ennius ?
text: Did you know that the Israeli politician and diplomat Adin Talbar was the national 800 meter dash champion in 1942?
text: Did you know that the tyranny of  small decisions is a concept developed by the  American economist Alfred E. Kahn in 1966, and has been applied to market failures , environmental  degradation and  health outcomes?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Fiji international goalkeeper Simione Tamanisau was prevented from playing in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match by the New Zealand authorities?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Stropharia ambigua has been said to taste like old leaves?
text: Did you know that Nasrullah Khan was Emir of Afghanistan for one week in February 1919?
text: Did you know that the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is the only NASCAR -sanctioned asphalt track in Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the American television program Cannabis Planet features horticulturist and author Ed Rosenthal as a cannabis "expert"?
text: Did you know that in 1988 , the Major League Baseball ERA title was decided by a margin of less than 1 ⁄ 100 of a run between Allan Anderson and Teddy Higuera ?
text: Did you know that some modern K'iche' Maya revere rival syncretised forms of the pre-Columbian Moon goddess Awilix that are said to be the lovers of St. James ?
text: Did you know that the English pirate Peter Love set up a base of operation in the Outer Hebrides , but was betrayed by an associate outlaw and executed by the Scottish Government in 1610?
text: Did you know that for The Kinks ' 1968 album Live at Kelvin Hall , sessions were held to "sweeten" the original live recording ?
text: Did you know that Fulcran Vigouroux was the first secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission ?
text: Did you know that the broad whitefish is eaten by brown bears when they cannot find salmon ?
text: Did you know that Joe Oeschger co-owns the Major League Baseball record for most innings pitched in a single game with 26?
text: Did you know that the Tiller Ranger Station in southern Oregon served as the administrative headquarters for five different Umpqua National Forest ranger districts?
text: Did you know that Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram survived the Dunkirk evacuation because the soap dish he was carrying in his military backpack stopped a bullet that would have hit him in the back?
text: Did you know that King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha , Egypt's first ambassador to Iran ?
text: Did you know that the Church of the East , originally the Christian church of Sassanid Persia , eventually established churches throughout Asia , including in Mesopotamia , India , Central Asia , and China ?
text: Did you know that recombination refers to the formation of the first electrically neutral hydrogen atoms in the universe?
text: Did you know that Andrea Fay Friedman ' s first voice-acting role was portraying Ellen, a young woman with Down Syndrome , on the " Extra Large Medium " episode of Family Guy ?
text: Did you know that KV35YL , a mummy that was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 in 1898 and thought to be male at the time, was recently determined by DNA testing to be King Tut 's mother?
text: Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles running back Perry Harrington was expected to compete for the starting fullback job in 1981 when he broke his leg in the fourth game of the season?
text: Did you know that the Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria , Louisiana , US , started mostly with discarded pets when it opened in 1926?
text: Did you know that despite not sinking a single ship in her career, U-241 managed to shoot down a Norwegian Catalina flying boat?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Mingtiao marked the beginning of the Shang dynasty ?
text: Did you know that after Willy Schaeffler taught George Patton to ski, he moved to the US and became the most successful ski coach in US history?
text: Did you know that Ororaphidia and Styporaphidia are the oldest snakeflies known from China , dating from the Middle Jurassic ?
text: Did you know that the BBC Sound Archive was founded in 1936 by Marie Slocombe while she was working as a temporary secretary disposing of sound recordings?
text: Did you know that the spinnenkopmolen Arkens , Franeker , is the only windmill in the Netherlands fitted with Vlinderwieken (English: Butterfly sails )?
text: Did you know that Australian triathlete Mirinda Carfrae in her first attempt at the Ironman distance broke the women's marathon course record at the 2009 World Championships ?
text: Did you know that Louis Robertshaw flew combat missions in World War II and Korea and flew an F-4D Phantom fighter in Vietnam as commanding general of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing ?
text: Did you know that in the Treaty of Bromberg , Poland-Lithuania accepted Hohenzollern sovereignty in the Duchy of Prussia in turn for an "eternal alliance"?
text: Did you know that Thai director Yongyoot Thongkongtoon ' s debut film was The Iron Ladies , a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men?
text: Did you know that during the Convention of Aguascalientes the Zapatista Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama said that the Mexican flag symbolized "triumph of clerical reaction" and was then threatened by other attendees?
text: Did you know that some participants in the men's singles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics complained that track changes made after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili gave an advantage to stronger starters?
text: Did you know that Alf Whist , Minister of Industry and Shipping in the Quisling regime , had no political experience prior to joining the Fascist party during Nazi Germany's occupation in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that the American Pie franchise , consisting of a trilogy and spin-off spiritual successor series of four more films, spawned from the 1999 film American Pie ?
text: Did you know that Robert C. Janiszewski , longtime County Executive of Hudson County , New Jersey , was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI ?
text: Did you know that Bangladesh football goalkeeper Biplob Bhattacharjee made his international debut at the age of 18?
text: Did you know that the female Green Pygmy Goose has a lower pitched whistle than the male?
text: Did you know that Norwegian journalist Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn is known for her unusual name and consistent use of Nynorsk ?
text: Did you know  that Magnar Lundemo competed in international  championships in both running and skiing in 1962?
text: Did you know  that only one of the twenty-five aircraft operated by Invicta  International Airlines was a jet , a Boeing 720B ?
text: Did you know that in 1871, Lars Havstad became one of the first two deaf people to pass the final examination in secondary  schools in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Salisbury and  Yeovil Railway has been described as "the most  successful of all railways in Southern England"?
text: Did you know  that the substellar  object orbiting G 196-3 was the second discovery of a brown dwarf found around a young low-mass star ?
text: Did you know that Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash while posted in the United Kingdom and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s?
text: Did you know  that Electrinocellia peculiaris is named for the Latin "electrum"  meaning amber ,  " Inocellia ", the type genus for Inocelliidae ,  and "peculiaris" for the enigmatic nature of the species?
text: Did you know that Frank Allen originally worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer at the age of 24?
text: Did you know that the Humboldt Fault Zone , which produced the 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake , still poses a formidable threat to the state of Kansas?
text: Did you know that Cao Văn Viên was one of only two four-star generals in the history of South Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that the catfish Pimelodus pictus has extremely long barbels , or whiskers, that can extend past the fish's tail fin ?
text: Did you know that Chicago-born record producer Lou Reizner conceived and produced the orchestral version of The Who 's rock opera Tommy ?
text: Did you know that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle ?
text: Did you know that in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California ?
text: Did you know that squire Richard Cooke shot dead two tax collectors as he claimed that they were poachers ?
text: Did you know that the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare ?
text: Did you know that in 1929, Wales international footballer Moses Russell was threatened with a pistol during a pitch invasion whilst on a tour of Canada?
text: Did you know that Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda , a Declared Monument in Hong Kong , was built in 1486 to improve the local fung shui ?
text: Did you know that Gandhi biographer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar , a student of Eisenstein , is considered to be one of the pioneers of documentary film making in India ?
text: Did you know that the Vĩnh Tế Canal , built during the Nguyễn Dynasty in southern Vietnam , was a symbol of mistreatment of the Khmer people and later used by the Khmer Rouge in anti- Vietnamese propaganda?
text: Did you know that Edwin C. Burt 's shoe company issued a series of trade cards , one of which featured children sitting in a sailboat-shaped shoe?
text: Did you know that Perica Vlašić won Diamonds at Henley , even though he turned up the day before the regatta without a boat?
text: Did you know that David Wilson was Nelson F.C. 's first manager in the Football League ?
text: Did you know that residents of Texcoco, Mexico State have resisted, sometimes violently, the development of a major airport since the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Tony Award -winning producer Richard Barr took part in the infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds ?
text: Did you know that four members of the Australian 7th Battalion received the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915?
text: Did you know that Norman Doidge , author of popular science book The Brain That Changes Itself , presented his research into psychotherapy at the White House in 1993?
text: Did you know that the Bahá'í Faith was first brought to Haiti in 1927?
text: Did you know that Bloom Energy was awarded a patent in 2009 for a power device that utilizes yttria-stabilized zirconia ?
text: Did you know that the late Louisiana State Rep. Shady Wall once pulled a pistol on colleague Carl Gunter, Jr. , when Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's telephone?
text: Did you know that Alhaji Grunshi was the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the First World War ?
text: Did you know  that the principles of insanity in English law have been described as based on a "now obsolete" belief and "not  therefore a satisfactory test of criminal responsibility"?
text: Did you know  that comedian and actor Dane Cook is referenced in the Archer episode " Training Day "  when main character Archer negatively compares karate to him?
text: Did you know  that out of the described snakefly specimens from the Florissant Formation , the Raphidia  funerata holotype is the most complete?
text: Did you know that Fox Brothers ,  established in 1772, has provided cloth to Bob Hope , Winston  Churchill , the Duke of Windsor and Cary Grant ?
text: Did you know  that Norwegian cross-country skier Øystein  Pettersen won a gold medal in the team sprint  event at the 2010 Winter Olympics after filling in for a teammate  who withdrew from the race due to illness?
text: Did you know that copies of a forthcoming Kraken Opus book about Diego Maradona will be sold with samples of his blood and hair?
text: Did you know that West Indian cricketer Brian Lara has made the highest individual score and only quadruple century in Test cricket ?
text: Did you know that in order to convince defensive end Jody Schulz to sign a letter-of-intent , former East Carolina Pirates football coach Ed Emory took a plane to Kent Island during a snowstorm?
text: Did you know that Joseph Gutnick , chairman of Great Central Mines , was advised by the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson to go back to the Australian desert and search for "gold and diamonds"?
text: Did you know that Chinese Buddhist monk Song Yun and companions traveled to northwest India at the request of Empress Hu during the Northern Wei dynasty ?
text: Did you know that some historians consider a 1619 strike by Polish craftsmen in the Jamestown Settlement to be the first strike in North American history?
text: Did you know that cartoonist Ken Emerson wrote the second-longest running comic strip in Australia ?
text: Did you know that pre-colonial sexual customs in the Philippines involved equating the size of a woman's breasts and the wideness of her hips with the price of the dowry ?
text: Did you know that Francisco Goya 's Witches' Sabbath was a protest against superstitious beliefs encouraged by leaders of the Spanish Inquisition ?
text: Did you know that literary historian Rolf Nyboe Nettum , one of Norway 's central Knut Hamsun researchers, grew up as a neighbour of polar explorer Otto Sverdrup ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Amber Road passed through the Postojna Gate to reach the Mediterranean ?
text: Did you know that 18th-century Swedish admiral Olof Strömstierna was the son of a fisherman?
text: Did you know that rubicline was the first mineral discovered with rubidium as an essential constituent?
text: Did you know that Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni was Galileo's personal instrument maker and helped Galileo make military compasses and other instruments?
text: Did you know that French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis , who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics , was born in Montana ?
text: Did you know  that after inheriting her late husband's tools in 1760, Hester Bateman successfully ran a family silversmithing business for 30 years?
text: Did you know that over 100 Florida Black Bears are killed on Florida roadways each year?
text: Did you know  that Dean Fredericks , who portrayed Air Force pilot Steve Canyon in the 1958–59 NBC television series , was awarded a Purple Heart during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Cortinarius archeri is featured on the cover of the book Fungi of Southern Australia ?
text: Did you know  that during the Mexican Revolution , the rebel leader Jesús Salgado , whose revolt often shaded into outright banditry , led 5000 Zapatista troops in the taking of the capital of Guerrero , Chilpancingo ?
text: Did you know that between its 1960 closing and its current use as a museum, District School No. 14 in Pine Hill, New York , was a coat factory and a furniture repair shop?
text: Did you know that Amy Williams , gold medal winner in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics , was accused of getting an unfair advantage from ridges in her helmet?
text: Did you know that college basketball point guard Demetri McCamey and Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner were once teammates at Isiah Thomas ' former high school?
text: Did you know that Camp Na'aleh , which was established in 1932 with help from Golda Meir , the future Prime Minister of Israel , is the oldest Habonim Dror summer camp in North America?
text: Did you know that for most of his European Parliamentary term, Gerhard Hager was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria , before leaving the party just over one year before the end of his second term?
text: Did you know that R&B singer Barrence Whitfield changed his name from Barry White, to avoid confusion with the other Barry White , who had changed his name from Barrence?
text: Did you know that College Sports Information Directors of America has conferred Academic All-American to athletes in all National Collegiate Athletic Association championship sports since 1952?
text: Did you know that the arrest of the Ghassanid ruler Al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith in 581 provoked a two-year revolt by his sons against the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you know that the Old Harbor Light in Savannah, Georgia , also known as the Savannah Harbor Rear Range Light, resembles a giant streetlight ?
text: Did you know that Erin Carmody 's curling team twice won the Prince Edward Island provincial junior championships  with an undefeated record?
text: Did you know that Nanoraphidia electroburmica , known from a fossil in amber , is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
text: Did you know that American Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomas has walked 19,000 miles (31,000 km) on peace pilgrimages?
text: Did you know that the renovated Russian embassy has been described as the most  magnificent embassy in Luxembourg ?
text: Did you know that Crystal  Taliefero , percussionist with the Billy Joel Band ,  also narrates children's audiobooks?
text: Did you know that efforts to remove street vendors in the Tlaxcoaque area of Mexico City have resulted in threats to public officials?
text: Did you know that Janet Vida Watson ' s first job involved researching the growth of chickens, but that she went on to become the first woman  president of the Geological Society of London ?
text: Did you know that Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Arved Crüger was married to the actress Carola Höhn ?
text: Did you know  that the 14.44-mile (23.2 km) Stert and  Westbury Railway shortened the distance from London Paddington station to Weymouth by 14.24 miles (22.9 km)?
text: Did you know that West Indians Viv Richards and Hallam Moseley top the batting and bowling charts in List A cricket for Somerset  County Cricket Club ?
text: Did you know  that the mushroom Russula integra is a popular food in Northern Europe ?
text: Did you know  that Joseph Huddart , who made a fortune from making  rope, first worked with his father to process fish that suddenly  appeared in Solway Firth ?
text: Did you know  that players can use the Wii Balance Board and shift their weight to control  the monkey ball in Super Monkey Ball:  Step & Roll ?
text: Did you know  that Alphastates vocalist Catherine Dowling has been compared to both Beth Gibbons and Shirley Manson and called "a lady with the most evocative vocals in Irish music"?
text: Did you know that Marchwood Military Port in Southampton supported war efforts in both the Normandy landings and the Falklands war ?
text: Did you know  that Austrian brothers Wolfgang and Andreas Linger beat out Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Šics for the gold medal in the doubles luge  event at the 2010 Winter  Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Amalgamated Sugar Company , the second-largest polluter of sulfur dioxide in Oregon in 1995, marketed its White Satin sugar as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar"?
text: Did you know that sibling alpine skiers Ornella and Manfred Oettl Reyes are members of Peru's first team at the Winter Olympics , despite being born and living their entire lives in Germany ?
text: Did you know that critics of the prosecution of anarchist Sherman Austin pointed out that Wikipedia contained more online bomb-making instructions than his website did?
text: Did you know that Neighbours actor Jordan Smith was born in Scotland and did not emigrate to Australia until 2003?
text: Did you know that the bloater , which inhabits the depths of the Great Lakes , swells when brought to the surface?
text: Did you know that Continental Navy Captain William Pickles ' ship, the Morris , was destroyed by a hurricane and replaced shortly before the 1779 Battle of Lake Pontchartrain ?
text: Did you know that indoor plumbing was not installed in a former lock tender's cottage on the Delaware and Hudson Canal at High Falls, New York , until the 1960s, over a century after it was built?
text: Did you know that Manuel Pinho was forced to resign as Portugal 's Minister of Economy and Innovation after making a gesture towards an opposition member during a session of parliament ?
text: Did you know that University of  Michigan freshman Devin Gardner compiled 3,287 yards of total offense as a high school junior and was ranked as the top quarterback prospect in the United States in  2009?
text: Did you know  that " The Iron Shroud " by William  Mudford influenced Edgar Allan  Poe 's writing of the " Pit and the Pendulum "?
text: Did you know that the American Piedmont blues guitarist Baby Tate worked with a Blind Boy and a Peg Leg during his five-decade-long  career?
text: Did you know  that Jeon Ok ,  a Korean actress and the mother of actress Kang Hyo-shil ,  was referred to as "Queen of Tears" for her excellence at acting for tragic dramas ?
text: Did you know  that in TCU's first season in the Mountain West Conference , the 2005 TCU Horned Frogs football team won its first outright conference championship since 1958?
text: Did you know  that before becoming a Member of the  European Parliament , Peter Sichrovsky edited a book featuring a  collection of interviews with the children of Nazi families?
text: Did you know  that women who wish to participate in the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla must ritually ask forgiveness for being a woman?
text: Did you know that the American Detroit blues musician Washboard Willie , derived his backing group's name, the Super Suds of Rhythm, from his job as a car washer ?
text: Did you know that the Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala was one of the first places to be settled in the Maya lowlands?
text: Did you know that most of the world's pure bred Holstein cattle descend from the herd of 20th century Canadian actuary Thomas Bassett Macaulay ?
text: Did you know that Irish-born artist Francis Bacon painted 28 known triptychs between 1944 and 1984?
text: Did you know that former Governor of American Samoa Gatewood Lincoln was the first cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that numerically-controlled oscillators offer several advantages over other types of oscillators in terms of agility, accuracy, stability, and reliability?
text: Did you know that in 1749, London newspapers advertised that at the Haymarket Theatre , and in full view of the audience, the Bottle Conjuror would climb into a wine bottle?
text: Did you know that in 2004, MEP Hans Kronberger unsuccessfully contested his fellow Freedom Party of Austria candidate's election to the European Parliament in the Constitutional Court of Austria ?
text: Did you know that Captain Phil Harris , best known from the Discovery Channel's reality TV series Deadliest Catch , developed a line of coffees called "Captain's Reserve"?
text: Did you know that Vespula flaviceps larvae are considered a delicacy in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian graphic artist Stefan Kanchev , the author of 1,600 logos, has been called the "father of Bulgarian graphic design" and the "master of the trademark "?
text: Did you know that the silent comedy Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford was playing at Washington, D.C. 's Knickerbocker Theatre when it collapsed under the weight of snow from a blizzard in 1922, killing 98 people?
text: Did you know that Latvian Haralds Silovs is the first Olympic athlete to compete in both the short and long track speed skating events on the same day?
text: Did you know that one oldfield mouse was observed gently pulling out her young with her forefeet while giving birth?
text: Did you know that the recently discovered extrasolar planet HIP 79431 b is regarded as one of the most massive planets around M dwarf stars ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Stayner , an English horticulturist who was important in the founding of the sugar industry in Utah , died in 1899 of lead poisoning from a lead pellet embedded in his heel?
text: Did you know that Galentine's Day , an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , had a story so romantic, its characters said it made The Notebook look like Saw V ?
text: Did you know that the Arlington Club , a private club organized by business and banking leaders in Portland, Oregon , excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
text: Did you know that Björn Ferry , winner of the Men's pursuit biathlon event at the 2010 Winter Olympics , has suggested that athletes who use banned substances be given the death penalty ?
text: Did you know that despite being the oldest covered bridge in Lane County, Oregon , the Mosby Creek Bridge still remains open to traffic?
text: Did you know that during the "Christmas coup" at radio station WBAI , Utrice Leid changed the locks on the doors?
text: Did you know that in 2003, Member of the European Parliament Marialiese Flemming proposed more than 80 amendments to a European Commission human tissue safety standards proposal?
text: Did you know that at the Osborne House , Lonicera nitida shrubs were clipped to form stags that rise from beds of Felicia amelloides , Festuca glauca , and scarlet pelargoniums ?
text: Did you know that Paul Harrington , inventor of the Harrington implant , once tried out for the United States Olympic team ?
text: Did you know that the Trent Waterworks Company introduced Britain's first high pressure constant supply of mains water in Nottingham in 1831?
text: Did you know that the Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes proves the only case of the Hodge conjecture , a Clay Mathematics Institute million-dollar Millennium Prize Problem , which is known to be true on all Kähler manifolds ?
text: Did you know that in the Treaty of Labiau , Charles X Gustav of Sweden released Frederick William I of Brandenburg from the vassalage he had imposed on him in the Treaty of Königsberg ?
text: Did you know that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point , trained Iran 's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Spillane's silver in the individual normal hill/10 km at the 2010 Winter Olympics is the first medal won by an American in Nordic combined ?
text: Did you know that the Beaverkill Valley Inn , near Lew Beach, New York , is the only remaining fishing lodge on the upper Beaver Kill from the early days of dry-fly trout fishing in the Catskills ?
text: Did you know that country music songwriter Chris Waters , who has written songs for Tim McGraw , Terri Clark and Rhett Akins , is the older brother of singer Holly Dunn ?
text: Did you know that the Beit Hanoun wedge was part of the Israeli strategy in Operation Yoav that sought to divide the Egyptian army into a number of pockets?
text: Did you know that Stephen Crane 's novella The Monster is thought to have been inspired in part by the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York ?
text: Did you know that according to the National Geographic Society , Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva found the richest unlooted pre-Columbian tomb in the Western Hemisphere ?
text: Did you know that silver nitride is a contact explosive which can detonate from even the slightest touch, such as a falling water droplet?
text: Did you know that Austrian court painter Peter Fendi , known for his erotic paintings , was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period?
text: Did you know that Đại Việt sử lược is considered the oldest remaining annals of the history of Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that Mo Tae-Bum ,  a South Korean long track speed skater , won a 2010 Olympic gold medal on his 21st birthday?
text: Did you know that the oldest association between Trypanosoma , which causes Chagas disease , and its vector , the assassin bug Triatoma , is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus ?
text: Did you know that in 2003, Austrian Member of the European Parliament Daniela Raschhofer was conferred a Grand Decoration of Honour ?
text: Did you know that Horagolla National Park is the only urban park in the Western Province of Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Bernhard Heiliger was regarded as " West Germany 's foremost sculptor"?
text: Did you know that when police raided the Cambridge College of Learning, a London-based bogus college for overseas students, they discovered just three classrooms and eleven desks?
text: Did you know that Kurao Hiroshima was a two-time Olympian , two-time Japanese marathon champion , and two-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon ?
text: Did you know that Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men was the first number one of the Billboard ' s Independent Albums chart, and would later go on to be the biggest selling independent album of 2001?
text: Did you know that director and writer Juanita Wilson spent time in "the most radioactive place on earth" while working on her debut Academy Award -nominated short film?
text: Did you know that the Polish Independent Socialist Labour Party of Joseph Kruk merged into the Labour Zionist Poalei Zion in 1937?
text: Did you know that an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
text: Did you know  that in 1968 American archaeologist A. Ledyard  Smith received the Order of the Quetzal  from the Guatemalan government for his services to the cultural heritage of the country?
text: Did you know that Anthony R. Cucci , the 40th Mayor of Jersey City , threatened to foreclose on the Statue of Liberty and sell it at auction for an overdue water bill?
text: Did you know that Glen "Frosty"  Little is one of only four people ever to  be named "Master Clown" by the Ringling  Brothers circus  organization?
text: Did you know  that One City Center was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States when it opened in 1986?
text: Did you know that the title Mai the Black  Emperor ( Mai  Hắc Đế ) of Mai Thúc Loan came from his distinctively dark  complexion?
text: Did you know  that the Magellan  Planet Search Program has discovered five eccentric  Jupiter-mass extra-solar planets since the program started  gathering data in December 2002?
text: Did you know that Martie Maguire and Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks will be releasing an album as the Court Yard Hounds ?
text: Did you know that Culham Bridge has twice been an important defensive position on the River Thames ?
text: Did you know  that BDTH 2 ,  an industrial chelation agent that separates heavy metals from polluted soil, is also marketed  as a dietary supplement for children with autism ?
text: Did you know that many of the Paterson, New Jersey , textile mill workers who struck in 1835 demanding shorter working hours were children ?
text: Did you know that the tragic romance of Tristan and Iseult is the subject matter of the Tristan Quilt , a rare survival of medieval trapunto quilting ?
text: Did you know that Facebook polls asking whether Barack Obama should be assassinated have been investigated by the government as possible felonious threats against the President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Phelps Dodge bought the El Paso and Northeastern Railway and its associated properties to secure access to superior coke for their smelters ?
text: Did you know that several karaoke bars in the Philippines had banned the song " My Way " due to the deaths attributed to it?
text: Did you know that future sugar beet processing executive Henry Arthur Benning was a "rotten stenographer ", then failed at selling tobacco, since he didn't partake in tobacco?
text: Did you know that " Motorway man " is reluctant to cook, rarely has children, and may decide the next United Kingdom general election ?
text: Did you know that Peter Clarke was head of the Metropolitan Police 's Counter Terrorism Command from 2002 to 2008?
text: Did you know that the discovery of the shipwreck SS Ellengowan in 1991 off Channel Island, made it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin harbour ?
text: Did you know that directing the film Holy Lola made Bertrand Tavernier fall in love with Cambodia ?
text: Did you know  that the bioluminescent crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii , named after Franz Hilgendorf , was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II ?
text: Did you know that after his arrest in 1940, Norwegian Army officer Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was referred to by the Germans as Reichskommissar Josef Terboven 's personal prisoner?
text: Did you know that Google Buzz allows Gmail users to share messages and links across various social networking websites?
text: Did you know that the longest obscenity trial in English legal history partly concerned a cartoon of Rupert Bear ravaging a granny ?
text: Did you know that the frontman of the band Ignite , Zoltán Téglás , saves injured pelicans in his free time?
text: Did you know that during the January 1961 nor'easter on the eve of John F. Kennedy 's presidential inauguration, thousands of abandoned cars led to massive traffic jams, including on the inauguration parade route?
text: Did you know that the 1998 Merlin Miller film A Place to Grow starred country singer Gary Morris and also featured appearances by Boxcar Willie , Wilford Brimley , and John Beck ?
text: Did you know that the Super-Earth orbiting HD 156668 has an orbital period of less than five days?
text: Did you know that Patrick Hemingway , the son of Ernest Hemingway , owned a safari business in Tanzania during the 1950s?
text: Did you know that in France , the Picardy Spaniel is used for hunting snipes ?
text: Did you know that one former Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board described the position as "more like a bully pulpit than a position of authority"?
text: Did you know that the first-ever paid youth soccer coach in the United States was an Englishman named Derek Armstrong ?
text: Did you know that Paul M. Herzog ' s grandfather-in-law, Oscar Straus , and his step-son, Alexander Trowbridge , were both United States Secretary of Commerce ?
text: Did you know that the capture of the French frigate Modeste by the British in the neutral port of Genoa in 1793 created a diplomatic incident ?
text: Did you know that Stewart Scullion played alongside Pelé and Bobby Moore in the 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup , scoring their team's only goal of the tournament?
text: Did you know that fossils from the Paleocene -age Cerrejón Formation in Colombia are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforests ?
text: Did you know that despite writing multiple hits such as "Sticks and Stones," " Tell Me Why ", and " Leave My Kitten Alone ", the American R&B singer Titus Turner only recorded one album?
text: Did you know that a Coade stone statue built at Brighton 's Royal Crescent in 1802 to impress the Prince of Wales had to be removed after excessive weathering made its arm drop off?
text: Did you know that YouTube artist Beckii Cruel from the Isle of Man has become popular in Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Rhône producer Chapoutier was the first winery to feature Braille script on their wine labels ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Coningham was the first bowler to take a wicket with his first ball in a Test cricket match?
text: Did you know that after the Swedish dominions Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Russia in 1710, their recovery remained a Swedish war aim for nearly a century?
text: Did you know that stage and film actor Bruno Barnabe studied mime under Theodore Komisarjevsky ?
text: Did you know that Manchester Tram number 765 is the last remaining electric car from Manchester Corporation Tramways still in operation?
text: Did you know that the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a book with an infinite number of pages?
text: Did you know that marathon races only receive IAAF Gold Label Road Race status if organisers have taken steps to preserve the environment ?
text: Did you know that during his 25 years on the U.S. National Labor Relations Board John H. Fanning took part in more than 25,000 decisions?
text: Did you know that some of the tallest trees left in West Africa are found in Bia National Park ?
text: Did you know that Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war ?
text: Did you know that We Are Scientists ' fourth studio album , Barbara , is their first recorded with drummer Andy Burrows and the band's debut release with PIAS Recordings ?
text: Did you know that diplomat Ted Lipman , the current Canadian ambassador to North Korea and South Korea , is married to Chinese singer Dadawa ?
text: Did you know that the Myitsone Dam being built by the Burmese government and the China Power Investment Corporation is planned to provide 3,600 to 6,000 megawatts of electricity for Yunnan , China?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Wolfgang Ilgenfritz , along with several other Members of the European Parliament , declared his personal financial interests online?
text: Did you know that the evacuation of its base at Žatec , Czechoslovakia, in August 1948 allowed the Israeli Air Force to bring over 2,000 tons of supplies to the besieged Negev in Operation Avak ?
text: Did you know that before Sir Edward Moon, 2nd Baronet , was a baronet , he was a rower ?
text: Did you know that Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
text: Did you know that Big Butte Springs , located in the Big Butte Creek watershed, produces 26,000,000 US gallons (98,000,000 L) of drinking water a day that serves 115,000 residents 30 miles (48 km) away in the Rogue Valley ?
text: Did you know that Horatio Nelson described Captain George Elliot as one of the best officers in the navy ?
text: Did you know that in 1960, 33 years before Dick Van Dyke began Diagnosis Murder , CBS ran the similarly titled series , Diagnosis: Unknown , with Patrick O'Neal as a crime-solving pathologist ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 614 is one of the very few witnesses of the Western text-type with complete text of the Acts of the Apostles ?
text: Did you know that architect H. Neill Wilson designed massive summer cottages in Massachusetts ' Berkshire County , including Shadowbrook where Andrew Carnegie died?
text: Did you know that the Gonâve Microplate originated as part of the Caribbean Plate , but is expected to end up accreted to the North American Plate ?
text: Did you know that, according to the hotel's owner, before Marshall's Hotel opened in 1880 in Yellowstone Park , a visiting U.S. Interior Secretary had to sleep outdoors, and it rained that night?
text: Did you know that the sports arena Wesley Brown Field House at the United States Naval Academy is named after Wesley A. Brown , the first African American to graduate from the academy?
text: Did you know that Pedro Matias typed a 264 character text message in 1:59, beating the existing Guinness Book of World Records record in the LG Mobile World Cup ?
text: Did you know that in 1939 it was ruled that a child born in the United States to alien parents retains U.S. citizenship, even if the parents take the child back to their home country?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian long jump record for women, which Margrethe Renstrøm broke in 2009 with a 6.64 metres jump, was at the time the oldest Norwegian athletics record?
text: Did you know that singer Janet Jackson appeared on the Will & Grace episode " Back Up, Dancer " nine months after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy ?
text: Did you know that Jean Charpentier , press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état ?
text: Did you know that the bulbs of the plant Nerine bowdenii have been said to be shaped like old-fashioned Chianti bottles?
text: Did you know that Tanums store rettskrivningsordbok , the dictionary of choice for solvers and makers of Norwegian crossword puzzles , was edited by Marius Sandvei for more than five decades?
text: Did you know that the Codex Carolinus is one of very few Gothic fragments of the New Testament on parchment that has survived to the present day?
text: Did you know that in September 1924, Jack Fowler scored five goals in a football match for Swansea Town against Charlton Athletic , which remains the club record for most goals in a match?
text: Did you know that a single cave in the Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos is used by at least 22 species of bats?
text: Did you know that the French fast minelaying cruiser Pluton exploded in Casablanca Harbor, French Morocco , on 13 September 1939 while disembarking fuzed mines ?
text: Did you know that Clara Hughes , who led the Canadian athletes in the parade of nations during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony , is the only athlete to have won multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in Francisco Goya 's painting Carlos IV in his Hunting Clothes the artist showed his debt to Titian 's 1533 Charles V by showing a dog sniffing at the royal crotch?
text: Did you know that glazed black mathematical tiles , as seen at Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley , are a characteristic 18th-century architectural motif in Brighton, England ?
text: Did you know that the early Maya farming village of Cuello in Belize has a mass grave containing 26 sacrificed war captives?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian high jumper Stine Kufaas set a national record in the standing high jump in 2009?
text: Did you know that four months after a mass resignation , which caused a loss of 22 jobs, Major League Baseball umpires voted to form a new union?
text: Did you know that S Ori 70 is a mid- T type astronomical object, discovered in 2002 in the direction of the Sigma Orinis cluster ?
text: Did you know that the American Piedmont and country blues singer and guitarist Alec Seward was one of at least five musicians billed as 'Guitar Slim'?
text: Did you know that the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan produced world record -breaking marathon runs in both 1963 and 1978?
text: Did you know that Mazisi Kunene 's Emperor Shaka the Great was originally written in Zulu and compiled from the Zulu oral tradition ?
text: Did you know that character actor I. Stanford Jolley performed some 500 times on film or television but reportedly never received more than $100 for each screen appearance?
text: Did you know that the architecture of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Livingston Manor, New York , reflects both the Eastern European origins of its founders and the older Protestant churches in the area?
text: Did you know that former RTÉ Gaelic Games Correspondent Jonathan Mullin previously guided Mayo Ladies' Gaelic football team to two All-Ireland Senior Championships and a National League title?
text: Did you know that experimental rock band Yeasayer joked that they wanted their second studio album Odd Blood to challenge the music of Rihanna in clubs?
text: Did you know that thirteen-year-old David Sills has verbally committed to play college football for USC although he is not eligible to sign a letter of intent until 2015?
text: Did you know that the sawmill of Mitford, Alberta , failed partly because most of the good quality lumber to be found in the area was used in the construction of the railway designed to haul said lumber to market?
text: Did you know that Franz Anton Knittel deciphered the Gothic text of the palimpsest Codex Carolinus in 1762?
text: Did you know that according to folklore, The Shoe Dog howled mournfully outside any dwelling that would soon suffer a bereavement?
text: Did you know that prior to joining Motown , The Jackson 5 recorded songs such as "You've Changed", "We Don't Have To Be Over 21 (to Fall in Love)", and " Big Boy " at Steeltown Records ?
text: Did you know that prominent sociologist Nathan Glazer has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a Marxist , a neoconservative , and an espouser of "armchair intellectual liberalism "?
text: Did you know that about a million birds were banded at the Rossitten Bird Observatory between its establishment in 1901 and the end of the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Simon J. Hall was listed among New York Magazine's Best Doctors in 2007, 2008, and 2009?
text: Did you know that a class action suit was filed in US Federal Court against R2C2 , a company that sells term papers online, alleging copyright infringement for reselling papers written by other authors?
text: Did you know that former Welsh international footballer Wayne Jones was forced to retire at the age of 24 when it was discovered that he had a previously undiagnosed arthritic condition?
text: Did you know that in 1782, the rector of the University of Osuna reminded the students to "abstain from throwing rocks, both inside and outside the university?"
text: Did you know that actor and acting teacher Bryan O'Byrne is credited with launching the acting career of Nick Nolte , whom he discovered while coaching Nolte's college roommate ?
text: Did you know that social bookmarking service AddThis , combined with its parent company Clearspring , reach an online audience of more than 200 million monthly viewers?
text: Did you know that in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin - Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
text: Did you know that Sri Lanka scored a world record 952 runs for six wickets in a Test cricket match at the R. Premadasa Stadium against India in 1997?
text: Did you know that Richard Allen , a Dublin draper, raised £20,000 for Irish famine relief efforts by writing letters to America?
text: Did you know that once established, Labrador 's Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve will be the largest National Park in Atlantic Canada ?
text: Did you know that Irish meteorologist Gerald Fleming has been noted to wink while giving weather forecasts ?
text: Did you know that speed skater Tomomi Okazaki , currently competing in her fifth Olympic Games , is the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Myglaren , a social satire, was the first made-for-television film produced in Sweden and aired in 1966?
text: Did you know that Ngô Sĩ Liên compiled Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư , the oldest remaining historical record of a Vietnamese dynasty ?
text: Did you know that the concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival include Eberbach Abbey , Schloss Johannisberg and Lorch ?
text: Did you know that the mediaeval Gaelic manuscript MS 1467 contains the earliest known pedigree which gives Clan Campbell a " British " ancestry, from Uther Pendragon , and King Arthur ?
text: Did you know that Robert Scholl , the father of White Rose members Hans and Sophie Scholl , was imprisoned for 18 months in 1943 for listening to a " Feindsender "?
text: Did you know that South Korea was on track to sweep the men's 1500 metre short track speed skating event at the 2010 Winter Olympics before Sung Si-Bak and Lee Ho-Suk crashed into each other on the final lap?
text: Did you know that the first gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics was won by Simon Ammann of Switzerland in the normal hill ski jump ?
text: Did you know that Ron Swanson builds a harp in the Parks and Recreation episode " Sweetums ", which was inspired by actor Nick Offerman 's real-life carpentry skills?
text: Did you know that Selective Service System director Lawrence Romo testified to the U.S. Senate that he knew of no more ways that the Defense Department can assist in increasing registration compliance?
text: Did you know that the world's tallest concrete -faced rockfill dam is Shuibuya Dam on the Qingjiang River in China ?
text: Did you know that Richard Coughlan has been called "one of art rock 's longest tenured musicians"?
text: Did you know that Costa Deliziosa will be the first cruise ship to be christened in an Arabian city?
text: Did you know that The Wolves in the Walls , a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean that went on to become an off-Broadway musical , was inspired by a nightmare had by Gaiman's youngest daughter?
text: Did you know that Wales wartime international footballer Taffy Davies spent his entire 20-year professional career at Watford Football Club ?
text: Did you know that the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat ?
text: Did you know that William C. McInnes , one of the first Jesuits to study business administration , simultaneously served as the president of both Fairfield University and the University of San Francisco for four months?
text: Did you know that 21st Century Slave is a concept album with a narrative inspired by William Gibson 's series of Cyberpunk novels?
text: Did you know that British painter Walter Westley Russell was appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools in 1927?
text: Did you know that uranium hydride was investigated as a promising bomb material in 1943 during the early phases of the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that in 2002, the dice throw was used as a journalistic method of review in 41 daily newspapers in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Abhimanyu Mithun was called up to the India Test squad only ten weeks after making his first-class cricket debut?
text: Did you know that the Exchequer of Ireland had exclusive jurisdiction over all Irish cases involving money owed to The Crown ?
text: Did you know that in 1963, Claude Hall , a historian of American diplomacy , published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur ?
text: Did you know that many 16th-century faculty members at the University of Baeza were of Jewish ancestry and came under the suspicion of the Spanish Inquisition ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 naval gun was produced in three versions with mutually incompatible ammunition and range tables?
text: Did you know that in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South , Shaw University of Raleigh , North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Spongiforma , a sponge-like bolete newly described in 2009, smells like coal tar ?
text: Did you know that in 1937, Bangladeshi film director Khan Ataur Rahman won the first prize of Dhaka Zilla Music Competition, when he was in third grade ?
text: Did you know that the 1536 edition of Swenske songer eller wisor is the first preserved hymnal published in the Swedish language ?
text: Did you know that scholar Gérard Prunier states that Major General John Numbi is a member of a ruling clique running the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that Graceland , a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong , was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances ?
text: Did you know that in 2009 , triple jumper Fabrizio Donato set a new championship record for the European Indoor Championships at 17.59 metres?
text: Did you know that UMOPAR , the anti-narcotics forces in Bolivia , funded and trained by the U.S. government as part of the War on Drugs , staged an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Bolivian government in 1984?
text: Did you know that Bình Ngô đại cáo is considered the second declaration of independence of Vietnam, after the poem Nam quốc sơn hà which was written by Lý Thường Kiệt in the early Lý Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that the self-proclaimed "Gifted, Eccentric and World Famed Physician" Francis Tumblety sold "Pimple Destroyer"?
text: Did you know that David Brown 's two years in jail was the longest sentence ever for violating the U.S. Sedition Act of 1798 ?
text: Did you know that in 519, Roman statesman Cassiodorus published his Chronicle to congratulate the Visigothic prince Eutharic who had risen to the position of consul ?
text: Did you know that in traditional Plains hide painting , Native American women painted abstract, geometric designs while men painted representational, narrative images?
text: Did you know that in 1891, Gus Weyhing won 31 games pitching for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association , the third of his four consecutive 30-win seasons in baseball ?
text: Did you know that nine Mayan languages are spoken in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango ?
text: Did you know that John Scagliotti 's 2003 film Dangerous Living was the first documentary about the experiences of gay and lesbian people in the non-Western world?
text: Did you know that at the time of its 1914 construction, the Railway Exchange Building was the tallest building in St. Louis, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that Fanny Burney described a poem of George Huddesford 's as "vile" because it revealed that she had written the novel Evelina ?
text: Did you know that Margaretta Faugères called Thomas Jefferson an "eminent reasoner" but nevertheless challenged his claim that slaves lacked "finer feelings"?
text: Did you know that Whitstable Museum and Gallery holds a permanent display dedicated to the life of Hammer Films actor Peter Cushing , who lived in Whitstable , South East England ?
text: Did you know that the North American Newspaper Alliance , a major news syndicate, hired Ernest Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1937?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian middle-distance runner Vesela Yatsinska failed to make it past round one in the 1980 Olympics despite achieving a personal best time?
text: Did you know that the film Mihai Viteazul cast over 5,000 soldiers of the Romanian army as extras to reenact various battles?
text: Did you know that Sir David Veness was the United Nations ' first Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security?
text: Did you know that the former District 10 School outside Margaretville, New York , was demolished in the mid-19th century only to be rebuilt from the same stones three years later?
text: Did you know that the late Roman Red Church near Perushtitsa in Bulgaria featured frescoes of apocryphal scenes such as the flight of Elizabeth and the murder of Zechariah , John the Baptist 's parents?
text: Did you know that freestyle BMX rider Craig Campbell pioneered the Rocket Air and the 540 wallride on a BMX bike ?
text: Did you know that the 14th century Sanskrit poem Madura Vijayam chronicles the conquest of Madurai Sultanate by the Vijayanagar Empire ?
text: Did you know that in addition to serving as the Leader of the Opposition in Queensland , Nev Warburton was also noted as an enthusiastic lawn bowls player?
text: Did you know that because a Hang Trong painting was once indispensable for each Hanoi family during the Tết holiday, it was also called Tết painting?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man —skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
text: Did you know that while accompanying her sister for her marriage in Florence, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony met and eventually married the groom's father , becoming her sister's own step-mother-in-law?
text: Did you know that Ernest Hemingway 's True at First Light , a book about his 1953 safari , was not published until almost 40 years after his death?
text: Did you know that comedian Felix Herngren created, directed, wrote the scripts and plays a main character in the currently airing Swedish television series Solsidan ?
text: Did you know that among the items exhibited at the Bsous Silk Museum in Lebanon are silkworms and the traditional dresses and trousers worn by princesses in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the American Chicago blues singer , harmonicist, and songwriter , Shakey Jake Harris , acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler ?
text: Did you know that the strike of the Calton weavers , during which six people died, was the first major industrial dispute in Scottish history?
text: Did you know that James Oliver invented a line of improved and specialized farm plows and produced up to 300,000 of them annually?
text: Did you know that the French Gothic Niederhaslach Church in Alsace was plundered in 1525 during the Peasants' War , burnt in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War , and became a slaughterhouse in 1744?
text: Did you know that the new champion of the culinary contest Bocuse d'Or USA 2010 is the sous-chef James Kent ?
text: Did you know that the establishment of the Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature in Oxford was announced a few days after Marshal Foch signed the Armistice with Germany to end the First World War ?
text: Did you know that in U.S. college football , the 2010 East-West Shrine Game had the lowest attendance of any of the 85 East-West Shrine Games ?
text: Did you know that after his final Tarzan film , Johnny Weissmuller starred in the 1955–1956 TV series Jungle Jim , which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer?
text: Did you know that the English treatise Dialogus de Scaccario was written as a series of questions and answers between a learned lawyer and his pupil?
text: Did you know that "discoveries" by baseball scout Paul Krichell included future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig and Whitey Ford ?
text: Did you know that Hindu pilgrims to Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan , India , considered it lucky to be devoured by the crocodiles there?
text: Did you know that Yongjiacaris represents the second report of freshwater caridean shrimp from the Mesozoic era?
text: Did you know that Isabel Ashdown 's acclaimed first novel Glasshopper was written as part of her BA and MA and work at the University of Chichester ?
text: Did you know that the 1893 New York hurricane virtually destroyed an entire island ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Milne served as an executor of Thomas Telford 's last will and testament ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet , now called The Virtual Revolution ?
text: Did you know that a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972?
text: Did you know that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis , was one of the sexual revolution 's most spectacular victims?
text: Did you know that Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
text: Did you know that Heart-kun is a Japanese puppy that was born with a heart-shaped patch of brown hair on its white-haired body?
text: Did you know that Westgate Hall , Canterbury's sole music and dance venue , is to be demolished by the Council in favour of a car park?
text: Did you know that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry ?
text: Did you know that Israel's Yiftach Brigade was transferred to the southern front for Operation GYS in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and returned after the operation?
text: Did you know that Bela S. Huntington was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1897, but the legislature never organized in 1897 and he never served during another session?
text: Did you know that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine , first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
text: Did you know that the Iranian embassy in London protested after The Queen's College, Oxford , established a scholarship named after Neda Agha-Soltan , who died in the 2009 Iranian election protests ?
text: Did you know that the Chrysler ball-stud hemi was intended to replace three engine block and two cylinder head designs with a single model?
text: Did you know that Somali - Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
text: Did you know that Abraham Shakespeare , an illiterate casual laborer, won a $17 million Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murdered three years later?
text: Did you know that tò he , a traditional toy in Vietnam which is often sold on the occasion of Tết , is edible because it is made from rice powder ?
text: Did you know that by the age of 22, Jean-Pierre Warner was an acting Major in the British Army ?
text: Did you know that when the Super Ball was first introduced in 1965, US presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy had five dozen shipped to the White House for the amusement of the staff?
text: Did you know that E Street Band member Clarence Clemons co-starred with Rick Springfield in the original 1990 pilot for ABC's Human Target TV series?
text: Did you know that in the stuffing of bánh chưng for vegetarians and Buddhists , pork is replaced by molasses or brown sugar ?
text: Did you know that the American journalist George Wilkes (d. 1885) was one of the men who introduced parimutuel betting into the United States?
text: Did you know that in one year during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the coal mine at Midlandvale, Alberta , operated for only 52 days?
text: Did you know that Gustavo de Greiff , Colombia 's first Attorney General responsible for prosecuting drug lords, advocated for drug decriminalization during the height of the United States 's War on Drugs in Colombia?
text: Did you know that according to a medieval source , Ingemund was supposed to have been declared king in the Hebrides , but his raping and pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewis in 1097?
text: Did you know that the failed Deseret Manufacturing Company , created in Utah in the 1850s by Mormons to process sugar beets into sugar, was nicknamed the "Damn Miserable Company"?
text: Did you know that Pablo González , the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata 's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution ?
text: Did you know that according to the Michigan Department of Transportation , the first highway centerline in the US was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati , Ohio , architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues , including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains ?
text: Did you know that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age ?
text: Did you know that two school board members of the Sheridan School District faced a recall in 1985 after religious leaders objected to them living together as an unmarried couple?
text: Did you know that in 1946, the first modern bikini was introduced at Piscine Molitor by Louis Réard , and modeled there by dancer Micheline Bernardini ?
text: Did you know that Howard Burnham , an American mining engineer , worked for France as a spy operating behind enemy lines, and used his wooden leg to secretly transport equipment?
text: Did you know that the English antiquarian John Joscelyn (d. 1603) wrote a history of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge that was not published until 1880, over 200 years after his death?
text: Did you know that the people of Stipp, Oregon, renamed their town Macleay for Portland merchant and banker Donald Macleay after he donated money for a school?
text: Did you know that the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature ?
text: Did you know that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins ' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders ?
text: Did you know that St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua, Ohio , is distinguished by its pilasters ?
text: Did you know that the Ionian volcano Tawhaki Patera and the nearby valley Tawhaki Vallis are both named after the Māori lightning deity , Tāwhaki ?
text: Did you know that Nini Haslund Gleditsch participated in the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
text: Did you know that Asbjørn Bryhn and Gunnar Haarstad were both long-term leaders of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency ?
text: Did you know that in his film Close, Closed, Closure , Israeli director Ram Loevy describes the Gaza Strip as "a prison with one million inmates"?
text: Did you know that in a sign of a warming friendship between Vladimir Putin and Prince Albert II , a three-bedroom dacha was built by the Russians at Albert's Monte Carlo estate in 2008?
text: Did you know that according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism ?
text: Did you know that the alférez Ponce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns?
text: Did you know that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
text: Did you know that Julius Hougen co-chaired the first large-scale charity fund-rasing campaigns in Norwegian radio ?
text: Did you know that Tacubaya , Mexico City, is the home to both the Mexican presidential residence and "The Lost City"?
text: Did you know that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park ?
text: Did you know that the first successful sugar beet factory opening in Utah , built by the Mormon -owned Utah-Idaho Sugar Company , was celebrated by looting, bonfires, and free barrels of beer?
text: Did you know that Eva Nansen , Elisabeth Welhaven and Maren Sars contributed with music and storytelling in what was described as the "first salon " of Norway's capital ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Diogenes , who was implicated in a conspiracy against Emperor Romanos III , committed suicide rather than revealing the names of his co-conspirators?
text: Did you know that American professional wrestler Frankie Arion won the NECW Television Championship two months after legitimately breaking his ankle and fibula ?
text: Did you know that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker , one of the  original " Siamese Twins "?
text: Did you know that buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove , England , include the Royal Albion Hotel , wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages?
text: Did you know that the book Scientology edited by James R. Lewis includes contributions from J. Gordon Melton , Anson Shupe , and Susan J. Palmer ?
text: Did you know that Littleberry Mosby Jr , captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812 , disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia ?
text: Did you know that as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play " Do-Re-Mi " from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
text: Did you know that the founding of the Independent Labour Party 's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
text: Did you know that both the arrests of General Christian de Castries in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and of President Duong Van Minh ending the Ho Chi Minh Campaign were  by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Creffeild was knighted by Queen Anne in 1713, having presented her with thanks from the town of Colchester for the peace of Utrecht earlier that year?
text: Did you know that Lenny Kravitz wrote the recently leaked Michael Jackson song " Another Day "?
text: Did you know that the only damage suffered by the dome of the Hagia Sophia in the 1509 Istanbul earthquake was plaster covering up Byzantine mosaics fell off, revealing Christian images?
text: Did you know that René Boileau was given the pseudonym Rainy Drinkwater and promoted as being the first Native American in the National Hockey League by the New York Americans despite having no native blood?
text: Did you know that on July 30, 1970, Israeli and Soviet fighter pilots battled in the skies over Egypt in an engagement codenamed Rimon 20 ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven ' s collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923  when it opened in Oslo ?
text: Did you know that Black Bike Week is the largest African American motorcycle rally in the US?
text: Did you know that the Ionian volcano Tupan Patera , whose activity was first detected by Galileo in 1996, was named after the thunder god of the Tupí - Guaraní indigenous peoples in Brazil ?
text: Did you know that the "extremely productive carcinologist" American Raymond B. Manning amassed the world's largest collection of mantis shrimp ?
text: Did you know that in 1985, the Austrian wine industry was hit by a scandal involving a few wineries illegally adulterating wines with the mildly toxic substance diethylene glycol to make them taste sweeter ?
text: Did you know that we know the exact birth time of the 5th-century poet Pamprepius thanks to a horoscope calculated by the Egyptian astrologer Rhetorius ?
text: Did you know that the 101 Dalmatians Musical has several performers working on 15" stilts to simulate a canine perspective, and uses 15 real Dalmatian dogs for several scenes?
text: Did you know that the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn , son of  rower Steve Fairbairn ?
text: Did you know that Polhøgda , the home of Eva and Fridtjof Nansen , was an important location for social life of Norwegian intellectuals around 1900?
text: Did you know that during the Mandi Shivaratri Fair held in Mandi , India, Hindu religiosity is the theme that establishes synthesis of the worship by Vishnu and Shiva cults?
text: Did you know that despite not registering as a political party , the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement won a clear majority in the Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990 ?
text: Did you know that publisher Richard Bentley hired Charles Dickens to edit his periodical, Bentley's Miscellany ?
text: Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera derbyensis was first found by Allen Lowrie near the Boab Prison Tree just outside of Derby ?
text: Did you know that Shahidan Kassim and his brother Ismail have both held same seat for Arau in the Parliament of Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Inga in September and October 1969 is the third longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, having lasted 25 days?
text: Did you know that Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah performed the Hajj 70 times in his life?
text: Did you know that 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station , England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
text: Did you know that the Ionian volcano Masubi was first detected by the spacecraft Voyager 1 in 1979 and named after Homusubi , the Japanese deity of fire ?
text: Did you know that the early 13th century romance Guillaume de Dole is the first extant French literary work combining narrative and lyric , a form which by the end of the century had become canonical?
text: Did you know that when Nazis usurped and reorganized Norwegian broadcasting in 1940, Eyvind Mehle was considered as the successor of the deposed director Olav Midttun , despite being subordinate to Wilhelm F. K. Christie ?
text: Did you know that some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River , to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George , New York ?
text: Did you know that the depictions of fish on the medieval statue of St Christopher in Norton Priory , Cheshire , England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified?
text: Did you know that in 1984 Chet Upham , former chairman of the Texas Republican Party , introduced the first artificial snow in Colorado at his Loveland Ski Area near the Continental  Divide ?
text: Did you know that Lowell State College was the last state normal school established by the Massachusetts State Board of Education ?
text: Did you know that when R. Shamasastry discovered the Arthashastra , it altered the perception of ancient India and the view that Indians learned administration from the Greeks?
text: Did you know that the Hollenden Hotel , established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and makeshift armour ?
text: Did you know that in "The Baby Sitter" of ABC 's The Rifleman , Phyllis Avery plays a dance hall girl who asks Lucas McCain to hide her daughter from a bigoted grandfather?
text: Did you know that the decline of the gopher tortoise poses a threat to the Florida mouse , which forms the only mammal genus that occurs only in Florida ?
text: Did you know that the revelations of 14th-century Christian mystic Agnes Blannbekin , which included visions of the foreskin of Jesus , were considered too obscene for print until the 20th century ?
text: Did you know that French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut -class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
text: Did you know that Kim Spalding played Doc Holliday in an enactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in a 1954 episode of the syndicated TV series Stories of the Century ?
text: Did you know that the carnivorous plant Drosera meristocaulis is endemic to Pico da Neblina in South America , 17,000 km (11,000 mi) to the west of its most closely related species?
text: Did you know that Danny Goodwin , a first-round draft pick of the California Angels , is the only player to be selected first in the draft on two separate occasions?
text: Did you know that Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa , who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom ?
text: Did you know that blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer , guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas 's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?
text: Did you know that male Arabian carpetsharks competing for a mate have been known to bite the claspers of their rivals?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Joe Misiti was inducted into the VFL/ AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007?
text: Did you know that Bijjala II of the Kalachuri , a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort , for five years?
text: Did you know that Tony Blair said that it was a mistake to say on Fern Britton Meets... that he would have still wanted to join the 2003 Iraq invasion if there were no weapons of mass destruction ?
text: Did you know that archivist and cricketer Tommy Finlayson , one of the Gibraltarian civilian evacuees during World War II , later wrote a book about this period of the history of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you know that the War of Internet Addiction is a video made by World of Warcraft players to protest internet censorship in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that Pádraig MacKernan , who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998?
text: Did you know that the sports hall of Europe 's largest prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the Ergenekon trial?
text: Did you know that Lowes Cato Dickinson , portrait painter and Christian socialist ,  painted Gladstone's cabinet at 10 Downing Street in 1868?
text: Did you know that along with Ithonidae, Polystoechotidae are regarded as the most primitive living members of the insect order Neuroptera ?
text: Did you know that a Seattle Times journalist described Michael Jackson 's " Tabloid Junkie " as "a disingenuous attack on sensational news stories about him", most of which the singer "planted"?
text: Did you know that the 1707 Hōei earthquake was the largest in Japanese history , triggering a devastating tsunami and causing at least 5,000 casualties in Honshu , Shikoku and Kyūshū ?
text: Did you know that in 1865, William Carpenter Bompas protected his party of ox-carts from attacks by purportedly hostile Sioux by flying the Flag of England ?
text: Did you know that a double rotation in four dimensions has exactly two planes of rotation ?
text: Did you know that the Shady Lady Ranch , a licensed brothel in Nevada , just hired the state's first legal male prostitute ?
text: Did you know that upon his accession as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh , John Tuigg found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray?
text: Did you know that Old French literary genre of the chanson de toile consisted of songs supposedly sung by women weaving, songs about women in love who often sew as they relate their stories?
text: Did you know that Otilio Montaño , a Zapatista General, formally introduced Emiliano Zapata to Pancho Villa , but later was accused of rebelling against Zapata and executed while maintaining his innocence?
text: Did you know that architect Frode Rinnan designed sports venues such as the Holmenkollen ski jump and Bislett Stadion , both of which were torn down in the 2000s?
text: Did you know that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia , Canada , remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
text: Did you know that R&B singer Margie Day , who had a hit record with " Little Red Rooster " in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Thai government and army officials have insisted on the effectiveness of the GT200 "remote substance detector", despite the BBC having found it to consist of an empty plastic case?
text: Did you know that the Lowell Technological Institute in Massachusetts almost went bankrupt during both World Wars due to the increased demand for soldiers and textiles?
text: Did you know that the Arab inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Hawsha , which was depopulated in 1948, kept a shrine named for the prophet Joshua ?
text: Did you know that Sweden established official diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau before Guinea-Bissau formally gained independence from Portugal in 1974?
text: Did you know that Klaus Sunnanå , Kristian Gleditsch and Karl Evang were among the former Mot Dag members who became involved in the first Norwegian development aid project?
text: Did you know that a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted?
text: Did you know that Wayne Morse won the Democratic primary in an attempt to reclaim his Senate seat in the 1974 Oregon United States Senate election but died prior to the general election?
text: Did you know that British billionaire Lawrence Graff purchased the Wittelsbach Diamond for approximately US$24.3 million and then recut it removing 4 carats ?
text: Did you know that Anne Jordan-Reynolds and her daughter Stephanie, founders of the non-profit HIP Haiti , escaped disaster at the Hotel Montana during the 2010 earthquake because of a glitch in their plans?
text: Did you know that the discovery of the Telfer Mine in Western Australia , officially attributed to Newmont Mining , has been claimed by French prospector Jean-Paul Turcaud ?
text: Did you know that the shrew Crocidura phanluongi , formally described on January 27, is the seventh new species of Crocidura to be described from Vietnam in as many years?
text: Did you know that Alasdair Crotach MacLeod is said to have prayed for six hours prior to ordering the massacre of almost the entire population of the Hebridean island of Eigg ?
text: Did you know that the Cape Verdean poet Onésimo Silveira was the representative of African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in Sweden in the  early 1970s?
text: Did you know that in 1686, at the Tōshiya archery contest in Kyoto , Japan , Wasa Daihachiro successfully fired a record 13,053 arrows in 24 hours, averaging nine arrows a minute and hitting the target 8,133 times?
text: Did you know that World Chocolate Wonderland , the first chocolate theme park in China , showcases the world's biggest chocolate model of the Great Wall of China ?
text: Did you know that the president of Coca-Cola Co. believed that a new-age label would doom Tab Clear , the company's clear cola answer to Crystal Pepsi ?
text: Did you know that under interrogation, Ahmad al-Naggar stated that Egyptian Islamic Jihad had raised funds by "renovating old houses in London "?
text: Did you know that it is believed that the ghost town of Conquerville, Alberta , began its decline when the local high school closed?
text: Did you know that the Arab -born eunuch slave Samonas rose to become the parakoimomenos of Byzantine emperor Leo the Wise , and was even made godfather to his son, Constantine VII ?
text: Did you know that the Rubin test was once considered by many specialists "the twentieth century's most important contribution to the clinical study of female infertility "?
text: Did you know that even though the Bradford Durfee Textile School was chartered in 1895 and incorporated in 1899, it opened in 1904?
text: Did you know that Gregory Slay , founding member and drummer for Remy Zero , also co-wrote the Emmy -nominated theme song for the television drama Nip/Tuck ?
text: Did you know that the Ham font was believed to cure sick infants and young children who were close to death?
text: Did you know that a son of the first settlers of Mountaindale, Oregon , later was mayor of East Portland ?
text: Did you know that according to A Bright Red Scream , millions of Americans regularly use razors, knives or broken glass to intentionally injure themselves ?
text: Did you know that Mick Higgins from New York played in the Cavan Gaelic football team which won the final of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at the Polo Grounds in New York?
text: Did you know that during World War II the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company made the "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it used for gunnery practice?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian rodent Calomys cerqueirai was named only in 2010?
text: Did you know that the New Bedford Institute of Technology 's original mission was to refine the skills of the textile mill workers in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that The North Face is suing The South Butt for trademark infringement ?
text: Did you know that unlike some other songs Bob Dylan wrote about failed relationships, in " I Threw It All Away " he takes responsibility for the failure?
text: Did you know that cognitive passwords are used as an alternative authentication system and are comprised of fact and opinion based questions?
text: Did you know that although heavily outnumbered, two UN battalions —one Australian and one Canadian —halted an entire Chinese division at the Battle of Kapyong (22–25 April 1951) during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that Swedish actress Meg Westergren , the daughter of Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad , had originally planned to become a fashion designer?
text: Did you know that in Georgetown, Alberta , during the 1910s, coal miners were paid only $3 a day and indoor toilets were considered a luxury?
text: Did you know that in 1963 Hughie Lee-Smith , who later painted the official portrait of New York City Mayor David Dinkins , became only the second African-American artist to be elected a National Academician ?
text: Did you know that the "Love Chu Chu!" part of the name of the visual novel Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu! was narrowed down from about one hundred different candidates?
text: Did you know that anyone who sees the Dancing Hare is said to have good fortune for the rest of their days?
text: Did you know that The Land of Green Plums by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller , depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of Iranian activist Mohammad-Ali Abtahi soon after he was released from jail?
text: Did you know that during the German invasion of Norway , Minister of Justice Terje Wold told Police Chief of Oslo Kristian Welhaven to arrest fascist leader Vidkun Quisling if he got the opportunity?
text: Did you know that Cystoderma carcharias is considered an inedible fungus because of an unpleasant odor attributable to the presence of geosmin ?
text: Did you know that the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow , by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon ?
text: Did you know that tympanosclerosis is a disease caused by the calcification of tissues in the middle ear, sometimes resulting in hearing loss ?
text: Did you know that the town of Lille, Alberta , was named as such because its coal mine's financial backers resided in Lille , France ?
text: Did you know that Warrington Colescott created the etching Christmas with Ziggy (1964), a social satire of businessmen entertaining their mistresses at a posh London restaurant?
text: Did you know that GameDaily named Uncharted character Elena Fisher the 49th hottest video game babe of all time?
text: Did you know that Perth -born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed ?
text: Did you know that about one out of five babies born from an abdominal pregnancy has a birth defect ?
text: Did you know that the actor Read Morgan of NBC 's western television series The Deputy played basketball from 1950 to 1952 for the Kentucky Wildcats ?
text: Did you know that Project Stormfury attempted to artificially weaken 1969's Hurricane Debbie ?
text: Did you know that the role-playing video game series Xenosaga , the spiritual successor to the Xenogears video game, initially used the same composer, Yasunori Mitsuda , to write the music of the series ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Sweatman was elected bishop of the Diocese of Toronto in 1879 as a compromise candidate after five days of balloting?
text: Did you know that the Gbedu drum is traditionally used on state occasions or during ceremones of Ogboni , the ancient Yoruba secret society?
text: Did you know that upon hearing Robert Ambrose ' s work One Sweetly Solemn Thought , a gambler reportedly laid down his cards and immediately became a reformed Christian ?
text: Did you know that Paul Chaffey voted Labour in 1997, the same year that he served as a Parliament of Norway representative for the Socialist Left Party ?
text: Did you know that the Leo IV dwarf galaxy is one of the smallest satellites of the Milky Way ?
text: Did you know that The Art of Negative Thinking is an award-winning Norwegian film about a paraplegic who rebels against the interventions of his support group and its lead social worker ?
text: Did you know that Scotland international football defender Alex McLintock played as a goalkeeper during his time at Burnley ?
text: Did you know that the wounding in the Siege of Sarajevo of five-year-old Irma Hadzimuratovic, whose suffering garnered worldwide attention,  prompted the Operation Irma medical evacuation?
text: Did you know that Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security ?
text: Did you know that the genus Platythelphusa represents the only evolutionary radiation of crabs to have occurred in a freshwater lake?
text: Did you know that the magnitude 6.8 1981 Dawu earthquake in China killed or injured more than 450 people?
text: Did you know that the American blues pianist Buster Pickens was shot dead following an argument in a bar?
text: Did you know that the Italian attack against Greece was stopped in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas , a few kilometers inside the Greek border, during the first days of the Greco-Italian War ?
text: Did you know that former baseball pitcher Butch Wensloff served in the United States Army during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the High Court of the Free City of Danzig examined 988 witnesses to evince 40 cases of electoral fraud in the 1935 Volkstag elections?
text: Did you know that the May 2004 collapse of Royal Tongan Airlines left the islands of Tonga without air service?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the MacLeods were on the verge of being defeated at the Battle of Glendale by the MacDonalds , but their magical Fairy Flag was then unfurled, inspiring them to a hard-fought victory?
text: Did you know that a collector said that the mushroom Suillus tomentosus tastes and smells like Tootsie Rolls when dried?
text: Did you know that Cecilie Thoresen Krog was Norway's first female university student?
text: Did you know that the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh was built, according to local tradition, by the translator Rinchen Zangpo (c. 1000 AD), although inscriptions ascribe it to an 11th-century Tibetan noble?
text: Did you know that the word pyxidata in the mushroom name Clavaria pyxidata comes from the Greek word pyxis meaning "small box"?
text: Did you know that the late 6th century AD gold Liudhard medalet is the oldest surviving example of Anglo-Saxon coinage ?
text: Did you know that the clause of the Magna Carta prohibiting sentences of exile, except as the result of a lawful trial, refers particularly to the case of Robert Fitzwalter ?
text: Did you know that Broadfield House in Crawley , West Sussex , has at various times housed a country club , a radio station and Crawley's New Town Development Corporation ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Collison went on to become a millionaire after winning the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen?
text: Did you know that 1989's Typhoon Angela was the longest-tracked storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the 1989 Pacific typhoon season ?
text: Did you know that in 1715, the Hudson's Bay Company enlisted the aid of a Chipewyan woman, Thanadelthur , to broker a peace deal between the Chipewyan and the Cree ?
text: Did you know that over the past four years, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse has won more New Hampshire Theater Awards than any other theater?
text: Did you know that the second Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada , William Bennett Bond , was one of the shortest-serving Primates in the church 's history?
text: Did you know that with the introduction of the ROH World Television Championship in the Ring of Honor wrestling promotion , the television type championship returned to national exposure?
text: Did you know that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American , though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant?
text: Did you know that when the barque Pisagua collided with the steamship Oceana , it was the steamship that sank?
text: Did you know that Fitznells  Manor , the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey , UK , and a Grade 2 listed building , is now used by a medical practice?
text: Did you know that the Hungarian diplomatic passport is the only travel document in the world granting visa-free access to all member states of the G8+5 ?
text: Did you know that subsidiaries of the aviation security firm ICTS International oversaw security for United Airlines at Logan International Airport on 9/11 and for Northwest Airlines Flight 253 ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball 's Milwaukee Brewers won an American League pennant in 1982 before moving to the National League in 1998?
text: Did you know that the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada , Clarendon Lamb Worrell , turned down an earlier offer to become Bishop of Bermuda ?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Amanita strobiliformis has been said to smell like bleaching powder ?
text: Did you know that indigenous rights activist Stephen Corry thought that British civilization and development was the best, until he made a trip to Nepal at age 18 and met the local people?
text: Did you know  that air ace John S. Loisel spent more time in combat than any other American pilot in World War II and also served in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the last German Type UE II submarine , SM U-126 was commissioned on October 3, 1918, just a little over a month before the armistice at Compiègne ?
text: Did you know that the winner of the National League pennant in Major League Baseball has gone on to win the World Series 43 times?
text: Did you know that Canadian astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi was one of the first to observe the cosmic recycling of pulsars ?
text: Did you know that interstitial pregnancies cause a seven times higher mortality than ectopic pregnancies in general?
text: Did you know that The Other Hand by Chris Cleave was the only literary fiction novel on the 2009 British bestseller list without a Richard & Judy Book Club recommendation, a literary award or a film adaptation ?
text: Did you know that a 1950s Annalee Doll was sold at auction for a record $6,000 in 1992?
text: Did you know that Seward's Success , Alaska , was a proposed city enclosed by a dome , which would have had a constant controlled temperature of 68 °F (20 °C)?
text: Did you know that Parliament of Norway member Christian Stray owned the newspaper Agderposten ?
text: Did you know that crime statistics in the United Kingdom show that 114 people in Scotland were victims of homicide from 2007 to 2008?
text: Did you know that the journalist and theatre historian abbé Antoine de Léris collaborated with abbé Laugier in the first French review of music, Sentiment d'un harmonophile , 1756?
text: Did you know that Misshitsu no Sacrifice lets players investigate scenes and use items, unlike other visual novels that are primarily driven by text and graphics?
text: Did you know that the plant Campanula isophylla is able to tolerate frost on the mountains of northern Italy , but not when grown in a pot?
text: Did you know that Aksel Zachariassen , a Norwegian revolutionary and later editor of Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad (1932–1941), was deported from the United Kingdom after a visit there in 1919?
text: Did you know that the parish church of Up Hatherley , England, was built because an elderly widow found it difficult to travel to a neighbouring village to worship?
text: Did you know that the Mexican land grant , Rancho New Helvetia , was given to German-Swiss immigrant John Sutter to serve as a buffer between Californio lands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"?
text: Did you know that despite only playing college football for two and a half seasons with the Northwestern Wildcats , Zak Kustok holds numerous rushing and passing records?
text: Did you know that " Leslie's House ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , features references to Wikipedia , Nirvana , Montell Jordan and the Iran–Contra affair ?
text: Did you know that Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well is a book by economists Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal that advocates free market environmentalism ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Aitchison was Hamilton, Ontario 's first full-time fire chief, appointed in 1879?
text: Did you know that Swizz Beatz and Bono began writing " Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) ", a charity single for Haiti earthquake relief , over the telephone?
text: Did you know that in 2001, the South Carolina Governor's Mansion stopped employing inmates as butlers and maids after guards allegedly allowed the inmates to have sex in the mansion?
text: Did you know that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall , who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
text: Did you know that St Michael and All Angels Church in Blantyre, Malawi ,  was constructed of brick in the late 1800s by local builders, led by a cleric who had no formal architectural training?
text: Did you know that early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC 's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series ?
text: Did you know that the Coniston Railway , which closed in 1962 owned two steam yachts on Coniston Water in Cumbria , England, one of which, SY Gondola , continues to run on the lake today?
text: Did you know that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York , deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
text: Did you know that the Alvensleben Convention allowed Russian troops to cross the Prussian border in pursuit of Polish revolutionaries of the 1863 January Uprising ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer stole books to expand the Royal Danish Library , where he was chief librarian?
text: Did you know that artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York , is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills ?
text: Did you know that according to The Sportsman's Repository , the English Water Spaniel is the best dog for hunting waterfowl ?
text: Did you know that Hindi , Bengali , and Portuguese have all recently been proposed as official languages of the United Nations ?
text: Did you know that the Sex Machines Museum , opened in 2002 in Prague , has a collection of approximately 200 sex devices ?
text: Did you know that animals at Qalqilya Zoo in the West Bank , including a giraffe and three zebras , were casualties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ?
text: Did you know that Jane Leeves , who starred as Daphne Moon in the sitcom Frasier , appeared as a therapist in the Desperate Housewives episode " How About a Friendly Shrink? "
text: Did you know that the renovation of the The Devonshire Dome in 1881 by Robert Rippon Duke created the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft), and is still the largest in the UK today?
text: Did you know that Garry Foulds is one of only five footballers to play 300 VFL/ AFL matches for the Essendon Football Club ?
text: Did you know that Ron Feller, a PIAT operator in the Israel Defense Forces , received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in Operation Death to the Invader on July 18, 1948?
text: Did you know that Alexander Wetmore assessed the extinct Eonessa anaticula as being an ancient type of duck , possibly due to its fossil 's resemblance to the modern Oxyura jamaicensis ?
text: Did you know  that 2006's Cyclone Vaianu destroyed an estimated 70% of Tonga 's banana crop, and caused power outages that took up to a week to fully restore?
text: Did you know that jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?
text: Did you know that, until it was destroyed during Wilson's Raid , the Brierfield Furnace was used to produce iron for the Confederacy's Brooke cannon ?
text: Did you know that the crew of the Russian battleship Gangut staged a minor mutiny in 1915 when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni ?
text: Did you know that in 1994 , while baseball pitcher Kevin King was a member of the Seattle Mariners , he registered a loss on Opening Day against the Cleveland Indians ?
text: Did you know that mastitis is the most costly and most common disease in dairy cattle in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Chitinamit in Guatemala was the first capital of the highland K'iche' Maya ?
text: Did you know that Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon transported their zenith telescope on a featherbed 31 miles from Philadelphia to Star Gazers' Stone to begin surveying the Mason-Dixon line ?
text: Did you know that although 1989's Typhoon Dan was relatively weak, the storm left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Wing was often referred to as the 'Churchill Wing' because of Winston Churchill's key role in its formation?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons episode " Boy Meets Curl " will see Homer and Marge Simpson compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in mixed-doubles curling , an event that is not part of the Olympic programme?
text: Did you know that 18th-century painter Szymon Czechowicz established a school of painting and thereby greatly influenced Polish art ?
text: Did you know that many of Bo Schembechler 's assistant coaches at Michigan , including Milan Vooletich , Jerry Hanlon , Tirrel Burton , and Dick Hunter , had previously coached at Miami of Ohio , the " Cradle of Coaches "?
text: Did you know that the name of the koala derives from the word gula in Dharuk and other Yuin-Kuric languages ?
text: Did you know that Lorenz Schwietz , who as Royal Prussian executioner beheaded at least 120 people, shot himself dead?
text: Did you know that Rashida Jones , the actress who plays Ann Perkins in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , was cast before the producers had determined what the show would be about?
text: Did you know that Carrie Jones is a multi-award-winning American author of young-adult fiction ?
text: Did you know that Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago contains a columbarium specifically intended to hold the ashes of Chicago Cubs fans?
text: Did you know that the 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso , The Actor , estimated to be worth over $100 million, was torn when a woman stumbled and fell into it?
text: Did you know that Karl Johanssen , foreign news editor in Arbeiderbladet and one of Norway's first radio personalities , was denounced on the front page of Pravda ?
text: Did you know that the illuminated Minuscule 569 was bought in Bulgaria in 1757, became a part of the Załuski Library , and was dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1794?
text: Did you know that American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin listened to Christian songs by Bob Dylan before writing for her gospel album Downtown Church ?
text: Did you know that the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857 attracted over 1.3 million visitors, about four times the population of the city at that time?
text: Did you know that Edvard Welle-Strand , father of the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Erling Welle-Strand , was an anti-Semitic writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
text: Did you know that Potlatch River , Idaho , was named Colter's Creek by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805?
text: Did you know that the Remington 887 , which has many of the inner workings of the famous Remington 870 , uses a unique polymer -based finish which makes it virtually impervious to corrosion and inclement weather?
text: Did you know that Dwight Baldwin , a 19th-century missionary to Hawaii , is credited with saving hundreds of lives as a physician despite having only an honorary degree in medicine?
text: Did you know that Australian singer-songwriter Tamas Wells produced his second and third albums while working in Rangoon , Burma , on a community health HIV/AIDS education project?
text: Did you know that Pitzer equations are important for the understanding of the behaviour of ions dissolved in natural waters such as rivers, lakes and sea-water?
text: Did you know that Rafael de Izquierdo was the Governor-General of the Philippines during the 1872 Cavite mutiny which led to the execution of the martyrs Gomburza ?
text: Did you know that though Coast Veddas use a Sri Lankan Tamil dialect on a daily routine, they use Vedda language during Spirit possession rites?
text: Did you know that after then Malaysian Foreign Minister Ghazali Shafie survived a plane crash in 1982, his death was incorrectly reported in The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that the plaque at the entrance of Seagate Castle says that Mary Queen of Scots stayed at the castle after the Battle of Langside in 1568?
text: Did you know that less than two years after Fernando de Rosa was convicted of attempting to assassinate Umberto II , Umberto asked that he be pardoned?
text: Did you know that after launching from Spain in 1789, the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida visited Montevideo , Monterey , Macao , Nootka Sound , Dusky Sound and Doubtful Sound , on a four-year trip?
text: Did you know that the American blues singer and pianist Maggie Jones , who recorded 38 songs between 1923  and 1926, was billed as "The Texan Nightingale"?
text: Did you know that the crux gemmata or "jeweled cross"  was used to  represent the New Jerusalem and the Tree of Life in Early Christian and Medieval art ?
text: Did you know that Nick Offerman , who plays Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , has received significant praise and been called the show's "secret   weapon"?
text: Did you know that on August 24, 2009, an algae bloom hit Wickiup  Reservoir , dubbed as Oregon 's best fishing for brown trout ?
text: Did you know that George Levendis has held marketing and management positions at record labels on three different continents?
text: Did you know that at one time the OVW Heavyweight Championship was vacated due to the then-champion having a malignant brain tumor ?
text: Did you know that Eiríkr  Magnússon fell out with scholar Guðbrandur Vigfússon over the need for famine relief in  their native Iceland and how to translate the Bible?
text: Did you know that a large concentration of Hagerman Horses , Idaho's state fossil , can be found at Hagerman Fossil  Beds National Monument ?
text: Did you know that Elsa Barker was an American novelist and poet who published three volumes of  messages from a dead man?
text: Did you know  that along with top rated Taylor Hall , Vladimir Tarasenko , Brett Connolly and Kirill Kabanov are among the highest ranked prospects for the 2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft?
text: Did you know that the pioneer wagon route known as the Applegate  Trail , opened in 1846  by Jesse Applegate ,  crossed the southern end of the Goose Lake  Valley on the way to southern Oregon ?
text: Did you know that actor Paul Schneider initially felt insecure about  playing Mark Brendanawicz on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation because he was unsure about the motivations of the character?
text: Did you know that although the Hollytrees Museum was sold to the corporation of Colchester,  England in 1922, the  cost was met entirely by the private funds of Viscount  Cowdray and his wife?
text: Did you know that Chloe Frazer of the Uncharted franchise has been cited as an example of a video game character who accurately portrays  the desires and frustrations of human sexuality?
text: Did you know that prior to the construction of the first Florida  Governor's Mansion , governors of the state generally  lived in boarding houses or hotels ?
text: Did you know  that Joan Tompkins in The Christine  Jorgensen Story played the Danish aunt who gave the world's first transsexual , George  Jorgensen , his new  name, Christine?
text: Did you know that at the 1815 Kandyan Convention which handed over Ceylon to Britain , Wariyapola Sri Sumangala took down the Union Jack and raised the flag of the Sinhalese kings?
text: Did you know that the BBC drama The Last Days of Lehman Brothers was filmed in an office vacated by Lehman Brothers and that some of their furniture was used to dress the set?
text: Did you know that One Main Place in Portland, Oregon , was reportedly sold in 2010 for US$12 million less than it was purchased for in 2006?
text: Did you know that the famous anime director Hayao Miyazaki produced a television commercial inspired by the work of gag manga artist Shigeru Sugiura ?
text: Did you know that the Buddhist monk S. Mahinda was born in Sikkim , identified himself as a Tibetan , and took part in the independence movement of Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Aziz Ansari 's performance as Tom Haverford was considered one of the strongest elements of the first season of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation ?
text: Did you know that although Vietnamese chancellor Lê Văn Thịnh was charged with high treason by Emperor Lý Nhân Tông , today he is still worshipped by the people in his homeland of Bắc Ninh ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson 's hit song " Thriller ", co-produced by him and Quincy Jones , was originally titled "Starlight"?
text: Did you know that the moray eel Gymnothorax pictus is able to hunt on land?
text: Did you know that the libretto for Rameau 's first opera , Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), was provided by the seasoned playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin ?
text: Did you know that Warne-Muralidaran Trophy is named after the two leading wicket takers of Test cricket , Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne ?
text: Did you know that the Lyme Caxton Missal , on display in Lyme Park , Cheshire ,  is the only near-complete existing copy of the earliest known edition of a missal according to the Sarum Rite ?
text: Did you know that Arthur V. Dias , a Sri Lankan independence activist , pioneered a jackfruit propagation campaign by freely distributing seedlings and plants?
text: Did you know that despite criticism of the strange scale of his 1859 Ovid among the Scythians , even among his admirers Baudelaire and Gautier , Delacroix painted a second version in 1862 ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak was the last time that Egypt attacked an Israeli village in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and one of the war's last Egyptian offensive initiatives?
text: Did you know that mole snakes can inflict serious bite wounds, but nonetheless are said to make good pets?
text: Did you know that the Hello Girls , female switchboard operators in World War I , were part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps ?
text: Did you know that the estuary stingray is persecuted due to its supposedly voracious appetite for farmed shellfish , which has contributed to its decline?
text: Did you know that four days after its building was moved to a new site and rededicated, St. Peter's Church in Spencertown, New York , changed its denomination from Congregationalism to Presbyterianism ?
text: Did you know that the Waikato River Trails was the project where Prime Minister John Key officially opened the construction of the New Zealand Cycle Trail ?
text: Did you know that a poster based on the picture book Let My Babies Go! A Passover Story was put on display at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma , in 2007?
text: Did you know that the Montreal Stars , a professional women's hockey team in Canada, will be represented by three members at the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the toy company Mattel lent the Will & Grace producers a $60,000 Cher doll prototype for the episode " Gypsies, Tramps and Weed "?
text: Did you know that Lynn Bayonas worked for The Australian Ballet before making her break into television writing?
text: Did you know that ancient Roman brides sat in the lap of Mutunus Tutunus before marriage?
text: Did you know that the phrase " doing a Leeds " has become synonymous in English football with the pitfalls of financial mismanagement of football clubs, after the demise of Premier League team Leeds United ?
text: Did you know that during the Susa weddings in 324 BCE, Alexander the Great married both Parysatis II and her second cousin's daughter, Stateira II ?
text: Did you know that an American judge was appointed to the Permanent Court of International Justice when it was formed, despite the United States not being a signatory to the Court protocol?
text: Did you know that the John Singer Sargent painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit will in 2010 for the first time be exhibited alongside the painting that inspired it, Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez ?
text: Did you know that Edna St. Vincent Millay 's kitchen at Steepletop , her home in Austerlitz, New York , was the subject of a Ladies' Home Journal article in 1948?
text: Did you know that Lemony Snicket , author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events , is releasing a new series in 2012 that will involve elements of his previous series, including the Great Unknown ?
text: Did you know that the song " Fake Empire " by The National was used at the 2008 Democratic National Convention and in a video for Barack Obama's presidential campaign , which the band actively supported?
text: Did you know that Tom Smith was one of five Preston North End players to play for Scotland when they won 1–0 against England at Wembley in the 1938 British Home Championship ?
text: Did you know that the iPhone social platform OpenFeint had over ten million users in less than a year since it first launched?
text: Did you know that after William Dubh MacLeod was killed in 1480 at the Battle of Bloody Bay , he was the last MacLeod chief to be buried on the isle of Iona ?
text: Did you know that Ringsjön is the second largest lake in Skåne County , Sweden, with an area of 41 square kilometres (10,000 acres)?
text: Did you know that human sacrifices to the K'iche' Maya patron deity Tohil had their severed heads placed on a rack in front of the temple ?
text: Did you know that actress Aubrey Plaza conceived the idea of April Ludgate , her character on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , having a "gay boyfriend" who also simultaneously dates another boy?
text: Did you know that the extensive mangrove destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia is a major threat to the endangered roughnose stingray ?
text: Did you know that Tony Nader , a neurologist from Lebanon , was awarded his weight in gold and crowned First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ?
text: Did you know that James R. Graham was a member of the team which discovered Fomalhaut b , the first exoplanet directly imaged in visible light ?
text: Did you know that the Essex Street Station in New Jersey , was once the terminus and headquarters of the Hackensack and New York Railroad ?
text: Did you know that Peter Stevens , the only known German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot in WWII , enlisted using a stolen identity and later won a Military Cross for his attempts to escape from POW camps ?
text: Did you know that the indie role-playing video game The Spirit Engine 2 not only has a linear narrative , but also takes place entirely in two dimensions ?
text: Did you know that Bob Welch , a first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers , was a part of the Dodgers' 1981 World Series win and later, the Oakland Athletics who lost to the Dodgers in the 1988 series ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. military base Camp Kearny , predecessor of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego , California , once housed a mooring mast for the Navy 's helium dirigibles ?
text: Did you know that former U.S. judge Samuel Zoll once ordered a family to eat dinners together for 30 days, sending a parole officer for verification?
text: Did you know that the American Security and Trust Company Building used to appear on the U.S. $10 bill ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy sloop HMS Beagle captured three French privateers during her ten years of service?
text: Did you know that Glen P. Robinson , founder of Scientific Atlanta , now a subsidiary of Cisco Systems , was a ham radio enthusiast at age 14?
text: Did you know that Pluma porgies are the most common member of the genus Calamus in the Antilles , where they are often used for food?
text: Did you know that David M. Malone , a Canadian diplomat and specialist on international affairs, has worked extensively on relations with Haiti and used to stay at the Hotel Montana , destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the Barbours Cut Terminal , part of the Port of Houston , was the first seaport in the United States to implement the international ISO 14001 environmental standards?
text: Did you know that English mycologist and plant pathologist R.W.G. Dennis has 40 fungal species named after him?
text: Did you know that Andy Dwyer , a character in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , was only to appear in the first season , but was made a regular cast member because the producers liked actor Chris Pratt ?
text: Did you know that Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches , an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War , was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée ?
text: Did you know that George Mans , captain of the 1961 Michigan football team , later served in the Michigan House of Representatives and as an assistant coach under Bo Schembechler ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian journalist and anti-fascist Gerda Grepp was the first female reporter from Scandinavia to cover the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent ?
text: Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC won the 2009 U.S. Open Cup Final , becoming only the second Major League Soccer expansion team to do so in their inaugural season?
text: Did you know that oarsman and 1932 Olympic Champion Rowland George was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Distinguished Service Order for his service during World War II ?
text: Did you know that major urinary proteins are pheromones that promote aggression between rival male mice?
text: Did you know that the Frank Chacksfield recording "Après Ski" was featured in the 2006 video game Saint's Row for the Xbox 360 ?
text: Did you know that Lord Loch was a World War I British General who went to the dogs ?
text: Did you know that premature oxidation is a flaw that occurs when usually ageworthy wines , such as white Burgundy , are found to be prematurely oxidised and undrinkable for reasons not yet fully understood?
text: Did you know that the builder of the Rispenserpoldermolen , Easterein , the Netherlands , was described as a better millwright than a poet ?
text: Did you know that both the Comte de Paris and the Prince of Wales enjoyed the services of the Digital Billiard Wonder ?
text: Did you know that the ant Pseudomyrmex ferruginea kills insects such as crickets and stings the heads of animals such as goats , attacking any approaching creatures attracted to the leaves of the Bullhorn Acacia ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Newbery Winner Rebecca Stead only started writing children's books after her young son broke her laptop, destroying all of her 'serious writing'?
text: Did you know that Edward J. Miers was paid 60 guineas for his monograph on the crabs of the Challenger expedition ?
text: Did you know that the Government of Moscow owns 25% of the Moscow Monorail Transit System , for a monetary value of about $3,379,000?
text: Did you know that Charles Gray Round served as Recorder for the town of Colchester for nearly 30 years?
text: Did you know that the city of Hobart in Australia had the first fully electrified tram network in the Southern Hemisphere, and the entire fleet was double-decker?
text: Did you know that Indian singer Master Saleem released his first album when he was 10 years old?
text: Did you know that the National Animal Welfare Trust runs a centre at Trindledown Farm, which is the UK 's only sanctuary for elderly pets ?
text: Did you know that after being given the honor of performing the royal burial of Kamehameha I according to the Hawaiian religion in 1819, Hoapili became a patron of Christian missionaries ?
text: Did you know that in 1920, Prince Joachim of Prussia was ordered under arrest by German Minister of Defence Gustav Noske for fighting with French military officers?
text: Did you know that baseball player Ben Paschal hit .360 as Babe Ruth 's replacement while Ruth missed the first 40 games of the 1925 season with a stomach ailment?
text: Did you know that most wine regions can be categorized by climate as Mediterranean (such as Tuscany ), maritime ( Bordeaux ) or continental ( Columbia Valley )?
text: Did you know that the donkey that inspired  the novel and film Brighty of the Grand Canyon is memorialized at Grand Canyon National Park by a statue and an historic landmark?
text: Did you know that between 1917 and 1928, Boston 's Park Drive had to be redesigned to accommodate an increase in ownership of automobiles in the neighborhood?
text: Did you know that American country blues guitarist , singer and songwriter Son Bonds was accidentally shot to death in August 1947 by his short-sighted neighbor?
text: Did you know that NYCHA developments on the Lower East Side include Alfred E. Smith Houses , Baruch Houses , Gompers Houses , Hernandez Houses , LaGuardia Houses , Rutgers Houses , and Vladeck Houses ?
text: Did you know that Felipe Neri , a deaf Zapatista general, constructed explosives out of salmon cans and earned the nickname mochaorejas (clipper of ears) by cutting off ears of his prisoners and deserters ?
text: Did you know that Connie Mack leads all managers in Major League Baseball with 3,731 wins and 3,948 losses ?
text: Did you know that within two years of her launching, HMS Wolverine was involved in two friendly fire incidents, one with a frigate and one with a slaver?
text: Did you know that architect Solomon Andrew Layton designed 22 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma , a state record?
text: Did you know that the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio 's first commission in the city of Venice was an improved design for the façade of San Pietro di Castello ?
text: Did you know that the FX network aired a preview of the Archer episode " Mole Hunt " on September 17, 2009, without any prior promotion or announcement?
text: Did you know that bluegrass player and mandolin virtuoso David Harvey is Gibson 's master luthier , responsible for all their mandolins, banjos , and dobros ?
text: Did you know that there are counties in Florida named for leaders of both sides of the Second Seminole War ?
text: Did you know that in 1920–21 , Burnley were crowned champions of English football for the first time?
text: Did you know that the tower of the Manistique Pumping Station is octagonal on the exterior but has 16 sides inside?
text: Did you know that Bernardo the Japanese , a disciple of Saint Francis Xavier , is the first Japanese person known to have set foot in Europe ?
text: Did you know that gold parting refers to the separation of gold and silver ?
text: Did you know that the church of Monkton Deverill was dedicated to King and Saint Alfred the Great ?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s the Indian girl Shanti Devi related details of an alleged former life , and a commission set up by Gandhi deemed her claims to be accurate?
text: Did you know that the colourful past of Australian former student police officer Kim Hollingsworth will be featured in the 2010 miniseries Underbelly: The Golden Mile ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Hypomyces tremellicola is a parasite that deforms the cap of the mushroom Crepidotus mollis ?
text: Did you know that there are large stone markers and cairns at the summit of each of the Tektek Mountains in southeastern Turkey ?
text: Did you know that in Harriton v Stephens , the High Court of Australia rejected a claim for damages brought by a disabled woman for her " wrongful life "?
text: Did you know that during the Lý Dynasty , Tô Hiến Thành was the only person outside the royal family who was titled Prince (Vương)?
text: Did you know that a male ghost reputedly haunts the ladies' toilet at the Brewery Shades in Crawley , West Sussex ?
text: Did you know that although only a 1 1 ⁄ 2 mile (2.41 km) long section of the Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway was ever built, it is still in use today as part of the Kent and East Sussex Railway ?
text: Did you know that prior to his death, Jack Barnes was the oldest former Football League player?
text: Did you know that the Russian dreadnought Imperatritsa Mariya capsized and sank while at anchor in Sevastopol in 1916 after one of her powder magazines caught fire and exploded?
text: Did you know that the first sub- four-minute mile in athletics was achieved at the Roger Bannister running track , then known as the Iffley Road Track?
text: Did you know that in 1130 the Emperor Lý Thần Tông ordered that all daughters of court mandarins of the Lý Dynasty must not wed so that he could select them as concubines?
text: Did you know that the World Heritage Site Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu represents more than 500 years of Ryukyu history?
text: Did you know that according to a stele found in the late 1930s, Đỗ Anh Vũ was a devoted Lý Dynasty official of noble character, in contrast to the traditional account in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư ?
text: Did you know that Amador Salazar , a signatory of the Plan of Ayala and cousin of Zapata , was killed by a stray bullet and was buried in a pyramid shaped mausoleum in Tlaltizapán , dressed as a charro ?
text: Did you know that The Candle Problem , a cognitive test , was given to students of Stanford University and M.B.A. students at the Kellogg School of Management ?
text: Did you know that despite threatening the western coast of Florida , USA , 1950's Hurricane Love weakened prior to landfall and moved ashore with little fanfare?
text: Did you know that the short film Second Effort , starring former American football coach Vince Lombardi , has been called the best-selling training film of all time?
text: Did you know that the only Rod Serling short story in the 2009 Twilight Zone anthology was called the least Twilight Zone-like story in the collection?
text: Did you know that department store mogul Roddy Burdine built Miami 's first skyscraper?
text: Did you know that the Winthrop , the last ship of the Massachusetts State Navy , was sold in 1783, not long before the American Revolutionary War ended?
text: Did you know that photographs of test prototype cars , pioneered by Hans G. Lehmann , have led car manufacturers to take lengths to disguise their cars during a test session ?
text: Did you know that Ruth Humbel , member of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland , has won three bronze medals at the World Orienteering Championships ?
text: Did you know  that after running ashore in a storm, the  German submarine SM U-118 became a popular beachside tourist site?
text: Did you know that according to tradition, the horn that 14th-century clan chief Malcolm MacLeod supposedly broke off from a raging bull now exists as a drinking horn and heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod ?
text: Did you know that the Museo Picasso Málaga is located in the 16th century Buenavista Palace ?
text: Did you know that Ludvig Daa , who lost a potential professorship to Peter Andreas Munch in 1837, later  denounced Munch's theory on immigration to Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Emerald Warriors are Ireland 's first primarily gay rugby team?
text: Did you know that the actors Peter Helm and his sister Anne inherited a large estate from their banker -grandfather in the same month that Peter made his TV debut on CBS 's Pete and Gladys ?
text: Did you know that the devadasi (temple courtesan) system was outlawed in the Madras Presidency partly due to the efforts of Moovalur Ramamirtham , a former devadasi herself?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Mascarita Dorada was the first Mini-Estrella to have a regular size wrestler, Mascara Dorada , named after him and not vice-versa?
text: Did you know that ophthalmologist Arnall Patz received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for solving one of "the great medical mysteries of the postwar era"?
text: Did you know that Bayne-Fowle House , a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra , Virginia , United States , served as a military hospital in 1864?
text: Did you know that director Kōji Seki 's 1967 pink film Perverted Criminal was Japan's first 3-D film , and the world's first 3-D sexploitation film ?
text: Did you know that Canada 's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road ?
text: Did you know that Cri-Zelda Brits is the only South African woman to have scored a half-century in Twenty20 International cricket?
text: Did you know that Varzuga , one of the oldest documented permanent Russian settlements on the Kola Peninsula , was first mentioned in 1466?
text: Did you know that the 2009 eponymous debut album Supercell by the J-pop / rock band of the same name contains songs not sung by a human?
text: Did you know that New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall was the first who used the term " andesite line "?
text: Did you know that Mexeflote rafts from the British Royal Logistic Corps were used to transport supplies to the remote Haitian village of Anse-à-Veau following the 2010 earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Johnston Road in the former British settlement of Hong Kong was named after Alexander Robert Johnston , who served as acting administrator of the colony?
text: Did you know that the 1910–1911 Zionist newspaper Hamevasser called on Jews to join the Ottoman army, in an effort to improve Jewish-Turkish relations?
text: Did you know that Charles Garvice , "the most successful novelist in England" in the period 1900–1920, sold millions of books annually but is virtually unknown today?
text: Did you know that the Denisova Cave , where the finger bone of the Denisova hominin was found, is named after Dionisij, an 18th-century hermit ?
text: Did you know that President of the United States James A. Garfield knew both Latin and Greek , and could write both simultaneously with separate hands?
text: Did you know that the Underwater Archaeology Branch has been involved in research on Error: {{ Ship }} missing prefix ( help ) and CSS Alabama , and the search for USS Bonhomme Richard ?
text: Did you know that three Major League Baseball pitchers — Charles Radbourn , John Clarkson and Guy Hecker —captured the National League wins title by collecting more than 50 victories in a single season?
text: Did you know that the Israel Defense Forces captured the Iraq Suwaydan police fort in Operation Shmone after seven previous failed attempts?
text: Did you know that the CARVER matrix was developed by United States special forces as a target acquisition system used to rank and prioritize targets?
text: Did you know that Gordon L. Park worked around the globe as a petroleum engineer for Chevron before he settled in Wyoming and was elected in 1992 to the state legislature ?
text: Did you know that timbuwarra are anthropomorphic rattan figures produced by the Wiru people of Papua New Guinea ?
text: Did you know that an entire regiment of the Mexican Army was dispatched to expel Mexican folk healer and mystic Teresa Urrea from the country?
text: Did you know that George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
text: Did you know that about 30,000 runners cross the 25 de Abril Bridge as part of the Lisbon Half Marathon each year?
text: Did you know that inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla decided on his career path after being impressed by laboratory experiments of his physics professor at Gymnasium Karlovac ?
text: Did you know that the Italian pre-dreadnought battleship Re Umberto was modified in 1918 in preparation for her role as the lead ship in the planned attack on the main Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola ?
text: Did you know that Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr. , of Alexandria , Louisiana , joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth , an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
text: Did you know that the television series Meet the Natives: USA shows five tribesmen from the island of Tanna playing golf , riding roller coasters , and getting pedicures ?
text: Did you know that one of the findings of sociology of leisure has been that amount of free time is not significantly dependent on one's wealth?
text: Did you know that effective use of domain engineering concepts like the use of domain-specific languages can reduce code size by over 50%?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Senator K.D. Kilpatrick of Ruston began working as a teenager in his family mortuary business after his father was incapacitated by a stroke ?
text: Did you know that a secret causeway from the mainland to Matagorda Island off San Antonio Bay was hidden from Europeans by Karankawa Indians?
text: Did you know that Fletcher Christian , leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty , was baptised in St Bridget's Church, Brigham , England, and that his tomb is in the churchyard?
text: Did you know that offspring of Gargaphia solani almost always fall victim to predation without the protection of their mother?
text: Did you know that in 1575, Countess Ana von Eck from Brda was killed by a tame bear in the castle courtyard of Žužemberk Castle?
text: Did you know that the steamboat Arabia was missing for 132 years before it was discovered half a mile from the Missouri River under 45 feet of mud?
text: Did you know that from March 1940, Edvard Sylou-Crantz worked in Germany as a Norwegian-language propagandistic radio news reader?
text: Did you know that around 50% of adult Jews in Constantinople were subscribers of the Ladino language newspaper El Tiempo at the time of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that from 1904 to 1907, artists' model Dorelia McNeill lived in a ménage à trois with Augustus John and his first wife Ida Nettleship ?
text: Did you know that feature models , initially conceived by feature-oriented domain analysis , are characterized as "the greatest contribution of domain engineering to software engineering "?
text: Did you know that the Protestant church of Jistrum in Friesland was prior to 1581 a Catholic church , when in one week it was stripped by iconoclasts ?
text: Did you know that fourteen-year-old Doris Duke gained control of Duke Farms after suing her mother?
text: Did you know that before 2002, nobody had reported seeing a wild specimen of Impatiens denisonii , a rare balsam , since it was first described in 1862?
text: Did you know that the author of the book Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" was recognized with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award ?
text: Did you know that 51 men were executed by Anglo-Saxons near Weymouth, Dorset , and interred in the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in AD 910−1030?
text: Did you know that Seteng Ayele was the oldest track and field athlete at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the fate of an opossum in the Parks and Recreation episode " The Possum " has been described as an allegory for capital punishment ?
text: Did you know that the Old Hansen Planetarium served as the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library system from 1905 to 1964?
text: Did you know that Dieter Dorn staged the world premiere of the opera L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe of Hans Werner Henze at the Salzburg Festival in 2003?
text: Did you know that the Bering cisco migrates hundreds of miles up rivers without eating?
text: Did you know that Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket , taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
text: Did you know that the tambouras , a Greek traditional string instrument of the lute family and ancestor of the bouzouki , features movable frets?
text: Did you know that MacGillivray Milne was appointed Governor of American Samoa less than two years after having been court-martialed ?
text: Did you know that the first hull loss of a Tupolev Tu-204 occurred when Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport , Moscow , Russia , on 22 March 2010?
text: Did you know that President George Washington was once a guest at Lloyd House ?
text: Did you know that American biologist Philip Hershkovitz discovered many rodent species while he was in his eighties?
text: Did you know that a failed Cretan revolt of 1828, led by Hatzimichalis Dalianis , is the basis for the local legend of the ghost army of the Drosoulites ?
text: Did you know that Marcus R. Clark was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana Supreme Court though he had years earlier been sanctioned by that body for backlogged cases as a district judge?
text: Did you know that Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen ) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen , Friesland , the Netherlands , since the 15th century ?
text: Did you know that Michael Barlow is the seventh winner of the Fothergill-Round Medal in the last eight years that was listed on an Australian Football League squad via the rookie draft ?
text: Did you know that Leptodora is the largest planktonic cladoceran , and its type species is probably the only cladoceran to have been described in a newspaper ?
text: Did you know that the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent is installed in a room constructed especially for it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ?
text: Did you know that by the Treaty of Vilnius (1561) , Gotthard Kettler exchanged his office as Grand Master of the Livonian Order for that of a duke and Royal administrator?
text: Did you know that Boston newspaper publisher John Mein shot a grenadier in a scuffle?
text: Did you know that the " father of the Finnish written language " died when returning from the Treaty of Novgorod (1557) ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, ten percent of the membership of the Australian Watercolour Institute were recipients of Australia Honours ?
text: Did you know that a raga in Indian musician Ram Narayan 's album Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia was named for an incarnation of Shiva ?
text: Did you know that Lado Ketskhoveli was one of the first revolutionaries to introduce Stalin to Marxism ?
text: Did you know that fishing down the food web is resulting in a progressive worldwide decline in the fish stocks that are higher on the food chain ?
text: Did you know that Siraj Gena finished his winning run of the Rome Marathon barefoot to honour the 50th anniversary of Abebe Bikila 's marathon gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the sculpture of a freezing woman at the Golm War Cemetery was not erected because it did not match the artistic perceptions of the East German party line?
text: Did you know that Harry Crosby , whose Black Sun Press published struggling writers like D. H. Lawrence , Hart Crane , James Joyce and Ezra Pound , died at age 31 in a suicide pact with his lover?
text: Did you know that Gowardia , a lichen found in tundra of the Northern Hemisphere , is named after the lichenologist Trevor Goward?
text: Did you know that as a state legislator Ron Gomez , previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns , worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome , in Lafayette , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland , Oregon 's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance "?
text: Did you know that designer Vladimir Kagan , whose 1952 sofa was auctioned by Christie's for $190,000, created a facsimile for Room & Board in 2006 that sells for less than $1,900?
text: Did you know that Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of President Barack Obama in full antebellum -era dresses?
text: Did you know that two of the singer-songwriters in Little River Band wrote so many songs that they formed the duo Birtles & Goble to record the unreleased material?
text: Did you know that although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian , high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews "?
text: Did you know that Doña Rosa Real discovered how to make Barro negro pottery in San Bartolo Coyotepec , a small town in southern Mexico ?
text: Did you know that in the 1779 raid led by General William Tryon , British troops destroyed 83 houses, two churches, and a jail in Fairfield, Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that Agrimonia gryposepala , a plant of the rose family ( Rosaceae ), was used by the Meskwaki and Prairie Potawatomi to cure nosebleeds ?
text: Did you know that the debut in Carnegie Hall of tenor James Taylor was in the premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor ?
text: Did you know that the forests of Syria , celebrated throughout ancient times for their richness, have been reduced to their present-day area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that Fr. Martin Hehir , the fourth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh , was affectionately known to students as "Daddy Hehir"?
text: Did you know that an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government?
text: Did you know that the word " pitcher " originates from the 13th century Middle English word picher , which means earthen jug?
text: Did you know that the nineteenth-century American botanist Edward Tuckerman liked to write his studies in Latin?
text: Did you know that in 2003, an English translation of Shadow Tower Abyss , the forerunner to From Software 's award-winning Demon's Souls , was cancelled by Sony over fears that the game's style lacked market appeal?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian sprinter Anzhela Kravchenko has more national titles in the 100 and 200 metres than double world champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block ?
text: Did you know that the specific name of the small shrub Adenanthos cacomorphus , meaning 'ugly form', relates to its "misshapen" pollen grains?
text: Did you know that Barry Bowen owned Belikin , Belize 's only domestically brewed beer brand , as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm ?
text: Did you know that journalist Lauro Aguirre planned a violent takeover of Ciudad Juárez , Mexico in 1906?
text: Did you know that former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford ?
text: Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame member Mel Ott was struck out in his first at-bat of his Major League Baseball career by pitcher Wayland Dean ?
text: Did you know that the Yalbugha Mosque was built in 1264 by Mamluk princes in Damascus , Syria ?
text: Did you know that Chaucer scholar Charles Muscatine participated in the D-day landing on Omaha Beach and was fired by UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a McCarthyite oath?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Pozvol triggered the Livonian War ?
text: Did you know that Olena Krasovska ran the fastest 100 metres hurdles race (12.45 seconds) by an athlete representing Ukraine , but despite this she does not hold the Ukrainian record ?
text: Did you know that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones , KT Tunstall and Coldplay ?
text: Did you know that substorms were first described in 1964?
text: Did you know that the 7th century Arab Islamic palatial complex of Al-Sinnabra at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee was originally thought to be a Byzantine -era synagogue ?
text: Did you know that Joseph H. Allen , a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York , was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
text: Did you know that Twice Blessed is an American Book Award winning novel by Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca ?
text: Did you know that comedian Andy Samberg guest starred in the Parks and Recreation episode " Park Safety ", which he called "the best episode, and maybe not just of this show but of any show on television ever"?
text: Did you know that Winifred Collins was one of the first females to be commissioned in the WAVES when it began in 1942 and was later Chief of Naval Personnel for Women?
text: Did you know that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson 's parents are buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Colorado State Highway 35 is so short that two interchanges overlap each other?
text: Did you know that Code of Vengeance starred Charles Taylor as David Dalton, a character created for a planned spin-off series from Knight Rider ?
text: Did you know that the traditional oral rules for leadership selection at the Rapid Lake Indian reserve in Quebec were put down in writing for the first time in 1996?
text: Did you know that the idea for MyTwoCensus , a political watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census , was first conceived by journalist Stephen Robert Morse as he was looking for a job on Craigslist ?
text: Did you know that in Albanian mythology , the drangue is a semi-human winged warrior who is born wearing a shirt and qeleshe ?
text: Did you know that while she never sank any vessels in her career, U-771 shot down a British B-24 Liberator aircraft?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , both the Union and the Confederacy developed new medical programs to treat sick and injured soldiers?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Sexual Healing " parodied the recent sex scandal surrounding golf pro Tiger Woods , and satirized the media attention it generated?
text: Did you know that with around 250 killed the UNITA 2001 Angola train attack was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks involving railways ?
text: Did you know that Blazed Alder Creek , which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon , was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
text: Did you know that the association l'Affranchissement , founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium ?
text: Did you know that the Bolinas, California -based unconventional winemaker Sean Thackrey was previously an art dealer ?
text: Did you know that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing , West Sussex , have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?
text: Did you know that Ernest Hemingway 's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine from February to May of that year?
text: Did you know that Martyrs' Lane in Baku , Azerbaijan , is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War ?
text: Did you know that an ovarian pregnancy can occur when the egg cell is not released or picked up?
text: Did you know that the specific name of Adenanthos macropodianus refers to it only being found on Kangaroo Island ?
text: Did you know that American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed?
text: Did you know that in the 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga season , with the Rugby Club Luxembourg , a team from Luxembourg competes in the German 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga ?
text: Did you know that Marcus Larson , a prominent 19th-century painter from Sweden, worked for a saddle maker before becoming an artist?
text: Did you know that 1968 was the deadliest year in the Vietnam war for the United States and its Vietnamese allies ?
text: Did you know that the music website SongMeanings was created after its founder was inspired by a debate surrounding the meaning behind music group Ben Folds Five 's song " Brick "?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II allegedly insisted for taxes to be paid in the full-weight histamenon gold coin, but only paid back in the lighter tetarteron ?
text: Did you know that a silent speech interface enables people to talk without making speech sounds , or those with laryngectomies to speak after losing their voice ?
text: Did you know that despite Dolores Porras’ innovations with the green glazed pottery tradition of Santa María Atzompa , she is poor and depends on her family economically?
text: Did you know that as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle that caused it to decrease in intensity but increase in diameter?
text: Did you know that the 1956 radio program It's A Crime, Mr. Collins was said to be "a flagrant rip-off of The Adventures of the Abbotts in which only the names had been changed"?
text: Did you know that UdiWWW was among the first web browsers to support the HTML 3 specification ?
text: Did you know that the Manawan Indian reserve in the Mauricie region of Quebec has had road access only since 1973?
text: Did you know that Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicles were used by United States Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan , as well as during the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting ?
text: Did you know that Czech politician Petr Zenkl , who survived two Nazi concentration camps , was forced to escape to the West after communists took power in Czechoslovakia by coup d'état in 1948?
text: Did you know that after the original owner of the Walsh-Kaiser Company shipyard had difficulty managing the yard, a shipbuilding and a construction company took over?
text: Did you know that the town of Otumba , Mexico , has an annual Donkey Fair where the animals feature in fashion shows and costume contests?
text: Did you know that British child actor Noah Marullo plays a character with Asperger syndrome on Tracy Beaker Returns , which he feels "helps children understand that everyone is different"?
text: Did you know that, during the bombing of Berlin , Minuscule 658 , 659 and 661 were sent out of Berlin for safekeeping and were later found in Poland ?
text: Did you know that before entering politics , two-time prime minister Said al-Ghazzi was one of the leading lawyers in Syria ?
text: Did you know that the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists has dealt with over 600 cases since it began in 2001?
text: Did you know that the tragic death of Bonnie McCarroll at the 1929 Pendleton Round-Up led to the cancellation of women's bronc riding from rodeo competition?
text: Did you know that the aureole effect is an optical phenomenon seen in rippling water that creates sparkling light and dark rays radiating from the shadow of the viewer's head ?
text: Did you know that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland "?
text: Did you know that the holotype specimen of the dinosaur Linheraptor is one of few nearly complete dromaeosaurid skeletons, worldwide?
text: Did you know that college basketball guard A.J. Slaughter received scholarship offers from major conference schools Vanderbilt and West Virginia , but ultimately decided to play for Western Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that citizen volunteers at The Jawa Report notified the FBI about the threat posed by Jihad Jane ?
text: Did you know that in Villa de Zaachila , Mexico, the weekly tianguis or open air market has changed little over the centuries and the Zapotec language can still be heard?
text: Did you know that Sayuri Kokushō 's 1986 debut single , Valentine Kiss , is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan, despite selling only 317,000 copies?
text: Did you know that the rider who completes the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in the shortest time will win $500,000 in Alaskan gold?
text: Did you know that in March 2010, Australia became the first country in the world to officially recognise a 'non-specified' gender, when Norrie May-Welby was found to be neither a man nor a woman?
text: Did you know that the main factors influencing survival amongst the stricken Donner Party pioneers were age, sex, and the size of each person's family group?
text: Did you know that Herb Graver scored five touchdowns in the 1903 Michigan–Ohio State game , a record that has not since been matched by a player for either team?
text: Did you know that a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone is a political subdivision of a municipality or county in the state of Texas created to implement tax increment financing ?
text: Did you know that WuLi Records, owned by the Ministry 's Louis Svitek , released an album by Lee DeWyze , a ninth season finalist of American Idol ?
text: Did you know that Canigou Cambrai was the first English Cocker Spaniel to be best in show at Crufts for 46 years?
text: Did you know that Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec 's forests at the time of colonization ?
text: Did you know that the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans ?
text: Did you know that pyridoxamine , a vitamer of vitamin B6 , is being tested in clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy ?
text: Did you know that Siobhan Magnus , a current contestant on the ninth season of American Idol , started singing in public during an elementary school concert when she sang " Tomorrow " from the musical Annie ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito , Ecuador ?
text: Did you know that more than twenty attendants of the Cécile DeWitt-Morette ' s summer school in the Alps were later awarded the Nobel Prize ?
text: Did you know that What A Guy! , a gag cartoon created in 1987, continued for eight years after writer Bill Hoest 's death using a mix of his jokes and new gags written by his widow, Bunny Hoest ?
text: Did you know that, unable to reach the university president, athletic director John Toner unilaterally accepted an invitation for the Connecticut Huskies to become a founding member of the Big East Conference ?
text: Did you know that Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice , who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?
text: Did you know that Bienvenido Santos ’s novel, The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor , narrates the experiences of Filipino migrants in the United States ?
text: Did you know that pioneering Austrian feminist Auguste Fickert got involved in politics because of an attempt to disenfranchise all women voters in Lower Austria in 1889?
text: Did you know that Point Lonsdale Lighthouse ' s foghorn shed is the only one known from a lighthouse in Victoria, Australia ?
text: Did you know that Bamba Müller was the " Cinderella " who married Dalip Singh Sukerchakia , the Black Prince of Perthshire ?
text: Did you know that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
text: Did you know that Sven Moren was a popular speaker, and chaired the cultural society Noregs Ungdomslag for two periods?
text: Did you know that a film critic for The New York Times described the Croatian film What Is a Man Without a Moustache? as both "pleasant" and "pointless"?
text: Did you know that approximately 1 in every 10,000 to 20,000 babies are born with a laryngeal cleft , a gap between the oesophagus and trachea which allows food or fluid to pass into the airway?
text: Did you know that when officials cracked down on vice in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, some of Texas' most notorious crime figures helped establish major casinos in Las Vegas, including the Sands Hotel ?
text: Did you know that the Flader J55 jet engine used a supersonic compressor in order to achieve small size, which ultimately proved to be beyond the state of the art ?
text: Did you know that Christopher O. Ward , Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey , worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico before attending Harvard Divinity School ?
text: Did you know that near the exit from the Chee Kung Tong Society Building , a lintel once proclaimed, in Chinese , Everyone is Equal ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, professional baseball player Jimmy Sexton led the Texas League in stolen bases with 48?
text: Did you know that The Go-Betweens ' " Cattle and Cane ", although selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, never charted in Australia?
text: Did you know that Francisco Ada , the first Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands , spearheaded the construction of the modern Saipan International Airport ?
text: Did you know that the film Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds has been in development since the 1990s and once included a comedic incarnation with Jack Black set to star?
text: Did you know that in only their third year of involvement in the series, Hexis Racing won the FIA GT3 European Teams Championship in 2009 ?
text: Did you know that there is no evidence that Julius II or Leo X , two Renaissance popes , ever celebrated mass ?
text: Did you know that Adenanthos cuneatus has been called Sweat Bush , from the alleged propensity of horses to break out in a sweat after eating it?
text: Did you know that the Palace of Omurtag , an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria , includes the episcopal see of an Arian Gothic bishop besides a medieval Bulgarian fort?
text: Did you know that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University , during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?
text: Did you know that today's Solar Turbines got its start in the gas turbine industry due to its expertise in high-temperature metallurgy learned by building 300,000 exhaust manifolds in World War II ?
text: Did you know that in 1656, Thomas Wiswall signed a petition that ultimately led to the founding of the city of Newton, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that both Taklung Monastery and Riwoche Monastery belong to the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism ?
text: Did you know that " Grace, Replaced " , the Will & Grace episode, attracted the series' highest ratings of the first season?
text: Did you know that the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean ?
text: Did you know that later politician and barrister Lars Aspeflaten was a personal bodyguard of the acting Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions in 1945?
text: Did you know that actor Tom Cruise does not endorse a potent strain of cannabis called Tom Cruise Purple ?
text: Did you know that the falkuša sailboat raced in one of the oldest fishermen's regattas in Europe , held from 1593 to 1936 on the island of Vis , Croatia ?
text: Did you know that Konstantin Bozveliev became the first socialist to be elected mayor in Bulgaria in 1908?
text: Did you know that the magnitude -8.5 1922 Vallenar earthquake in Chile caused a series of tsunamis that reached as far away as Japan and Australia?
text: Did you know that the actor Sir Ian McKellen was the final guest to appear on Parkinson's Sunday Supplement and one of the first on Weekend Wogan , both Sunday morning programmes on BBC Radio 2 ?
text: Did you know that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge ?
text: Did you know that Pina Bausch and conductor Thomas Hengelbrock staged Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Paris and the ancient theater in Epidaurus ?
text: Did you know that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season , every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?
text: Did you know that the pygmy hardwood forest on the summit of New York's Graham Mountain is unique in the Catskills ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand space scientist Ian Axford was a director of the German Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy ?
text: Did you know that the first Filipino full-length animated film , Adarna , was created by Gerry Garcia in the late 1990s?
text: Did you know that American soprano Anna Fitziu was the singing instructor for Shirley Verrett ?
text: Did you know that females of the species Toxotes chatareus may lay between 20,000 and 150,000 eggs at a time?
text: Did you know that despite being an Australian, Walter Cornock played both professional football and first-class cricket for English teams?
text: Did you know that because it could neither be repaired nor removed, a trolley bridge in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts , was turned into a garden called the Bridge of Flowers ?
text: Did you know that the Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto , by Pablo Picasso , is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at an auction in Europe?
text: Did you know that former State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr. , once told People magazine that all Louisiana residents needed to be contented was "a pickup and a shotgun"?
text: Did you know that in 1560, the English helped the Scots lay siege to the French encampment at Leith ?
text: Did you know that Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia " in the 30 Rock episode " The Natural Order "?
text: Did you know that the Almond Blossom Cross Country was created by the District of Faro and the Portuguese tourist board to promote sport and tourism in the area?
text: Did you know that despite being dismissed from the navy for disobeying orders, James Walker returned to fight at Camperdown and Copenhagen , and died a rear-admiral ?
text: Did you know that after losing a fight with Mikhail Gorbachev's cat, Dmitry Medvedev's cat Dorofei was castrated?
text: Did you know that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that soprano Annette Dasch appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre , where that opera had been premiered in 1781?
text: Did you know that the village of Ulnaby was abandoned in the 16th century when labour-intensive arable farming gave way to pasture ?
text: Did you know that Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana , a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
text: Did you know that when the Coucoucache Indian reserve was inundated by a new reservoir , the Canadian Government was compensated only $380 for the loss of land?
text: Did you know that the papal court resided in Viterbo , Italy, for twenty years in the 13th century?
text: Did you know that after concluding his participation in the Second Schleswig War , priest and educator Christopher Bruun walked from Denmark to Rome ?
text: Did you know that Lars Oftedal founded several social institutions in Stavanger , Norway, including an orphanage for boys and a home for women?
text: Did you know that the Berserker Range is a mountainous region near Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia?
text: Did you know that Nick Joaquin 's play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino , was described in The New York Times as an "engaging, well plotted metaphor for the passing of Old Manila "?
text: Did you know that the distribution of the Brazilian rice rat Euryoryzomys emmonsae may be unique among muroid rodents ?
text: Did you know that the career of Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik was cut short by serious injury suffered in a car crash?
text: Did you know that Adolf Claus suggested a structure for benzene in 1867, still known as Claus' benzene ?
text: Did you know that during the annual Dutch book week , a book was occasionally published anonymously to let readers guess who the author was?
text: Did you know that actor Richard Stapley , who was sometimes known by the stage name Richard Wyler , published his first novel at age 17?
text: Did you know that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience ?
text: Did you know that clients of wandering frontier lawyer John Ricord included Sam Houston and Hawaiian King Kamehameha III ?
text: Did you know that acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis occur on average two to three times per year in a person suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ?
text: Did you know that Princess Bamba , the last of the family who ruled the Sikh Empire , was said to have "lived like an alien in her father's kingdom"?
text: Did you know that indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ?
text: Did you know that Pope Stephen II in 752 became the first pope to cross the Alps?
text: Did you know that Lionello Cecil sang the lead tenor part in the first complete microphone recording of Verdi 's La traviata in 1928?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Nida was the most intense tropical cyclone during 2009?
text: Did you know that Carey McWilliams described Carlos Bulosan 's America Is in the Heart as a social classic that reflected the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Mexican rice rat Oryzomys nelsoni has only been collected once?
text: Did you know that Oregon House Representative Nancy Nathanson taught tap dancing for several years?
text: Did you know that Sky News described the free legal video sharing website MUZU TV as a likely rival for YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the minesweeper USS Inaugural is the only National Historic Landmark in Missouri to have had its status as a National Historic Landmark withdrawn?
text: Did you know that Knut Kleve , known for his restoration of papyrus fragments, learned Latin while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the fungal genus Sebacina includes species that can encrust the stem bases of living plants?
text: Did you know that at just 85 days in office, the sixteenth government of Israel was the shortest-lived in the country's history?
text: Did you know that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia 's first Paralympian ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-78 was the only U-boat to be sunk by land-based artillery fire in World War II ?
text: Did you know that both Symmachus and Laurentius turned to Theodoric the Great to resolve their disputed succession as pope , the first recorded example of papal simony ?
text: Did you know that after a search that has so far lasted 30 years, Muckaty station in Australia's Northern Territory is the only site being considered for a national radioactive waste facility?
text: Did you know that the Art Pavilion gallery was originally built for an exhibition in Budapest and then transported to Zagreb , where it was re-built in 1898?
text: Did you know that when Scottish soprano Muriel Dickson toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to New York City in 1934–1935, she was invited to join the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning " spider " and gryllus meaning " cricket "?
text: Did you know that Gustav Storm ' s translation of Snorre Sturlason 's Heimskringla into Norwegian in the late 1890s was the basis for a popular edition of this work?
text: Did you know that the largest known colony of mammals in the world is found in Bracken Cave near the small town of Bracken, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Yanko Sakazov was one of the two first socialist parliamentarians in Bulgaria , elected to the National Assembly in 1894?
text: Did you know that the number-one single " A Puro Dolor " , performed by Son By Four , was written by Omar Alfanno in ten minutes?
text: Did you know that renowned magazine illustrator David Hunter Strother recounted a treacherous journey on the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike in his recollections of the American Civil War in Harper's Magazine ?
text: Did you know that Israeli naval forces deployed explosive Italian motorboats to sink the Egyptian Navy flagship Emir Farouk in the naval campaign of Operation Yoav ?
text: Did you know that in ca. 1304, the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos introduced a new silver coin, the basilikon , modeled after the Venetian grosso , to pay the Catalan Company ?
text: Did you know that the current Mayor of Manukau is also its last one, as the Manukau City Council area is going to be incorporated into the Auckland super city ?
text: Did you know that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae , which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga , sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning ?
text: Did you know that the canoe route through Oskélanéo, Quebec , was once so popular that it prompted the construction of locks on the Oskelaneo River?
text: Did you know that " Pretty Baby.... " is the first soap opera episode to feature just a single character ?
text: Did you know that at 100 years old, Sir Nicholas Winton was named a British Hero of the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the AN/PSQ-20 "Enhanced Night Vision Device" combines image intensifier and thermal imaging technologies, which were previously used separately?
text: Did you know that Colleen LaRose , also known as "JihadJane", was living in suburban Pennsylvania when she was arrested for recruiting Islamic terrorists and plotting the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks ?
text: Did you know that conductor Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart finished the first complete recording of Bach's cantatas and oratorios on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985?
text: Did you know that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx when he joined the Mesame Dasi ?
text: Did you know that sea interferometry uses radio waves reflected off the surface of the sea to improve the resolution of a single radio detector?
text: Did you know that two plaster maquettes made by sculptor John Evan Thomas for House of Lords bronzes have just been found in Westgate, Canterbury , after being hidden in a tower for 100 years?
text: Did you know that William Hutcheon Hall of the Royal Navy earned the nickname "Nemesis Hall" for his services as commander of the Nemesis during the First Anglo-Chinese War ?
text: Did you know that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso ?
text: Did you know that the thirty pieces of silver which Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus are echoed in Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment by the thirty roubles which Sonia earns for selling herself?
text: Did you know that Swiss athlete Georges de Regibus introduced association football to Bulgaria in 1894 as a sports teacher in Varna ?
text: Did you know that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae , predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon ?
text: Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 , in Latin ?
text: Did you know that Empire Cedric , a former Landing Ship, Tank , was the first Ro-Ro ferry ?
text: Did you know that Yothu Yindi 's song " Treaty " was the first song by a predominately- Aboriginal band to chart in Australia and the first in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain international recognition?
text: Did you know that Mexican revolutionary Rubén Jaramillo ran for governor of Morelos twice and led two armed rebellions against the government?
text: Did you know that pairwise summation of a sequence (breaking it in half and summing each half separately first) greatly reduces rounding errors?
text: Did you know that Leslie Barrett was both a Shakespearean actor and the founder of a mime theatre?
text: Did you know that Hungry Bentley , an abandoned village in Derbyshire , England , was named for the poor quality of its land?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Tiger Raj Singh had a try-out match for World Wrestling Entertainment in December 2009 and was signed to a developmental contract?
text: Did you know that the " Beethoven Burst " was a powerful gamma-ray burst which occurred on the birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven ?
text: Did you know that Jhalkaribai fought with the East India Company army in disguise as Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to let the queen escape easily out of the fort?
text: Did you know that more than 98% of the human genome is noncoding DNA , sometimes referred to as "junk" DNA ?
text: Did you know that in her novel Devil's Brood , author Sharon Kay Penman writes about Eleanor of Aquitaine who is imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England ?
text: Did you know that the original recording of The Byrds ' song " Eight Miles High " was not released until its appearance on the Never Before compilation album in 1987, some 22 years after it had been committed to tape?
text: Did you know that Javier Arias Stella , Peruvian foreign minister during the Paquisha War , is also a notable pathologist ?
text: Did you know that the Dome F105 Formula One car completed more than 900 kilometres (560 mi) of private testing, yet was never entered in a Grand Prix?
text: Did you know that bikini baristas can be found mixing up coffee drinks all over the Seattle area?
text: Did you know that the false scorpionfish mimics the true scorpionfish so well, it was originally described as a species of genus Scorpaena ?
text: Did you know that 5th-century Indian mathematician Aryabhata created the first sine table ?
text: Did you know that the American electric blues guitarist , singer , and songwriter , Johnnie Bassett , played on The Miracles 1958 debut single , "Got a Job"?
text: Did you know that a chance discovery in 1928 by a local farmer in Minet el-Beida led to the excavation of ancient Ugarit in Syria ?
text: Did you know that during the Korean War , US Army Colonel Robert F. Martin commanded the 34th Infantry Regiment for only 14 hours before he was killed in the Battle of Chonan ?
text: Did you know that 92% of students at West London 's Villiers High School do not speak English as their first language ?
text: Did you know that Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers served as a bodyguard for political rivals Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in 1905 and 1912, respectively?
text: Did you know that Para Siempre , the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández , reached number-one on the Mexican charts and won Best Ranchero Album at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards ceremony ?
text: Did you know that in 1779, New York State Senator John Williams was expelled from the Senate for defrauding fellow soldiers of income during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that the main characteristic of the continental Celtic deity Dusios was its ability to impregnate animals and women, often by surprise or force?
text: Did you know that Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil ?
text: Did you know that the aviso SMS Hela was the first German ship to be sunk by a British submarine in World War I ?
text: Did you know that Fabian Joseph , a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team , won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s?
text: Did you know that the last words of the British judge Lord Tenterden were "and now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider of your verdict"?
text: Did you know that Bollywood actor Bobby Deol won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in Barsaat in 1995 ?
text: Did you know that the port city of Bergen was the site of the first German U-boat base in occupied Norway ?
text: Did you know that Garry Richardson interviewed Bill Clinton during a rain delay at the Wimbledon Championships ?
text: Did you know that The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José ?
text: Did you know that lieutenant general Nie Fengzhi joined the People's Liberation Army as a teenager in 1929?
text: Did you know that Al-Kahf Castle in al-Ansariyah mountains was the last Ismaili stronghold in Syria to surrender to the Mamluks ?
text: Did you know that the recently named trematopid temnospondyl Fedexia was named after the shipping service FedEx , which owned the land where the holotype specimen was found?
text: Did you know that Grace Voss Frederick (November 3, 1905 – January 16, 2009) was the creator of the Grace Museum of America and the Grace Museum for the Preservation of Americana?
text: Did you know that the Tour de Nesle scandal led to the imprisonment of French Princesses Blanche and Margaret and the execution of their lovers?
text: Did you know that the American soul blues guitarist , singer , and songwriter Jimmy Burns , issued a number of singles in the 1960s, but waited over 25 years to release his debut album ?
text: Did you know that Aritsugu , a supplier of swords to the Imperial House of Japan during the 16th century, now produces cooking knives and utensils?
text: Did you know that, although it had been assigned to them in 1853, the Atikamekw First Nation did not settle on the Wemotaci Reserve ( Quebec ) until the beginning of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that a message of farewell to the spa town of Buxton scratched onto a window pane of the Old Hall Hotel was reputedly inscribed by Mary Queen of Scots ?
text: Did you know that German and Scottish mercenaries, sent by Sweden to retaliate the roasting of a Swedish commander by Russian forces, killed each other instead in the Siege of Wesenberg (1574) ?
text: Did you know that Avondale Park , a Park Ship sunk on 7 May 1945, was one of two Allied ships destroyed by enemy action in the last hour of the Second World War in Europe ?
text: Did you know that minister Edward Woolsey Bacon served in the American Civil War and in 1865 led the black 29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry into Richmond, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
text: Did you know that the physicist Stefan Meyer led the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna before and after the Nazi regime ?
text: Did you know that a description of the Battle of Aspern-Essling written by Patrick Rambaud as The Battle was originally a project of Honoré de Balzac ?
text: Did you know that The Kinks ' " Sitting in the Midday Sun " is thought to be the first track recorded at their newly-built Konk Studios ?
text: Did you know that after Egypt was defeated by Israel during the Six-Day War the Egyptian government issued copies of the Hope paintings to its troops?
text: Did you know that in 1697, Reverend Ichabod Wiswall delivered the first known funeral sermon in British America ?
text: Did you know that the 7th century Maligawila Buddha statue , which was found broken into pieces in 1951, was repaired and re-erected in 1980?
text: Did you know that singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Gerhaher recorded music written in the concentration camp of Terezín by artists such as Ilse Weber , Hans Krása , Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann ?
text: Did you know that the silver stavraton replaced the gold hyperpyron as the Byzantine Empire 's chief coinage during the last century of its history?
text: Did you know that one political faction in Isabelline Spain was known as the polacos because of its leader's Polish ancestry?
text: Did you know that the Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford , have included Ronald Reagan and John Betjeman , even though neither had academic links to the college?
text: Did you know that the Birmingham Charity Cup , a Victorian football trophy, featured engravings of a football match and of "the poor and sick succoured by the heavenly spirit"?
text: Did you know that the Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization in 1989 sought to end the assimilationist approach of the governments in dealing with indigenous peoples ?
text: Did you know that Heinz Stahlschmidt was credited with saving 3,500 French lives when he refused to blow up the port of Bordeaux and instead blew up the munitions bunker, killing approximately 50 Germans?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Balata was a Frankish settlement during the Crusades ?
text: Did you know that actress Edith Craig , dramatist Christabel Marshall and artist Clare Atwood lived in a ménage à trois from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947?
text: Did you know that it has been suggested the extinct palm genus Palaeoraphe was restricted to the Greater Antilles ?
text: Did you know that the bootlegged song " Revolution 1 (Take 20) " by the British rock band The Beatles acts as a missing link between the seemingly unrelated " Revolution 1 " and the avant-garde " Revolution 9 "?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) had only 35% workers among its members?
text: Did you know that Indonesia 's first flag flown was fashioned by its first first lady Fatmawati ?
text: Did you know that Harvard -educated William Little Lee became the first Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1848 at the age of only 27?
text: Did you know that Saturday Night Live comedian Ana Gasteyer appeared in a serious role as a judge in " Fleas ", an episode of the CBS drama, The Good Wife ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Billy Sunday and musician Wayne King lived in the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa , even though neither were actual orphans?
text: Did you know that migralepsy is a rare condition where a migraine is followed by an epileptic seizure ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Goebbels called Hitler Youth Quex a successful "first large-scale attempt" to transmit Nazi ideology via movies?
text: Did you know that according to one contemporary source, Barbara Strozzi showed off a bejeweled necklace she received from Anna de' Medici by placing it between her "two darling, beautiful breasts"?
text: Did you know that the name for the Texas stream Cibolo Creek comes from the Native American and Spanish word for Buffalo , who were hunted along its steep banks?
text: Did you know that Thomas Herbst , the current manager of Tennis Borussia Berlin , won the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship before making his professional footballing debut for FC Bayern Munich ?
text: Did you know that Bristol Diamonds were popular souvenirs for visitors to the spa at Hotwells, Bristol , in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
text: Did you know that James Long , an Anglican missionary in India, was jailed for publishing the play Nil Darpan ?
text: Did you know that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?
text: Did you know that Laura Spurr enjoyed a long career in nursing before becoming chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the 1980s German television series The Black Forest Clinic was so popular that it was once dubbed "the epitome of German television bliss"?
text: Did you know that Harold Pogue , Perry Graves and Ralph Chapman became the University of Illinois ' first first-team College Football All-Americans in 1914 ?
text: Did you know that doctors must regulate the blood pressure of a beating heart cadaver to keep the organs alive?
text: Did you know that Henry Blogg's first rescue as coxwain of the Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell was that of the crew of the barque Alf ?
text: Did you know that Whitney Avenue Historic District in New Haven, Connecticut , includes "locally outstanding" collections of Queen Anne , Shingle , Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival architecture?
text: Did you know that Alan Cumming guest-starred in " Bang ", an episode of the CBS drama series The Good Wife , as a political consultant commentators said mirrored Rahm Emanuel ?
text: Did you know that Haqqi al-Azm , a former prime minister of Syria , was also the first governor of the State of Damascus under the French mandate ?
text: Did you know that the art student scam is a confidence trick in which scammers sell cheap paintings as original art by up-and-coming talents?
text: Did you know that 6.9 M w Chile earthquake of March 2010 took place shortly before president Sebastián Piñera was sworn in?
text: Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode " Woman of the Year " mocked the meaninglessness of awards, which some critics saw as a jab about the show's failure to win major industry awards?
text: Did you know that despite his international success, Tunisian - Swiss 1500 metres runner Ali Hakimi only became Tunisian champion three times?
text: Did you know that the wreck of the British battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary has been designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 ?
text: Did you know that film composer Nathan Scott , who arranged the music for Dragnet , scored almost all episodes of Lassie between 1963 and 1974?
text: Did you know that what is thought to have been the first ever properly floodlit association football match in the United Kingdom took place between two non-league teams, Ashton National and Hyde United , in December 1932?
text: Did you know that according to legend, New York Assemblywoman Ida Sammis ' first act in the legislature was to polish the brass spittoon assigned to her, and to place it on her desk as a flower vase?
text: Did you know that Lena Horne won six awards for her 1981 one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music ?
text: Did you know that an Alaska Aces fan suffered a heart attack at Game 2 of the 2009–10 PBA Philippine Cup Finals ?
text: Did you know that upon completion, the Port of Hambantota will be the largest port constructed on land in the 21st century?
text: Did you know that the Codex Arundel , which contains notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci , was reunited online with the similar Codex Leicester ?
text: Did you know that actor Samuel Page of the AMC drama series Mad Men started a string of ongoing guest appearances in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives , starting with the episode " The Chase "?
text: Did you know that the 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team set school records for best season start, longest conference winning streak, and most conference wins?
text: Did you know that an excerpt of Nick Bertozzi 's The Salon containing a nude depiction of Picasso caused a comic book store owner to be charged with distributing obscene material to a minor?
text: Did you know that more than 25,000 people have applied to take part in the Dublin Bikes scheme?
text: Did you know that West Jewellers of Grafton Street , Dublin , had Queen Victoria 's royal warrant to make her watches and she once bought two replicas of the Tara Brooch from the company?
text: Did you know that a species of specklebelly lichen is only found in old growth forests and is being threatened in Scandinavia by increased predation from snails ?
text: Did you know that veteran Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne recognised Brian Jennings ' ability to pronounce words well?
text: Did you know that the Bayonne Statute , intended to be the basis for Joseph Bonaparte 's rule of Spain , was never truly in effect because of a continual state of war ?
text: Did you know that after purchasing three shares for $180 in 1935 and living a frugal lifestyle, Grace Groner donated seven million dollars to her alma mater Lake Forest College upon her death?
text: Did you know that the Friends of Cathedral Music was formed in 1956 after the Provost of Southwell Minster abolished Saturday choral services to allow the choir men to watch local Association football matches?
text: Did you know that General Vernon Prichard , commander of the "Old Ironsides" armored division during the Italian Campaign in World War II , was Dwight Eisenhower 's quarterback at West Point ?
text: Did you know that Adrian Crowley 's album Long Distance Swimmer was recorded in his sister's home in Foxrock , County Dublin , and features contributions from James Yorkston ?
text: Did you know that Carl Jeppesen organized the female match workers' strike in Kristiania in 1889 ?
text: Did you know that despite being a magnitude 8.7 event, the 1730 Valparaiso earthquake led to only a few deaths, because people had left their homes after a strong foreshock ?
text: Did you know that Pat Fanning , who died last weekend, was President of the Gaelic Athletic Association when the organisation repealed its ban on "foreign games"?
text: Did you know that the Act of Parliament establishing the post of Postmasters General of Ireland was not repealed until 31 years after the Act of Union had united the countries in 1800?
text: Did you know that Nick Joaquin 's May Day Eve is a short story about a couple who got  married because of an incantation recited in front of a mirror ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Senarath Paranavitana described the ancient statue of Parakramabahu I as "the very embodiment of strength, majesty and dignity"?
text: Did you know that the Communist -led Frente Popular polled just 1.82% votes in the 1963 Goa elections, largely due to the Catholic Church 's backing of the rival United Goans Party ?
text: Did you know that Ireland Triple Crown -winning rugby player Paddy Reid was born on Saint Patrick's Day ?
text: Did you know that the Ghab valley swamp in northwest Syria was drained between 1953 and 1968, providing an extra 41,000 hectares (160 sq mi) of irrigated lands?
text: Did you know that Overseas Scandinavian Airlines System was created in 1946 by six national airlines to coordinate their transatlantic flights?
text: Did you know that the Les Inrockuptibles journalist who reviewed the album Season of the Sparks sent a letter of thanks to its creator?
text: Did you know that Francis James Garrick and James Francis Garrick , MPs in New Zealand and Queensland respectively, were brothers?
text: Did you know that the Gemini Planet Imager is an adaptive optics instrument being developed to directly image extrasolar planets that will see first light in early 2011?
text: Did you know that in the Orkneyinga saga , after Olvir Rosta failed to gain a portion of the Earldom of Orkney , his grandmother was burned to death?
text: Did you know that Frank Dekum , a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon , and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes , starlings , nightingales , and other German songbirds to Oregon?
text: Did you know that the 1938 Art Deco styled and heritage listed Piccadilly Cinema is the only cinema still operating in the Perth CBD ?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s, Yōji Kuri was regarded as the creator of Japanese animation most known to the West?
text: Did you know that the symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", colored red, blue and green?
text: Did you know that Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker , the 1991 sequel to 1939 crime novel The Big Sleep , takes its title from Hamlet's soliloquy ?
text: Did you know that English independent children's television producer Kindle Entertainment ' s first film, Dustbin Baby , won both an International Emmy and a Children's BAFTA ?
text: Did you know that Ferdinand Poulton , a Jesuit missionary in the Province of Maryland , had his life and mysterious death fictionalized in the 1995 book Mary's Land ?
text: Did you know that Leptofoenus pittfieldae is the only species of Leptofoenus documented from the West Indies and the only member of Leptofoenus in the fossil record?
text: Did you know that Duchess Sophie of Alençon died in a fire at a French charity bazaar , but some hotel visitors escaped through the kitchen window of the adjoining hotel with the help of the cook?
text: Did you know that a housebarn , a combined house and barn, is more costly to insure than a house because of a higher fire risk?
text: Did you know that following his retirement from professional football , Bobby Bell managed car manufacturer Rolls-Royce's football team?
text: Did you know that while training in 1944, the German U-804 shot down a Norwegian Mosquito ?
text: Did you know that Sylvester C. Simpson was the first Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oregon and worked to get a book authored in part by his brother selected as the state's reader ?
text: Did you know that Saltford Manor House is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England?
text: Did you know that Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist Fernando Krahn had to leave his country in order to escape from the 1973 coup d'état ?
text: Did you know that the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball program was abolished by the University Senate immediately following a perfect season ?
text: Did you know that Abū Muḥammad al-Rāmahurmuzī was one of the first authors to write a comprehensive book of hadith terminology ?
text: Did you know that the Outer Trial Bank , a nature reserve in East Anglia , UK , was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir ?
text: Did you know that Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus did not want to receive Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko at the Battle of Stalingrad , yet ended up being received by him?
text: Did you know that Andrew Birch was sent by the king of Denmark, Christian VII , to examine books all over Europe?
text: Did you know that the 1 Ilica Street skyscraper in Zagreb was the first building in Yugoslavia to feature an aluminum facade?
text: Did you know that during the 1824–1842 term of Richard Charlton as the first British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii , he was involved in a military occupation and controversial land claim?
text: Did you know that the development of the Marker degradation chemical synthetic route between 1938 and 1940 established Mexico as a world center for steroid production?
text: Did you know that Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships , including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
text: Did you know that the ancient Bible text, British Library Manuscript, Add. 14448 , is lacunose ?
text: Did you know that Tuanaitau F. Tuia , the longest serving legislator in the American Samoa Fono , served a combined 49 years in both the House of Representatives and the Senate ?
text: Did you know that Academic All-America teams, which are now presented by ESPN The Magazine , have been selected by College Sports Information Directors of America since 1952?
text: Did you know that painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Sun-Times purchased the Mirage Tavern in 1977 to document city officials seeking bribes?
text: Did you know that the Danish Tegnestuen Vandkunsten were the first team of architects to be awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal ?
text: Did you know that Mary Elliott Flanery was the first female state legislator south of the Mason–Dixon Line when she took her seat in the Kentucky General Assembly in January 1922?
text: Did you know that Canadian coxswain Lesley Thompson has competed at six different Olympics, and won medals in four of them?
text: Did you know that Glen Moreno persuaded Man Group to sponsor the Man Booker Prize ?
text: Did you know that Edmund Chipp performed all six of Felix Mendelssohn 's Organ Sonatas, op. 65 from memory in 1848?
text: Did you know that St. Remy's Catholic Church in Russia, Ohio , has been designated a historic site despite extensive modifications?
text: Did you know that footballer Edward King was honored for heroism in the Philippines and tactical skill in France and later became Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College ?
text: Did you know that at least twelve different nomenclatures have been proposed for features of the molar in muroid rodents ?
text: Did you know  that in Greene v  Associated Newspapers Ltd ,  the Court of  Appeal of England and Wales held that the test for granting interim injunctions in defamation cases  was inflexible but applied it anyway?
text: Did you know that according to oral history, the Kingdom of Rwanda was founded in the 14th or 15th century on the shores of Lake Muhazi ?
text: Did you know that from 1965 to present, Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi has written over 4000 song lyrics, more than 2400 of which have been recorded?
text: Did you know that the Vizsoly Bible , the first complete Hungarian translation of the Bible, was published in 1590?
text: Did you know that brothers Hayes Jenkins and David Jenkins won gold and bronze in the men's figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that all of the buildings on Pomander Walk in Manhattan are replicas of a Broadway stage set?
text: Did you know that children's physician Alex Brinchmann chaired the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1941 to 1945, during the German occupation , but was eventually imprisoned from January 1945?
text: Did you know that the Admiral Apartments , built in 1909, had "sporting girls" (prostitutes) operating out of it by 1913?
text: Did you know that Harvey Pekar described his collaboration with Heather Roberson on the comic book Macedonia as one of the best working relationships he has ever had?
text: Did you know that the scope of the English case of Pepper v Hart , at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?
text: Did you know that the family of William Harris changed churches during the American Revolution because the church they had been attending continued to say prayers for the king ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian MP Tønnes Andenæs died in the Tretten train disaster ?
text: Did you know that Nick Joaquin 's short story The Summer Solstice is about the fertility ritual known as the Tatarin?
text: Did you know that thalidomide causes birth defects by inactivating the protein cereblon ?
text: Did you know that the original Atikamekw village of Obedjiwan and its archaeological sites in Quebec , Canada , were flooded during the construction of the Gouin Reservoir ?
text: Did you know that no one is sure why, despite his victory at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces in 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla retreated from Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that British painter Alessandro Raho , commissioned to portray Judi Dench for the National Portrait Gallery in London, imagined her as a wealthy housewife?
text: Did you know that Jesuit Donald Merrifield , the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ?
text: Did you know that the Wisconsin State Firefighters Memorial was completely funded by donations?
text: Did you know that Dashiell Hammett helped Lillian Hellman write the 1951 Broadway play The Autumn Garden ?
text: Did you know that Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue in Fleischmanns, New York , is unique among Catskill synagogues in having an exposed truss ceiling in its sanctuary ?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame tackle Harold Ballin was "the hardest-hitting player" ever faced by fellow Hall of Famer Charles Brickley and the last Princeton player to play without a helmet ?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever has patented several antifreeze proteins produced by a species of kidney lichen , due to their ability to modify ice formation in frozen foods ?
text: Did you know that when a teenager tore up a photograph of Canadian Prime Minister St. Laurent as the PM spoke, the ensuing fracas was seen as a turning point in the 1957 Canadian election ?
text: Did you know that the couple Mette and Philip Newth have made picture books for blind and for deaf children?
text: Did you know that at least twenty horses were needed to transport a kartouwe ?
text: Did you know that Football Hall of Famer Huntington "Tack" Hardwick was called "a big, fine-looking aristocrat from blue-blood stock" who "loved combat – body contact at crushing force – a fight to the finish"?
text: Did you know that the spring inside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth served as the local water supply for some 3,000 years?
text: Did you know that Dr. Ronald Levy became the first Jew to be awarded with the King Faisal International Prize , which is popularly called the "Arab Nobel Prize"?
text: Did you know that Portland, Oregon 's Tanner Springs Park was described as "a sort of cross between an Italian piazza and a weedy urban wetland with lots of benches"?
text: Did you know that Frederic de Hoffmann helped develop the hydrogen bomb and later organized a project to propel a spaceship with nuclear bombs ?
text: Did you know that resentment of the sales tax called the alcabala triggered several revolts in Spain's colonies , even though rates there were lower than in Spain itself?
text: Did you know that Frederick Josiah Bradlee was a Boston Brahmin , an All-American halfback and the father of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee ?
text: Did you know that the building in Mexico City currently housing the Museo de Charrería , a museum for Mexican rodeo , was originally a 16th-century monastery dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat ?
text: Did you know that Wyandanch , the sachem of the Montaukett , in 1659, sued Jeremy Daily in the colonial court in one of the first trials in North America with an English defendant and a Native American plaintiff ?
text: Did you know that Kennaquhair was an Australian -bred Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Sydney Cup and the AJC Metropolitan Handicap ?
text: Did you know that George Peek was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the first President of the two banks that would become the Export-Import Bank of the United States ?
text: Did you know that rapid construction of an earlier building of Holy Family Catholic Church in Frenchtown, Ohio , won its builders two gallons of whisky ?
text: Did you know that Boeing is submitting an updated OV-10 Bronco for the US Air Force Request for a slower support plane, or Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance aircraft?
text: Did you know that author Ola Bauer wrote a novel about his involvement with the Provisional IRA , to correct what he felt was a slanted view of The Troubles in the Norwegian press?
text: Did you know that He Zhuoyan is the youngest person to win an award in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 in 2007 at the age of 18?
text: Did you know that the South Park Blocks have been called the "extended family room" of Portland , as Pioneer Courthouse Square is known as the city's "living room"?
text: Did you know that Margaret Greville bequeathed Polesden Lacey in Surrey to the National Trust in 1942 in memory of her father, Scottish brewer William McEwan ?
text: Did you know that Nebraska 's first All-American Vic Halligan was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"?
text: Did you know that Wilfred Wong, BevMo! ' s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain?
text: Did you know that upon arrival at Fort Conger in 1899, several of Robert Peary 's toes broke off due to frostbite ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 T in the Park music festival is to be headlined by Muse , Eminem , and Kasabian , marking Eminem's first performance at a festival in the United Kingdom since 2001?
text: Did you know that during his career Herman Phaff collected 6400 strains of yeast creating a collection containing 400 of the 700 identified species of yeast?
text: Did you know that counter-reformation in Silesia was stopped by the Treaty of Altranstädt in 1707?
text: Did you know that 1914 College Football All-Americans Burleigh Cruikshank of Washington & Jefferson and Haps Benfer of Albright College went on to become Presbyterian and United Evangelical ministers?
text: Did you know that the Oak Hill Railroad Depot is the only surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that one species of Dictyonema lichen is a powerful hallucinogen that is traditionally used by the Huaorani of the Amazon jungle of Ecuador to cast curses on their enemies?
text: Did you know that the captain of the cargo liner SS Beaverburn was given a gold-headed cane for commanding the first ship in 1947 to reach the port of Montreal ?
text: Did you know that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the British Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries , not confirmed ones?
text: Did you know that the 80-acre refuge at Wolf Haven International shelters 47 wolves that would otherwise have no homes and is visited by over 20,000 people a year?
text: Did you know that Rufus Wainwright 's album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu contains three adaptations of Shakespeare's sonnets ?
text: Did you know that ' The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand ', with more than ninety knock-outs, was one of the greatest Welsh boxers ?
text: Did you know that John Virginius Bennes ' s architectural work included the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, Oregon , and at least 35 buildings on the Oregon State University campus?
text: Did you know that an unknown burglar—exhibited in a coffin at the Red Lion Inn in Shoreham , West Sussex , in the 1850s after being shot dead—was identified by his dog?
text: Did you know that two high school students used the automated telescope at Leuschner Observatory to record the earliest images of supernova SN 1994I ?
text: Did you know that Elżbieta  Sieniawska was one of the most powerful women in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Augustus II the Strong ?
text: Did you know that crayfish of the Madagascan genus Astacoides have fewer gills than any other crayfish?
text: Did you know that Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Doukas was proclaimed emperor in the Hippodrome of Constantinople , but was killed on the same day by supporters of the legitimate emperor, Constantine VII ?
text: Did you know that the Buffalo Bills ' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first National Football League regular-season game played in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Jürgen Wattenberg twice escaped from captivity, at first after the scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee , and then after the sinking of U-162 ?
text: Did you know that after Eustathios Maleinos hosted Byzantine Emperor Basil II on his estate in 995, the Emperor, alarmed by Maleinos' wealth and power, placed him under house arrest in Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that American Texas and electric blues musician Mike Morgan ' s backing band, the Crawl, was named after a Lonnie Brooks song?
text: Did you know that Kallina House , designed by Vjekoslav Bastl for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch studio, is one of the finest examples of Secessionist -style street architecture in Zagreb ?
text: Did you know  that the Portland Winterhawks were the first US team to compete for Canada's national junior hockey championship at the 1982 Memorial Cup , and the first to win it the following year ?
text: Did you know that iron-55 source will be used in an X-ray diffraction instrument flown to Mars in 2018?
text: Did you know that Agalinis aspera (tall false foxglove), a purple and pink flowering plant native to the United States and Canada, is endangered?
text: Did you know that Justice Henry Barron , the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland , also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year?
text: Did you know that some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York , suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?
text: Did you know that Bobbi Trout became the first woman to fly an aircraft all night and broke the previous women's solo endurance record in a February 10, 1929, flight?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Priscus survived the violent depositions of two successive Byzantine emperors and retained high office under their successors?
text: Did you know that Director Park in Portland , Oregon , was designed by Laurie Olin , who also designed Bryant Park in New York City ?
text: Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians ?
text: Did you know that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City?
text: Did you know that Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace , Hägar the Horrible , and Funky Winkerbean on the box?
text: Did you know that Jose Peralta was the first Latino elected to the New York State Assembly from Queens, New York ?
text: Did you know that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge 's motion captures of humans?
text: Did you know that the Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport, Iowa , has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg , Herbert Hoover , Richard Nixon , Jack Dempsey , Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton ?
text: Did you know that between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus , Syria , for 47 years?
text: Did you know that Kobyaysky Ulus in the middle of the Sakha Republic of Russia has notable gold and silver reserves?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company started in 1924, but went bankrupt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ?
text: Did you know that Jan de Jong , the ice master at Thialf , manipulated the ice cleaning schedule in the 1981 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men so that Eric Heiden would lose?
text: Did you know that after retiring from the National Football League , Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that the chemist Hugo Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880?
text: Did you know that southbound M-52 in downtown Adrian, Michigan , carries both directions of the US 223 business loop in town?
text: Did you know that country music singer David Nail 's single " Turning Home " was co-written by Kenny Chesney ?
text: Did you know that George Fielding Eliot 's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event?
text: Did you know that the variant of the wedding cord known as God ’s knot or cord -of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?
text: Did you know that the 1930s Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving was the grandson of the Victorian era actor Sir Henry Irving ?
text: Did you know that insurers use the condition of average to reduce insurance claims if they think you are underinsured?
text: Did you know that despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula , Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology ?
text: Did you know that the Apastovsky Museum in Apastovo , Tatarstan , contains archaeological and paleontological finds such as ancient tools, bone needles, stone hammers, a skull of a rhinoceros and mammoth teeth?
text: Did you know that in Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee and the Liverpool Post and Echo Ltd , Lord Nicholls decided that the disputed test applied by the High Court judge was not necessarily wrong, but allowed the appeal anyway?
text: Did you know that " Indian Camp " (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi- autobiographical character Nick Adams ?
text: Did you know that World War I fighter pilot Les Holden gained the nicknames "Lucky Les" and "the homing pigeon" after returning from successive missions with his aircraft riddled with bullet holes?
text: Did you know that the American Detroit blues guitarist , singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica player?
text: Did you know that the J.W. Knapp Company Building , one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel -covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows?
text: Did you know that Bessie A. Buchanan , who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature , previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club ?
text: Did you know that although much of its habitat has been destroyed, isolated populations of the Mexican rice rat Oryzomys albiventer likely still survive?
text: Did you know that Wilt Chamberlain won the National Basketball Association rebounding title a record eleven times in his career?
text: Did you know that following the invasion of Tibet in 1959, the fifth Keutsang incarnation of the Keutsang Hermitage was incarcerated and later sought asylum in India in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Andy Hartzell created his graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny without a single line of text?
text: Did you know that Heath Calhoun and Andy Soule , both double-leg amputees due to wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan , respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio , lies near the center of the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches ?
text: Did you know that sex therapy pioneer Helen Singer Kaplan advocated for people to enjoy sexual intercourse as much as possible as opposed to seeing it as something dirty or harmful?
text: Did you know that Gaius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus , a three-time Roman consul in the 4th century BCE, was the first plebeian to build a temple in the Roman Republic ?
text: Did you know that a family in the village of Auchencairn reported stones being thrown, cattle moved and buildings set alight by a poltergeist in 1695?
text: Did you know that the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property ?
text: Did you know that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod , a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?
text: Did you know that in 1989, Michel Hansenne was elected the first post- Cold War Director-General of the International Labour Organization ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Vasco Abadjiev was one of the youngest violinists to make his international debut in the 20th century, at the age of 6, in June 1932 in Vienna ?
text: Did you know that the Interactive Museum of Economics in Mexico City is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics?
text: Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
text: Did you know that Ragnhild was the only ship in convoy KMS 96G ?
text: Did you know that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing " Crucifixion ", tears came to his eyes?
text: Did you know that periodic comet 50P/Arend is expected to make its next closest approach to the Sun in 2016?
text: Did you know that Mahela Jayawardene holds several batting records in Test cricket for Sri Lanka , including the most centuries ?
text: Did you know that in the 840s, the emir of Malatya , Umar al-Aqta , gave refuge to the Paulicians who were being persecuted by the Byzantine Empire , and gave them territory where they founded their own state?
text: Did you know that the American industrialist Nathaniel Wheeler became a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna for sewing machines ?
text: Did you know that the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper , rope , charcoal and traditional medications against cough , sore throat , toothache , gonorrhea and yellow fever ?
text: Did you know that by the time of his death in 1947, the Spanish financier José Lázaro Galdiano has amassed a collection of about 12,000 art works, mainly by European Old Masters ?
text: Did you know that Australian rugby union player Steve Williams was selected to play for the German national rugby union team while backpacking around Europe?
text: Did you know that the residence of former Mayor of Christchurch , New Zealand, James Arthur Flesher is now used as a community centre ?
text: Did you know that the initial letters in Lectionary 187 are decorated with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic motifs (birds, fishes, hands)?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I ?
text: Did you know that in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
text: Did you know that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods ?
text: Did you know that the Hot and Hot Fish Club was a gentlemen's club dedicated to epicurean pursuits?
text: Did you know that Thomas Rutherford Bacon , a 19th century Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut , was called "the original mugwump of Connecticut"?
text: Did you know that downtown Napoleon, Ohio , is bracketed by the historical and vastly different First Presbyterian Church and St. Augustine's Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I ?
text: Did you know that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin , Italy?
text: Did you know that Kesha Rogers , who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district , is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that the last inhabitant of drowned settlement Hampton-on-Sea was retiree Edmund Reid, previously Metropolitan police head of CID who investigated the Jack the Ripper case?
text: Did you know that chamberlain Egeberg established a sports prize that was regarded the highest achievement in Norwegian sports?
text: Did you know that the name of Ouvrage Rochonvillers of the Maginot Line was a state secret until 1971?
text: Did you know that the state flag of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is used on state police boats ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, Jennie M. Forehand sponsored a bill limiting the ability of judges to sentence criminals to time in local jails if those jails are not reimbursed by the state?
text: Did you know that Eastern Michigan University 's McKenny Union , opened in 1931, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers' college ?
text: Did you know that Patricia Travers was a child prodigy with the violin but withdrew from public performances at age 23?
text: Did you know that in Tell Balata , a tell in the West Bank , there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
text: Did you know that Sri Lanka 's first and so far only national referendum was held in 1982 to postpone parliamentary elections by six years?
text: Did you know that Tickle Em Jock was the first Scottish Terrier to be best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
text: Did you know that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics , once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States ?
text: Did you know that the smallscale archerfish does not need brackish water like other members of genus Toxotes , and is thus sometimes sold as a "freshwater archerfish"?
text: Did you know that the Museo de la Estampa , along with the Museo Nacional de Arte , manages Mexico's largest collection of graphic arts including works by José Guadalupe Posada ?
text: Did you know that George Matthew Snelson , the first Mayor of Palmerston North , New Zealand , is regarded as the father of his city ?
text: Did you know that English football clubs entering administration have fewer points deducted in the Premier League than in the Football League because they play fewer games?
text: Did you know that Sir Simon Degge , a barrister in Derby , wrote about glebes and the crime of simony ?
text: Did you know that of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity ?
text: Did you know that writer Zahari Stoyanov said of Bulgarian general, regent and Minister of War Sava Mutkurov that "by the time Mutkurov opened his mouth, the market would close up"?
text: Did you know that one common route up New York 's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills ?
text: Did you know that medical student Bob Kolesar was one of Michigan 's renowned "Seven Oak Posts" in 1942 ?
text: Did you know that Francisco Goya's etching Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón records an event from 1801 when a Spanish politician was impaled and killed after a bull crashed through the barriers at a Madrid bullfight ?
text: Did you know that Tofiri Kibuuka , one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro , was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that three Byzantine emperors in the 6th century served as commanders of the imperial guard, known as the Excubitors , prior to assuming the throne?
text: Did you know that American architect Kemper Nomland was a conscientious objector who spent World War II at Civilian Public Service camps in Oregon along with several other artists and writers?
text: Did you know that American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey 's best days are ahead of him ?
text: Did you know that Early Archaic peoples used the Houserville Site in Pennsylvania ten millennia ago?
text: Did you know that Niall McCrudden became known as the "optician to the stars" after selling a pair of sunglasses to Jim Corr ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 642 , a manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by Joseph Carlyle , orientalist?
text: Did you know that an essay in The Cherryh Odyssey describes American science fiction author C. J. Cherryh as "a master of detail, tone, and emotional wallop"?
text: Did you know that during a tornado outbreak on June 18, 2001, police in Siren, Wisconsin , shouted warnings at local residents to take cover when the village's tornado siren malfunctioned?
text: Did you know that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter , a rock cave in South Africa , some of the earliest use of symbols by humans has been found upon water containers made out of ostrich eggshells?
text: Did you know that the Cuban national baseball team won the gold or silver medal at every Summer Olympics where baseball was an official Olympic sport ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century white churchman Leonard Woolsey Bacon caused controversy when, as a pastor in Savannah, Georgia , he reportedly said he wouldn't mind his daughter marrying an African-American man?
text: Did you know that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India ?
text: Did you know that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla 's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station?
text: Did you know that 17th-century ironmaster George Sitwell ' s vertically integrated business was so successful he exported a rolling mill to the West Indies ?
text: Did you know that Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian -language newspaper in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-1065 was sunk after only six days at sea by rockets from 10 de Havilland Mosquitos ?
text: Did you know that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled ?
text: Did you know that the customers of Martha Matilda Harper ' s hair salons included Susan B. Anthony , Woodrow Wilson , Calvin Coolidge , and Jacqueline Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that the book Commentarii de Bello Civili , written by Julius Caesar , is staple reading among students of Latin ?
text: Did you know that Emma Roberto Steiner , one of the first American women to make a living from conducting , took a ten year hiatus from her musical career to prospect for tin near Nome, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead —a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion?
text: Did you know that Franjo Mihalić , winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon , set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics ?
text: Did you know that the collector urchin is so named because of its tendency to collect debris on its dorsal side ?
text: Did you know that the mother of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was the main sponsor of Tibetan Rakhadrak Hermitage ?
text: Did you know that Mildred "Micky" Axton , who was the first woman to fly a B-29 , died on February 8, 2010, before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010?
text: Did you know that España y Filipinas ( Spain and the Philippines ) by Juan Luna is a painted depiction of two women on the stairway to progress ?
text: Did you know that Florence Luscomb , one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT , later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
text: Did you know that the video for OK Go 's single " This Too Shall Pass " features a giant Rube Goldberg machine and took 60 takes to complete?
text: Did you know that fiction writer Cathy Kelly has sold over 1 million books in the UK , at one time displacing both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling from the top of the country's bestseller list?
text: Did you know that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru , described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack "?
text: Did you know that a recipe for Calf's Liver and Bacon is found in the White House Cookbook ?
text: Did you know that Tenley Albright won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious leg injury two weeks before the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the zoste patrikia was the only Byzantine title reserved specifically for women, and ranked as one of the highest court dignities?
text: Did you know that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally ?
text: Did you know that Nick Joaquin ’s historical novel , The Woman Who Had Two Navels , is about a hallucinating Filipina who believed she had two belly buttons ?
text: Did you know that the prominent Hindu Ganesha cave temple at Lenyadri is located in the vicinity of about 30 Buddhist caves?
text: Did you know that Evelina Haverfield , a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver " next time?
text: Did you know that the extinct sweat bee genus Nesagapostemon is known from a single 9.9-millimetre (0.39 in) female specimen ?
text: Did you know that the Bulgarian female runners Zlateva , Yordanova , Pekhlivanova , Shtereva , Tomova and Petrova all won medals in 800 metres at the European Indoor Championships in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that with most of the British fleet immobilised by the mutiny at the Nore , HMS Adamant was one of only two two-decker warships available to blockade the Dutch fleet in 1798?
text: Did you know that Spanish politician and feminist Clara Campoamor was one of three women elected to Spain's 1931 Constituent Assembly even though women were not allowed to vote in the election?
text: Did you know that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands , perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
text: Did you know that Ann Baumgartner was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War Two ?
text: Did you know that by using a shower curtain and sewing machine, Marion Donovan developed what was to become the first waterproof disposable diaper ?
text: Did you know that Strobilanthes callosus , a shrub found in the hill forests of India used in folk medicines, flowers only once in eight years before dying off, exhibiting a once in a lifetime mass flowering and mass seeding life cycle?
text: Did you know that three-time Olympian Albertina Dias was the first Portuguese woman to win at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships ?
text: Did you know that Girdap , established in Ruse in 1881, was the first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that the word bluestocking meaning learned woman is said to have derived from a reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet ?
text: Did you know that Ragna Nielsen was the first woman to headmaster a secondary school in Norway?
text: Did you know that the ancient Romans sacrificed pregnant cows to celebrate Fordicidia , the festival of fertility ?
text: Did you know that in 1928, Viola Gentry flew 8 hours, 6 six minutes and 37 seconds straight which set the first non-refueling endurance record for women ?
text: Did you know that the Bacon Deluxe sandwich from Wendy's topped a list of the five most unhealthful gourmet burgers sold by national fast food restaurant chains in the United States?
text: Did you know that Lieben Prize laureates included chemists Carl von Than (1868), Josef Maria Eder (1895) and Paul Friedländer (1908)?
text: Did you know that video game music composer Garry Schyman prefers the video game industry to television and film in part because the people in it are "nice people whose egos were in check"?
text: Did you know that Masako Katsura 's participation in the World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament of 1952 was the first time any woman ever competed in any billiards tournament for a world crown?
text: Did you know that because the Sassanid commander Kardarigan ordered his army's water supplies destroyed prior to the Battle of Solachon , many of his men died of thirst and water poisoning after the battle?
text: Did you know that Black Chicks Talking is a book, film, play and art exhibition that explores issues related to Indigenous Australian women?
text: Did you know that Reedy Lake was drained to kill off its carp ?
text: Did you know that a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon ?
text: Did you know that John Brennan , a 201-pound football player, was voted "queen" of the University of Michigan ice carnival after challenging the pulchritude of the school's co-eds ?
text: Did you know that the captured Tiger Tank that was once transported aboard Empire Candida is now preserved in working order at the Bovington Tank Museum ?
text: Did you know that the requirement to teach geometry was removed from the duties of the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford so that Edward Titchmarsh could be appointed to the post in 1931?
text: Did you know that the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia , will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains ?
text: Did you know that the Harelle was a 1382 tax revolt that began in the city of Rouen and was emulated in many other French cities?
text: Did you know that the tomb of a female saint in Sharafat, East Jerusalem , is venerated in the belief that she can render assistance in times of drought?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Yates ' novel Amos Fortune, Free Man won the inaugural William Allen White Children's Book Award ?
text: Did you know that the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake , that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile , caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that German high jumper Meike Kröger spent almost a year working in an orphanage in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan ?
text: Did you know that, since 2007, the UK government has appointed part-time ministers for each of the nine English regions , to act as "regional champions"?
text: Did you know that the pygmy whitefish is the most trout -like freshwater whitefish ?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Johan Ulrik Olsen became Norway 's first Minister of Local Government ?
text: Did you know that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?
text: Did you know that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
text: Did you know that Juan Bravo Murillo tried but failed to impose an absolutist constitution on Spain in 1852?
text: Did you know that Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell 's first feature film French Dressing ?
text: Did you know that Sisko Hanhijoki won 28 Finnish championship titles in the 60 , 100 and 200 metres events between 1985 and 1993?
text: Did you know that Lake Abert in Lake County , Oregon , covers 57 square miles (150 km 2 ) and is teeming with brine shrimp , but has no fish?
text: Did you know that Samuel Oshoffa founded the Celestial Church of Christ in 1947 after being lost for three months near Porto Novo in Benin ?
text: Did you know that of the two competing Polish kings in 1705, one was allied with Russia and the other one with Sweden ?
text: Did you know that the latest possible date for the construction of the William Lawrence House in Bellefontaine, Ohio , is known from a date carved into a windowsill?
text: Did you know that the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve contains the only significant remnant of native woodland on the Bellarine Peninsula , Victoria, Australia , as it was prior to European settlement?
text: Did you know that New York Times veteran David Stout received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel Carolina Skeletons , written in his spare time?
text: Did you know that on April 4, 1981, a tornado struck West Bend , Wisconsin , killing 3 people and injuring another 53?
text: Did you know that George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon , and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon , Thomas R. Bacon, and Edward Woolsey Bacon —and all were Congregational preachers?
text: Did you know that U-2336 sank the last Allied ships lost in World War II on 7 May 1945, when she torpedoed and sank the freighters Avondale Park and Sneland I ?
text: Did you know that Theophobos was a Byzantine general who was declared emperor against his will?
text: Did you know that Henry Martyn was described by Wisden as "one of the finest wicket-keepers ever seen in first-class cricket "?
text: Did you know that, although it does not set out to compete for visitors, in 2009 the Cloppenburg Museum Village had 250,000, more than any other museum in Lower Saxony ?
text: Did you know that famed builder James W. McLaughlin started his Architectural studies at fifteen and when the American Civil War broke out served as a Lieutenant in the body guard of General John C Fremont ?
text: Did you know that the present day use of arrhae in weddings can be traced back to the Visigoth and Frank culture?
text: Did you know that Mexican band Camila received a Gold certification for their album Dejarte de Amar in the first day of sales in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Molsheim 's former Jesuit Church is the principal 17th century church building in the Rhine Valley ?
text: Did you know that while Timothy Haʻalilio and William Richards were in Europe negotiating for diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843, they found out it was already under British occupation ?
text: Did you know that Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira received a platinum certification in Mexico for her album Loba within a week after its release?
text: Did you know that Jamison Square , an urban water park for children in Portland, Oregon , features "goofy tiki totems" by Kenny Scharf ?
text: Did you know that in August 1936, British Ambassador to France Sir George Clerk warned Yvon Delbos of the dangers of French intervention in the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Honduran archaeological site El Puente was founded by the people of Copán to control the crossroads of two Maya trade routes ?
text: Did you know that the liverwort Pellia epiphylla is monoicous , with both male and female sex organs on the same thallus ?
text: Did you know that Warren Terhune , upon his suicide by gunshot, became the only Governor of American Samoa to die in office?
text: Did you know that the Venezuelan town Potosi was intentionally flooded in 1985, but has reappeared in 2010 due to a drought?
text: Did you know that British Assyriologist Donald Wiseman was Cliff Richard's youth group leader at Finchley Crusaders ?
text: Did you know that the only male " sweat bee " to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis ?
text: Did you know that though she missed out on a British Academy Television Craft Award for her first television film, Pleasureland , writer Helen Blakeman won a British Academy Children's Award for Dustbin Baby , her second?
text: Did you know that the popularity of the British Landrace pig is partly responsible for the decline of rarer breeds in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Wanjiru , the 2008 Olympic marathon champion, won the Fukuoka Cross Country competition when he was only 16 years old?
text: Did you know that the concept of weak dematerialization suggests the Resurrection of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that game designer Gregory Weir attempted to create one new game in every month of 2009?
text: Did you know that the Kansas City Royals have never drafted a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
text: Did you know  that the extinct Neocorynura electra , found in Dominican  amber , is the only  known species of Neocorynura " sweat bee " from the Greater  Antilles ?
text: Did you know that in 1881, George Washington Weidler , owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the British settlement of Black River on the Mosquito Coast of present-day Honduras was turned over to Spanish authorities on 29 August 1787 under the terms of the 1786 Convention of London ?
text: Did you know that lardons prove that the French "do bacon right"?
text: Did you know that on August 23, 1998, a severe weather outbreak produced an F3 tornado in Door County , Wisconsin , that caused an estimated $6.5 million in damages?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Anzen , the Byzantine emperor Theophilos managed to avoid death or capture due to a sudden rainfall that loosened his enemies' bowstrings?
text: Did you know  that early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox  Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate ?
text: Did you know that Rhytidiadelphus  squarrosus is the most abundant species of moss in British lawns ?
text: Did you know  that Papias the  Lombard wrote "the first fully recognizable dictionary "  in the 1040s?
text: Did you know  that the purported paranormal activity in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Cross in Madison,  Mississippi , has been  featured in two books?
text: Did you know  that the upcoming video game Scrap Metal ,  set to be released on XBox Live Arcade ,  will allow players to customize monster trucks and bulldozers with  flamethrowers and rocket launchers?
text: Did you know that the 1901 musical play Bluebell in Fairyland was the inspiration for Peter Pan ?
text: Did you know that "Ducker" McLean may have lost Oxford a University Boat Race because he did not jump out of the boat?
text: Did you know  that English diplomat John Barker introduced vaccination to the Middle East ?
text: Did you know that a land use  conflict is when one sort of land use creates a negative impact on  other land uses nearby?
text: Did you know that the upcoming XBox Live Arcade video game Toy Soldiers will feature World War I toy miniatures battling on a model diorama in a child's bedroom?
text: Did you know that although Israeli forces  were planning to attack Arab Beersheba in May 1948, they were forced to  delay the Battle of Beersheba until just one day before a planned ceasefire in October 1948?
text: Did you know  that the Leading Edge ,  a student-run  semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award -winning cover  in 2002 by James C. Christensen ?
text: Did you know  that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas ?
text: Did you know  that the American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter , Little Sonny , often boosted his earnings by photographing customers between his on-stage appearances?
text: Did you know  that the English all-rounder Leslie Todd was once described as "the most perverse, most infuriating cricketer of his generation"?
text: Did you know that the discovery of Babakotia  radofilai , an extinct species of sloth lemur , helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids , sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs ?
text: Did you know that Melek Tourhan , whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve  her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt ?
text: Did you know that British soap opera EastEnders celebrated its 25th anniversary with a live episode revealing who killed Archie Mitchell ?
text: Did you know that Mar Papa was the first Catholicos (universal leader) of the Persian Church of the  East in the 4th  century?
text: Did you know that the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in India is building four new 'X' Class locomotives – a design dating from 1920?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian writers and screenwriters Moritz Yomtov and Marko Stoychev worked together as the Mormarevi Brothers even though they were unrelated?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Canterbury contains the original 850 AD Canterbury Cross ?
text: Did you know that Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana sponsored a " poetry slam " judged by poets and rappers at the International Book Fair of Guadalajara, Mexico ?
text: Did you know that periodic comet 22P/Kopff is expected to next make its closest approach to the Sun on October 25, 2015?
text: Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC has seven recognized supporter groups and that in 2009 they amassed the largest average attendance in the Major League Soccer with 30,943 fans?
text: Did you know that John Sanness , who would become professor and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee , was expelled from his secondary school for protests against the monarchy of Norway ?
text: Did you know that the rare, "almost legendary" Japanese lates was considered to be the same fish as the barramundi until 1984?
text: Did you know that Danish designer Poul Lange created a children's book about holes which had a hole all the way through it?
text: Did you know that Mary Nolan voted in favor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 that recognizes the service of United States Merchant Marine veterans during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 629 , a Latin-Greek diglot manuscript of the New Testament, contains the Comma Johanneum written by the original scribe?
text: Did you know that in the 2010 gubernatorial elections , Esmael Mangudadatu will be running for governor of Maguindanao even though a rival clan murdered 57 people including his wife and sister in the Maguindanao massacre ?
text: Did you know that the Mountbatten Brailler allows a user to translate Braille into text and vice versa?
text: Did you know that Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie were selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft ?
text: Did you know that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola ?
text: Did you know that an apocryphal tale tells how George Gilbert Scott drew the initial designs for Clifton Hampden Bridge on his starched shirt cuff over dinner?
text: Did you know that architect Thomas D. McLaughlin designed numerous Lima, Ohio , buildings, including the city's Elks Lodge ?
text: Did you know that Solas fiddler Winifred Horan is a former member of the all-female musical group Cherish the Ladies ?
text: Did you know that the important Mesoamerican archaeological site of Cara Sucia in El Salvador was severely damaged by looters after the Land Reform Programme of 1980 ?
text: Did you know that Olga Sedakova won gold medals in all three synchronized swimming events at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships ?
text: Did you know that Oregon Public Broadcasting 's popular Oregon Field Guide has featured topics ranging from mountain unicycling to invasive species ?
text: Did you know that Blues Hall of Fame inductee "Sunshine" Sonny Payne received his nickname as a joke by musician Robert Jr. Lockwood ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Bathys Ryax , the Byzantines attacked with only 600 men out of an army of 4,000–5,000, leaving the rest to raise much noise so as to simulate the arrival of a far larger force?
text: Did you know that the Biblioteca comunale in Ancona , Italy, has a collection of musical manuscripts of more than 50 classical composers?
text: Did you know that in 2007, champion runner David Lelei tried to be the Orange Democratic Movement candidate for the Eldoret South Constituency seat but lost to the eventual winner Peris Simam ?
text: Did you know that Giant George is recognised as the tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records and measures 43 inches (110 cm) high at the withers ?
text: Did you know that Roald Dysthe , who was installed as a chief executive during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany , was acquitted of treason in 1951?
text: Did you know that An Nam chí lược , a book published in 1335 during the Yuan Dynasty , is considered the oldest historical work by a Vietnamese that has been preserved?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Madonna made her episodic TV series debut in the Will & Grace episode " Dolls and Dolls "?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken ?
text: Did you know that according to Erich von Manstein in his book Verlorene Siege , Adolf Hitler stopped Operation Citadel too soon?
text: Did you know that suggested close relatives of the rare Ecuadorian rice rat Mindomys have included water rats , tree rats , and Caribbean giant rats ?
text: Did you know that in just over 14 years of owning Select Medical Corporation , Rocco Ortenzio and his son Robert made an estimated $200,000,000 in profit?
text: Did you know that Cruel and Unusual is a documentary about transsexual women incarcerated in men's prisons?
text: Did you know that Drew Barrymore , Wanda Sykes and Cynthia Nixon are to be honored at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards this year?
text: Did you know that the secret articles of the Peace of Lund , that ended the Scanian War in 1679, were not revealed until 1870?
text: Did you know that tennis player Johan Haanes spent nine months in a concentration camp for participation in an "illegal" ski competition?
text: Did you know that John Steel , the Ziegfeld Follies tenor who introduced Irving Berlin 's  song "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody", later appeared in staged boxing matches?
text: Did you know that Messier 58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is one of four barred spiral  galaxies included in Charles Messier's catalog ?
text: Did you know that at the town next to the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada ,  thousands of underage girls prostituted themselves for gold flakes while around 60–80  unsolved murders were registered every month?
text: Did you know that James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County  executive of Essex County, New Jersey , even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 546 was bought by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that Stanley Muirhead helped lead Michigan to a national football  championship in 1923 and was a first-team All- NFL player in 1924 for the Dayton Triangles and Cleveland Bulldogs ?
text: Did you know that when Dana Delany and Julie Benz shared a kiss scene for the Desperate  Housewives episode " Lovely ", Delaney noticed "crew members on  the set that were never there before"?
text: Did you know that several families of land gastropods reach a maximum of biodiversity  in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that in 1787, British merchant ship Imperial Eagle , commanded by Charles William Barkley , brought fur from the Americas to sell in China without legally required licences, while sailing under the Austrian flag?
text: Did you know that, to stay above the reservoir the Dexter Dam would make, the Lowell Bridge , in Lowell, Oregon , was raised about 6 feet (1.8 m) in 1953?
text: Did you know that Cho Jae-hyun , a South Korean actor, is commonly referred to    as a persona of director Kim Ki-duk due to his appearances in almost all of Kim's films?
text: Did you know that America’s oldest private medical society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia , displays the conjoined liver of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker in its museum?
text: Did you know that some of the songs on the 2009 EP Criminal Intents/Morning Star detail the story arc of a group of rebels fighting  against a corporation out to rule the  world?
text: Did you know that the Nissan Terranaut concept car has a glass dome over its roof for an easy escape in case of emergency?
text: Did you know that the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Quelepa in eastern El Salvador was distinguished by its unusual ramped pyramids ?
text: Did you know  that the counter-insurgency strategy of clear and hold , widely implemented in the Vietnam War and elsewhere, has also been used extensively in the Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that a 1973 ruling by Sylvia Pressler forced Little  League  Baseball to  begin  admitting girls for the first time?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides , a forger of manuscripts?
text: Did you know  that IGN 's   Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation ?
text: Did you know  that one of the activities that are possible at the Nevado de   Toluca National Park is scuba diving in the two  volcanic  crater lakes?
text: Did you know that British actress Emma Catherwood observed real bypass surgery being performed in preparation   for her role as F1 Penny Valentine in the medical drama Holby City ?
text: Did you know that the Vedda language is a Creole  language based on Sinhalese of Sri Lanka rather than a dialect ?
text: Did you know that former baseball player Joe Abreu became an enthusiast of magic after he saw former baseball  player and professional magician Carl Zamloch put on a magic show at his high  school?
text: Did you know that Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world executed by the USS Triton in 1960?
text: Did you know that the original St. Sebastian  Roman Catholic Church of Woodside, Queens , New York was built by Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that in the 1885–86 season , West Bromwich Albion became the first team from the English Midlands to reach the FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Bethel Academy in Kentucky was the first Methodist school west of the Appalachian Mountains ?
text: Did you know that comedy writer Al Jean , who has been awarded with four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons , graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics?
text: Did you know that in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 627 has an unusual order of books, with  the Book of  Revelation placed  between Acts of the Apostles and the general   epistles ?
text: Did you know  that in 1938, the barque Priwall recorded the fastest ever rounding of Cape Horn by a sailing ship?
text: Did you know  that Leland Myrick wrote the autobiographical graphic novel Missouri Boy ,  even though he considers himself  "a very private person"?
text: Did you know that Levi L.  Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
text: Did you know  that the Yeywa   Hydropower Dam is the largest hydroelectric  power plant and the  first roller-compacted concrete dam in Burma ?
text: Did you know that Google Images caused controversy in 2009 after  it was discovered that the number-one result for  the search term  "Michelle Obama" was a derogatory doctored photo of the US first lady?
text: Did you know that Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates ?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s , Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams , sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage , and sliced bacon ?
text: Did you know that Viktor Kaisiepo , a Netherlands New Guinean -born advocate of self-determination for West Papua , lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that the plant Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' was chosen as the 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association?
text: Did you know that in 1709, a privateering force, of which Acadian military officer Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was a member, sank 35 British ships and took 470 people prisoner?
text: Did you know that the 1997 flooding of Wilson Canyon in Lyon County , Nevada , resulted in $726,000 in damage to Nevada State Route 208 ?
text: Did you know that Letters of Ayn Rand , published in 1995, was the first book by Ayn Rand to receive a positive review in The New York Times Book Review since 1943?
text: Did you know that Johan Gustaf Sandberg ' s frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?
text: Did you know that the cheater plug has been used to remedy ground loops in audio systems , with reckless disregard of electrical safety ?
text: Did you know that Major-General Nick Carter is the current commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that the origin of the Postclassic K'iche' Maya patron deity Jacawitz has been traced back to a historical event at the city of Seibal ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Crispien , who was dismissed as editor of a Social Democratic Party newspaper for his opposition to war credits in 1914, later became the Party's Chairman?
text: Did you know that Danish Bacon is sliced, packed, and sold in the UK ?
text: Did you know that cross dressing and mooning have been prosecuted as conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the US military ?
text: Did you know that several French international footballers have played for FC Versailles , including Thierry Henry , Jérôme Rothen and Hatem Ben Arfa ?
text: Did you know that Rastafarian hardcore punk band Bad Brains signed to Neil Cooper ' s ROIR cassette label because Cooper, who had worked at the Royal Mint , gave them medallions made for Emperor Haile Selassie ?
text: Did you know that the Swabian-Hall Swine breed of pig was started by King William I of Württemberg ?
text: Did you know  that the production of art in Wales was greatly stimulated by the 18th century fashion for the sublime in landscape  painting ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer of the 2006 album Gigahearts by the Italian industrial band Dope Stars Inc. described the group as "the new generation of what Goth means in the 21st century"?
text: Did you know that in 1974 animal rights activists attempted to bomb the lab of biologist Mike Handel ?
text: Did you know that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey , stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?
text: Did you know that King Philip V ordered that any lepers found guilty of poisoning wells in medieval France were to be burnt and their possessions forfeited to the Crown ?
text: Did you know that Burgers' Smokehouse is a California, Missouri -based seller of cured and smoked meats including bacon and hickory smoked, salt cured country hams, a specialty of the Ozarks ?
text: Did you know that during a rehearsal of Pagliacci with the Florentine Opera in 1998, tenor David Rendall sent a baritone to hospital when his prop knife failed to collapse?
text: Did you know  that Johan Søhr was responsible for investigating several espionage  cases in Norway during World War I , including the von Rosen and Rautenfels cases?
text: Did you know  that the Royal National  College for the Blind in Hereford houses the United Kingdom's National BlindArt collection?
text: Did you know  that during the Great Depression ,  R. C. Nueske used a panel truck to market Nueske’s  Applewood Smoked Meats , including bacon , sausages , hams and smoked turkeys , at little resorts across  northern Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know  the program STUDENT ,  written in 1964 by Daniel Bobrow for his PhD dissertation at MIT , is one of the earliest known  attempts at natural  language understanding by a computer?
text: Did you know  that Milwaukee elected George Hampel to the state legislature first as a Socialist and later as a Progressive before he helped merge the Progressives into the Republican Party ?
text: Did you know  that during the Ice Hockey European Championship in 1924, two of Spain's seven players were injured, but the Swiss and Swedish teams agreed to play with five players against them?
text: Did you know  that a flitch of bacon was offered at Wychnor Hall to married couples if they could swear that they did not regret their  union, but it was so rarely claimed it was replaced with a wooden one?
text: Did you know that Lennard Stokes , a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon ?
text: Did you know that the cheese dream was popularized during the Great Depression as "an inexpensive company supper dish"?
text: Did you know that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem , begun in 1980?
text: Did you know that the forest area of the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary helps in arresting desertification and advancement of the Thar desert ?
text: Did you know that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography ?
text: Did you know that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University ?
text: Did you know that the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army ?
text: Did you know that Sir Henry Bate Dudley not only chronicled the life of Gainsborough but also wrote the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon ?
text: Did you know that Serafin Olarte and Vicente Guerrero were the only independentist generals active during the low point of the Mexican War of Independence after the execution of José María Morelos in 1815?
text: Did you know that The BLT Cookbook was highly recommended by the National Pork Board ?
text: Did you know that in Đại Việt sử lược , it was recorded that Khúc Hạo , not his father Khúc Thừa Dụ , was the first of the Khúc family to be the Jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân ?
text: Did you know that Banksiamyces are fungi that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?
text: Did you know that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti ?
text: Did you know that former gold medalist in short track speed skating Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that John Singer Sargent 's c. 1882 painting Street in Venice shows the influence of Venetian photographers?
text: Did you know that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth ?
text: Did you know that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon ?
text: Did you know that the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon , Harvard guard Francis Burr , Yale end Bob Forbes , Cornell center Bill Newman , a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy , and a guard who was described as " one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron "?
text: Did you know that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain , England , and Kazakhstan ?
text: Did you know that the seaside landscape of Montauk Association Historic District in New York includes seven 1881–84 Shingle Style summer houses?
text: Did you know that the 1983 Queensland election was triggered when Terry White , Angus Innes , and various MLAs of the " Ginger Group " crossed the floor in the Australian state's Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica ?
text: Did you know that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City , is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
text: Did you know that Robert Downey Jr. 's costume in the 2008 film Iron Man was made by special effects artist Shane Mahan ?
text: Did you know that Rwandan cuisine includes urwagwa , a local beer made from fermented bananas ?
text: Did you know  that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton , Ecuador ,  and emigrated mostly to the United States ?
text: Did you know that Henry Bracy was one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era ?
text: Did you know that the tail of the Bennett's stingray can make up three quarters of its total length?
text: Did you know  that at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock , the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of  Colored People , is the  youngest person ever to serve in the position?
text: Did you know  that the Quadro Tracker detection device, which was  advertised as being able to detect drugs, weapons, explosives, alcohol,  missing people, precious metals, dead pets, and lost golf balls, was  denounced by the FBI as a fraud?
text: Did you know  that in the interwar period ,  the British legation in Norway complained about Victor Mogens ' bias as a commentator in Norwegian radio ?
text: Did you know  that in 1906, some Filipino prisoners involved in medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera , and those who survived were  rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?
text: Did you know that in Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc , Lord Goff suggested that Rylands v Fletcher was not an independent tort , but instead part of nuisance ?
text: Did you know that Master Joseph Thomas played a leadership role in two single ship actions , the first in 1803 in the hired cutter Princess Augusta and the second in 1810 in the hired cutter Queen Charlotte ?
text: Did you know that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German war poet of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that Fily Dabo Sissoko , who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in Mali ?
text: Did you know that Musa Demi was part of the group that opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates ?
text: Did you know that Canada won the first Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair curling at the 2006 Games ?
text: Did you know that three-time ARCA champion Tim Steele was the series' first driver to earn over $1 million in his career?
text: Did you know that Arizona SB1070 , the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States ?
text: Did you know that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of Bolivia in 1985?
text: Did you know that Macy's opened its first closeout store at Wheatfield, New York 's Summit Park Mall in 1992?
text: Did you know that earlier this season , Katey Stone of the Harvard Crimson became the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I women's ice hockey ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Julie Hunter saw Australia to victory from the last ball of the match in her first ODI innings?
text: Did you know that in 2000–04, excavations in Uppåkra , Scania , revealed that a heathen hof was located there for several hundred years?
text: Did you know that Tom Killin , a Paralympic silver medalist in wheelchair fencing in 1980, also won a silver medal in wheelchair curling for Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Grant Park Symphony Orchestra began a tradition of Independence Day Eve concerts in Grant Park accompanied by fireworks when the Petrillo Music Shell was relocated in 1978?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 216 was used by Swainson , English theologian, for his treatise on the Greek Liturgies ?
text: Did you know that a British soldier is commemorated in the West Haven Green Historic District for his actions during the British invasion of West Haven, Connecticut , in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that the Rustock botnet was capable of sending 30 billion spam messages every day, utilizing around 150,000 computers infected with a trojan horse ?
text: Did you know that Chris Cameron won the individual all-around title and led the Michigan Wolverines to the team title at the 2010 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship ?
text: Did you know that intense heat from WWII bombing interfered with a ceramic dating assay?
text: Did you know that quarterback Walter Kennedy ' s amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the University of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Acheiropoietos , a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Thessaloniki , was the first Christian church to be converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of the Greek city in 1430?
text: Did you know that Erin Osborne led the wicket-taking in her maiden Women's National Cricket League season?
text: Did you know that in F. Sionil José 's novel Sherds , the pottery clay used by the aesthete symbolizes the oppression of villagers?
text: Did you know that psychologist and physiologist Henri-Étienne Beaunis published novels under the pseudonym "Paul Abaur"?
text: Did you know that the 1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game to pass without an extra-base hit?
text: Did you know that Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia is 140 miles (230 km) long?
text: Did you know that professional wrestling promoter Eddie Quinn is credited with making wrestling more popular in Quebec than any other sport except hockey?
text: Did you know that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party )?
text: Did you know that in addition to being the captain of the 1904 University of Chicago football team, Fred Speik was a member of Chicago's water polo and track and field teams?
text: Did you know that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
text: Did you know that cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener ?
text: Did you know that a Native American mound in Newtown, Ohio , was spared destruction because of its location in a cemetery ?
text: Did you know that despite being supported by tanks , Italian troops were completely routed during the Battle of Gjorm by Albanian Resistance units?
text: Did you know that former State Senator O.H. "Ike" Harris was honored in 2009 by the horse racing industry for his work in legalizing parimutuel betting in Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire , England, with asbestos dust?
text: Did you know that Yurii Lomonosov constructed the first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive ?
text: Did you know that for the second season of Survive This , a Canadian reality TV show, participants were selected for the show based on their strong personalities and required to take a three-day survival course?
text: Did you know that the Buffalo Braves first made the NBA playoffs during their 1973–74 season ?
text: Did you know that during the construction of Lake Seminole in 1948, archaeologists discovered the site of San Carlos de los Chacatos, a Spanish mission that Colonel James Moore had sacked during Queen Anne's War ?
text: Did you know that Nicolay Nicolaysen Sontum supplemented his career as an engineer and contractor with speculating in waterfalls?
text: Did you know that U-450 went on three war patrols, but did not sink any ships?
text: Did you know that author and social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obama at the age of 105?
text: Did you know that the Popular Independent Movement of Luxembourg was a single-issue political party that represented former Wehrmacht conscripts?
text: Did you know that Alex Blackwell captained the Australian women's cricket team to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England , and the largest community bank in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that Montage of a Dream Deferred was described by its author, Langston Hughes , as a cross between a jam session and a popular song?
text: Did you know that Westcott railway station was a part of the London Underground , despite being more than 40 miles from central London ?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Elspeth Gibson ' s clients have included Madonna , Cate Blanchett and Queen Rania of Jordan ?
text: Did you know that in 1844, Carl Claus discovered ruthenium and named it after the olden Russia ?
text: Did you know that Debra Lehrmann won the Republican nomination for the Texas Supreme Court in the only contested statewide race on the April 13, 2010, runoff ballot?
text: Did you know that the Kii and Number 13 class battleships were to be part of Japan's eight-eight fleet ?
text: Did you know that Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer founded an institute to explore solar energy , today known as the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics ?
text: Did you know that writer John Irving and the main character in his novel Last Night in Twisted River were "Kennedy fathers"?
text: Did you know that Chesterfield centre-forward Walter Ponting was deprived of an apparently certain goal when the ball deflated and failed to cross the line?
text: Did you know that Connie Yori , the current Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball head coach, is the inaugural winner of the Kay Yow Award ?
text: Did you know that quadricyclane was proposed as a substance to store solar energy ?
text: Did you know that in the early 1900s, logging in Texas' forests was so successful that the state had become the third leading lumber producer in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the Caprivi treason trial is the largest and longest trial in Namibian history?
text: Did you know that the album LifeTimes composed by the daughter of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard includes contributions from Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke ?
text: Did you know that the semaphore crab is the most abundant crab species in mangroves on Australia 's east coast?
text: Did you know that English footballer Brian Punter did not receive his 1953 FA Youth Cup runners-up medal until some 56 years later?
text: Did you know that Sarah Andrews is Australia 's ninth-leading wicket-taker in Women's One Day International cricket ?
text: Did you know that Burgess Hill , Hadlow Down , Hastings , Newick , Pell Green , Rye , Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use?
text: Did you know that over half the population of the rare wildflower Banksia scabrella are found on road verges ?
text: Did you know that Cameronia was the first British ship to arrive at New York after the start of the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Inger Alver Gløersen , born in 1892, made her literary début in 1954?
text: Did you know that following the establishment of the Bhutan Olympic Committee in 1983, Bhutan participated for the first time in the 1984 Summer Olympics but only with six archers ?
text: Did you know that Silly Bandz , popular silicone bracelets that spring into a shape when taken off, have been banned in classrooms for being too distracting?
text: Did you know that D'Jamin Bartlett won the 1974 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer?
text: Did you know that the only non-industrial private railways of Norway never to be nationalized were the Holmestrand–Vittingfoss , Lier , Lillesand–Flaksvand , Nesttun–Os and Tønsberg–Eidsfoss lines?
text: Did you know that from his studies of the ionosphere during World War II , Walter Dieminger forecasted optimal shortwave communication for the military and police?
text: Did you know that the suicide weapon in J.D. Salinger 's " A Perfect Day for Bananafish " was an Ortgies 7.65 mm Semi-Automatic Pistol ?
text: Did you know that Stevie Brown led the 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team 's special teams with 11 tackles ?
text: Did you know that the satirical video Gap Yah , describing the experiences of fictional rah Orlando during his gap year , became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
text: Did you know that Empire Cloud was torpedoed on both her maiden and final voyages?
text: Did you know that the Ravi River was known as Paruṣṇī or Irāvatī to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks ?
text: Did you know that Army All-American Henry Torney , who later became a millionaire, was arrested at a 1910 Shirtwaist Strikers protest that led the New York Mayor to rebuke the "police dictators"?
text: Did you know that the Archimedes screw in De Groene Molen , Joure , is now driven by a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) Lister diesel engine ?
text: Did you know that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base ?
text: Did you know that Nexhip Draga , a former Ottoman kaymakam , played an important role in the Albanian uprising of 1912?
text: Did you know that Tara Bethan, finalist in the BBC One TV show I'd Do Anything , was the daughter of " El Bandito "?
text: Did you know that a geological fault and coal mining caused the spire of St Catharine's Church, Scholes to lean and twist?
text: Did you know that the Tutt Brothers were early 20th century American vaudeville producers who created over 40 revues for black audiences?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Sheikh Bureik was named for a local Muslim saint to whose shrine women seeking remedies for infertility would bring presents?
text: Did you know that in a 16-year career, English footballer Bob Hutchinson played for 14 different clubs?
text: Did you know that start-up conservative cable TV network RightNetwork features Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and new-media star Andrew Breitbart , and is being funded by Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider ?
text: Did you know that Edvard Munch lived at both Olaf Ryes plass and Schous plass , two neighboring squares in Oslo , during the 1880s?
text: Did you know that the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond was the venue for a dinner hosted by Charles Dickens in 1850 to celebrate the publication of his novel David Copperfield ?
text: Did you know that members of the Women's Timber Corps were known as Lumber Jills?
text: Did you know that George Will acquired 11 press passes that offered special locker-room privileges in Major League Baseball stadiums while doing research for his book, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball ?
text: Did you know that when the Ålgård Line opened in 1924, it was the last state-owned railway in Norway to be built with narrow gauge ?
text: Did you know that St Martin's Church, Brampton , was the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Trenton was head coach for the Australian Olympic taekwondo team in 2008?
text: Did you know that in 2007 California Assemblyman Joel Anderson authored legislation requiring state pension funds to divest from investing in companies that do business with Iran ?
text: Did you know that J. Denis Summers-Smith became an expert on sparrows by travelling as an expert in tribology ?
text: Did you know that Fig Trees , an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?
text: Did you know that Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina was dubbed the "Godfather of Cuban tobacco"?
text: Did you know that the Soviets organised a campaign against the pro-Allied sympathies of the Baltic governments before their annexation in 1940 ?
text: Did you know that by 1941, American zoologist Edward Alphonso Goldman had described more new mammals than any other living scientist?
text: Did you know that Maltese -born Anthony Perici , a veteran of the British Royal Navy , served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg , Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the Iceberg Theory refers to Ernest Hemingway 's distinctive writing style?
text: Did you know that British filmmaker Tim Sullivan began his career in television after chauffeuring Anthony Andrews to the set of Brideshead Revisited ?
text: Did you know that the city of Clearwater , Florida , painted two white lines across Watterson Avenue to block Lisa McPherson Trust protesters from disrupting the operations of the Church of Scientology ?
text: Did you know that the British Inspiration Awards are aiming to boost recognition for the creative industries of the United Kingdom , a sector generating an estimated £100 billion a year for the British economy ?
text: Did you know that Walter Woon , former Attorney-General of Singapore , was the first Member of Parliament since Singapore 's independence to have a private member's bill become a public law ?
text: Did you know that the Islamist group Revolution Muslim posted a warning about possible consequences on their website against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their portrayal of Muhammad in the episode " 200 "?
text: Did you know that Nick Burd's debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary was a New York Times "notable book" for 2009 and won the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category?
text: Did you know that the Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood authored his state's farm-to-market road program, which paved rural dirt roads in asphalt ?
text: Did you know that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan ?
text: Did you know that Darrell Floyd ' s day job paid more than the NBA basketball team the Saint Louis Hawks were offering?
text: Did you know that the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1939, six weeks after the dedication of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that in some areas of Brandenburg-Prussia , only 10% of the population survived the Thirty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast -like human pathogens?
text: Did you know that Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones , the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives , in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
text: Did you know that Tlacolula de Matamoros is home to one of the oldest, largest and busiest weekly outdoor markets in the state of Oaxaca , Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the two towers on Old Main at Washington & Jefferson College symbolize the union of Jefferson College with Washington College?
text: Did you know that Halfdan Bryn was one of the first to take interest in the physical anthropology of Sami people ?
text: Did you know that the British No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando unit included soldiers from different countries including Germany ?
text: Did you know that "Big John" Macklin coached the Michigan State Spartans football program to its first wins over Ohio State and Michigan and also coached the school's basketball , baseball and track teams?
text: Did you know that the Haiti economic reforms of 1996 were designed to restore the economy of Haiti after the economic shocks of early 1990s?
text: Did you know that Nora Okja Keller wrote the novel Comfort Woman, about Koreans used as sex slaves by the Japanese army in World War II, after she heard a lecture by a former victim?
text: Did you know that two teenagers built booby traps inspired by Rambo at a park in the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Edvard Munch was invited to Berlin by fellow Norwegian Adelsteen Normann who also painted?
text: Did you know that distant objects that are observed from the same place may appear to look elevated, lowered, stretched, or shortened depending on atmospheric refraction ?
text: Did you know that a brawl broke out in 2009 between residents of San Antonino Castillo Velasco and Ocotlán de Morelos over a highway sign?
text: Did you know that cricketer Lauren Ebsary had never played a formal match before representing South Australia at youth level?
text: Did you know that when a crowd removed their hats before hearing George Washington speak at the Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House in East Fishkill, New York , he told them to put them back on since he was just an ordinary man?
text: Did you know that Tommy Cheetham had a trial for the England national football team while playing in the Third Division in his first season as a professional?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War , the top half of Black Virgin Mountain was held by American forces while the bottom was controlled by the Vietcong ?
text: Did you know that the pre-teen girls' running-and-wellness program Girls on the Run has its roots in its founder's climb out of alcoholism?
text: Did you know that medieval Bulgarian military leader Ivan the Russian defended Plovdiv in a four-month Byzantine siege only for the citizens to let the Byzantines in while he was away?
text: Did you know that since changing the mascot from the Huron to the Eagle in 1991, the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team has won less than 28% of their games?
text: Did you know that baseball outfielder Domonic Brown , nicknamed the "Total Package" by Ryan Howard , originally intended to play wide receiver for the Miami Hurricanes football team ?
text: Did you know that Wicked Summer is a planned spinoff of the popular reality series Jersey Shore ?
text: Did you know that rival Vikings in Ireland were called Dubgaill and Finngaill , which could be translated as black and white foreigners ?
text: Did you know that in the 1820s, several books on geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and Emma Willard , but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
text: Did you know that theologian Pender Hodge Cudlip cowrote an article for the Helston Grammar School Magazine while still a teenager at Oxford ?
text: Did you know that Tony Dunkin is the only NCAA Division I four-time conference player of the year for men's basketball?
text: Did you know that Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba , the world's first pizzeria, lines its oven with lava rocks from Mount Vesuvius ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Members of Parliament John Thomas Peacock , Francis James Garrick , John Evans Brown and Henry Richard Webb were brothers-in-law?
text: Did you know that neither the owner of the Minuscule 671 nor its location are officially known?
text: Did you know that the Little Golden Books illustrator Corinne Malvern was a former child actress who once played Madama Butterfly 's son in front of the Japanese Ambassador to the US?
text: Did you know that upon the death of the Hare Krishna founder in 1977, eleven prominent leaders were left to become initiating gurus under the ISKCON Guru System ?
text: Did you know that Otto Thott possessed one of the largest private libraries of the 18th century in Denmark?
text: Did you know that Banwell Castle served as the headquarters for a squadron of the Balloon Command of the Royal Air Force during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Big Ten MVP Willis Glassgow was called the "Dancing Master" for his shiftiness on the gridiron and because he managed the most popular ballroom in Iowa City ?
text: Did you know that Saw II , the video game sequel to Saw: The Video Game , will include the ability for the player to kill enemies using the environment?
text: Did you know that Native American jewelry includes beadwork on herbal bag necklaces, believed to increase the healing power of Medicine Men ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish post-prog and electronica band North Atlantic Oscillation joined a list of artists that includes The Flamingos , Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald by covering the 1934 song " I Only Have Eyes for You " and releasing it on their 2009 debut EP ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Newman won the 2010 Subway Fresh Fit 600 after making a pass with only two laps to go?
text: Did you know that in 1931 three people were killed in Estevan , Canada , when police opened fire on a Mine Workers' Union of Canada rally?
text: Did you know that the ordination of St Cellach 23 September 1105 put an end to a 140-year period when the supreme head of the Irish Church had been a layman ?
text: Did you know that at the Extreme 19th , the world's highest and longest par 3 golf hole , a tee shot takes almost 30 seconds to land?
text: Did you know that there are more than 3036 differences between Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus just in the text of the four Gospels?
text: Did you know that the wife and husband Alette and Kristian Schreiner conducted medical research together, although Alette did not hold an academic position?
text: Did you know that the Buddhist minister of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission was arrested during World War II and sent to a Japanese American internment camp?
text: Did you know that Colorado State Highway 263 lies entirely within the city limits of Greeley, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that after retiring from politics, Oregon U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized bicycle tours , including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that in recommending their products, Amazon.com originally used the technology behind MovieLens , a website that suggested films to its users based on their preferences?
text: Did you know that, despite having a prior award nomination for film writing, it was once said of Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod that their "resume reads like a catalogue of the past decade's most irritating films"?
text: Did you know that a poem written for the christening of historian Colm Kiernan was also read to mark the birth and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta , the successor to the Knights Hospitaller , has issued its own postage stamps since 1966?
text: Did you know that J.W.F. Bennett , captain of the undefeated 1898 Michigan football team , later supervised the construction of the Algonquin , Ritz and Waldorf Hotels ?
text: Did you know that " Hello Goodbye " is the final episode of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty ?
text: Did you know that although English author Mackenzie Bell was trained in law at Cambridge University , he chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and Madeira ?
text: Did you know that Joan Horan won the first two gold medals for Ireland at the Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that actress and former sex symbol Morgan Fairchild took the role of a drug addict in the film Street of Dreams because she wanted to play "somebody who looks like hell"?
text: Did you know that the Melingoi were a Slavic group that settled in southern Greece during the great invasions of the 7th century, and remained an autonomous community at least until the 14th century?
text: Did you know that former Texas State Senator Max Sherman sold Bibles door-to-door in the mid-1950s to pay expenses toward attending Baylor University ?
text: Did you know that Annie Hall Cudlip , one of the most prolific writers of romantic fiction in the Victorian era , wrote over 100 novels and short stories from 1862 to 1900?
text: Did you know that the Saxon origin of the name of Walworth Gate in County Durham , England , refers to Welsh -speaking Britons who once lived there?
text: Did you know that Mary Ruthsdotter of the National Women's History Project played an influential role obtaining resolutions from the U.S. Congress designating March as Women's History Month ?
text: Did you know that a monument at Mendeleyevskaya station in the Moscow Metro marks the location where stray dog Malchik was stabbed to death by a railway commuter?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand fought in World War I , a war started by the assassination of her namesake ?
text: Did you know that the popularity of alebrijes from San Martín Tilcajete , Mexico , and other towns have led to the overexploitation of the trees from which they are carved?
text: Did you know that the Wyoming aviation pioneer Ralph S. Johnson flew until he was 82, when he sold his general aviation business in Cheyenne and retired to Arizona ?
text: Did you know that just £1500 of funding was available for the athletes of Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that Emil Schreiner , whose 1871 Latin grammar book out-competed that of Johan Peter Weisse , later moved to appoint Weisse as a professor?
text: Did you know that the first local bus service operated by BakerBus linked major pottery factories in Stoke-on-Trent ?
text: Did you know that with the University of Washington Huskies , former New Orleans Saints running back Toussaint Tyler beat the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl as a freshman but lost to them as a senior?
text: Did you know that Pelobates cultripes , the "Western Spadefoot Toad", produce spawn up to one metre long which can consist of 7000 eggs?
text: Did you know that Motobdella montezuma is the only leech to hunt in open water?
text: Did you know that footballer Arthur Wolstenholme was the first player to score four goals in a Third Division North match?
text: Did you know that the Albanian poet Haxhi Shekreti composed the epic Alipashiad in Greek , considering it a more prestigious language in which to praise his master, Ali Pasha of Ioannina ?
text: Did you know that the 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cheshire , England, include diverse wetlands , such as mosses , swamps , fens , meres , ponds and rare examples of inland salt marsh ?
text: Did you know that only three of Ireland's Greatest forty people are women?
text: Did you know that the Maritime Fur Trade helped New England transform from an agrarian to an industrial society?
text: Did you know that 6th-century poet Talhaearn Tad Awen has left no surviving verse, yet may have been remembered as the father of Welsh poetry, whose work used to be rewarded with 100 cows in a bath-tub every Saturday?
text: Did you know that Edward Preston Young designed the logo for Penguin Books ?
text: Did you know that Inventing the AIDS Virus , written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg , argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus ?
text: Did you know that in his short story " The Day the Dancers Came " , Bienvenido N. Santos "memorialized the tenderness, nostalgia" and "bittersweet tale" of Filipino manongs living in the United States ?
text: Did you know that The People's Parliament was a Channel 4 programme in which a random sample of citizens sat in a mockup of the House of Commons , debated and voted as a deliberative democracy ?
text: Did you know that the 1969 debut album Sweet Thursday by the group of that name was quickly undermined by the bankruptcy of Tetragrammaton Records ?
text: Did you know that Baptist clergyman W. Winfred Moore was first director of the Baylor University Center of Ministry Effectiveness, designed to prevent burnout among pastors?
text: Did you know that a new species of leech was named Tyrannobdella rex because of its disproportionally large teeth?
text: Did you know that in the South Park episode " You Have 0 Friends ", Stan Marsh gets literally sucked into the social-networking site Facebook , which resembles the virtual world in the science-fiction film Tron ?
text: Did you know that Olaf Devik and Ole Andreas Krogness were instrumental in establishing a weather forecast for Northern Norway ?
text: Did you know that Mandora Marsh contains the most inland occurrence of mangroves in Australia ?
text: Did you know that Jack Agnew , a PFC member of the Filthy Thirteen World War II parachute regiment, loosely inspired the novel and film The Dirty Dozen ?
text: Did you know that the Edinburgh Advertiser was the first to print Robert Burns ' poem, On the Commemoration of Rodney 's Victory ?
text: Did you know that Charron Island , near Montreal , has been known historically under at least four different names?
text: Did you know that some athletes at the Winter Paralympic Games have broken their bones in order to gain a competitive advantage ?
text: Did you know that Australian power pop band Icecream Hands takes their name from lyrics in a Robyn Hitchcock song?
text: Did you know that Drita in 1883 was the first magazine in the Albanian language ?
text: Did you know that in the South Park episode " Medicinal Fried Chicken " Eric Cartman gets involved with an underground KFC chicken ring that mirrors the cocaine organization of Tony Montana in the film Scarface ?
text: Did you know that in September 1969, the Little River in northwest Florida rose 21 feet (6.4 m) in 24 hours due to rainfall from a tropical disturbance ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 public information film Embrace Life , originally made for just the Sussex area of the UK, has been "praised by people around the world for its beauty"?
text: Did you know that a study of schools in German states by Norwegian Frederik Moltke Bugge was awarded with a gold medal from Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ?
text: Did you know that the Griffin , the new athletics mascot for the College of William and Mary , beat out a king and queen , a phoenix , a pug , and a wren for the position?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Soltau was the climax of the Hildesheim Stift Feud , which lasted from 1519 to 1523?
text: Did you know that Tommy Amaker led the 2009–10 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team and its star Jeremy Lin to the most successful season in school history?
text: Did you know that the flute arrangement of the trio composition Gestural Variations was premiered in Munich by the composer, Graham Waterhouse , and two other composers?
text: Did you know that controversies related to the human experimentation in the United States led to the introduction of the institutional review boards ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Wray of Shreveport , Louisiana , moved away from painting landscapes to emphasis on the abstract with Christian themes?
text: Did you know that Codex Marchalianus manuscript of Septuaginta has the same order of books as Codex Vaticanus ?
text: Did you know that " womb veil " was the most common term for barrier contraception used by women in 19th-century America?
text: Did you know that "Pa" Henninger , captain of the 1895 Michigan football team that outscored its opponents 266 to 14, was twice named to all-time All- Michigan teams?
text: Did you know that the browser game Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy features school children battling each other with zombies ?
text: Did you know that toxicologist Gabriel L. Plaa spent much of his career searching for a way to assess human hepatotoxicity of drugs from animal tests ?
text: Did you know that a significant Fort Ancient archaeological site is located on a sod farm in southwestern Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard , noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the canvas ?
text: Did you know that William Wordsworth was the model for Robert Browning 's poem, The Lost Leader ?
text: Did you know that the crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 5 didn't know an engine had fallen off at 35,000 feet and carried on flying for nearly 50 minutes?
text: Did you know that during the Cold War , a USAF T-39 plane was shot down over Erfurt , Germany?
text: Did you know that the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym ?
text: Did you know that Dunedin's Fortune Theatre once performed a play about William Larnach 's family in the ballroom of Larnach Castle ?
text: Did you know that Air Marshal Sir Michael Giddings , an RAF officer who flew Spitfires during World War II , chaired the infamous inquiry concerning the Archway Road A1 extension that would have demolished almost 200 homes?
text: Did you know that Euthalian Apparatus was designed to help the mediaeval Bible reader?
text: Did you know that Crucifix was an undefeated British -bred Thoroughbred racemare, as well as being the dam of three sires?
text: Did you know that Leonor Rivera was the greatest influence in preventing Filipino national hero José Rizal from falling in love with other women while traveling outside the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that Ludvig Vibe left his position as professor of Greek to become principal of a secondary school ?
text: Did you know that UA 8699 , a broken molar from the Cretaceous of Madagascar , may be a fragment of the only Mesozoic marsupial from the southern continents ?
text: Did you know that Qamil Çami , a poet of the Albanian National Revival , was one the rilindas who opened the first Albanian-language school in Filiates ?
text: Did you know that Japanese pop group AAA 's new single " Aitai Riyū/Dream After Dream (Yume Kara Sameta Yume) " was composed by Tetsuya Komuro , this being his first work for two years?
text: Did you know that tax law specialist Øystein Thommessen became Norwegian delegate to the UNICO conference in 1945 and the Paris Peace Conference of 1946 ?
text: Did you know that U-42 was the fifth German U-boat sunk in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Tonight with Craig Doyle is pre-recorded because the presenter was doing other presenting work?
text: Did you know that Risley C. Triche , originally a segregationist member of the Louisiana House of Representatives , testified years later to past racism in his state's public assistance programs?
text: Did you know that the active biological dispersal of land snail Xerocrassa geyeri is about 3 meters during one year?
text: Did you know that the popularity of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 's cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast , at the turn of the 20th century, rivaled that of Handel 's Messiah and Mendelssohn 's Elijah ?
text: Did you know that the website Wikileaks released a video in April 2010 in which photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and eleven others were killed during an airstrike by American helicopters in Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that the show group Dizzie Tunes won the Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or in Montreux in 1973 with Sim Sala Bim ?
text: Did you know that East Chicago native Art Murakowski survived a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa and was named the most valuable football player in the Big Ten Conference in 1948?
text: Did you know that MiKandi is the world's first mobile porn app store?
text: Did you know that Mockado is a woollen pile fabric made in imitation of silk velvet ?
text: Did you know that essayist William Francis Barry had his writings about the medieval papacy censored by his superiors?
text: Did you know that Ewelme Cottage was used in the production for the 1993 Oscar -winning film The Piano ?
text: Did you know that the Dewoitine HD.730 , in order to avoid Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial liaison type despite having folding wings ?
text: Did you know that Ha-Yom , founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in Hebrew ?
text: Did you know that Arnold Frutkin was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal by Thomas O. Paine ?
text: Did you know that in the Brander–Spencer economic model , it is possible for a national government to increase a country's welfare through export subsidies but the policy is of the beggar thy neighbor type?
text: Did you know that after the Avondale Mine Disaster , legislation was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that made Pennsylvania the first U.S. state to have laws regarding mine safety?
text: Did you know that while the Crusaders were besieging Nicaea , the Byzantine general Manuel Boutoumites persuaded the Turks to surrender to him instead by playing on their fears of a massacre by the Crusaders?
text: Did you know that Babu Hardas started the practice of exchanging the greeting Jai Bhim among the Dalits in India?
text: Did you know that H. Brett Melendy was the first chairman of the history department of San José State University , California ?
text: Did you know that Ricotta's visual novel , Walkure Romanze , was originally designed with five heroines but the number was later cut down to four?
text: Did you know that producers hope to use Good Luck Charlie "to debunk the myth that Disney never has the mom in the picture"?
text: Did you know that city employees may attend Rodent Control Academy to learn how to deal with the problem of rats in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Charles John Wingfield served as Chief Commissioner of Oude ?
text: Did you know that Nelson F.C. won the Football League Third Division North in the 1922–23 season ?
text: Did you know that Austin Coates 's Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biography of Filipino national hero José Rizal authored by a non-Filipino?
text: Did you know that the Heritage of the March series was comprised of 185 vinyl albums featuring marches and galops ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Edward Hulme , the only son of landscape artist Frederick William Hulme , painted flowers?
text: Did you know that, according to legend, Osogovo Monastery was spared from destruction by the Ottomans after they were overcome by its spiritual force?
text: Did you know that the apicomplexan parasite Isospora hammondi has egg- and sausage-shaped structures?
text: Did you know that Bandula Warnapura captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team on their first Test match , faced the first delivery and scored the first run ?
text: Did you know that the Texas Republican politician Kenn George was involved in the formulation of President Reagan 's Caribbean Basin Initiative ?
text: Did you know that the name of the palm genus Chelyocarpus , which means "turtle carapace fruit", refers to the cracked surface of its fruit?
text: Did you know that Australian dance music duo Pnau 's debut album Sambanova (1999), which was recalled from stores because of uncleared samples , won an ARIA Award for 'Best Dance Release' in 2000 ?
text: Did you know that managing editor Andre Laguerre devised the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as a way to boost magazine sales during the winter months?
text: Did you know that Czechoslovak communist censors banned the publication of the comic album Muriel a andělé ?
text: Did you know that the cover artwork of Danielson: A Family Movie depicts band leader Daniel Smith in a tree costume with fruits that symbolize the Fruit of the Holy Spirit ?
text: Did you know that architect Cecil Alexander designed a controversial Georgia state flag that served from 2001 to 2003?
text: Did you know that Israeli soldiers stopped their vehicles to kiss the ground after winning the Battle of 'Auja and crossing the border into the Sinai Peninsula?
text: Did you know that Nicola Kraus is said to have modeled Mrs. X in The Nanny Diaries on several women who lived at 1000 Park Avenue on Manhattan 's Upper East Side ?
text: Did you know that the best known work of lecturer James Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists , which took three decades to complete?
text: Did you know that Larry Dell Alexander is best known for his Clinton Family Portrait oil painting, which he gave to U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1995?
text: Did you know that the Song of Armouris , is among the oldest surviving examples of Byzantine heroic poetry ?
text: Did you know that St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church was started in a rented hall above a stable on Manhattan 's Upper East Side ?
text: Did you know that European land slugs Deroceras juranum and Deroceras rodnae are both named after mountains?
text: Did you know that Antonio Barluzzi , a Franciscan monk , became known as the Architect of the Holy Land due to the number of important churches he designed?
text: Did you know that the Piber Federal Stud breeds Lipizzan horses and is the primary source of the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School ?
text: Did you know that Anne Holtsmark translated well-known works such as Heimskringla and the Prose Edda from Norse to Norwegian ?
text: Did you know that Bahu Fort in Jammu , India , originally built by Raja Bahulochan some 3,000 years ago, was refurbished by the Dogra rulers in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that William Henry Oliphant Smeaton's The Life and Works of William Shakespeare was so popular that it was even reprinted several times?
text: Did you know that A.F.C. Aldermaston , a non-league football club from Berkshire , has been dubbed the "worst English football team in history" after losing 40 consecutive matches?
text: Did you know that suitable age and discretion is a U.S. legal definition of maturity ?
text: Did you know that Zhuang Xiaoyan won China 's first Olympic gold medal in judo in 1992 ?
text: Did you know that Petersburg Codex Syriac 1 is one of the two extant ancient Syriac manuscripts of the Eusebian Ecclesiastical History ?
text: Did you know that the biological father of Infanta María de la Paz of Spain was not the King of Spain , but one of the Queen ’s lovers?
text: Did you know that, originally a fortified church , St John's Church, Newton Arlosh lay in ruins after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, until it was restored and extended in 1844?
text: Did you know that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig , the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand endemic amphipod Paraleptamphopus caeruleus lives in "bog-water on top of Swampy Hill"?
text: Did you know that the B.B. Kirkland Seed and Distributing Company building was built over a natural spring which still flows in its basement?
text: Did you know that Phebe Sudlow was the first female superintendent of a public school in the United States and the first female professor at the University of Iowa , despite having no formal college degree?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Anita is the first South Atlantic tropical cyclone to be officially named?
text: Did you know that the 13th–14th century Byzantine romance , Belthandros and Chrysantza , is considered by some critics to be superior in imaginative power to the Niebelungenlied ?
text: Did you know that Stahl Hennigsdorf Rugby won 27 East German national rugby union championships from 1952 to 1990?
text: Did you know that the Ganges stingray may be the same species as the giant freshwater stingray , but this cannot be investigated as all known specimens of it have been lost?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 7002 was credited for setting a land speed record despite not actually being the engine that set it?
text: Did you know that Nicholas J. Corea was once a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps before achieving success as writer, director, and producer of the television series The Incredible Hulk in 1978–1981?
text: Did you know that the Spanish bibliographer W.E. Retana , author of Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal , is described as the foremost non-Filipino filipinologist ?
text: Did you know that after a career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , baritone Jeffrey Skitch became Principal of Elmhurst Ballet School ?
text: Did you know that Indiana halfback Chuck Bennett built his physique working in coal mines and was selected as the MVP of the Big Ten Conference despite playing for the ninth place team?
text: Did you know that Svalbard , an Arctic archipelago , features no roads between settlements?
text: Did you know that the name partner of Orange County corporate law firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth , Fritz Stradling, didn't join the firm until after it was founded?
text: Did you know that the specific name of Tambachia trogallas , the type species of the trematopid temnospondyl Tambachia , refers to the Thuringian bratwurst that was frequently eaten by the describers of the species?
text: Did you know that the song " No Me Doy Por Vencido " by Luis Fonsi was the first single to rank for two years in a row in the Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart ?
text: Did you know that the Grosse Pointe Presbyterian church was renamed the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in 1925 after John and Truman Newberry paid for a new sanctuary in honor of their parents ?
text: Did you know that Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League ?
text: Did you know that the former captain of U-43 , Wolfgang Lüth , went on to become one of the most successful U-boat commanders in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Jonaki , the Assamese magazine published in the late nineteenth century, did not have an editorial?
text: Did you know that the hamlet of Archdeacon Newton in Durham , England , contains the site of a lost settlement ?
text: Did you know that Hilton Head White-Tailed deer are culled to prevent accidents despite being listed as a species of concern by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ?
text: Did you know that the 14th name on one side of the Eiffel Tower is the engineer Charles Combes ?
text: Did you know that the collection of 82 stone stelae in the Temple of Literature is the second entry of Vietnam in the list of UNESCO 's Memory of the World Programme ?
text: Did you know that Johan Støren , who was fired as a Church of Norway Bishop by Quisling's Nazi regime of WWII , was first cousin once removed of a high-ranking Nazi civil servant?
text: Did you know that Juan Luna ’s Chula series is a succession of portrait paintings depicting the working class “street women” of Madrid , Spain ?
text: Did you know that philosopher John Alexander Stewart was appointed White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University in 1897?
text: Did you know that FrameGang was recommended to users of Netscape Navigator 3 Gold Edition for html frame development because it did not support frames , even though the Netscape Navigator 3 browser did?
text: Did you know that Finnish communists founded the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada in 1924?
text: Did you know that Eben Sadie, the winemaker of South African wine producer The Sadie Family , was previously a surfer ?
text: Did you know that Ocotlán de Morelos was the subject of much of Rodolfo Morales 's artistic work?
text: Did you know that nearly a century after its discovery, the Peruvian rodent Eremoryzomys remains so poorly known that its conservation status cannot be assessed?
text: Did you know that Radney Foster 's " I'm In " has also been recorded by The Kinleys (whose version Foster produced) and Keith Urban ?
text: Did you know that the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International ?
text: Did you know that Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku will be illustrated by Shizuki Morii, a new artist who has not worked on any previous Memories Off games?
text: Did you know that Bermuda broadcasting and shipping magnate Fernance Perry , MBE, started his business career as a Piggly-Wiggly grocer?
text: Did you know that the candid treatment of "problematic sexuality" in Lars Berg 's two first novels initiated a spirited debate in Norway in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Holocaust survivor Otto Eisler designed the only remaining synagogue in Brno ?
text: Did you know that Finn Støren has been called " Vidkun Quisling 's informal Minister of Foreign Affairs "?
text: Did you know that the Malankara Rite , a local Indian variant of the West Syrian Rite , contains some elements archaic in the wider West Syrian tradition, such as use of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in Lent ?
text: Did you know that Evile 's 2007 debut album Enter the Grave was produced by Flemming Rasmussen , who produced three Metallica albums?
text: Did you know that the Memorial Chorten in Thimphu , Bhutan , was built in 1974 to honor the King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck who had died two years previously?
text: Did you know that baritone Wolfgang Schöne premiered the role of the tomcat "Tom, Minette's lover" in the opera Die englische Katze of Hans Werner Henze at the Schwetzingen Festival ?
text: Did you know that Frank Willan rowed for Oxford in its winning Boat Race crews in four successive years, in 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869?
text: Did you know that traditionally, Korean families pickle cabbage and store it in underground pots during the winter?
text: Did you know that in 1892, the miller of De Hoop , Holwerd , left an estate worth ƒ32,567.92 ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Bapheus in 1302 was the first major Ottoman victory, and led to their gradual conquest of Byzantine -controlled Bithynia ?
text: Did you know that following the firing of Arne Fjellbu as dean of Nidaros Cathedral , all bishops in the Church of Norway stepped down in protest?
text: Did you know that salt can be extracted from the burned trunks of the Amazonian palm Itaya amicorum ?
text: Did you know that in 1942, following the printing of the poem " Vi vil oss et land ", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904)?
text: Did you know that Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism , and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking , was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W. ?
text: Did you know that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik , the organ of the exiled Russian Menshevik Party , was published from New York until 1965?
text: Did you know that Adalbert Kraus performed the tenor part in Bach's Easter Oratorio Kommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run)?
text: Did you know that Courier du Bas-Rhin , one of the leading European papers of the late 18th century Enlightenment period, and the main rivals of the Gazette de Leyde , was significantly controlled by the Prussian government?
text: Did you know that later businessman and politician Hakon Lunde survived the sinking of the destroyer HNoMS Svenner on D-Day ?
text: Did you know that the FC St. Pauli rugby department was formed in 1933 when the club 's complete 6th XI switched codes from football to rugby union ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Robbins Curtis was the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to have a law degree ?
text: Did you know that each episode of the early 1960s Canadian game show A Kin to Win cost $2500 to produce?
text: Did you know that author H.B. Marriott Watson spent much of his childhood in Christchurch , New Zealand, later using it as a setting for many of his novels?
text: Did you know that BanLec , a jacalin -related lectin isolated from the fruit of bananas , can induce a strong IgG4 antibody response and may be an important antigen involved in banana allergies ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Bir Lahfan on December 29, 1948, Israel captured an Egyptian battalion commander, the most senior Egyptian officer captured in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?
text: Did you know that the schooner Larinda was built over a period of twenty-six years in the owner's backyard?
text: Did you know that Christian Tobias Damm called for the letter h to be dropped from German orthography ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Most Valuable Players was inspired when the producer accidentally found YouTube clips of The Freddy Awards , which honor high school musical theatre in the Lehigh Valley ?
text: Did you know that Beaux-Arts , Mediterranean Revival , and Hawaiian architectural styles can be seen in the Wailuku Civic Center Historic District ?
text: Did you know that it has been written of Floating Down to Camelot that "the ludic seems to eradicate the satiric "?
text: Did you know that Leopoldo Benites , the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973, had served eight months in a jail in Ecuador ?
text: Did you know that a fire set to destroy buildings infected by bubonic plague in 1900 destroyed most of the Chinatown of Honolulu ?
text: Did you know that Sławomir Skrzypek , the Polish banker who died in the Tu-154 crash , had recently come into open conflict with the Council of Ministers of Poland ?
text: Did you know that the PlayStation video game Muppet Monster Adventure featured an 'intuitive swimming system' that NGC Magazine compared favourably to the one in Super Mario 64 ?
text: Did you know that all eight of the ships that were sunk by U-44 in her entire career were sunk during her first war patrol?
text: Did you know that Alice Dudeney was called one of the most powerful writers of fiction among modern English women by Putnam Magazine ?
text: Did you know that pebbled butterflyfish are aggressively territorial and will form pairs to protect their feeding area?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Saborios began a revolt against Constans II , but was killed by his horse?
text: Did you know that Frank Barrie portrayed Noël Coward in the original London production of Lunch with Marlene ?
text: Did you know that in 2009, the Race Across America was won by Team Type 1 with a team of diabetic cyclists?
text: Did you know that the barn at the McClelland Homestead near Bessemer, Pennsylvania , sits atop a spring ?
text: Did you know that following its 1994 national convention , the Progress Party of Norway lost its deputy leader and the four MPs Christiansen , Hillgaar , Wetterstad and Bråthen ?
text: Did you know that the range of the Australian blenny may expand southwards due to increased temperatures and climate change ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Claudia Eder sang the parts of the Muse and Nicklausse in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann on a recording with Plácido Domingo as Hoffmann ?
text: Did you know that English footballer Reg Attwell was selected to represent the Football League in 1949?
text: Did you know that this year's Ice-Out occurred on Lake Winnipesaukee four days earlier than the 124 year old record?
text: Did you know that the 1997 Budapest wedding of Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg to Archduke Georg of Austria was broadcast live on Hungarian television?
text: Did you know that Pindan woodland in Western Australia was described by scientist and explorer Knut Dahl as a “crippled forest”?
text: Did you know that the fluke Lyperosomum intermedium infects the marsh rice rat , although its relatives mostly infect birds?
text: Did you know that the Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion in Hanover is home to three different kinds of football , hosting the Hannover Spartans , Arminia Hannover and the German rugby union team ?
text: Did you know that after he was re-elected in Oregon's 1992 U.S. Senate election , Bob Packwood endorsed his defeated rival Les AuCoin for U.S. Secretary of the Interior ?
text: Did you know that the Hollandsche Spectator , inspired by the British Spectator , was one of the most important developments in Dutch literature during the Enlightenment period?
text: Did you know that the Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl ever held by the upstart World Football League ?
text: Did you know that the mausoleum of Saladin was rebuilt in 1898 under the patronage of German Emperor Wilhelm II after he visited Damascus and found the tomb in a state of disrepair?
text: Did you know that the Page brothers who were over 7 ft tall and toured in a circus as the Newbourne Giants are buried in the village of Newbourne in Suffolk, England?
text: Did you know that Thomas Carlyle agreed to pose for James McNeill Whistler 's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle after viewing Whistler's Mother ?
text: Did you know that the Tutelo language , once spoken by Virginia Indians , was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg , one of the architects of ' Red Vienna ', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
text: Did you know that fossil evidence suggests that the palm tribe Cryosophileae evolved in the northern hemisphere and that its presence in South America reflects later migration southward?
text: Did you know that Walter Herries Pollock , editor of the Saturday Review , was close friends with a number of writers including Robert Lewis Stevenson , Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde ?
text: Did you know that Initiative 1068 was filed in January 2010 by Seattle activists hoping to remove criminal penalties from the adult use, possession and cultivation of marijuana in Washington ?
text: Did you know that to help reverse declining sales, the Friedrichstadt Palast began adding Madonna and Kylie Minogue to the show playlist?
text: Did you know that the beaches of Roebuck Bay exhibit the fossil footprints of dinosaurs ?
text: Did you know that Fred Whishaw was the first to translate the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky into the English language ?
text: Did you know that the saw mill De Rat was moved from Zaanstreek , Noord Holland , to IJlst , Friesland , in 1828?
text: Did you know that Hidalgo 's winning silver medal for his painting Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho at the 1884 Madrid Exposition was hailed as a sign that Filipinos can participate in European culture ?
text: Did you know that the Col. James Graham House was one of the first permanent homes in Summers County , West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the Seventh-day Adventist Church campaigned for the separation of church and state under the Australian Constitution , which is now reflected in Section 116 ?
text: Did you know that Anders Beer has been credited with founding the tanning industry in Norway ?
text: Did you know that J. M. W. Turner 's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino is scheduled to go on sale in the open market for only the second time in the 171 years since it was painted?
text: Did you know that Dos Abend Blatt was first Yiddish -language socialist newspaper in New York ?
text: Did you know that Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch Enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that violinist Hugh Maguire , leader of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1956, is on the coaching staff of the Leiston Abbey music school?
text: Did you know that the "Bottoms" of Milford, Ohio , contain a Woodland period archaeological site ?
text: Did you know that Sviatoslav of Kiev was invited by the Byzantine Empire to attack Bulgaria in order to force them to make concessions, but ended up conquering the country ?
text: Did you know that the Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt drag racing car had a metal tag attached to the inside of the glovebox door warning that the fit and finish were not up to company standards?
text: Did you know that Hungarian -born Commando George Lane was spared execution after taking tea with Rommel ?
text: Did you know that Colorado State Highway 57 is not marked throughout its length?
text: Did you know that the Journal of Pathology , founded in 1892, has been the official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1906?
text: Did you know that the Dutch Republic successfully intervened in the Second Northern War , forcing the Swedish Empire to accept the Treaty of Elbing ?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act proposes that two percent of proceeds from the sale of cannabis promote industrial hemp biodiesel , fiber , protein and oil ?
text: Did you know that in 1914, English footballer Tom Bamford played in the only Burnley team to win the FA Cup to date?
text: Did you know that owners of the East 80th Street Houses on Manhattan 's Upper East Side have ranged from Clarence Dillon and Vincent Astor to Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest ?
text: Did you know that the Study club fire of 1929 in Detroit, Michigan , killed 22 and injured 50 people?
text: Did you know that Finn Thrana , Nazi " führer " in the county of Oppland during World War II , was a lawyer working with cases in the Supreme Court of Norway from 1966?
text: Did you know that Montana 's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River , forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
text: Did you know that Maria Fortunata Viti , a Benedictine nun beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1967, remained illiterate her entire life?
text: Did you know that the Ebla tablets , found in ancient Ebla , Syria , and dating back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of beers , including one that appears to be named "Ebla"?
text: Did you know that footballer Arthur Bate scored a hat-trick on his league debut for Nelson , yet finished on the losing team in the match?
text: Did you know that the New York Society Library , the oldest cultural institution in New York City , also effectively served as the first Library of Congress ?
text: Did you know that Philippe Pastour de Costebelle , the French governor of Plaisance , Newfoundland , ordered the destruction of St. John's after its capture by French forces in 1709?
text: Did you know that the call of the Grey Currawong gives rise to its vernacular name of 'Clinking Currawong' in Tasmania , and 'Squeaker' in Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of Tamarindito was relatively unscathed by looters during the Guatemalan Civil War due to the presence of guerrilla fighters?
text: Did you know that Teme Sejko , rear-admiral of the Albanian navy , was executed in 1961 for being the leader of a pro-Soviet group aiming to overthrow the regime of Enver Hoxha ?
text: Did you know that Bob Tallman of Weatherford , Texas , has been called "the greatest rodeo announcer that ever lived"?
text: Did you know that Low Walworth , County Durham , England , once contained a gin gang ?
text: Did you know that the Gaelic Journal , first published in 1882, was described as being "the first journal devoted to the living Irish language "?
text: Did you know that Claude Phillips was the first keeper of the Wallace Collection , writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Documentation Center has been responsible for uncovering more than 1000 Nazi war criminals , including Adolf Eichmann ?
text: Did you know that HanWay Films was originally founded by British film producer Jeremy Thomas as an adjunct of his Recorded Picture Company ?
text: Did you know that two commanding officers of No. 219 Squadron RAF went on to become the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force , whilst a third became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Pakistani Air Force ?
text: Did you know that stamps of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force were available in Syria between September 23, 1918 ( 1918-09-23 ) and February 23, 1922 ( 1922-02-23 ) ?
text: Did you know that Tom Sidwell once got lost on the London Underground , missed the start of that day's cricket match , and was given out?
text: Did you know that author Mike Long has written speeches for national U.S. politicians, including President George W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that the 400-year-old Dhodar Ali in Assam is so called because some dhods ("lazy people" in Assamese ) were assigned by the Ahom king to build it?
text: Did you know that Karl Heinz Schneider, who used to organize battalions in the Hitler Youth , later moved to Israel , converted to Judaism and took the name of Abraham Reuel ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Madeline caused major damage to Mexico in 1976?
text: Did you know that even though he was a Filipino painter, Juan Luna 's The Battle of Lepanto was commissioned by the Spanish Senate ?
text: Did you know that Fort Jefferson , built as a supply depot , endured a three-year siege during the Northwest Indian War ?
text: Did you know that the Bahamian Pygmy Boa Constrictor can voluntarily bleed from its eyes, mouth and nostrils?
text: Did you know that the Google Guys , composed of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page , are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of US$ 17.5 billion each?
text: Did you know that the god Vishnu 's avatar Yajna is an embodiment of the fire sacrifice ?
text: Did you know that Anura Tennekoon captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team during the inaugural Cricket World Cup of 1975 ?
text: Did you know that Archangel Gospel , the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876?
text: Did you know that the abuse and murder of 3-year old Neveah Gallegos led to several changes in the Denver, Colorado Department of Human Services?
text: Did you know that where it passes Merrybent , Durham , England , the A1 road runs on the old track bed of the Merrybent railway?
text: Did you know that the composer Anton Rubinstein conducted his own opera The Merchant Kalashnikov so badly that the performance had to be stopped?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand member of parliament William Montgomery worked on the extension of the Little River railway to Akaroa ?
text: Did you know that La barca de Aqueronte is the most awarded work of art created by Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Ibsen quotes art project in Oslo wanted it to become a "tourist attraction on par with Fram and Holmenkollen "?
text: Did you know that the fossil rodent Megapedetes , related to the living springhare , occurred from Greece to Namibia?
text: Did you know that the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold , silver , nickel , copper , and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas ?
text: Did you know that the female devata reliefs of the temple of Thommanon in Cambodia grip flowers very distinctively, using their ring and middle fingers whilst extending their index and small fingers?
text: Did you know that artist David Herbert exhibited a 96" replica of a VHS videocassette—normally 7½" in length?
text: Did you know that the Clan Line ship Clan Matheson assisted in the eradication of the Coconut Moth from Fiji ?
text: Did you know that the Israeli-invented Wonder Pot bakes cakes, casseroles and roasts on the stovetop rather than in the oven?
text: Did you know that Channel 4 billed its Comedy Gala , held at the O2 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital , as "the biggest live stand up show in UK history"?
text: Did you know that the Dutch marine artist Hendrick Dubbels opened a shop selling "caps, bonnets and stockings ", but went bankrupt in 1665?
text: Did you know that Thomas Herbert of the Royal Navy was involved in over 20 engagements and wounded three times in the War of 1812 against the United States?
text: Did you know that of the 34 amphibians that became extinct in last 500 years, 19 were from Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you know that not all complex questions are informal fallacies ?
text: Did you know that former Texas legislator and motivational speaker Rick Green produced the 1994 video The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan : The Truth About the Eighties ?
text: Did you know that three animal species that do not need oxygen were discovered in the hypersaline anoxic l'Atalante basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean?
text: Did you know that Koto Hoxhi , who secretly taught students in Qestorat in Albanian , died in jail rather than reveal the name of his friends?
text: Did you know that the new Chair of Gaelic at the University of Glasgow is the first established chair in Gaelic at a Scottish university?
text: Did you know that baseball player Lyman Linde was part of the Beaver Dam High School basketball team when they were Wisconsin state champions in 1937?
text: Did you know that " Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum? ", a 1944 novelty jazz song written by Murray Kane and performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra , was inspired by a phrase used by British children towards American soldiers during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist includes four dead people, one of whom would be "spinning in his grave" if his book won, and two living people, one of whom couldn't remember her own book 's plot?
text: Did you know that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband Roland Bonaparte , Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million francs ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-255 was one of the most successful U-boats to operate in the Arctic Ocean in World War II?
text: Did you know that Laura Berg is the most decorated athlete in softball at the Summer Olympics , with three gold medals and one silver?
text: Did you know that the land snail Amphibulima browni was not collected during the entire 20th century?
text: Did you know that actor Jim O'Heir , who plays Jerry on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
text: Did you know that the Communist Party of Andalusia won 57.4% of the votes in the 1983 municipal election in Córdoba, Spain ?
text: Did you know that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder , when called to advise upon the Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?
text: Did you know that Australian record producer , Richard Pleasance , who was a founding member of 1980s band Boom Crash Opera , also composed the score for the 2006 feature film Kenny ?
text: Did you know that after being boycotted from international cricket for over two decades, South Africa women achieved a 3–0 series whitewash against Ireland women on their return?
text: Did you know that Bouthaina Shaaban , a former Minister of Expatriates of Syria , has been described as the Syrian "regime's face to the outside world"?
text: Did you know that the stems of the neotropical palm genus Cryosophila are covered with spines that are actually modified roots ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Ballinger , an M.P. for native South Africans , was hailed as the "Queen of the Blacks" in 1944?
text: Did you know that slave -built Federal style Wilkinson-Martin House , in Pulaski, Tennessee , stayed in one family for 130 years?
text: Did you know that John Wesley preached in the kitchen of Gates Farm in Cholmondeston , Cheshire , England?
text: Did you know that the graveldiver fish may burrow to depths of 7.6 metres (25 ft) or more in a substrate such as sand, gravel, or broken shell?
text: Did you know that the Exchequer of Pleas was dissolved after its chief judge died?
text: Did you know that Heinz Hennig founded the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 and conducted the boys' choir until 2001?
text: Did you know that one of the English leaders in the successful defense of the 1705 Siege of St. John's , Newfoundland , was a mason ?
text: Did you know that historian and museum director Arnfinn Moland has also contributed to films, writing a book on Max Manus together with screenwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller ?
text: Did you know that the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada 's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif ?
text: Did you know that opposing admirals Adam Duncan and Jan de Winter played a game of whist in the aftermath of the Battle of Camperdown ?
text: Did you know that the 1995 fire in Baku Metro became the world's deadliest subway accident?
text: Did you know that the goliath conch, Eustrombus goliath , is the largest of the true conchs ?
text: Did you knowthat Darell Hammond co-founded KaBOOM! , an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
text: Did you know that the Hirtz compass , a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
text: Did you know that the music documentary MC5: A True Testimonial includes U.S. government surveillance footage of an MC5 performance?
text: Did you know that although considered as the ideal woman in Philippine society , María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the Filipina in the last 100 years"?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 520 had its boiler explode and pulled a " railfan special", before it was preserved in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Juan Luna 's Tampuhan painting depicts a Filipino man and a Filipino woman sulking after a lovers ' argument?
text: Did you know that the Pondicherry shark was last seen in 1979?
text: Did you know that Sarah Beth Barnette, a senior at Lexington Christian Academy , is the first player from Lexington to win Kentucky 's "Miss Basketball" award?
text: Did you know that there was once a gallows in Low Coniscliffe , Durham , England ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, Birkelunden underwent the first "conservation of a cultural environment in a city" in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Pavlos Vrellis Greek History Museum is the best known wax museum in Greece ?
text: Did you know that Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire , England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids , mannequins , toy robots , a pinball machine and Keith Richards ' Bentley ?
text: Did you know that Gazette d'Amsterdam was one of the most important European newspapers of the Enlightenment period?
text: Did you know that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien , Vienna ?
text: Did you know that the primary leaf veins for the extinct plant Trochodendron nastae are palmate rather then being pinnate like those in the living Trochodendron aralioides ?
text: Did you know that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , founder of Transcendental Meditation , also created the Maharishi Group , a $700 million non-profit conglomerate in India?
text: Did you know that Juan Luna 's The Parisian Life painting portrays three Filipino gentlemen and heroes glancing inquisitively at a woman while inside a café in Paris , France ?
text: Did you know that the rice rat Oryzomys couesi is infected by two different hantaviruses ?
text: Did you know that reality television star Kim Kardashian was brutally murdered in the South Park episode " The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs ", but she found it very funny?
text: Did you know that during his basketball career, John Hummer played for four head coaches who have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the Central American palm , Schippia concolor , exhibits the unusual germination strategy of transferring all resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs?
text: Did you know that Juan Luna 's La Bulaqueña painting is a serene portrait of a Filipino woman from Bulacan wearing a Maria Clara gown ?
text: Did you know that despite inheriting the vast Parker Ranch as a child, Richard Smart became an actor and singer in musical theater on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that the East Texas Historical Association was founded in 1927, disbanded during the Great Depression , and reborn in 1962?
text: Did you know that the turreted Johan Poulsen House in Portland, Oregon 's Brooklyn neighborhood was built in 1891 and owned by a lumber magnate and a " doughnut king"?
text: Did you know that the Breton writer Pêr-Jakez Helias asserted "my heritage lies on my tongue, it shall never be yours"?
text: Did you know that in 1876 Llewelyn Kenrick , founder of the Football Association of Wales , organised and played in Wales ' first international match ?
text: Did you know that the AZ-1 Marvelette was an experimental aircraft built by Mississippi State University to test a boundary layer control system?
text: Did you know that Andreas Karasiak recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion , scored for double chorus, with two boys choirs , Knabenchor Hannover and Thomanerchor ?
text: Did you know that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that Spencer Haywood was included in the 1971 NBA Draft even though he already played in the NBA before the draft?
text: Did you know that people's veto is a type of a referendum that allows citizens to repeal an existing law?
text: Did you know that private military companies operating in Iraq use the Mamba armoured personnel carrier because it appears "less aggressive"?
text: Did you know that there were no women among the 172 deputies elected to the Parliament of Syria in the 1961 parliamentary elections ?
text: Did you know that James E. Boyd started nuclear research at the Georgia Institute of Technology while leading the Georgia Tech Research Institute ?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Danish carved stones in St Mungo's Church, Dearham include a wheel-head cross , the Adam Stone, and the Kenneth Cross?
text: Did you know that, after earning distinction in World War I battles, Romanian writer Felix Aderca sparked controversy with pacifist and socialist novels which discuss his countrymen's wartime crimes?
text: Did you know that Colorado State Highway 257 has two interchanges only 0.3 miles apart?
text: Did you know that JB's Dudley , which claims to be the UK's longest-running live music venue, began life as a disco night at Dudley Town F.C. 's social club?
text: Did you know that the nematode Skrjabinoclava kinsellai is characterized by the presence of shoe-like and nipple-like structures?
text: Did you know that Edward Cephas John Stevens initiated the land transfer that gave Christchurch , New Zealand , the park on which AMI Stadium now stands?
text: Did you know that the anti-war poster And babies shows half-naked women and babies killed at My Lai during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that former Spanish sailor Don Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that the People's Party of Syria was established in 1948 as the main opposition party to the National Party ?
text: Did you know that the BBC reduced actor Alan Davies ' fee for the Jonathan Creek episode " The Judas Tree " by 25 percent?
text: Did you know that since 1948 Israel has only lost 18 planes in air to air combat ?
text: Did you know that Blessed Daniel Brottier , when asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, responded, "I will be the Pope"?
text: Did you know that Laiko Vima was the only newspaper printed in Greek in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania ?
text: Did you know that Jama Williamson , who plays the attractive surgeon ex-wife of Tom Haverford in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , also provided voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ?
text: Did you know that the co-pilot of the lead C-47 at the Mitla Pass parachute drop, which launched the 1956 Suez War , was a woman, Yael Rom ?
text: Did you know that the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer , better known as the Alles Machines, pioneered additive synthesis and served as the basis for several commercial instruments in the early 1980s?
text: Did you know that in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks ?
text: Did you know that the first imperial examination in the history of Vietnam was organized in 1072 during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court 's decision in United States v. Ballin (1892) was based in part on the assumption that the Journal of the House of Representatives is always accurate?
text: Did you know that the captured Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj was used for shipboard trials of the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) helicopter by the Kriegsmarine in 1942–43?
text: Did you know that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk , a UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
text: Did you know that Chantilly porcelain , a " soft-paste porcelain " made from c.1730 is not a true porcelain because it lacks "china clay", kaolin ?
text: Did you know that footballer Sid Storey , who played for York City from 1947 to 1956, drove the open top bus that paraded the York team after winning the 1983–84 Fourth Division championship ?
text: Did you know that the word game Trickster , a spin-off of Scrabble , includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
text: Did you know that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in Mexico , he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin ?
text: Did you know that in the 1818 English case of Ashford v Thornton , the defendant demanded and was granted a right to trial by battle ?
text: Did you know that three of the five highest NBA career point totals by Ivy League players were by Princeton Tigers men's basketball players?
text: Did you know that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis , Embothrium , Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
text: Did you know that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed Alex Band 's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
text: Did you know that sandstone blocks used in the construction of St John's Church, Crosscanonby , Cumbria , England, might originate from a former Roman building?
text: Did you know that Bidal Aguero , a civil rights activist in Lubbock , published El Editor , the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas ?
text: Did you know that their loss in Watson v British Boxing Board of Control forced the British Boxing Board of Control to move to Wales?
text: Did you know that an Australian couple bought the town of Wauconda, Washington , in an online auction for $370,601?
text: Did you know that American economist Adam Posen advises both the Bank of England and the United States Congressional Budget Office ?
text: Did you know that the coat of arms of Kola , a town in Russia , depicts a whale because whaling was the occupation of many town residents?
text: Did you know that The Blood Compact painting, currently displayed at the top of the grand staircase of the Malacañang Palace , was one of the last paintings created by Filipino artist Juan Luna ?
text: Did you know that during the 2008–10 campaign , two friendly games between the German rugby union team and a selection of the British Forces Germany had to be cancelled because of bad weather?
text: Did you know that both Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve and Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve are larger than any of Svalbard 's seven national parks ?
text: Did you know that James Moore , hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge , was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army ?
text: Did you know that the listed buildings in Poole , Cheshire , England, include a pinfold or cattle pound?
text: Did you know that civil aviation pioneer Lester Brain declined a knighthood in the 1960s, but accepted appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1979?
text: Did you know that though clavarioid fungi were originally thought to comprise a single genus , they are now classified in multiple orders and families ?
text: Did you know that the real estate developer Buddy Tudor won awards for the historic preservation of the landmark Bentley Hotel in Alexandria , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that although the South African RG-35 mine resistant ambush protected vehicle is powered by a diesel engine, it can also accommodate hybrid electric drive ?
text: Did you know that Alex Silvagni ' s debut performances in the Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
text: Did you know that in rice rats living in the water, the tufts of hair at the base of the claws are reduced?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1990s, Alf Tande-Petersen presented the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth most viewed television program episodes in Norway ?
text: Did you know that Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Lorenzo Latorre resigned as President of Uruguay in 1880, declaring the country "ungovernable"?
text: Did you know that Atari showed off its AMY additive synthesis sound chip in a special version of the 65XE computer, but never released it and focused on the Atari ST instead?
text: Did you know that throughout his career, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?
text: Did you know that the Bronze Age gold Casco de Leiro was a fisherman's chance find on a beach in Galicia , Spain?
text: Did you know that swimmer Janine Pietsch won two gold medals at the 2006 World Championships , each by 0.25 seconds?
text: Did you know that the timeline of Tanzanian history includes the shortest war in history and the first discovery of a new monkey genus since 1923?
text: Did you know that Gossia acmenoides (scrub ironwood) is named in honour of ex-Queensland Premier Wayne Goss ?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer Bedford Pim was the first man to travel from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side?
text: Did you know that Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse went undefeated in Ivy League competition for seven consecutive seasons?
text: Did you know that the worship of Princess Lieu Hanh was suppressed by the Vietnamese government because of possible Taoist influence?
text: Did you know that Kolsky Uyezd was established on the Kola Peninsula by the Tsardom of Russia as a result of the territorial claims from Denmark–Norway ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-246 went missing on 7 March 1945 in the Irish Sea?
text: Did you know that in Gillingham Borough Council v Medway (Chatham) Dock Co Ltd , the trial judge rejected the defendant's arguments, but still held that they were not liable?
text: Did you know that the ideas of Hermann Baumgarten not only influenced the political outlook of social theorist Max Weber , but also helped accelerate the unification of Germany in 1871?
text: Did you know that American Lester Reiff was the top jockey in Britain in 1900 but lost his licence after allegedly throwing a race?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian cities of Oslo and Bergen are governed through a parliamentary system ?
text: Did you know that the New South Wales Waratah lost out to the Golden Wattle to become Australia's floral emblem in 1912?
text: Did you know that from his freshman year at Oak Park High School through his junior year at the University of Michigan , Herb Steger never lost a game of football ?
text: Did you know that the seventeenth government of Israel was dissolved by Yitzhak Rabin following a breach of the Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that the Stevenson Memorial , painted by Abbott Thayer to honor Robert Louis Stevenson , was painted, in part, with a broom?
text: Did you know that although a quiet town now, Cuilapan de Guerrero , Mexico , was a major pre-Hispanic city and the site of a major Dominican monastery?
text: Did you know that voting for the mascot of the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship was done through the tournament's page on Facebook ?
text: Did you know that a golden handshake report by New Zealand journalist Duncan Garner cost an MP his Cabinet position?
text: Did you know that the Bhutan Textile Museum in Thimphu was supported technically by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that among victims of the 1994 Baku Metro bombings was jazzman Rafig Babayev ?
text: Did you know that the Guardians of the Free Republics sent out letters to all 50 US state governors demanding that they leave office within three days or be removed?
text: Did you know that the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?
text: Did you know that Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 after the final chorale?
text: Did you know that the numerosity adaptation effect demonstrates that we not only have a direct and automatic visual sense of the reddishness of half a dozen ripe cherries, but also of their quantity?
text: Did you know that the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi was offered professorship for his painting Christ in the Desert , but rejected it?
text: Did you know that King William IV credited Captain Humphrey Fleming Senhouse as "one of the cleverest fellows of the navy"?
text: Did you know that Cherokee humorist Will Rogers was named for William Penn Adair , a Cherokee statesman who advocated for the rights of Texas Cherokees?
text: Did you know that the belted cardinalfish carries its developing eggs in its mouth ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a donkey on State television?
text: Did you know that some historians have considered Alwyn MacArchill to have been an ancestor of the Earls of Lennox in the male-line, while others have suggested he was only an ancestor in the female-line?
text: Did you know that frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm condition?
text: Did you know that 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. , was the last private building to be renovated under the 1974 Pennsylvania Avenue redevelopment plan?
text: Did you know that the FAMAS-awarded 1965 film Blessings of the Land is about a Filipino deaf-mute son who rose above his handicap ?
text: Did you know that in 1930 Albanian feminist Urani Rumbo was accused by the authorities of encouraging girl students to perform in theater plays?
text: Did you know that biosocial criminology predicts that left handed individuals are more likely to engage in criminal behavior than right handed ones?
text: Did you know that Árni Magnússon , who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection , would do whatever it took to acquire an Icelandic book or manuscript?
text: Did you know that, in the role of Southern belle "Geneva Lee Browne", Paige Miles performed in a school rendition of The 1940's Radio Hour , a World War II musical about a radio station in New York ?
text: Did you know that Indre Wijdefjorden National Park contains the only High Arctic steppe vegetation in Europe?
text: Did you know that Sin has been described as the most controversial and most bohemian among F. Sionil José ’s novels because it created an “ artifice of sexual tension ”?
text: Did you know that the planned St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal would have covered 35.2 miles (56.6 km) and linked the St. Johns River with the Intracoastal Waterway ?
text: Did you know that communist activist Franz Jacob organized one of the largest resistance groups in Germany during World War II ?
text: Did you know that univariate analysis is the simplest form of quantitative (statistical) analysis ?
text: Did you know that there are a number of ghost stations along the Paris Métro , including two with no above-ground entrances?
text: Did you know that 6' 10" Mason Plumlee plays basketball for the NCAA finalist Duke Blue Devils alongside his 6' 10" brother Miles , and their younger 7' 0" brother Marshall plays in high school?
text: Did you know that at the First Battle of Rellano , Pascual Orozco used the tactic of the máquina loca , a locomotive filled with dynamite , to defeat federal troops , but a similar trick failed him at the Second Battle of Rellano ?
text: Did you know that in less than eight years, Michael Burry ' s hedge fund company returned 489.34% to investors, while the Standard and Poor 500 realized just over 2% over the same period?
text: Did you know that Daughters of the American Revolution co-founder Ellen Hardin Walworth studied law in order to overturn the murder conviction of her son?
text: Did you know that the FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carrier has been used by British Armed Forces to transport small air defence , reconnaissance and fire controller teams?
text: Did you know that at the age of sixteen, Aaron Kelly succeeded in being a top ten finalist in the ninth season of American Idol ?
text: Did you know that Electric Picnic 2010 is expected to feature Leftfield , Roxy Music , Public Image Ltd. and a rap duo who perform wearing plastic bags to cover their heads?
text: Did you know that Dominica has one of the richest land gastropod fauna in the Lesser Antilles ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Lyttelton Richmond was the longest-serving editor of the Times Literary Supplement , for 35 years from 1902 to 1937?
text: Did you know that Thomas Gray tried to prevent the publication of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and asked that his name be removed from the published version, but it is now considered "the best-known and best-loved poem in English"?
text: Did you know that the specific name of the newly described fungus Suillus quiescens refers to the ability of its spores to lay dormant in the soil until pine roots are encountered?
text: Did you know that automobile designer Peter Schreyer has designed car grilles to look like tiger noses?
text: Did you know that a monument for ten Israeli soldiers killed after the 1948 Battle of Bir 'Asluj was erected from the rubble of the booby-trapped police station in which they were killed?
text: Did you know that James Harrison , sometimes called the "man with the golden arm", is credited with saving the lives of two million babies?
text: Did you know that Kawkab America was the first Arabic-language newspaper published in North America ?
text: Did you know that Kirsten Huser Leschbrandt , a former Norwegian MP and current board member of the S-E Norway Regional Health Authority , is a breast cancer survivor?
text: Did you know that The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester has been in three different locations in its 458-year history?
text: Did you know that Dr. Lillian H. South is credited with eliminating several contagious diseases from Kentucky , including hookworm ?
text: Did you know that in English law, trespass to land is both a tort and, in certain circumstances, a crime?
text: Did you know that after pitcher Don Black suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a baseball game, the Cleveland Indians played a benefit game and raised $40,000 for him?
text: Did you know that some beetles of the genus Zopherus are used as living brooches ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-39 was the first U-boat sunk in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Austrian Attack was used against Bobby Fischer when he played the Pirc Defence for the first time in his chess career?
text: Did you know that Albanian artist David Selenicasi painted parts of the monastery of the Great Lavra , the first monastery built on Mount Athos ?
text: Did you know that the South American rodent Akodon caenosus may weigh as little as 10.5 g (0.37 oz)?
text: Did you know that Bag & Baggage Productions staged the first professional, outdoor showing of a Shakespeare play in Hillsboro, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that I Made a Game with Zombies in It! was the most popular Xbox Live Indie Game of 2009?
text: Did you know that at 44 tons , the locomotives of the Central London Railway 's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
text: Did you know that the steam locomotive Olomana was considered by Walt Disney to have been the closest thing to a " Mickey Mouse engine"?
text: Did you know that even though the Occoquan Reservoir in northern Virginia provides an output of 17 million gallons a day to 1.2 million people, it is listed on Virginia's Dirty Water List?
text: Did you know that Race Foster and Marty Smith, co-founders of pet supply company Drs. Foster & Smith , hosted the Animal Planet TV show Faithful Friends for two years?
text: Did you know that a double-barreled question asks about more than one thing, but allows only one answer?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Naguib , who later became the president of Egypt , was severely wounded in the Battle of Hill 86 of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that John Erskine Clarke produced the first Anglican Parish Magazine at Derby in 1859?
text: Did you know that although RFA Crenella was torpedoed by U-101 in 1917, the ship served until 1952?
text: Did you know that Dr. Fred Conklin received the Legion of Merit for setting up a mobile hospital in New Caledonia and later presented a medal to John F. Kennedy for heroism on the PT 109 ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 low-budget independent comedy film Meet the Parents was the inspiration for the 2000 blockbuster of the same name starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro ?
text: Did you know that tree surgeon Gaylord Silly has represented the Seychelles twice at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships ?
text: Did you know that the Svalbard Act established the economy of Svalbard as a free zone ?
text: Did you know that Edward Nicolls proposed that oak trees be grown in Sierra Leone for the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck , are the graves of John Peel , the subject of D'ye ken John Peel? , and Mary Harrison , the Buttermere Beauty?
text: Did you know that Canadian Senator Leverett George DeVeber once sang at a concert after the intended headliner failed to show up?
text: Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt publicly recommended Eliza Calvert Hall ' s book Aunt Jane of Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique steamship Ariège was the first ship to enter the port of Safi, Morocco ?
text: Did you know that Oluf Reed-Olsen ' s blowing up of a bridge at Lysaker during World War II contributed to the surfacing of the Norwegian Administrative Council ?
text: Did you know that 1980's Hurricane Karl evolved at the center of another, larger storm that occupied much of the North Atlantic , and set multiple records for its unusual location and date?
text: Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs wrote or recorded at least 238 songs during his career?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Cretan Ethnology was built to the specification of Georges Henri Rivière , creator of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris ?
text: Did you know that the opossum genus Cryptonanus received its name because it was hidden in synonymy for so long?
text: Did you know that actress Amy Brandon Thomas was the daughter of famous playwright Brandon Thomas ?
text: Did you know that Tearoom Trade , a study by sociologist Laud Humphreys of homosexual acts taking place in public toilets , caused a major debate on ethics in observation ?
text: Did you know that the Seven Network program Today Tonight described Aaron Saxton ' s revelations about the Church of Scientology as "stunning" and "shocking"?
text: Did you know that Darlington F.C. lost in both the second and the third rounds of the FA Cup in the 1999–2000 season ?
text: Did you know that Hammam Yalbugha , a public bath in Aleppo , Syria , was built in 1491 by the Emir of Aleppo , Yalbugha al-Naseri?
text: Did you know that as Emmerdale ' s Aaron Livesy , Danny Miller was involved in a gay storyline with his real-life flatmate Adam Thomas ?
text: Did you know that according to Conor Gearty , private and public nuisance in English law "have little in common except the accident of sharing the same name"?
text: Did you know that the Australian Army 's first regular infantry unit, the Darwin Mobile Force , was raised as a unit of the Royal Australian Artillery ?
text: Did you know that Linda Mvusi , an architect who shared in an award for her work on the Apartheid Museum , won a best actress prize at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Cello web browser , released in 1993, was the first web browser for the Microsoft Windows operating system ?
text: Did you know that Len Lawson created several popular Australian comic book characters, including the "Lone Avenger" and the "Hooded Rider"?
text: Did you know that the unifying principle of equilibrium chemistry is that the free energy of a system at equilibrium is the minimum possible?
text: Did you know that Dave Winfield was drafted in 1973 as a pitcher by the San Diego Padres , but was elected to the Hall of Fame as an outfielder ?
text: Did you know that interest in several primaries for the 1980 United States Senate election in Oregon was diminished partly due to the eruption of Mount St. Helens ?
text: Did you know that German World War II night fighter pilot Herbert Lütje shot down a B-17 Flying Fortress during a daytime combat mission?
text: Did you know that rock band Stoneground featured seven lead singers on their 1971 debut album?
text: Did you know that Helga Testorf , model for more than 240 works by Andrew Wyeth , has been called "the last person to be made famous by a painting"?
text: Did you know that Orchard Park has the first disc golf course in a Hillsboro, Oregon , park?
text: Did you know that Air Chief Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty gained both a mention in dispatches and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his operational flying in Iraq in the early 1920s?
text: Did you know that the location of the 8th century Battle of Hehil is unknown?
text: Did you know that Garth Stein , author of the bestselling book The Art of Racing in the Rain , had himself been a race car driver until he crashed while racing in the rain?
text: Did you know that Captain Richard Ashby, the brother of Confederate General Turner Ashby , was mortally wounded in battle and died in the ballroom at Washington Bottom Farm ?
text: Did you know that despite criticism, some high schools in the United States still hold separate segregated proms for black and white students?
text: Did you know that steamboat and railway investor Jacob Kamm started out as a printer's devil and died after being hit by a bicyclist?
text: Did you know that F. Sionil José 's Viajero (The Wanderer) is a novel about a Filipino boy adopted by an African-American soldier ?
text: Did you know that Broadway performer Idina Menzel 's casting in the Glee episode " Hello " followed a fan campaign based on her resemblance to series star Lea Michele ?
text: Did you know that the Cheddar Yeo forms the largest underground river system in Britain?
text: Did you know that after being killed in Chechnya , lieutenant colonel Dmitry Medvedev was posthumously honoured by Vladimir Putin as a Hero of the Russian Federation ?
text: Did you know that the title character of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty finally has her braces removed in the season four episode " Million Dollar Smile "?
text: Did you know that the champagne producer Jacques Selosse uses a solera system for two of its wines, the same process used in sherry ?
text: Did you know that the English Parliament of 1388 was known as the Merciless Parliament for ordering the execution of many of the advisers and supporters of Richard II ?
text: Did you know that country music singer Darrell Clanton ' s single "I Forgot That I Don't Live Here Anymore" was boycotted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving ?
text: Did you know that the goal of the New Economic Model is to more than double per capita income in Malaysia by 2020?
text: Did you know that the South African RG Outrider mine protected vehicle makes extensive use of commercial off-the-shelf parts to reduce crew training and logistics problems?
text: Did you know that in the film Kommandør Treholt & ninjatroppen , real-life convicted spy Arne Treholt is presented as the leader of a band of ninjas who saved Norway during the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that according to a 2007 Australian national survey covering cannabis use in Australia , one-third of the population aged 14 years or older have tried the drug at least once?
text: Did you know that Increase Mather , the early American Puritan preacher, ordered a copy of The London Jilt , a pornographic prose tale about a prostitute?
text: Did you know that an aqueduct of the abandoned Wiconisco Canal in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania is still used as a highway bridge?
text: Did you know that Leah Poulton scored an ODI century in her third match for Australia women's cricket team ?
text: Did you know that Madonna licensed her entire music catalogue to the television series Glee , resulting in the tribute episode " The Power of Madonna "?
text: Did you know that the novels Tree , The Pretenders , and Mass are parts of F. Sionil José ’s series The Rosales Saga ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Schmidt told Red Army officers after the Battle of Stalingrad that "a German Field Marshal does not commit suicide with a pair of scissors "?
text: Did you know that Kenny Chesney was scheduled to film a music video for his song " The Tin Man " at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
text: Did you know that Belmont Castle , an 18th century neo-Gothic mansion near Grays in the English county of Essex , was demolished in 1943 to make way for a chalk quarry?
text: Did you know that the North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard , giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
text: Did you know that Richard Packer's name is written on parchment stored in a glass cylinder underneath the corner stone in the foundation of the church of St Michael's Church School ?
text: Did you know that over a million people were expected to visit Teotihuacán for the annual spring equinox celebrations in 2010?
text: Did you know that Elvis Presley had watches by Mathey-Tissot customized to give their wearers privileged access to his concerts?
text: Did you know that in Albanian mythology , when people go for a walk and step on a shtojzovalle they may get devoured by it?
text: Did you know that actor, director, and film critic Pål Bang-Hansen is the only Norwegian to have interviewed John Lennon ?
text: Did you know that one of the frescoes found at the royal palace in Mari, Syria , depicts in the center the "investiture of Zimrilim " by a warrior-goddess, most probably Ishtar ?
text: Did you know that the United States has 58 National Parks in 29 states and territories, the first of which was Yellowstone National Park , created in 1872?
text: Did you know that Michele Amatore , who was a Sudanese slave, became a captain in the Bersaglieri regiment and was decorated for his work in Sicily ?
text: Did you know that a landmark court ruling has allowed Limerick pubs to sell alcohol today for the first time on Good Friday ?
text: Did you know that Dope Stars Inc. 's debut album was originally titled New Breed of Digital Fuckers before they changed the title to Neuromance a few months before release?
text: Did you know that when Scotsman Alistair Urquhart was a Japanese prisoner of war , he survived the building of the infamous Death Railway , the sinking of a Japanese hell ship , and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ?
text: Did you know that the author of the book on Scientology , The Road to Total Freedom , was investigated by an undercover agent for the Church of Scientology ?
text: Did you know that Major Matthew Connolly was an expert on molluscs and the father of writer and critic Cyril Connolly ?
text: Did you know that Hindu god Vishnu was cursed to take countless avatars because he committed the sin of woman-slaughter ?
text: Did you know that Lauren Burns won Australia 's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo ?
text: Did you know that binding selectivity is of major importance in biochemistry and in chemical separation processes ?
text: Did you know that Max van Egmond recorded the bass arias of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Claudio Abbado and the words of Jesus with Gustav Leonhardt ?
text: Did you know that the government of North Korea operates an overseas chain of restaurants from which staff occasionally attempt to escape?
text: Did you know that State of War is the debut novel written in 1988 by award-winning Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca ?
text: Did you know that when Walter Lappert started an ice cream company in 1983 at age 61 he sold out his first batch of 17,000 liters in just two weeks?
text: Did you know that the words of the 1974 song " Take Me to the River ", written by Al Green , were described by musician David Byrne as combining "teenage lust with baptism – a potent blend"?
text: Did you know that the Fox Island Electric Cooperative operates the largest community wind energy facility on the East Coast of the United States?
text: Did you know that it is unknown what Rhynchactis anglerfish eat or how they feed, as they have no "fishing lure" and barely any teeth?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Jocko Thompson served in the United States military during World War II , where his platoon captured a bridge that was named after him 60 years later?
text: Did you know that the subject of Wheeler v Saunders Ltd was a pair of smelly pig houses?
text: Did you know that The Queen was captured by the Germans in 1916?
text: Did you know that a rain of blood in Germany foreshadowed the coming of the Black Death ?
text: Did you know that James Brown flew an F-22 Raptor and survived a fuel leak while traveling at almost the speed of sound ?
text: Did you know that despite dying in battle and being beheaded, Máel Brigte of Moray still managed to kill his opponent Sigurd the Mighty , a 10th-century Earl of Orkney , as he rode home afterwards?
text: Did you know that the Duke of Edinburgh won a recorded 95% of the vote in a Greek head of state election , but was never appointed?
text: Did you know that Martin Van Buren was over twenty feet wide?
text: Did you know that residents of Castleford , England , were incensed when their council tried to eliminate Tickle Cock ?
text: Did you know that the citizens of Picoazá , Ecuador , elected foot powder as their mayor?
text: Did you know that Bertie Ahern speaks Bertiespeak ?
text: Did you know that humpbacked elves are rarely seen because their bodies are microscopic?
text: Did you know that Lindbergh raced an airplane from Washington to New York in under three hours, without ever leaving the ground?
text: Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson took a pew from South Leith Parish Church ?
text: Did you know that Elvis is still alive and teaching soccer at Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School ?
text: Did you know that the first Territorial Governor of Montana , Sidney Edgerton , fought as a Squirrel Hunter during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that T. rex survives underground in Kenya ?
text: Did you know that two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister Gordon Brown , have been recently cited as more popular than The Beatles ?
text: Did you know that Tom Cruse was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantly charging hostile Indians?
text: Did you know that the cod Yorkshire dialect , one on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle , in Monty Python 's "Trouble at Mill" sketch actually means something ?
text: Did you know that Guinness Black Lager is a new black lager which is being test marketed in Malaysia by Diageo for sale in the west under its Guinness brand name?
text: Did you know that the yellow morel was once a Phallus ?
text: Did you know that Leonid Malashkin was the true composer of Kodály's " Buttocks -Pressing Song"?
text: Did you know that in October 1968, Dumbo was arrested in Las Palmas , Spain ?
text: Did you know that Wikipedia covers the whole shebang ?
text: Did you know that Perth, Western Australia , got rid of ugly men in 1948?
text: Did you know that the Prada Store in Marfa , Texas , is never open?
text: Did you know that Professor Dirk Obbink is an expert on material from garbage heaps and charred remains ?
text: Did you know that the Ilkley Museum in Yorkshire , England , is a notable habitat for Brunus edwardii ?
text: Did you know that the American television show Glee was written with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies ?
text: Did you know that Frank Hansford-Miller , founder of the English National Party , emigrated to Australia ?
text: Did you know that "Everything in Sussex is a She except a Tom Cat and she's a He"?
text: Did you know that buttock mail was a form of punishment for fornication , an alternative to the stool of repentance ?
text: Did you know that William Shakespeare was nicknamed "The Merchant of Menace"?
text: Did you know that the diamond mine in Pomona , German South-West Africa , was the richest of its time, generating over a million carats between 1912 and 1914?
text: Did you know that Pope John Paul II traveled more than all his predecessors combined ?
text: Did you know that the world's northernmost grove of Redwood trees is located in the Chetco River watershed and includes specimens reaching over 300 feet (91 m) tall?
text: Did you know that Duke Dunne , an Olympic pentathlete and Michigan football captain, later presided over the sale of the Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck and the Kansas City Athletics to Charlie Finley ?
text: Did you know that Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, Ohio , was designated a historic site after its destruction?
text: Did you know that between 1836 and 1846, the Congregationalist missionary Edward Stallybrass , who had proselytized in Siberia , published translations of the Old and the New Testament into Mongolian ?
text: Did you know that the Hungarian Railway Museum exhibits an automobile that belonged to Prime Minister Jenő Fock but that was later converted to travel on rails?
text: Did you know that the Russian Empire built the Krepost Sveaborg fortress around Helsinki , Finland , during the First World War ?
text: Did you know that presidential advisor John P. Lewis argued that aid to developing nations was a necessary component of American foreign policy, despite the budgetary costs and the potential for misuse?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 715 , the manuscript of the New Testament , contains also extracts of Eulogius of Alexandria and of Hesychius?
text: Did you know that Chilean-German pianist Alfredo Perl is the current conductor of the Detmold Chamber Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that elections of Superintendents of the Provinces of New Zealand were such exciting events that even the children of that time could remember it later in their adult lives?
text: Did you know that, although doctors give it only a 10% success rate, smoking cessation educator Joel Spitzer encourages people to quit smoking cold turkey ?
text: Did you know that a fire on the French battleship Justice nearly caused an explosion similar to one that had destroyed one of her sisterships ?
text: Did you know that the 15th Alabama Infantry is best known for being one of the regiments that confronted the 20th Maine on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863?
text: Did you know that Gunnar Sætren was manager for the Bandak-Norsjø Canal for sixteen years starting in 1891?
text: Did you know that the Quebec Remparts won the 1971 Memorial Cup , Canada's junior hockey championship, after a playoffs marred by fan violence and threats against players by the Front de libération du Québec ?
text: Did you know that Louis F. Kosco sponsored "retaliatory legislation" in the New Jersey Senate to impose a commuter tax on New York residents who worked in the Garden State?
text: Did you know that although the Italian battleship Impero was built in Genoa , it was moved to Trieste for completion?
text: Did you know that the South Yuba Canal Office was the headquarters for the largest network of water flumes and ditches in California ?
text: Did you know that the male Pink-Striped Oakworm Moth attracts females by buzzing similar to a bee?
text: Did you know that Montague Edward Smith , a Justice of the Common Pleas , was made both a Bencher and Treasurer of the Middle Temple , despite having been called to the Bar at a different Inn of Court ?
text: Did you know that an earthquake similar in size to the 1916 Irondale earthquake could cause nearly USD 1 billion in damage to cities of Alabama?
text: Did you know that professional footballer James Caine ' s son Brian also played professionally?
text: Did you know that the documentary film 9to5 – Days in Porn by Jens Hoffmann documents a year in the lives of members of the U.S. porn industry ?
text: Did you know that in English trusts law , beneficiaries of charitable trusts have no direct control?
text: Did you know that Alanqa is a newly described pterosaur from Morocco which had a wingspan of up to six metres?
text: Did you know that the configuration of the Sud-Est Grognard led to the aircraft being given the nickname "Hunchback"?
text: Did you know that the popularity of the medieval historical work Gesta pontificum Anglorum , written by William of Malmesbury about 1125, pales besides that of its companion work the Gesta Regum Anglorum ?
text: Did you know that the Kolb Flyer ultralight aircraft is powered by two engines that only produce 11.5 horsepower (8.6 kW) each?
text: Did you know that the animators of the video game company Amanita Design created the designs of puppets for the film Kooky ?
text: Did you know that the Messina Palace in Valletta , a residence of wealthy naval officers for centuries, was purchased by the German-Maltese Circle in 1989, with assistance from the Federal Republic of Germany ?
text: Did you know that as head coach in 2003, Scott Marr brought the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team to the NCAA tournament for the first time?
text: Did you know that, at 115 metres (377 ft) tall, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower, planned for the 2012 Summer Olympics , will be the United Kingdom 's largest piece of public art to date?
text: Did you know that Triaenops goodmani , an extinct bat from Madagascar , is known only from three lower jaws?
text: Did you know that English suffragette Olive Wharry was imprisoned in 1913 for an arson attack at Kew Gardens ?
text: Did you know that the emission spectrum of GRB 020813 confirmed the relation between supernovae and gamma-ray bursts ?
text: Did you know that American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer created the role of the mother of Yueyang in Tan Dun 's opera The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 714 , the manuscript of the New Testament , contains also a fragment of Sentences of Peter Lombard ?
text: Did you know that director Vladimir Pogačić ' s 1951 film The Last Day is considered the first Yugoslav spy film ?
text: Did you know that Dean Martin 's song " The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane " was a number-one in the United Kingdom but is omitted by the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that award-winning author Lois Duncan thinks that her novel Don't Look Behind You was a premonition of her daughter being killed by a hired gunman?
text: Did you know that Frederick Booth-Tucker of The Salvation Army was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1913 for his work among the poor of India ?
text: Did you know that the history of meditation is inherently intertwined with the religious context within which it was practiced?
text: Did you know that Carmelita González , who earned $21 for her first film appearance, became a leading actress during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema ?
text: Did you know that Carlin–type gold deposit represent some of the largest hydrothermal gold deposits in the world?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet Kuznetsov NK-12 ?
text: Did you know that the Action of 9 February 1799 fought between the frigates USS Constellation and L'Insurgente during the Quasi War was the first ever victory for the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Robert John Armstrong gave the benediction at a former farm boy 's inauguration ?
text: Did you know that the first prototype ConvAirCar crashed because its pilot read the wrong fuel gauge before takeoff?
text: Did you know that Estonian - Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich ?
text: Did you know that the bootlace tree and bootlace oak are found across Australia's dry interior?
text: Did you know that actor Matt Damon guest starred in the season finale episode of 30 Rock " I Do Do " after learning he was at the top of series creator Tina Fey 's guest star wish list?
text: Did you know that as a result of her parents' divorce, Princess Alexandrine became the adopted daughter of her otherwise childless uncle Frederick William IV of Prussia ?
text: Did you know that derivatives of diamond-like compound adamantane are used as drugs against flu and Parkinson's disease ?
text: Did you know that Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo reside in a subway station under Cambridge , Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Jutland , the German dreadnought SMS Posen accidentally rammed the light cruiser SMS Elbing , which had to be scuttled due to the damage?
text: Did you know that a St. Petersburg Times investigation on deaths related to Scientology was recommended in an article of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review ?
text: Did you know that the Old Nichol was a Cockney enclave and the East End of London 's most notorious slum in Victorian times ?
text: Did you know that in 1976, Arkansas Republicans nominated for governor an unknown plumber , Leon Griffith of Pine Bluff , after a Minnesota Vikings football player declined the party's offer of support?
text: Did you know that the fungus Epidermophyton floccosum can cause the diseases tinea pedis , tinea cruris , tinea corporis and onychomycosis ?
text: Did you know that American sociologist Mildred Parten developed a theory on children's stages of play ?
text: Did you know that in 1066, the Lutici sacrificed the head of a captured bishop to their deity?
text: Did you know that Odd Øyen , active in Norway's WWII resistance , later became the first non- Swede in many years to be decorated with the Order of Vasa for participation in the Congo Crisis ?
text: Did you know that the Dyott monoplane , built in London , was flown over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in the United States during 1913, and would have been flown in India had it not been commandeered by the Admiralty in 1914?
text: Did you know that theatre producer Fred O'Donovan worked with a range of people as diverse as Seán O'Casey , George Bernard Shaw , Peter O'Toole and Maureen Potter ?
text: Did you know that Kassian Cephas , a court photographer of the Yogyakarta Sultanate , was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer?
text: Did you know that the Italian ship Castore was commissioned as a gunboat , but was later redesignated as a barge , a minelayer , and a torpedo training vessel?
text: Did you know that William Sharp , surgeon to paupers and a princess , commissioned a painting of his family playing music on a barge ?
text: Did you know that the crystal symmetry of melanophlogite changes depending on the guests trapped inside it?
text: Did you know that over 100,000 people claim to have been at Thomond Park in 1978 when Munster became the only Irish rugby team to ever beat the All Blacks , although the stadium only had a capacity of 12,000?
text: Did you know that HMS Erin , a Reshadieh class battleship , was flagship of the Nore reserve in 1919?
text: Did you know that lesbian union organizer Mary Kay Henry was elected the first woman president of the Service Employees International Union on May 8, 2010?
text: Did you know that Chard Museum in Somerset , England , includes a collection of early articulated artificial limbs ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan long distance runner Eliud Kiptanui went on to win the Prague Marathon after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption prevented him from traveling to the Vienna Marathon three weeks earlier?
text: Did you know that the Saab 18 bomber could be fitted with a 57-millimetre (2.2 in) cannon under the nose for strafing missions?
text: Did you know that the title track of Boogie Bill Webb ' s 1989 album , Drinkin' and Stinkin', was inspired by his encounter with three drunken women?
text: Did you know that the 68.98-kg Welcome Nugget found in Ballarat, Victoria in 1858 was the largest gold nugget found, until eclipsed by the Welcome Stranger 11 years later?
text: Did you know that Josephus , who provides the sole surviving account of the Siege of Yodfat , was not only a participant of the battle but in fact commanded Yodfat 's defenders?
text: Did you know that the Russian frigate General Admiral evacuated Cretan insurgents and their families in 1868 during the Cretan Revolt against the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Al Martino had the first ever number-one single in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that in 1911, pioneer aviator George Dyott made one of the first nighttime flights in his Deperdussin in Nassau , carrying a searchlight powered by cables to the ground?
text: Did you know that typhoid adware infesting a victim's laptop may pump advertisements to "healthy" laptops close by in a wireless internet cafe without the victim's knowledge?
text: Did you know that not only was Wong Yu (黃裕) the sole survivor of an airline crash , he was also the hijacker of the plane?
text: Did you know that the American Chicago blues singer , harmonicist and songwriter , Golden "Big" Wheeler , got his enthusiasm for playing the harmonica when he was working as a taxicab driver?
text: Did you know that Siobhán Parkinson recently became the first ever Laureate na nÓg ?
text: Did you know that New Jersey State Senator John P. Scott was described by The New York Times as "one of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature "?
text: Did you know that the Ottoman battleship Abdul Kadir was canceled and scrapped because its keel blocks had moved?
text: Did you know that William Sharp , the first science teacher in a British public school , resigned in 1850 and later published papers on homeopathy ?
text: Did you know that it is estimated that 1.5 million Australians are descended from migrants who were received at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre ?
text: Did you know that one of the duties of the medieval English justice Richard Herriard (d. 1208) was paying prostitutes for King John of England ?
text: Did you know that following his defeat at Neopatras , John Palaiologos led the remnants of his army in a 40-mile overnight ride to come to the aid of the Byzantine fleet and win the Battle of Demetrias ?
text: Did you know that the grasslands of the Ord River Floodplain are the only place in Western Australia where Zitting Cisticolas occur naturally?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr. played Carnegie Hall in 1974?
text: Did you know that Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film ?
text: Did you know that to prevent flooding on Colorado State Highway 74 , 34-foot high walls were constructed along the road?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Pindus (1940), the Italian Julia Division , after its initial advance, was surrounded and virtually wiped out by the Greek Army ?
text: Did you know that the decision in R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Northumbria Police Authority was described by Robert Ward as opening "a Pandora's box – from which a host of evils were loosed upon the world"?
text: Did you know that Frim Frimodig played high school football with The Gipper and held Michigan State 's single-game basketball scoring record for 35 years?
text: Did you know that HMS Laura , captured by the French in 1812, became an American privateer , only to be recaptured by the British less than a year later?
text: Did you know that Albert W. Barney received an award from a day school and retired after sitting on the bench ?
text: Did you know that 2⅓ miles (5.8 km) of Iowa Highway 316 form the border between Marion County and Warren County, Iowa ?
text: Did you know that Ole Jacob Broch founded Scandinavia 's first life insurance company?
text: Did you know that Beta Cassiopeiae is the brightest of the Delta Scuti variables in the sky?
text: Did you know that each year on the Danish island of Bornholm , an artist is selected to have a street in the village of Østermarie named after him?
text: Did you know that painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was denounced as a thief when he attempted to take a votive painting from a Mexican church ?
text: Did you know that in England's Premier League football competition, 14 players from 10 different clubs have won the Golden Boot award, given to the season's top scorer?
text: Did you know that Emil John Mihalik , the first Byzantine Eparch of Parma, was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that 2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans included 24 McDonald's All-American Game selectees of whom about 22 are expected to play in the National Basketball Association ?
text: Did you know that Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker served as High Sheriff of Essex , Deputy Lieutenant of Essex , and Member of Parliament for South Essex ?
text: Did you know that the Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar Site sometimes holds up to 200,000 waterbirds, as well as large numbers of Freshwater Crocodiles ?
text: Did you know that Gooch Gauthier coached a "little band of Battling Bishops" to victory over the Michigan Wolverines in the 1928 season opener at The Big House ?
text: Did you know that within a period of 13 years, the Austro-Hungarian Navy succeeded in producing 13 battleships ?
text: Did you know that a lunar eclipse enabled Christopher Columbus to trick the indigenous people of Jamaica into resuming supplying food to him and his crew while they were stranded there?
text: Did you know that the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in the Old English epic poem Beowulf ?
text: Did you know that historian Doris Mary Stenton helped revive the dormant Pipe Roll Society in 1922, and became its organizing secretary in 1923?
text: Did you know that the Russian tanker Vandal was one of the first two diesel-powered ships in the world?
text: Did you know that Peter Deinboll was decorated with both the British Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Norwegian War Cross with Sword ?
text: Did you know that Mysterious Walker , who played for or coached more than 30 baseball , basketball and football teams, earned his nickname pitching for the San Francisco Seals under a pseudonym and wearing a mask?
text: Did you know that Denton Hall Turret is the easternmost surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall ?
text: Did you know that geographer Yngvar Nielsen published a travel guide book in 1879, which played an important role in the development of tourism in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the Littlehead porgy fish has been described as one of the most brightly colored members of the porgy family , which contains well over 100 species in 37 genera ?
text: Did you know that a photograph of Wem Town Hall in Shropshire , England , taken during a fire, appears to show the ghost of a young girl standing amidst the flames?
text: Did you know that the American Detroit blues guitarist , singer and songwriter , Bobo Jenkins , penned the politically motivated "Democrat Blues" on US Election Day in 1952?
text: Did you know that the Hunterian Collection includes about 30,000 coins, the majority of which are Greek or Roman?
text: Did you know that Boeing 's Phantom Ray UCAV was kept a secret even within the company for almost two years?
text: Did you know that Walter Conway ' s Tredegar Medical Aid Society was a model for Britain 's National Health Service ?
text: Did you know that the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam , which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
text: Did you know that bass Franz Kelch sang the role of Seneca in the first recording of Monteverdi ' s opera L'incoronazione di Poppea with Walter Goehr and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Miguel Fuentes , who threw the last pitch in Seattle Pilots history, was murdered at the age of 23?
text: Did you know that after serving as personal assistant to Tom Cruise , Michael Doven became a film producer ?
text: Did you know that sultan Baybars divided the land of Ar'ara between two of his amirs in 1265–1266 CE?
text: Did you know that the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi , a Latin poem on the life of St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in pre-conquest England "?
text: Did you know that the resignation of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister of Indonesia caused its stock exchange to drop by 3.8% and its currency value to drop by 1%, and was the fourth most talked about topic in Twitter ?
text: Did you know that the Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class torpedo boat was the largest class of torpedo boats ever produced for the Kaiserliche Marine ?
text: Did you know that British shooter Matt Skelhon shot a perfect 600 score whilst winning a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that between 2005 and 2008, EContentplus funded over 60 digital content projects ‎in the European Union , including DIGMAP and Communia ?
text: Did you know that bass singer Harry van der Kamp founded the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam to perform madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ?
text: Did you know that Gernot Bergold is considered the father of biochemical insect virology ?
text: Did you know that the directors of Blue Mont Central College had to offer the college's building and land to the state of Kansas three times before the state accepted it and converted it into Kansas State University in 1863?
text: Did you know that during the Middle Ages , a papal legate holding a legatine council outranked all other council attendees?
text: Did you know that pitcher Amalio Carreño was ejected in his final Major League Baseball appearance?
text: Did you know that species of the jelly fungus genus Tremella are parasitic on wood-rotting fungi ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Sen. Robert M. Marionneaux was the first white elected to campus government at historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge ?
text: Did you know that a hedge or topiary made of the lillipilli Syzygium smithii is more resistant to psyllids than other lillipillies are?
text: Did you know that the Vilar Technology Center at Washington & Jefferson College was renamed the Technology Center , after its namesake reneged on a $18.1 million pledge to the college?
text: Did you know that according to local tradition, the rental paid to the king for the Scottish castle and island of Fraoch Eilean was one snowball ?
text: Did you know that when Bolivian veteran trade unionist Román Loayza Caero announced his presidential aspirations in 2009, the Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), which he had led for nine years, publicly denounced his candidature?
text: Did you know that the 1992 College Baseball All-America Team included three future Major League All-Stars , two future Olympians and the Major League career recordholder for no-hitters caught?
text: Did you know that George Osborne , in his first speech as the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer , announced a new independent Office for Budget Responsibility to take the politics out of economic forecasting?
text: Did you know that the Bloch MB.480 , despite proving successful in testing, was cancelled by the French Navy in favour of landplanes?
text: Did you know that Charles de Condren (1588–1641) was the second superior of the Oratory of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that archaeologists found pottery shards at the Bowen site linking it to the Oliver Phase of woodland culture development?
text: Did you know that in the Bancoult litigation, the English courts and government first decided that the Chagossians could return home, then that they couldn't, then that they could, and then that they couldn't?
text: Did you know that the destruction of over 150 million reis -worth of Nyassa Company stamps was ordered in 1895 by the Portuguese government because the stamps had been printed in England and not Portugal ?
text: Did you know that the medieval English royal administrator William of Wrotham (d. c. 1217) was responsible for the development of royal dockyards at Portsmouth ?
text: Did you know that the Wadi Qelt Synagogue located in Wadi Qelt west of Jericho , is the oldest synagogue in Israel that has been found to date?
text: Did you know that John Kobs , Michigan State 's first hockey coach, switched Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Roberts from a first baseman to a pitcher ?
text: Did you know that The Colm and Lucy Show began as a result of the death of Gerry Ryan , the presenter of The Gerry Ryan Show ?
text: Did you know that the Quebec-born Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux helped to organize French military operations in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the Napoleonic Wars (1805–1815), and the July Revolution (1830)?
text: Did you know that Howl 's album, Full of Hell is dedicated to people who were called ' fags ', 'weirdos' and 'losers'?
text: Did you know that John Rinka , the eighth-highest scoring player in NCAA men's basketball history, scored 3,251 points in the era before the three-point line was instituted?
text: Did you know that the Shcherbakov Shche-2 was used by the Soviet Air Force to resupply partisan forces during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Rocky Iaukea , a second generation American professional wrestler, is the son of King Curtis Iaukea ?
text: Did you know that in the documentary film Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy all eight Elm Street films are explored through interviews with over 100 members of the production team and cast?
text: Did you know that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis , one of the fullest and most trustworthy hagiographies from the Middle Ages?
text: Did you know that the caterpillar of the moth Aglaope infausta can retract its head into its prothorax ?
text: Did you know that reading an issue of the magazine Reflex so seriously disturbed the wife of a former Czech Prime Minister that she had to be hospitalized?
text: Did you know that Louisette Bertholle was one of three authors of the seminal 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking , with Julia Child and Simone Beck ?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 241 belonged to Matthew Baillie , physician and pathologist, before it came to the Glasgow University Library ?
text: Did you know that Ike Davis , the New York Mets rookie first baseman, is the 197th son to follow in their father's footsteps and became a Major League Baseball player?
text: Did you know the wedding featured in the 30 Rock episode " Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land " was filmed in Saint Cecilia's Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that the magazine Albania is regarded as a mini-encyclopedia of the Albanian culture of the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that Nazi concentration camps relied on a hierarchical prisoner functionary system to both run the day-to-day camp operations and keep the prisoners divided and dependent?
text: Did you know that Mien Ruys , a Dutch garden architect, started the fad of designing gardens using railroad ties (Dutch, bielzen ), so much so that her nickname became Bielzen Mien ?
text: Did you know that the last commander of the USS Oklahoma held that position for only 34 minutes?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana state appeal court Judge H. Welborn Ayres wrote a history of his native Ashland , a village in northern Natchitoches Parish ?
text: Did you know that the only French soldier killed in the 1940 assault on the Maginot Line 's Ouvrage Fermont is interred in its main gallery?
text: Did you know that Luther Halsey Gulick , son of missionary Peter Johnson Gulick , had a son Luther Halsey Gulick who is in the basketball Hall of Fame , and a grandson also named Luther Halsey Gulick ?
text: Did you know that Nikephoros II Orsini was killed during the Battle of Achelous and his whole army was destroyed by Albanian forces, marking the end of the Orsini dynasty in the Despotate of Epirus ?
text: Did you know that Ciguli Miguli is a 1952 Yugoslav film that was banned for 25 years for its satire of socialist bureaucracy ?
text: Did you know that cricketers Charles Winter , Charles Winter , and Charles Winter all failed to make double-figure scores when batting on their first-class debuts?
text: Did you know that SMS Westfalen led the retreat of the German High Seas Fleet from the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
text: Did you know that Johnny Noble was the first Hawaiian composer to be inducted into the ASCAP ?
text: Did you know that Microgale macpheei is the only known recently extinct tenrec ?
text: Did you know that P. T. Barnum named English showman Tom Norman the "Silver King" because of his gift for putting on a show?
text: Did you know that Obama Anak Menteng ( Obama, the Menteng Kid ), a novel about Barack Obama 's childhood in Indonesia , was written in just four days?
text: Did you know that while inspecting anemometers on the rooftop of the Bidston Observatory, John Hartnup Jr. "was seized with a fit of giddiness" and fell to his death?
text: Did you know that the Giaconda Winery is named after the Mona Lisa ?
text: Did you know that Hugh Bardulf is one of the few justices mentioned by name in the Tractatus of Glanvill , an early medieval English legal text?
text: Did you know that despite covering more than 50% of this planet's surface, abyssal plains are among the least explored regions on Earth?
text: Did you know that Lucy Lambert Hale , the secret fiancée of Abraham Lincoln 's assassin John Wilkes Booth , later married a United States Secretary of the Navy ?
text: Did you know that Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines planned the first transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?
text: Did you know that the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House in Washington, D.C. , has been called the "Cream White House " and the "Little White House," and was once the headquarters for NASA ?
text: Did you know that Save the Children 's State of the World's Mothers report ranked the United States 28th, citing a lifetime risk of maternal death six times greater in the U.S. than in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that John Law , bishop of Clonfert , Killala and Elphin , was a Second Wrangler ?
text: Did you know that pictures from the photographic archive of Michael Ochs have been featured in practically every release by Rhino Records and Bear Family Records ?
text: Did you know that although two prototypes of the Interstate XBDR flying bomb were ordered, only a 1/17-scale model was ever built?
text: Did you know that the last three New Zealand Open tournaments, the leading men's golf tournament in New Zealand , were played on Michael Hill's private golf course?
text: Did you know that Stephen Gately 's book The Tree of Seasons contains an introduction written by his husband describing his early life in one of "the poorest parts of Dublin City ", "a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"?
text: Did you know that Doug Yasinsky and Brick Bronsky started their own Harrisburg-based wrestling league, International Pro Wrestling?
text: Did you know that the floors in the Swanson Science Center at Washington & Jefferson College are overstabilized to protect the laboratories from vibrations due to an adjacent highway?
text: Did you know that Ana María Canseco has posed dressed as Greta Garbo and wore a mustache ?
text: Did you know that Indian Rock Schoolhouse is the only one of 12 19th-century one-room schoolhouses remaining intact in Amenia, New York ?
text: Did you know that the thallium -rich mineral lorandite from the Allchar deposit is being used to determine the flux of solar neutrinos ?
text: Did you know that Mexican painter Gabriel Flores created a mural in 1967 honoring the child heroes who died in the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War ?
text: Did you know that though the pearl dace faces threats such as habitat destruction , invasive species , and overharvesting , it has not yet been listed as federally endangered in the United States?
text: Did you know that the criminal syndicate known as Avalanche was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009?
text: Did you know that World War II fighter pilot Nigel Cullen , who became an ace with 16 aerial victories, was nicknamed "Ape" for his imposing physique?
text: Did you know that, while President of the American Statistical Association , Robert V. Hogg wore the name tag " Boss Hogg " after the character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard ?
text: Did you know that breast cancer in men tends to be diagnosed later than breast cancer in women ?
text: Did you know that the medieval French monk Reginald of Canterbury wrote a long Latin epic poem on Malchus, a Syrian saint whose life was originally recorded by Saint Jerome ?
text: Did you know that the basalt of Malapai Hill is full of xenoliths of lherzolite brought up from the mantle ?
text: Did you know that design work on the Avro Canada CF-103 began before the aircraft it was supposed to replace entered service?
text: Did you know that in order for the village of Millbrook, New York , to accept the donation of Thorne Memorial School , it had to incorporate ?
text: Did you know that Rotrou III of Perche was one of the first to go over the walls at the Siege of Antioch , a major action of the First Crusade ?
text: Did you know that the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon successfully navigated the " roaring forties ", " furious fifties " and " screaming sixties " only to get wrecked on the rocks of Central California 500 feet (150 m) offshore?
text: Did you know that the British band Githead was originally formed in 2004 as a one-off live act to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Colin Newman 's and Malka Spigel 's record label Swim ~ ?
text: Did you know that the medieval English clergyman Ralph Foliot donated 20 books to Hereford Cathedral on his death?
text: Did you know that Heerfordt's syndrome affects 0.3% of patients afflicted with sarcoidosis ?
text: Did you know that in the recent UK election Nick Smith regained Blaenau Gwent for Labour , keeping a promise to the late Michael Foot ?
text: Did you know that a hurricane that struck Monterrey, Mexico , in 1909 resulted in the deaths of at least 4,000 people during the night of August 27?
text: Did you know that Norwegian film critic Arne Hestenes , a one-time jury member of the Cannes Film Festival , was an honorary citizen of Cannes ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Countdown to Zero , which analyzes the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons , has been privately screened for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ?
text: Did you know that to save money on the construction of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Amenia Union, New York , the congregants brought building materials to the site with their own horse teams ?
text: Did you know that Angela de la Cruz , Susan Philipsz , Dexter Dalwood and the Otolith Group were nominated for the 2010 Turner Prize ?
text: Did you know that in Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) an English court permitted the separation of two conjoined twins knowing that one would die?
text: Did you know that photographer and artist Zoe Leonard ' s 1995 exhibition Strange Fruit (for David) featured discarded fruit skins sewn together and decorated?
text: Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-37 bomber Rodina was used to set a flight distance record by an all-female crew in 1938?
text: Did you know that the same cast members starred in Robert Altman 's 1982 Broadway and film versions of Ed Graczyk ' s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ?
text: Did you know that the Monza ampullae are metal pilgrimage souvenirs from the Holy Land , dating to circa AD 600, and important in art history for their iconography ?
text: Did you know that Canadian nun Eulalie Durocher has been associated with the recovery of a man declared dead and sudden changes in the course of two fires ?
text: Did you know that the 1923 children's novel King Matt the First is as popular in Poland as Peter Pan is in the English-speaking world?
text: Did you know that soprano Dorothee Mields sang solo and tutti in five cantatas composed for Pentecost by the prolific Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , a contemporary of Bach ?
text: Did you know that the Humble Indie Bundle , a week-long "pay what you want" charitable promotion from several independent video game developers , raised over $1 million?
text: Did you know that despite being blind and unable to walk without assistance Joaquín Balaguer won 24.6% of the vote in the 2000 Dominican Republic presidential election ?
text: Did you know that the traditional crop of the Pacific island of Tuvalu , pulaka , is threatened by rising sea levels, and thus is their way of life threatened as well?
text: Did you know that Giuliana Camerino named her Venetian fashion house Roberta di Camerino after the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta ?
text: Did you know that soprano Adele Stolte recorded the Bach cantata for Pentecost Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 with the Thomanerchor conducted by Erhard Mauersberger ?
text: Did you know that the first English translations of the works of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov were published by Breslov Research Institute more than 170 years after the Rebbe's death?
text: Did you know that Albanian writer Jani Vreto was excommunicated by the Orthodox metropolitan of Gjirokastër , who accused him of having committed heresy by "creating an Albanian question"?
text: Did you know that the horror short story compilation novel Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales won five major awards and was nominated for another?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 226 of the New Testament , in some parts is a palimpsest , contains lessons from the Old Testament ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon predicted General Michel Ordener would die within five or six years—and although he retired, Ordener died in 1811?
text: Did you know that the reed beds of Minsmere RSPB reserve , one of the UK's premier birdwatching sites, were established as a result of anti-invasion measures during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Edith Hughes , considered Britain's first practising woman architect , was refused entry to the all-male Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927?
text: Did you know that a recent gas outburst at a colliery in China led to death, poisoning, suspensions, sackings and the disappearance of one person?
text: Did you know that there is only one surviving example of a coin struck at the Anglo-Saxon mint at Horndon-on-the-Hill ?
text: Did you know that in 1921 Oliver Winfield Killam , a Texas industrialist and former Oklahoma state legislator, launched the South Texas Oil Boom centered near Laredo ?
text: Did you know that the headscarf of the St. Lucian national costume can be tied to show the availability of the woman for courtship?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899 , one of the candidates was assassinated and another candidate was charged as an accomplice to the crime?
text: Did you know that one archaeological site was discovered by groundhogs ?
text: Did you know that Charles Cornwallis , during his governorship in India , refused to blame General William Medows for his performance in the 1792 Siege of Seringapatam ?
text: Did you know that the 1991 College Baseball All-America Team included a future Major League All-Star , a future Olympic games gold medalist and the Major League career pinch hit RBI record holder?
text: Did you know that Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley 's poem " Little Orphant Annie " was first published in the Indianapolis Journal ?
text: Did you know that the design of the SECAT S-5 was based on that of an earlier aircraft, work on which the outbreak of World War II had disrupted?
text: Did you know that Fay Boozman , as the state health director under Governor Mike Huckabee , managed the "Healthy Arkansas " initiative, including the fight against obesity ?
text: Did you know that voter turnout for the 2001 judicial reform referendum in Botswana was just 4.9%?
text: Did you know that Shishupala Vadha , a Sanskrit epic poem by Magha , contains what has been called "the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented"?
text: Did you know that Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán , former president of the parliamentary Defense Committee of Bolivia , was educated in Israel ?
text: Did you know that Gold to Go offers 10-gram gold bars and custom pure gold coins for purchase from vending machines ?
text: Did you know that as a state senator in 1995, Jim Keet , the 2010 Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee , co-sponsored a law to raise safety standards for boating ?
text: Did you know that the nose of the F+W C-3605 had to be stretched by six feet (1.8 m) to balance its center of gravity ?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian -born Aldona Gustas co-founded an artistic forum in West Berlin , the "Berliner Malerpoeten", intended to attract individuals who both wrote and illustrated their works?
text: Did you know that 18.6% of the Croatian A1 motorway ' s route between Zagreb and Split consists of tunnels, bridges, viaducts and similar structures?
text: Did you know that due to Bhutanese tradition, which regards river convergence as inauspicious, there are three chortens built especially to ward off evil spirits at the point where the Paro Chhu converges with the Wong Chhu ?
text: Did you know that the repertoire of the Japanese musical style danmono consists of eight pieces, all very similar in style?
text: Did you know that Waddesdon Road railway station generated only £4 per year in passenger revenue before being taken over by the London Underground ?
text: Did you know that the existence of the mineral frankdicksonite was predicted before its discovery?
text: Did you know that Kirt Bennett ' s Young Leaders Academy in Baton Rouge was cited for excellence on The Oprah Winfrey Show and George H.W. Bush 's "National Points of Light"?
text: Did you know that Les Éboulements is located in the centre of the Charlevoix crater in Quebec , and was named after a large landslide that occurred in 1663?
text: Did you know that for creating a writing system for his Oromo language , Sheikh Bakri Sapalo was placed under house arrest in Dire Dawa by the Ethiopian government?
text: Did you know that Stinking Roger can be found east of Albany to Esperance and beyond?
text: Did you know that the cemetery at the former Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church near West Liberty, Ohio , includes graves of veterans of both the American Revolutionary War and World War II ?
text: Did you know that Canadian nun Émilie Gamelin was one of only 226 women who sought to vote at the 1832 Montreal West by-election ?
text: Did you know that a study in three Siberian towns found that 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were due to alcoholism ?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Rep. Tommy G. Armstrong of Shreveport is particularly known for his opposition to video poker ?
text: Did you know that control of the Dunne D.6 was provided by a pair of levers, one for each of the pilot's hands?
text: Did you know that remnants of a mill and dam , originally built in late Roman /early Byzantine period, can still be seen at the place of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Mirr ?
text: Did you know that Bobby Weed is the co-founder of a non-profit organization that aids autistic children?
text: Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Baden was the only capital ship not successfully sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919?
text: Did you know that international wine critics fear that the Hochmoselbrücke will harm some of the best vineyards of the Mosel riesling ?
text: Did you know that in 2001, the Zaans Museum received a commendation at the presentation of the annual European Museum of the Year Award ?
text: Did you know that Parashqevi Qiriazi was only 11 when she started to work as an elementary teacher in "Shkolla e Vashave", the first Albanian School exclusively for girls, which opened in 1891?
text: Did you know that The Headbangers were reunited during the Break The Barrier , a professional wrestling supercard in 1999?
text: Did you know that Amos Starr Cooke ran the Royal School for the Kingdom of Hawaii before co-founding the Castle & Cooke corporation with Samuel Northrup Castle ?
text: Did you know that rodeo performer Bill Linderman was the first person to win three Rodeo Cowboys Association season championships in a year?
text: Did you know that the success of the Hot Latin Tracks number-one song, " Suavemente ", was said to have been influenced by Elvis Crespo 's son?
text: Did you know that two stories explain the naming of Tres Palacios Bay in Texas ; one of which involves a vision by shipwrecked Spaniards of vanishing palaces along the bay's shores?
text: Did you know that near Calstone Wellington the Ridgeway meets the Wansdyke ?
text: Did you know that USNS Zeus was the first cable repair ship specifically built for the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Brain Drill 's album Quantum Catastrophe is loosely based on the 2012 phenomenon ?
text: Did you know that during the 1910 London to Manchester air race , Claude Grahame-White 's Farman III biplane was guarded by boy scouts , while he ate biscuits ?
text: Did you know that the mines of the Iberian Pyrite Belt have been active since before Roman times?
text: Did you know that Lorette Wood served as both the first female city council member and the first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California ?
text: Did you know that before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and his wife traveled to Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
text: Did you know that Matagorda Bay in Texas was separated from East Matagorda Bay after local residents diverted the Colorado River to control flooding?
text: Did you know that actress Eileen Beldon played a parlormaid in the 1938 film adaptation of Pygmalion ?
text: Did you know that the American Samoa Fono , the legislature of American Samoa , formed with the encouragement of Governor Vernon Huber ?
text: Did you know that German literary scholar Hans Ernst Schneider had himself declared dead so that he could marry his wife again?
text: Did you know that no President could be elected for several weeks after the 2003 Nauruan parliamentary election due to the Parliament of Nauru being evenly split between three candidates?
text: Did you know that Arturo Di Modica 's Bund Bull was modelled after both Wall Street 's Charging Bull and the Chinese zodiac 's Ox ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Neopatras , a Byzantine army of about 30,000 was surprised and defeated by a force of 300–500 Latin knights ?
text: Did you know that people of Nova Scotia’s Bear River First Nation used to hunt porpoises for their livelihood?
text: Did you know that Arkansas Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett in his failed 1960 gubernatorial bid depicted Orval Faubus , the central figure of the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation case, as a tool of the NAACP ?
text: Did you know that the Soviets considered converting several unfinished hulls of Tsarist battlecruisers to 22,000-long-ton (22,000 t) oil barges after the end of the Russian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Sir Robert Howard was twice placed in the Fleet Prison after failing to explain to the Star Chamber why Lady Purbeck kept having children?
text: Did you know that during the Victorian era , orchid hunters often endured tropical diseases , wild animals, cannibalistic tribes, and competition amongst each other?
text: Did you know that three different owners of mills at Bloomvale in Pleasant Valley, New York , defaulted on their mortgages and lost the mills to foreclosure ?
text: Did you know that the military efforts of the medieval English nobleman Gilbert de Lacy at Ludlow later became the basis of the medieval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn ?
text: Did you know that the State of Florida has twice ordered Manatee Palms Youth Services to cease admissions due to unsafe conditions?
text: Did you know that in a controversial 1988 referendum , the population of Sjöbo Municipality in Sweden voted in favor of banning Sjöbo from accepting foreign refugees?
text: Did you know that several works by Romanian Symbolist poet D. Iacobescu , who died around the age of twenty, speak about his losing battle with tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that Henry Willard purchased the Willard Hotel with gold coins because the U.S. Supreme Court told him to ?
text: Did you know that the song " Why Don't You Love Me ", performed by Beyoncé , peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, though it was never released as single ?
text: Did you know that in Revelation , Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand , which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?
text: Did you know that the first Czech aviator , Jan Kašpar , made his first flight with Blériot XI in 1910?
text: Did you know that due to the Becket controversy , from 1163 to 1173 no new bishops were appointed in England?
text: Did you know that Théodore Chassériau 's painting of his sister Aline Chassériau , now in the Louvre , was painted when he was 16 and she was 13?
text: Did you know that at the time of its discovery in 2000, GRB 000131 was the most distant gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
text: Did you know that the Navajo Nation Zoo was facing immediate closure after a visit by the gods in 1999?
text: Did you know that the Classic period Maya city of Punta de Chimino was one of the last cities to survive the political collapse of the Petexbatún region of Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that Don Coleman was the first Michigan State football player to have his number retired, the Spartans ' first African-American coach, and the first African-American teacher at Flint Central ?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam is built from 25 historic canal houses, dating to the 17th and 18th century?
text: Did you know that Jonita Lattimore performed at the opening weekend at the current homes for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Grant Park Music Festival ?
text: Did you know that one of the first acts of the Second World War on the continent of North America was the seizure of the German cargo ship Christoph Van Doornum by the Sheriff of Botwood ?
text: Did you know that conductor Fritz Werner and trumpeter Maurice André collaborated on choral works of Bach and on music of Werner himself?
text: Did you know that cool flames knock car engines?
text: Did you know that Józef Kowalczyk served longer in one country than any other apostolic nuncio ?
text: Did you know that the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos , in Mexico City , provides more than 85 million public transport rides annually, using exclusively electric trolleybuses and light rail cars?
text: Did you know that Guillaume Beneman was one of several prominent late 18th-century Parisian ébénistes of German extraction , including the royal cabinetmaker Jean Henri Riesener ?
text: Did you know that Lindsey Hunter was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association until he was dropped by the Chicago Bulls ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 ANZAC Test , a rugby league match between Australia and New Zealand , was the first event to be held at Melbourne 's AAMI Park ?
text: Did you know that State Rep. Bryan Pedersen of Cheyenne has proposed that Wyoming invest 80 percent of its permanent minerals and land accounts into private equities and hedge funds ?
text: Did you know that the rice rat Transandinomys talamancae has three digits on its penis, of which the middle is longest?
text: Did you know that singer Jimmy Hughes recorded his 1964 hit "Steal Away" in one take?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 228 very often interchanges the letters " omicron " and " omega "?
text: Did you know that a fire station at the Louisiana State University Fireman Training Center is named in honour of former Louisiana state fire marshal V.J. Bella ?
text: Did you know that Karma Gon Monastery , the original monastery of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism , was founded in the 12th century by Düsum Khyenpa , the first Karmapa Lama ?
text: Did you know that Sellas Tetteh ' s Ghana under-20 team was the first African team to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup , in 2009?
text: Did you know that American singer, songwriter and record producer The Mighty Hannibal once sang with members of The Pips , and was later known for the song "Jerkin' the Dog"?
text: Did you know that Lincoln City was the first club to reach 100 seasons in the Football League without ever playing in the top division?
text: Did you know that James Dampier Palmer accepted the Stewardship of the three Chiltern Hundreds ?
text: Did you know that friction stir processing can make aluminum alloys into superplastics ?
text: Did you know that Nationaltheatret Station , which is located within the Oslo Tunnel and serves all lines of the Oslo Commuter Rail , is Norway 's only underground mainline railway station?
text: Did you know that Indian anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Bose , also a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi , did not agree with Gandhi's practice of active sexual celibacy ?
text: Did you know that the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire , Scotland , include a glass cone ?
text: Did you know that after Father Knows Best ended, actor Billy Gray devoted his later interest to riding and collecting motorcycles ?
text: Did you know that buses used on Burnley & Pendle bus route X43 are named after the Pendle witches ?
text: Did you know that American actor John C. Becher appeared in both the original 1966 production and the 1983 revival of Mame ?
text: Did you know that the mosaic floor of the Maon Synagogue shows the steps in ancient wine making?
text: Did you know that Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Albanian prose?
text: Did you know that after the first rally of the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine , participants complained of being hassled by the police in an attempt to limit the number of partakers in the rally?
text: Did you know that Thomas Gisborne Gordon is the only one-handed rugby football player to ever have been capped at international level?
text: Did you know that the German blockade runner Doggerbank was mistakenly sunk by U-43 in March 1943, with all but one of the crew lost at sea?
text: Did you know that the Independent Film Channel 's list of the 25 scariest moments in non-horror movies includes Large Marge , a role played by Alice Nunn in Tim Burton 's film Pee-wee's Big Adventure ?
text: Did you know that the Tarporley Hunt Club , founded in 1762, is the oldest surviving hunt club in England ?
text: Did you know that Hyron Spinrad discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars , and was the first astronomer to identify a galaxy with a redshift greater than one?
text: Did you know that the Habeas Corpus Parliament succeeded the Cavalier Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga 's song " Dance in the Dark " is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off because she is embarrassed about her body?
text: Did you know that Tonda Wildlife Management Area is the largest protected area in Papua New Guinea ?
text: Did you know that Roman Emperor Majorian issued a law that imposed a minimum age of 40 years to women who wanted to take religious vows?
text: Did you know that HMS Centurion pretended to be HMS Anson during Operation Vigorous ?
text: Did you know that Vesla Vetlesen became a government minister for Norway's Labour Party in 1986, thirty years after renouncing communism and joining the party together with her husband Leif Vetlesen ?
text: Did you know that apart from being a folk musician and painter, Heber Bartolome was an active lobbyist for the rights of Filipino composers?
text: Did you know that two of the eight German Type IXA submarines , U-37 and U-38 , were to eventually become the 6th and 10th most successful U-boats in World War II?
text: Did you know that during the 1988–89 NBA season, the Washington Bullets had both a center named Charles Jones and a forward named Charles Jones ?
text: Did you know that the pictured rove beetle lives in the intertidal zone and feeds on beach hoppers ?
text: Did you know that Epenow , the Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII ?
text: Did you know that when not in use, a Halkett boat 's hull could be worn as a cloak or used as a blanket, its oar used as a walking stick and its sail as an umbrella?
text: Did you know that after the death of Sangamitta , the daughter of Emperor Ashoka , observances were held in her honor throughout Sri Lanka for one week?
text: Did you know that Antony Grey , who died at the end of April, became Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
text: Did you know that JCall , a new Middle East advocacy group along the lines of J Street , is founded to lobby the European parliament for a resolution to the Middle East conflict ?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District found the district could expel a student for making a website mocking his teacher, even though he made it outside school?
text: Did you know that police sergeant Ole Barman served two years as theatre director at Det Norske Teatret ?
text: Did you know that the former Ouvrage Vélosnes of the Maginot Line , a French fortification constructed in the 1930s, is now a protected habitat for bats ?
text: Did you know that " Telethon " was the first episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation to be written by star Amy Poehler ?
text: Did you know that Estonia attempted to re-establish independence before the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944?
text: Did you know that before becoming senior editor at Reason magazine, Michael C. Moynihan was a fellow at the free-market think tank Timbro ?
text: Did you know that despite heavy European and other influences, Mexican pottery and ceramics still retain indigenous elements?
text: Did you know that Thomas John McDonnell consecrated Marist College 's altar with the relics of two martyrs ?
text: Did you know that the currently operating railway lines in Norway have 2487 bridges and 695 tunnels?
text: Did you know that the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon , was once owned by a timber products company and later by Arnold Palmer ?
text: Did you know that the World War II novel Cry Slaughter! by Filipino author Edilberto K. Tiempo was described by Robin Winks and James R. Rush as "one of the few books that mingle melodrama and style"?
text: Did you know that in 2009 Linda King sold 60 letters from her former lover, author Charles Bukowski , for $69,000?
text: Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-21 was rejected by the Soviet Air Force because it was not armed with recoilless rifles ?
text: Did you know that the final episodes of New York: A Documentary Film aired just weeks after the September 11th attacks , prompting director Ric Burns to produce an additional three-hour episode focusing on the World Trade Center ?
text: Did you know that almost 2,500 gullgubber have been found at Sorte Muld, on the island of Bornholm in Denmark ?
text: Did you know that the GCHQ case was the first case to hold that exercises of the Royal Prerogative were subject to judicial review ?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Azalia Snail was dubbed the "Queen of lo-fi "?
text: Did you know that seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll "?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 232 , a manuscript of the New Testament , was variously dated in the past?
text: Did you know that Helge Hansen , a WW2 sabotage leader in the Stavanger district in 1944, also took part in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine in 1945?
text: Did you know that the branched shanklet is a mushroom that grows on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
text: Did you know that the aerodynamic work of Hans Multhopp on lifting bodies assisted in the design of the Space Shuttle ?
text: Did you know that Hylli i Dritës is regarded as one of the most important Albanian magazines of the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"?
text: Did you know that Majbølle Mølle was officially opened in 1988 by Prince Henrik of Denmark after its restoration?
text: Did you know that Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB ?
text: Did you know that shells of Amphidromus were among the first Indonesian land snails brought to Europe?
text: Did you know that the Lhuentse Dzong suffered serious damage during a 2009 earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter scale ?
text: Did you know that "Happy Jack" Fellows , a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War , was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
text: Did you know that former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos used the Filipino term Maharlika as a nom de guerre until his World War II exploits as a guerrilla soldier were proven false in 1985?
text: Did you know that the hull of the Russian imperial yacht Livadia was compared to a pancake, a turtle, and a pair of soup plates?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old Selena Gomez replaced 42-year-old Nicole Kidman as the lead in the film Monte Carlo ?
text: Did you know that De Bullemolen , Lekkum , was one of the first windmills in Friesland fitted with sails that had leading edges using the Fok system ?
text: Did you know that MASA , formed in 1959, was the second-largest manufacturer of buses in Mexico when it was acquired in 1998 by Volvo ?
text: Did you know that Sports Illustrated described the Jewish Sports Review as "tireless in its service mission" to report on the activities of Jewish athletes?
text: Did you know that Edward Francis Small was the first Gambian to be elected to the country's legislative council?
text: Did you know that the name of the liverwort genus Ptilidium comes from the Greek word ptilidion for "small feather", a reference to the plant's "feathery" appearance?
text: Did you know that in Edgar Degas ' painting Young Spartans Exercising , the four women in the foreground share ten legs?
text: Did you know that both the textile mills and residence of Nathan Wild, a prominent local figure in Columbia County, New York , are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that British skier Russell Docker has competed at the Winter Paralympics on three occasions after being paralysed in a 1995 accident?
text: Did you know that the Neely-Sieber House in Lima, Ohio , changed hands after the violent death of its oil baron owner?
text: Did you know that " 94 Meetings ", an episode of NBC 's comedy Parks and Recreation , featured the return of several actors who had previously appeared in the series, such as Alison Becker and Susan Yeagley ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Edison hailed George de Bothezat ' s rotorcraft, the " Flying Octopus ", as "the first successful helicopter "?
text: Did you know that eruptions from Mahogany Mountain , a caldera volcano , produced rock formations in Leslie Gulch over 15 million years ago?
text: Did you know that General Charles Gordon believed that the Coco de Mer nut was the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ?
text: Did you know that Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International , making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 ?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian music television channel MM Television , which operated between 1997 and 2010, was managed by comedian Kamen Vodenicharov ?
text: Did you know that Sewall Pettingill studied the last three Heath Hens , and later assisted in filming four Walt Disney nature films, one of which won an Academy Award ?
text: Did you know that Herculine Barbin , a collection of memoirs written by a hermaphrodite , inspired Jeffrey Eugenides to write Middlesex , which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army Air Corps cancelled the Douglas XP-48 because its performance figures seemed to be too good to be true?
text: Did you know that the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" took place during a Major League Baseball tie-breaker ?
text: Did you know that British track cyclist Barney Storey won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympics within an hour of his wife Sarah winning one?
text: Did you know that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies ?
text: Did you know that Pavant Butte in Utah probably formed in an eruptive sequence similar to the 1963 eruption of Surtsey ?
text: Did you know that before Michael Fingleton became CEO of the Irish Nationwide Building Society , he was the chairman of Irish aid agency Concern ?
text: Did you know that Matt Kilroy struck out more batters in a season than anyone else in Major League Baseball history, yet does not hold the single-season strikeout record ?
text: Did you know that the dwarf cabbage tree ( Cordyline pumilio ) was consumed by the Maori as a relish ?
text: Did you know that in 1974 the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's criminal libel law in a case involving controversial Sharp County newspaper editor Joseph H. Weston ?
text: Did you know that the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashgabat has the world's largest hand-woven carpet, recognized by Guinness World Records ?
text: Did you know that during the Balkan Wars , Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane?
text: Did you know that Bob Valesente has coached football for the Kansas Jayhawks , Baltimore Colts , Pittsburgh Steelers , Green Bay Packers and Frankfurt Galaxy ?
text: Did you know that the Kuri Chhu river in hilly Bhutan provides opportunities for both kayaking and rafting ?
text: Did you know that Pill Hill, Chicago , is the setting of the play Pill Hill that debuted at the 1990 Yale Repertory Theatre Winterfest?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1700s, inns made up an estimated one-third of the buildings in Tvrđa , a Habsburg fort that forms part of the city of Osijek in Croatia ?
text: Did you know that the long-finned goby is a tropical , demersal and amphidromous fish that is found in the waters of the Indo-West Pacific and Western Pacific regions?
text: Did you know that British World War I hero Gilbert MacKereth was almost removed from his grave in San Sebastián due to unpaid burial taxes?
text: Did you know that Norway 's 93 km (58 mi) long Numedal Line was built to aid the construction of hydroelectric power stations?
text: Did you know that the snail Bathynerita naticoidea lives in oil seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Greenhill , surgeon to the 7th Duke of Norfolk , was the last of his mother's 39 children?
text: Did you know that in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations , suggesting it has always been an open square ?
text: Did you know that Francis Ley is credited with introducing baseball to England with the Derby County Baseball Club ?
text: Did you know that Jedward dream of performing alongside Eminem , Muse and Arcade Fire at Oxegen 2010 ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Manogue was a miner '49er and sat on a bishop's chair ?
text: Did you know that the 1909 Grand Isle hurricane , which killed more than 370 people, is the eleventh deadliest tropical cyclone in US history?
text: Did you know that the historic Samson Pit silver mine in the Harz Mountains of Germany was, for a long time, the deepest mine in the world?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga loaned her costume designer to the American television series Glee for the episode " Theatricality "?
text: Did you know that the manhwa Recast was published not just in Korean , but also in German , French , and American English ?
text: Did you know that al-Mazar , a village depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War , was the burial site of many fallen soldiers in a 1260 battle in which Egyptian forces halted the Mongol raids into Palestine ?
text: Did you know that The Burnett Center academic building at Washington & Jefferson College is adorned with cast iron fleur-de-lis balusters that were salvaged from the former Hays Hall dormitory?
text: Did you know that the 1982 play Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn includes 31 scenes, 16 possible endings, 10 characters, and 8 major plot variations, all performed by only 2 actors?
text: Did you know that following his death in 1943, Ch. My Own Brucie , an American Cocker Spaniel , was described as the most photographed dog in the world?
text: Did you know that Hulda Shipanga , the first black Namibian nurse promoted to the rank of matron , attended to the wounded at the Old Location Uprising in 1959 when white doctors refused to treat them?
text: Did you know that apple seed oil has long been used for soap in Africa and India?
text: Did you know that the Kapchagay Reservoir in Almaty Province , Kazakhstan , was responsible for reducing the water level of Lake Balkash by roughly 7 feet (2.2 metres) in depth?
text: Did you know that Barbara Hammer 's Tender Fictions , one of a documentary trilogy on LGBT histories, focuses on the "constructedness" of the self ?
text: Did you know that Teluk Cenderawasih National Park is the largest marine national park in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters was a showcase for the company's aluminum products, using aluminum thread in carpets and drapes?
text: Did you know that the builder of the Hugh T. Rinehart House was a county commissioner of Auglaize County, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Arnaud Gonzalez was a member of the France team that won the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in 1996?
text: Did you know that the Grumman XTSF was the only aircraft design ever designated as a torpedo scout by the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you know that acoustic paramagnetic resonance was independently predicted by Semen Altshuler and Alfred Kastler in 1952?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Joe LeSage was a quarterback for the LSU Tigers and at the age of 27 was named to the LSU Board of Supervisors?
text: Did you know that when Mazra'a was one of the Viftlik estates of the Galilee governor Daher al-Omar , it was exempt from paying taxes to the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that one of Sir Henry Firebrace ' s escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?
text: Did you know that the Bronzeville Children's Museum is the only African American children's museum in the United States?
text: Did you know that Yevgeny Zavoisky discovered electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944, but missed nuclear magnetic resonance three years earlier?
text: Did you know that Shirley Davidson , an ice hockey player who had won the Stanley Cup three times in the 1890s, was alleged to have committed suicide with his fiancée after his father refused them permission to marry?
text: Did you know that in 1961 snack manufacturer Verkade , to attract female workers, was one of the first Dutch companies to open its own day care facility?
text: Did you know that Sir Thomas Troubridge lost his right leg and left foot at the Battle of Inkerman , but refused to leave the field until the battle had been won?
text: Did you know that millions have visited the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame , including one who knelt in front of the flame, fell, and burned to death?
text: Did you know that Capitol Records initially refused to release Merle Haggard 's song " Irma Jackson " , which is about an interracial relationship, because they felt it would hurt Haggard's image?
text: Did you know that members of the Philo Literary Society at Canonsburg Academy would cover the windows with their cloaks to prevent onlookers, because secret societies were presumed to be tied to freemasonry or witchcraft ?
text: Did you know that after appropriate treatment for limb infarction , approximately 70 percent of infarcted arms and legs remain alive and vital after six months?
text: Did you know that the name of 14th century Scotsman Paul Mactire probably means "Paul the Wolf " rather than "Paul, son of Tire "?
text: Did you know that the engine of the Capella Javelin ultralight aircraft was controlled using a motorcycle -type throttle?
text: Did you know that the only Japan Series MVP to also win a World Series MVP is Hideki Matsui ?
text: Did you know that Fred Thompson , who wrote the book for many hit musical comedies between World War I and World War II, once had three shows running on Broadway simultaneously?
text: Did you know that as a wedding present, Pedro Romero de Terreros , the first Count of Regla, gave his bride two dresses covered with diamonds?
text: Did you know that on his 75th birthday Sir D'Arcy Power was presented with a record of 609 of his "selected writings" by a special committee of the Osler Club ?
text: Did you know that the 1970 New Guinea earthquake killed fifteen people on Halloween ?
text: Did you know that Malik Zulu Shabazz , the leader of the New Black Panther Party , was given the "Young Lawyer of the Year" award by the U.S. National Bar Association ?
text: Did you know that a Dunne D.8 flew from Eastchurch to Villacoublay , crossing the English Channel , in August 1912?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Rafah was the last major military engagement in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
text: Did you know that the reality television series Junior Apprentice was delayed until after the 2010 United Kingdom general election because of the BBC 's political impartiality regulations?
text: Did you know that Wooden Leg didn't have one?
text: Did you know that some solids can reversibly transform between the covalent and molecular forms ?
text: Did you know that Kenn Kaufman was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Ludlow Griscom Award by the American Birding Association ?
text: Did you know that the lake sediments at Thomsons Lake are 30–40,000 years old, the oldest found in Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that on September 9, 1949, Albert Guay blew up a Douglas DC-3 over Sault-au-Cochon in Quebec , Canada , killing 23 people, in order to kill his wife and collect insurance money?
text: Did you know that as the first Governor of American Samoa following World War II , conversion of the Samoan economy to a pre-war state was Ralph Hungerford ' s top priority?
text: Did you know that Texas A&M football coach Harry Stiteler resigned in 1951 after admitting he had misrepresented the facts about being beaten by a stranger near a Houston hotel?
text: Did you know that the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona was built on the site of four columns representing Catalan nationalism ?
text: Did you know that Åge Hadler won the first individual World Championship title in men's orienteering , in 1966?
text: Did you know that the Babcock-Macomb House was the first built in Washington, D.C. 's new Massachusetts Heights neighborhood, and later became the embassy of Cape Verde ?
text: Did you know that where the legal maxim of iura novit curia applies, the parties to a legal dispute do not need to plead or prove the law that applies to their case?
text: Did you know that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
text: Did you know that William Wingfield was Chief Justice of Brecon Circuit before becoming Master in Chancery ?
text: Did you know that the song " 42 " by Coldplay took its name from one of Chris Martin 's favourite numbers?
text: Did you know that Elmer H. Inman married the daughter of the warden of his first prison?
text: Did you know that the artist Arthur Nahl was the first elected Leader of the San Francisco Olympic Club ?
text: Did you know that Boronia imlayensis is found only on one ridgetop in Mount Imlay National Park in far southern New South Wales?
text: Did you know that the Cameron Ram-type Blowout Preventer was the first successful blowout preventer for oil wells ?
text: Did you know that at the United Kingdom general election on 6 May 2010 Helen Grant became the first black female candidate to be elected as a Conservative MP?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Vuk and Dositej is the oldest preserved residential building in Belgrade , Serbia ?
text: Did you know that about one million people were affected by floods in the Kamala and other rivers in northern Bihar in India in 2003?
text: Did you know that for the last two decades of his artistic career, American abstract painter John McLaughlin did not use curves in his paintings?
text: Did you know that the tenor Kurt Huber sang the Evangelist in Bach 's Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 , composed for the feast of the Ascension of 275 years ago?
text: Did you know that the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with the sons of two former National Basketball Association players, one of whom is the younger brother of a current one?
text: Did you know that Portbury Ashlands is a new nature reserve on the site previously used to dump the waste from Portishead power stations ?
text: Did you know that the B-side of Jimmy Buffet 's single " The Great Filling Station Holdup " did not air on country radio because of the word "screw"?
text: Did you know that the South Park episode " Crippled Summer " featured several mentally handicapped children meant to resemble Looney Tunes cartoon characters?
text: Did you know that the Royal Columbian Hospital , the oldest hospital in British Columbia , was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang ?
text: Did you know that although Sally Wister's Journal was written as a series of letters in 1777–78, the addressee of the letters did not receive them until 1830?
text: Did you know that for the year 2004, Kaare Frydenberg was the highest paid leader of a Norwegian fully state-owned company ?
text: Did you know that if an election court in the United Kingdom finds someone guilty of a corrupt practice , they are prevented from voting or holding elected office for five years?
text: Did you know that the Basilica of San Albino was established in Mexico , but is currently located in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the New York Central 's engines 1290 and 1291 operated for more than 55 years on a single 62-mile (100 km) branch line in southwestern Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Dutch painter Willem Thibaut made the cartoons for the two stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk in 1570?
text: Did you know that two ships of the German Type 1936B destroyer class, Z35 and Z36 , both sank after hitting " friendly " mines on the same day in the Gulf of Finland ?
text: Did you know that Morganna, the Kissing Bandit , originally wanted to be a nun but ran away from school at the age of 13 to become an exotic dancer and legendary kisser of baseball players?
text: Did you know that the Romanesque Revival St. John's Catholic Church fills an entire city block in Delphos, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed at age 21 while he was a zhiqing ?
text: Did you know that Planet Earth Live is a BBC nature documentary that will premier with orchestral accompaniment in large cities throughout the United States during the 2010 summer?
text: Did you know that Paula Bauersmith appeared in the original Broadway productions of Bury the Dead , Sail Away , and Breakfast at Tiffany's ?
text: Did you know that Unicorns , an unpaid English cricket team made up of out-of-contract professionals and aspiring youngsters, was created to take part in the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition?
text: Did you know that the Rihanna song " Breakin' Dishes " is about a woman exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband?
text: Did you know that when transferred from Lincoln City to Leicester City for £27,500 in 1954, English footballer Andy Graver was said to be "afraid of the responsibility of living up to such a big price tag"?
text: Did you know that Straight Up is the newest book by Joseph J. Romm , whom Time magazine called "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger"?
text: Did you know that the Guangzhou destroying angel has fatally poisoned almost 30 people since the year 2000?
text: Did you know that a September 1922 typhoon spawned waves that covered the 56-meter (184 ft)-high Mizunokojima Lighthouse ?
text: Did you know that Hanoi 's Gia Lam Airport , a military airfield from which former American POWs were released during Operation Homecoming , is slated to become a fully functional civilian airport by 2015?
text: Did you know that Forrestdale Lake used to be an important tortoise hunting site?
text: Did you know that Albert B. Wohlsen, Jr. was only into a few weeks of his tenure as mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania , when he had to deal with fallout from the Three Mile Island accident ?
text: Did you know that following the wide usage of A.C.E. mixture as an anesthetic , one doctor found patients were more relaxed when he used Eau de Cologne and chloroform for dental operations?
text: Did you know that Provenge is the first vaccine approved by the FDA for cancer treatment ?
text: Did you know that Jack L. Rives became the first Judge Advocate General in any branch of the U.S. military to hold the rank of Lieutenant general ?
text: Did you know that the Arab village of Sulam is identified with the ancient Shunama mentioned in the 14th century BCE Amarna letters , and with biblical Shunem ?
text: Did you know that Cameron's Line is a suture fault in the Northeast United States formed by the Taconic orogeny around 450 mya ?
text: Did you know that the rice rat Transandinomys bolivaris is characterized by very long whiskers , up to 5 cm (2 in) in length?
text: Did you know that Joseph Breitenbeck was sued by a parish church for implementing the Vatican II reform of changing the language of the Mass from Latin to English ?
text: Did you know that in 2008 Australian judge Betty King referred to herself as the "queen of banning things"?
text: Did you know that the Romanian author and politician Emil Isac reacted against ethnic nationalism by maintaining close contacts with Hungarian intellectuals such as Endre Ady and Oszkár Jászi ?
text: Did you know that the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders are the subject of the 2010 BBC One drama serial Five Daughters ?
text: Did you know that although he was a squatter , Edward Wingfield Humphreys had decidedly liberal beliefs, and one of his best friends used to jokingly taunt him with being a 'beastly radical'?
text: Did you know that the first men executed under Adolf Hitler 's Commando Order were from No. 2 Commando ?
text: Did you know that Anton Santori ' s play Emira is considered to be the first original Albanian drama ever written?
text: Did you know that the number of species in the rodent genus Oryzomys was reduced from 43 to 5 in 2006?
text: Did you know that when Dylan Thomas ' wife, Caitlin Thomas arrived at his death bed, her words were reportedly, "Is the bloody man dead yet?"?
text: Did you know that the list of lemur species promoted by the book Lemurs of Madagascar is not universally accepted by all lemur researchers?
text: Did you know that Hays Hall , the first dormitory at Washington & Jefferson College , was designed by noted Pittsburgh architect Frederick J. Osterling ?
text: Did you know that Ricardo Blas, Jr. surpassed the previous record for the heaviest Olympic competitor by 44 lb (20 kg) when he competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that marsh rice rats in Florida are infected by an "unprecedented" number of internal parasites ?
text: Did you know that HMS Tynedale , a destroyer of the Royal Navy , attacked and damaged a U-boat in 1942 that would sink her a year later?
text: Did you know that the Baton Rouge Teamsters Union business agent Edward Grady Partin provided the immunized testimony which sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison?
text: Did you know that avid cyclist Randy Wyner founded Chronic Tacos because he was "tired of biking so far to find a good taco "?
text: Did you know that Bolivian right-wing senator Roger Pinto Molina owns 3,269 hectares of land in Porvenir ?
text: Did you know that in 1973 the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference was able to revive a newspaper of its own, Sendero , after having shut its previous press organ in 1969 due to government harassment?
text: Did you know that the name of the Karmanasa River in India means "destroyer of religious merit"?
text: Did you know that the pyramid in the centre of Karlsruhe , Germany, was erected over the vault of the city's founder?
text: Did you know that the song " Let's Live for Today ", which became a 1967 hit single for The Grass Roots , was originally titled "Piangi Con Me" and featured lyrics written entirely in Italian?
text: Did you know that Prince Charles made a cameo appearance in a live episode of British soap opera Coronation Street to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary in 2000?
text: Did you know that although the only known natural definitive host of the fluke Catatropis johnstoni is the marsh rice rat , its normal host may be a bird ?
text: Did you know that a 1762 painting of the destruction of Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá is the earliest known depiction of a historical event in Texas ?
text: Did you know that Atsuko Seta is the first Japanese pianist to perform with the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that Milecastle 8 of Hadrian's Wall lies beneath the A69 dual carriageway ?
text: Did you know that Kelly Faris has won five consecutive post-season basketball tournaments, including a National Championship ?
text: Did you know that the word " Jejemon " may come from Filipino online users' penchant to type in "hehehe" as "jejeje", supposedly because the letters "h" and "j" are beside each other?
text: Did you know that although Kënka e sprasme e Balës is the best-known work of Gavril Dara the Younger , it was published after his death?
text: Did you know that a new orchid species, Ornithidium donaldeedodii , was "discovered" when a mislabeled plant at the University of California Botanical Garden had its DNA analyzed?
text: Did you know that later politician and broadcasting director Kaare Fostervoll became Norway's youngest school principal in 1927?
text: Did you know that Moscow is home to an estimated 35,000 stray dogs , about 500 of which live in the metro stations ?
text: Did you know that Hootie Ingram tied the SEC record for interceptions , coached football at Clemson , and was the athletic director at Florida State and Alabama ?
text: Did you know that the House of Lords took the unprecedented decision to set aside R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No.1) because of concerns a judge could have been biased?
text: Did you know that Juan Mateos was the founder of Gibraltar 's first hospital which remained on the same site and served the people of Gibraltar for almost four and a half centuries?
text: Did you know that, among the films he directed , Liliom was one of Fritz Lang 's favourites?
text: Did you know that the Danish Society for Nature Conservation began campaigning against litter in 1912 with the slogan "Sandwich wrappers and egg shells don't look pretty in forest pools!"?
text: Did you know that De Sweachmermolen in Langweer , the Netherlands , is the only combined drainage and corn mill in Friesland ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 697 was found in a village near Corinth , and bought by C. L. Merlin, British vice-consul in Athens, in 1865?
text: Did you know that definitive hosts for the fluke Ascocotyle pindoramensis include a variety of birds as well as the marsh rice rat ?
text: Did you know that Ernie Zampese coached the leading pass offense in the NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in Air Coryell ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Hableh is located on a rocky ridge in which there are numerous ancient cisterns cut into the rock?
text: Did you know that hotel lounge singer Loretta Ables Sayre , in her 2008 Broadway debut in South Pacific , was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Theatre World Award ?
text: Did you know that James Whitcomb Riley ' s 1885 poem " Little Orphant Annie " was so named because of a typesetting error during printing ?
text: Did you know that over 200 Paraguayan trade union leaders were arrested by the Stroessner government in connection with a 1958 general strike ?
text: Did you know that Air Force One is equipped with an operating table for emergency use by the Physician to the President ?
text: Did you know that journalist Michael C. Moynihan announced he would support the protest movement Everybody Draw Mohammed Day and post his favorite entries to the Reason magazine website?
text: Did you know that Leon Smith , recently appointed as Great Britain's Davis Cup captain , coached a young Andy Murray to an Orange Bowl under-12s tennis title?
text: Did you know that the honorary title City of Military Glory has been bestowed on the citizenry of 27 Russian cities for courage and heroism shown during the Great Patriotic War ?
text: Did you know that co-founder of the Alexander & Baldwin corporation Samuel Thomas Alexander , son of missionary to Hawaii W. P. Alexander , died on the Zambezi River ?
text: Did you know that Australian aborigines ground the red berries of the Rough Saw-sedge to make flour?
text: Did you know that David McCullough worked on his Pulitzer Prize -winning biography Truman for ten years?
text: Did you know that the Black-throated Gray Warbler has expanded its range due to warming climate, instead of losing habitat like most migratory New World warblers ?
text: Did you know that the magister officiorum Hermogenes was joint commander with the famous general Belisarius at the Byzantine victory in the Battle of Dara ?
text: Did you know that even after being hit by three one-ton bombs , the USS Washington only listed by three degrees?
text: Did you know that the original capacity of Adelaide's Union Hall was chosen to be 499 because building regulations required a fire officer be present when halls with 500 or more seats were in use?
text: Did you know that Gibtelecom is the largest telecommunications operator in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and the official sponsor of the annual Gibtelecom International Chess Festival ?
text: Did you know that the graceful shark has been described as "tubby"?
text: Did you know that Jayson Stark called the 1999 New York Mets a "sinking ship" four days before they won the Wild Card in a tie-breaker game ?
text: Did you know that the 1903 Turkey earthquake killed 3,500 humans and 20,000 animals and registered a magnitude of 7.0?
text: Did you know that as Governor of American Samoa , John Gould Moyer suggested his men's tour of duty be reduced because he claimed "the climate [of American Samoa] is bad for most Caucasians "?
text: Did you know that the Armstrong Whitworth shipyard in Elswick submitted four plans for the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo ?
text: Did you know that there are more than 600 ghost estates and 300,000 empty houses in Ireland, as a result of the country's property bubble ?
text: Did you know that Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam , the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur , surmounted the Malaysian government's ban on the use of the word Allah by non- Muslims , on constitutional grounds ?
text: Did you know that Hoya Saxa is the Georgetown University school cheer, and has been used by students at sporting events since the 1890s or earlier?
text: Did you know that Matt Holliday broke a potential record-breaking streak of RBI titles by Ryan Howard thanks to his performance in the 2007 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game ?
text: Did you know that although as a eunuch the powerful Byzantine official Staurakios was barred from the imperial throne, he nevertheless plotted to become Byzantine Emperor ?
text: Did you know that the school opened at Gjønnes in 2004 was moved from Nadderud , where it had been established in 1958 with the intention of existing only five years?
text: Did you know that Wood Siding railway station was fitted with a ladder to allow the station porter to see approaching trains?
text: Did you know that in April 2010 South Korean mountaineer Oh Eun-Sun became the first woman to summit all 14 eight-thousanders , the world's tallest mountain peaks?
text: Did you know that the German settlement of Hochheim, Texas , which means "high home", is named for founder Volentine Hoch who appropriately built his house on a nearby hill?
text: Did you know that it may not be possible to determine what ? Oryzomys pliocaenicus is?
text: Did you know that Eça de Queirós , one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language, was born in Praça do Almada , the civic center of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal ?
text: Did you know that Jay Riemersma , tight end for the Michigan Wolverines , Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers , is currently a Republican candidate for Congress from West Michigan ?
text: Did you know that according to the colophon , Minuscule 686 was copied and corrected from a manuscript from Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that the Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children was built in 1864 to provide educational opportunities for African American children in New Haven, Connecticut ?
text: Did you know that William Morris 's wife Jane was the model for the figure of the dying Beatrice Portinari in Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's painting Dante's Dream ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Vandergriff led the Angelo State Rams to 18 consecutive winning seasons and the winningest record of all Texas universities in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Clonakilla , like most wineries in the Canberra wine region , is not actually based in the same territory as Canberra ?
text: Did you know that Galaxy 15 , a communications satellite , was originally designed to last 15 years but is currently out of control?
text: Did you know that the 1972 Neil Diamond song " Play Me " is an audience favorite among women, including Nancy Sinatra , who likes it "because it is sexy"?
text: Did you know that Lupe Joe Arenas , one of the first Mexican-American football stars, once held the NFL career record with 4,572 kick and punt return yards?
text: Did you know that the training ship USS Recruit (TDE-1) at the Naval Training Center San Diego was also known as "Building 430"?
text: Did you know that The Steinettes , an a cappella quartet from New York City , appeared in Robert Altman 's rarely seen 1980 comedy HealtH ?
text: Did you know that the twenty-ninth government of Israel was the first to have a non- Jewish minister?
text: Did you know that Texas State Highway 112 was renumbered from Texas State Highway 69 because people kept stealing the road signs?
text: Did you know that Callistus Valentine Onaga oversees a microbank as part of his position as a Roman Catholic bishop in Nigeria?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Oslyabya was the first armored battleship ever sunk by gunfire alone, without any torpedo hits?
text: Did you know that in 1896, Stephen Wootton Bushell became the first person to decipher some of the characters of the extinct Tangut script ?
text: Did you know that the Kyrgyzstan White House was at the center of the 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots ?
text: Did you know that Parker Watkins Hardin became the first Democrat to be defeated in a Kentucky gubernatorial election against a Republican candidate, losing to William O'Connell Bradley in 1895?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 220 and Lectionary 223 are written in minuscule letters on parchment leaves?
text: Did you know that Mike Brumbelow was captain and MVP of the TCU Horned Frogs ' first Southwest Conference championship team in 1929 and coached UTEP to two wins in three appearances in the Sun Bowl in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling ?
text: Did you know that although the genus Hesperomys once included most of the cricetid rodents of the Americas, it is now no longer used?
text: Did you know that Arild R. Øyen , a former WFP official and ambassador to several African countries, including DR Congo , later conciliated in Congo's criminal trial against Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland ?
text: Did you know that in 1982, a Canadian Member of Parliament accused the CIA of infiltrating the RCMP and funneling political contributions to favoured politicians in provincial elections?
text: Did you know that librarian Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright attempted to finance the escape of a Russian revolutionary ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia bridge currently carrying Girard Avenue over the Schuylkill River is the third bridge built in that location since 1852?
text: Did you know that archaeological excavations of church courtyards in Britain have revealed furnaces , suggesting that bells were often cast on site?
text: Did you know that the IBM 608 , released in December 1957, was the first commercial completely transistorized computer ?
text: Did you know that the U-boat SM UB-50 sank nearly 100,000 gross register tons of shipping?
text: Did you know that upon seeing a religious service in Wailuku in 1832, Queen Ka'ahumanu asked a congregation to name a church after her ?
text: Did you know that the Happy List of UK volunteers , philanthropists and much-loved entertainers was printed by the Independent on Sunday in 2008 as an antidote to the Sunday Times Rich List , and quickly became an annual fixture?
text: Did you know that one of the reasons the U.S. Navy cancelled the Curtiss XSB3C dive-bomber project was the aircraft's requirement for the use of 115/145- octane avgas ?
text: Did you know that, although first active in the Romanian capital of Bucharest , poet Alexandru Robot identified more with his adoptive Bessarabia and was called a "semi-Bessarabian"?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Cueball Carmichael 's championship belt was stolen during one of his matches?
text: Did you know that over the course of his career at Michigan State Normal College , Elton Rynearson coached at least one year in every varsity sport, including football , basketball , baseball, and track?
text: Did you know that although known for their erotic protests, the Ukrainian women’s movement FEMEN is against legalizing prostitution?
text: Did you know that Arizona passed the toughest illegal immigrant law in the U.S. following the murder of rancher Robert Krentz ?
text: Did you know that although related species usually infect several hosts , the parasitic nematode worm Aonchotheca forresteri is known only from the marsh rice rat ?
text: Did you know that Romanian poet Luca Caragiale , the son of celebrated dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale , is said to have been brought to tears by his father's rejection of Symbolism ?
text: Did you know that a 2006 survey found that the sleeping position preferred by 50% of British couples is back-to-back?
text: Did you know that Jack Mann , a pioneer of winemaking in Western Australia , took over two thousand cricket wickets bowling underarm ?
text: Did you know that a colleague once described Ed Scogin of Slidell , Louisiana , as "the conservative conscience" of the Louisiana House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the award-winning 2006 Serbian black comedy The Optimists was inspired by Voltaire 's satire Candide ?
text: Did you know that bass singer Jakob Stämpfli appears on the recording of the reconstructed secular Bach cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a , also called Shepherd cantata ?
text: Did you know that the logotype of the manuscript Bible passage Oriental MS 424 quoted names of the scribes and dates of two of its ancestor manuscripts?
text: Did you know that two of Mitty Collier ' s biggest hit records were versions of gospel songs originally penned by James Cleveland , but rewritten with secular lyrics?
text: Did you know that in September 2009, Buckinghamshire-based coach company Woottens Luxury Travel teamed up with local radio station Mix 96 in a promotion to name their tiger mascot?
text: Did you know that John Tidwell broke the University of Michigan 's single game and season basketball scoring records in 1960 despite "the handicap of a short and twisted left arm"?
text: Did you know that the NCAA record for double plays in a single game was tied by Old Dominion University during a 1985 game at the Bud Metheny Baseball Complex ?
text: Did you know that the endangered Borneo shark was rediscovered in 2007, after not having been seen for many decades?
text: Did you know that the French battleship Masséna was sunk as a breakwater during the Gallipoli Campaign ?
text: Did you know that 18th-century publisher John Marshall popularized fictional biographies for children?
text: Did you know that a forty year old disagreement over the maritime Russia–Norway border , where the disputed area covered 175,000 km 2 (68,000 sq mi), was settled in April 2010?
text: Did you know that record producer Rick Hall established the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama , on the basis of the commercial success of Arthur Alexander 's 1962 hit " You Better Move On "?
text: Did you know that when Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid was found plagiarising the work of Welsh author Glyn Jones , he claimed he had a photographic memory and had copied his work unconsciously?
text: Did you know that Mike Stock 's only job as a head coach came near the middle of his 44-year American football coaching career?
text: Did you know that the Lund 1 Runestone depicts two wolves that have a sword and shield strapped to their bodies?
text: Did you know that the Cursa de Bombers 10 km road race in Barcelona was created by firefighters protesting about their working conditions ?
text: Did you know that The Turtles wrote their 1968 single " Elenore " as a parody of one of their previous hits ?
text: Did you know that the French battleship Jauréguiberry had a torpedo air chamber accidentally explode between her propellers when she fired her stern torpedo tube in 1905, flooding her steering compartment?
text: Did you know that when railroad tracks to Passaic, New Jersey , were severed by the Erie Lackawanna Railway , they left the bridge swung open and kept short service to the Carlton Hill station in Rutherford, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that when the Byzantine usurper John Komnenos the Fat tried to sit on the imperial throne, it broke under his weight?
text: Did you know that the powerful Byzantine eunuch official Aetios plotted to have his brother placed as emperor , but was thwarted when Nikephoros I seized the throne?
text: Did you know that an 1100 cow dairy farm in Rice Lake, Wisconsin expects to save over $70,000 per year from its installation of an 848 kW CHP system operating on anaerobic digester gas from cow manure?
text: Did you know that before Blaine Sexton won Olympic bronze as part of the British ice hockey team he played for the Windsor Swastikas in Canada?
text: Did you know that McMillan Hall at Washington & Jefferson College is the eighth oldest academic building in the United States that is still used for its original educational purpose?
text: Did you know that the most influential person in Mike Hanopol ' s career as a pioneer Pinoy rocker was his guitar-playing maternal grandmother?
text: Did you know that Allen Iverson is the only player who led the NBA in steals for three consecutive seasons?
text: Did you know that American political scientist Charles Merriam pushed for the use of quantitative analysis in the practice of political science even though he had almost no mathematical training?
text: Did you know that Virginia Johnson , wife of a former Arkansas Supreme Court justice, became in 1968 the first woman ever to seek the office of Governor of Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that the Warsaw Lyceum , where Nicolas Chopin was a teacher and his son Frédéric Chopin a pupil, was founded by the Prussian government as a German language school?
text: Did you know that the American soul blues and electric blues singer Earl Gaines received no credit on his biggest-selling single ?
text: Did you know that over 100 people stated that they wanted a netbook based on Mayuri Shirasagi, the heroine of the visual novel Kimi no Nagori wa Shizuka ni Yurete ?
text: Did you know that four-time block leader Mark Eaton averaged 5.56 blocks per game in the 1984–85 NBA season ?
text: Did you know that although the 20 mm Breda is an anti-aircraft gun , during the Kurtës Ambush it was used against German trucks?
text: Did you know that Scottish bookseller Alexander Donaldson sold cheap copies of books after their copyright had expired, in disregard to London booksellers' opinions on literary property ?
text: Did you know that English drummer Chris Townson replaced The Who 's Keith Moon on a 1967 UK tour?
text: Did you know that the French battleship République was hit by a torpedo from the Patrie , her sister ship ?
text: Did you know that José Rodríguez was once the manager of a Cuban League championship baseball team that included five future members of the US Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the asphalt volcano is a rare underwater volcano composed of asphalt and erupting petroleum and methane instead of lava ?
text: Did you know that Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov , one of the founders of laser physics, has also described an antiferromagnetic transition in the organic material DPPH ?
text: Did you know that Capcom 's Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be run on the MT Framework engine , the same engine that is used by Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 ?
text: Did you know that "The Mighty Midget", Rodney Wilkes , won the first ever Olympic medal for Trinidad and Tobago at the 1948 Games ?
text: Did you know that before beginning his revolt in 803, Bardanes Tourkos , with his three principal associates, Thomas , Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian , allegedly visited a monk who foretold their fates?
text: Did you know that a finished study for The Death of Nelson by Daniel Maclise in Westminster Palace is in the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ?
text: Did you know that the tianguis market is a Mexican tradition which comes mostly unchanged from the pre-Hispanic era ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Elderfield took a €193,000 paycut from his previous position in the Bermuda Monetary Authority to go work as Ireland 's Financial Regulator ?
text: Did you know that the district Nadderud in Norway , now known for the multi-purpose stadium Nadderud stadion , once delivered limestone to Akershus Fortress in 1629 and the Royal Palace, Oslo , in 1827?
text: Did you know that William J. Winter , while serving as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh , confirmed an estimated 45,000 Catholics?
text: Did you know that RuBot II is the world's fastest Rubik's cube -solving robot ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Member of Parliament Frederic Jones was described as the foremost local government expert of his time?
text: Did you know that during the opening sequence of " The Squirt and the Whale ", The Simpsons addressed the controversy surrounding censorship of the South Park episode " 201 "?
text: Did you know that since 1969 more than 600 works of contemporary chamber music have been premiered at the festival Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in the Ruhrgebiet , the European Capital of Culture for 2010?
text: Did you know that footballer Barry Hutchinson scored in each of the seven games that Weymouth played in January 1965?
text: Did you know that German politician Willy Brandt was the first recipient of the International Rescue Committee 's Freedom Award in 1957?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Senator Sydney B. Nelson 's bid for Senate President was halted in 1988 by the tradition in his state that the governor choose the legislative leaders?
text: Did you know that the Tibetan saint Drukpa Kunley , according to mythology, created the Takin , found in Motithang Takin Preserve , with the head of a goat and the body of a cow ?
text: Did you know that Kevin Harvick broke a 115-race winless streak by winning the 2010 Aaron's 499 ?
text: Did you know that Christian Jouanin , a French ornithologist , has described three species of birds , including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin ?
text: Did you know that the Bessarabian -centered agenda with which Viaţa Basarabiei magazine confronted Romanian authorities in the 1930s has been called "ferocious nativism " and an "aberrant form of defense"?
text: Did you know that because their range is the southernmost of all rainbowfishes , Australian rainbowfish can tolerate low winter temperatures of 10 to 15 °C (50 to 59 °F)?
text: Did you know that on average, Kenyan water utilities provide 14 hours of service each day, supplying water for 16 hours in Nairobi and for 6 hours in Mombasa ?
text: Did you know that Mike Gary played American football at Minnesota with Bronko Nagurski and coached Western Michigan for 13 years, including undefeated seasons in 1932 and 1941?
text: Did you know that while the 126.8-metre (416 ft) Raghadan Flagpole in Amman is both earthquake- and weather-resistant, excessive noise means the flag must be lowered during high winds?
text: Did you know that John Ashley , American outlaw and occasional pirate, robbed banks and hijacked whiskey shipments from the Bahamas ?
text: Did you know that the genomes of Babesia bovis and Theileria parva , two protozoans that cause diseases in cattle, are remarkably similar?
text: Did you know that the Hermoniakos' Iliad is a 14th-century paraphrase of the Iliad , written in vernacular Greek ?
text: Did you know that the George Munger Award , given since 1989 to the college football coach of the year, is named for long-time Penn coach and decathlon champion George Munger ?
text: Did you know that an antipathy between Paul ten Bruggencate and Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer while they worked at Göttingen Observatory resulted in the creation of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics ?
text: Did you know that the reason why occupancy frequency distributions tend to be bimodal is not known?
text: Did you know that construction of Interstate 140 outside Wilmington , North Carolina , was delayed in part to redesign an off-ramp to avoid a 450-year-old oak ?
text: Did you know that in coverage of a charity event for Darfur , the blog Gawker referred to attendee Micah Jesse , internet gossip blogger, as a "publicistgay"?
text: Did you know that Jess Cameron scored more than half of her team's runs when the Australian Under-21 cricket team played the senior team ?
text: Did you know that Simonsbath House was the only house in the Royal Forest of Exmoor for 150 years?
text: Did you know that the French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste was based at Oran from September 1937 to February 1938 to protect neutral shipping from commerce raiders during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know the specific name of the Gabonese fungus Pulveroboletus bembae is derived from the name used by the Baka people for the tree it associates with?
text: Did you know that Indian Mound Cemetery , originally created by the Hopewell culture , was defended in battle by Confederate soldiers and is the last resting place of an owner of the Washington Redskins ?
text: Did you know that Ambrose Burke went on to become president of Saint Ambrose University after being expelled from its seminary as a student?
text: Did you know that Olympic marathon runner Lisa Weightman won the Award for Business Excellence from Australian broadsheet The Age ?
text: Did you know that Cleo O'Donnell coached the 1914 Everett team that outscored opponents 600 to 0 and was rated by Sports Illustrated as the greatest high school football team of all time?
text: Did you know that the capture of the strategic Klisura Pass by the Greek army , in January 1941, was considered a major success by the Allied forces?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Canadian film GravyTrain is the first feature film appearance of Glass Tiger lead singer Alan Frew ?
text: Did you know that the Becher Point Wetlands form one of the youngest wetland systems on the Swan Coastal Plain ?
text: Did you know that Cars is the last artwork by Andy Warhol and remained unfinished on his death?
text: Did you know that during " Boobquake ", thousands of women tested a hypothesis that they could start earthquakes by dressing immodestly ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Dodson was convicted of robbing 71 banks, more than any other bank robber?
text: Did you know that the district Øvrevoll has Norway's only track for gallop horse racing ?
text: Did you know that Sylvan Lake is the deepest in Dutchess County, New York ?
text: Did you know that Havergate Island is the only island in the county of Suffolk , England , and has the largest breeding population of pied avocets in the UK ?
text: Did you know that when Minnesota Duluth coach Jim Malosky retired in 1998 he was the winningest football coach in Division II history and ranked 11th in wins among all college football coaches?
text: Did you know that Jewish pirates from Joppa raided traders between Rome and Alexandria , interrupting Rome's grain supply during the First Jewish–Roman War ?
text: Did you know that 40,000 people were estimated to make a living from seaweed farming in the Philippines in 1997?
text: Did you know that Doris Parkes competed in ice hockey and speed skating at the 1931 Banff Winter carnival ?
text: Did you know that Animal's drumming on The Muppet Show was performed by English drummer Ronnie Verrell ?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian village of Al-Qabu was depopulated on 1 May 1949, almost a month after the 1949 Armistice Agreement had been signed?
text: Did you know that Donovan Warren was initially projected to be selected in the first or second round of the 2010 NFL Draft , but was not drafted at all?
text: Did you know that the " Song of Çelo Mezani ", an Albanian folk song, was censored in 1973?
text: Did you know that Ronald Skirth wrote The Reluctant Tommy , a memoir of World War I , about his deliberate acts of sabotage to avoid killing enemies?
text: Did you know that the Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra of Hillsboro, Oregon , once used an owl from the Oregon Zoo in a concert?
text: Did you know that the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson , bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Dayton Flyers coach Mike Kelly has the fourth best winning percentage (81.9%) of all time among college football coaches with at least 25 years of experience?
text: Did you know that former Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus ?
text: Did you know that the German Mediterranean Division consisted of two ships, Goeben and Breslau ?
text: Did you know that the Zion Hill Mission was the first free European settlement in what is now Queensland ?
text: Did you know that Swedish athlete Lena Berntsson has competed at World Championship -level in both the 60-meter dash and weightlifting ?
text: Did you know that Brill railway station was owned and operated by Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos ?
text: Did you know that 10,000 people protested against construction of a dam across the Subarnarekha River in India ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana State Representative George B. Holstead participated in the Olympic track and field trials held in New Orleans in 1948?
text: Did you know that the Arab village of Sheikh Danun is made up of two old villages constructed around shrines dedicated to sheikhs ?
text: Did you know that New York City -based hip hop poetic theater ensemble Universes were sponsored by the US State Department to tour six countries in Africa, Asia and Europe in 2008?
text: Did you know that U-30 sank the first ship in World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner Athenia , just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?
text: Did you knowthat Robert O. Peterson , who founded the Jack in the Box fast food chain in 1951, was married to the mayor of San Diego during the 1980s?
text: Did you know that in the fluke Notocotylus fosteri , the genital pore is located above the oral sucker?
text: Did you know that Günther Weidlinger broke the 23-year-old Austrian record in the marathon in his second-ever race over the distance?
text: Did you know that Toolibin Lake supports 25 species of breeding waterbirds , which is the greatest number for any wetland in southwestern Australia ?
text: Did you know that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche ?
text: Did you know that the New Eritrea Party initially favoured Italian trusteeship of Eritrea prior to independence?
text: Did you know that after the death of Florence of Worcester on June 5 or July 7, 1118, his work was continued by John of Worcester until 1141?
text: Did you know that Revocation ' s guitarist David Davidson was an alumnus of Berklee College of Music ?
text: Did you know that German nobleman Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach , was elected King of Lithuania , but never visited that country?
text: Did you know that in 1914, Paul Walden described the first room-temperature ionic liquid , ethylammonium nitrate ?
text: Did you know that in 1935, the Hardanger Line became the first new line of the Norwegian State Railways to open with electrification ?
text: Did you know that American football player Mark Ortmann was a discus throw champion in high school?
text: Did you know that Rev. Griffith Hughes was the first to describe grapefruit , which he referred to as "The Forbidden Fruit"?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian battleships Habsburg , Babenberg , Árpád , Prinz Eugen , Tegetthoff and Viribus Unitis participated in the bombardment of Ancona ?
text: Did you know that as a college student, Philadelphia Phillies president David Montgomery attended Phillies games at Connie Mack Stadium with future governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell ?
text: Did you know that Dan Boisture said of his move from the two-time defending national champion Michigan State Spartans football to the Eastern Michigan Hurons , "There weren't many jobs open ... It was a cute campus"?
text: Did you know that Bill Beaney led Middlebury College to an unprecedented five straight national men's ice hockey championships and ranks 11th on the all-time NCAA hockey win list?
text: Did you know that about 6 million people are infected with Opisthorchis viverrini in Thailand?
text: Did you know that author Ted McKeever cited Planet of the Apes as inspiration for his futuristic comic book series Meta 4 , saying that it changed his life?
text: Did you know that the tower of the older Church of St Saviour, Ringley , Greater Manchester , was left in an isolated position when the present church was built on a different site?
text: Did you know that economist Eric Jones is known for popularizing the term European Miracle ?
text: Did you know that Green Lake in Texas , is the largest natural freshwater lake entirely within the state, despite its proximity to the brackish waters of San Antonio Bay ?
text: Did you know that mice were used to detect any concentrations of carbon monoxide inside the hull of the British petrol-engined B -class submarines ?
text: Did you know that Birgitta Jónsdóttir , a member of the Althing and spokesperson for Wikileaks , sponsored the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative ?
text: Did you know that in his dissenting opinion in the case of Taylor v. Beckham , U.S. Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan wrote that the right to hold elected offices should be considered part of the definition of "liberty" and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment ?
text: Did you know that the uncial letters of the Codex Nanianus represent the last stage before the introduction of compressed uncials?
text: Did you know that LNER CME Nigel Gresley was so concerned about unsafe railway practices shown in the 1929 film The Flying Scotsman that he made the film producers include a disclaimer at the beginning?
text: Did you know that the National Basketball Association (NBA) public relations director Haskell Cohen originated the idea for the first NBA All-Star Game ?
text: Did you know that there is a tradition that the Middleton miners gave either a week's wages or a week's work towards the cost of building the church of St Mary the Virgin, Middleton in 1846?
text: Did you know that as he "didn't even know it was a paying job", Superintendent Carmine DeSopo donated his entire $35,000 salary as New Jersey Assemblyman to the Burlington County Special Services School District ?
text: Did you know that Margie Wright is the all-time winningest NCAA softball coach and ranks second all-time in career victories among NCAA Division I coaches in all sports?
text: Did you know that when the Italian sparkling wine Prosecco received DOCG status, the name of its grape changed from Prosecco to Glera so others could not make wine with the grape and call it Prosecco?
text: Did you know that African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
text: Did you know that the first entomological article written by a New World native concerned the " Great Black Wasp "?
text: Did you know that Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County , Ohio , to have ever received the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that Erling Sandberg , installed as Finance Minister by Reichskommissariat when Nazis occupied Norway , was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
text: Did you know that anti-apartheid activist Nico Smith and his wife were the only legal white residents of Mamelodi, South Africa , from 1985 to 1989?
text: Did you know that according to neuroeconomist Gregory Berns , the challenges and novel experiences we undergo while we strive to achieve an aim bring us more fulfillment than the achievement itself?
text: Did you know that although the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation was created in 2004 to implement a 20-year, $ 8 billion redevelopment plan in Washington, D.C. , it was abolished after just three years?
text: Did you know that the 2008 Indonesian film Love was a remake of the 2006 film Cinto ?
text: Did you know that J. A. "Daff" Gammons played professional baseball and football , coached the Brown University football team, founded a successful insurance agency, and was an accomplished amateur golfer ?
text: Did you know that the entire board of directors of Australian mining company Sundance Resources was killed in an airplane crash in the Republic of Congo in June 2010?
text: Did you know that 29-year-old writer Justin Halpern was catapulted to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list after moving back into his parents' home and starting a daily journal of his father's salty remarks ?
text: Did you know that a cat, Oscar , has had a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet, which could lead the way for similar treatment on humans?
text: Did you know that American handicapper George E. Smith won $115,000 on one horse race in 1891, the largest payout recorded in the US to that date?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Jonathan Johnson was admitted to the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 2006?
text: Did you know that the death of Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester , at the Battle of Bannockburn , set in motion a train of events that ended in the deposition of King Edward II of England ?
text: Did you know that Henry Wilkens received the Medal of Honor for his part in the battle of Little Muddy Creek?
text: Did you know that French Major General Marcel Alessandri received twelve Croix de guerre citations over the course of his forty-one year-long career?
text: Did you know that after Leander Clark College went bankrupt and merged with Coe College , an heir of the school's namesake sued to have his donation returned?
text: Did you know that in English law, Quistclose may be constructive trusts, resulting trusts, express trusts, or completely illusory?
text: Did you know that Asri Muda was ousted as the President of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party in 1982, and later joined the party's rival, the United Malays National Organisation ?
text: Did you know that word of Dartmouth football coach Jackson Cannell 's termination prompted a team petition and The New York Times to dismiss it as a "rumor [that] springs up every year"?
text: Did you know that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
text: Did you know that remnants of a gristmill , distillery and oil well have been found at Falling Waters State Park which also has the highest waterfall in Florida ?
text: Did you know that John W. Comfort enlisted in the Regular United States Army just four months after leaving the 29th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry?
text: Did you know that character actor Vince O'Brien cherished his role on television and print advertisements as the Shell Answer Man , a job he felt was "like hitting the state lottery"?
text: Did you know that evolutionary biologist and herpetologist Alex Pyron graduated from Piedmont College at age 16 and earned two master's degrees and a PhD by age 21?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana Tech University named its Endowed Professorship in History after historian John D. Winters ?
text: Did you know that the first missionary house in South-West Africa , today's Namibia , was erected in Warmbad in 1806?
text: Did you know that Ernie Robson played his final first-class cricket match for Somerset aged 53, less than a year before his death?
text: Did you know that Fox Sports College Hoops '99 was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64 ?
text: Did you know that the $1 million spent by Sean F. Dalton and the other candidates in the 1993 General Assembly race for New Jersey 's 4th Legislative District was the most for any district in the state that year?
text: Did you know that to preserve an archeological site in Guerrero , Mexico , a tunnel was dug under it for a highway joining Acapulco with Cuernavaca ?
text: Did you know that although Neil Bancroft was awarded the Medal of Honor , he had died by the time the government located him to issue the medal?
text: Did you know that the film Out of the Clouds used one of Ealing Studios ' largest ever sets to create the interior of the terminal building?
text: Did you know that Protestant Reformation in Italy was significantly hindered by the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that New Jersey Assemblymember Jack Casey was one of many Democratic Party incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave"?
text: Did you know that James Anderson was one of six men awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a group of Plains Indians at the Wichita River in Texas ?
text: Did you know that The Victoria Advocate is the second oldest newspaper in Texas, and the first published west of the Colorado River of Texas?
text: Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded " Kansas City Bomber " as the theme song to the Raquel Welch film of the same name , but it was rejected by the film's producers?
text: Did you know that Louis XIV 's personal physician Guy-Crescent Fagon recommended that the king only drink Côte de Nuits wines from Nuits St-Georges because of the wines ' reported health-giving properties ?
text: Did you know that the spits of Azov Sea are longer than its width?
text: Did you know that rock band Cave In released an album through RCA Records , but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a heavier style ?
text: Did you know that in 1991 Judicial Commissioner K. S. Rajah annulled a marriage between a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and another woman, reasoning that a transsexual 's gender was biologically determined?
text: Did you know that the music video for Japanese band Sakanaction 's " Aruku Around " was shot in a single take using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera?
text: Did you know that on the last day of the Battle of Hill 170 in January 1945, an estimated 700 Japanese artillery shells landed on the hill?
text: Did you know that the Five talent show Don't Stop Believing was created based on the popularity of American musicals Glee and High School Musical ?
text: Did you know that preference-based planning can help you to plan your visit to Starbucks before going to school?
text: Did you know that 5'5", 135 lb (1.65 m, 61 kg) Chris Limahelu set a USC Trojans football record with a 47-yard field goal at the 1974 Rose Bowl game?
text: Did you know that Jimmie Johnson has the most consecutive NASCAR drivers' championships with four earned from 2006 to 2009?
text: Did you know that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of Holy Trinity Church, Horwich , in Greater Manchester ?
text: Did you know that the resort of Jamaica Beach on West Bay in Texas was built on a Karankawa Indian burial ground?
text: Did you know that James N. Wood created major exhibitions of works by Gauguin , Monet and van Gogh that set records for attendance at the Art Institute of Chicago ?
text: Did you know that the documentary Chords of Fame includes scenes in which its subject, U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs , is portrayed by Bill Burnett?
text: Did you know that a fine for skinny dipping led Bill Slater into a legal career?
text: Did you know that Bombay Bicycle Club 's second album Flaws consists entirely of acoustic music , including cover versions of other artists?
text: Did you know that when Charles T. Gulick was tried for treason in 1895, his lawyer Paul Neumann had served in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii with him?
text: Did you know that although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks , was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898?
text: Did you know that Palacký University in Olomouc was established in 1573 to help re-Catholicize predominantly Protestant Czech lands ?
text: Did you know that, when asked why he opened his studio in Tropico rather than nearby Los Angeles , photographer Edward Weston replied, "I'm going to make my name so famous that it won't matter where I live"?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Dickens , the mother of novelist Charles Dickens , was the model for Mrs. Nickleby in Nicholas Nickleby and Mrs. Micawber in David Copperfield ?
text: Did you know that seven months after the reported execution in Budapest of Sári Petráss as a spy, she debuted on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that in the mass literacy campaign during Grenada 's New Jewel Movement revolution, 65% of volunteer teachers were mobilized from the National Youth Organization ?
text: Did you know that Henry Schoellkopf , selected as an All-American fullback while attending Harvard Law School , later shot himself in the head at his Milwaukee law office?
text: Did you know that James Morris Blaut 's death prevented him from finishing his trilogy of books criticizing Eurocentrism ?
text: Did you know that the Bumblebee model , first used by Alan Kostelecký , is the simplest case of a theory with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking ?
text: Did you know that Zachariah T. Woodall was awarded the Medal of Honor for his participation in what was later known as the Battle of Buffalo Wallow?
text: Did you know that pitcher Héctor Wagner was one of the youngest players in Major League Baseball in 1990?
text: Did you know that according to Andreas Grünschloß , members of UFO religions derive an enhanced sense of self-worth from their membership, believing they are part of those chosen to prepare a new age ?
text: Did you know that Frank Girardi ' s Lycoming football team wore shoes borrowed from Joe Paterno in the 1990 NCAA football tournament ?
text: Did you know that the highly influential jurist Sir Matthew Hale once said that lawyers were "a barbarous set of people unfit for anything but their own trade"?
text: Did you know that Fr. John Willms once stood in the way of a locomotive in order to allow his congregation to hear a sermon in silence?
text: Did you know that former Ohio State football coach Larry Catuzzi served on the Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission after his daughter died on United Airlines Flight 93 ?
text: Did you know that the wife and children of Idaho Territorial Governor Edward A. Stevenson were killed during an Indian attack?
text: Did you know that Amon Henry Wilds ' s Italianate Park Crescent development in Brighton was the scene of the infamous "trunk murder" of July 1934 ?
text: Did you know that the Utina were one of the most powerful Timucua tribes during the early days of European settlement in Florida , but appear to have fragmented into at least three chiefdoms by the 17th century?
text: Did you know that a Los Angeles Times music critic credited Los Angeles Philharmonic director Ernest Fleischmann with having "transformed a provincial second-rank orchestra into one of the world's best"?
text: Did you know that the communist -led Left Front won all seats elected in the 2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election ?
text: Did you know that soprano Siri Thornhill performed a Bach cantata for the fourth Sunday after Trinity , Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177 , at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey ?
text: Did you know that the GreenWheel is an electric-powered assist module designed by the MIT Media Lab than can be added in the rear hub of any existing bicycle, providing added power for hills and acceleration?
text: Did you know that according to sociology professor Lorne L. Dawson , Internet sites like YouTube have in recent years been used to spread religious hate propaganda ?
text: Did you know that the SS Cedarville sank in 1965 after colliding with another ship near the Mackinac Bridge , killing ten people?
text: Did you know that Gerbrand Bakker played a tape recording of 1994 Dutch Eurovision entry " Waar is de zon? " as he was given the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Twin ?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon -based ClearEdge Power used to be known as Quantum Leap Technology?
text: Did you know that physician-ethnographer Hiram M. Hiller, Jr. made two trips to the fabled Dyak headhunters of Borneo ?
text: Did you know that Jay Handlan set the NCAA college basketball record of 71 field goal attempts in a single game while playing for Washington and Lee University ?
text: Did you know that The Volcano in northwestern British Columbia is the youngest known volcano in Canada and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago?
text: Did you know that Mendocino, California , artist Bill Zacha learned to paint left-handed after injuring his right hand in a fall?
text: Did you know that in response to the Hajong communist peasants' uprising , Pakistani authorities forced the majority of the Hajong people into exile in India ?
text: Did you know that "Lord" George Sanger was a 19th century circus proprietor who, at the age of 85, was murdered with a hatchet ?
text: Did you know that convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner watched The Lord of the Rings film trilogy before being executed by firing squad ?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship Jan Steen collided with and sank the Caritas I in the River Scheldt in 1947?
text: Did you know that Carlos Monsiváis , who was a Mexican political activist and journalist , won more than 33 awards during his lifetime?
text: Did you know that the first two cookbooks by Deborah Madison won James Beard Foundation awards as well as Julia Child Cookbook of the Year?
text: Did you know that the current head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valeriy Khoroshkovsky is one of Ukraine 's richest businessmen?
text: Did you know that a high concentration of anthracene in the liver can kill the African Clariid Catfish ?
text: Did you know that the opening scene of the first episode of BBC Three sitcom Mongrels features cats eating the corpse of their dead owner?
text: Did you know that only 1000 copies of each issue of Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly were printed on loose-leaf paper, bound in a folio , and featured avant-garde authors, poets, artists, and even architects?
text: Did you know that Wimbledon tennis player and IOC honorary member Jan Staubo was an inmate of the camp Stalag Luft III shortly before The Great Escape ?
text: Did you know that Princeton 's "Whoop" Snively , known as "the best forward-passer in the East," later coached lacrosse and ice hockey at Williams College and New Hampshire ?
text: Did you know that sitcom writer and producer Martin Cohan co-created Silver Spoons and Who's the Boss?
text: Did you know that Richard Shephard wrote a piece commemorating Henry Purcell 's 350th birthday for 500 school children which was performed in the Royal Albert Hall with Howard Goodall in 2009?
text: Did you know that the original iPhone was named the Invention of the Year by Time magazine?
text: Did you know that although his father was director of industrial relations at Ford Motor Company , Bob King joined the union at Ford and was elected president of the United Auto Workers of America in June 2010?
text: Did you know that the career of the 400-meter world junior record holder Darrell Robinson ended after he accused Carl Lewis and Flo-Jo of using performance-enhancing drugs ?
text: Did you know that W. I. M. Seneviratne and Chaminda Ruwan Yakandawala were Sri Lankan soldiers who sacrificed their lives to prevent female Tamil Tiger suicide bombers from assassinating Sri Lankan VIPs ?
text: Did you know that the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru is the government agency that operates the prison where Joran van der Sloot is being held?
text: Did you know that the $2.4 million spent by both candidates in the 2003 New Jersey Senate race between Stephen M. Sweeney and Raymond Zane set a record for the most expensive legislative race in state history?
text: Did you know that high levels of chlorides have been found in some of Serra de Na Burguesa's aquifers ?
text: Did you know that PCC , one of Brazil's most notorious gangs, is said to have been formed in response to commanding colonel Ubiratan Guimarães ' mishandling of the prison riot leading to the Carandiru massacre ?
text: Did you know that the 1986 Goodwill Games , created by Ted Turner , featured a type of polo competition with motorcycles called motoball ?
text: Did you know that psychologist Steve Eichel was an expert witness in the 2003 criminal trial of Lee Boyd Malvo ?
text: Did you know that Kermit Roosevelt 's co-brother-in-law Mervyn Herbert played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and died in the British Embassy in Rome , Italy ?
text: Did you know that Ambondro , which lived in Madagascar about 167 million years ago, is the oldest known mammal with modern, tribosphenic molars ?
text: Did you know that Vangjel Meksi was the first to translate the New Testament into the Albanian language ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Central Canada earthquake was felt as far away as New York City ?
text: Did you know that Karen Fladset , team handball player and former coach for the Norwegian women's national handball team , was also national champion in discus throw ?
text: Did you know that a village in Pennsylvania got its name from an incident involving nitroglycerin torpedoes ?
text: Did you know that the Becton, Dickinson headquarters were designed in the style of a country house ?
text: Did you know that the annual Berg River Canoe Marathon ends at the Port Owen marina in Velddrif , Western Cape , South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Cretaceous Malagasy mammal Lavanify is most closely related to a species from India ?
text: Did you know that 11 Dyke Road , Brighton —latterly a nightclub with names such as Sloopy's, Fozzies, The Shrine and New Hero—was built in 1867 in an "inventive" Gothic style as a school for poor girls?
text: Did you know that Thomas S. Buechner became one of the youngest museum directors in the United States when he was named to head the Brooklyn Museum at age 33?
text: Did you know that in the Treaty of Kiel , Swedish Pomerania was promised to Denmark as compensation for Norway ?
text: Did you know that the University of Texas fired their women's basketball coach in 1976, during a season in which the Texas Longhorns women's basketball team went 21–7, because he couldn't coach volleyball ?
text: Did you know that the Journal of Contemporary Religion , covering new religious movements and trends in mainstream religion, was founded in 1985 as Religion Today , with Peter B. Clarke as its founding editor?
text: Did you know that the old Rouen tramway was once the largest electric tramway in France , with 70 km (43 mi) of route?
text: Did you know that D. Bennett Mazur was elected in 1991 to serve a sixth term in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 37th Legislative District , but resigned after suffering a stroke on Election Day?
text: Did you know that some Anglo-Saxon churches, such as St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber , were originally built with towers for naves ?
text: Did you know that the LTV L450F spyplane was developed from a sailplane , and was then further developed into a drone ?
text: Did you know that much of the information that reaches Chinese media is published in the limited-circulation reports for government officials , not in the regular press?
text: Did you know that in 1612 Jewish teacher Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptized ?
text: Did you know that Europe's largest golf course was built on the island of Veliki Brijun in the early 1910s?
text: Did you know that Memphis, Tennessee's Temple Israel , one of the largest Reform synagogues in the United States, insisted in its early years on separate seating for men and women ?
text: Did you know that the average age of a farm holder in the United Kingdom is 59?
text: Did you know that after his professional baseball career was over, Jerry Harrington became the assistant chief of police in Keokuk, Iowa ?
text: Did you know that in 1969, Mahathir Mohamad , the future Prime Minister of Malaysia , lost his seat in Parliament to future Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party President, Yusof Rawa ?
text: Did you know that This is a magazine is an experimental art publication founded in 2002?
text: Did you know that while he was manager of the Milwaukee Brewers , Rip Egan once served alcohol to the opposing pitcher late into the night to keep him from playing at his full potential the next day?
text: Did you know that Norwegian MP Børre Rognlien was also the organizational leader of short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that, after the rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy selling candy for a fundraiser, New Jersey Assemblyman John A. Rocco introduced a bill to ban door-to-door sales by public school students?
text: Did you know that bats on Madagascar colonized the island from Asia at least three times?
text: Did you know that, in 2007, American track and field athlete Jake Arnold became the first man in 22 years to win back-to-back NCAA Championships in the decathlon ?
text: Did you know that, although the Sind United Party emerged as the largest party in the 1937 Sind assembly election , it failed to get its main leaders elected?
text: Did you know that Lavaca Bay in Texas has been classified as a superfund site due to mercury contamination by Alcoa ?
text: Did you know that an inmate of the Dóchas Centre women's prison was arrested for trying to break into the facility at Mountjoy Prison , Dublin ?
text: Did you know that the town of Carancahua on Carancahua Bay in Texas avoided growth because of the site's propensity for flooding and malaria ?
text: Did you know that the rainforest tree Flindersia xanthoxyla , used for making coaches and cabinets, is a member of the citrus family Rutaceae ?
text: Did you know that the MIT Car , a two-seat urban concept car propelled by motors in its wheels, was a project developed by William J. Mitchell at the MIT Media Lab ?
text: Did you know that wine writer André Jullien classified the wines of Bordeaux nearly 40 years before the official 1855 classification , including naming the exact same four First Growths ?
text: Did you know that two major bridges in Croatia , carrying two major roads only one mile apart, are both officially called Maslenica Bridge ?
text: Did you know that the leaves of the button grass Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus have the lowest recorded phosphorus content of any plant species?
text: Did you know that, in 2005, the Vietnamese company Vinacafe controlled half of the instant coffee market in Vietnam, and Nestlé another third?
text: Did you know that Chey Chettha II 's cooperation with the Nguyễn Lords of Vietnam led to the Vietnamese annexation of the Mekong Delta , including the town Vietnamese settlers referred to as Sài Gòn ?
text: Did you know that TriBeCa 's St. John's Park was a farm, a private park , and a freight depot on the West Side Line before being used for exits of the Holland Tunnel ?
text: Did you knowthat the Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel Helix Producer 1 servicing at the Deepwater Horizon site was formerly a RORO ferry ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian MP Arne Haukvik was a founder of the Bislett Games ?
text: Did you know that Fred K. Nielsen , a legal official of the U.S. State Department , served as the part-time head football coach at four different Washington, D.C. colleges?
text: Did you know that a 1946 trial against the newspaper Morgenposten also had implications for the treatment of other Norwegian newspapers which had cooperated with the Nazi authorities during World War II ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a professional footballer , Bob Jefferson had deserted from the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that the plaza in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park designed by Kenzo Tange allows 50,000 people to gather at the peace monument in the centre?
text: Did you know that Knob Noster State Park in Missouri was built by the CCC and WPA as Montserrat National Recreational Demonstration Area ?
text: Did you know that the Venezuelan historian Lucía Raynero Morales holds a Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford , that is named after the Venezuelan humanist Andrés Bello ?
text: Did you know that the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden at the Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society has a lime tree that was planted by former Czechoslovakia president Václav Havel ?
text: Did you know that the "Grandfather of Eastern Wilderness", Ernie Dickerman , was instrumental in promoting the 1975 Eastern Wilderness Act , which designated 16 new wilderness areas in the eastern United States?
text: Did you know that Pope Vigilius refused to attend the Second Council of Constantinople even though he had been living in the city for seven years?
text: Did you know that Williams College football coach Joseph Brooks served in a machine gun battalion in World War I and survived a plane crash in 1931?
text: Did you know that Tobelo is the capital of the North Halmahera Regency in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that The Vampire Diaries actress Katerina Graham makes a cameo appearance in Justin Bieber 's latest music video, " Somebody to Love ", which features his mentor Usher ?
text: Did you know that Robert B. Radnitz produced the 1972 film Sounder , which became his best known work, despite advice that the movie would never find an audience?
text: Did you know that, prior to appearing as Summer Hoyland in the soap opera Neighbours , Jordy Lucas was a finalist for Victoria , Australia , in the 2008 The Dolly Big Star competition?
text: Did you know that St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge , Bolton , Greater Manchester , was the first of three "pot churches" designed by Edmund Sharpe ?
text: Did you know that Tav HaYosher is a certification mark offered to kosher dining establishments that attests that the business meets legal and ethical standards for all of its employees?
text: Did you know that in January 1942, British agents and commandos raided the neutral Spanish island of Fernando Po and stole three ships ?
text: Did you know that John Tillman , recently hired as the Maryland men's lacrosse head coach, led Harvard to victory over Princeton for the first time in two decades?
text: Did you know that " Turn Ahead the Clock " was a promotion originated by the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise in 1998 where the team wore futuristic uniforms that outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. helped design?
text: Did you know that when interned by Nazi Germany in World War II , Sofka Skipwith and a friend smuggled a Jewish baby out of the camp in a Red Cross box and so saved its life?
text: Did you know that Accordia became the first housing development to win the
text: Did you know that Jihad satire , comedy that makes terrorists look silly, is thought to be an effective way of undermining support for terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda ?
text: Did you know that George H. Sutton was renowned as the "handless billiard player", but his cigarette card depicts him with hands?
text: Did you know that Norm Daniels , Frank Hauser and Bill MacDermott achieved the most wins among the football coaches in Wesleyan history, and Daniels led the team to four consecutive undefeated seasons?
text: Did you know that XellOs plays on a professional StarCraft team called Air Force ACE, sponsored by the South Korean Air Force ?
text: Did you know that in addition to some isolated teeth and a jaw fragment, the Mesozoic mammals of Madagascar include the most complete mammalian skeleton known from the Mesozoic of Gondwana ?
text: Did you know that during the 1960s two militant groups, the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) and the National Liberation Front (NLF) , fought each other and the British in what is now Yemen ?
text: Did you know that 1997 British and Irish Lions captain Martin Johnson regarded Paul Wallace as the player of the series?
text: Did you know that the underground station at Vienna's Stephansplatz has a foul smell caused by organic material used to stabilise the soil?
text: Did you know that United States Ambassador to Cyprus Taylor G. Belcher was awarded the Distinguished Service Award because of his peace-keeping abilities during the eruption of violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots?
text: Did you know that the MIT Media Lab 's RoboScooter is a foldable electric scooter, designed to be one-third the weight and have 10% of the parts of traditional gasoline-powered scooters?
text: Did you know that according to James A. Beckford , the refusal of many French prisons to provide halal meat and religious services to Muslims leads to increased radicalisation in the Muslim community?
text: Did you know that roughly 1% of all star formation occurs within tidal tails ?
text: Did you know that when Fr. Jeremiah Callahan was appointed president of Duquesne University in 1931, he used the opportunity to tell reporters about his personal critique of Einstein 's theory of relativity ?
text: Did you know that Australian cricket all-rounder Sarah Elliott only took her first wicket in senior cricket eight years after her debut?
text: Did you know that despite helping arrange the engagement of Princess Feodora with the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , German Emperor Wilhelm II refused to attend their wedding?
text: Did you know that jet engine turbine blades can face temperatures of 2,900 °F (1,590 °C)?
text: Did you know that Ditmar Meidell founded and edited Norway's first satirical magazine ?
text: Did you know that the wreck of the SS Francisco Morazan is now owned by the State of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the church dedicated to St Cwyllog in Llangwyllog, Anglesey , Wales , has a rare surviving Georgian triple-decker pulpit ?
text: Did you know that the 1927 Gulang earthquake was caused by thrust faulting at a restraining bend along the Haiyuan fault, the same fault that caused the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Assembly member Gerald H. Zecker justified higher car insurance rates for drivers in New Jersey 's largest cities because "cars in Newark are stolen and wrecked in far greater numbers"?
text: Did you know that the Arabat Spit is 112 km long and only a few kilometers wide?
text: Did you know that John Momis , a former Catholic priest and ambassador to China , defeated Autonomous Region of Bougainville 's incumbent President James Tanis in the 2010 Bougainvillean presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Eurythmic was a versatile Australian -bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won over distances ranging from 5 furlongs (1,000 metres) to 2 miles (3,200 metres)?
text: Did you know that Dr. Edgar Fauver , a football and baseball player in the 1890s, became a pioneer in women's athletics coaching women's basketball and baseball at Barnard College in the 1900s?
text: Did you know that the land for the first Holy Trinity Church in Morecambe , Lancashire , was bequeathed by the village blacksmith ?
text: Did you know that the translations by Princess Anka Obrenović in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a female to be published in Serbia?
text: Did you know that Amos Horev , appointed to the Israeli Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid of May 2010, is a former President of Technion University ?
text: Did you know that Nazi German leaders, including Heinrich Himmler , briefly fell for Heinz Kurschildgen 's claims to be able to make petrol from water?
text: Did you know that the guard on the train involved in a derailment at Falls of Cruachan in 2010 was also the guard on a train derailed at the same location in 1997?
text: Did you know that at 5,821 metres (19,098 ft) long, the Mala Kapela Tunnel is the longest tunnel in Croatia ?
text: Did you know that in 2008 the Korean e-Sports Players Association worried that it would be required to pay royalties to Blizzard Entertainment to broadcast Starcraft II ?
text: Did you know that former New Jersey Assembly member Gerald Luongo wrote Surviving Federal Prison Camp: An Informative and Helpful Guide for Prospective Inmates after spending almost a year in prison?
text: Did you know that Ludwig Schwarz , the Roman Catholic bishop of Linz , Austria , has a doctorate in classical philology and archeology from the University of Vienna ?
text: Did you know that Pabuji Ki Phad , a religious painting of folk deities, is the only surviving ancient traditional folk art form in the world of the epic of Pabuji , the Rajput of Rajasthan in India?
text: Did you know that architect Amon Henry Wilds built the Hindoo-style Western Pavilion as his own home in Brighton , and installed an igloo -shaped bathroom in its dome?
text: Did you know that William King , who beat incumbent Thomas King , never represented his electorate because he was killed before the first session of the 3rd New Zealand Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Maxine Hong Kingston 's novel Tripmaster Monkey is named after a fictional monkey king from the Chinese epic novel Journey to the West ?
text: Did you know that Emil "Liz" Liston , founder of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and organizer of the NAIA college basketball tournament , was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975?
text: Did you know that the County of Dannenberg was founded by Henry the Lion during the Ostsiedlung , or colonisation of the East, in order to protect the borders of his expanding territory?
text: Did you know that Professor Ivor Browne was denounced as antagonistic towards the Catholic Church after he came out in support of the mistress of Fr. Michael Cleary ?
text: Did you know that the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode " Chill of the Night! " has characters voiced by people from both Batman: The Animated Series and the 1960s live-action version of Batman ?
text: Did you know that current Arsenal F.C. reserve player Emmanuel Frimpong began his international career with Ghana before switching to England and then back to Ghana?
text: Did you know that Lake Scott State Park is home to El Quartelejo Ruins , the northernmost Indian pueblo in the United States and the only one known in Kansas ?
text: Did you know that microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?
text: Did you know that the 13th government of Sri Lanka was known as the Jumbo Cabinet due to the high number of ministers ?
text: Did you know that in 1946 the University of Texas at Austin regent Orville Bullington worked to dismiss the president Homer Rainey on grounds of communists and homosexuals operating within the university?
text: Did you know that Seth Burkett is the only British footballer to currently play professionally in Brazil?
text: Did you know that John Canon helped found Jefferson College and constructed the Stone Academy Building ?
text: Did you know that the name "regular Fronthall" was used to refer to brave soldiers in honor of the courage of Max Fronthall of the 16th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Secretary of the Army 's investigation into burial mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery was prompted in part by a year-long series of articles on Salon.com ?
text: Did you know that in Berghuis v. Thompkins the United States Supreme Court ruled that failing to claim the right to silence means police can use any voluntary statements regardless of length of interrogation?
text: Did you know that all of the panelists of the Beverage Testing Institute are professional guest tasters who are retailers, restaurateurs, or prominent writers?
text: Did you know that the Odyssey tanker spilled 43 million gallons of oil off the coast of Nova Scotia , Canada , in November 1988?
text: Did you know that Sheila Varian of California is an Arabian horse breeder who is also a horse trainer in the vaquero tradition, and was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2003?
text: Did you know that Dillard's opened a store at Bowling Green, Kentucky 's Greenwood Mall in 1996, then moved to another store in the mall less than three years later?
text: Did you know that the playable character of video game Seymour Goes to Hollywood was described as an "albino mutant lardball" by one reviewer?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century church built by the Tacatacuru , a Timucua chiefdom on Cumberland Island , Georgia , was said to be as big as the one in the Spanish colonial capital of St. Augustine ?
text: Did you know that the Israel Vázquez – Rafael Márquez rivalry produced two Ring Magazine fights of the year ?
text: Did you know that Let's Yoga includes yoga poses to complete in office chairs during times the player might be relegated to a desk?
text: Did you know that the delayed conclusion of the Russo - Ottoman Treaty of Constantinople (1700) caused Russian forces to arrive late in the war with Sweden ?
text: Did you know that Donald Russell from 1964 to 1970 accumulated the highest winning percentage (.661) of any Wesleyan football coach with more than two years as head coach?
text: Did you know that when it closed in 2008, Osterville Bay Elementary School was the oldest operating school building on Cape Cod ?
text: Did you know that in the film Horror of Dracula , actress Melissa Stribling played the victim of a vampire in an erotic role?
text: Did you know that Antoine Ephrem Cartier can trace his family history line back 400 years to Jacques Cartier , French explorer who claimed Canada for France?
text: Did you know that the hamlet of Wigratzbad in Germany was home to Marian apparitions in the early 20th century, and today houses a shrine visited by approximately 500,000 pilgrims every year?
text: Did you know that the Brinje Tunnel was declared to be the safest tunnel in Europe by an FIA and ADAC EuroTAP survey?
text: Did you know that Richelieu Foods produces over 50 million frozen pizzas and more than 20 million crusts annually—for other companies to market under their own private labels ?
text: Did you know that playwright Alan Bennett 's definition of a classic book is "a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have read themselves"?
text: Did you know that political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
text: Did you know that despite his aristocratic background, Claude Poullart des Places requested to be buried in a pauper's grave?
text: Did you know that Ireland's "Willy Wonka" provided confectionary for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that the former French Convalescent Home on Brighton seafront is the only such institution in England, and also had the country's earliest known double glazing ?
text: Did you know that the New York Mini 10K , first held in Central Park in 1972, was the world's first women-only road running event?
text: Did you know that during the Bardia raid in April 1941, seventy British Commandos became prisoners of war after getting lost?
text: Did you know that legislation proposed by Barbara Wright would impose jail terms up to 10 years and fines of as much as US$ 100,000 for filing false car- or health-insurance claims in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that indie rock band Klaxons were forced to re-record parts of second album Surfing the Void , after record label Polydor deemed it "too experimental for release"?
text: Did you know that Warren Antoine Cartier was a neighbor of Thomas Edison , Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone ?
text: Did you know that populations of Actinoporus elegans were thought to be restricted to the western Atlantic until they were collected at the east Atlantic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in 2004?
text: Did you know that aged 16, Ellyse Perry was the youngest person, male or female, to represent Australia in cricket, and debuted for the national football team a month later?
text: Did you know that through the Trade Union Propaganda League Swedish leftwing socialists sought to win the Swedish Trade Union Confederation over to a revolutionary line?
text: Did you know that the Welsh church of St Iestyn, Llaniestyn , contains a 12th-century font and a 14th-century memorial effigy to St Iestyn ?
text: Did you know that Napoleonic Wars military historian Ramsay Weston Phipps helped to blow up the docks at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) when he was a young Royal Artillery lieutenant?
text: Did you know that Knight, Death and the Devil is a large 1513 copperplate engraving , one of the three master prints by Albrecht Dürer ?
text: Did you know that despite being panned for exceptionally poor acting and special effects, the 2010 film Dinoshark was also considered likely to become a classic of the "awesomely awful" movie genre?
text: Did you know that even though Arvid Kramer had not played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the 1979–80 season , he was selected first in the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft ?
text: Did you know that the first of Denmark ’s Galathea expeditions had a budget of nearly half a million Rixdollars , equivalent to 3% of the state’s annual revenues at the time?
text: Did you know that the Classic Period Maya city of Ixtutz in the Maya Mountains of Guatemala was lost for more than a century after its discovery in 1852?
text: Did you know that Mayo hurler Adrian Freeman played in England , Scotland , North America and the Middle East before his recent death in an Australia car crash?
text: Did you know that during an 1864 expedition to resupply Army posts in eastern Oregon , Captain John M. Drake discovered fossils in the area that is now the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument ?
text: Did you know that even though the Association of Religion Data Archives estimated that there are only 50 Bahá'ís in Mongolia , more than 1700 Mongolian Bahá'ís turned out for a regional conference in 2009?
text: Did you know that Gary Stuhltrager criticized efforts to delay the imposition of capital punishment in New Jersey , saying "if you're going to have it, do it"?
text: Did you know that under a bill proposed by Assemblymember Joel Weingarten , religious headwear cannot be banned in New Jersey public schools?
text: Did you know that until the 19th century, Blackwell Hall in the City of London controlled England's main commercial activity—the cloth trade?
text: Did you know that the church of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was destroyed during the French Revolution and all its contents sold?
text: Did you know that during World War II the United States Army Art Program was canceled by Congress , then resumed by Life magazine ?
text: Did you know that the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in Canada is one of the largest Proterozoic magmatic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain?
text: Did you know that the Western Silvereye is a declared pest of agriculture in Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that Alex Rowe , rejected by the British Army because of a detached retina , became a highly decorated sniper for the French Foreign Legion ?
text: Did you know that the Polish Glider Experimental Works , created after World War II , became the main Polish centre for designing gliders?
text: Did you know that American League MVP and Cleveland Indians baseball manager Lou Boudreau hit two home runs in the 1948 American League tie-breaker game to bring the Indians to the 1948 World Series ?
text: Did you know that artist Orovida Camille Pissarro preferred to be known simply as Orovida to distinguish herself from the many other artists in her family, including her renowned grandfather Camille Pissarro ?
text: Did you know that football coach Jake High has both the highest winning percentage (.778) in the history of Wesleyan football and the lowest percentage (.000) in the history of NYU football?
text: Did you know that costume designer Peter J. Hall dressed David Bowie and Mick Jagger on tour, calling Bowie "serious, intellectual, wonderful to work with" while Jagger was "exactly the opposite"?
text: Did you know that whilst the Mexican People's Party was unable to obtain national registration as a political party, it was recognized in Baja California Sur and won a seat in the state legislature?
text: Did you know that the name of the Montreal nightclub Les Foufounes Électriques means "electric buttocks " in English?
text: Did you know that after the restructuring of New Zealand Rugby League there were seven zonal teams in the 2010 New Zealand rugby league season ?
text: Did you know that Rock Band 3 , a "disruptive title" to revitalize the rhythm video game genre, includes a Pro mode for near-accurate playing of real guitars, drum and keyboard instruments?
text: Did you know that when Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen sustained fatal heart failure, there were numerous doctors present ?
text: Did you know that a radio ad in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known radio commercial in history?
text: Did you know that Ella Anker , decorated with the Order of the British Empire , founded a Norway-based version of the Anglo-Norse Society ?
text: Did you know that outriggers allow a fishing vessel to tow multiple trolling lines in the water in a way that can simulate a school of fish ?
text: Did you know that soprano Edith Selig recorded the early Bach cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 , performed in Weimar in 1714 on the third Sunday after Trinity ?
text: Did you know that in the medieval Irish satire The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig , the Connaught champion Cet mac Mágach is unbeaten in a bragging contest, until being slapped in the face with the head of his dead brother?
text: Did you know that the Somerset Women cricket team finished as County Championship Division Two champions in 2004 and 2005?
text: Did you know that the death of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff , who tried to become the youngest to fly an aircraft across the US, led to a law prohibiting record-seeking children from touching the flight controls ?
text: Did you know that Peter Keefe 's 1980s series Voltron "helped prepare the way for other Japanese-style animation in the United States" such as Pokémon and Power Rangers ?
text: Did you know that the small French Communist Group in Russia was able to play a role in fomenting mutinies amongst French interventionist troops during the Russian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars are the only teams to have not selected any Texas Tech Red Raiders in the NFL Draft ?
text: Did you know that a hoax electric guitar inspired version of the Welsh national anthem was credited to both Jimi Hendrix and Tich Gwilym , when it was 'unearthed' in 2006?
text: Did you know that according to Ramayana adaptations, Mandodari – the wife of the ten-headed demon Ravana – was the mother of Sita , whose kidnapping by Ravana would lead to his doom?
text: Did you know that, depending on classification, there are anywhere from 20 to 40 cheeses produced in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that footballer Stephen Brackstone had an operation to remove his appendix after being taken to hospital following his substitution in a game for York City in December 2002?
text: Did you know that GRB 030329 provided the definitive link between gamma-ray bursts and supernovae ?
text: Did you know that Guy Talarico sponsored a bill that would require involuntary commitment for those with mental health issues if it is determined that it is likely that they will commit future crimes?
text: Did you know that the single known population of the Ecuadorian rodent Lagidium ahuacaense may contain only a few dozen individuals?
text: Did you know that in England and Wales , legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the Hale Commission ?
text: Did you know that the last remaining mail delivery boat in the United States delivers with mail jumpers ?
text: Did you know that the Brenthurst Foundation sent a number of its staff abroad to help solve the problem of there not being enough lecturers at the National University of Rwanda ?
text: Did you know that hospitals in Iraq reported 6,530 cases and 459 deaths as a result of the 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster ?
text: Did you know that in 1899 the Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia became the first ship in the world to be fitted with a radio – an installation designed by A. S. Popov that had a range of about 3 miles (4.8 km)?
text: Did you know that pioneer British aviator Alec Ogilvie was only the seventh person to qualify as a pilot in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Jonah Lomu failed to score a try against South Africa despite facing them 13 times?
text: Did you know that 74-time champion Ken Jennings may be one of the human challengers to face IBM 's artificial intelligence software Watson in a special challenge match on Jeopardy! ?
text: Did you know that Charles Domery ate 174 cats in a year?
text: Did you know that in Operation Maritime Guard , warships from Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., and four other countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia?
text: Did you know that paraplegic handcyclist Edward Maalouf is the only person to have won medals for Lebanon at the Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that it is speculated that Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus were commissioned by Constantine I ?
text: Did you know that current Wesleyan football coach Mike Whalen led the Williams College "Ephs" to four consecutive Little Three football championships and a undefeated record against Wesleyan?
text: Did you know that the cloth fibers in the casing of most bicycle tires are oriented diagonally, forming a bias ply?
text: Did you know that " locked-in syndrome ", in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of most muscles except for the eyes, was coined by neurologist Dr. Fred Plum ?
text: Did you know that bored by a game of Scrabble , 76-year-old Abraham Nathanson said "we need an anagrams game so fast, it'll drive you bananas" and created the game Bananagrams ?
text: Did you know that in Operation Sharp Guard , warships from 14 countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia, challenged 73,000 ships, and boarded and inspected almost 6,000 of them?
text: Did you know that the three lookouts , Gvulot , Beit Eshel and Revivim , served as a springboard for Jewish settlement in the Negev desert?
text: Did you know that although Paul Legrand ' s physique was considered unsuited for pantomime , he had a distinguished 48 year career as a performer around the world?
text: Did you know that Rick Mahorn was selected second in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves , but he refused to report to the team and was traded prior to the start of the following season?
text: Did you know that the Welsh church of St Peulan, Llanbeulan , is said to have been founded by St Peulan , the son of St Paulinus ?
text: Did you know that a bill proposed by Carol Murphy passed in the New Jersey General Assembly to allow hunters to contribute venison to food banks to help feed the needy?
text: Did you know that Lillian Heath , the first woman doctor in Wyoming , was given the sawed-off skull cap of lynched outlaw Big Nose George , which she used as a doorstop?
text: Did you know that Louis Romano , a four-term member of the New Jersey General Assembly , lost to Albio Sires in the 1999 Democratic primary, making him the only one of 80 incumbents to lose a primary bid that year?
text: Did you know that the Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus , Indiana , is constructed on an old railroad yard?
text: Did you know that cricketer Lisa Sthalekar took five wickets in her 100th One Day International match for Australia ?
text: Did you know that Polish aviator Józef Lewoniewski planned to fly the PWS-52 monoplane prototype around the world?
text: Did you know that Alvin Greene is the first African American since Reconstruction to win a major party's nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-376 only sank two merchant ships in eight patrols before it went missing on 13 April 1943?
text: Did you know that Juan José Carbó was an award-winning cartoonist who drew for both adult entertainment and children's magazines while working as a civil servant ?
text: Did you know that Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski , a trained aviator, took part in the Warsaw Uprising of World War II and later headed an automobile repair bureau in Poznań ?
text: Did you know that azoospermia affects about 1% of the male population?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Maria Grachvogel created a dress adorned with 2,000 diamonds worth £250,000 for her London Fashion Week show?
text: Did you know that the Battle of the Ice between Teutonic Knights and Novgorodians was fought on top of the frozen Lake Peipsi-Pihkva ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Nava of the Boston Red Sox is the fourth player in Major League Baseball history to hit a grand slam in his first at-bat and the second to do so on the first pitch?
text: Did you know that Chinese porcelain in European painting is known from at least 1514 with Giovanni Bellini 's The Feast of the Gods ?
text: Did you know that the phenomenon of Icing , called by The New York Times "the nation's biggest viral drinking game ", has led to a spike in sales of Smirnoff Ice ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-371 made a total of 19 war patrols in her career?
text: Did you know that Mexico 's National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts or FONART directly assisted 26,600 Mexican artisans in 2006?
text: Did you know that Travis Kvapil received one of the largest NASCAR penalties by using improper modifications to the valve stems during the 2010 Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 ?
text: Did you know that during the Great Depression , attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas ?
text: Did you know that Arlington National Cemetery Superintendent John C. Metzler, Jr. lived at the cemetery between the ages of 4 and 19?
text: Did you know that Highlands Coffee was both the first private company and the first joint stock company within Vietnam to be registered to an Overseas Vietnamese ?
text: Did you know that in an effort to protect tax revenue from casinos in Atlantic City , Assemblyman Kenneth LeFevre sought to block the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma from opening a casino in Wildwood, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Brandon Gormley , Mikael Granlund , Derek Forbort and Ryan Johansen are projected to be among the top selections at the 2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft on June 25–26?
text: Did you know that as of May 2010, Akrapovič exhaust systems have been used in a total of 38 motorsport world championships?
text: Did you know that Sir Percy Cradock was manhandled by the Red Guards when he was stationed at the charge d'affaires office, Peking , during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Ulpian's life table predicted a life expectancy of 19 to 23 years for citizens of the Roman Empire ?
text: Did you know that in 1949 the Polish , Hungarian , Bulgarian , Yugoslav and Czechoslovak socialist parties founded the Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe as a common centre for work in exile?
text: Did you know that the small Maya city of Itzan in the Petén region of Guatemala featured an unusually large quantity of sculpted monuments?
text: Did you know that the collapse of the Showa Bridge after the 1964 Niigata earthquake was a result of liquefaction rather than ground motion ?
text: Did you know that in 1976 socialist Jorge Cruickshank García became the first opposition senator of Mexico since the emergence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party as the ruling party?
text: Did you know that on March 22, 2003, the treacherous reefs around Land's End claimed yet another ship, the RMS Mulheim ?
text: Did you know that Paul Lo Duca has the most MLB All-Star selections, but Jason Varitek has the most World Series championships from the 1993 College Baseball All-America Team ?
text: Did you know that the 1950 film The Bandit Queen starred Barbara Britton in the title role as a bullwhip -wielding avenger?
text: Did you know that there were an estimated 8,000 members of Sam's Army in the stands at the U.S. men's soccer team's opening game of the 2010 World Cup in group play against England ?
text: Did you know that Scene It? Twilight has no questions about New Moon even though the movie version of the book was released at the same time as the game?
text: Did you know that in 1978, 21-year-old Walter Muma set a record for moped trips with a three-month, 11,500-mile ride from Toronto to Alaska and back?
text: Did you know that the German Type IXB submarines were the most successful class of submarines in World War II in terms of the total amount of tonnage sunk?
text: Did you know that cricketer Steph Davies , who made four appearances for England in 2008, made her county debut for Somerset aged just 13?
text: Did you know that Arena was the first web browser to support background images, tables, text flow around images, and inline mathematical expressions?
text: Did you know that the back-illuminated sensor improves on conventional digital camera sensors by moving wiring so it does not interfere with light entering the front of the detector?
text: Did you know that Ircinia strobilina produces a substance which causes paralysis and loss of balance when ingested by fish?
text: Did you know that footballer Michael Basham played in the Swansea City team that won the 1994 Football League Trophy Final ?
text: Did you know that author Debbie Renner claimed to have once competed in professional wrestling as the "Tasmanian Devil" prior to becoming a full-time writer?
text: Did you know that Leonard Sanford persuaded Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her children to buy Lord Rothschild 's bird collection for the American Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that tert -butanesulfinamide is used as a chiral auxiliary in the asymmetric synthesis of amines ?
text: Did you know that Oscar Eduardovich Lemm , Russian Coptologist , published the text of Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I ?
text: Did you know that an article she wrote about boar hunting in Brittany led to Kate Betts ' career as a fashion journalist ?
text: Did you know that Jim "the Darp" Ostendarp , Amherst College football coach for 33 years, refused to allow ESPN to televise a game saying, "We're in education. We aren't in the entertainment business"?
text: Did you know that First Presbyterian Church 1793 is the de facto college church of Washington & Jefferson College , a nearby nonsectarian liberal arts college?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian dance known as the Surra de Bunda describes a female dancer pounding her buttocks into a man's face?
text: Did you know that playwright Penny Arcade 's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! was made partly in response to a bill amendment banning the National Endowment of the Arts from granting funds for "obscene or indecent art"?
text: Did you know that Elias Martin has been described by Nationalencyklopedin as Sweden 's "first big landscape painter"?
text: Did you know that Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Motherwell v Hibernian football match on 5 May 2010 , which ended in a 6–6 draw, is the highest scoring match in Scottish Premier League history?
text: Did you know that José Albi was a Spanish literary critic and the last of the post Spanish Civil War poets?
text: Did you know that Augie Schmidt won the Golden Spikes Award , an award given to the top amateur baseball player in the United States, in 1982?
text: Did you know that C/2009 R1 , one of more than fifty comets known as " Comet McNaught ", has been noted for its "impressive green coma and long ion tail ", lending it the appearance of an "apple on a stick"?
text: Did you know that in English trusts law , constructive trusts are used for things as varied as land transfers, bribery and murder?
text: Did you know that the British steam-powered submarine HMS Swordfish ' s performance underwater was so unsatisfactory that she was converted to an anti-submarine patrol boat in 1917–18?
text: Did you know that the Lothair Crystal , an engraved gem now in the British Museum , was once sold for ten pounds ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Fondane , known as a Symbolist poet in Romania , a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina , was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
text: Did you know that the UConn Huskies won the 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl to end a year marked by five games lost by 15 total points, a double-overtime victory at Notre Dame , and the murder of cornerback Jasper Howard ?
text: Did you know that Rafael Fraguela was elected to the N.J. Assembly 33rd District as a Democrat , became a Republican to run for the N.J. Senate , and returned to the Democrats to vote for a stem cell research bill?
text: Did you know that Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, confessed to the Grangegorman killings and spent eight months in jail, though he did not commit the crime?
text: Did you know that the film Let the Devil Wear Black is a modern-day version of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet that is set in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that only fourteen complete examples of Hedwig glass are known?
text: Did you know that Prvić near Krk is the windiest Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea ?
text: Did you know that people have reportedly witnessed the ghosts of Roman legionnaires passing through Maesmawr Hall in Powys , Wales , site of an ancient Roman road?
text: Did you know that Alfred Sinding-Larsen , who wrote folk songs with the Vika dialect , was one of the first writers to use a dialect from Norway's capital ?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century chancel window of the Welsh church of St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus , has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall?
text: Did you know that the propellers of the Dornier Do 29 could be tilted downwards by up to 90 degrees?
text: Did you know that the low-budget horror film Raging Sharks has been described as a poor man’s combination of early Steven Spielberg films?
text: Did you know that after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old, New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Kramer pushed bills requiring sex offender registration , saying " Megan Kanka would be alive today" if his bills were law?
text: Did you know that the Tanganyikan Spiny Eel was one of the species that was photographed as part of a FishBase mission which had the primary objective to document and photograph the rich fish diversity of Lake Tanganyika ?
text: Did you know that in English law , resulting trusts work based on the equitable maxim that "equity abhors a vacuum"?
text: Did you know that when a fifteen-year-old girl garlanded Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the inauguration of India 's Panchet Dam , she was considered to have "married" him?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-104 went missing on her first war patrol?
text: Did you know that when in danger of predation , the harvestman Leiobunum rotundum can self-amputate its legs, but they will not regenerate ?
text: Did you know that the ChristChurch Cathedral has a western porch and a memorial window to commemorate Alfred Creyke and John Watts-Russell , respectively, paid for by their widow Elizabeth?
text: Did you know that a big part of the collection of the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon came from Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle and his son Antoine ?
text: Did you know that David C. Chapman , the man who was involved in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park , has a mountain named for him in the park?
text: Did you know that the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar , an environmental award given by the Government of India to organizations, carries a cash prize of 500,000 Indian rupees ?
text: Did you know that as point man for the Kennedy administration on the August 1963 March on Washington , John W. Douglas was given "historic credit for the orderliness and smoothness and joy of that day"?
text: Did you know that the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous -class carrier HMS Furious ?
text: Did you know that in the Mexican state of Hidalgo there is a community that claims to be descended from Sephardi Jews who migrated to New Spain in the 16th century?
text: Did you know that the Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane was powered by an engine originally intended for use in airships ?
text: Did you know that Jerusalem 's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway , because it was originally built as one?
text: Did you know that in 1896, a flooding disaster occurred at River Level Colliery in the Welsh village of Abernant , killing six colliers?
text: Did you know that Fred Swanton , known as the P. T. Barnum of Santa Cruz , promoted everything from the Neptune Casino to ZaSu Pitts ?
text: Did you know that the Bar U Ranch in Alberta , Canada , hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid ?
text: Did you know that Offshore Power Systems , a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding , spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant?
text: Did you know that the 1878 constitution of San Francisco 's Congregation Beth Israel prohibited members from praying out loud?
text: Did you know that baseball player Ed Sprague, Jr. is the only Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft pick to be a part of both Blue Jays' World Series championships?
text: Did you know that the United Public Workers of America was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1950 for being communist -controlled, and its president convicted of contempt of Congress ?
text: Did you know that actor Jason Lee will star as a detective who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator in the upcoming American television series Memphis Beat ?
text: Did you know that John Mott-Smith was the first permanent dentist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and its last ambassador to the U.S. ?
text: Did you know that Rhodesia was the only African country to compete at the first Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that late Roman office-holder Sossianus Hierocles was one of the more fervent supporters of official persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-343 managed to shoot down two Wellington bombers ?
text: Did you know that Nadrian Seeman was inspired to create the field of DNA nanotechnology while pondering the M. C. Escher woodcut Depth at a campus pub?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-355 went missing on 4 April 1944 and was never heard from again?
text: Did you know that United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947) is the only U.S. Supreme Court decision prior to 1965 to address the meaning of the Ninth and Tenth amendments substantively?
text: Did you know that the decisive factor for the Greek victory at Bizani (1913) was not numerical superiority, but the solid operational planning that did not allow the Ottoman forces to react?
text: Did you know that Don Cohan , the oldest sailor to win an Olympic bronze medal (at age 42), won a U.S. sailing championship at age 72?
text: Did you know that the pilot of the Aichi F1A sat in an open cockpit , while the observer's position was enclosed?
text: Did you know that Owen Aspinall , the 45th Governor of American Samoa , banned a Korean man from marrying a Samoan woman, despite the fact that he, a Colorado native, married a Samoan woman himself?
text: Did you know that the political surveillance of Socialist People's Party founder Knut Løfsnes by the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency amounted to at least 2500 pages of surveillance documents?
text: Did you know that Endiandra introrsa , commonly known as Dorrigo Plum or Red Walnut, is neither a plum nor a walnut but a member of the laurel family ?
text: Did you know that Orville Nave compiled his best-known work, Nave's Topical Bible , while serving as a chaplain in the United States Army ?
text: Did you know that in 1910, the public library in Dragon, Utah , arranged for the Uintah Railway to deliver borrowed books for free?
text: Did you know that publicist Stephen Rivers arranged Jane Fonda 's 1987 trip to Poland , where she went to express her support for Lech Wałęsa , leader of the then-banned Solidarity movement?
text: Did you know that visually impaired runner Said Gomez , three time Paralympic champion, is the only Panamanian to have won medals at the Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Vietnamese coffee producer Trung Nguyên 's Legendee brand coffee is a simulated Kopi Luwak product?
text: Did you know that retired professional baseball player Joe Campbell missed most of spring training in 1967 with the Chicago Cubs due to obligations he had in the United States Marine Corps ?
text: Did you know that the Terwilliger-Smith Farm in Kerhonkson, New York , has the only extant stand-alone slaughterhouse in Ulster County ?
text: Did you know that since the superstructure of Johnstown 's Cathedral of St. John Gualbert was laid using nearly 590,000 pounds (270,000 kg) of steel , the roof was able to be completed before the foundation walls?
text: Did you know that the trophy for the Enterprise Cup , a Kenyan rugby union competition, was donated by sailors of the HMS Enterprise who toured East Africa in 1928?
text: Did you know that the publishers of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings insisted on adding the caveat "Music Inspired by" to the title of Bo Hansson 's 1972 concept album Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that at the end of 2006 the UK made the final payment on the Keynes World War II loan negotiated by John Maynard Keynes in 1945?
text: Did you know that during his performance in the Reduta Theatre at age 11, Mozart was dissatisfied with the sound of the trumpets ?
text: Did you know that Conrad Susa 's opera Transformations is based on Grimm's Fairy Tales as retold by American poet, Anne Sexton ?
text: Did you know that when an elevated train derailed on Ninth Avenue in New York in 1905, some passengers escaped from one carriage through an apartment window?
text: Did you know that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stock the Little Cottonwood Creek with 1000 trout yearly?
text: Did you know that the colour printing process chromoxylography was mostly used to print book covers for penny dreadfuls , yellow-backs , and children's books during the mid to late 19th century?
text: Did you know that Lodge Park in Gloucestershire is England's only surviving 17th-century deer course and grandstand ?
text: Did you know that the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the French and British war ships entering the Bosphorus from the Black Sea during the Crimean War ?
text: Did you know that Pelé and Mia Hamm are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game Academy of Champions: Soccer ?
text: Did you know that in September 1942 No. 62 Commando carried out a raid on what was later to become known as Omaha Beach in France, where American forces would land on D-Day in 1944?
text: Did you know that the United Nations and Amnesty International have called for an investigation into the death of Congolese activist Floribert Chebeya ?
text: Did you know that D. John Markey complained of the Democratic Party 's 82-year grip on Maryland after the close and controversial 1946 Senate race against Governor Herbert O'Conor ?
text: Did you know that under the Vandalism Act of Singapore , a person convicted for the first time of vandalism by defacing property using an indelible substance such as paint must be sentenced to caning ?
text: Did you know that British judo expert Trevor Leggett 's adherence to Japanese culture extended even to wearing traditional Japanese underwear ?
text: Did you know that looters at the Maya archaeological site of Holtun in Guatemala uncovered a series of large stucco masks flanking the main stairway of the principal pyramid ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, English biochemist Samuel Victor Perry failed to escape as a prisoner of war on three occasions, and was captured by the same German guard twice?
text: Did you know that Jan Kobow sang the tenor part of Bach 's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2 , written for the second Sunday after Trinity of 1724, with Philippe Herreweghe ?
text: Did you know that American athlete Marla Runyan , who is legally blind , won the national 5K road running title three consecutive times at the Freihofer's Run for Women ?
text: Did you know that a ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle made by Thomas Earnshaw is now in the British Museum ?
text: Did you know that Vera Beaudin Saeedpour , an American Jew , opened the first U.S. museum dedicated to the Kurdish people ?
text: Did you know that the Bloom Festival in Dublin 's Phoenix Park is twice as large as the UK's Chelsea Flower Show ?
text: Did you know that celebrities who have worn Jonathan Saunders ' designs include Madonna , Kylie Minogue , Sienna Miller , and Michelle Obama ?
text: Did you know that The Brahmin and the Mongoose , an Indian folktale about the rash killing of a loyal animal, travelled the world and inspired shrines to the dogs Saint Guinefort in France and Gelert in Wales?
text: Did you know that Paralympic athlete Kortney Clemons lost his leg because a roadside bomb exploded when he was helping fellow US soldiers in Iraq?
text: Did you know that Ismael Urbain was a high-level official in mid-nineteenth century French Algeria and adviser to Napoleon III due to his strong knowledge of Islam ?
text: Did you know that the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum bears the inscription " This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ "?
text: Did you know that U-111 's first patrol took place in the North Atlantic and her second patrol took place in the South Atlantic?
text: Did you know that the Rangit Dam project in Sikkim in northeastern India cost more than $109 million ?
text: Did you know that Pierre Buyoya became president of Burundi twice, following a military coup d'état in 1987 , and another in 1996 ?
text: Did you know that Franz Liszt 's piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called Lisztomania , which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos?
text: Did you know that of the 22 players selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1980 NBA Expansion Draft , only two played more than one season for the team?
text: Did you know that Stanley Ott helped lay to rest a convicted murderer near the graves of bishops ?
text: Did you know that the 1999 Grenadian general election was called 18 months early after the foreign minister defected from the governing New National Party ?
text: Did you know that the baritone Andreas Schmidt created the part of Ryuji in Hans Werner Henze 's opera Das verratene Meer in 1990 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ?
text: Did you know that scenes from the 1955 film, The Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster , were filmed at Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park ?
text: Did you know that Rudy Garcia resigned his post as mayor of Union City, New Jersey , in the wake of a recall election petition that had gathered 6,700 signatures?
text: Did you know that in 2008, a member of the Dallas County, Texas , county commission claimed that the term black hole , as used in astronomy, was racist ?
text: Did you know that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs , referred to as subfossil lemurs , that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 441 lb)?
text: Did you know that Craig Rundle , a college football head coach for 24 years, led Albion College to the 2001 MIAA championship with his sons playing at quarterback and tight end ?
text: Did you know that despite a magnitude of only 5.8, the 1992 Cairo earthquake was the most destructive to affect Cairo since 1847, killing 545 people, injuring another 6,512, and making 50,000 homeless?
text: Did you know that the Albanian Vajtim (dirge or lament of the dead) in the 17th century would make the city of Gjirokastër extremely noisy on Sundays?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony received a Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album for his third studio album titled Contra La Corriente ?
text: Did you know that when Alfred Eriksen was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1903, he was among the first group in the Parliament representing the Labour movement?
text: Did you know that Teruji Kogake set a world record in the triple jump at the Japanese Olympic Trials but only managed eighth in the finals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the original administration building in Jasper National Park had a fish hatchery in the basement?
text: Did you know that 20 days after he brought his high school baseball team to the state finals, Texas Rangers first-round draft pick David Clyde made his Major League Baseball debut?
text: Did you know that Buffalo Bill Cody once owned part of Buffalo Bill State Park in Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that the zoea larvae of crabs have long rostral and dorsal spines?
text: Did you know that Dorsey Dixon 's song "Babies in the Mill" is about the Southern United States textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the increasing overall divorce rate is primarily in elderly, long-married couples, a phenomenon dubbed " grey divorce "?
text: Did you know that the original Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral building was saved from burning during the American Civil War when the parish priest imitated General Banks 's voice and ordered Union troops to spare the church?
text: Did you know that although the Welsh church of St Pabo, Llanbabo has a 14th-century monument to Pabo Post Prydain , its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no strong evidence that he founded the church?
text: Did you know that despite their plan to settle farther west, Timothy and Rachel Sheldon were so impressed with their camping spot on the Chicago Road that they bought land nearby and built the Sheldon Inn ?
text: Did you know that a children's book about a toy owl, written by Finn Havrevold in 1957, was made into a film by Ivo Caprino ?
text: Did you know that, for the first time in the history of the main Final Fantasy series of video games , the music of Final Fantasy XIII does not include any musical compositions by Nobuo Uematsu ?
text: Did you know that Jack Siedlecki led Yale , Amherst and Worcester to conference championships in 21 years as a head football coach?
text: Did you know that in the United States there is a math–verbal achievement gap on both the SAT and the ACT , because students do much better on the math portion?
text: Did you know that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman weighs an estimated 1,000 tonnes ?
text: Did you know that American painter of the Old American West J. K. Ralston was awarded a Gold Medal by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that Henry Kissinger did not have to release phone transcripts that were made while he was Secretary of State ?
text: Did you know that the endangered spiny gardenia has been threatened by the development of banana plantations and the Pacific Highway ?
text: Did you know that Norman Bethune Sanson climbed Canadian mountains with King George VI of the United Kingdom and King Prajadhipok of Siam ?
text: Did you know that LeRoy J. Jones, Jr. proposed a ban on the sale of box cutters to teenagers in New Jersey , saying that they had become "the weapon of choice" for gang members?
text: Did you know that the milk protein lactoferrin provides antibacterial activity to human infants?
text: Did you know that sack tapping can lead to amputation and is posted on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island , including Allison , Compton , Deacock , Downes , Ealey , Fiftyone , Gotley , Lied , Schmidt , Stephenson , Vahsel and Winston , have a negative mass balance and are in retreat ?
text: Did you know that the Coocumbac Island Nature Reserve in the Manning River is an example of a large fig – giant stinger tree association ecological community?
text: Did you know that Nidal Malik Hasan and Jihad Jane were said to have started out as a " jihobbyists ", also known as "eHadis"?
text: Did you know that after she was torpedoed by E boats during Operation Pedestal , Almeria Lykes was scuttled to prevent her falling into enemy hands?
text: Did you know that a dipper well , a perpetual-flow sink used for cleaning ice cream scoops , uses an average of 260,000 gallons (984,000 liters) of water yearly?
text: Did you know that the record for the longest hitting streak in NCAA college baseball history is 60 games, held by Damian Costantino of Salve Regina University ?
text: Did you know that the abandoned O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben , New York , is so well-preserved that coal remains in its bin more than 50 years after it closed?
text: Did you know that the carcinologist Robert Gurney was not connected to a university, and carried out his scientific work at home?
text: Did you know that the Nereid Monument was constructed in the British Museum in 1969 from material brought from Lycia in 1840?
text: Did you know that " So Close ", a 1990 song by Hall & Oates , was the duo's 29th and final U.S. Top 40 single to date?
text: Did you know that in his concurrence in Wieman v. Updegraff in 1952, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter called teachers "priests of our democracy"?
text: Did you know that after colonizing Antarctica , the Lobodontine seals rapidly diversified to include the only seal that feeds primarily on krill and the only seal that feeds primarily on the krill-eating seals?
text: Did you know that when Kamie Ethridge played basketball for the University of Texas , the arena where she played was dubbed "the best little scorehouse in Texas"?
text: Did you know that Downfall , the upcoming American television game show series, features contestants who must answer trivia questions correctly before their cash and prizes fall from the top of a 10-story building?
text: Did you know that the Italian battleship Caio Duilio was one of the longest-lived World War I dreadnoughts?
text: Did you know that a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jiří Traxler lives in Canada ?
text: Did you know that in response to Pakistan banning Facebook after the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy MillatFacebook was founded to cater primarily to Muslims ?
text: Did you know that in the auction sale of Augustin Blondel de Gagny 's renowned collection of paintings and furniture (Paris, 1776) there was a Stradivarius violin ?
text: Did you know that St Matthew's Church in Silverhill, East Sussex , was meant to have a large tower with a tall spire, but when money ran out only a small flèche was built?
text: Did you know that in 1944 the Summer Lake Wildlife Area became the first wildlife refuge in Oregon specifically established to preserve wetland habitat?
text: Did you know that right-handed amphetamines are usually 4–10 times more potent psychostimulant drugs than left-handed ones?
text: Did you know that the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus is one of the main prey items for the Cape Clawless Otter ?
text: Did you know that Irwin Rosten 's 1975 documentary Man: The Incredible Machine , which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in PBS history?
text: Did you know that there was only one survivor when I P Suhr capsized and sank off Sandhammaren , Sweden , in 1950?
text: Did you know that Arline Friscia sponsored a bill making New Jersey the first U.S. state to require businesses with 50+ employees to rehire a worker at the same or comparable position after taking a family leave ?
text: Did you know that Booky's Crush is the third in a series of Canadian made for TV movies, and follows Booky and the Secret Santa (2006) and Booky Makes Her Mark (2007)?
text: Did you know that Ireland rugby union international player Thomas Ranken Lyle was commemorated on a set of postage stamps for his pioneering work on X-rays ?
text: Did you know that the present-day location of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania , was the result of a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States was a court case in which the Supreme Court held the Court of Claims jurisdiction was not increased by Congressional reference resolutions ?
text: Did you know that Foster's reactance theorem ensures that plots on a Smith chart of an electrical network impedance function always travel around the chart in a clockwise direction with increasing frequency?
text: Did you know that Melvin Cottrell sponsored legislation to allow sports betting in Atlantic City casinos on professional and college sports that would exclude wagering on games played by New Jersey college teams?
text: Did you know that the thoroughbred racehorse Workforce broke the Epsom Derby course record time in only his third ever race?
text: Did you know that the knife known as the Seax of Beagnoth has the only known complete inscription of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Huggins ' objections to the "so called restoration" of Chester Cathedral helped found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times called the closing of the Bordentown School "an example of desegregation in reverse" under the headline "Jersey to Close All-Negro School Because It Can't Get White Pupils"?
text: Did you know that Jes Staley was a founding member of J.P. Morgan 's equities business?
text: Did you know that the Temi Tea Garden is the only tea garden in Sikkim ?
text: Did you know that Percy Christopherson , his father Derman Christopherson, and nine brothers played a cricket match against Blackheath on a team named 'The Christophersons'?
text: Did you know that Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum planned a bayfront along Corpus Christi Bay that included a 32 foot statue of Jesus Christ , but was rejected by the city of Corpus Christi ?
text: Did you know that the Gilchrist State Forest is the first new state forest in Oregon since 1948?
text: Did you know that the Minoan Bull-leaper is the only known complete sculpture depicting Minoan bull leaping ?
text: Did you know that French showman and soldier Tarrare could eat his own weight in meat every day?
text: Did you know that the name of mineral scrutiny ite reflects the efforts spent to distinguish it from plattnerite – another form of lead dioxide ?
text: Did you know that Idaho's Heyburn State Park is the oldest state park in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that Edward Lampert became the first hedge fund manager to earn more than US$ 1 billion in a single year, when the investments owned by his firm, ESL Investments , rose in value by 69% in 2004?
text: Did you know that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th-century lesbian industrialist ?
text: Did you know that after receiving scant interest from college basketball scouts as a high school senior, Jason Conley would go on to become the first (and only) freshman to win the NCAA Division I scoring title ?
text: Did you know that the scientific name of the Peacock carpenter bee ( Xylocopa bombylans ) means "bumblebee-like wood-cutter"?
text: Did you know that among New Jersey 's state symbols , the slogan "Come See For Yourself" was chosen in 2006 after an earlier proposal "We'll Win You Over" was deemed to be too negative?
text: Did you know that 40 limited edition sets of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing 's debut album Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1 came with wax cylinder recordings?
text: Did you know that one of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 's Commuter Rail stations is located in Rhode Island ?
text: Did you know that actor and mime artist Jack Birkett , who was often billed as "The Incredible Orlando", continued to perform on stage and in films after becoming totally blind ?
text: Did you know that the painting Landscape, Branchville was owned by J. Alden Weir , who said "I would sooner lose my right arm than sell one of Johnnie Twachtman 's paintings"?
text: Did you know that it has been said that the flesh of the mushroom Macrolepiota excoriata tastes like hazelnut ?
text: Did you know that Zeke Zechella , who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise , was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems ?
text: Did you know that Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom , the oldest Orthodox Jewish congregation on Long Island , once fired its rabbi after he was alleged to have been caught eating ham in a saloon?
text: Did you know that William Hanna claimed that the Tom and Jerry character Jerry Mouse was named Jinx in his first appearance, while Joseph Barbera claimed that the mouse went nameless?
text: Did you know that New Zealand rower Rob Hamill has also stood as a political candidate, and his brother was a victim of the Khmer Rouge ?
text: Did you know that Saint Subber produced seven Neil Simon plays on Broadway , five of which were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play ?
text: Did you know that the Madagascar bat Paratriaenops auritus has a noseleaf with three straight, about equally long lancets?
text: Did you know that American chemist Robert L. McNeil, Jr. was responsible for the commercial development of Tylenol , for which he coined the generic name " acetaminophen "?
text: Did you know that alkaloid cyclopamine is named so because it induces cyclopia in sheep?
text: Did you know that Hans Litten so rattled Adolf Hitler on the witness stand that, years later, Hitler told Prince Wilhelm of Prussia that even he would be sent to a concentration camp if he supported Litten?
text: Did you know that Leslie Buck designed the Grecian -themed Anthora coffee cup , a cultural icon of New York City , to appeal to the city's Greek American restaurant owners?
text: Did you know that rifting in the Gulf of Suez initiated due to anticlockwise rotation of the Arabian Plate away from the African Plate , but stopped when the Dead Sea Transform developed?
text: Did you know that in 1910, pioneer aviator Edwin Moon made the first flight from fields which were later to become Southampton International Airport ?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Lieutenant General and Minister of Defense of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania Beqir Balluku was accused of planning a coup d'etat by Enver Hoxha and executed that same year?
text: Did you know that Jack Sinagra sponsored a bill passed by the New Jersey Senate to ban the practice of double dipping , in which elected officials served in more than one elected position simultaneously?
text: Did you know that Peter Bennett appeared in more than 200 films and television productions?
text: Did you know that the decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Hunter v Moss has been called either "sensible" and "fair", or something that could become "stigmatised", "spurious" and doctrinally wrong?
text: Did you know that journalist Charles E. Maple ended his career as an administrator of the Texas State Railroad , a heritage railroad between Palestine and Rusk , Texas ?
text: Did you know that Somerset cricketer Frederic John Poynton was a pioneer of the bacteriology of acute rheumatism ?
text: Did you know that Committee for Cultural Freedom co-founder Sidney Hook saw the organization as a way of undermining the popular front that existed in the U.S. in the 1930s among left-wing political groups?
text: Did you know that Baudissin Glacier and Challenger Glacier on Heard Island were charted in 1874 by the Challenger expedition , revisited in 1903 by the 1st German AE , but not officially named by the ANCA until 1957?
text: Did you know that " Ando Bien Pedo " helped Banda Los Recoditos ' album ¡Ando Bien Pedo! peak at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart?
text: Did you know that Operation Big Bird was an attempt to recover hidden assets of ex-President Ferdinand Marcos ?
text: Did you know that many cases on the disposal of equitable interests in the creation of express trusts in English law centre around people trying to avoid tax?
text: Did you know that Texas industrialist Ross Perot spent $ 60 million of his own money to fund his 1992 U.S. presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles , the French Jesuit Father who revealed to Europe in 1712 the manufacturing secrets of Chinese porcelain , has been described as an early " industrial spy "?
text: Did you know that the main house at the Dakin-Coleman Farm outside Millerton, New York , was at one point legally subdivided between two heirs?
text: Did you know that in 2008 the Goldstrike mine yielded 30% of the gold production in Nevada ?
text: Did you know that Erik Bakich oversaw the biggest increase in team batting average in school history as hitting coach at Vanderbilt University ?
text: Did you know that Larry Eyler was an American serial killer who confessed to killing 21 people?
text: Did you know that ispolini , ancient giants of Bulgarian mythology, perceived blackberry bushes as a great danger and offered sacrifices to them?
text: Did you know that "white-out" from light reflections is a problem encountered during falloposcopy ?
text: Did you know that Jack Faber received a B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland , where he also served as the school's Department of Microbiology head, football coach, and men's lacrosse coach?
text: Did you know that Garry Mallett , the former President of ACT New Zealand , is an owner-operator of a branch of a Les Mills International fitness studio?
text: Did you know that Roger Tory Peterson suggested that Louis and Lois Darling illustrate the first edition of the environmental book Silent Spring ?
text: Did you know that the Singasteinn over which Heimdall and Loki fought in Norse mythology may have been a Caribbean drift seed used as a birth amulet?
text: Did you know that a dissenting minister from Atherton , James Wood , earned the title "the General" at the Battle of Preston in 1715?
text: Did you know that the Clock Tower in Brighton city centre has been variously described as "delightful", "worthless", "a giant salt-cellar", "charmingly ugly" and "supremely confident"?
text: Did you know that Marion Crecco sponsored a bill in the New Jersey Assembly promoting abstinence education in schools to prevent AIDS , stating that otherwise "we are allowing our children to play Russian roulette "?
text: Did you know that according to one theory, English secret trusts are entirely constructed by the courts?
text: Did you know that the author of Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop previously wrote celebrity biographies on Michael Jackson , Kerry Katona , and Robbie Williams ?
text: Did you know that the European Cenozoic Rift System extends from the Mediterranean to the North Sea ?
text: Did you know that Cam Fowler , a top prospect for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft , played on the J. Ross Robertson Cup , Memorial Cup and World Junior Ice Hockey Championship winning teams in 2010?
text: Did you know that despite proving promising in wind tunnel testing, no examples of the Focke-Wulf Fw 42 were ever built?
text: Did you know that South Carolina's Redneck Shop , which sells Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor?
text: Did you know that although American entomologist Harry Hoogstraal was an authority on ticks and tick-borne diseases , organisms bearing his name include a squirrel , a gerbil , a snake , and 200 other species?
text: Did you know that Kachche Dhaage , the 1999 debut film of director Milan Luthria , stars Ajay Devgan as a smuggler delivering goods across the Rajasthan – Pakistan border?
text: Did you know that Kevin Killian ' s My Vocabulary Did This to Me won the American Book Award for poetry in 2008 and his Impossible Princess won the Lambda Literary Award as best gay erotic fiction in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Atherton oak and red bopple nut of Queensland , and the Chilean hazel of Chile are relatives of the macadamia which produce edible nuts?
text: Did you know that in the late 1970s, Tom Waits often performed his song " Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis " as a medley with cover versions of " Goin' Out Of My Head " and " Silent Night ?"
text: Did you know that John G. FitzGerald prepared Canada's first locally-made rabies vaccine ?
text: Did you know that some towns and villages throughout Great Britain were once nicknamed " Little Moscow ", due to their strong links with the Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member Olav Gunnar Ballo 's book about the suicide of his daughter Kaja Bordevich Ballo became a bestseller in Norway ?
text: Did you know that the valediction " have a nice day " , typically spoken by service employees, is considered a trite phrase that has been castrated by excessive usage and pretense?
text: Did you know that Mike Khoury wrestled his final WWF match against The Sultan at the Bryce Jordan Center on September 24, 1996?
text: Did you know that in 1921, Spanish surgeon Fidel Pagés discovered epidural anesthesia , which is used in millions of childbirths and surgical operations every year worldwide?
text: Did you know that the Siberian Slippery Jack ' s subalpine European habitat is threatened by deforestation and skiing ?
text: Did you know that the beetle Dermestes maculatus attacks and eats live turkeys ?
text: Did you know that Démocratie was the only ship of her class to have protective bulges fitted underneath her bow anchors?
text: Did you know that Clifford Grodd bought out the clothing store Paul Stuart from his father-in-law, and transformed it into a label worn by Fred Astaire , Mel Brooks , Cary Grant , Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra ?
text: Did you know that long-time Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions leader Konrad Nordahl has been called one of the most powerful people of the Norwegian labour movement?
text: Did you know that as executive director of the Kerner Commission , David Ginsburg warned in its 1967 report that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies—one black, one white, separate and unequal."?
text: Did you know that The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers was described in The Independent as "a volume which none but propeller-heads will find either curious or interesting"?
text: Did you know that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner Antje Boetius believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future climate change through anaerobic digestion of methane ?
text: Did you know that the Australian bush fly is responsible for the Aussie salute ?
text: Did you know that the comedy film House! , called an " Ealing-style light comedy", tells the story of how an aged bingo hall deals with the encroachment of an international conglomerate?
text: Did you know that Frank Chapman was once thought to have made his only Major League Baseball appearance at age 14?
text: Did you know that the White Horse Prophecy , attributed to Mormon founder Joseph Smith , is "not embraced as Church doctrine" by the Mormon Church ?
text: Did you know that Cuneus Prophetarum is considered the most prominent work of early Albanian literature ?
text: Did you know that Bill Russell won two NBA Championships as a player-coach of the Boston Celtics ?
text: Did you know that John J. Matheussen introduced legislation in the New Jersey Senate in 1999 to implement the US$1 billion property tax rebate proposed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman ?
text: Did you know that English jockey Mornington Cannon was named after the mount his father rode to victory on the day he was born?
text: Did you know that Queen Chennabhairadevi, who ruled for 54 years from Gersoppa under the Vijayanagara Empire in Uttara Kannada , India , was credited with building the Mirjan Fort in the 16th century?
text: Did you know that Eleazar Roberts pioneered the tonic sol-fa method of sight-singing in Wales?
text: Did you know that California 's first State House was originally a hotel in San Jose owned by businessman Pierre "Don Pedro" Sainsevain and his associates?
text: Did you know that as the mayor in the 1910s of Homer , Louisiana , Andrew R. Johnson worked to bring electric lights and water works to the municipality?
text: Did you know that Madison Rayne currently holds both women's championships in TNA Wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the various state monuments to William Smeathers , a pioneer settler of Kentucky and Texas , use three different versions of his name (Smeathers, Smithers and Smothers)?
text: Did you know that the Roman marble Sleeping Ariadne of the Vatican Museums was for centuries called Cleopatra because her armband was mistaken for Cleopatra's asp ?
text: Did you know that polonides are amongst the most stable compounds of polonium ?
text: Did you know that although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers , the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines?
text: Did you know that the Forest Park Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri , was once owned by Harold Butler , founder of the restaurant chain Denny's ?
text: Did you know that flautist Marina Piccinini recorded Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach , in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo, who won a scholarship at the Concert Artists Guild , twenty years after Piccinini did so?
text: Did you know that eight candidates have died fighting British general elections since 1918?
text: Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Scotty Summers was once powerbombed during a match and had to be carried backstage on a stretcher ?
text: Did you know that before a man, Tor Halvorsen , replaced the deceased Sonja Ludvigsen as Minister of Social Affairs , a newspaper claimed that the only certain thing was that the new Minister "will be a woman"?
text: Did you know that Ingeborg Reichelt performed the soprano part of the Bach cantata Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 , written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726?
text: Did you know that the Mountain Pass rare earth mine was the largest mine for rare earth metals in the 1970s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that in his youth, professional baseball player Kettle Wirts would play sandlot ball with Earl Kunz , another future professional player?
text: Did you know that at the time of its discovery in 2003, GRB 031203 was the faintest gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
text: Did you know that Chris Haney and Scott Abbott developed Trivial Pursuit in about an hour one night in 1979, a game which went on to sell 100 million copies worldwide?
text: Did you know that the marble column used for the Civil War Memorial in Adrian, Michigan , was originally part of the former Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that professional gambler Brian Zembic had size 38C breast implants inserted into his chest to win a $100,000 bet?
text: Did you know that Jerome Tiger , a Native American painter from Oklahoma , was a high school dropout and worked as a laborer and prize fighter?
text: Did you know that one colony of the Madagascar bat Triaenops menamena contained an estimated 40,000 individuals?
text: Did you know that a gangster threw sulfuric acid in the face of crusading newspaper columnist Victor Riesel on a public street in New York City in April 1956, blinding him?
text: Did you know that the Suffren was the flagship for a squadron of four French battleships in 1915 during the Dardanelles Campaign ?
text: Did you know that the Ford Valve Plant was moving assembly line pioneer Henry Ford 's first "Village Industry": a small factory located in a rural community and intended to stabilize the income of farmers ?
text: Did you know that military historian and Purdue professor Gunther E. Rothenberg escaped the Nazis and served in the British Army , the Israel Defense Force , and the US Air Force before attending college on the GI Bill ?
text: Did you know that although David Campbell received multiple wounds leading a charge against German cavalry in 1914, he told the doctor "I've just had the best quarter of an hour I've ever had in my life!"?
text: Did you know that the mosquito Psorophora howardii can puncture through a coat, vest, and two shirts?
text: Did you know that Vern Partlow 's satirical song "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro- communist propaganda ?
text: Did you know that U-1022 was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on June 7, 1944, the day after the Allied invasion of Normandy ?
text: Did you know that the defeat of his army in the Siege of Berat ended Charles of Anjou 's designs to invade the Byzantine Empire over land?
text: Did you know that in English law , trusts for the construction of tombs are invalid if the tombs are "capricious and wasteful"?
text: Did you know that the railroads controlled by Alfred Holland Smith in 1918 carried one half of United States freight?
text: Did you know that in the town of the Chau Doc massacre , anti-government forces spread the superstition that one can fly by killing 20 people, and become an angel by killing 100?
text: Did you know that Gerald Roush had details of the original specifications, later modifications and ownership history of nearly every one of the 130,000 Ferraris ever manufactured?
text: Did you know that U-64 was sunk on the eighth day of her first patrol?
text: Did you know that the evangelist Elijah Cadman originated the idea that The Salvation Army should wear uniforms ?
text: Did you know that at 270 seconds, GRB 011211 became the longest gamma-ray burst detected by BeppoSAX by 2002?
text: Did you know that audio innovator Fritz Sennheiser was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with its Scientific and Engineering Award for his development of the MKH 816 shotgun microphone ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Prinitza , 300 Achaean soldiers defeated a far superior Byzantine army, allegedly numbering 15,000 men?
text: Did you know that in what The New York Times described as a "food fight", Assemblymember Clare Farragher argued that the tomato , rather than the blueberry , should be chosen as New Jersey 's official state fruit ?
text: Did you know that while Archbishop of Adelaide , Leonard Faulkner refused to eliminate the practice of communal confession , despite pressure from the Vatican ?
text: Did you know that although its name means boundary ditch, the Mardyke is actually a river that flows into the Thames at Purfleet ?
text: Did you know that in 1952, flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer was the first woman to be named principal chair of a major US orchestra ?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Mindanao earthquake , which caused flooding and a tsunami , was the sixth most powerful earthquake of 2002?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Vargas became a chief draftsman by age 16 and went on to win the Mexican "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (National Sciences and Arts Prize)"?
text: Did you know that the Telegraph Act 1870 resulted in the value of shares in the Isle of Man Telegraph Company being increased to 160 times their former value?
text: Did you know that white Republican State Senator Norman M. Robertson criticized New Jersey 's 2001 redistricting plan , stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?
text: Did you know that the civil rights attorney Jesse N. Stone, Jr. , was in the first graduating class in 1950 of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge ?
text: Did you know that Colorado State Highway 64 is named the Stegosaurus Freeway in Dinosaur ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, newspaper editor Erling Hall-Hofsø was imprisoned for refusing to unveil his source for a news piece?
text: Did you know that William Huggins enjoyed following a travelling animal circus ?
text: Did you know that according to police investigators, Ian Davison had enough ricin in his home to kill 1,000 people?
text: Did you know that seven of the seventeen apostles that Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus sent out died on their journeys?
text: Did you know that despite being paralysed from the chest down British Paralympic skier Talan Skeels-Piggins serves as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserves ?
text: Did you know that Breandán Ó Buachalla was considered "the leading authority on Gaelic poetry and writing in early modern Ireland" and "one of the most prominent Irish language academics of his generation"?
text: Did you know that the tick Ornithodoros erraticus spreads the African swine fever virus in the Iberian Peninsula ( Spain and Portugal )?
text: Did you know that Aline Hofheimer painted a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field , Long Island ?
text: Did you know that the strongest earthquake in Germany reported to date struck Düren on February 18, 1756?
text: Did you know that the New York Yankees sent pitcher Ernest Groth to the Oakland Oaks to make up for an earlier deal that did not work out?
text: Did you know that the 21 km New Danube in Vienna has been described by UN-HABITAT as "the first truly multipurpose fully sustainable flood protection scheme"?
text: Did you know that singer Lissie was invited to open for Lenny Kravitz after he saw her MySpace page?
text: Did you know that a recent bomb blast before a dance show in Stavropol killed seven people?
text: Did you know that the American soul-blues musician L.V. Johnson ' s track "I Don't Really Care", was sampled by Strong Arm Steady on their 2010 album In Search of Stoney Jackson ?
text: Did you know that in Jewish mysticism , even angels cannot endure seeing the divine countenance directly?
text: Did you know that prior to the Recreational Charities Act 1958 , the English courts refused to accept any charities involving recreational activities as valid?
text: Did you know that Frederik Due in 1841 became the first non- noble prime minister of Norway ?
text: Did you know that if the remote supergiant Delta Canis Majoris were as close to us as Sirius , it would be as bright as a half-full moon?
text: Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Mark Freer was once handcuffed to ring ropes and beaten with a nightstick at the end of a match?
text: Did you know that before Ferdinand II became Holy Roman Emperor , he settled claims with the other Habsburgs in the secret Oñate treaty ?
text: Did you know that reliable water flow from the Sun Kosi , in mountainous Nepal , is proposed to be diverted through a 16.6 kilometres (10.3 mi) tunnel to the Kamala River for irrigation and other purposes?
text: Did you know that the Detroit blues singer Calvin Frazier 's "This Old World's in a Tangle" was both the title of the first song he recorded, and of a 1993 compilation album issued by Laurie Records ?
text: Did you know that Rønne , a town on the Danish island of Bornholm , was bombed by Soviet fighter aircraft during World War II ?
text: Did you know that after an effort to elect left-wing Democrats to the U.S. Congress failed in 1946, the Union for Democratic Action was disbanded and Americans for Democratic Action formed to replace it?
text: Did you know that Cyrille Dion won the first U.S. professional pool championship in 1878?
text: Did you know that the Via Josephina was commissioned in 1775 by Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor after he reportedly fell from his horse while traveling from Senj ?
text: Did you know that the Port of Jacksonville is the second busiest vehicle-handling port on the east coast of the United States ?
text: Did you know that 1993 Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the 2010 contest in Oslo , Norway ?
text: Did you know that MasterChef Australia contestant Marion Grasby was awarded one of only nine journalism cadetships offered nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 2006?
text: Did you know that Yangluo Bridge near Wuhan , China , is tied with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco , United States , as the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world ?
text: Did you know that the geology of New Zealand's Northland region includes exotic seafloor rocks, an extinct volcanic arc , and a massive tombolo ?
text: Did you know that 1912 Olympic champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his track and field medals after it was discovered he had played baseball professionally ?
text: Did you know that Bonaventure Broderick ran a gas station for 40 years until Cardinal Francis Spellman restored him as an Auxiliary Bishop ?
text: Did you know that it has been difficult to establish when the Oliver Barrett House near Millerton, New York , was built since there are no records of it until 14 years after its likely construction date?
text: Did you know that the oldest running wood-burning locomotive in Hawaii, now at Grove Farm Museum, one of two heritage railways in Kauai , was almost sold for $500 to the Disney Company in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Juwan Howard was the first student–athlete to graduate on time along with his class after declaring early for the NBA Draft and joining the National Basketball Association ?
text: Did you know that Eric Selleck was the first hockey player to be a SUNYAC Rookie of the Year and MVP in consecutive years?
text: Did you know that the estuarine , burrow -dwelling ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis is used as bait , but is sometimes attacked with insecticides because it damages Pacific oyster farms ?
text: Did you know that ten New Zealand soldiers lost their lives in 1917 in the Bere Ferrers rail accident due to being unaccustomed to the British railway system?
text: Did you know that poet and author Kostas Krystallis escaped to Greece after being denounced by the Ottoman authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry?
text: Did you know that Wallaby Myer Rosenblum employed future Prime Minister of Australia John Howard as an articled clerk in 1959?
text: Did you know that the opera Didone abbandonata ( Dido Abandoned ) of Domenico Sarro , successful in 1724, was revived by harpsichordist , conductor and musicologist Ludger Rémy ?
text: Did you know that the four Ersatz Monarch -class battleships planned for the Austro-Hungarian Navy were expected to cost 82 million kronen each, but none were ever completed?
text: Did you know that American sprinter Jeff Williams won his first World Championship medal at the age of 29 under the guidance of women's Olympic medalist Barbara Ferrell ?
text: Did you know that Madonna’s first producer purchased an old chandelier factory in 1981, which has been used to record tracks by Queen Latifah , INXS and Taking Back Sunday ?
text: Did you know that seifertite , one of the densest polymorphs of silica , is named after Friedrich Seifert and has only been found in meteorites ?
text: Did you know that Chinese Australian soldier Caleb Shang was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal partly for his skill with lamps ?
text: Did you know that Dutch malacologist Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen is an expert in African land snails?
text: Did you know that Orientalism in early modern France started from the time of Francis I in the 16th century, with the work of Guillaume Postel ?
text: Did you know that one of the outstanding Parisian Louis XV ébénistes remained a mystery until 1957, as his maker's stamp just reads BVRB ?
text: Did you know that the extinct Hipposideros besaoka was the largest insectivorous bat of Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently launched TV Brasil Internacional , a Portuguese language television station aimed at 49 African nations?
text: Did you know that Pike Hill Signal Tower was built by the Romans as part of fortifying the Stanegate and was later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall ?
text: Did you know that Lofty Large once floored a donkey with a single punch while fighting rebels in Oman ?
text: Did you know that over the course of more than 200 years, the Struve family produced renowned scientists including Jacob , Friedrich , Otto Wilhelm , Genrikh , Hermann , Ludwig , George Hermann , Wilfried and Otto Struve?
text: Did you know that Associated Students, Chico is a student government with over $13 million in assets making it one of the largest non-profit organizations in Northern California ?
text: Did you know that although the giant fossa , formerly one of the top carnivores of Madagascar , is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living fossas ?
text: Did you know that newspaper illustrator Salo Grenning became an honorary citizen of Middelburg , Netherlands , after helping liberate the city from Germany in 1944?
text: Did you know that the late Paleozoic environment of the Chaco-Tarija sedimentary basin of Bolivia has been likened to that of present-day Labrador Sea ?
text: Did you know that 2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner for neurobiology, Hannah Monyer , can speak several languages and play the piano?
text: Did you know that a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall in Cheshire , England ?
text: Did you know that Eduardo Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera ?
text: Did you know that the caterpillars of the moth Mompha raschkiella cause a yellowish blotch on the leaves of Rosebay Willowherb that bleach rapidly after the caterpillars leave them?
text: Did you know that Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander publishes articles for the Russian newspaper Kultura ?
text: Did you know that the Australian Institute of Family Studies (est. 1980) conducts research in family wellbeing, as used in the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales?
text: Did you know that the journalist and columnist Per Egil Hegge has been called a "housegod" of those dissatisfied with the development of the Norwegian language ?
text: Did you know that the French battleship Gaulois was sunk on 27 December 1916 by the German U-boat SM UB-47 ?
text: Did you know that in the early 1930s, mathematician Gerhard Kowalewski persuaded more women at German universities than anyone else to become doctors in mathematics?
text: Did you know that cattle infested with ticks can be treated with an extract from the African tree Margaritaria discoidea ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship , the Oryoku Maru ?
text: Did you know that Computer Usage Company was the first company devoted to developing computer software in 1955, but went bankrupt in 1986?
text: Did you know that Brian Eno , one of the principal innovators of ambient music , played synthesisers on Coldplay 's 2007 single " White Shadows "?
text: Did you know that all nine individuals who served as Michigan Wolverines head football coaches from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the Literary Review said of a novel by Daisy Waugh " Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye, Mr. Chips "?
text: Did you know that Donna Simpson maintains a website where male fans pay to watch videos of her eating and measuring her waistline?
text: Did you know that in 1985, former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Rufus D. Hayes sold 14 acres of land to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for $750,000?
text: Did you know that Clouded Magpie moths resemble bird droppings while they are resting on the upper surface of leaves?
text: Did you know that during a match in 2000, professional wrestler Ricky Blues left the ring to argue with hecklers at ringside?
text: Did you know that the Bryansk State Agricultural Academy (BSAA) in the Bryansk Oblast rural locality of Kokino has a notable library of some 410,000 volumes?
text: Did you know that the K-105 ski jumping hill in Schanzen Einsiedeln is named after World Championships winner Andreas Küttel ?
text: Did you know that the shooting ranges at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Massachusetts , were closed after a bullet ricocheted and nearly hit a mother and her toddler?
text: Did you know that in Serbian tradition, a zmajevit was a man whose spirit could leave his body while he was asleep, and fly skywards to fight against the demon ala that led hail clouds over fields to destroy crops?
text: Did you know that Erie J. Sauder was a Mennonite cabinetmaker with only an eighth-grade education when he started the ready-to-assemble furniture industry ?
text: Did you know that the logo of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring , an industrial conglomerate of Nazi Germany , remained in use until the 1980s?
text: Did you know that World War II U.S. Army veteran David Rubitsky claims to have singlehandedly killed 500 to 600 Japanese soldiers during a 21-hour battle and that he was denied the Medal of Honor because he is Jewish?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Ellicott was the first woman to be elected to two different Gibraltar Councils and was posthumously awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour on Gibraltar National Day 2008?
text: Did you know that the ideas of Aesthetic Realism and Siegel's Theory of Opposites are the guiding principles of New York City 's Terrain Gallery ?
text: Did you know that the Italian protected cruiser Giovanni Bausan was designed to destroy battleships ?
text: Did you know that American Phelps Phelps , the first civilian Governor of American Samoa and an Ambassador to the Dominican Republic , was dismissed from Yale University for paying another student to take his tests?
text: Did you know that Ernst von Leyser was a major defendant at the Hostages Trial in 1947–1948?
text: Did you know that the Golden Cue Billiard Lounge is the only extant billiard hall in Albany, New York ?
text: Did you know that Hypogeomys australis , Nesomys narindaensis , and Brachytarsomys mahajambaensis are the only extinct rodents of Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that works of the Polish artist Dorota Nieznalska stirred a religious controversy and charges of blasphemy in Poland?
text: Did you know that 2009 College Football All-America Team selection Zane Beadles was also a 2009 Academic All-America selection?
text: Did you know that a stained glass window in All Saint's Church in Eastchurch commemorates the deaths of aviation pioneers Charles Rolls and Cecil Grace ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Columbus received a royal reward for the 1492 sighting of unknown light ?
text: Did you know that Theresia L M Russ rescued the survivors from the Reichsmarine 's training schooner Niobe ?
text: Did you know that except for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley , Harry Goodwin photographed every single act that entered the Top 30 of the UK Singles Chart between 1964 and 1973?
text: Did you know that the International Rugby Board do not permit players to wear rugby shorts with padding sewn into them?
text: Did you know that anti-Nazi resistance fighter Joar Olsen once escaped apprehension by claiming that he drove a Red Cross truck?
text: Did you know that the eastern North American destroying angel contains cyclic peptides that, if consumed, can cause kidney failure , liver failure , and/or death?
text: Did you know that in addition to its stone arch, Natural Bridges State Beach in California is known for the up to 150,000 Monarch butterflies that overwinter there?
text: Did you know that the radar at Benton Air Force Station was once jammed by "the lady of the house" watching a soap opera ?
text: Did you know that even though HMS Marlborough was hit by a torpedo at the Battle of Jutland , the crew suffered only four casualties?
text: Did you know that only one isolated population of the butterfly Boloria eunomia in Serbia is known?
text: Did you know that Thomas Darden , the last naval Governor of American Samoa , advocated for the integration of the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that the four rooms on the first floor of Hiddenhurst outside Millerton, New York , are decorated in different architectural styles ?
text: Did you know that when the Finnish cargo ship SS Enso was lengthened in 1955–56, her gross register tonnage was reduced?
text: Did you know that Barry Bonds was retired with the bases loaded twice during the 1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game ?
text: Did you know that after calling for a polar bear , Disneyland and palm trees to be brought to Reykjavik in Iceland , The Best Party won the most seats in the 2010 Reykjavik City Council election ?
text: Did you know that retired Sacramento bishop Alden John Bell was stabbed in his office while preparing for a trip to see Pope John Paul II ?
text: Did you know that in 1851, Jackey Jackey , a young Aboriginal Australian , was awarded a specially engraved silver breastplate for heroic deeds by the then-Governor of New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that the battleship Moreno was the subject of multiple disputes between Argentina and the United States?
text: Did you know that the Ancient Forest Alliance , founded in British Columbia to protect endangered old growth forests and ensure sustainable forestry jobs, grew to over 6,000 members in only two months?
text: Did you know that 13-year-old Jordan Romero recently became the youngest mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall , Kennedy Center and the Getty Center ?
text: Did you know that an English Heritage investigation found that Milecastle 9 , on Hadrian's Wall , was one of two milecastles damaged by farming?
text: Did you know that Charles Jenkins of Hofstra University is only the ninth repeat-winner of the Haggerty Award in its 75-year history?
text: Did you know that Eiliv Austlid was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his command in the rescue of the Norwegian government during World War II , after Trygve Lie maligned him for it?
text: Did you know that Franklin Canyon Park was where the famous hitchhiking scene from It Happened One Night and the opening from The Andy Griffith Show were filmed?
text: Did you know that Theodor Grotthuss published the first basically correct concept for the charge transport in an electrolyte in 1806?
text: Did you know that Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot Raymond V. Haysbert became a successful African-American CEO after World War II and later chaired the Greater Baltimore Urban League until his recent death at age 90?
text: Did you know that in southern France , people were inflicted with acute renal insufficiency because they confused Amanita ovoidea with the poisonous species Amanita proxima ?
text: Did you know that the three Erzherzog Karl class battleships – SMS Erzherzog Karl , Erzherzog Ferdinand Max and Erzherzog Friedrich – helped quell a mutiny at Cattaro in 1918?
text: Did you know that Taylor Hall became the first ice hockey player to win the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy after leading the 2010 Memorial Cup in scoring?
text: Did you know that the fungal plant pathogen Taphrina padi turns the fruits of infected Bird Cherry trees into distinctive, elongated, tongue -like structures?
text: Did you know that the source of the Ha Chhu river in Bhutan is located to the south of Chomo Lhari (Mountain of the Goddess)?
text: Did you know that Mikhail Roshchin ' s play Valentin and Valentina was written in 1971 and performed the same year by theatre director Valery Fokin in Moscow ?
text: Did you know that four separate wrestlers suffered legitimate injuries at WWE's Over the Limit pay-per-view ?
text: Did you know that Eledone moschata is an octopus that smells of musk ?
text: Did you know that the extinct plant genus Dillhoffia cannot be placed into a flowering plant family at this time?
text: Did you know that Clarrie Isaacs , one of the founders of the Aboriginal Provisional Government , travelled to Libya on what he claimed was a valid Aboriginal passport but was denied re-entry to Australia with it?
text: Did you know that Saint George's Church in Gavril Genovo , northwestern Bulgaria , features vernacular Gothic Revival details and "puzzling" archaic decoration?
text: Did you know that Czechoslovak General Heliodor Píka was accused of espionage and high treason on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of forgery "?
text: Did you know that possible relatives of the extinct Madagascar mammal Plesiorycteropus include hedgehogs , aardvarks , and hyraxes , and its remains have been misidentified as rodents and the giant aye-aye ?
text: Did you know that Polish aerial photographer Mariusz Adamski is known for shooting aircraft from unusual perspectives?
text: Did you know that Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003?
text: Did you know that Commodore William Martin threatened to reduce Naples to ashes unless King Charles agreed to his demands?
text: Did you know that a species of mushroom in the genus Phlebopus can attain cap diameters of up to 1 meter (3.3 ft)?
text: Did you know that the 2001 film Gosford Park received seven Academy Award nominations, but came away with only one award?
text: Did you know that Joseph Mabry 's death in a shootout with another businessman was chronicled by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that the Windswept Helmet-orchid of Macquarie Island is threatened by rabbit digging and seal wallowing?
text: Did you know that New Jersey General Assemblyman Peter J. Genova sponsored a bill that would make English the state's official language, stating that "Spanish has just grown too prominent in New Jersey "?
text: Did you know that an invocation to the Norse god Thor is hidden on the Sønder Kirkeby Runestone using bind runes located in the waves under a ship image?
text: Did you know that college football coach Billy Laval modified his team's jerseys to help a color-blind quarterback find his receivers ?
text: Did you know that less than six weeks after being fired from his 20-year career as the University of Wisconsin 's football coach and athletic director , Ivy Williamson died from falling down a staircase?
text: Did you know that the Ascension Island parsley fern was considered extinct until four plants were recently discovered on Ascension Island ?
text: Did you know that after resigning from the University of Tennessee presidency amid controversy, John Shumaker was honored by the University of Louisville for increasing its focus on research?
text: Did you know that the PWS-4 , a Polish sports aircraft built in 1928, was not developed beyond a single prototype?
text: Did you know that commercial fishing of Sockeye salmon from the Chilkoot Lake in Haines Borough, Alaska , is worth about US$ 1 million annually?
text: Did you know that as a result of his success during the Cambodian Campaign , Army of the Republic of Vietnam General Do Cao Tri was dubbed the " Patton of the Parrot's Beak"?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century 140–142 Hospital Street in Nantwich , Cheshire , may stand on the site of the 11th-century Hospital of St Nicholas , which gives the street its name?
text: Did you know that Therdchai Jivacate has designed and built prosthetic limbs for elephants injured by landmines ?
text: Did you know that at age 46, Bob Emery already ranks among the 20 all-time winningest college men's ice hockey coaches, with 465 wins?
text: Did you know that the children's book Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? by Helen Palmer Geisel is often mistaken as a Dr. Seuss book?
text: Did you know that Monroe Jay Lustbader of New Jersey 's 21st Legislative District proposed stiffening penalties for juvenile car thieves, as those "old enough to steal cars are old enough to face severe consequences"?
text: Did you know that Hungarian National Defence Day falls on 21 May , the anniversary of the climax of the Battle of Buda (1849) ?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian poet Liudas Gira was a member of the delegation sent to petition the Soviet Union to accept the newly proclaimed Lithuanian SSR into the union?
text: Did you know that before the 19th century, the Kuban River flowed into both the Black Sea and the Azov Sea ?
text: Did you know that General Mai Huu Xuan presided over the capture of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem after a successful coup , which Do Mau helped organise?
text: Did you know that the restaurant in the Hacienda El Lucero in San Miguel Acatlán, Mexico , serves crocodile ceviche ?
text: Did you know that, on July 19, 2010, Rich Cho became the first Asian American general manager in NBA history when he was hired by the Portland Trail Blazers ?
text: Did you know that the pearls of the Laccadive Sea have been praised for about 2,000 years?
text: Did you know that Roy Vernon Scott , a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University , co-authored a history of Sam Walton and the Wal-Mart merchandising enterprise?
text: Did you know that the Jawa Dam in Jordan is the oldest known dam in the world, dating back to 3000 BC?
text: Did you know that John Joseph Woods won ten guineas for composing the national anthem of New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that the report " Top Secret America " by The Washington Post revealed that over 850,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community have top-secret clearance?
text: Did you know that, despite its location in the Arctic , one could conceivably grow lettuce at Tanquary Fiord ?
text: Did you know that, in 1925, Doug Turnbull became the first college lacrosse player to earn first-team All-America honors four times, and to date only three other players have matched that feat?
text: Did you know that the music recording project Gigi involves indie rock musicians singing new 1950s- and 60s-style pop songs?
text: Did you know that former South African national rugby union team player Popeye Strydom also played baseball for Orange Free State ?
text: Did you know that one of the peaks in Antarctica is called The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship ?
text: Did you know that Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau has the record for most wins as Cleveland Indians manager with 728?
text: Did you know that the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII ?
text: Did you know that the stone "lions" seen at the gates of Shinto shrines are actually Korean dogs ?
text: Did you know that the Capello Index is a rating system for footballers that evaluates 500 actions that a player might make during a game?
text: Did you know that five-fingered jack and the tender brake are actually species of fern ?
text: Did you know that journalist David Twersky broke the news stories that prevented both Johnnetta B. Cole and Lani Guinier from serving in Bill Clinton's presidential administration ?
text: Did you know that silver phosphate , which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water ?
text: Did you know that former Attorney General of Ireland Rory Brady successfully solved a dispute over land between broadcaster Pat Kenny and his neighbour?
text: Did you know that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences eliminated the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album in 2009 to remain "relevant and responsive" to the music community?
text: Did you know that tired of taking measurements by hand, Seymour London created the first automatic sphygmomanometer using an old blood pressure cuff, a column of mercury , a pump from a fish tank and a microphone ?
text: Did you know that Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction?
text: Did you know that Norwegian orienteer Finn Varde Jespersen was shot down as a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron during the invasion of Normandy in 1944?
text: Did you know that Max Desfor's image Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea was taken during the longest retreat in the military history of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the chamber choir RIAS Kammerchor performed Monteverdi 's Vespro della Beata Vergine , 400 years after its premiere, at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero ?
text: Did you know that after posting an 11–3 record, the 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team lost to Appalachian State in the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 14, 2007?
text: Did you know that the Japanese actress Kirin Kiki auctioned off her first stage name on a television show because she claimed she had "nothing else to sell"?
text: Did you know that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit ?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Hardmead , Buckinghamshire , contains a memorial to Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 after an unsuccessful expedition to find Sir John Franklin ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine megas doux John Doukas was taken hostage as a child, took captive a Serbian king , led a fleet against Chaka Bey and recovered much of western Anatolia from the Seljuks ?
text: Did you know that the Suludnon are an indigenous people who reside in the Capiz - Lambunao mountainous area of the island of Panay in the Visayas ?
text: Did you know that Radmilla Cody sang " The Star-Spangled Banner " in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center in 2002?
text: Did you know that Sauganash Hotel , located at Wolf Point , was Chicago's first hotel , first theater and the site where the newly formed town elected its first town trustees?
text: Did you know that the soccer club Tornado Måløy FK has two home fields?
text: Did you know that Eastern Michigan football coach Fred Trosko suffered a 29-game winless streak after the school refused to follow a conference policy allowing athletic scholarships?
text: Did you know that St Leonard's Church, Spernall , Warwickshire , now redundant , is the only church to have been owned by the Ancient Monuments Society ?
text: Did you know that Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman was a top contender for the lead role in Thor , based on the Thor of Norse mythology , because the filmmakers "wanted someone with a Scandinavian touch"?
text: Did you know that the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region was a pioneer of organic coffee production and one of the first fair trade suppliers?
text: Did you know that György Ligeti dedicated his Hamburg Concerto to German hornplayer Marie Luise Neunecker , who premiered it in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble ?
text: Did you know that the Copper Bull sculpture found in Iraq in 1923 was over 4,500 years old?
text: Did you know that Pittsburgh steel magnate John Walker 's personal library, including all of the original furnishings, was donated to Washington & Jefferson College and installed in the Thompson Library exactly as he had left it?
text: Did you know that Neri Colmenares , today a member of the Congress of the Philippines , was one of the youngest political prisoners during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos ?
text: Did you know that Mill Creek chert was one of the major exported raw materials of the Mississippian culture ?
text: Did you know that Brock Pemberton both played for and managed the minor league baseball Macon Peaches in 1980?
text: Did you know that shartegosuchid crocodyliforms made up an endemic Central Asian Mesozoic fauna that existed after the breakup of Pangaea ?
text: Did you know that Ángel Daniel Vassallo is Virginia Tech's all-time leader in successful three-point field goals ?
text: Did you know that Ujazdów Avenue in Warsaw was renamed after Stalin in 1953, but the traditional name was restored three years later?
text: Did you know that the Australian kerrawang , which is a shrub, should not be confused with the kurrajong , a tree, or the currawong , a sombre-plumaged bird resembling a crow ?
text: Did you know that S.R. Nathan was the first President of Singapore to exercise the constitutional power to use the nation's past reserves to fund government schemes during the financial downturn ?
text: Did you know that The Periodic Table of Videos , hosted by Martyn Poliakoff , is one of the most popular sets of chemistry videos on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game ?
text: Did you know that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, members of Friendly Societies in the west of England would hold annual parades carrying poles topped by elaborate brass emblems ?
text: Did you know that playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
text: Did you know that the first known arch dam was the Glanum Dam , built by the Romans in modern-day France during the 1st century BC?
text: Did you know that the National Hockey League rejected a bid for an expansion team in Norfolk , Virginia , even after more than 5,000 season tickets were sold?
text: Did you know that indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly ?
text: Did you know that seeds of the extinct Paleocene pine Pinus peregrinus are most similar to those of the modern red pine and tropical pine ?
text: Did you know that University of Maryland athletic director Dick Dull , who resigned after the death of Len Bias , hired a "no name" head football coach: Bobby Ross ?
text: Did you know that the 1985 Doug E. Fresh single " The Show " inspired a diss track from the duo who later became Salt-n-Pepa ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Hallowell Davis , credited with coining the term " audiology ", donated his inner ear to the Central Institute for the Deaf ?
text: Did you know that Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were the first high school basketball players to directly enter the National Basketball Association after they were drafted in 1975 ?
text: Did you know that the Thornbury Hoard was discovered in a back garden in South Gloucestershire , England , by a man digging a pond , and that it took two people to carry it to the local museum ?
text: Did you know that Elgin Gould , who recommended entrepreneurs build working-class communities serviced by streetcars on the outskirts of major cities, was killed in a horseback riding accident?
text: Did you know that Montfichet's Tower was a fortress in central London first mentioned around 1136?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Ernest Wooton has challenged Governor Bobby Jindal 's claim of confidentiality to many executive department documents?
text: Did you know that the music video for the Kinks ' " Don't Forget to Dance " reprised the band playing themselves on a ballroom stage from their previous video, " Come Dancing "?
text: Did you know that Danish geologist Hinrich Johannes Rink was the founder of Atuagagdliutit , the first Kalaallisut language newspaper?
text: Did you know that, in Mesopotamian mythology , Labbu was a lion-serpent from the sea, slain by Tishpak , protector-god of Eshnunna ?
text: Did you know that Hercules Renda was described as a "midget from the hills of West Virginia " who "ran, squirmed and tackled" his way into the hearts of Michigan football fans in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that the term " echolocation " was coined in 1944 by Donald Griffin , whose work with Robert Galambos was the first to conclusively demonstrate its existence in bats as a tool for navigation?
text: Did you know that the River Raisin National Battlefield Park will preserve the site of the United States' deadliest defeat in the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that though widowed and in poor health, Princess Marie of Reuss was second-in-line to the Dutch throne from 1900 to 1909, pending the death of her then-childless cousin Queen Wilhelmina ?
text: Did you know that the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion ?
text: Did you know that Cully Cobb , who grew up as a poor Tennessee farm boy, became a major agricultural publisher and co-founder of the Cobb Institute of Archeology at Mississippi State University ?
text: Did you know that in 1938 Nazi authorities Germanized over 1,500 place names in East Prussia ?
text: Did you know that William Munro, 12th Baron of Foulis , led a force of 900 men in a battle that historians are not sure ever took place?
text: Did you know that emergency surgery was required to save Trent McCleary 's life after he was hit in the throat by a slapshot during a National Hockey League game?
text: Did you know that more than a hundred people were killed by the military junta of Natusch Busch during its 16-day reign in Bolivia in 1979?
text: Did you know that Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims?
text: Did you know that the Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is composed of more than 1,500 traffic signs that point the way to popular destinations in the City of Pittsburgh ?
text: Did you know that after Bolesław Krzywousty defeated Pomeranian dukes at the Battle of Nakło he gave Swietopelk Nakielski Nakło , and other grods (Slavic settlements) on the river Noteć as a fief?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Cubs have had the first selection in Major League Baseball 's entry draft only once in the draft's 45-year history?
text: Did you know that the world's first looping roller coasters were tested with eggs , flowers , glasses of water , and even a monkey before human riders were allowed?
text: Did you know that Indian nobleman Anup Rai was known as "Singh Dalan" (Lion Crusher) because he stopped a lion from attacking Mughal emperor Jahangir during a royal hunt?
text: Did you know that Codex Cyprius is one of the very few uncial manuscripts with the complete text of the four Gospels ?
text: Did you know that the former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig was one of two US battalion commanders in the Battle of Ap Gu during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that one suggested toponomy of Baughurst in Hampshire is that the village is named after the "wood of the badgers"?
text: Did you know that long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears - Lions - Eagles - Steelers Talent Organization?
text: Did you know that Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan ?
text: Did you know that Michigan linebacker Tony Momsen blocked a Vic Janowicz punt and recovered it in the endzone for the only touchdown in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl game?
text: Did you know that Stu Wilkins , an offensive guard on Michigan 's 1947 "Mad Magicians" team , was a leader in establishing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his hometown of Canton, Ohio ?
text: Did you know that the 115th Squadron of the Israeli Air Force is a training squadron tasked with emulating enemy forces and tactics?
text: Did you know that Blessed Stephen Nehmé was known for repeating a mantra of "God can see me"?
text: Did you know that during Operation Junction City , the Viet Cong launched separate battles on the same night at Ap Bau Bang and Suoi Tre , but lost more than 25 times as many men as their opponents?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Member of the Walloon Parliament Bernard Anselme authored a decree establishing the city of Namur as the capital of Wallonia ?
text: Did you know that the Chimakum tribe of Native Americans were wiped out in 1847 by a Suquamish war party led by Chief Seattle , for whom the city of Seattle was later named?
text: Did you know that the Queen's executioner lives in Windsor Great Park and feeds on weevils and nectar ?
text: Did you know that Len Dunderdale finished the 1938–39 season as Watford Football Club 's top scorer, despite joining Leeds United during the season?
text: Did you know that in 1944 British agents kidnapped a German general on the German occupied island of Crete ?
text: Did you know that in his only full Major League Baseball season, Sandy Ullrich was the second youngest regular on the Washington Senators roster?
text: Did you know that the rise in the manufacturing of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s was partially due to the United States' embargo on China?
text: Did you know that as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the newly described Caquetá Titi may have a total adult population of less than 250 monkeys?
text: Did you know that Black Tusk , a band that describes its music as "swamp metal," was formed when its members were all living on the same street?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Münter was the first Protestant to receive a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Fulda ?
text: Did you know that the Gunai indigenous people of Gippsland practiced controlled burning to induce the edible kangaroo apple to grow and bear fruit ?
text: Did you know that a bus advertisement by the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers made the Governor of Iowa feel "personally disturbed"?
text: Did you know that Gary Sheffield is one of ten baseball players to join the 500 home run club since 1999?
text: Did you know that " Everyone ", the official theme song of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore, was sung by five different artistes each representing his or her continent?
text: Did you know that Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn , national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon , was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon 's 1972 re-election bid?
text: Did you know that Paul Coe attempted to bring an aboriginal title class action claiming the entirety of Australia ?
text: Did you know that British actress Christine McKenna starred in the 1979 series Flambards but is now a television producer in the United States ?
text: Did you know that only Air Greenland and Air Iceland operate at Nuuk Airport ?
text: Did you know that Australian Test cricket umpire Colin Egar received death threats after no-balling Ian Meckiff for an illegal bowling action ?
text: Did you know that pannage was a valuable right in the former royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire , England?
text: Did you know that Mark Gosling served for almost two years as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales , despite having only a primary education?
text: Did you know that the extinct Chamaecyparis eureka is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Chamaecyparis ?
text: Did you know that after failing to engage two French warships, Captain Savage Mostyn demanded that he be tried by court-martial ?
text: Did you know that Thomas J. Deverin proposed a bill requiring New Jersey public schools to begin with a daily period of silent meditation, which both opponents and supporters saw as reintroducing school prayer ?
text: Did you know that Emperor Alexander III of Russia provided funding for the construction of a Russian Orthodox church on Bredgade in Copenhagen at the behest of his Danish-born empress ?
text: Did you know that actress Jamie Sorrentini was directed by Harold Prince in the U.S. national tour of the musical Parade ?
text: Did you know that the football club Stålkameratene were expelled from their league in 1997 , only to score 153 league goals the next year?
text: Did you know that, although police later found the getaway car used in the murder of Morris Kessler , the crime remained unsolved?
text: Did you know that Ola's Kool Kitchen was conceived by DJ Ola as a reaction against mainstream radio's focus on playlists prescribed by major record labels?
text: Did you know that a drawing resembling a penis by Andy Warhol may be on the moon ?
text: Did you know that 1,200 journalists , human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo 's counter- insurgency program " Oplan Bantay Laya "?
text: Did you know that the land upon which the office building Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building sits was originally set aside for Blout College in the 1790s?
text: Did you know that John T. Gregorio resigned from the New Jersey Senate 's 20th Legislative District after a conspiracy conviction for concealing his ownership of two go go bars operated by his son?
text: Did you know that SteelPath is the first investment firm to offer master limited partnership mutual funds ?
text: Did you know that the 5830 metre high mountain of Altun Shan was formed at a bend in the Altyn Tagh fault ?
text: Did you know that Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Stu Foord scored a touchdown on his first Canadian Football League rushing attempt?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan wrote " Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You " in two days at a Ramada Inn in February 1969?
text: Did you know that the first public library in Cardiff , which opened in 1861, is the first public library in Wales ?
text: Did you know that Irish-American banker Sam McBirney coached a football team from a college with 400 students to a 16–0 win that broke the Oklahoma Sooners ' 18-game winning streak?
text: Did you know that Victorian cricketer Merv Harvey captained his brothers Ray and Neil twice in the same match, and another brother, Mick , also played for the state?
text: Did you know that the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, forcing the Warspite to withdraw from the battle?
text: Did you know that Amar Ramasar , a principal danseur of the New York City Ballet, took his first dance lessons at the Henry Street Settlement House?
text: Did you know that, despite its lack of dedicated tourism infrastructure, 12 cruise ships docked at Da Nang Port in January and February 2010 alone, carrying 6,477 passengers?
text: Did you know that, though critically injured in a 1944 blast that was "perhaps then the largest release in history of radioactive materials", Arnold Kramish credited his survival to his mother's chicken soup ?
text: Did you know that at 15 years and 314 days, Glyn Pardoe was the youngest footballer ever to play for Manchester City when he made his debut in 1962?
text: Did you know that George Washington 's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County , Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Joe Plumeri , CEO of Willis Group Holdings , got his start in 1968 by accidentally interviewing with future Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill at what he mistakenly thought was a law firm?
text: Did you know that over 1,200 hoards in Britain from the Roman period have been found, but the very few hoards in Ireland containing Roman coins and silverware were probably loot taken from Britain by Irish raiders?
text: Did you know that retired baseball coach Jacke Davis had five players he coached at Panola College go on to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana , is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans ?
text: Did you know that sleepy sponge crabs carry sponges on their back as camouflage , and have even used the sole of a shoe for that purpose?
text: Did you know that Alsatian architect François Spoerry was an advocate of vernacular architecture ?
text: Did you know that Bach may have reused earlier music for his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 for the eighth Sunday after Trinity of 1723?
text: Did you know that Governor Brendan Byrne recognized Alexander J. Menza for his service in the New Jersey Legislature on the Mental Health Planning Committee, calling him the "voice of the voiceless"?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian teen film Amors Baller will include scenes shot at the 2010 Norway Cup , one of the world's largest football tournaments?
text: Did you know that the extinct ant-like stone beetle Kachinus , found in Cretaceous amber , is similar in appearance to the modern genus Paraneseuthia ?
text: Did you know that Albanian film director Dhimitër Anagnosti , winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs?
text: Did you know that the security procedures at the Federal Detention Center in Miami prevented an attorney from meeting a client because her underwire bra set off a metal detector ?
text: Did you know that Scottish actor Richard Madden began his career at age 11 when he was cast in the film Complicity , followed by his 1999 role in the BBC television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang ?
text: Did you know that Uchchaihshravas is declared the king of horses in Hindu mythology ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Pat Osburn 's brother-in-law was Milt May , and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
text: Did you know that the anti-Nazi resistance group " Olimp ", organized in 1941 by members of the Polish minority in Wrocław , was named after Mount Olympus because of their main meeting place?
text: Did you know that the Butterfield Cobblestone House , considered the finest Greek Revival building in Orleans County, New York , is the only cobblestone building in Clarendon ?
text: Did you know that the Colorado River 's first dam and reclamation project suffered through major floods in 1912 and 1916 along with an earthquake in 1940?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal was known by her family for having a "perfect figure" and for "bringing home massive amounts of clothing from Paris"?
text: Did you know that Operation Truong Cong Dinh took place in the same vicinity where its namesake conducted riverine guerrilla attacks a century earlier?
text: Did you know that world champion triathlete Emma Carney was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition ventricular tachycardia and is fitted with a defibrillator ?
text: Did you know that DirectHit is the only accurate pharmacodiagnostic test to determine possible treatment outcomes of anticancer chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer ?
text: Did you know that the only action seen by the French ironclad Montcalm during the Franco-Prussian War was the capture of a German barque ?
text: Did you know that the anonymous Latin poem Ecbasis captivi is the oldest surviving example of a European beast epic , and contains the first medieval European example of anthropomorphic animals?
text: Did you know that stage lighting accessories include barn doors, top hats and doughnuts?
text: Did you know that Gloria J. Romero is leading a campaign in the California Legislature to remove serpentine as the official state rock because it is a source of cancer-causing asbestos ?
text: Did you know that four of the five candidates currently running to be leader of the British Labour Party have backed a graduate tax as an alternative to tuition fees?
text: Did you know that actress and women's suffrage activist Fola La Follette also picketed with and spoke on behalf of striking garment workers?
text: Did you know that Tranquil Star is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes , now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate ?
text: Did you know that Zbigniew Babiński , a Polish military and sports aviator who constructed gliders before WWI , was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre ?
text: Did you know that " Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) ", originally a pop hit for Kris Kristofferson , was also a country music hit for Roger Miller and Tompall & the Glaser Brothers ?
text: Did you know that Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that the geisha would rub nightingale droppings on their faces to help remove their heavy makeup ?
text: Did you know that there are more than 50 protected natural areas in Colombia , including: Cali , "El mono Hernández" , Estoraques , Hermosas , McBean , Munchique , Nevados , Puracé , Rosario y San Bernardo , Salamanca , Santa Marta , Tamá and Tuparro ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine writer and diplomat Leo Choirosphaktes was imprisoned on his first embassy to Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria , but continued negotiations from his cell?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad Reine Blanche bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax during 5–16 July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines center Alan Bovard coached the Michigan Tech football team to its first undefeated season in 1948?
text: Did you know that among the orienteering pioneers in IL Heming in the 1930s was Per Bergsland , one of the three men who escaped to freedom in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944?
text: Did you know that patients of French physician Georges Phillipe Trousseau included a Hawaiian king , a Scottish author , and a Roman Catholic saint ?
text: Did you know that a door-to-door salesman sold a US$ 1,700 Kirby vacuum cleaner to a woman with Alzheimer's who already owned one and lived alone in a mobile home ?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War 's Battles of Prek Klok I and II , 13 times more Viet Cong were killed than American troops?
text: Did you know that "Woody" Hastings was one of the founders of circadian biology ( circadian rhythms )?
text: Did you know that the quantum rotor model can be used to describe superconducting Josephson junction arrays?
text: Did you know that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is on death row in Iran for the crime of adultery , and was originally to be executed by stoning ?
text: Did you know that Wolf Point , which was part of the original 58-block 1830 plan of Chicago , was the original social center of the city and is now owned by the Kennedy family ?
text: Did you know that Bryan Hextall of the New York Rangers scored the Stanley Cup -winning goal in 1940 , their last championship for 54 years?
text: Did you know that the VW Beetle 's Think Small has been called the best North American advertising campaign of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that civil engineer George Matthew McNaughton was involved with the construction of Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that recent molecular and morphological research has led to the identification of five species within the Malagasy bat species Miniopterus manavi — M. aelleni , M. brachytragos , M. griveaudi , M. mahafaliensis , and M. manavi itself?
text: Did you know that Admiral Sir John Byng was executed by firing squad on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch ?
text: Did you know that 350 West Mart Center was owned by the Kennedy family for over 20 years and sits on land that they owned for over 50 years?
text: Did you know that Ann Waldron initially wrote children's books, then turned to biographies of authors from the Southern United States , and at age 78 began writing murder mysteries set at Princeton University ?
text: Did you know that Tryon D. Lewis was elected in 2008 to the Texas House of Representatives as an ally of Speaker Tom Craddick , who was then toppled by intraparty rival Joe Straus ?
text: Did you know that Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years?
text: Did you know that in 1942 only two men returned from Operation Anglo , the Special Boat Section raid on the island of Rhodes ?
text: Did you know that in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany , the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931?
text: Did you know that French ironclad Alma blockaded the Prussian corvettes Hertha and Medusa in the Japanese port of Yokohama during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71?
text: Did you know that Commelina sphaerorrhizoma , a south-central African dayflower , was first collected in 1906, but not formally described until 2009?
text: Did you know that a cave in Okinawa is called the Cave of the Negroes because three apparently African American US Marines were killed by villagers and their bodies dumped in the cave?
text: Did you know that Kapyl , a town in modern Belarus , was listed in the atlas of Ortelius of 1574?
text: Did you know that the water cricket Velia caprai can travel twice as fast after spitting on the water?
text: Did you know that Robert S. Lancaster created the website StopSylvia.com because he found Sylvia Browne 's claims of psychic knowledge about missing children to be "incredibly offensive"?
text: Did you know that "little white", a mushroom in the fungal genus Trogia , has been implicated in the deaths of about 400 people in Yunnan , China?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Indy Japan 300 , an IndyCar Series at Twin Ring Motegi , was the only race in that series held outside North America ?
text: Did you know that Swedish physician Nils Rosén von Rosenstein is considered to be the founder of modern pediatrics with his 1764 book The diseases of children, and their remedies ?
text: Did you know that reporting by Martin Waldron on how construction expenses for the Florida Turnpike quadrupled from original estimates earned the St. Petersburg Times its first Pulitzer Prize ?
text: Did you know that in the 89-year history of the Royal Australian Air Force , only three officers have been promoted to air chief marshal , the service's highest active rank?
text: Did you know that in an attempt to "beef him up", Watford manager Graham Taylor placed a then 17-year-old Nigel Gibbs on a steak and Guinness diet?
text: Did you know that although formally established by U.S. President Bill Clinton , the President’s Management Council has existed in various forms since the Reagan administration ?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century mime Charles Deburau , son of the illustrious Jean Gaspard , played before adoring audiences in the French provinces—but found little success in Paris?
text: Did you know that area residents took legal action over the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston 's construction of a large retreat house at the St. Methodios Faith and Heritage Center in Contoocook, New Hampshire ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Utina tribe took the forefront in the Timucua Rebellion of 1665, a revolt by several Timucua tribes against the colonial government of Spanish Florida ?
text: Did you know that Alanngorsuaq , a mountain in Greenland , has reservoirs providing 882,000 m 3 of water?
text: Did you know that Fulham player Maurice Cook scored the first ever goal in the Football League Cup ?
text: Did you know that Earache got Wormrot in January 2010?
text: Did you know that Chinese MiG pilot Zhang Jihui was credited for shooting down American Sabre ace George Davis on February 10, 1952, until Russian pilot Mikhail A. Averin disputed the claim 40 years later?
text: Did you know that before "the mouth that roared" was mayor of Jersey City , he was vice-president of Hudson County Community College ?
text: Did you know that the Alma -class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the French ironclad Belliqueuse suitable for foreign deployments?
text: Did you know that the Laurel Run Dam , an earthen embankment dam that failed during the 1977 Johnstown flood , caused a total of US$5.3 million in damages?
text: Did you know that Garrett Rivas , a placekicker , is the all-time leading scorer in Michigan Wolverines football history?
text: Did you know that in the history of Gaborone , the city was attacked by South Africa four times, in 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1988, after being accused of harboring African National Congress terrorists?
text: Did you know that the Hudson Utility Coupe could be used "either as a car or a truck"?
text: Did you know that Josiah Royce was the first philosopher to address the idea of loyalty , although writers in other fields had previously considered the concept?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Cameron Henry in 2010 failed to gain approval of his proposed legislation to abolish his state's office of lieutenant governor ?
text: Did you know that Military Road in Arlington County, Virginia , was built by U.S. Army troops in just three days?
text: Did you know that the first diamonds in Namibia were found near the village of Berseba in 1898?
text: Did you know that the Prix Blumenthal was a prize of 20,000 francs awarded to up-and-coming French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians?
text: Did you know that the Historic Chapels Trust preserves 18 redundant churches in England?
text: Did you know that German classical tenor Marcus Ullmann has taken part in the recording of all Lieder of Franz Schubert , more than 700, set to the poetry of over 115 writers?
text: Did you know that Interurban Press , a former publisher of books about streetcars and railways , also published the railfan -oriented magazines, Pacific RailNews and Passenger Train Journal ?
text: Did you know that Operation Lam Son II during the Vietnam War was an attempt to combine security sweeps with winning hearts and minds by organizing village fairs?
text: Did you know that Crime and Punishment is a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky ′s classic novel , performed by just three actors, with each playing multiple roles?
text: Did you know that in the 1970 presidential election in DR Congo , Joseph Mobuto received more votes than the number of registered voters?
text: Did you know that Clara Claiborne Park was credited with writing one of the first books to allay the blame that so-called " refrigerator mothers " were made to feel at having caused their child's autism ?
text: Did you know that the buffalo jump at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana was used for approximately 2000 years by various Native American tribes ?
text: Did you know that the luxury apartment building 1049 5th Avenue is not actually on Fifth Avenue ?
text: Did you know that R. V. Truitt , a World War I fighter pilot , studied Chesapeake Bay oysters for 30 years?
text: Did you know that according to a legend, Bachorza manor is haunted ?
text: Did you know that during 2002 and 2003, professional wrestler Justin McIsaac would make three-hour drives from New Hampshire to Massachusetts so he could compete in Yankee Pro Wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the United States men's volleyball team won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics , after not competing at the three previous Games?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Weir was kidnapped as a child, and decades later regularly had to prevent her mother from being kidnapped?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad Belliqueuse once served as the China Station flagship but was later used for target practise by the French Navy?
text: Did you know that Sarama is a bitch – in Hindu mythology – who snatches human foetuses from the womb?
text: Did you know that with 16.33 million American viewers, " Warning, It's Dirty " is the highest-rated episode of Two and a Half Men since "David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie", which had 16.52 million viewers?
text: Did you know that after the French ironclad Atalante was condemned in Saigon in 1887, she fell into such a state of disrepair that "she foundered one night and gradually sank into the mud"?
text: Did you know that the States of Maryland and Colorado have laws specifically prohibiting newspaper theft , including the taking of free newspapers, with the intent of preventing another from reading the newspaper?
text: Did you know that U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Graham Martin held George W. Webber implicitly responsible for a mortar attack that killed 32 South Vietnamese children?
text: Did you know that, in 2010, American professional wrestler Scott C. Despres twice defeated Antonio Thomas in the space of a month?
text: Did you know that PWS-3 was the first sports aircraft manufactured by the Polish aerospace industry?
text: Did you know that after Henry Ciccarone called his 1979 squad "the greatest Johns Hopkins lacrosse team ever", Sports Illustrated wrote, "It might be easier to name the most beautiful Miss America "?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines , hosting the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2003 , set the Big Ten Conference single-game attendance record?
text: Did you know that Italian priest Pierino Gelmini remained a respected member of the Roman Catholic priesthood between his imprisonment in the 1970s and indictment in 2010?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad Armide served as the flagship of the French Levant Squadron in 1874–75?
text: Did you know that Ruby Brooks recorded "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" for Zonophone Records in 1902?
text: Did you know that by the early 19th century, trett , an allowance of 4 pounds per 104 of commodities imported to Great Britain for dust, sand, and other waste, had fallen into disuse?
text: Did you know that the newly spreading practice in East Africa of flashblood , injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV "?
text: Did you know that John Howard explained his failed attempt at establishing a new sport at DePauw University by saying, "Either I'm a lousy teacher or kids in Indiana just didn't like lacrosse "?
text: Did you know that in 1946 the Red Flag Communist Party initiated a guerrilla insurgency against British rule in Burma ?
text: Did you know that the work of American artist Sanford Biggers has been characterized by meditation and improvisation?
text: Did you know that the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool , Lancashire , was built as a thanksgiving for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster being relatively undamaged in the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that musicologist Olav Gurvin co-edited the first Norwegian music encyclopedia in 1949?
text: Did you know that in 1958, Army lacrosse coach Jim Adams fielded 33 different players against Duke to prevent running up the score , but his team still won 21–2?
text: Did you know that on 3 July 1877 the French ironclad Thétis rammed her sister ship Reine Blanche , which had to be run ashore to prevent her from sinking?
text: Did you know that in 2000, porters at Sotheby's auction disposed of a box in a crushing machine, accidentally destroying a painting worth about US$ 157,000 inside?
text: Did you know that Al Heagy , National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee and Maryland head coach, also served as a university professor and the mayor of University Park, Maryland , during his coaching tenure?
text: Did you know that two British monarchs took the crown at Baynard's Castle , a medieval palace in central London?
text: Did you know that Google Personalized Search , a feature of Google Search , returns search results based on previous search queries made by the same person, and which results they clicked on?
text: Did you know that Rose Van Thyn , a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck , became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Justice Department tried to cite the merger of Detroit-based chains Cunningham Drug and Kinsel Drug as a violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act ?
text: Did you know that the largest landslide triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake , the Yasman valley flowslide, had a volume of 245 Mm 3 and killed about 4,000 people?
text: Did you know that between the Reformation , when it became redundant , and the mid-19th century, when it was restored, Longworth Chapel in Herefordshire was used for cider making?
text: Did you know that the largest social graph , which represents the relationships between online users, is owned by Facebook , the world's largest social networking service ?
text: Did you know that the Ribbon Creek incident at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island resulted in the relief "without prejudice" of Major General Joseph C. Burger ?
text: Did you know that after Norwegian soccer club Stord Sunnhordland FK was discontinued, the chairman of the owners called it "a club without soul"?
text: Did you know that Fort Defiance in Iowa was built to protect a gristmill and sawmill during the Dakota War of 1862 ?
text: Did you know that although he was expelled by the Jesuit order for supporting the ordination of women , William R. Callahan insisted he was just "following the example of Jesus, who was never willing to shut up"?
text: Did you know that the Oak Circle Historic District was the first historic district to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmette, Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Randy Corman said juvenile car thieves "should not look at incarceration like summer camp", after an incident where a juvenile sought arrest hoping to be incarcerated together with his friends?
text: Did you know that Inderjit Singh , member of the Parliament of Singapore , started six businesses ?
text: Did you know that a professional wrestler broke his leg at Ring of Honor 's pay-per-view , The Big Bang! , but was still able to win his match?
text: Did you know that the Landing Ship, Infantry HMS Invicta took part in Operation Jubilee and Operation Overlord ?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team 's many high-achievers include Tyrone Wheatley in 1993 , Mike Hart in 2004 , and records breaker John Navarre of the 2002 team ?
text: Did you know that " Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari " was the first release by the Japanese J-pop music group Supercell to feature a human singer?
text: Did you know that Hinduism allows voluntary fasting to death, known as Prayopavesa , for a person who has no desire or ambition left and no responsibilities remaining in life?
text: Did you know that Maine author C. J. Stevens amazed many of his readers by revealing that gold nuggets can be found by panning certain rivers?
text: Did you know that Private James Pym won the Medal of Honor for carrying water to wounded soldiers while under heavy fire during the Battle of Little Bighorn ?
text: Did you know that the earliest settlements of Shiites in the Netherlands date back to the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Parisian artist Paule Marrot landed a job at Renault developing bright colors for the forthcoming Dauphine after writing the company to say the cars of postwar Paris were uniformly somber?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team won five consecutive Big Ten Conference championships from 1988 to 1992 , with six players of the 1991 team being selected in the 1992 NFL Draft ?
text: Did you know that the All Burma Trade Union Congress was banned in the wake of the March 1948 crackdown on the Communist Party of Burma ?
text: Did you know that in 1975 , Julie Ann Brown became the first American woman to win the World Cross Country Championships ?
text: Did you know that Captain Aub Koch of G-AEUH , a Qantas airliner shot down by Japanese fighter planes in 1942, also survived being shot down again in 1943?
text: Did you know that footballer Andy Leaning was named man of the match following York City 's 3–1 extra time defeat at Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round in 1986, with his performance being described as "heroic"?
text: Did you know that Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg contained the graves of mathematician Leonhard Euler and Ukraine 's national poet Taras Shevchenko ?
text: Did you know that Takayutpi , who reigned from 1526 to 1539, was the last sovereign king of Hanthawaddy Pegu ?
text: Did you know that Minneapolis ' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
text: Did you know that Miroslav Tichý is a photographer who took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown in the Czech Republic , using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes and tin cans?
text: Did you know that Hugh Main , an Australian politician, was a member of the Progressive Party 's rural "True Blues" faction that evolved into the Country Party ?
text: Did you know that the American Classic Arcade Museum located at Funspot has been called "the Louvre of the ' 8-bit ' world"?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame forward George Hay scored the first goal in the history of the Chicago Blackhawks in 1926?
text: Did you know that Béla Bartók 's Suite, Op. 14 originally featured five movements until Bartók discarded the second planned movement before publication?
text: Did you know that in the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing , Stephen A. Mikulak sponsored a bill, later signed into law, that would impose the death penalty for terrorists who kill anyone in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Salvesen , a member of Oslo 's high society, testified in 1946 about her experiences as a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the 1999 Michigan Wolverines football team , featuring 2007 NFL MVP and Athlete of the Year Tom Brady , holds the all-time NCAA single-season attendance record?
text: Did you know that prior to releasing her first EP , a song by singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva was featured on the Josh Groban album Awake ?
text: Did you know that critics found Lula 3D ' s "Bouncin' Boobs Technology" unrealistic?
text: Did you know that Belarus contains large, but undeveloped reserves of oil shale ?
text: Did you know that Chet D. Traylor , a former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, has entered the 2010 Republican primary to challenge U.S. Senator David Vitter ?
text: Did you know that in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. , the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right to boycott peacefully?
text: Did you know that from the 1880s to the early 1930s there was a significant Chinese immigrant population in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Burmese communist leader H. N. Goshal was executed in an inner-party purge in 1967, after having been denounced as "Burma's Liu Shaoqi "?
text: Did you know that Jerusalem 's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals " and "Street of the Consuls "?
text: Did you know that in his book The Feather Men , Sir Ranulph Fiennes claimed to have survived a series of assassinations of SAS officers by a hit squad known as "The Clinic"?
text: Did you know that The Spectator said the 1910 cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School "might be the greatest cricket match of all time"?
text: Did you know that Sherman White is remembered as the best college basketball player in Long Island University history, though few got to see him play?
text: Did you know that it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference , held in Calcutta , marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries?
text: Did you know that Remy Hamilton established the current Big Ten Conference single-season record for successful field goals at 25 during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season ?
text: Did you know that the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47 ?
text: Did you know that countertenor Patrick Van Goethem has taken part in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia to record the complete works of Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude ?
text: Did you know that the first find by amateur metal detectorist Nick Davies was the Shrewsbury Hoard , which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins ?
text: Did you know that Enrique Pérez Santiago was the first Puerto Rican hematologist ?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War the Swedish FNL movement used to attack U.S. diplomats with eggs, tomatoes and, occasionally, surströmming ?
text: Did you know that the architectural style of Canadian architect David Webster has been locally referred to as a "castle style"?
text: Did you know that Moose Brook State Park in New Hampshire is considered to be an excellent example of Civilian Conservation Corps design?
text: Did you know that Robert Riefling , who debuted as a classical pianist in 1922, was appointed Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music more than fifty years later?
text: Did you know that in 1675 bones of five Christian saints and one Hungarian monarch were discovered at the Pula Cathedral in Croatia ?
text: Did you know that Edward L. Rowan is a retired sex therapist and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award ?
text: Did you know that the Requiem of Max Reger is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem , but of a poem Requiem written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel ?
text: Did you know that KANUKOKA is an association that facilitates cooperation between the four municipalities of Greenland —including the largest and the second largest municipalities in the world by area?
text: Did you know that there is a monument in Colonia Obrera , Mexico City , to the seamstresses who died here during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake ?
text: Did you know that by the Treaties of Cölln and Mewe , the Teutonic Order first pawned, then sold, Neumark to Brandenburg to pay its mercenaries ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Babe Siebert drowned in Lake Huron before he could take up a new role as coach of the Montreal Canadiens in 1939?
text: Did you know that species in the fungal genus Ceratobasidium cause economically important plant diseases such as sharp eyespot of cereals and black rot of coffee ?
text: Did you know that the ferry from Godbout to Matane , Quebec , is Godbout's main employer?
text: Did you know that Claude Bracey , know as "the Texas Flyer," won the 100- and 220-yard sprints at the 1928 NCAA Track Championships and tied the world record in the 100-meter race in 1932?
text: Did you know that the E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge is the only bridge crossing of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that as a New Jersey State Senator , John J. Fay, Jr. proposed a bill creating the Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, and was later appointed its first ombudsman?
text: Did you know that the Shapwick Hoard , found by metal detecting cousins in 1998, contained the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Great Britain and was equivalent to ten years' pay for a Roman legionary ?
text: Did you know that Bach composed in Leipzig his cantata Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186 , for the seventh Sunday after Trinity expanding his cantata written in Weimar for Advent ?
text: Did you know that the common soft bracken of eastern Australia is not actually a bracken , but a member of a tree fern family ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Joe Hague replaced profane language in his everyday speech with the word mullet ?
text: Did you know that ronde-bosse involved the partial concealment of genuine gold, whereas traditional enamelling practices saw lesser materials such as copper or silver being gilded to look like gold?
text: Did you know that Andrew J. Weaher was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1869 at one of the US Army 's largest-ever presentations of the medal at the time?
text: Did you know that Shinan District , Qingdao , China, is the site of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre , a sailing marina constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in the years 1998 , 2000 and 2001 , the Michigan Wolverines football team led the Big Ten Conference in different areas including total defense , passing efficiency and turnover margin ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Arthur Whitaker , Civil Engineer-in-Chief to The Admiralty , was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the French Legion of Honor ?
text: Did you know that 18 commercial coffee plantations were established in 1926 in Sangara , Papua New Guinea , paving the way for commercial production from 1928?
text: Did you know that MEP Ryszard Czarnecki thought fellow Polish MEP Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein might harm the Civic Platform in the 2009 elections because of her German -sounding name?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient First Lieutenant Lewis Warrington III is the grandson of American naval hero Lewis Warrington ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Coke Zero 400 was the first NASCAR race broadcast in 3D ?
text: Did you know that the State Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler , particularly known for his outspoken opposition to illegal immigration , is a candidate for Speaker of the Texas House in 2011?
text: Did you know that Indian communist politician and six-time Tripura Legislative Assembly member Bidya Debbarma never lost any election he contested?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey A. Warsh proposed banning the use of photo radar systems , calling them an "assault on the system of American jurisprudence" that would replace "the tradition that we are innocent until proven guilty "?
text: Did you know that Todmorden Unitarian Church in West Yorkshire was built in memory of "Honest John" Fielden , and paid for by his three sons?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Hockey Hall of Famer Duke Keats once scored a goal after carrying the puck the length of the ice while skating backwards?
text: Did you know that James H. Turpin was among 23 U.S. cavalrymen awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in actions with Apaches " in the winter campaign of 1872–1873?
text: Did you know that while John Fawcett was minister of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire , he wrote the words of the hymn Blessed Be the Tie that Binds ?
text: Did you know that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, " The Three Bells " by The Browns , and had to splice two takes together to fix it?
text: Did you know that on April 5, 1933, the Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh sent President Roosevelt a case of low point beer to celebrate the passing of the Cullen-Harrison Act ?
text: Did you know that American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Fort McGilvray sat 650 feet above Alaska's Resurrection Bay to defend against a possible Japanese invasion?
text: Did you know that early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska , its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?
text: Did you know that the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission , forerunner of the American Red Cross ?
text: Did you know that the Petitcodiac River once held some of the world's highest tidal bores , before a causeway was built in 1968?
text: Did you know that Irish stage actor Enda Oates ' theatrical career includes roles such as Macduff in the play Macbeth and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice ?
text: Did you know that only 9.5% of voters turned out in a Slovak referendum in 1997 , due to an opposition boycott ?
text: Did you know that Laurence S. Weiss was a key supporter of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio 's $2.8 billion tax hike, but later pushed for its repeal after losing his re-election bid in the 19th Legislative District ?
text: Did you know that the "dougie" dance referred to in Cali Swag District 's " Teach Me How to Dougie " actually originated in Dallas, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Shorty Green led the first players' strike in National Hockey League history as the Hamilton Tigers ' players refused to participate in the 1925 playoffs unless they received C$ 200 bonuses?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team 's records in years such as 1990 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , and 1997 include those in field goals , school completion percentage, single-game receptions, and the largest comeback among others?
text: Did you know that the Dissenters' Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery , London, was the first purpose-built Nonconformist chapel to be built in a public cemetery in England?
text: Did you know that Ture Königson of the People's Party in Sweden decided the outcome of the crucial 1959 vote on pension reform by abstaining?
text: Did you know that the football club Ulf-Sandnes altered its name to Sandnes Ulf to accommodate the merger partner Sandnes FK ?
text: Did you know that college lacrosse coach Bud Beardmore led Maryland to the 1975 NCAA tournament championship , despite the fact that the team lost two of its six NCAA games and almost failed to qualify?
text: Did you know that Andy Williams ' album Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes stayed on the Billboard 200 list for over 176 weeks?
text: Did you know that Don Dodge , a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft , switched from using a Windows -based computer to a Mac -based one after he moved to Google ?
text: Did you know that during Maurice W. Long ' s directorship of the Georgia Tech Research Institute , the Engineering Experiment station set a new record of $5.2 million in grants and contracts?
text: Did you know that despite great risks, the Polish minesweeper ORP Rybitwa successfully towed her sister ship ORP Mewa to port after Mewa had been hit by German bombs in September 1939?
text: Did you know that after Ernest L. Oros proposed a bill to tack a $5 surcharge on New Jersey traffic tickets to pay for new police cars, opponents argued that police officers would only be encouraged to give out more tickets?
text: Did you know that in 2009, direct Chinese investment in Ethiopia reached approximately $900 million ?
text: Did you know that Japanese film director and actress Tomoko Matsunashi was described as one of the Japanese directors who "have brought some needed originality and talent to contemporary Japanese cinema"?
text: Did you know that GRB 980425 provided the first evidence that gamma-ray bursts and supernovae might be related?
text: Did you know that Ramón Estévez , who played a sycophantic , "spineless corporal " in Cadence , wore glasses and "his hat most of the time" to keep from being recognized as Charlie Sheen 's brother?
text: Did you know that, in his first two and a half years as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti , Mark Cutifani led a program that reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%?
text: Did you know that Alberta 's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
text: Did you know that Steven C. Krane , who was at age 44 the youngest president of the New York State Bar Association , died in June 2010 at the age of 53?
text: Did you know that the Stanchester Hoard , which was found by metal detectors , is remarkable because the hundreds of Roman coins are not clipped ?
text: Did you know that editor Willi Eichler 's 1932 Urgent Call for Unity to thwart the Nazi Party 's rise to power was signed by 33 leading German intellectuals including Albert Einstein , Erich Kästner and Käthe Kollwitz ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Ignacio of August 1997 caused unprecedented rainfall in San Francisco, California , which typically receives only a trace of precipitation during the month?
text: Did you know that eleven-year-old Ellen Sadler fell asleep in 1871 and purportedly did not wake for nine years?
text: Did you know that in 2003, the Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania became the first religious group granted official state recognition since just after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ?
text: Did you know that on 28 August 1920, Peter Ronald scored Watford Football Club 's first ever Football League goal?
text: Did you know that Weidmann's Restaurant , established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that Codex Vaticanus 2061 , a double palimpsest , contains some parts of the New Testament , homilies of several authors, and Strabon 's Geographica ?
text: Did you know that the grave of Medal of Honor recipient John Tracy was unmarked for almost a century after his interment?
text: Did you know that Moscow Oblast hosts the Russian Mission Control Centers for spacecraft and military satellites ?
text: Did you know that when asked if he would be willing to direct all 10 plays in August Wilson 's The Pittsburgh Cycle , Israel Hicks replied "Hell, yeah" and accomplished the feat over 20 years of directing?
text: Did you know that Wally Johansen , a starting guard on the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship team in 1939, later became president of the Oregon State Bar ?
text: Did you know that the unsuccessful 1960 Ethiopian coup was the most serious threat to Emperor Haile Selassie 's rule between his return to Ethiopia in 1941 and his deposition in 1974 ?
text: Did you know that 23 U.S. cavalrymen, including Jacob Trautman and Paul H. Weinert , were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?
text: Did you know that Sashes Island was the site of a Roman crossing of the River Thames and a Saxon defensive burh ?
text: Did you know that Antonio Liozzi , an 18th-century Italian artist, trained under the tutelage of Marco Benefial ?
text: Did you know that Creole slaves under the leadership of Oude Ram Afrikaner were among the first to call themselves Africans , and that Afrikaans got its name from this appellation?
text: Did you know that Tiny Gooch , placed third in the discus at the NCAA track championships , won the Southwest Conference heavyweight wrestling championship and was acknowledged as "the tallest attorney in Texas" until 1950?
text: Did you know that upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell 's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
text: Did you know that the part of state highway Arkansas Highway 29 that goes through Hope, Arkansas , is referred to as " Bill Clinton Drive"?
text: Did you know that together with his wife Arvilla, American mycologist Job Bicknell Ellis collected, dried, and distributed 200,000 specimens of fungi to subscribers?
text: Did you know that Thorvaldsen 's equestrian statue of a Polish military hero spent 80 years in the country estate of a Russian Field Marshal but was destroyed within 20 years after its return to Warsaw ?
text: Did you know that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys , fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s ?
text: Did you know that the Shepherdsville train wreck , which caused about fifty deaths when two trains collided in December 1917, is the deadliest train wreck in the history of Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that Vidyadharas , semi-gods of Hindu mythology , milked Mother Earth , who had assumed the form of a cow, to collect mystic powers and the art of flying as her milk?
text: Did you know that Gordie Gillespie is the all-time winningest college baseball coach and was also selected as the head coach of the Chicago Tribune all-time Illinois high school football team?
text: Did you know that the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland , Oregon , was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians ?
text: Did you know that after leading African-American troops in the American Civil War , Alfred Stedman Hartwell became a supreme court judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that an investment group led by Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton converted America's oldest limestone roundhouse to an entertainment center?
text: Did you know that the United States Army sends Military History Detachments to war zones to collect historical documents, such as oral histories , for writing histories ?
text: Did you know that the Banta-Coe House in Teaneck, New Jersey , is one of the oldest existing homes in the Garden State ?
text: Did you know that The Level Club has been called "the only true-to-size rendering of King Solomon's Temple that exists in the world today"?
text: Did you know that Admiral Sir William Young 's clashes with Lord Cochrane led to Frederick Marryat including Young in a novel as 'Sir Hurricane Humbug'?
text: Did you know that despite losing Belgium to the Allies , Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
text: Did you know that the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany , New York , has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government ?
text: Did you know that despite being Watford's top scorer as they won the Southern League in 1914–15 , professional footballer George Edmonds continued working as a printer ?
text: Did you know that during the week of the release of his fifth studio album Loso's Way , Fabolous decided to contribute to Trey Songz 's single " Say Aah "?
text: Did you know that Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley , Staffordshire , now redundant , has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries "?
text: Did you know that having taken a single dance class at Dartmouth College , Jonathan Wolken co-founded Pilobolus , which The New York Times called "one of the most popular modern-dance companies in the world"?
text: Did you know that research by Clement Finch showed that bloodletting could be an effective treatment for hemochromatosis ?
text: Did you know that the Bukit Timah Monkey Man is a cryptid said to roam around the city-state of Singapore ?
text: Did you know that in the 1650s the Patriarch of Antioch Macarios III Zaim played a large part in the liturgical reforms of the Russian Patriarch Nikon which led to the Raskol schism?
text: Did you know that the 1978–79 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team played two of its Big Eight Conference opponents four times?
text: Did you know that Frank Tolan was one of 22 American soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for volunteering to carry water to comrades wounded in the Battle of the Little Bighorn ?
text: Did you know that systemin was the first identified plant peptide hormone and helps protect tomato plants against damage from herbivorous insects?
text: Did you know that George Otlowski resigned after 14 years as mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey , describing the job as "like fighting some kind of dragon"?
text: Did you know that the experimental fiction project The Mongoliad , led by speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson , is to be released via smartphones as a serialized novel to which readers can contribute?
text: Did you know that American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy ?
text: Did you know that in 1577 German Reformation theologian Lucas Maius helped develop a philosophical conundrum known as the 'Devil's Cross' that was said to have turned numerous parishioners away from the devil ?
text: Did you know that 1989–90 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team established school records by scoring 173 points and winning by a 95-point margin three nights later?
text: Did you know that after earning the Medal of Honor in 1890, U.S. Cavalryman Frederick E. Toy went on to serve as an orderly to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that Consolidated Edison distributed dry ice to its customers who lost power during the July 2010 Canada/United States heatwave ?
text: Did you know that one of the professors hired by Beck University , David Barton , was described by founder Glenn Beck as "the Library of Congress in shoes"?
text: Did you know that when the Chicago Junction Railway stopped regularly maintaining the Kenwood branch , the Chicago Rapid Transit Company refused to pay rent on the line?
text: Did you know that only 1,404 people died in the 1930 Irpinia earthquake , despite 70% of houses being destroyed near the epicenter , as most villagers were sleeping in the fields during the wheat harvest?
text: Did you know that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado ?
text: Did you know that Liberal Democratic Party member Akihiko Kumashiro , a four-termer in Japan's House of Representatives , dropped out of a race for re-election when his party fielded another candidate against him?
text: Did you know that 650,000 cubic yards (500,000 m 3 ) of sediment were taken from Kingman Lake in Washington, D.C. , and replaced with twice as much fill to build approach ramps to the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge ?
text: Did you know that the National Archives of Indonesia holds the largest archive collection related to the Dutch East India Company worldwide?
text: Did you know that Knobbed porgies are born female , but become males over their lifetimes?
text: Did you know that Blount Island in the St. Johns River is home to both the United States Marine Corps ' Maritime Prepositioning ship program and the largest container facility at the Port of Jacksonville ?
text: Did you know that Polish lawyer Henryk Cederbaum was expelled from the bar after defending a Polish shopkeeper who accused the Russian governor-general's wife of shoplifting?
text: Did you know that the 1987–88 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team , which was led by three future NBA Draft first round selections, defeated every ranked opponent they faced and averaged 102.5 points per game?
text: Did you know that by the time of his death in 1847, Vice-Admiral William Young had spent 70 years serving in the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that the honorary president of Bendinat , Majorca 's exclusive golf club, is King Juan Carlos of Spain ?
text: Did you know that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata found in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs ?
text: Did you know that in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a in 1719 as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Anhalt-Köthen ?
text: Did you know that after being ambushed by the Tonto Apaches , U.S. Calvaryman Bernard Taylor carried his wounded commanding officer half a mile back to their encampment under heavy fire?
text: Did you know that the 1988–89 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team set a school record by scoring 100 points twenty times?
text: Did you know that Swedish singer Anna-Lena Löfgren had more than 40 songs on Svensktoppen between 1962 and 1995?
text: Did you know that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the Pink-headed Warbler ?
text: Did you know that the first Spinka Rebbe, Joseph Meir Weiss , was buried in Romania in 1909, but reinterred in Petah Tikva , Israel in 1972?
text: Did you know that in 1997, Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Richie Castellano persuaded Paul McCartney to sing with the CHS Guitar Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ?
text: Did you know that Harriet E. Derman of New Jersey's 18th Legislative District supported a bill expanding those who could arrange adoptions as "we should do everything we can to encourage adoption versus abortion"?
text: Did you know that " Quién Como Tú " is the third number-one single on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart for Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel ?
text: Did you know that after the broadcast of images of nude paintings of Brian Cowen on RTÉ , Cathal Goan was asked to "consider his position" as Director-General of RTÉ ?
text: Did you know that Wayman Tisdale became the first college basketball player selected to the Associated Press All American first team as a freshman, sophomore and junior with the 1982–83, 1983–84 , and 1984–85 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball teams ?
text: Did you know that in 1772, Lieutenant Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn claimed sovereignty over Western Australia on behalf of France ?
text: Did you know that for its first two years, the Norwegian newspaper Telemarksavisa was not published out of Telemark , but from Larvik and Drammen ?
text: Did you know that Danny Valencia , who after being drafted only 576th in baseball's 2006 draft said: "It does not matter where you start, but where you finish", debuted in the majors in 2010?
text: Did you know that U.S. Cavalry officer William Foster earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in a surprise raid on the Comanche Indians at the Red River in 1872?
text: Did you know that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka , a wetsuit , and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Ian Botham's three five-wicket hauls in the 1981 Ashes series led to the nickname "Botham's Ashes"?
text: Did you know that Camilla Tilling was the soprano soloist in Mahler 's Resurrection Symphony in the opening concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2010, conducted by Paavo Järvi ?
text: Did you know that the 1920s cost of US$30,000-per-mile ($658,000-per-mile in 2010 dollars) was a major deterrent to the completion of U.S. Route 30 in Iowa ?
text: Did you know that the weeping willow planted by John Parke Custis on his Abingdon plantation is known as the progenitor of all weeping willows in the United States ?
text: Did you know that six Israeli soldiers may face disciplinary action for filming a viral dance video called IDF Tick Tock ?
text: Did you know that Eagle Butte Mine in Gillette , Wyoming, is an open-pit "truck and shovel" mine that has produced over 500 million short tons of coal since 1978?
text: Did you know that John H. Foley was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading a charge into a Sioux encampment without knowing the enemy's strength?
text: Did you know that Holy Spirit College in Atlanta , Georgia , will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
text: Did you know that Irish Socialist Republican Party co-founder Robert Dorman became the first Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Ed Reulbach of the 1908 Chicago Cubs is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to have pitched two shutouts on the same day?
text: Did you know that Jean-Joseph Marcel was first to realize that the middle text of the Rosetta Stone was Egyptian demotic script, and not Syriac ?
text: Did you know that the plot of Pac-Man Pinball Advance focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?
text: Did you know that six-year-old Elena Desserich left hundreds of notes, which were published in Notes Left Behind , for her parents to find after her death?
text: Did you know that Erysiphe alphitoides , which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana Reconstruction politician Marshall H. Twitchell survived six bullets in an 1876 assassination attempt but lost the use of both arms?
text: Did you know that although St Benet's Chapel, Netherton , Liverpool , was built in 1793, when Catholics were free to worship openly, it was concealed behind the presbytery ?
text: Did you know that deuterium burning acts as a thermostat in newly forming stars ?
text: Did you know that the Nazi false flag liquidation operation Blumenpflücken has, well into the 1990s, misled people to believe that non-Nazis carried out certain liquidations?
text: Did you know that, two years after winning the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Indian Wars , George W. Thompson deserted the U.S. Army ?
text: Did you know that the Hindu goddess Chhaya was born from the shadow of goddess Sanjna and replaced Sanjna in her house, after the latter abandoned her husband?
text: Did you know that in June 1940 the Royal Air Force supplied the boats for Operation Collar , the first British raid on occupied France ?
text: Did you know that the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary ?
text: Did you know that the National Library of Indonesia was established in 1980 through a consolidation of four libraries?
text: Did you know that Thomas H. Paterniti introduced legislation in the state of New Jersey that would hold owners of adult bookstores liable if individuals contracted AIDS as a result of sexual activity on the premises?
text: Did you know that Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar ?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust was named for Saint John Chrysostom ?
text: Did you know that Herb Gardiner , nicknamed "the ironman of hockey", won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player after being said to have played every minute of every game for the Montreal Canadiens in 1926–27 ?
text: Did you know that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa ?
text: Did you know that although it cost just £ 500,000 to make, on its opening day Morris: A Life with Bells On had a higher take per screen than the studio-backed big budget film The Soloist ?
text: Did you know that the extent of damage to buildings in the 1978 Miyagi earthquake caused revisions to both the Japanese Building Standards act and the Earthquake Insurance System ?
text: Did you know that Frankliniella tritici , known as Eastern flower thrips , is an insect that damages crops in the United States of America, including strawberries , grapes , beans and asparagus ?
text: Did you know that in 1962, biophysicist Jerome Wolken proposed sending cockroaches into space as part of an effort to detect signs of extraterrestrial life ?
text: Did you know that the first ever boycott to be given that name was organised by the Irish Land League against Captain Charles Boycott ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Mosienko is most famous for scoring three goals in a span of 21 seconds in a 1952 game, a feat that remains a National Hockey League record?
text: Did you know that in neutral Sweden during World War II , the communist newspapers Ny Dag and Sydsvenska Kuriren were banned from being carried on trains and public buses?
text: Did you know that Mexican bandit Chucho el Roto has been compared to Robin Hood ?
text: Did you know that the Koebel House was the first commission for the father-and-son firm of Eliel and Eero Saarinen , and included a built-in electrical and sound system controlled from the master bedroom?
text: Did you know that a Catholic church in the Lithuanian town of Valkininkai claims to have the body of Saint Boniface of Tarsus , a 4th-century martyr?
text: Did you know that Australia's native broom is a pea ?
text: Did you know that the many descendants of merchant ship captain Joseph Oliver Carter included diplomat Henry A. P. Carter , Parker Ranch manager Alfred W. Carter , and Hawaii Governor George R. Carter ?
text: Did you know that, in 2009, Somerset County Cricket Club were boosted by the batting of Marcus Trescothick , who scored 1,817 runs ?
text: Did you know that Melvin Bernhardt made his London directing debut with a production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ?
text: Did you know that the walls of the Catholic church in Cassella, Ohio , which burned in an 1888 fire, remained unrepaired for nearly thirty years?
text: Did you know that although the Malagasy bat Neoromicia malagasyensis was first collected in 1967, it was not formally described until 1995?
text: Did you know that Larissa Riquelme , who gained international fame as a spectator at the 2010 FIFA World Cup , is Paraguay 's highest-paid model ?
text: Did you know that Nueces Bay in Texas was once referred to as papelote or Wastepaper Bay ?
text: Did you know that during the early Middle Ages the Gothic rulers in Western Europe established their own ( Arian ) churches alongside the Roman churches of their subjects?
text: Did you know that Alan M. Kriegsman won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his work at The Washington Post , the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for reporting as a dance critic?
text: Did you know that the Ślężanie were a tribe of West Slavs of the Polish group , inhabiting territories of Silesia , which is named after them, near Ślęża mountain and river, up to the area of modern city of Wrocław ?
text: Did you know that Somerset cricketer Bill Hyman hit 62 runs from two overs of lob bowling by W G Grace 's older brother ?
text: Did you know that during the Byzantine Iconoclasm , Michael Lachanodrakon allegedly forced monks and nuns to marry, abolished monasteries, tortured and executed iconophiles and set fire to relics and scriptures?
text: Did you know that HootSuite , which helps users organize their online identities, is used by the Obama administration and Jimmy Wales , the co-founder of Wikipedia , among 400,000 other people?
text: Did you know that the former Smith Tavern in Armonk, New York , has been a militia headquarters, stagecoach stop, post office, parsonage , farmhouse and museum in over 200 years of existence?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Shabazz is the first male descendant of Malcolm X ?
text: Did you know that, during Meridian City Hall 's renovation , 1,643 terracotta tiles had to be replaced with exact replicas , which only two companies in the world could manufacture?
text: Did you know that Victorien Sardou successfully sued the French periodical Gil Blas for damages when it published a plot description of his play La Tosca before the opening night?
text: Did you know that the fossil dormouse Seorsumuscardinus is known only from isolated teeth?
text: Did you know that Catherine Pollard was the first female Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America ?
text: Did you know that the Third Battle of Seoul was the British 29th Infantry Brigade 's first action during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the Holbrooke Hotel includes a restaurant whose chef gets mushrooms and wild lettuce from local State Park Rangers ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army created the "Combat Infantry Band" in World War II specifically to play Frank Loesser 's song, " The Ballad of Rodger Young " (listen) ⓘ ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Hank Erickson was nicknamed "Popeye" due to his supposed resemblance to the comic strip character ?
text: Did you know that Coanwood Friends Meeting House in Northumberland has not been modified since it was built in 1760, other than replacing its thatched roof with slates ?
text: Did you know that William Robert Ming helped obtain an acquittal on perjury charges for Martin Luther King, Jr. from an all-white jury in 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama ?
text: Did you know that the prisoner rehabilitation Second Chance Program , based on works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard , was criticized during the 2010 United States Senate elections in Nevada ?
text: Did you know that the phototypesetting process developed by inventors Louis Moyroud and Rene Alphonse Higonnet in the 1940s helped make the hot metal typesetting of the Linotype machine obsolete?
text: Did you know that although it has been said that she had enough money to buy the city of Hoboken , the "Witch of Wall Street " Hetty Green chose to rent a small, cheap apartment in the Yellow Flats for $19 a month?
text: Did you know that Bill Long was Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient?
text: Did you know that in 1980 the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros in three straight games by one run each to force a tie-breaker game between the two teams which the Dodgers ultimately lost?
text: Did you know that several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that the praetorium site of the Pilate's Court is believed to be either Antonia Fortress or the Palace of Herod?
text: Did you know that according to the Catholic religious scholar John A. Saliba , new religious movements often serve as a temporary haven for young people, enabling them to stabilise their lives?
text: Did you know that in 1943 all the British Commandos involved in Operation Checkmate were captured and sent to concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon characters but only 50% of common species of British wildlife ?
text: Did you know that the Wairau , Awatere , Clarence and Hope faults , are the main active faults of the Marlborough Fault System , and carry most of the displacement on the Australian - Pacific plate boundary in northern South Island ?
text: Did you know that Bach 's solo cantata for alto Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 for the sixth Sunday after Trinity , was recorded by Maureen Forrester , Andreas Scholl and Julia Hamari ?
text: Did you know that the 5th century Yemeni King Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad is widely believed to have been a convert to Judaism ?
text: Did you know that a telescope , high school , bridge , and locks and dam are among the places named for United States Senator Robert Byrd in the U.S. state of West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the historian Robert W. Mondy 's Jesse Mercer : A Study in Frontier Religion , is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon , Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party , founded in 1903, was the first Catholic political organization in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine ?
text: Did you know that while interned in a Japanese POW camp , the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk cultured yeast to ferment rice, producing much-needed vitamins for fellow prisoners?
text: Did you know that Abbot Peter of Farfa rescued his abbey's library and archives when it was attacked by the Saracens in 897?
text: Did you know that following his return to Chile in 1880, the newspaper editor Recaredo Santos Tornero established the country's first paper mill ?
text: Did you know that although Chris Young was voted Tu'i Manu'a Elisala by several chiefs in American Samoa , Governor Edward Stanley Kellogg denied him the title, claiming it was incompatible with the United States Constitution ?
text: Did you know that Novum Testamentum Graece published by Eberhard Nestle in 1898 is still edited to the present day?
text: Did you know that the dam at Red Hills State Park was damaged by the 2008 Illinois earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Thomas H. Forsyth was denied the Medal of Honor by the United States Department of War but later received it after a petition nearly 20 years later?
text: Did you know that the villagers of the Romanian village of Bigar largely speak Czech rather than Romanian ?
text: Did you know that there are over 300 trails in the Boy Scouts of America 's Historic Trails Award program and that there is at least one in every US state?
text: Did you know that the Simmons & Wright Company building, built in far eastern Mississippi in 1884, was filmed for the movie Due Date ?
text: Did you know that Cherubim Dambui was the first premier of Papua New Guinea 's East Sepik Province and the first Sepik person to be ordained a Catholic priest ?
text: Did you know that Robert de Munro , the first chief of the Clan Munro to appear in contemporary sources, was slain in about 1369?
text: Did you know that the rare American Walking Fern can be found in Wildcat Mountain State Park , a Wisconsin state park in the Driftless Area ?
text: Did you know that a French expedition in Syria occurred in 1860–61, to reestablish order following the massacre of Maronite Christians by Druzes and Muslims ?
text: Did you know that the extensive manhunt that took place after the Stalag Luft III murders was the only time that a major war crime was investigated by a single service branch of any nation's military?
text: Did you know that Harry Oliver , Barney Stanley and Rusty Crawford , members of the Calgary Tigers in the 1920s, all went on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that it is reputed that Salem Chapel, East Budleigh , Devon , was involved with smuggling during the 18th and 19th centuries?
text: Did you know that Cleveland Indians first-round draft pick CC Sabathia won the Major League Baseball Cy Young Award in 2007?
text: Did you know that the Congregational Chapel of Nantwich , Cheshire , was founded in 1780 by a former captain of the dragoons preaching in a coachmaker 's shop?
text: Did you know that Yuri Matochkin , the first post- Soviet governor of Kaliningrad Oblast , favoured closer ties with the European Union ?
text: Did you know that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood , like the spiny lobster , through its co-operatives ?
text: Did you know that the asteroid 21 Lutetia discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt is being visited by the ESA spacecraft Rosetta today?
text: Did you know that Iran is Sri Lanka's largest foreign aid donor?
text: Did you know that the 1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team was never sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for using ineligible players although the Big Eight Conference vacated three wins?
text: Did you know that after the six-year study A Christian reflection on the New Age , the Catholic Church rejected all that is close to the New Age ?
text: Did you know that when former General Motors president F. James McDonald was asked what he might have done differently, he said he "would make the Eldorado seven inches longer"?
text: Did you know that the Family E is one of the earliest textual families of the Byzantine text-type ?
text: Did you know that in mycology , a sanctioned name refers to those used in early taxonomical works by Persoon or Fries ?
text: Did you know that the Kildare Poems , one of the first documents of Irish English , contain a satire written by 14th-century Franciscan monks against the immoral lifestyle of other monks?
text: Did you know that New Zealand MP William Downie Stewart ' s son, William Downie Stewart , became Mayor of Dunedin —and his daughter Mary served as Lady Mayoress ?
text: Did you know that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft 's E3 2010 press conference?
text: Did you know that the Holocaust's Arab hero Khaled Abdul-Wahab is sometimes called an Arab Oskar Schindler ?
text: Did you know that at least four different knuckleball pitchers have been credited as the inventor of the knuckleball , first used in the 1907 or 1908 baseball season?
text: Did you know that Truth was the first crime genre novel to win Australia's Miles Franklin Award ?
text: Did you know that, in one study on the aetosaur Redondasuchus , the orientation of a diagram in the paper may have contributed to the misidentification of its holotype as a left scute rather than a right?
text: Did you know that the Kentucky attorney and politician Fuller Harding died in 2010 in the same house in which he was born in 1915?
text: Did you know that Frank Curto Park , named after a local horticulturist , contains a collection of unusual urban art pieces?
text: Did you know that in the 19th century Albanian scholar and patriot Naum Veqilharxhi invented a brand new alphabet to write in the Albanian language ?
text: Did you know that the Oklahoma football team coached by Fred Ewing played one game that had a ten-minute half and was on a 75-yard field , the lines of which the players chalked themselves?
text: Did you know that the 2001 discovery of the Serendib Scops Owl was the first discovery of a new endemic bird species in Sri Lanka since 1868?
text: Did you know that John James was awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in action" after defending the Lyman Train from Indian attacks for three days?
text: Did you know that modernist architect Peter Womersley (1923–1993) designed a house and studio for the textile designer Bernat Klein , both of which are now Category A listed buildings ?
text: Did you know that Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is not in the U.S. State of Arizona but rather in Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General James Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor twenty years after his actions in the pursuit of Chief Joseph following the Battle of the Clearwater in 1877?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian art historian Paulius Galaunė studied psychoneurology at the University of St. Petersburg ?
text: Did you know that Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso , Texas , is the site of the only tin mine ever operated in the United States?
text: Did you know that Irish neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick drew upon influences from the X-Men character of Wolverine to pioneer bionic development for animals?
text: Did you know that in the Eccles by-election of 1890 , Henry John Roby of the Liberal Party gained the seat from the Conservatives , which was seen as a setback for the Unionist government of Lord Salisbury ?
text: Did you know that in 1979 Stanley Wagner opened his vineyard in the Finger Lakes area and by 1981 The New York Times said its wine had the characteristics of "some of the great white Burgundies of France"?
text: Did you know that, according to the Bible , Jezebel was defenestrated in Jezreel ?
text: Did you know that the cargo ship Nikolai Bauman was scuttled in 1964 with a load of nuclear waste ?
text: Did you know that Chaim Sofer ruled that under Jewish law , abortions were not allowed in some cases?
text: Did you know that in 2008, after 104 years of existence, Hull City was promoted to play in the English Premier League for the first time?
text: Did you know that the election of Upendra J. Chivukula to the New Jersey General Assembly from the 17th Legislative District made him the first South Asian elected to the New Jersey Legislature ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Jarvis is one of only eight Medal of Honor recipients from Utah and one of only three buried in the state?
text: Did you know that electric drive cars are so quiet at slow speeds that they pose a safety hazard for pedestrians, and will be equipped with electric warning sounds ?
text: Did you know that Corey Allen fought James Dean and cut him with a knife during filming of Rebel Without A Cause ?
text: Did you know that Bill Dague was the first consensus All-American football player from the United States Naval Academy ?
text: Did you know that the Landespartei , which represented the most radical wing of the Alsatian autonomist movement, moved closer to fascist positions during the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Hugh Knox , son of the U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General , was an All-American halfback at Yale ?
text: Did you know that siege towers at the Siege of Coria in 1138 reached above the city walls, but the general leading the assault, Rodrigo Martínez , was killed while climbing one?
text: Did you know that the a cappella ensemble amarcord , five former members of the Thomanerchor , won the CARA award "Best classical album" again in 2010, for Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love)?
text: Did you know that the 1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team set the all-time college football Division I record for rushing yards per game?
text: Did you know that in late 17th-century London , men put on women's clothing and walked the streets in hopes of catching the eye of Whipping Tom ?
text: Did you know that Liber Eliensis records that Ælfwaru granted to Ely Abbey the lands of Bridgham , Hingham , Weeting , Rattlesden , Mundford , Thetford , and fisheries around those marshes?
text: Did you know that in 1947, 72 out of 126 trade unions in Singapore were affiliated to the communist -led Singapore Federation of Trade Unions ?
text: Did you know that William O'Neill was awarded the Medal of Honor for his part in a charge at Fort Sill in 1872 which ended 17 years of combat?
text: Did you know that composer Allyn Ferguson , co-creator of themes for Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels , was cited by Variety as being "among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years"?
text: Did you know that the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors are still sung by Albanian bards, who are assumed to be the very last traditional native singers of epic verses in Europe ?
text: Did you know that Frank Joranko was selected as the most valuable football player in the MIAA and later coached Albion College to nine MIAA baseball championships?
text: Did you know that according to Hindu cosmology , women seduce and increase the sexual energy of men who enter the first realm of the underworld by intoxicating them?
text: Did you know that members of the Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement Intercessors of the Lamb wear teal habits because the color represents intercession between a green earth and a blue heaven?
text: Did you know that Bam Aquino became the youngest person in Philippine history to head a government agency when he was appointed at age 26 to become Chairman of the National Youth Commission ?
text: Did you know that art collective Vertical Submarine , winners of the President’s Young Talents award in 2009, placed gray sunflowers in the Singapore Botanic Gardens with a poem by the fictional Chien Swee-Teng?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma Sooners football head coach Barry Switzer won eight consecutive Big Eight Conference college football championships in his first eight years with the 1973 , 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 , and 1980 teams ?
text: Did you know that the clientele of Diego's Hair Salon has included politicians, diplomats, and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices ?
text: Did you know that officials at Brooklyn College implored federal officials not to hire William L. Taylor for a government job, saying he had "espoused liberal causes such as the rights of the Negro in the South"?
text: Did you know that a German submarine sank the Soviet Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Clemens von Delbrück received the Order of the Black Eagle on his dismissal as Vice-Chancellor of Germany ?
text: Did you know that Canadian TV series Brothers TV was described as "lowbrow comedic stuff that is ever-so-watchable" but only ran for eight episodes?
text: Did you know that Sergeant John O'Callaghan and Private Michael O'Regan were among thirty men in the same regiment to be awarded the Medal of Honor , one of the largest presentations ever made at the time?
text: Did you know that the success of the album Dos by Myriam Hernández helped her to sign a recording contract with Warner Music ?
text: Did you know that Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles ?
text: Did you know that Estonia created project EstWin to connect all citizens to the internet with 100 Mbit/s speed by 2015?
text: Did you know that press agent Benjamin Sonnenberg described himself as a "cabinetmaker who fashioned large pedestals for small statues"?
text: Did you know that the remains of the ghost town of Copano, Texas , are at risk of falling into Copano Bay ?
text: Did you know that on May 16, 2002, Susan Ershler and her husband Phil became the first married couple to reach all Seven Summits ?
text: Did you know that Dikken Zwilgmeyer ' s "Inger Johanne" books were popular around 1900, and are regarded as a significant innovation of Norwegian children's literature ?
text: Did you know that Rock for the Rainforest holds the Guinness World Record for the largest environmental fundraising event?
text: Did you know that Frederick S. Neilon received the Medal of Honor but was forced to retire from the military due to a leg injury, and was discharged on a certificate of disability in 1875?
text: Did you know that the Friendship Games were dubbed the " Eastern Bloc 's alternative Olympics" of 1984 by the Western press?
text: Did you know that Hindu sadhus live in the cremation grounds of Tarapith as they believe that goddess Tara – who is attracted to bones – dwells there?
text: Did you know that the British wrecked the engines of the Russian battleship Evstafi during 22–24 April 1919 when they left the Crimea to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians ?
text: Did you know that Harry Söderman , who was in charge of the education of Norwegian police troops in Sweden during World War II , liberated the political prisoners at the Grini concentration camp on 7 May 1945?
text: Did you know that as of 2009, there had been 99 nuclear accidents worldwide ?
text: Did you know that in the Fishman case Dick Anthony played a key role in convincing the court that Margaret Singer ’s brainwashing theory lacked scientific support, leading to her rejection as an expert witness ?
text: Did you know that the German submarine U-27 was the second German submarine to be sunk in World War II?
text: Did you know that a memorial for the Doodlebug Disaster was a result of a school project by three 13-year-olds?
text: Did you know that Sussex Heights , Brighton ' s tallest building, has a resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons with their own webcam ?
text: Did you know that ice hockey defenceman Johan Fransson won a Swedish Championship in bandy ?
text: Did you know that Douglas Brand , chief police adviser to the Iraqi Interior Ministry in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion , was nicknamed "The Tower of London" due to his distinctive height?
text: Did you know that the 1984 Oklahoma Sooners football team set a school single season record by only allowing 2.2 yards per rush attempt?
text: Did you know that according to a 13th-century saga , Þórketill Þórmóðsson , and two of his sons, were slain in a loch near the Isle of Skye , but another son survived by leaping onto a cask that floated by?
text: Did you know that John Francis O'Sullivan was awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry at the Staked Plains in 1874?
text: Did you know that Alice in Wonderland , a Game Boy Color video game, begins with the player as Alice following the White Rabbit down its hole?
text: Did you know that, after attempts were made to seize two works by Egon Schiele that he had bought, Rudolf Leopold insisted that he had not dealt in looted art , saying "I'm not a Nazi and I'm not a Nazi profiteer"?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Marshall has taken more Test and ODI wickets for the West Indies cricket team than any other Barbados born player ?
text: Did you know that the residence of Medal of Honor recipient Solon D. Neal later became the site of the HemisFair '68 Tower?
text: Did you know that in the massacre of the Albanian beys , around 500 southern Albanian leaders ( beys ) and their forces were treacherously killed by Ottoman forces when they were invited to a ceremonial salute parade?
text: Did you know that All-American Rickey Dixon set several school interception records with the 1987 Oklahoma Sooners football team ?
text: Did you know that the extinct New Zealand Musk Duck was becoming more sedentary than its closest relative, the Australian Musk Duck ?
text: Did you know that Radio23 , a radio station based out of Portland, Oregon , provides an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world?
text: Did you know that in 1944, the Lyon to Paris rail line was blown up 22 times by the Special Air Service during Operation Houndsworth ?
text: Did you know that the Wright's Almshouses in Nantwich , Cheshire , which date from 1638, were moved in the 1970s to stand by the Crewe Almshouses ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese ROV ABISMO collected core samples of sediment from the seabed at a depth of 9,760 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench during sea trials in 2007?
text: Did you know that Codex Glazier , Coptic manuscript of Book of Acts , is very close textually to the Greek manuscript Codex Bezae ?
text: Did you know that Reichenbach Castle was once owned by Rudolf von Erlach , the legendary commander of the victorious Bernese in the Battle of Laupen ?
text: Did you know that all but one of U-109 ' s successes took place during the six patrols she carried out under the command of the U-boat ace, Heinrich Bleichrodt ?
text: Did you know that Selva Zoque is the largest intact tropical rainforest in Mexico , an important but threatened ecological area?
text: Did you know that British Insurance insured three sisters for £1 million if one of them gave birth to the Second Coming of Christ ?
text: Did you know that Sharron Backus played on seven national and two international championship softball teams and coached UCLA to nine national championships?
text: Did you know that the Bloody Sunday events of 1926 in Alsace were the starting point of cooperation between communists and clerical autonomists , which led to the expulsion of the Neue Welt group of Charles Hueber and Jean-Pierre Mourer from the French Communist Party and the formation of the Alsatian Opposition Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that during World War I Dr. William Eldon Tucker performed 150 amputations on troops within a month, while during World War II Dr. William Eldon Tucker made improvised artificial limbs for prisoners of war?
text: Did you know that Anatoly Malofeyev was a first secretary of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Soviet Union era and Belarusian parliament speaker?
text: Did you know that the Holy Soap website is the official British home of the Australian soap operas Home and Away and Neighbours ?
text: Did you know that 2010 NBA Draft pick Magnum Rolle 's first foul shot went over the backboard?
text: Did you know that the hedge fund Clarium Capital , which had US$ 7.8 billion in assets under management in June 2008, saw it drop to $1.5 billion a year later because investors feared the fund worsening?
text: Did you know that the Miguel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman boxing match was the first fight held at the new Yankee Stadium since the September 1976 bout between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton , which took place in the original stadium ?
text: Did you know that Nui Coc Lake contains 89 islands?
text: Did you know that there are over 50,000 standard drill bushing configurations available in customary units ?
text: Did you know that, asked for his thoughts two decades after the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing that killed a physics researcher, Dwight Armstrong said "I don't care what public opinion is; we did what was right"?
text: Did you know that funnyman and germ-phobic Howie Mandel released his autobiography in the midst of the H1N1 flu pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Henri-Pierre Picou has been called the most fashionable painter towards the close of the Second French Empire ?
text: Did you know that the first non-family member to become CEO of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was Philip B. Hofmann ?
text: Did you know that John Champe , American Revolutionary rebel double-agent sent to capture Benedict Arnold , was spotted and chased from the landmark the Three Pigeons by fellow rebels, before diving into the Hudson ?
text: Did you know that Diane McWhorter wrote in Carry Me Home that a 1963 Bill Hudson photo of a black protester being attacked by a police dog drove "international opinion to the side of the civil rights revolution"?
text: Did you know that despite being only 9.3 mi (15.0 km) long, South Carolina Highway 291 runs by two colleges and an airport in Greenville ?
text: Did you know that, in 2004, Portland City Grill became Oregon 's first restaurant to make Restaurants & Institutions magazine's list of the "top 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants" in the United States ?
text: Did you know that, after the Battle of Lucas Bend during the American Civil War , the opposing commanders floated insults and challenges to each other using buoys ?
text: Did you know that Brandon Bess , a "surprise debutant" for the West Indies cricket team in June 2010, was rushed late to the ground, eventually arriving in the second over of the match?
text: Did you know that the Electric Company helped O.J. Simpson set several current National Football League records?
text: Did you know that the Italian Tocco family became the rulers of several Ionian Islands and formed the last dynasty of the Despotate of Epirus in Greece , before they were conquered by the Ottomans ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Lennart Carleson received his Ph.D. when he was 22 years old and later supervised the thesis of Svante Janson , who received his first Ph.D. on his 22nd birthday?
text: Did you know that Bonded by Blood recorded a thrash metal version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song?
text: Did you know that, seven years after California football coach Stub Allison 's "nasty, opportunistic defense" helped win a national championship , he was fired for "shackl[ing] good material with a dull offense"?
text: Did you know that Indriði Indriðason , an Icelandic medium , was once claimed to levitate at chest-height in front of a window and seem in danger of being thrown through it?
text: Did you know that the 1974–75 Buffalo Sabres had three separate 10-game unbeaten streaks during the 80-game season ?
text: Did you know that Johnson & Johnson CEO Richard B. Sellars kept the firm in New Brunswick, New Jersey as "the survival of our country depends on the survival of its cities, so we'd all better get involved in cleaning them up"?
text: Did you know that Richard Travis received a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions around Rossignol Wood on 24 July 1918?
text: Did you know that Claude Simons, Jr. , son of a Tulane University basketball and baseball coach, followed in his father 's footsteps by holding those same positions?
text: Did you know that Marlon Stockinger is the first Filipino to have won a formula race in Europe ?
text: Did you know that the Marvel Studios film, Captain America: The First Avenger set for release in 2011 has been in development since 1997?
text: Did you know that Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, Georgia, was designed by a Benedictine Monk and architect from Belmont Abbey ?
text: Did you know that head coach Chris Scelfo ' s Tulane football team was forced to play all eleven of its games in different cities during the 2005 season after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that dramatist Theodore Ward , writer of Big White Fog , had his first attempt at writing a play thrown into a fire at age seven by his father?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient John Nihill won so many shooting medals, he was barred from competing for further US Army awards?
text: Did you know that some of the suspects in an alleged network of Russian spies planted in the United States were paired as couples and had children together to help maintain their covert status?
text: Did you know that Richard Alan Minsky was a used car salesman who was featured on America's Most Wanted for being a scam artist and subsequently sentenced to 146 years in prison?
text: Did you know that the "TTG" of Hollywood recording studio TTG Studios stood for "two terrible guys"?
text: Did you know that one method of preparing a tiger penis for consumption is to place it dried, with testicles still attached, into a bottle of French cognac or Chinese wine and let it soak for many weeks?
text: Did you know that sculptor Seymour Lipton produced three works of ceremonial art for the bimah of Temple Israel in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
text: Did you know that after serving in the Culpeper County Militia under Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette , Mordecai Barbour embarked upon successful ventures in manufactories and toll bridges?
text: Did you know that Stephen B. Shepard , a former editor of BusinessWeek and later dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism called Chris Welles "probably the premier business writer" of his generation?
text: Did you know that software company Arbor Networks sells network security and monitoring software in use by over 70% of all Internet service providers , giving it unique insight into Internet traffic ?
text: Did you know that the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller 's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
text: Did you know that male Monobia quadridens wasps will try to sting like a female, but have neither stinger nor venom ?
text: Did you know that Abu Dhabi generates more than half a million cubic metres of wastewater each day , and almost all is treated and re-used to irrigate green space in the city?
text: Did you know that the defeat of a joint Byzantine - Genoese fleet by a smaller Venetian fleet at the Battle of Settepozzi caused Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to distance himself from his alliance with Genoa?
text: Did you know that George E. Jonas founded and funded a leadership-training program for disadvantaged boys after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and later expanded it to include boys from all over the world?
text: Did you know that the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition rescued the castaways of the Dundonald ?
text: Did you know that Theodore , the brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius , was publicly humiliated and imprisoned due to his failure to counter the Muslim raids and his opposition to Heraclius' marriage with Martina ?
text: Did you know that common bracken 's scientific name of Pteridium aquilinum is derived from its frond 's resemblance to eagle wings?
text: Did you know that the wheelie bike fad drove bicycle sales to over 4 million units in the US?
text: Did you know that, in an eventually successful effort to end the nation's longest losing streak, Eastern Michigan University football coach Bob LaPointe hired a local hypnotist?
text: Did you know that, in the South Korean legal system , litigants prefer to hire former judges or prosecutors as their lawyers, because they think sitting judges will treat them more favourably ?
text: Did you know that, as a reserve player for the New Zealand All Blacks , Mark Donaldson set up the play that won the historic 1981 Auckland rugby union test match against the South African Springboks ?
text: Did you know that State Senator John H. Ewing of New Jersey 's 16th District opposed state funding for poorer school districts, as "some drive a Ford Taurus, like me", but "we can't pay for everyone to drive a Mercedes"?
text: Did you know that the only external feature that distinguishes the rice rat genera Transandinomys and Hylaeamys may be length of the whiskers ?
text: Did you know that a tree planting marathon organized by Project GreenHands resulted in 852,587 saplings being planted in Tamil Nadu which resulted in the setting of a Guinness World Record ?
text: Did you know that, along with Michael Glynn and John Nihill, Henry Newman was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry?
text: Did you know that vegan cupcakes beat traditional cupcakes in the reality TV show Cupcake Wars ?
text: Did you know that Avid Radiopharmaceuticals is developing a radioactive tracer which has the potential to detect Alzheimer's disease using PET scans ?
text: Did you know that visitors can climb through the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's temporary art installation, Big Bambú , which is constantly evolving as a crew of rock climbers builds it throughout its six-month run?
text: Did you know that Edwin L. Elwood received the Medal of Honor during the Campaign of the Rocky Mesa, in which he was shot in the chest?
text: Did you know that Gerald S. Lesser wrote Children and Television in 1974 to defend Sesame Street against its critics?
text: Did you know that the Malagasy bat species Pipistrellus raceyi is characterized by a long, straight penis?
text: Did you know that, in his two Football League appearances, goalkeeper James Mangham conceded a total of ten goals?
text: Did you know that Gauleiter of Tyrol and Vorarlberg Franz Hofer arranged the surrender of the troops under his command with an American sergeant, and a Jewish emigrant from Germany , Fred Mayer ?
text: Did you know that George H. Eldridge received the Medal of Honor for gallantry fighting the Kiowa Indians and Chief Kicking Bird at the Battle of the Little Wichita River?
text: Did you know that Bach arranged the central duet of his chorale cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93 , written for the fifth Sunday after Trinity , as one of his Schübler Chorales ?
text: Did you know that the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore ?
text: Did you know that, after reaching Angola in the Dorsland Trek of the 1870s, many South African Boers turned back when the Portuguese tried to convert them to Catholicism and forbade their language in schools?
text: Did you know that Grand Street was a magazine created by Ben Sonnenberg , who said "I thought a magazine would be a good way to give money to individuals whose writing I liked"?
text: Did you know that Somerset 's Anya Shrubsole was conferred the Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer Award by The Cricket Society in 2008?
text: Did you know that, in September 1944 during Operation Loyton , a member of the French Resistance died eating plastic explosives he had mistaken for cheese ?
text: Did you know that, despite having served as a Confederate congressman during the American Civil War , Judge Horatio Washington Bruce was among the first Kentuckians to advocate that the testimony of African-Americans be considered admissible in court?
text: Did you know that the tomb of Son Ferrer on the island of Majorca served as a necropolis where the remains of over a hundred people, including infants, have been found?
text: Did you know that Legend of Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
text: Did you know that excavations of Turret 10A of Hadrian's Wall have revealed pre-historic ard marks?
text: Did you know that Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris ?
text: Did you know that, at 95,940 words in four volumes, the 1925 will of Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook is the longest ever, yet it disposed of only $100,000?
text: Did you know that an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House , Brighton , to win a bet?
text: Did you know that Eric Hamilton , the youngest American college football head coach when hired by Trenton State College at age 23, has held the same job for 33 years?
text: Did you know that the website The Oatmeal , with comics of subjects ranging from zombies, to horse care, to English grammar, receives over 20 million hits a month after existing for less than a year?
text: Did you know that the list of college football coaches with 200 career wins is topped by John Gagliardi , Eddie Robinson , and Joe Paterno ?
text: Did you know that the Hoxne Hoard , the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold discovered in Great Britain , includes pepper pots, silverware and a body chain?
text: Did you know that mycologist Olav Johan Sopp suggested classifying fungi as belonging to neither plantae nor animalia , but to a third kingdom , back in the 1890s?
text: Did you know that using a continuously recording fathometer , WHOI scientists aboard RV Atlantis located and described the first abyssal plain in 1947?
text: Did you know that, in a niche on the corner of the Palais Equitable in Vienna , is the Stock im Eisen , a tree trunk that people have hammered nails into since the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that ethylene oxide is a common disinfectant and a main component of thermobaric weapons ?
text: Did you know that Swiss photographer Antoine Sonrel created carte de visite portraits for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , Abbott Lawrence Rotch , and Anne Whitney ?
text: Did you know that the 21st Mechanized Corps , a Soviet Red Army formation, was disbanded in August 1941 due to failing to defend Lithuania and Latvia from Germany ?
text: Did you know that American heavy metal band Mastodon agreed to record the Jonah Hex soundtrack for "basically nothing"?
text: Did you know that Gerald R. Stockman 's support of fair housing efforts in New Jersey earned him recognition by The New York Times as "one of the Legislature's strongest open-housing advocates"?
text: Did you know that English common law tracing is so limited many leading academics and judges have called for its abolition as an independent doctrine?
text: Did you know that the first issue of Inspire , an English-language online magazine published by al-Qaeda , includes an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom"?
text: Did you know that football coach Denny Douds , climbing the career wins list after decades at the same university, jumped with the U.S. Army Parachute Team in May 2010 at age 69?
text: Did you know that Grove Farm was founded in 1854 by Hermann Widemann , and kept in the estate of George Wilcox until 2000?
text: Did you know that Keith Piper successfully perpetuated the single-wing , "the formation-of-choice during football 's leather-helmet era," for decades after it had been discarded by other teams?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula , Montana , was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve ?
text: Did you know that the term firecane is used in New Orleans to describe a hurricane capable of producing a firestorm from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
text: Did you know that connoisseurs say that buffalo burgers taste just like beef did 30 or 40 years ago?
text: Did you know that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?
text: Did you know that the farmyard of the 1844 John and Eliza Barr Patterson House still contains a rosebush , peonies , and daylilies dating from the late 19th and early 20th century?
text: Did you know that Dick LaRossa was elected to the New Jersey Senate after serving as weekend host of the New Jersey Lottery drawings, which made him "arguably one of the most recognizable faces in the state"?
text: Did you know that the mobile gaming magazine Pocket Gamer peaked at a circulation of 700,000 copies when it was published in all T-Mobile and O2 UK stores in the UK and on the websites of Vodafone and 3 UK ?
text: Did you know that Florida A&M football coach Joe Taylor has a career record of 214–82–4 and won four Black College Championships at Hampton ?
text: Did you know that the literary critic Francis Jeffrey declared William Wordsworth 's Immortality Ode , printed in Poems in Two Volumes , "beyond all doubt, the most illegible and unintelligible part of the publication"?
text: Did you know that Salvador Cristau Coll , who is an Archpriest , was incardinated two times?
text: Did you know that contrary to most music festivals , The Edge Festival takes place across multiple different locations, with fifty artists performing across seven venues in 2009?
text: Did you know that among the works of egyptologist Jens Lieblein are dictionaries of hieroglyphic names published in 1871 and 1891?
text: Did you know that the PWS-6 was the first Polish aircraft fitted with slats —but the prototype is the only model ever produced?
text: Did you know that Carmine DeSopo was elected to office in 1995 in the New Jersey General Assembly 's 7th Legislative District in the first legislative race in state history in which spending exceeded $1 million ?
text: Did you know that the 1930s American radio show, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater , drew an estimated 25 million listeners in its first season?
text: Did you know that Abraham Blum , a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , was murdered by the Gestapo , but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka , a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland ?
text: Did you know that according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung ?
text: Did you know that Peter "Papa Bear" Mazzaferro was removed as head football coach at Bridgewater after 19 years, sued for age discrimination, and coached another 17 years there after being reinstated?
text: Did you know that a gala performance of The Rose of Castille was given on 21 January 1858 as part of the nuptials of Queen Victoria 's daughter, Princess Victoria , and Prince Frederick William of Prussia ?
text: Did you know that the Star Watch Case Company made a "Moonwatch" that was worn by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan on a trip to the moon?
text: Did you know that, out of the 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track in use in Vietnam 's national railway network , 85% of passenger volume and 60% of cargo volume is transported along the 1,726 km (1,072 mi) North–South Railway line?
text: Did you know that Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1862 essay " Chiefly About War Matters " was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that the 1874 Fichte-Bunker , the last surviving gasometer in Berlin , became an air-raid shelter in World War II and later housed refugees from East Germany ?
text: Did you know that no American has won a medal in Olympic table tennis , but if one wins gold, USA Table Tennis will pay a $100,000 bonus?
text: Did you know that ribbon farms established near Detroit were only 150 feet (46 m) wide, but up to 3 miles (4.8 km) long?
text: Did you know that soprano Ursula Buckel recorded the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 , which Bach had written for the feast of the Visitation always celebrated on 2 July?
text: Did you know that only five units of the production model PWS-5 , a Polish liaison aircraft , were built?
text: Did you know that City Councilman Amir Omar is believed to be the first Muslim and first Iranian-American to hold a political office in Texas ?
text: Did you know that in the Victorian era the concept of a picture book for children, with illustrations dominating the text, was popularized with small books called toy books ?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker is currently in command of 140,000 troops as acting commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that when John Livingston Lowes taught Kubla Khan , he told his class "If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock ."?
text: Did you know that while still a boy, John Ross walked more than 600 km, crossing crocodile and hippopotamus -infested rivers, to obtain relief supplies for the settlement at Port Natal ?
text: Did you know that Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez , the mayor of Guadalupe , was murdered in front of his family in the Mexican Drug War ?
text: Did you know that during the 1973 Buffalo Bills season , O.J. Simpson set the current single-season National Football League record for average rushing yards per game?
text: Did you know that Huber's bills itself as the oldest restaurant in Portland , Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Ed Saugestad began coaching the Augsburg College hockey team while he was still a student and led the school to three NAIA national championships in 37 years as the coach?
text: Did you know that Zippel Bay in Zippel Bay State Park on Lake of the Woods in Minnesota was once the site of a caviar production business?
text: Did you know that Justin Verlander , a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers , won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2006?
text: Did you know that the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang , North Korea , would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying ?
text: Did you know that an enthalpy–entropy chart shows enthalpy in terms of internal energy, pressure and volume, so that the work done in vapor cycles can be directly measured as a length?
text: Did you know that Mike McShane led Norwich to eight Frozen Fours and ranks ninth all-time among NCAA men's ice hockey coaches with 564 wins?
text: Did you know that the 47th Battalion was one of three infantry battalions disbanded by Australia due to casualties suffered during the German Spring Offensive in May 1918?
text: Did you know that the gape of nestlings of several passerine bird species have been shown to be conspicuous in the ultraviolet spectrum?
text: Did you know that in the wake of voter anger at tax increases enacted by Governor James Florio , New Jersey Assembly member Thomas P. Foy supported allowing voters to remove legislators from office by referendum ?
text: Did you know that the noise of the 1929 Murchison earthquake , which occurred on New Zealand 's South Island , was so loud that it was heard in New Plymouth , over 250 km (160 mi) away on North Island ?
text: Did you know that before cola became widespread, the hamburger was typically served with coffee ?
text: Did you know that drummer Kevin Kelley was the first non-original member to join the Los Angeles rock band The Byrds ?
text: Did you know that John Thomson served for 55 years as the schoolmaster of Nantwich Blue Cap School in Cheshire , England , and the school closed some six months after his retirement aged 86 or 87?
text: Did you know that HMS Concorde , a former French ship, was involved in the capture of the French frigates Engageante and Virginie , and almost captured the Bravoure ?
text: Did you know that bookbinder Richard Minsky was involved in a lawsuit with the creators of Second Life over the trademark registration of SLART ?
text: Did you know that St. Aloysius' Catholic Church in Carthagena, Ohio , had the first tall church tower in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches ?
text: Did you know that Iowa and Indiana coach Gayle Blevins retired in June 2010 ranked second in NCAA Division I softball history with 1,245 wins?
text: Did you know that a number of British pubs, bars and nightclubs operate a safety initiative called PubWatch that may ban individuals for drunken or anti-social behaviour ?
text: Did you know that since 1997, The Georgetown Improv Association has hosted "Improvfest," one of the oldest improvisational theater festivals in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Tim Coghlin advanced to the Frozen Four in six of the past eight years and has the second highest career winning percentage among the 100 all-time winningest college men's hockey coaches?
text: Did you know that Rollover Pass , which connects East Bay with the Gulf of Mexico , was named after the practice of rolling exports and imports to avoid Customs during Spanish rule ?
text: Did you know that in 1958 while studying tropical moist static energy profiles, Herbert Riehl and Joanne Malkus found that hot towers were the primary mechanism for transporting energy out of the tropics?
text: Did you know that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000–701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford , near Ely , Cambridgeshire , England?
text: Did you know that in 1993, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell suggested that William G. Austin 's Medal of Honor be rescinded due to the controversial battle after which it was given?
text: Did you know that the shrimp Periclimenes dardanicola resides on sea anemones on the shell of the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus , in one of the few associations between two decapods ?
text: Did you know that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song " Bad Penny Blues " has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles ' " Lady Madonna "?
text: Did you know that John Hartmann, a 24-year-old law student, won election to the New Jersey General Assembly 's 15th Legislative District in 1991, making him the youngest Republican ever elected to the Assembly?
text: Did you know that Magdalene Thoresen became a model for several female characters in Norwegian literature , including Ibsen 's " Rebekka West " and " Ellida Wangel ", and Bjørnson 's "Petra" and "Leonarda"?
text: Did you know that the Belgian early music ensemble, La Petite Bande , takes its name from Jean-Baptiste Lully 's petite bande , a string orchestra at the court of Louis XIV ?
text: Did you know that Judi Garman , raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton ?
text: Did you know that Agora was a proof of concept email -based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet ?
text: Did you know that United Auto Workers of America president Stephen Yokich was taken to his first strike picket line when he was just 22 months old?
text: Did you know that the Anglican church in Amlwch , Wales, named after St Eleth , was built in 1800 with money derived from copper mining at nearby Parys Mountain ?
text: Did you know that Somerset cricketer Izzy Westbury made her senior international debut for the Netherlands aged 15?
text: Did you know that the Oyu Tolgoi mine will cost US $4.6 billion to complete, and will be the most expensive project in Mongolian history?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient William R. Parnell died in San Francisco , California on August 20, 1910, after falling from a street car ?
text: Did you know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden is rated "one of the finest pick-up spots in Manhattan"?
text: Did you know that Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson said that Bruce R. Bent and Henry B. R. Brown should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their invention of the money market fund ?
text: Did you know that deer penis , which is said in traditional Chinese medicine to enhance virility in men, was added to the list of banned substances during the 2008 Beijing Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the search for Cratendune continues though evidence that any one site is the lost village remains sparse?
text: Did you know that Romgaz is the largest natural gas producer in Romania ?
text: Did you know that the sports club Skeid , with a former top-level football team, has also won the Norwegian league in bandy ?
text: Did you know that Deusdedit of Canterbury (d. 664), a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury was the first non-Italian Archbishop of Canterbury?
text: Did you know that Qawmi primary education lasts six years, though it does not differentiate students by progressive grade levels ?
text: Did you know that when prisoner of conscience and philosopher Ukshin Hoti 's sentence was complete, he was transferred to another prison instead of being released?
text: Did you know that elderly Family Guy character Herbert 's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?
text: Did you know that the music of In convertendo Dominus , a setting of Psalm 126 for mixed choir and organ by Jules Van Nuffel , has been compared to the style of Puccini and Vaughan Williams ?
text: Did you know that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001 ' s graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?
text: Did you know that the 1988 St Jean Bosco massacre in Haiti saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide 's church burned down and at least 13 people killed?
text: Did you know that New Mexican bureaucrat Nicolas de Aguilar was exiled for ordering Christian natives to participate in traditional Kachina dances?
text: Did you know that Walter Hass , who helped reestablish the sport at the University of Chicago , played college football under three different Hall of Fame head coaches?
text: Did you know that Fehim Zavalani organized the Congress of Manastir , which decided the Albanian alphabet , in his own home?
text: Did you know that Indian leader Syed Mahmud was released from prison after writing a letter of apology to the British Viceroy for participating in the Quit India movement ?
text: Did you know that The Washington Post described Rock Creek Park Golf Course 's back nine holes in 1999 as so steep they seem "to have been designed by a mountain goat"?
text: Did you know that American blogger Pamela Geller has strongly defended former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy first trained pilots in 1911, in borrowed Short S.27 aircraft?
text: Did you know that French general Jean Touzet du Vigier served four governments in World War II – the Third Republic , the Vichy regime , Free France , and the Fourth Republic ?
text: Did you know that Loving Natalee , Beth Holloway 's bestselling book about her missing daughter , was made into the Lifetime movie Natalee Holloway that suspect Joran van der Sloot himself reportedly watched?
text: Did you know that Benjamin D'Israeli , grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli , traded as a merchant of straw hats and other Italian commodities?
text: Did you know that on February 9 , 1913 , a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?
text: Did you know that soon after the creation of the Łomża Ghetto , Nazi Germans killed all the Jews suspected of collaborating with the previous occupying power, the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Olav V of Norway competed in skiing for the club SFK Lyn ?
text: Did you know that Iwan Tirta , who held a law degree , designed the batik shirts worn by world leaders at the 1994 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit?
text: Did you know that after Pete Allen retired from professional baseball he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later became a physician ?
text: Did you know that the gold and enamel Dunstable Swan Jewel dates from about 1400 when such livery badges were highly controversial and could be dangerous for the wearer?
text: Did you know that Bernard de Montfaucon was the first to use the term "palaeography"?
text: Did you know that aspens and whitebark pines are keystones to the ecology of the Rocky Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Grady Wallace of South Carolina beat out Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain to secure the 1956–57 NCAA men's basketball scoring title ?
text: Did you know that when African American golfers attempted to play at Washington, D.C. 's racially segregated East Potomac Park Golf Course in 1941, angry whites threw stones and threatened them with violence?
text: Did you know that the first permanent Baptist church in the history of Baptists in Alabama was originally named West Fork of Flint River Church?
text: Did you know that the skeleton of a pregnant woman and her unborn child dating back to 3000 BC was found in the Kamenica Tumulus in Albania ?
text: Did you know that " Entrégate " involved a winemaker and a man with a bass guitar?
text: Did you know that Neil Gardner holds the sixth-fastest recorded time for a Jamaican 400 m hurdler ?
text: Did you know that Dimitry Laptev worked for Nazi Germany , the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union under different names?
text: Did you know that the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy provides lodging for the 72 astronomers working at the Mauna Kea Observatory ?
text: Did you know that to secure sponsorship for his TV show , New York-based host Jake Sasseville talked his way onto a local broadcast 700 miles away, so he would be seen by executives at his target's headquarters?
text: Did you know that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand ?
text: Did you know that Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg mysteriously disappeared from London society to the Philippines , where he was killed during a battle of the Philippine–American War ?
text: Did you know that robbers stole $80,000 worth of jewelry from Lida, Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis , but neglected to take a necklace valued at $400,000?
text: Did you know that James Conder , who collected coins and issued token coins , never knew that there was a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins buried beneath the doorstep of his house in Ipswich ?
text: Did you know that the 1943 Filipstad explosion in Oslo shattered the glass in over 1600 buildings ?
text: Did you know that Amin al-Hindi is believed to have been the last living person involved in the planning of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that, as of 2008, over 95% of urban Burkina Faso has access to improved water sources ?
text: Did you know that Coretta Scott King called African-American civil rights activist Randolph Blackwell an "unsung giant" of nonviolent social change ?
text: Did you know that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in a log cabin in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Nelson is the principal designer and project scientist for the Keck telescopes ?
text: Did you know that Watain received gold for Reaping Death ?
text: Did you know that Elmwood Park in downtown Danbury, Connecticut , was once used for growing hay ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Mack , prior to becoming Mayor of Detroit in 1834, had sailed around the world three times?
text: Did you know that the number of coho salmon spawning on the Ten Mile River in Mendocino County, California , has dropped precipitously since the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Red Rock Job Corps Center is within Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania , uses the facilities of the former Benton Air Force Station , and is still home to an FAA radar?
text: Did you know that Qeparo is home to one of the nine churches in Albania dedicated to Saint Demetrius ?
text: Did you know that " The Conquered Banner " was written by Father Ryan , the "poet-priest of the Confederacy"?
text: Did you know that celebrated French courtesan Rosalie Duthé has been called history's first dumb blonde ?
text: Did you know that Latavious Williams rejected a US$ 100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?
text: Did you know that empresario James Power was notified of the Mexican land grant offerings by the "Father of Texas " Stephen F. Austin ?
text: Did you know that John Lawson Walton 's defence in an 1896 libel case led to the largest damages awarded by a British jury to that date?
text: Did you know that although the team was founded in 1896, the first Connecticut Huskies bowl game did not come until the end of the 2004 college football season ?
text: Did you know that Sonny Bono produced rockabilly singer Roddy Jackson 's "Hiccups"?
text: Did you know that to avoid sending her to the scrapyards, the Imperial Japanese Navy converted the battleship Hiei into a training ship?
text: Did you know that cameline , a middle ages "cheap" fabric of camel's hair , is considered by some authorities to be what we call today cashmere ?
text: Did you know that comedian Bob Hope , U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post , every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course ?
text: Did you know that the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction?
text: Did you know that the original Small Diameter Bomb was developed by Boeing but the competition was restarted as a result of a corruption scandal and the Raytheon version of the GBU-53/B was selected instead?
text: Did you know that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German - Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger 's Requiem ?
text: Did you know that Bolinas Ridge which runs parallel to California 's San Andreas Fault has been the setting for numerous automobile television commercials ?
text: Did you know that Olga Maturana was elected the first Mayoress of Pichilemu , Chile , in 1951?
text: Did you know that the miniseries Nurse Jeffrey , a spinoff of House MD was originally released exclusively for Apple devices?
text: Did you know that in 1725 Bach composed a cantata text written by Salomon Franck in Weimar , Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164 , for the 13th Sunday after Trinity ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Malcolm Jardine , the father of Douglas , was probably one of the first batsmen to play the leg glance ?
text: Did you know that the Caroline test of self-defence is based on a burning ship going over Niagara Falls ?
text: Did you know that the Kermadec Red-crowned Parakeet is the first documented example of a parrot recolonising an island after the removal of invasive predators ?
text: Did you know that energy executive William G. Higgs is both a Distinguished Eagle Scout and a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy ?
text: Did you know that Sandur was described as "an autonomous Jewish republic" in 1934?
text: Did you know that during the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia , writer Ludvík Kundera was banned from being published?
text: Did you know that publisher Moses Annenberg bought Ranch A in 1927 with US$ 27,000 cash that he had in his pocket?
text: Did you know that Harvey B. Scribner oversaw the 1965 busing plan that made Teaneck, New Jersey , the first district in the US with a white majority to implement a voluntary school integration program?
text: Did you know that the Western Union Defence Organization was a precursor to NATO , with its headquarters, personnel, and plans providing the structure for NATO's military command?
text: Did you know that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah calls the Hezbollah theme park a "tourist jihadi center"?
text: Did you know that St. Mary's of Aransas in Refugio County, Texas , was home to philanthropist Clara Driscoll who is known for her efforts in restoring the Alamo Mission in San Antonio ?
text: Did you know that Swedish death metal band Nirvana 2002 had to add the "2002" to its name after seeing an advertisement for Nirvana 's 1988 debut single, " Love Buzz/Big Cheese "?
text: Did you know that half of the population of Colonia Buenos Aires in Mexico City makes a living from selling used auto parts?
text: Did you know that Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
text: Did you know that the Dortmunder Philharmoniker , the orchestra of the city of Dortmund , Germany, for opera and concert, founded in 1887, recorded its first CD in 2010?
text: Did you know that the textual Family 1739 codex represents the Caesarean text-type in the Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles ?
text: Did you know that quarterback Steven Threet began his college football career at Georgia Tech , played for Michigan in 2008 and is now a member of the 2010 Arizona State team ?
text: Did you know that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire , and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?
text: Did you know that with over 1.2 million burials, the Bródno Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Warsaw , Poland ?
text: Did you know that Swedish-Norwegian television host Kristin Kaspersen is the daughter of Swedish singer Lill-Babs and Norwegian football goalkeeper Kjell Kaspersen ?
text: Did you know that the village of Edgehead in Midlothian , Scotland , is located on the site of the Roman road Dere Street ?
text: Did you know that Yolande Harmer , who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari "?
text: Did you know that the Pyréolophore was probably the world's first internal combustion engine and was fuelled by burning powdered moss , coal granules and resin?
text: Did you know that the 2009 film An Education received nine British Academy Film Award nominations, but only came away with one award?
text: Did you know that Niels Bohr inspired Indian physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan to create the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai ?
text: Did you know that over two days Sun Yingjie won both the Beijing Marathon and a silver medal in athletics at the 10th Chinese National Games , but lost her medal because a rival spiked her drink with steroids ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Pepys drank purl in a bawdy house behind the House of Lords ?
text: Did you know that when Nazi Germany invaded Poland , Polish-Jewish poet Rajzel Żychlińsky fled by taking a taxicab?
text: Did you know that the Centro Urbano Benito Juárez apartment complex in Mexico City was mostly destroyed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake ?
text: Did you know that in 1874, Nova Scotian MP and marine architect William D. Lawrence built the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada , the William D. Lawrence ?
text: Did you know that the earliest accurate description of an action potential appears in the first issue of the physiology journal Pflügers Archiv ?
text: Did you know that Operation Marlborough was a mission to kill Iraqi terrorist insurgents wearing suicide vests who were intending to target cafes and restaurants in Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that the very first athletics track in Zagreb was built around the football pitch at Stadion Koturaška in 1907?
text: Did you know that Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corp. seeks to "reconstruct the entire world" for $100 trillion?
text: Did you know that development proposals for Washington, D.C. 's Kingman Island have included an airport , a landfill , a public aquarium , stadium parking lots , and a theme park ?
text: Did you know that medrogestone is a synthetic steroid with activity similar to the natural hormone progesterone , but unlike progesterone, is not transported by transcortin in the blood?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Grammy -winning song " Rich Woman " was first released in 1955 by Li'l Millet and was written by himself and Dorothy LaBostrie ?
text: Did you know that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier , performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
text: Did you know that the American Petroleum Institute awarded George R. Brown a medal for the design of the first oil platform to be built out of sight of land?
text: Did you know that the snail species Oxygyrus keraudrenii shows an evolutionary reduction of the gastropod shell for living in open sea?
text: Did you know that the 8th-century Sæbø sword has a runic inscription incorporating a swastika that has been interpreted as representing Thor ?
text: Did you know that George Malley , whose St. Ignatius High School football team was once compared to Notre Dame under Knute Rockne , resigned from the University of San Francisco with a losing record?
text: Did you know that Tadeusz Adamowski , a pioneer of ice hockey in interwar Poland , played the sport at Harvard , coached the Polish national team , and was imprisoned in a German Oflag during World War II ?
text: Did you know that St Briavels Castle , once the royal hunting lodge of King John of England , later became a notorious debtors' prison ?
text: Did you know that Wendy Barlow was inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame, and that her father Bob Barlow played in 77 NHL games with the Minnesota North Stars ?
text: Did you know that the cruiser SMS Bremse was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, but was salvaged a decade later by Ernest Cox ?
text: Did you know that radio host Siv Stubsveen starred in A Story About Love , a film on the Internet Movie Database 's bottom 100 list?
text: Did you know that the KunstHausWien , a private museum in Vienna , occupies the former building of the Thonet furniture factory, creator of the iconic bistro chair ?
text: Did you know that the Memphite Formula , a standardized greeting on ancient Egyptian letters, was used so frequently that papyrus intended for use as letters would be prepared with the greeting already written?
text: Did you know that bandleader Joe Lutcher abandoned his secular music career because of his religious beliefs, and influenced rock and roll star Little Richard to do the same?
text: Did you know that James Sumner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in a skirmish with Cochise during the Apache Wars ?
text: Did you know that Bump was the billionth application downloaded on Apple 's App Store ?
text: Did you know that Kirkleatham 's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls ?
text: Did you know that on the American syndicated game show Jeopardy! , five-time champion Chuck Forrest held the regular winnings record from early Season 2 to early Season 6?
text: Did you know that the gold medal winner of boys' triathlon at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics , Aaron Barclay , had never previously raced outside Oceania ?
text: Did you know that the office building that houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was built by Freemasons and once held an auditorium said to be the second largest in the American West ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen was inspired to write his songs " Youngstown " and " The New Timer " after reading stories of dying steel towns in Dale Maharidge 's book Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass ?
text: Did you know that Chilean Eloísa Díaz was the first female doctor in South America ?
text: Did you know that Jamila M'Barek demanded to be styled " Lady Shaftesbury " while being tried for the murder of Lord Shaftesbury ?
text: Did you know that baritone Günter Reich recorded the part of Moses in Schoenberg 's opera Moses und Aron with both Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez ?
text: Did you know that Angelo Gaja, owner of Piemonte wine producer Gaja , is often described as "the man who dragged Piedmont into the modern world"?
text: Did you know that Operation Banquet was a contingency plan to use every available aircraft in a last-ditch effort to repel a German invasion of Britain in 1940 or 1941?
text: Did you know that R.C. Bannon , co-writer of Barbara Mandrell 's " One of a Kind Pair of Fools ," was formerly married to Barbara's sister, Louise ?
text: Did you know that the jellyfish Haliclystus auricula acquired the common name "Kaleidoscope" from a naming contest held in Britain?
text: Did you know that the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation oversees 900 acres (360 ha) of parks and 68 recreational facilities—including 25 outdoor swimming pools , 10 indoor pools, and 8 spray parks ?
text: Did you know that the current President of Bolivia , Evo Morales , was one of four Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians elected to parliament in 1997?
text: Did you know that Aarti Sequeira , the sixth season winner of The Next Food Network Star , once worked as a producer for the cable news company CNN ?
text: Did you know that the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers ?
text: Did you know that radio station WGGH owner Jimmy "Fish" Fishback provided the imaging voice of the fictional "V-Rock" radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories ?
text: Did you know that the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira ?
text: Did you know that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen , conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera ?
text: Did you know that the 6 mm sea snail Atlanta lesueurii achieves vertical migration of several tens of meters each day?
text: Did you know that the music video to a song based on news about an attempted rape was viewed over 10 million times on YouTube in less than three weeks?
text: Did you know that imprisoned former congressman Randy Cunningham spends his days at the U.S. Penitentiary at Tucson , Arizona , teaching fellow inmates to get their GED ?
text: Did you know that the medieval English archdeacon Osbert de Bayeux was accused of murdering an Archbishop of York by poisoning the communion chalice ?
text: Did you know that Abbot's Palace , a roccoco palace in Oliwa funded by the last Cistercian abbot of the Oliwa monastery, Jacek Rybiński , was burned down by German troops during World War II?
text: Did you know that one of the many interpretations of the anecdotal meeting of Diogenes and Alexander was that of Samuel Johnson , who related it to wasting other people's time?
text: Did you know that the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson shows the first interview with Claude Johnson, who in 1998 was legally declared Delta blues legend Robert Johnson 's son?
text: Did you know that, called out of retirement to work on the murder case of JonBenét Ramsey , detective Lou Smit resigned 18 months later after concluding that "the Ramseys did not do it"?
text: Did you know that St George's Church, Little Thetford , is a 14th century Anglican church in the village of Little Thetford , Cambridgeshire , England, which was struck by lightning in 1886 and required extensive rebuilding?
text: Did you know that as the Victoria Barge Canal was dredged near Guadalupe Bay , ancient artifacts and middens were discovered at what is now the Guadalupe Bay Archeological Site?
text: Did you know that the first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games was awarded to Yuka Sato of Japan in the 2010 girls' triathlon ?
text: Did you know that The Feildian , a monthly magazine of Bishop Feild College , was the first publication of its kind in Newfoundland?
text: Did you know that Udaya Wickramasinghe , the Sri Lankan cricket umpire is remembered for giving three lbw decisions which enabled Pakistani bowler Aaqib Javed to achieve a hat-trick and world record ?
text: Did you know that using cocaine while pregnant is thought to be less harmful to the baby than alcohol ?
text: Did you know that since 2005, after a gap of a century, stone traps are allowed again for bird trapping in selected regions of France ?
text: Did you know that Chief Engraver of the United States Mint Frank Gasparro called the Susan B. Anthony dollar his "top achievement", though the coin was largely rejected by the American public?
text: Did you know that the Comber Historical Society Museum on Ontario Highway 77 was established in the former Maple Grove schoolhouse, built in 1894?
text: Did you know that it seems Ugandan President Milton Obote did not consult his cabinet when issuing the 1970 Nakivubo Pronouncement and beginning the process of nationalising 80 of Uganda's biggest firms?
text: Did you know that the sports club Bygdø Monolitten IL is partly named after the sculpture The Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park ?
text: Did you know that the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station in Iraq helps siphon water under the Euphrates River and is the largest of its type in the Middle East ?
text: Did you know that in 1884, Norwegian Supreme Court accessor Frederik Platou cast a minority vote against the impeachment of Christian Selmer , a former government colleague?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen has described his hit song " Waitin' on a Sunny Day " as the type of song he tends to want to throw out?
text: Did you know that the Andrei Pervozvanny class battleships were the only Old World battleships fitted with lattice masts ?
text: Did you know that Simon of Southwell was treasurer of the cathedral chapter of Lichfield Cathedral in 1203?
text: Did you know that Murray Wier was the first officially recognized NCAA men's basketball season scoring leader in 1947–48?
text: Did you know that soul singer Veda Brown , who recorded for the Stax label in the 1970s, later became a cosmetologist , choir leader, and black history teacher in the Missouri Bootheel ?
text: Did you know that Helen Gray Cone was the first woman to hold the title of professor at the Normal College of the City of New York (later renamed Hunter College)?
text: Did you know that 70% of the population of Tamil Nadu is engaged in the Indian state's agricultural sector and related industries for their livelihood?
text: Did you know that the government of Indonesia did not provide funding for its national team until one month prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ?
text: Did you know that studies have shown that media coverage of climate change significantly understates the strength of the scientific consensus on climate change ?
text: Did you know that Robert Brown Job was the oldest elected member of the Newfoundland National Convention ?
text: Did you know that the City of Besançon got a regional Parlement from Louis XIV partly as compensation for losing its democratic government and claims to independence?
text: Did you know that upon Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis ' death at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, he was succeeded by his uncle as heir presumptive to the Headship of the House of Thurn and Taxis ?
text: Did you know that after forming their coalition government the first joint interview with David Cameron and Nick Clegg was a televised debate on the economy?
text: Did you know that after watching "the greatest single play" in team history, Bob Ufer exclaimed " Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played!"?
text: Did you know that the dramatist George Bernard Shaw campaigned for the Labour Party candidate at the St Albans by-election in 1919 ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese legend of the Straw Millionaire depicts a peasant who becomes rich through a series of trades starting with a piece of straw?
text: Did you know that although Rangers won the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final , they were banned from competing the following year because their fans started a riot ?
text: Did you know that Jobs ' vessel, the Blue Peter , was the first floating, frozen-fish processing outfit in Newfoundland ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Treadwell started his art gallery in 1963 in a double-decker bus and two furniture vans?
text: Did you know that software archaeology uses software visualization and other techniques to understand poorly documented legacy software ?
text: Did you know that Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union was founded using only US$ 107 in 1950 and has since grown to over 500 million dollars in assets?
text: Did you know that the pure blood theory in Korea says that all Koreans descend from a single, purest and cleanest source of ancestors?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga 's EP The Cherrytree Sessions , initially only available through Borders stores and digital outlets, was reissued in August 2010?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Review of Books is a quarterly literary magazine published in Scotland that aims to promote discussion of Scottish literature and to challenge people's perceptions?
text: Did you know that in the Singer World Series , Aravinda de Silva scored 334 runs and did not lose his wicket in all four innings he played?
text: Did you know that versions of Roberto Cantoral 's songs have been recorded over 1,000 times by other artists, including Plácido Domingo , José José , Luis Miguel , Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt ?
text: Did you know that after assassinating Abraham Lincoln , John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland 's Zekiah Swamp ?
text: Did you know that shot putter Ivan Ivančić is the oldest ever finalist at the World Championships in Athletics ?
text: Did you know that the Mr. Ekenhead in the second canto of Don Juan was a real-life lieutenant of the HMS Salsette marines who swam the Hellespont with Lord Byron on 3 May 1810?
text: Did you know that American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny B. Moore was once described as "one of Chicago 's interesting secrets"?
text: Did you know that the 11th-century church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello , Italy , has a pulpit with Arabic script and motifs which influenced the Dutch artist M.C. Escher ?
text: Did you know that despite their roles in her overthrow and counter-revolution , lawyers William O. Smith and William A. Kinney were later hired by Queen Liliʻuokalani ?
text: Did you know that at a command performance of Box and Cox (1847) at Windsor Castle , Queen Victoria and her court "laughed heartily" at the hit London farce ?
text: Did you know that the British politician Frederick William Verney was a former Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant ?
text: Did you know that the distinct structures of different cellular organelles may be the effects of the differing mechanics of the many proteins that create them during organelle biogenesis ?
text: Did you know that although Typhoon Sudal was the strongest storm to hit the island of Yap in 50 years, damaging or destroying 90% of property, there were no deaths?
text: Did you know that the collapse of the Parrot Corporation , a manufacturer of floppy diskettes , caused a British political controversy?
text: Did you know that the FC Barcelona Museum attracts 1.2 million yearly visitors, making it the second most visited museum in Barcelona, only surpassed by the Museu Picasso ?
text: Did you know that Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet , British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte , commissioned his own friend Luigi Mayer to draw pictures of places in the Ottoman Empire for his collection?
text: Did you know that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival ?
text: Did you know that Ludwig von Wurmb , a general from Hesse-Kassel during the Napoleonic Wars , was known as the "bitter Wurmb" to distinguish him from his siblings?
text: Did you know that Zydeco musician Roy Carrier started out playing la la on a frottoir ?
text: Did you know that at the St Albans by-election in 1943 , John Grimston was elected without a vote after his opponent William Douglas-Home missed the deadline for nominations?
text: Did you know that while serving as the chief of staff of the Hawaiian Department of the US Army, Philip Hayes warned about the possibility of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan?
text: Did you know that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7 , a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms ?
text: Did you know that Ivar Eskeland was accomplished as a philologist , publisher, translator, biographer, literary critic, newspaper editor, theatre worker, radio personality and organizational leader?
text: Did you know that the lintel over the doorway of Holy Trinity Church, Coverham , North Yorkshire , consists of a re-used Anglo-Saxon cross shaft?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled that an Indian could not be tried for killing another Indian in Ex parte Crow Dog , resulting in the passage of the Major Crimes Act ?
text: Did you know that Sir Richard Glass , who was knighted for his part in creating the first transatlantic telegraph cable , lasted only a few months as an MP ?
text: Did you know that The Titan's Goblet , an 1833 landscape painting by Thomas Cole , "defies full explanation" according to the museum that owns it?
text: Did you know that the first stone building in Latvia was a church and a fortress of Ikšķile built by missionary Saint Meinhard in 1185–1186?
text: Did you know that the Freemasons Tavern in Hove , with its elaborate mosaic exterior decorated with Masonic symbols, is "reminiscent of the Viennese Secession "?
text: Did you know that wool-stapler George Goodman was a four-time mayor of Leeds ?
text: Did you know that astronomers believe that the Great Comet of 1264 and the Great Comet of 1556 were the same comet ?
text: Did you know that the New Ulyanovsk Bridge , one of Europe's longest bridges , took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that a New Jersey State Senator unsuccessfully attempted to block Marianne Espinosa 's renomination to family court , citing complaints that she "giggles and throws pencils on the desk during testimony"?
text: Did you know that when Lieutenant Nevelskoy of the 14-gun Opyt surrendered to Captain Bathurst of the 42-gun frigate HMS Salsette , Bathurst returned Nevelskoy's sword because of the heroic fight he had put up?
text: Did you know that in 1972, the Uganda Development Corporation ' s portfolio was swelled with the addition of 90 nationalised British holdings?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Ollie Carnegie is the International League's career home run and RBI leader?
text: Did you know that BioShock Infinite , Irrational Games ' next title in its video game series, is set during 1912 in a giant airborne city constructed at the height of American exceptionalism ?
text: Did you know that while being stipendiary magistrate in Sarpsborg , Oluf Falck-Ytter edited the newspaper Glommen anonymously?
text: Did you know that Jobar , a suburb of Damascus , is home to the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue ?
text: Did you know that British Conservative Party politician William Carlile owned Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire, the former home of one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot ?
text: Did you know that because Prince George produced many of his plays under pseudonyms , most of his audiences were unaware a Prussian prince was behind them?
text: Did you know that the only life-tariff prisoner in the UK protesting his innocence is Jeremy Bamber ?
text: Did you know that Terry Byrne was the only person to accompany David Beckham to the changing room after his red card in the 1998 World Cup , and later became his personal manager?
text: Did you know that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.2 was the first type of aircraft operated by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service that could carry bombs ?
text: Did you know that religious master Longchen Rabjam had foreseen Tang Rimochen Lhakhang in Bhutan in a vision?
text: Did you know that Berman's Bakery , Israel's second-largest, got its start by peddling black bread and honey cakes to Christian pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ?
text: Did you know that the eponymous first album by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft includes the song "The White Ship", directly inspired by a short story by the writer from whom the group took their name?
text: Did you know that Ohio's Paulding County Courthouse was patterned after Michigan's Lenawee County Courthouse ?
text: Did you know that Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional alcoholic beverage in a comic strip before it was produced in real life as a soft drink ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a professional mixed martial artist , Eduard Folayang was a high school teacher?
text: Did you know that Christopher Nugent was the third United States Marine to receive the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that American soul blues singer Kip Anderson used "A Knife and a Fork" as a warning concerning his girlfriend's food consumption?
text: Did you know that British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Gordon Drummond Campbell had been an educational adviser to King Chulalongkorn of Siam ?
text: Did you know that Michael Taylor led Michigan to consecutive Big Ten football championships and became the school's all-time leader in passing efficiency ?
text: Did you know that Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture , after Beauty and the Beast ?
text: Did you know that one of the textbooks written by Ludvig Stoud Platou was reissued 15 times, including 7 times by his son Carl Nicolai ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Nicholas Lang of the University of Arkansas advised against ever consuming a hamdog at any point in one's lifetime?
text: Did you know that to show his opposition to Wilhelm II , Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz forbade any demonstrations of mourning for the deaths of emperors Wilhelm I and Frederick III ?
text: Did you know that Montreal Alouettes kick returner Tim Maypray returned a missed field goal for a touchdown twice in 2010—both against the Saskatchewan Roughriders ?
text: Did you know that the first New Zealanders were Eastern Polynesians , who are thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 750 years ago?
text: Did you know that the port of Aransas City lost its customhouse after Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar relocated it to the self-named town of Lamar ?
text: Did you know that British Labour Party politician William Jackson was injured in the Battle of the Somme ?
text: Did you know that Smaalenenes Amtstidende was the first newspaper in Østfold county , Norway ?
text: Did you know that Angel Bakeries is the sole supplier of hamburger buns for McDonald's restaurants in Israel ?
text: Did you know that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £ 750,000 penthouse at Brighton 's Van Alen Building ?
text: Did you know that the lithium salt of the hexafluorophosphate anion is a common electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries ?
text: Did you know that the largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts is housed in Saint Petersburg ?
text: Did you know that American stock car racer Nelson Stacy lost one of the closest season points battle in ARCA history before winning the next three championships?
text: Did you know that the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham , South Yorkshire , depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving?
text: Did you know that Danish orienteer Ida Bobach won three gold medals at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships , winning the sprint, the long course and the relay?
text: Did you know that bacteria expressing the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase are resistant to all standard intravenous antibiotics for treatment of severe infections?
text: Did you know that the Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Alfons Mucha consists of 20 canvases , up to six metres tall and eight metres wide?
text: Did you know that a 1999 internet hoax led people to believe that a wealthy family in the 16th century would share bacon with their guests so they could sit around and " chew the fat "?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Ratsua , Frank Partridge became the youngest Australian soldier to earn the Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that Tadahiro Matsushita is one of only four People's New Party members in the House of Representatives of Japan ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers originally proposed a large reservoir by damming the Anacostia River at Massachusetts Avenue SE , but built the much smaller Kingman Lake in 1920 instead?
text: Did you know that Australian Edward Both invented the Both Respirator , an iron lung made from plywood , to fight a polio epidemic in 1937?
text: Did you know that " Tuesday's Child ", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City , was filmed entirely on location in Ghana ?
text: Did you know that Eric Berry played the part of Charles in Pippin for six years?
text: Did you know that although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club broke their transfer record, paying £5,000 to sign Johnny McNichol , who at the time had not played a single game in the Football League ?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Wien was the only ship from the Monarch -class to be sunk during World War I?
text: Did you know that songwriter and producer Popcorn Wylie allowed his children to play frisbee with old singles he had worked on, before he became aware of their value to collectors of Northern soul records?
text: Did you know that Dennis Brown broke the Big Ten single game total offense record in his first start and set the Michigan football record for career passing yards?
text: Did you know that the Palazzo Chupi is named after a lollipop ?
text: Did you know that the Mana by-election, 2010 was caused by the resignation of Winnie Laban , who has been appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington ?
text: Did you know that Gaza 's "swish, stylish" Al Deira Hotel is built of mudbricks ?
text: Did you know that the top three finishers in 1962 MVP award voting – Maury Wills , Willie Mays , and Tommy Davis – all played in the 1962 National League tie-breaker series ?
text: Did you know that the Palacio de la Autonomía in Mexico City is where the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México gained autonomy from direct government control?
text: Did you know that the Star Carr house in North Yorkshire , England , was built by Stone Age hunters 10,500 years ago and is the oldest dwelling ever found in Britain ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Albert Sabin , developer of the oral polio vaccine , called Dr. Robert M. Chanock his "star scientific son"?
text: Did you know that, decades before he became Mayor of Portland, Maine , William MacVane practiced military medicine and received a Bronze Star for performing surgery "under adverse conditions" during World War II?
text: Did you know that as a child French executive pastry chef Florian Bellanger was allergic to chocolate , but now claims it is his favorite ingredient?
text: Did you know that the English lace manufacturer and Liberal Party politician Sir Arthur Black donated two homes in Nottingham to the National Children's Home ?
text: Did you know that during the 1980s more than half of the personnel of the Soviet embassy in Zambia were KGB and GRU agents?
text: Did you know that after being fined due to an incident, professional baseball player Tal Abernathy promised his teammates that if he was ever fined again he would buy them all a steak ?
text: Did you know that the Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane is a boutique hotel , housed in a renovated French Indonese colonial building?
text: Did you know that British Labour Party Member of Parliament J. H. Hall worked in the trade union movement for over 40 years?
text: Did you know that prior to 1964, some cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard such as USCGC Point Marone and USCGC Point Young were commissioned without a name because they were too short?
text: Did you know that Waldemar Stoud Platou founded Hansa Brewery ?
text: Did you know that in Colombia there were 2,832 murders of trade unionists between 1 January 1986 and 30 April 2010, making it the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist ?
text: Did you know that pastry chef Candace Nelson opened the world's first cupcake -only bakery?
text: Did you know that it is customary at Chimi Lhakhang to strike female pilgrims on the head with a 10-inch (25 cm) wooden phallus and that the monastery features phallic paintings on its walls?
text: Did you know that Harry George Woolley , who holds a club record for the most penalty minutes spent off the field, also donated the Most Sportsmanlike trophy to his lacrosse league?
text: Did you know that the River Tern passes to the north of the Buntingsdale Hall in Shropshire ?
text: Did you know that after losing his seat in the House of Commons in January 1910 , the British politician and pastor George Nicholls stood again eight times over the next 19 years, without success?
text: Did you know that New Zealand cricketer Ted Badcock is the only player to be out first ball in both innings on his Test debut?
text: Did you know that the 59-year-old President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis was arrested with 21 other rabbis for taking part in a sit-in opposite the United Nations HQ in 2007?
text: Did you know that Milan Paumer was a member of a Czechoslovak anticommunist resistance group that fought its way across East Germany to West Berlin in 1953, evading a manhunt involving 25,000 people?
text: Did you know that Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was a law professor for five years after becoming blind ?
text: Did you know that the walls of the oldest part of the Uinta County Courthouse were stained with a mixture said to contain slaughterhouse blood and stale beer?
text: Did you know that Michigan fullback Mel Anthony set a Rose Bowl record with an 84-yard touchdown run in 1965 ?
text: Did you know that Lectionary 269 represents the Byzantine text-type in its early stage?
text: Did you know that Lena Horne and Shirley Chisolm attended the same racially integrated Girls High School ?
text: Did you know that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
text: Did you know that Bach scored a tenor aria for oboe da caccia , recorder and bassoon in his cantata Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a , for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity ?
text: Did you know that at the Palace of Westminster in May 1945, the 73-year-old British Conservative Member of Parliament Harry Selley built a 200-brick wall in 58 minutes whilst wearing a bowler hat ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen established Interns for Peace to foster personal connections between Arabs and Jews, saying "every time you create contact it's successful because it breaks stereotypes"?
text: Did you know that Captain Anthony Molloy 's court martial and disgrace following the Glorious First of June was attributed by some to a curse from a woman he had dishonored?
text: Did you know that the British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Keatinge was born in Bombay (now Mumbai ), India?
text: Did you know that Ida Siekmann , the first casualty at the Berlin wall , died after she jumped out of her third floor apartment at Bernauer Strasse ?
text: Did you know that the 1991 Racha earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, Raheel Raza became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada ?
text: Did you know that the cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for The Simpsons Cartoon Studio , a computer program released in 1996 that lets users create their own Simpsons cartoons?
text: Did you know that the former featherweight world boxing champion Andre Routis spent two years in Morocco as a mechanic for the French Colonial Army ?
text: Did you know that research by Dr. Harold Ginsberg on adenoviruses led to the development of gene therapy , in which modified versions of viruses can be used to implant healthy versions of genes to treat disease?
text: Did you know that Ragnvald Gjerløw played a main role in re-establishing the Diocese of Stavanger ?
text: Did you know that an unwanted guest may have been served a " cold shoulder " of mutton ?
text: Did you know that John Idzik , University of Detroit head coach until it discontinued its football program, was fired by the Baltimore Colts , along with the entire coaching staff, on two separate occasions?
text: Did you know that in a letter of 22 April 772 to Probatus , who later served as his ambassador, Pope Adrian I claimed to rule a "republic of the Romans"?
text: Did you know that Olav Hoprekstad had eight of his plays staged at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo from 1913 to 1940?
text: Did you know that Norman Mailer and Isaac Asimov attended the same Boys High School ?
text: Did you know that former Michigan running back Chuck Heater coached national championship football teams at Notre Dame and Florida ?
text: Did you know that there is a legend that the body of Saint Oswald , king of Northumbria , rested on the present site of St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall , South Yorkshire , after his death in 642?
text: Did you know that the Phoenix Suns were featured in all of the National Basketball Association 's outdoor games ?
text: Did you know that despite their names, Little Bolton had a larger acreage than Great Bolton ?
text: Did you know that Nikephoros Palaiologos and his son George twice found themselves on opposite sides during rebellions aimed at the Byzantine throne?
text: Did you know that the 2008 historical drama/ black comedy film Time of the Comet set a new box office record in Albanian cinemas?
text: Did you know that American football player DeWayne Patmon appeared in a few movies after his National Football League career ended?
text: Did you know that the tower of St Andrew's Church, Bywell , Northumberland , was built in about 850 as a defensive structure?
text: Did you know that as son of a Lebanese Arab father who was raised by Jewish stepfathers after his father's death, Bradley M. Campbell quipped that his "aspiration is to become ambassador-at-large in the Middle East "?
text: Did you know that the design of the Medina, New York , post office , has only been reused in Salem, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that Nick Pace , a mixed martial artist, won the inaugural Ring of Combat Bantamweight title by defeating his opponent via d'arce choke in the first round?
text: Did you know that the rock gong was a neolithic musical instrument made out of dolerite that would resonate with a metallic tone when struck with a small igneous stone?
text: Did you know that, while Archbishop of Adelaide , the Dominican Robert Spence wore the simple clothes of his order instead of the purple soutane of an archbishop?
text: Did you know that Cheshunt Great House , once owned by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from 1519 until 1529, was burned down in 1965?
text: Did you know that Amelia Gade Corson 's successful swim across the English Channel was paid for by L. Walter Lissberger, who covered the US$ 3,000 cost and then collected US$100,000 from Lloyd's of London at 20–1 odds?
text: Did you know that Oregon -based Electro Scientific Industries worked with Nike, Inc. to get a law passed that effectively prevents the neighboring city of Beaverton from annexing either company's property?
text: Did you know that Johann Ewald , a Hessian mercenary during the American Revolutionary War , was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his performance as a Danish Army general in the 1809 Battle of Stralsund ?
text: Did you know that players from the FK Sørøy Glimt football team were caught in a doping case, a rare occurrence in Northern Norwegian football?
text: Did you know that Bryan Hall served as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Edmonton Eskimos for 44 years?
text: Did you know that the 3D Express Coach allows cars under two meters high to drive under it since the passengers are in an upper level of the bus elevated four meters above the ground?
text: Did you know that Charlie Abbey became the first person from Nebraska to play in Major League Baseball after making his debut in 1893?
text: Did you know that Exercise Verity , a 1949 multilateral exercise involving over 60 warships, was described by a British newsreel as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland ?"
text: Did you know that Hugh Candidus (c.1095 – c.1160), a Benedictine monk, wrote a history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation as Medeshamstede in the mid 7th century up to the 12th century?
text: Did you know that the post office in Middleport, New York , is one of only three in the state using the same Colonial Revival - modernist design?
text: Did you know that the earliest known account of Lebanese fossils is attributed to Herodotus ?
text: Did you know that the Fandango Pass in the Warner Mountains is located at the convergence of two trails, the Applegate and the Lassen , that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850?
text: Did you know that a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company?
text: Did you know that Fritz Teufel was known as one of the " Spaßguerilla " (fun guerilla) who carried out the 1967 "Pudding Assassination" of U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during a state visit to West Berlin ?
text: Did you know that the plot of the platform video game The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk mimics that of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk ?
text: Did you know that during English footballer Freddie Bunce 's only season with Highlands Park FC , they won South Africa's 1964 National Football League ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish community of Danzig sold their historic synagogue to finance their emigration in 1939?
text: Did you know that the leaders of the September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt vowed to base their rule on that of slain President Ngo Dinh Diem ?
text: Did you know that logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk?
text: Did you know that the northern white beech is actually a member of the mint family ?
text: Did you know that a purchase of 80 paintings by Phoebe Hearst enabled artist Joseph Henry Sharp to devote himself to painting full-time in a log cabin at Little Big Horn ?
text: Did you know that the overhead awning for the Colosseum was saturated with scented water which dripped on spectators' heads to cool them?
text: Did you know that 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen —accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club ?
text: Did you know that Cornbread Harris , who performed on Minnesota 's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam ?
text: Did you know that local tradition in Lyndonville, New York , holds that Jackson Blood's family hauled all the cobblestones for their house down from Lake Ontario themselves?
text: Did you know that in 1923, Henry Sullivan became the third person, and the first American, to swim across the English Channel , finishing the crossing from Dover to Calais in 27 hours and 25 minutes?
text: Did you know that the Singapore case Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs , which held that courts could assess the lawfulness of orders made under the Internal Security Act , was overridden by statute in 1989?
text: Did you know that the Giro di Castelbuono is one of Europe 's oldest road running competitions, having been first held in Castelbuono , Sicily , in 1912?
text: Did you know that despite being offered a scholarship by college basketball powerhouse Indiana , Ryan Wittman chose to walk on to the Cornell basketball team ?
text: Did you know that Alan Blinder has described Fedspeak as a turgid dialect of English used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements?
text: Did you know that Dr. Thomas C. Peebles , who went on to isolate the measles virus strain used in the measles vaccine , was initially rejected by Harvard Medical School because he had gotten a D in college biology?
text: Did you know that the historic P Ranch in Oregon , owned by cattle baron Peter French , covered 140,000 acres (570 km 2 ) and required 500 miles of barbed wire fence for protection?
text: Did you know that former professional wrestler Steve Rickard was once stranded in Greece after airports in the country were closed due to trouble with Turkey ?
text: Did you know that the duties of the Egyptian Labour Corps during World War I included forming an anti- mosquito squad?
text: Did you know that 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run , having broken Simon Doyle 's old mark from 1991?
text: Did you know that Cinema City Nablus in the West Bank , built in 2009, is the city's first cinema in over 20 years?
text: Did you know that English scholar Ichabod Charles Wright (born in Mapperley Hall ) translated the three instalments of Dante 's Divina commedia ; Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso ?
text: Did you know that the Dechencholing Palace has its own helipad despite no airport being in nearby Thimphu ?
text: Did you know that government by itineration was a key mechanism of government in the Middle Ages in northern and eastern Europe ?
text: Did you know that former Jackson, Michigan , mayor Fred Janke was the captain of Fritz Crisler 's first Michigan Wolverines football team?
text: Did you know that the UPRM Planetarium is the only planetarium in Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you know that the largest fireworks display ever performed on a military base took place at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that residents of the Kingman Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C. , successfully lobbied the Washington Metro in 1977 to cancel the proposed Oklahoma Avenue Station on the Orange and Blue lines ?
text: Did you know that troops of both the 28th Infantry Division and 75th Infantry Division were stationed at Seabank Hotel in Porthcawl , Wales , during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Captan Jack Wyly was a Democratic Party power broker in Lake Providence , Louisiana , which was labeled by Time magazine in 1997 as the poorest city in the United States ?
text: Did you know that according to legend , a Jewish boy named Elhanan who was stolen from his parents later became the Jewish pope Andreas ?
text: Did you know that one of the windowpanes in the John H. Nichols House in Wapakoneta, Ohio , bears the incised names of several of Nichols' children?
text: Did you know that the extinct rove beetle genus Ektatotricha is known from 15 beetles trapped in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar ?
text: Did you know that the Fraser Mansion in Washington, D.C. , was the subject of a zoning battle before purchase at foreclosure auction by the Church of Scientology ?
text: Did you know that the fruit of the Blush Condoo are eaten by the Wompoo Fruit Dove and the Topknot Pigeon ?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Apollonia , near Fier , Albania , is currently closed to the public after being looted in 1991?
text: Did you know that Eugene Michael Hyman is the first American to receive the United Nations Public Service Award?
text: Did you know that the Hyderabad State Congress led a non-violent civil disobedience campaign for the union of Hyderabad State with India , declaring August 7, 1947, as "Join Indian Union Day"?
text: Did you know that the British Labour Party politician and trade unionist Richard Kelley opposed allowing coal miners to leave work early if they had finished their day's tasks?
text: Did you know that The Lame Devil , Sacha Guitry 's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?
text: Did you know that Atlantic Coast High School is Jacksonville, Florida 's first public high school opened since 1990?
text: Did you know that the flower Campanula zoysii is considered a symbol of the Slovenian Alps ?
text: Did you know that the long hidden ceilings of the Monheim Town Hall in Bavaria , a Jewish residence until 1741, depict scenes of the Tanakh that were only restored in 1978?
text: Did you know that the Durrës Archaeological Museum contains a collection of miniature busts of Venus , a testament to the time when the area was a centre of worship of the goddess?
text: Did you know that 1954 Michigan football MVP Fred Baer and 1953 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lattner played in the same backfield for Fenwick High School in the Chicago Catholic League in 1949?
text: Did you know that the Sinan Pasha Mosque of Prizren was built in 1615, but still conserves its original stone flooring and carpentry?
text: Did you know that Enrique Tirabocchi had to appeal to Benito Mussolini to retrieve a trophy he received for swimming the English Channel , as it had been confiscated by customs officials when he reentered Italy ?
text: Did you know that the katarista movement leader Víctor Hugo Cárdenas was elected Vice President of Bolivia in 1993?
text: Did you know that " Please Please Me " is, arguably, The Beatles ' first number-one single ?
text: Did you know that from 2010, reserve teams in Norwegian association football were barred from using more than three players aged over 21?
text: Did you know that the Ukrainian priest Ivan Ziatyk was persecuted by the Soviet government for "spreading the Catholic Faith"?
text: Did you know that the 2001 book Madonna: An Intimate Biography , by J. Randy Taraborrelli , debuted and stayed on top of The New York Times Best Seller list for three months?
text: Did you know that while time, war, and hazardous emissions continually wrecked the tomb of Nizami , a 12th-century epic poet , the tomb was finally rebuilt in solid granite in 1991 in Ganja , Azerbaijan ?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Grand National horse race was declared void after 30 of the 39 riders failed to realise a false start had been called, leading it to be called "the race that never was"?
text: Did you know that northwestern Ohio 's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp ?
text: Did you know that the Navachab Gold Mine is the only gold mine in Namibia ?
text: Did you know that in 1898, Pop Williams became the first attendee of Bowdoin College to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that renowned restaurateur and celebrity chef Marc Murphy cannot bring himself to like coffee ?
text: Did you know that Mortal Kombat has won multiple best fighting game awards at E3 2010 and is already being considered as the most violent video game ever?
text: Did you know that Prince Michael of Yugoslavia , a Bernard Madoff feeder fund executive , allegedly approached Charles, Prince of Wales about becoming a potential investor at a polo tournament in 2002?
text: Did you know that under the Poughkeepsie plan , Catholic children attended public schools taught by nuns wearing religious habits ?
text: Did you know that a 1967 image by photojournalist Lee Lockwood of American prisoner of war Richard A. Stratton bowing to his North Vietnamese captors brought charges from the U.S. that POWs were being brainwashed?
text: Did you know that the Agrarian Socialist League , a Russian revolutionary émigré organization, was founded at the funeral of Pyotr Lavrov in 1900?
text: Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the chess pieces for The Boredom Dodger ?
text: Did you know that Peter Stephens died in November 1757, 10 months before the town he founded was chartered in September 1758?
text: Did you know that the Combe Haven Viaduct , on the Bexhill West Branch Line , contained over 9,000,000 bricks ?
text: Did you know that in 1879, the first Pelton wheel was manufactured at what would become known as the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California ?
text: Did you know that Konocti Harbor , a now-closed resort and music venue in Lake County, California , was originally founded in 1959 as low-cost vacation housing for members of a plumbers union ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game on Mother's Day with his grandmother in attendance?
text: Did you know that in May 1982, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Welsh was one of 69 MPs who called for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that world-renowned restaurateur and classically trained chef Geoffrey Zakarian was defeated by Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto on an episode of Iron Chef America by a 14-point margin?
text: Did you know that voice actress Maggie Roswell left The Simpsons in 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company , but returned in 2002?
text: Did you know that The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards US$ 100,000 every year for solutions to solve pressing complex global problems?
text: Did you know that Dan Kiesel was hired as physiotherapist for the Sri Lankan cricket team upon the recommendation of Australian fast-bowler Dennis Lillee ?
text: Did you know that according to (RED) , providing health-restoring antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive people in Africa, as described in the documentary The Lazarus Effect , costs US$ 0.40 per person per day?
text: Did you know that Kent Island , a national wildlife sanctuary in California 's Bolinas Lagoon , was once just hours from becoming the future site of a 1,500-boat marina ?
text: Did you know that the Pomeranian Renaissance castle Veste Landskron was abandoned after it deteriorated during the Thirty Years' and Scanian Wars ?
text: Did you know that on December 9, 1978, the Milwaukee Does lost to the Chicago Hustle by a score of 92–87 in the first game played in Women's Professional Basketball League history?
text: Did you know that the game described in the 16th-century poem Chess was reconstructed almost 350 years later?
text: Did you know that the 1255 Seal of Mindaugas , celebrated as the only surviving depiction of King of Lithuania Mindaugas , could be a medieval forgery by the Teutonic Knights ?
text: Did you know that land acquired from the vast estate of Samuel Mills Damon enlarged Hawaii Volcanoes National Park by more than 50%?
text: Did you know that the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls are the only National Basketball Association team to win at least 70 games in a single season ?
text: Did you know that it took only six weeks for Max Tannone to mash parts of 30 Radiohead and Jay-Z songs for the album Jaydiohead ?
text: Did you know that artist Abraham "Moonlight" Pether (1756–1812) acquired his nickname from his skill at painting moonlit landscapes?
text: Did you know that cricketer Gary Kirsten was the leading batsman in the 1996 Pepsi Sharjah Cup , scoring 356 runs in seven innings at an average of 89.0?
text: Did you know that at the age of 16, Topsy Sinden was given the role of Violet Deveney in the 1894 hit Edwardian musical comedy The Shop Girl ?
text: Did you know that all of the surviving individuals of the species listed in the The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates , which include the Silky Sifaka ( Propithecus candidus ), could fit into a single football stadium?
text: Did you know that the Mission of the Guardian Angel was a Jesuit mission that existed in the vicinity of Chicago , Illinois , from 1696 to 1700?
text: Did you know that commercial director Frank Budgen filmed an advertisement that involved 50 stuntmen and acrobats ?
text: Did you know that Swedish artist Johan Christoffer Boklund taught painting to King Charles XV of Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts ?
text: Did you know that Australian and British members of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps were often bitten by the camels they were handling?
text: Did you know that The American Israelite , published in Cincinnati since 1854, helped advance American Reform Judaism and is the oldest English-language Jewish newspaper still circulated in the United States?
text: Did you know that at the age of 40, Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game , making him the oldest person to do so in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the Western Purple-faced Langur and the Niger Delta Red Colobus were both included among The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates ?
text: Did you know that entrants in the Sukkah City architecture contest are allowed to erect their structures atop a live camel ?
text: Did you know that Nike's 2001 Tag ad campaign was voted one of the top ten advertisements of the decade by Campaign magazine ?
text: Did you know that the extinct sawfly Pseudosiobla cambelli is one of three species of Pseudosiobla known from the fossil record?
text: Did you know that Colonia Asturias in Mexico City is named after the first major football stadium built in the city?
text: Did you know that in 2009 the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre produced one of the first regional theatre productions of The Wedding Singer in the United States?
text: Did you know that the drama film Obama Anak Menteng , a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama 's boyhood in Indonesia , was originally intended to première during his planned state visit ?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian -born Meryem Erdoğan , impressed by her countrywoman Elvan Abeylegesse 's success, illegally immigrated to Turkey at age 16 in order to become a distance runner ?
text: Did you know that satirical novelist William Thackeray was a student at Henry Sass 's London art academy, which he later caricatured in his novel, The Newcomes ?
text: Did you know that a geomagnetic storm in 1882 resulted in unusual phenomena reported in various parts of the world as an " auroral beam", a "blood red" sky, and a "luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo "?
text: Did you know that John McMillan's Log School , a Latin school that eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College , is regarded as the oldest educational building west of the Allegheny Mountains ?
text: Did you know that Arani Jayaprakash was the umpire at the bowler 's end when Anil Kumble dismissed all 10 Pakistan batsmen in a Test cricket match in 1999?
text: Did you know that Ann Meyers signed with the New Jersey Gems in 1979, with her US$ 50,000 salary matching what she had been paid by the Indiana Pacers in her bid to become the first woman to play in the NBA ?
text: Did you know that apart from eating smaller lizards and amphibians , the Central American coral snake also feeds on other snakes ?
text: Did you know that nickel production in New Caledonia ranks fifth in the world?
text: Did you know that filmmaker David Lynch raised US$ 1 billion to help the Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation build 3,000 Maharishi Peace Palaces ?
text: Did you know that Croatian footballer Stojan Osojnak played for Dinamo Zagreb in the club's first-ever match, a friendly against the Yugoslav Air Force team in June 1945?
text: Did you know that the series of small hills known as the Devil's Jumps near Churt in southern England was once said to have been kicked up by the Devil when he stole the cauldron from a local witch ?
text: Did you know that the owner of the Afghani restaurant Teaneck Kebab House fled Kabul in 1985 during the Soviet war in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen recorded the vocal of " Lonesome Day " live for each take of its music video, unlike common practice?
text: Did you know that Larry Brown is the only National Basketball Association (NBA) head coach who has coached nine different NBA teams?
text: Did you know that the platformer Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly was the first The Simpsons video game to be released on a handheld console ?
text: Did you know that one 16th-century Registrar of the University of Oxford was dismissed after neglecting his duties for a year, then imprisoned and fined after throwing a punch when the debate had ended?
text: Did you know that Toshiba 's 2008 television advertisement Time Sculpture holds the world record for the highest number of moving-image cameras used in a composite shot ?
text: Did you know that the Twin Pimples raid was carried out by No. 8 Commando and Australian Engineers in 1941, during the siege of Tobruk ?
text: Did you know that the 1949 Ambato earthquake , which killed 5,050 people, caused an entire town to sink 1,500 feet into the ground?
text: Did you know that the altarpiece of the Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City is said to contain a splinter of the original cross of Jesus , authenticated by the Vatican ?
text: Did you know that artist Abel Pann created some of his most notable work when he got stuck in Europe during WWI ?
text: Did you know that Glass Joe is considered one of Nintendo 's most iconic characters, and has been used as a term to signify failure or weakness?
text: Did you know that despite a slight build at 155 pounds, Jack Wheeler was the MVP of the undefeated 1930 Michigan football team and finished second in voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football ?
text: Did you know that as part of efforts to balance New Jersey 's $2.76 billion budget in 1976, State Senator James P. Vreeland proposed cutting the governor's annual salary by $2,500?
text: Did you know that con man Alexander Day used the name 'Marmaduke Davenport Esq.' to convince his victims that he was a member of the gentry in order to gain purchasing credit , which he would never repay?
text: Did you know that Juggalo Championship Wrestling 's Bloodymania wrestling events have featured such competitors as former WWF Champion Diesel and UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock ?
text: Did you know that Park51 , an Islamic cultural center whose proposed site has sparked controversy, will include a mosque , a 500-seat auditorium, and a swimming pool?
text: Did you know that Merthyr MP Edgar Rees Jones served as head of the Priorities Division of the British Ministry of Munitions during World War I ?
text: Did you know that in 1975 Zimbabwean Kantilal Kanjee became the first non-white umpire to stand in a first-class cricket match in South Africa ?
text: Did you know that street pastors were founded to confront gang culture in UK cities, and are now known for handing out flip-flops to tottering clubbers ?
text: Did you know that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Menarana had several adaptations for head-first burrowing , but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?
text: Did you know that Prince Frederick of Württemberg attained the rank of Rittmeister 2nd class in the Army of Württemberg by the age of 15?
text: Did you know that Sam Peckinpah , director of the The Wild Bunch , lived in a three-room suite at The Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana , from 1979 to 1984?
text: Did you know that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones ?
text: Did you know that Youngstown, Ohio , native Sylvester "Buster" Stanley won the 1993 Michigan football MVP and Dick Katcher awards?
text: Did you know that the platformer Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from 1992 heavily featured the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons , even though he had rarely been seen on the show at that point?
text: Did you know that US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor encouraged a 1965 overthrow of South Vietnam 's Nguyen Khanh , and the first attempt was then made by the communist agent Pham Ngoc Thao ?
text: Did you know that Sanath Jayasuriya scored the fastest fifty and the now second-fastest century in ODI cricket during the 1996 Singer Cup ?
text: Did you know that it has been estimated that the navis lusoria , a type of a troop ship of the late Roman Empire , could reach speeds of about 10 knots ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Guru Padmasambhava subdued the spirits of the Khangchendzonga, Yabdean and Mahakaal at Enchey Monastery in Sikkim ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final ended in violence when fans invaded the pitch and attacked the referee?
text: Did you know that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner , Lachenmann , Rihm , Widmann and Hosokawa ?
text: Did you know that the English football club Trawden Forest never lost a home game in the FA Cup ?
text: Did you know that Morrie Yohai , who created products for Old London Foods , lived opulently in Kings Point, New York , in "the house that Cheez Doodles bought"?
text: Did you know that Louis Fred Pfeifer received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor , while serving under a false name?
text: Did you know that the recently described notosuchian crocodyliform Pakasuchus had molar -like teeth that were as complex as those of carnivorous mammals?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer Edith Márquez received a gold certification in Mexico for an album that includes a cover of the number-one song " Tengo Todo Excepto a Tí "?
text: Did you know that after seeing The Beverly Hillbillies and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In atop the Nielsen ratings , John Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a country variety show to combine the best of both genres?
text: Did you know that during a fire at a nursing home in Nigel , South Africa, on August 1, 2010, a resident objected to being rescued as she was not properly dressed?
text: Did you know that William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain ?
text: Did you know that during the MN 4 zone, the saber-toothed cat Prosansanosmilus first appeared in Europe?
text: Did you know that the former Dominican friary in St Andrews , Blackfriars , was destroyed in 1559 by Scottish Protestants ?
text: Did you know that Mona Bell , mistress of entrepreneur Samuel Hill , claimed to have performed in Buffalo Bill Cody 's Wild West Show ?
text: Did you know that with 203 total yards and four touchdowns , Wali Lundy was named the Most Valuable Player of the American football 2002 Continental Tire Bowl ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Pinos most of the English fleet managed to escape from the Spanish fleet by abandoning their boats and throwing their baggage into the water?
text: Did you know that when Robert Littell and Alison Littell McHose were elected in 2004 to the 24th Legislative District , they became the first father-daughter pair to serve together in the New Jersey Legislature ?
text: Did you know that H. O. West dropped out of Louisiana College to work at a lumber mill before he assembled a chain of thirty-three department stores ?
text: Did you know that Light Horse Tavern was named after Henry Lee III , a Continental Army soldier during the American Revolution known as "Light Horse Harry"?
text: Did you know that Efraim Zuroff expressed his frustration at the failure to bring 95-year-old Erich Steidtmann to justice, saying "I am the only Jew in the world who prays for the health of Nazi war criminals"?
text: Did you know that Matt Patanelli was the first University of Michigan football player selected in an National Football League Draft ?
text: Did you know that the Border Governors Conference , an annual meeting of the governors of the states that form the Mexico – United States border , was moved from Arizona to New Mexico this year?
text: Did you know that the book Food Lovers' Guide to New Jersey placed Pithari Taverna among the best Greek cuisine in the state?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party was banned just a few hours after its foundation in 1925?
text: Did you know that the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe ?
text: Did you know that fictional data analyst Robin Sage was freely given access to government email accounts, private bank accounts, and top secret military information by their owners within two months of her creation?
text: Did you know that St Nicholas Hospital , St Andrews , was originally a leper hospital ?
text: Did you know that the Al-Bustan resort is part of a "construction boom" of recreational facilities in Gaza ?
text: Did you know that the costumes of Lyo and Merly , the official mascots of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore , have inbuilt fans and optional vests lined with cool packs to keep wearers from overheating?
text: Did you know that Zhang Yi promised the King of Chu to give back 600 li of land, and gave only 6 li at the end?
text: Did you know that at the 1977 fight between Muhammad Ali and Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden , Eva Shain became the first female boxing judge at a heavyweight championship bout?
text: Did you know that Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball coach Bucky O'Connor led the team to its only NCAA championship game in school history in 1956?
text: Did you know that Bach used the music of the opening chorus of his Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, BWV 179 , a cantata written for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity , in two masses ?
text: Did you know that several fossils of the recently described Early Cretaceous lizard Liushusaurus preserve scales , pigmentation , claw sheaths , cartilage , and small bones that make up the hemipenis ?
text: Did you know that Danish painter Albert Küchler 's "Albanian Girl" was probably not Albanian , but Italian ?
text: Did you know that the former boxer Harold Gomes was named the Ring Magazine fighter of the month following his world title victory over Paul Jorgensen ?
text: Did you know that as president of Southwestern at Memphis College , David Alexander oversaw the desegregation of its fraternities and sororities?
text: Did you know that television writer Bernie West , creator of The Jeffersons , described his experience as a Borscht Belt comedian saying, "Everything we did may not have been original, but what we stole was good!"?
text: Did you know that Bron Taylor coined the term "dark green religion" as a set of beliefs characterized by a conviction that " nature is sacred , has intrinsic value , and is therefore due reverent care"?
text: Did you know that although travel times between downtown Tainan and the Tainan High Speed Rail Station will be halved by the new Shalun Line , residents have complained that it will worsen local road traffic?
text: Did you know that the samba -inspired song " Are You Going With Me? " by the Pat Metheny Group was the background music for a Los Angeles Lakers highlight reel after they won an NBA title ?
text: Did you know that Serge Monast was a Québécois journalist and conspiracy theorist who claimed that Project Blue Beam is a NASA plan to fake the Second Coming of Christ to bring about the New World Order ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan paid US$ 2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?
text: Did you know that the Champlain Hudson Power Express could lower SO 2 emissions by 6,800 tonnes , NO x emissions by 10,800 tonnes, and CO 2 emissions by nearly 37 million tonnes during the first decade of operation?
text: Did you know that Arthur R. Albohn was known in the New Jersey General Assembly as "Dr. No" for his consistent pattern of voting against legislation that included unnecessary spending?
text: Did you know that the Iowa Cornets made it to the Women's Professional Basketball League championship in both of its seasons in the league, and lost both times?
text: Did you know that Jens Tangen , who was ordered by Nazis to become a trade union leader , was later deposed but escaped death, unlike his deputy chairman and judicial office leader ?
text: Did you know that unlike living rorqual whales , the late Miocene genus Plesiobalaenoptera was probably not capable of ram feeding ?
text: Did you know that Ronald McDonald 's costume and make-up were created in 1966 by Latvian -born clown Michael Polakovs , better known as Coco the Clown?
text: Did you know that the Lightning roller coaster was so rough that the phrase "take her on the Lightning" became a folk remedy for terminating unwanted pregnancies ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Perković is the youngest ever European champion in women's discus throw ?
text: Did you know that talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida ?
text: Did you know that Acteosaurus tommasinii , a species of aquatic lizard from the upper Cretaceous , is similar to mosasauroids and modern snakes ?
text: Did you know that insurance litigator Eugene Anderson was admitted to Harvard Law School with the help of an attorney he met while hitchhiking across the United States?
text: Did you know that the first time slavery was abolished in the Americas was in the Mexican state of Veracruz ?
text: Did you know that when Phil Ochs recorded " Cross My Heart ", the orchestra had difficulty keeping pace with him?
text: Did you know that the Yateley Complex in Hampshire was home to " Britain 's most famous fish"?
text: Did you know that the career of Chicago blues guitarist Sammy Lawhorn was partially curtailed by a burglar throwing him out of a third floor window?
text: Did you know that Dan Povenmire was the director for the Family Guy Road to series , until he left Family Guy to create Phineas and Ferb ?
text: Did you know that Little Liberia in Bridgeport, Connecticut , and Hard Scrabble in Providence, Rhode Island , were two urban New England neighborhoods created by free blacks in the early 19th century?
text: Did you know that Upper Peninsula native Reuben Kelto was selected as the MVP of the 1941 Michigan football team that was ranked fifth in the final AP poll?
text: Did you know that Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy can be used to characterize artistic materials in old-master paintings?
text: Did you know that although Citizen Cope 's " Sideways " has never charted, it has been covered by Santana , Sheryl Crow and Corey Taylor ?
text: Did you know that novelist Vera Henriksen has also written two volumes of the History of the Royal Norwegian Air Force ?
text: Did you know that the Brighton Forum , a serviced office complex in Brighton , England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers ' wartime use?
text: Did you know that Elias Volan was edged out as national trade union leader in 1940 by members of the Trade Opposition of 1940 ?
text: Did you know that Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece , proposed marriage to Marie-Chantal Miller on a ski lift in Gstaad , Switzerland , in 1994?
text: Did you know that Clifford Grossmark , chairman of Gillingham F.C. from 1961 until 1983, was widely known in football circles as simply "The Doctor"?
text: Did you know that in 1982 the United States Supreme Court determined that a Native American Indian tribe may impose taxes on non-Indians, in Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe ?
text: Did you know that Josh Zepps , the past host of the Science Channel 's Brink television series, formerly wrote and narrated a radio segment that satirized the Prime Ministers of Australia ?
text: Did you know that the rhodocene monomer is stable in solid state at or below liquid nitrogen temperatures (−196 °C) and in gas phase above 150 °C but not at room temperature ?
text: Did you know that The Float@Marina Bay , a venue of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics , hosts the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games as the world's largest floating stage ?
text: Did you know that Japanese trade union leader Ritsuta Noda was a pioneer in the underground birth control movement in Osaka ?
text: Did you know that when alleged demoniac Antoine Gay met another alleged demoniac, a friar who saw the meeting claimed he could hear the two demons arguing over which one was greater?
text: Did you know that the fragile building material bungaroosh is so prevalent in Brighton that much of the town "could be demolished with a well-aimed hose"?
text: Did you know that Austrian composer Franz Schreker 's most successful opera Der Schatzgräber was performed 354 times in over fifty cities between 1920 and 1925?
text: Did you know that 196 activists of the Japanese Hyōgikai trade union movement were jailed in 1926 for organizing strikes ?
text: Did you know that Tony Branoff became the first sophomore selected as MVP of the Michigan football team after leading the 1953 squad in scoring, handling punting duties and throwing a 66-yard touchdown pass ?
text: Did you know that an "exact replica" of the Temple of Solomon called the Templo de Salomão is being built in Brazil ?
text: Did you know that the District 5 School in the Cobblestone Historic District in Childs, New York , is one of only two buildings in the state to use cobblestone as a veneer over timber frame ?
text: Did you know that the motto of The Wide World Magazine (1898–1965) was "Truth is stranger than fiction"?
text: Did you know that the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco , the largest apartment complex in Mexico, was declared a disaster area after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake ?
text: Did you know that John R. Branca wanted all three judges at a bout to be women, but one of the boxer 's handlers nixed the idea as "there's going to be a lot of blood and I don't want the three judges throwing up"?
text: Did you know that it took until 2010 for Franz Schreker 's opera Die Gezeichneten , premiered in 1918 in Frankfurt , to appear in the Western Hemisphere as The Stigmatized ?
text: Did you know that Bob Widlar was the first baby to be monitored by a wireless communication device?
text: Did you know that the release date of Taylor Swift 's song " Mine " was moved up after a recording of the song was leaked online?
text: Did you know that the Sheridan's Green Hairstreak is Wyoming 's state butterfly?
text: Did you know that Edwin Benbow , the only ace on the FE.8 , evaded combat with the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen , on 23 January 1917, only to shoot him down on 6 March 1917?
text: Did you know that St Teilo's Church, Llandeloy in Pembrokeshire was built in 1926–27 from medieval ruins?
text: Did you know that the Simarouba species can be used as timber , for producing edible oils and to treat dysentery ?
text: Did you know that oak trees may have weeping conks ?
text: Did you know that the importance of the acorn as fodder for locally raised pigs led the German town of Kirchardt to include one on the town crest?
text: Did you know that in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange , Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany , New York ?
text: Did you know that IGN 's Craig Harris stated that Urban Yeti! felt like it was produced by "a few guys down in someone's basement"?
text: Did you know that Jean Leon Gerome Ferris ' s series The Pageant of a Nation is the largest intact series of American historical paintings by a single artist?
text: Did you know that Central Highlands of Sri Lanka is the first World Heritage site in the country to be designated in 22 years?
text: Did you know that St Mark's Church, Brithdir has been described as one of the few full blooded Arts and Crafts churches in Wales?
text: Did you know that the Plaza Mayor , a public square in Salamanca, Spain , was originally built as a bullfighting arena?
text: Did you know that long-haired males were persecuted by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1960s and '70s?
text: Did you know that Trapalcotherium matuastensis is one of five species of mammals recognized among seven fossil teeth from the Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina?
text: Did you know that Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness was the last Simpsons video game to be published by Acclaim ?
text: Did you know that Maxwell's thermodynamic surface was sculpted in 1874 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell to visualise the ideas of American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs ?
text: Did you know that neither the Arizona Diamondbacks nor Colorado Rockies have selected a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft ?
text: Did you know that the voyages of the Otter crossing the Pacific Ocean from Australia and becoming the first vessel of the United States to enter a Californian port in 1796 were chronicled by French traveler Pierre François Péron ?
text: Did you know that the 1881 Chios earthquake was the last of the three "catastrophes" that affected the island of Chios in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the Jhapan festival, dedicated to the goddess Manasa , is of particular significance to snake charmers in the Bankura district ?
text: Did you know that Michael Batterberry started his first magazine with startup funding from Hugh Hefner and a prototype issue printed in Playboy magazine?
text: Did you know that among the central leaders of the Norwegian temperance movement were founder Asbjørn Kloster and politician Sven Aarrestad ?
text: Did you know that concerned citizens of Johnston, Rhode Island , were able to prevent the construction of a waterpark at Snake Den State Park in 2005?
text: Did you know that Tony Rio , placed on probation in 1958 for being part of a football gambling ring, went on to become the MVP of the 1959 Michigan football team ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 Simpsons video game Bart's House of Weirdness is mostly unknown today because it was only released for DOS , and therefore has almost no fan base?
text: Did you know that Hans Freeman introduced protein crystallography to Australia and determined the structure of plastocyanin , the first protein to be structurally characterised in the southern hemisphere ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed taking up the case of Virginia v. West Virginia for three years because it was deadlocked over whether it had jurisdiction over the issue?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame forward Sweeney Schriner was the first Russian-born player in National Hockey League history?
text: Did you know that in June 1944, during the invasion of Elba the Free French assault division included 200 mules ?
text: Did you know that in the New Jersey Senate , John H. Dorsey invoked " senatorial courtesy ", an unwritten rule whereby a senator can block consideration of a gubernatorial appointee from the senator's home county?
text: Did you know that before it was dismantled, the Mariposa botnet was estimated to consist of 8 to 12 million zombie computers , making it one of the largest botnets in history?
text: Did you know that Israeli Dudu Yifrah raised sewn-together Israeli - Palestinian flags on the summit of Mount Everest , and dedicated his climb to his Palestinian colleague Ali Bushnaq?
text: Did you know that the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746?
text: Did you know that Wayne Wang handpicked a song for his movie Chinese Box that a group of teenagers from Sarawak , Malaysia , made their professional debut on Boys & Girls 1+1=3 with?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Emeel Salem won the inaugural college baseball Lowe's Senior CLASS Award after earning a 3.85 grade point average at the University of Alabama ?
text: Did you know that the Colonial Revival facade of Achavath Achim Synagogue in Bridgeport, Connecticut , includes a portico with fluted columns and stained-glass windows?
text: Did you know that Chung, the Wolf of Kabul 's sidekick in British story papers and comics , cracked heads with a cricket bat which he called "clicky-ba"?
text: Did you know that the literary début of Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fønhus was a novel about an outlaw ?
text: Did you know that the 1899 U.S. Supreme Court case Morris v. United States decided who owned the water rights associated with land possessed by the heirs of the late Chief Justice John Marshall ?
text: Did you know that English merchant William Lowthian Green published his theory of Earth's formation while serving in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that metadynamics has been used to study, among other things, protein folding , chemical reactions , molecular docking and phase transitions ?
text: Did you know that St David's Church, Llangeview , Monmouthshire, is listed Grade I because of its exceptional interior including a 15th-century rood-loft and rare pre- Victorian box pews ?
text: Did you know that Henry Hill attended the University of Michigan on an academic scholarship and became the MVP of the 1970 football team as a walk-on ?
text: Did you know that one of the effects of the 1222 Cyprus earthquake was to render the harbour at Paphos unusable?
text: Did you know that the Bengal chess player Moheschunder Bannerjee in 1855 introduced the body of openings now known as Indian defence ?
text: Did you know that the organs of a Jewish teen and a Palestinian boy , who were killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , were donated to children from the opposite sides of the conflict?
text: Did you know that the Oklahoma Thunder of the World Football League won the World Bowl in 2008, 2009, and 2010?
text: Did you know that of over 200 artworks known to have been created by Belgian painter Virginie Bovie , only 7 have been located?
text: Did you know that the family of Sogen Kato now face an investigation into allegations they claimed 9.5 million yen in pension money when they kept Kato's death a secret for thirty years?
text: Did you know that Archibald Church , a veteran of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War and a Labour MP , introduced a eugenics bill to the House of Commons in 1931?
text: Did you know that flooding from the Yangtze River destroyed part of the city of Haimen before the river changed course in 1701 and created new land for the city?
text: Did you know that Operation Diamond , mounted by the Mossad in 1966, resulted in an Iraqi pilot landing a Soviet -built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 in Israel ?
text: Did you know that during Henry VIII 's reign, Lancelot Ridley , one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral , took part in the disputation Thomas Cranmer set up on Trinity Sunday 1542, in Croydon ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state ?
text: Did you know that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?
text: Did you know that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?
text: Did you know that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva 's album Beautiful Heartache ?
text: Did you know that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after he returned to the throne in 1950?
text: Did you know that after a fire destroyed US$ 500,000 worth of master recordings , singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brown said "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?
text: Did you know that the invasive crayfish Orconectes immunis can outcompete the earlier invader O. limosus ?
text: Did you know that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be travelling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the opening of the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk , reality TV show Cake Boss produced a 10-foot (3.0 m) 1,200-pound (540 kg) cake in the shape of a flip-flop?
text: Did you know that Milsons Point , a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney , Australia , was named in honour of James Milson ?
text: Did you know that one day after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill went ashore, Richard Nixon called for a complete cessation of local drilling except for a relief well ?
text: Did you know that 1974 Michigan football MVP Steve Strinko suffered a degenerative knee injury and later formed an organization to provide medical assistance to others injured in college athletics?
text: Did you know that Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut , has a history of hosting music, from Sunday concerts championed by P.T. Barnum in 1890 to the Gathering of the Vibes music festival in summer 2010?
text: Did you know that St Baglan's Church , a medieval church in Llanfaglan , Gwynedd , Wales, is listed Grade I because it is unrestored, and has an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings?
text: Did you know that downtown Albion, New York , is one of the best- preserved commercial areas along the route of the Erie Canal ?
text: Did you know that inmates of Nantwich Workhouse could be confined in a dungeon for drinking tea ?
text: Did you know that Diogo Fernandes Pereira discovered the Mascarenes archipelago ( Réunion , Mauritius , and Rodrigues ) in 1507?
text: Did you know that Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton ?
text: Did you know that Stephen B. Wiley of the 23rd Legislative District was nominated to the New Jersey Supreme Court , but his nomination was denied because he had voted for a pay raise for justices as State Senator ?
text: Did you know that the West Argyle Street Historic District in Chicago , Illinois, developed from a village named Argyle Park after the Dukes of Argyll in Scotland ?
text: Did you know that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?
text: Did you know that only 7 km (4.3 mi) of Vietnam 's 84 km (52 mi)-long Da Lat–Thap Cham rack railway remains in service today, operated as a tourist attraction based at the Art Deco -influenced Da Lat Railway Station ?
text: Did you know that the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield on the medieval bridge over the River Calder is the oldest and most ornate of the surviving bridge chapels in England?
text: Did you know that parties that have been established less than a year before the Ukraine local elections, 2010 are not permitted to compete in these elections?
text: Did you know that the merchant ship Empire Celia was still armed with a 4- inch gun over three years after the end of the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Marcus Ray was an All-American member of the record-setting 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team 's defense?
text: Did you know that drummer Ben Koller is rumored to be a member of the band United Nations , but due to contractual obligations, the members are bound to remain anonymous?
text: Did you know that Franklin W. Smith helped establish the YMCA in Boston , the first chapter of the organization in the United States?
text: Did you know that because of a bug in the video game Space Hawk , the developers added black holes to explain why the player would sometimes jump to hyperspace at random?
text: Did you know that Kettler Capitals Iceplex , the practice arena of the Washington Capitals , is the highest ice rink off street-level in the United States?
text: Did you know that Marcus Harvey 's painting Myra was vandalised twice, by two different artists, on the opening day of the Sensation exhibition in 1997?
text: Did you know that the New York Stars were the champions of the Women's Professional Basketball League in its second year, but never played another game as the team disbanded after the 1979–80 season?
text: Did you know that during the early 1190s, the medieval English royal justice and administrator Roger fitzReinfrid had custody of both Windsor Castle and the Tower of London ?
text: Did you know that the July 2010 Bronx tornado was only the second known tornado to touch down in the Bronx and seventh to impact New York City since records began in 1950?
text: Did you know that the 1989 wedding of Princess Marie Isabelle was denounced by her own grandfather as "treason"?
text: Did you know that GRB 070714B was the most distant short-duration gamma-ray burst ever detected?
text: Did you know that an investigation of climatologist Michael E. Mann by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been criticized by scientists as "echo[ing] some of the worst offenses of the McCarthy era "?
text: Did you know that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Alaska ?
text: Did you know that Colonia Algarín in Mexico City has restaurants which are recommended for their pozole ?
text: Did you know that School Chancellor Irving Anker resisted demands to cut the school budget in 1974, saying "we cannot write off the children of New York City without calling into question every value we live by"?
text: Did you know that by the late 1910s, the population of the Kenai Peninsula Wolf had been almost completely eradicated through hunting and application of strychnine ?
text: Did you know that J. G. M. Ramsey 's funeral procession in 1884 was the largest ever witnessed in Knoxville, Tennessee , until that time?
text: Did you know that No. 140 Squadron of the Royal Air Force had the help of Mosquitos to take pictures of France during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1450 marked the first time that Israeli losses were mentioned or condemned in a United Nations resolution ?
text: Did you know that although Mersey Beat and Top of the Pops placed The Rolling Stones ' " 19th Nervous Breakdown " at the top of their charts, it is not officially recognised as a number one hit in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Japanese minelayer Sarushima was attacked three times by the United States Navy during World War II before being removed from the Navy List on September 10, 1944?
text: Did you know that shooting an apple off one's child's head is not a feat unique to William Tell , but was reportedly ascribed to Danish hero Palnatoki in the 12th century?
text: Did you know that As-Sadaka Gaza Olympic Swimming Pool is the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Gaza ?
text: Did you know that Manuel Belgrano , José de San Martín and Martín Miguel de Güemes proposed that Argentina be a constitutional monarchy ruled by an Inca ?
text: Did you know that Zariphios School , founded at 1875 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria , was one of the most significant Greek educational institutions in the region, attracting teachers from Greece and Western Europe ?
text: Did you know that the metal detectorists who found the Milton Keynes Hoard were granted a larger share of the reward than usual, because the landowners falsely claimed that they had searched without permission?
text: Did you know that the largest ever dam raise in the United States is occurring at the San Vicente Dam in California , which will increase its height by 117 feet (36 m) and more than double its reservoir size?
text: Did you know that among the works of architect Paul Due is the design of Hamar Railway Station from 1896?
text: Did you know that, although the nearby River Teifi no longer floods, the tradition of keeping a coracle in the porch of Manordeifi Old Church continues?
text: Did you know that the US entered the precursor to the International Coffee Agreement because they feared that the declining price of coffee could drive Latin American countries towards Nazi or Communist sympathies?
text: Did you know that of the 658 Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election in December 1832 , 189 were returned without any vote being held?
text: Did you know that the beating of a child in a Boston public school sparked the Eliot School rebellion and motivated the creation of a nationwide system of parochial schools ?
text: Did you know that the outcome of reforming actions such as the Bill of Middlesex , initially intended to increase the business of the English Court of King's Bench , was its dissolution?
text: Did you know that the first issue of The Hotspur in 1933 contained an offer for an electric shock machine?
text: Did you know that the Welsh League , consisting of Aberdare , Barry , Ebbw Vale , Merthyr Tydfil , Mid-Rhondda and Treherbert , was the first professional rugby league competition in Wales?
text: Did you know that affilins are proteins that can bind antigens just like antibodies , despite having quite a different structure?
text: Did you know that the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio ?
text: Did you know that one restaurant reviewer expects the "upscale" Roots Club to bring "a new era of ... dining experience" to Gaza ?
text: Did you know that Jean Sagbo , a real estate agent from Benin , is the first Black politician elected in Russia and has been called "Russia's Obama"?
text: Did you know that " El Cariño Es Como Una Flor ", performed by Venezuelan singer-songwriter Rudy La Scala , became his first best performing Latin single in 1990 ?
text: Did you know that although the fossil mammal Veratalpa ( astragalus ) was described as a mole , it may instead be a rodent ?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century restoration of Hodgeston Parish Church in Pembrokeshire , Wales, was intended to be a model for future church restorations?
text: Did you know that in 2008 Naji Hakim composed variations for oboe and organ on Philipp Nicolai 's chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , published in 1599?
text: Did you know that South Chamorro Seamount , a submarine mud volcano near the Mariana Trench , is only the second such structure in the world to be sampled ?
text: Did you know that under the Spanish National Health System foreign minors in Spain have the same rights to health care as Spanish nationals?
text: Did you know that the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League had an all-male cheerleading squad, which the team's owner promised wouldn't be a "sex show – this is high class"?
text: Did you know that Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker , who designed the Villa Isola , was assisted by former first President of Indonesia Sukarno during the renovation of the Hotel Preanger?
text: Did you know that the planned 2012 Marvel Studios film The Avengers , to be directed by Joss Whedon , was first announced in 2005?
text: Did you know that in 1856 William Carpenter painted the last King of Delhi 's eldest son, Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, five months before the Prince died?
text: Did you know that Minnesota's highest lake, Lake Abita , is only 12 miles away from its lowest lake, Lake Superior ?
text: Did you know that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana 's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie ?
text: Did you know that the President of Singapore can only refer questions regarding the Constitution to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal on the Cabinet 's advice?
text: Did you know that Ludovica Levy chaired the theatre Secondteatret in Kristiania from 1899 to 1901, along with her husband Dore Lavik ?
text: Did you know that Portal ' s music "has been compared to, among other things, a leaf blower , a vacuum cleaner and an aeronautics tunnel "?
text: Did you know that senior Singaporean legal officer Sivakant Tiwari was lead counsel in inquiries into the Spyros disaster (1978), the Singapore Cable Car disaster (1984), and the Hotel New World disaster (1988)?
text: Did you know that Armajaro 's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading ?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player J. T. Wise is the great-nephew of 1960 World Series MVP Bobby Richardson ?
text: Did you know that women are now allowed to smoke hookahs at the Crazy Water Park in Gaza ?
text: Did you know that observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes ?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Department of Transportation has erroneously marked Forest Highway 16 as "County Road H-16" on their maps since 1992?
text: Did you know that unlike other proletarian parties at the time, such as the Japan Labour-Farmer Party , the Labour-Farmer Party and the Social Democratic Party , the Japan Farmers Party based itself solely amongst the peasantry instead of a worker–peasant class alliance?
text: Did you know that any act or statement which alleges bias, impropriety or any wrongdoing concerning a judge in the exercise of his judicial function falls within the offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore ?
text: Did you know that nominations for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup , awarded annually to the worst new building in the UK , include the Strata tower block in London, and the redeveloped Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock ?
text: Did you know that Anthony J. Alvarado was named New York City School Chancellor in 1983, the school system's first Hispanic in that post, but was forced to resign in 1984 amid charges of financial improprieties?
text: Did you know that radio DJ and blues expert Mike Raven also worked at various times as an actor in horror films , a sculptor , a sheep farmer , a presenter of religious TV programmes, and a ballet dancer ?
text: Did you know that a large number of gastropods remain to be discovered in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that the last goal at the Stade Grimonprez-Jooris in Lille was scored in May 2004 by Matt Moussilou , before the stadium closed after serving as Lille OSC 's home for almost 30 years?
text: Did you know that Taichiro Morinaga was the first person to manufacture chocolates in Japan which he learned after working as a janitor in an American candy factory?
text: Did you know that the tablemount structure of Sedlo Seamount , a seamount ( underwater volcano ), indicates that it used to be above the water?
text: Did you know that the Nanyang Style was a regional art movement practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Groruddalen BK football team finished third in their league in 2007 and had the league top scorer , but lost their coach and all players save two, facing relegation and liquidation in 2008?
text: Did you know that despite criticism in Channel 4 's Dispatches for his work at UK firm Leonard Curtis , Keith Goodman went on to become President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association ?
text: Did you know that The Heart of a Woman , the fourth installment of Maya Angelou 's six autobiographies , has been called her "most introspective"?
text: Did you know that Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island enabled the first radio link to Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth 's Swan Brewery ?
text: Did you know that the building that houses the Library of the Congress of Mexico was a cantina at the beginning of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the anime Black Rock Shooter was based on the song of the same name by Huke and Ryo of the Japanese music group Supercell ?
text: Did you know that Storyville , a nightclub housed in Boston Hotel Buckminster , hosted recording sessions by Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker ?
text: Did you know that the Danish ethnologist Gudmund Hatt systematically inventoried cultural similarities and differences amongst northern peoples?
text: Did you know that St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet , in Monmouthshire , Wales, is approached through a working farm?
text: Did you know that the Graveyard Seamounts are all named morbidly, with names such as Pyre Seamount, Morgue Seamount, and Zombie Seamount?
text: Did you know that The Back Porch Majority was chosen by Life magazine to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965?
text: Did you know that the Women's Professional Basketball League , which played its first game in 1978 in Milwaukee in front of 7,800 fans, collapsed after three seasons and an estimated US$ 14 million in total losses?
text: Did you know that tree-ring dating shows that the wood for the rood screen in St Brothen's Church, Llanfrothen , Gwynedd , Wales, came from trees felled between 1496 and 1506?
text: Did you know that scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station ?
text: Did you know that ordering "half and half" at Big Spring Cafe in Huntsville, Alabama , gets you a bowl with equal portions of chili con carne and Brunswick stew ?
text: Did you know that the location of the Silver King Mine was first discovered by a soldier building a road during the Apache Wars , who found black rocks that flattened when struck?
text: Did you know that socialite Judith Peabody was known for clothes she wore from Bill Blass and Donald Brooks , as well as for legal aid to Lenny Bruce and her efforts at Gay Men's Health Crisis for people with AIDS ?
text: Did you know that Cardiff School of Art & Design , established in 1865, is the oldest constituent part of University of Wales Institute, Cardiff ?
text: Did you know that Nathan Quinones felt so relieved after leaving his position as New York City School Chancellor , that he said he "felt like a little bird", singing to himself as he walked down the street?
text: Did you know that in 2009, the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration began planning for a Chinese-built icebreaker due to its expanding polar exploration activities?
text: Did you know that the Canadian television series Tabloid (1953–1960) regularly featured weatherman Percy Saltzman 's flipping of a chalk ?
text: Did you know that the Hovis advertisement Go On Lad compresses 122 years of British history into 122 seconds?
text: Did you know that the jury at the 2003 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival took longer to award the Grand Prix to Lamp than any other commercial in the festival's history?
text: Did you know that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang in the Bach cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102 for the tenth Sunday after Trinity , with conductor Benjamin Britten ?
text: Did you know that the Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean"?
text: Did you know that architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno designed all stations on Norway's first railway line, the Hoved Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's song " Nebraska " was inspired by Springsteen seeing Terrence Malick 's film Badlands on television?
text: Did you know that the Thrangu Monastery , the first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada, with a 4 metre golden Buddha, was officially opened in Richmond, British Columbia , on 25 July 2010?
text: Did you know that the Devil's Jumps , on the South Downs of West Sussex in southern England , are considered to be the best preserved Bronze Age barrow group in Sussex ?
text: Did you know that Duane Earl Pope‎ turned himself in to law enforcement the day he first appeared on the FBI's 10 most wanted list ?
text: Did you know that Huntersville is unique amongst Norfolk's 19th-century neighborhoods, in that it was unplanned and developed over time?
text: Did you know that the Comet Hale-Bopp inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Hale Bopp for string orchestra , which ends with a boy soprano singing How Brightly Shines the Morning Star ?
text: Did you know that Operation Grand Slam in 1952 was a major naval exercise of the newly formed NATO alliance, with over 200 warships?
text: Did you know that Michigan halfback Ted Kress set a Big Ten single-game rushing record with 218 yards in his second conference game?
text: Did you know that for the What's it going to take? advertising campaign , celebrities such as Anna Friel and Fern Britton were made up to appear to have been the victims of domestic abuse ?
text: Did you know that research by Gerson Goldhaber on supernovae provided evidence that the rate of the expansion of the universe was increasing due to what was termed " dark energy "?
text: Did you know that Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (of Hollywood film score fame) composed his first opera, Der Ring des Polykrates , when he was only seventeen years old?
text: Did you know that American newspaper editor James McMaster changed his name to make it sound Irish?
text: Did you know that modern humans have been found to inhabit various countries for periods ranging from almost 200,000 years to less than 800 years?
text: Did you know that artist Walter Tyndale painted landscapes and buildings in England that inspired Thomas Hardy 's famous " Wessex " novels?
text: Did you know that the world's Christian population is growing slightly faster than the world's population ?
text: Did you know that the annual Pflasterspektakel ('pavement spectacle') in Linz , Austria , features over 400 international street artists and attracts some 200,000 visitors each year?
text: Did you know that by the early 1900s, famine , civil war and sleeping sickness had reduced the population of the Baganda people to around a third of its size in the prior century?
text: Did you know that when the three Monarch -class battleships were commissioned, they were only half the size of other battleships in foreign navies?
text: Did you know that Harrison Howell Dodge , who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon , often slept in the house as a night guard?
text: Did you know that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County , Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?
text: Did you know that Polly Morgan is a London based British artist who uses taxidermy to create works of art ?
text: Did you know that the first episode of The Force , a 2009 documentary series, followed a murder investigation after the burnt corpse of a woman was found in a suitcase?
text: Did you know that Tirana Park on the Artificial Lake once contained a memorial to Sadijé Toptani , the mother of King Zog I of Albania , but it was destroyed by the Communist regime ?
text: Did you know that the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions?
text: Did you know that the Little Pamir valley in Afghanistan supports populations of Marco Polo sheep , ibex , and other wild animals?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the Cotswold Air Show commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain , featuring aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane ?
text: Did you know that the new Gaza Mall aims to "develop a marketing and leisure culture" in Gaza ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Gurney Cresswell was the first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage ?
text: Did you know that 900 volunteers completed the initial work on Camano Island State Park in Washington in a single day?
text: Did you know that the fossil mammalian tooth LACM 149371 shows resemblances with some ungulates , rodents , and multituberculates , but most likely belongs to the extinct Gondwanatheria ?
text: Did you know that Space Chair holds the world record for the highest, high-definition TV commercial ?
text: Did you know that the 1949–50 City College of New York men's college basketball team is the only one to win the NCAA Tournament and National Invitation Tournament in the same season?
text: Did you know that the redundant church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu in Powys , Wales, is a venue for the annual Talgarth Festival ?
text: Did you know that when Lemrick Nelson was tried in 1992 for the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum , a few of the largely African-American jury that acquitted him later attended a party that honored him as a "hero"?
text: Did you know that Sportsklubben av 1909 was the first sports club in Norway explicitly for workers ?
text: Did you know that Dale Webster set the Guinness World Record for "the most consecutive days spent surfing", at 10,407?
text: Did you know that Wyandot chief Roundhead had his own brother executed for siding with the United States prior to the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad ?
text: Did you know that despite being shown only three times in its entirety, the TV ad Old Lions is credited with increasing sales of Carlsberg lager in the UK by over four hundred percent?
text: Did you know that Motiejus Šumauskas , chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1967–1975, was a partisan fighter during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the National Academy of Mime and Acting , an old Swedish school, will merge with the university college Dramatiska Institutet in 2011?
text: Did you know that in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia , the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors?
text: Did you know that the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Half Marathon begins and ends near the Museum of Science and Industry ?
text: Did you know that in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty 's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state?
text: Did you know that finds from the Broighter Gold hoard have featured on one pound coins from two different countries?
text: Did you know that many crew members began to cry while filming hospital scenes for the Swedish film Glowing Stars , because they thought the scenes were emotional?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Derwen , Denbighshire , Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character?
text: Did you know that Władysław Wawrzyniak , one of the founders of the Republic of Ostrów , was among the victims of the Katyn massacre ?
text: Did you know that the inaugural Paris Marathon in 1896 was won by Len Hurst , an English brick-maker?
text: Did you know that between 1560 and 1640, the business of the English Court of King's Bench rose tenfold?
text: Did you know that, unlike many other monasteries and churches of the time, Marko's Monastery experienced almost no damage after Skopje fell under Ottoman rule?
text: Did you know that during The Trillion Dollar Campaign , The Zimbabwean newspaper put up billboards printed on genuine Zimbabwean banknotes ?
text: Did you know that almost none of Robert Streater 's 17th-century architectural painting survives except the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford , which was restored in 2008?
text: Did you know that Eric Liu 's 1998 book, The Accidental Asian , was praised by Time magazine for its balanced approach toward racial topics?
text: Did you know that the Republic of Ostrów was a short-lived autonomous republic created in the aftermath of World War I ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Fitzgerald won a gold medal in wrestling at the 1963 Pan American Games , and set the Michigan Wolverines football record with a 99-yard kickoff return ?
text: Did you know that the solar panels on the Georgetown Intercultural Center were designed with rough glass to prevent interference with planes at Reagan National Airport ?
text: Did you know that the Sajur is the only river in Syria that joins the Euphrates on its right bank?
text: Did you know that Gerald Garson , a New York Supreme Court Justice who was later convicted of accepting bribes, assured the lawyer bribing him: “Justice is being done”?
text: Did you know that the Old Church of St Nicholas in Uphill , Somerset , England, which was built around 1080, is still used for services even though the nave has no roof?
text: Did you know that the web content lifecycle can be so complex that most experts do not agree on descriptions of the number, name, or type of stages to include in the process ?
text: Did you know that Father Charles Beirne , S.J. , advised the United States on Latin American affairs while serving as vice president of Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador ?
text: Did you know that a Soviet and former Russian Imperial and Azerbaijani military commander, combrig Jamshid Nakhichevanski , became a victim of the Great Purge and was executed in 1938 after his third arrest by NKVD ?
text: Did you know that Bill Gray appeared at every baseball position except pitcher during his professional career, including playing seven different positions during his debut season with the Philadelphia Phillies ?
text: Did you know that the Bolivian Socialist Republican Party supported the military governments that ruled the country in 1935–1937, 1939–1940 and 1940–1943?
text: Did you know that the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York , and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?
text: Did you know that although the Albion, New York , post office is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), it is not old enough to be a contributing property to the NRHP's Orleans County Courthouse Historic District ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese battleship Kirishima was sunk in the middle of the night by an unseen ship ?
text: Did you know that art historian Eugene Goossen saw abstract paintings by Doug Ohlson as depicting "yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red-orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black"?
text: Did you know that the Special Air Service used LVT Buffalos to cross the Rhine river during Operation Archway ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Phat Wilson was a member of three Allan Cup winning teams in the 1920s as Canada's senior champions?
text: Did you know that Bailey's Dam saved part of the Union Navy 's Mississippi River Squadron during the Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Opos led the regiment of the Exkoubitoi , established in the 5th century, in its last battle at Dyrrhachium in 1081?
text: Did you know that Swedish director Lisa Siwe 's feature-length film debut, Glowing Stars , earned her the Guldbagge Award for "Best Director"?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower fought for the British Army as a guerrilla with the Naga people during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian multi-sports club Ski does not offer the sport of skiing ?
text: Did you know that, on 6 June 1944 , half the 12th SS Panzer Division were sent to deal with dummy parachutists from Operation Titanic ?
text: Did you know that, in 2009, African Barrick Gold produced 716,000 ounces of gold from the Tulawaka , Bulyanhulu , Buzwagi , and North Mara Gold Mines ?
text: Did you know that the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan ?
text: Did you know that the German Catholic magazine Hochland , founded by Carl Muth in 1903, published regular contributions by historians Theodor Schieffer and Heinrich Lützeler , and philosopher Peter Wust ?
text: Did you know that, in Andy Beene 's first season playing with the Milwaukee Brewers , he only played in one game?
text: Did you know that Public Employees Federation president Kenneth Brynien was elected in 2006 by a margin of 850 votes out of 14,898 cast, but was unopposed for reelection in 2009?
text: Did you know that Julie von Massow , a Prussian noblewoman, started a prayer movement in 1862 to reunite Lutheranism and Catholicism ?
text: Did you know that the earliest known Chairman Mao badges were made from used toothpaste tubes?
text: Did you know that the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish , Louisiana , ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell ?
text: Did you know that the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero ') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula ?
text: Did you know that people tend to see the world as a grey gloom when they are depressed ?
text: Did you know that as superintendent of Mount Vernon starting in 1937, Charles Wall would ride on horseback to inspect the grounds, which he saw restored to the way they were in the days of George Washington ?
text: Did you know that the Cretaceous mammal Argentodites is known only from a blade-like tooth with eight cusps arranged in a row?
text: Did you know that the historian Mark T. Carleton penned a 1971 study entitled "Politics and Punishment" which described a sudden change in racial demographics in the Louisiana penal system?
text: Did you know that Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point ?
text: Did you know that the Aberdeen Student Show has happened every single year since 1921, and has featured Flying Pigs ?
text: Did you know that Jim Neu 's first dance theater production, Aerobia , told the story of six characters at a health club of the future where people come to exercise their "sociomuscularity"?
text: Did you know that the BMW Mega City Vehicle is expected to be the first mass production urban electric car featuring a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic body?
text: Did you know that Claude Aveline met Jean Vigo in a health clinic and 28 years later founded an award in his honor ?
text: Did you know that the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina held a mass anti-imperialist rally on May 1, 1903, the first May Day rally in the Philippines , in spite of being denied permits by the United States' Taft administration?
text: Did you know that a co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America , Stuart F. Feldman , "single-handedly ... won billions of dollars for veterans programs" through his lobbying efforts?
text: Did you know that Spain 's Aldeadávila Dam , completed in 1962, was featured in the 1965 David Lean film Doctor Zhivago ?
text: Did you know that Chris Coghlan , a first-round draft pick of the Florida Marlins in 2006, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2009?
text: Did you know that bear's ears grow on the ground in New South Wales ?
text: Did you know that the Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company has been champion of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival six times?
text: Did you know that Johannes Kringlebotn , who edited the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad after the Nazis usurped it, had been among Norway's top-ten middle distance runners ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia transit strike of 1944 started when black transit workers were allowed to hold jobs previously reserved for whites?
text: Did you know that Willie Irvine was the English Football League First Division 's top goalscorer in the 1965–66 season ?
text: Did you know that modern Pentecostalism and its offshoots developed from events in North Carolina and Tennessee during the late 19th century known as the Latter Rain Movement ?
text: Did you know that a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark 's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt ?
text: Did you know that the four-volume work on press media history in Norway, Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 starts off 103 years before the first Norwegian newspaper?
text: Did you know that Firo Prochainezo, a character of the Baccano! light novel and anime series, wears glasses in an attempt to look smarter?
text: Did you know that The Ecumenical Council is Salvador Dalí 's vision of the meeting of heaven and earth, inspired by the first communication between the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 426 years?
text: Did you know that after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold ?
text: Did you know that the GO-Urban project in Ontario, Canada , planned to install maglev automated guideway transit systems in Toronto , Hamilton and Ottawa , but was cancelled when the technology proved too expensive?
text: Did you know that Odd Erling Melsom edited Nazi-affiliated newspapers both during and after WWII; Fritt Folk and Folk og Land ?
text: Did you know that the World Chess Hall of Fame originally used cardboard plaques to honor past grandmasters , and was located in the basement of a New Windsor, New York , building?
text: Did you know that the ethnographic collection of Swedish missionary Karl Edvard Laman and his wife included 12 human skulls?
text: Did you know that the fragmentary fossil jaw TNM 02067 may represent the only known mainland African member of the enigmatic Gondwanatheria ?
text: Did you know that after 33 years in jail as the "Elevator Bandit", 63-year-old Arthur Williams went on a final crime spree with a gun in one hand, a cane in the other and an oxygen tank hooked up to his nose?
text: Did you know that the leftist Collective Labor Movement was the largest trade union centre in the Philippines in the years just before World War II ?
text: Did you know that Olaf Gjerløw , grandfather of Socialist politician Tora Aasland , was a conservative editor of Morgenbladet ?
text: Did you know that Frankie Laine 's song, " I Believe ", spent eighteen weeks as a UK number-one single in the 1950s ?
text: Did you know that Kåre Langvik-Johannessen and Albert L. Fliflet both worked with texts by Grillparzer and Vondel , but won prizes for translating other, different works?
text: Did you know that Tuxlith Chapel , a redundant church in Milland , West Sussex , was one of the first churches to be owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches ?
text: Did you know that the historian and educator John Ardis Cawthon wrote about poor white settlers in the Louisiana hills, lonely cemeteries , ghost towns , and even his own ancestors?
text: Did you know that there are five main types of front curtain used in modern theatres?
text: Did you know that Chief Justice of California nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye worked as a blackjack dealer in Reno, Nevada , after graduating from UC Davis School of Law ?
text: Did you know that the Lead Mosque of Shkodër , Albania , received its name from once having cupolas covered in lead ?
text: Did you know that the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was first presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, but eliminated by 1981?
text: Did you know that in 1958, Trudy Späth-Schweizer became the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland ?
text: Did you know that sports writer Vic Ziegel co-wrote The Non-Runner's Book , which satirized the sport of marathon running ?
text: Did you know that Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is to trial two fire bikes fitted with water and foam tanks and a 30-metre hose rig capable of fighting a fire for two minutes?
text: Did you know that Gofraid Donn was blinded and castrated by a follower of his uncle , and later jointly ruled the Kingdom of Man and the Isles with his uncle?
text: Did you know that art collector Rolf Stenersen donated his home, the functionalist Villa Stenersen designed by Arne Korsmo , to the State of Norway as a home for the Prime Minister ?
text: Did you know that Mount Albion Cemetery in Albion, New York , has one of the rare butternut trees in the region?
text: Did you know that Antonello da Messina 's altarpiece for San Cassiano in Venice disappeared from the church during the 17th century, only to be found later in the private collection of Archduke Leopold William ?
text: Did you know that World War II flying ace Hiromichi Shinohara once scored as many as 11 victories on a single day, setting a record in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ?
text: Did you know that it was feared that the Hindiya Barrage on the Euphrates could not fulfill its function?
text: Did you know that studio executive Simon Kornblit , who oversaw the release of Jurassic Park for Universal Pictures , became an actor after his retirement ?
text: Did you know that a surgeon carried out an endoscopy on the CryoSat-2 satellite after a problem was found during final preparations for launch?
text: Did you know that the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party -led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist -led ' Red Sports ' has been described as an early example of the popular front line?
text: Did you know that Adolfo Kaminsky made forged IDs for Jewish refugees, South American leftists and North American draft dodgers ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 759 contains only the beginning of the Pericope Adulterae ( John 7:53–8:2) and lacks the major part of it?
text: Did you know that the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota ?
text: Did you know that, in the 1924 Egyptian parliamentary election , members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority received 10% of the seats, even though the Copts made up 6% of Egypt's population ?
text: Did you know that George Veenker has the highest winning percentage of any basketball coach in Michigan history and served on the NCAA Football Rules Committee from 1938 to 1945?
text: Did you know that courts in California, Maryland, and Wisconsin held that ladies' night discounts are unlawful gender discrimination under state or local statutes?
text: Did you know that in 1893 Jefferson Davis lay in state at the Louisiana Historical Association ' s Memorial Hall in New Orleans prior to being re-interred in Richmond , Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Black Issues Book Review was named one of the ten best new magazines of 1998 by Library Journal ?
text: Did you know that Ireland recently experienced its highest number of fatalities in a single traffic collision ?
text: Did you know that The New Christy Minstrels ' 1962 debut album won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years?
text: Did you know that Shkodër Cathedral suffered damage during the Siege of Shkodër by the Montenegrin army in 1912–13?
text: Did you know that the American Quarter Horse stallion Zan Parr Bar was a three-time World Champion in halter as well as excelling at steer roping ?
text: Did you know that the town of Marche , Arkansas , was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America ?
text: Did you know that, although the 1481 Rhodes earthquake caused only a minor tsunami , it matches the age of a tsunami deposit found near Dalaman on the Turkish coast?
text: Did you know that thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China ?
text: Did you know that the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw , Poland , preserves cells in which Nazis tortured and killed Polish resistance fighters?
text: Did you know that, while Ryan Murdough is attempting to run for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Republican , the chairman of the state Republican Party refused to support him?
text: Did you know that Rensselaer Lake , created in 1851, was Albany, New York 's first municipal water supply?
text: Did you know that the Deer Rock , a heritage monument of the Tlingits in Haines Borough, Alaska , US , was witness to a peaceful settlement of conflicts between Chilkoot and Chilkat clans?
text: Did you know that the owner of the American Quarter Horse stallion Poco Pine once bet against his horse winning a Grand Championship, and lost the bet?
text: Did you know that Rasta Thomas , at 16 became the youngest dancer ever to win the USA International Ballet Competition in the senior division?
text: Did you know that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Skulptur , a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov , was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish ?
text: Did you know that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli , a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that archaeologists have detected what they believe is a wooden henge underground near to Stonehenge ?
text: Did you know that Maureen Ogden of New Jersey 's 22nd Legislative District sponsored a bill making original birth certificates available to adoptees, saying "basic rights of the little babies were not being considered"?
text: Did you know that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London , British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens ?
text: Did you know that the two tracts of Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in New Mexico preserve archeological sites associated with Native Americans and a late 19th-century ranch?
text: Did you know that three basketball officials were suspended due to unspecified "bad calls" during a 2010 UAAP college basketball game?
text: Did you know that a 1960s-era church in Brighton , England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia ?
text: Did you know that Searsville Dam , built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water , flood control , nor hydropower , but rather it irrigates Stanford University 's golf course?
text: Did you know that Ray Courtright , once considered Oklahoma 's greatest halfback , pitched a no-hitter for the Sooners and coached the Nevada basketball and Michigan golf and wrestling teams to championships?
text: Did you know that some house concerts in 1930s Harlem were used as covers for illicit sex?
text: Did you know that the most distant planet known in 2002 was discovered by Dimitar Sasselov 's team?
text: Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner stated that the crocketed and canopied stoup in the porch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote , Hertfordshire , is unique?
text: Did you know that Koji Gyotoku is the coach of the Bhutan national football team ?
text: Did you know that CenSeam is an initiative to biologically sample seamounts ( underwater volcanoes ), of which about 100,000 exist and only 350 have received attention?
text: Did you know that José de la Borda went from being the richest man of Taxco to near-bankruptcy to being the richest man in Zacatecas ?
text: Did you know that The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?
text: Did you know that David Warren , creator of the first flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder , was buried in a casket bearing the label "Flight Recorder Inventor; Do Not Open"?
text: Did you know that former Miami University head football coach Arthur H. Parmelee later studied pediatric medicine with Dr. Clemens von Pirquet in Vienna, Austria ?
text: Did you know that Bryan Jurewicz deflected nine passes as a University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive lineman in 1996, setting a school record?
text: Did you know that "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore was transferred to the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac aboard the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System , also known as Con Air ?
text: Did you know that the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum represented a fortification system within the late Roman Empire to help secure internal stability?
text: Did you know that Denise Jefferson started learning to dance when she was eight, but didn't pursue a career in ballet because she "had never seen anyone who wasn't white in a ballet company"?
text: Did you know that four players from the 1976 NBA Draft , Adrian Dantley , Robert Parish , Alex English and Dennis Johnson , have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that when Albanian scholar Hasan Tahsini taught his students about vacuum by killing a pigeon in a bell jar , he was accused of witchcraft ?
text: Did you know that Vietnamese General Duong Van Minh had been captured by the Kempeitai during World War II and had all but one of his teeth knocked out during torture?
text: Did you know that the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth?
text: Did you know that St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes , Cambridgeshire , is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones , forming a chequerboard pattern?
text: Did you know that Tomm Murstad , who featured in show performances on skis and started a summer camp for youths, used the moniker "Onkel Tomm" ( Uncle Tom ) on himself?
text: Did you know that Peltandra primaeva was the first fossil record for the genus Peltandra when described in 1977?
text: Did you know that the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural form based on the Maya creation myth ?
text: Did you know that as the first American to play Henry Higgins on Broadway in My Fair Lady , Larry Keith said he doubted if he could get away with his English accent in England, "but I think I can in New York"?
text: Did you know that Sir Arthur Ingram became the most extensive estate owner in Yorkshire ?
text: Did you know that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok 's Viola Concerto and Mahler 's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford ?
text: Did you know that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193 ?
text: Did you know that after helping Nguyen Khanh to seize power in January 1964 Tran Thien Khiem was exiled for trying to overthrow him nine months later, and finally succeeded from overseas five months later?
text: Did you know that the nave of St Mary's Church, Mundon , Essex , is constructed in stone, the chancel in brick, the aisle is timber-framed , the belfry is weatherboarded , and the roofs are tiled?
text: Did you know that Marie-Josephte Corriveau , whose story inspired many books, songs, plays and even ballet over the centuries since her execution in Quebec , was gibbeted for mariticide in 1763?
text: Did you know that, at English fairs , women enjoyed sticking pins into Silly Billy 's legs?
text: Did you know that the exile of the popular General Nguyen Chanh Thi by junta head Nguyen Cao Ky under false pretense of an overseas surgery trip sparked the Buddhist Uprising in South Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that Bach had an excellent flauto traverso player at hand for Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94 , the cantata for the ninth Sunday after Trinity of 1724?
text: Did you know that Bill Borgman was a lineman for the undefeated national champion 1932 and 1933 Michigan football teams and a line-mate of Gerald R. Ford on the 1934 team ?
text: Did you know that the Italian Etna -class protected cruisers had a belt of cork at their waterline , which was intended to seal holes by swelling through water absorption after being hit?
text: Did you know that before being elected Abbot of Farfa in 761 AD, Alan of Farfa was a hermit who penned what would become one of the most successful homiliaries of the late 8th and 9th centuries?
text: Did you know that retigabine is the first anticonvulsant to work by activating the K v 7 family of voltage-gated potassium channels ?
text: Did you know that, in 1885, Augustus Voelcker calculated that the annual value of excrement per adult was nine shillings (worth £ 36 in 2010)?
text: Did you know that the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant , founded 1758, is the third-oldest Dutch newspaper still being published?
text: Did you know that, angry with being demoted by junta leader Nguyen Khanh , Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc launched a failed coup, only to have Khanh acquit them in his military court?
text: Did you know that, on the morning of the Battle of Trafalgar , Horatio Nelson recalled the anniversary of the Battle of Cap-Français , which his uncle had fought on the same day, 48 years previously?
text: Did you know that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senator George Runner 's Ronald Reagan Day bill and the state will begin celebrating it on Reagan's 100th birthday?
text: Did you know that Justin Godart was one of only 80 French parliamentarians who voted against dissolving the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France in July 1940?
text: Did you know that the "Mad Raft Race" is an event held on the Chilkoot River as part of Fourth of July festivities observed in Haines, Alaska ?
text: Did you know that, as a young priest, Alexandre Le Roy accompanied an 1881 expedition to Bagamoyo , Tanzania , during which he wrote articles for European magazines?
text: Did you know that the Old Whaler's Church in Sag Harbor, New York , is used by Jews on Saturday and Christians on Sunday?
text: Did you know that in 2010 Irish Quebecer historian Marianna O'Gallagher was Grand Marshal of the first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in Quebec City for over 80 years?
text: Did you know that The Undertaker , a professional wrestler , was momentarily engulfed in flames due to a pyrotechnics accident at WWE Elimination Chamber ?
text: Did you know that The Hepworth Wakefield , a new art gallery opening in 2011 by the River Calder , takes its name from Wakefield -born artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth ?
text: Did you know that Daniel I. Arnon was the first to demonstrate the chemical function of photosynthesis outside of a plant cell, creating sugar and starch from carbon dioxide and water?
text: Did you know that ships from the Royal Navy , the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Polish Navy participated in the British Commando raid Operation Anklet ?
text: Did you know that South Vietnamese General Nguyen Huu Co was exiled by military Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky after being sent overseas on a diplomatic trip and then being locked out of the country?
text: Did you know that in 1950 , L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries , with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?
text: Did you know that while the Sadd-el-Kafara Dam was under construction in the 3rd century BC to control floods , it was destroyed by one?
text: Did you know that the main town and mission of the Ibi , a Timucua tribe, were evidently destroyed by the government of Spanish Florida as a result of the Timucua Rebellion of 1656?
text: Did you know that the Wickham Market Hoard of Iron age coins was not the first hoard found near the village of Wickham Market ?
text: Did you know that Emil Spjøtvoll was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , whose creation he originally opposed?
text: Did you know that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar ?
text: Did you know that Deb Margolin removed Elie Wiesel as a character in her play Imagining Madoff after the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor called the play "obscene" and "defamatory", and threatened legal action?
text: Did you know that Olga Lepeshinskaya 's theories on the origins of cells won her a Stalin prize , but were dismissed by her husband as " rubbish "?
text: Did you know that shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York ?
text: Did you know that Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky stopped appearing at presidential election rallies during their successfully rigged 1967 campaign after the latter was heavily heckled at their only event?
text: Did you know that actor Zac Efron is set to star in and produce the American remake of the successful Swedish thriller film Snabba Cash ?
text: Did you know that Stanley Fay , captain and quarterback of the undefeated national champion 1933 Michigan football team , later became Ford Motor Company 's personnel director?
text: Did you know that the Borda House in Mexico City originally covered an entire city block?
text: Did you know that, before becoming a Louisiana legislator , Virgil Orr once published a paper called "Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane– n -Propyl Alcohol System"?
text: Did you know that the Soulé Live Steam Festival is held annually in downtown Meridian, Mississippi , at the Soulé Steam Feed Works complex, a former steam engine factory incorporated in 1893?
text: Did you know that the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc , Romania , once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?
text: Did you know that the roofline of the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is decorated with blubber spades and flensing knives?
text: Did you know that during the "Southbelt Shuffle" event on M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan , horses were ridden on the partially completed freeway?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong -born Rebecca Nolin plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat and helps coach the Kennesaw State Owls ?
text: Did you know that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important Greek educational institution in İzmir , Turkey , possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
text: Did you know that Jonas Mouton was nationally ranked as a safety in high school football but has started for three seasons at weakside linebacker for the Michigan Wolverines ?
text: Did you know that " Peligroso Amor " was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández ' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
text: Did you know that seven carpenters were required to build the Mt. Pleasant farmhouse near Indian Falls, New York ?
text: Did you know that despite a warning by Field Marshal Michael von Melas that the man had "a soul as black as his countenance", Heinrich von Bellegarde retained Anton von Zach as Chief of Staff?
text: Did you know that before the construction of North Main Street School , schoolchildren in Spring Valley, New York , were attending classes in the local fire station ?
text: Did you know that the Feathered Helmet that was included in the painting of Captain James Cook's death is said to be the helmet given to Cook when he first landed in Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that members of the public are encouraged to climb and rearrange pieces of the Family sculpture in front of the Federal Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the Special Survey system allowed people to purchase areas of the Port Phillip District in New South Wales for as little as £ 1 per acre ?
text: Did you know that the Sopwith Cobham triplane bomber was the only twin-engine aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company ?
text: Did you know that George W. Rice was the only Canadian in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Canadian Arctic ?
text: Did you know that the two finishes by a Toyota Celica LB Turbo (4th and 8th) in German championship auto racing marked the best results for a racecar that was not a Porsche 935 ?
text: Did you know that the Islamization of the Gaza Strip includes government campaigns against playing cards and dating?
text: Did you know that to maintain a low profile for their appearances at the Hampton Coliseum , the rock band Grateful Dead asked to appear on the billing as Formerly the Warlocks ?
text: Did you know that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C. ?
text: Did you know that there is only a single extant example of the K-5 Air Coach aircraft?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century Russian tenor Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky retired to the Italian town of Sanremo and died there while tending his roses?
text: Did you know that during a 2010 game , University of the Philippines basketball coach Boyet Fernandez told a player to deliberately cross the shaded lane while a free-throw was being attempted to force a jump ball ?
text: Did you know that Zhuge Shuang rose from a street beggar to a military governor of the Tang China ?
text: Did you know that as a leader of the anti- Internet pornography organization Enough Is Enough , a former political sex scandal " other woman " became an influential Washington, D.C. lobbyist?
text: Did you know that artist and sculptor Samuel Rabin was also a professional wrestler and opera singer who appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel and won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Golden Submarine could travel at over 100 mph (160 km/h)?
text: Did you know that according to Greek mythology , the Thriasian Plain was flooded by Poseidon after he lost control of Attica to Athena ?
text: Did you know that the Tamaulipas massacre that occurred on 24 August 2010 has been described as "the worst known atrocity" of the Mexican Drug War ?
text: Did you know that the 1493 Sejm held at the Piotrków Trybunalski Castle was the first two-chamber parliament in Poland ?
text: Did you know that Bill Erickson started the Rockford College men's basketball program and was its first head coach?
text: Did you know that the Philippine hornet Vespa luctuosa has the most lethal venom by weight of any known wasp species?
text: Did you know that Fô Kankam, the founder of Batoufam , Cameroon , was a Tikar ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Marshall Bailey was Director of the Denver Museum of Natural History from 1936 to 1969?
text: Did you know that psychologists have theorised that people interpret sensory information that their brains can easily process as beautiful ?
text: Did you know that American nuclear physicist Leonardo Mascheroni has attempted to lobby U.S. Congress to fund his idea of using hydrogen fluoride lasers to generate nuclear fusion ?
text: Did you know that it took over 26 years to plan and construct the Orangeville Bypass of Ontario Highway 9 ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner , the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd , "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
text: Did you know that Gonggar County of Shannan Prefecture in Tibet contains the Gonggar Choide Monastery , a dzong , and a regional airport which serves Lhasa , despite being located about 62 kilometres (39 mi) from it?
text: Did you know that Hodo Sokoli , a 19th-century Albanian leader, publicly removed his Ottoman insignia and uniform and put on an Albanian national costume?
text: Did you know that Pope John Paul II 's 1982 visit to the United Kingdom was the first made to that country by a reigning Pope ?
text: Did you know that Rodolph Crandall replaced his brother-in-law as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that a French expedition to Hudson Bay in 1686 found Fort Albany only because its English occupants fired a cannon at sunset?
text: Did you know that the Andrew Jackson was one of only two square-rigged ships to sail from New York City to San Francisco in under ninety days?
text: Did you know that amber fossils of ants carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus represent the oldest record of symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga ants?
text: Did you know that Bud Ogden played for the Philadelphia 76ers , his younger brother played for the San Francisco Warriors and their father was a Medal of Honor recipient?
text: Did you know that the Ian Tyson song " Someday Soon " has been a charted single for Judy Collins , Moe Bandy and Suzy Bogguss ?
text: Did you know that journalist Amir Mir declined an award from former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf , criticizing him as a dictator who violated the Constitution of Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war was an attempt by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to stop the expansion of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century?
text: Did you know that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian , Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk ?
text: Did you know that UBS Warburg had an email disclaimer of more than 1,000 words?
text: Did you know that, by the end of the 20th century , the Peachtree Presbyterian megachurch had the largest Presbyterian congregation of any church in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Flight from Folly is one of the British Film Institute 's " 75 Most-Wanted Films "?
text: Did you know that proteins from pokeweed have shown antiviral properties ?
text: Did you know that the Edumanom Forest Reserve is the last known chimpanzee habitat in the Niger Delta ?
text: Did you know that the first salvage license granted by South Carolina was for the wreckage of the SS Georgiana ?
text: Did you know that the parakoimomenos Joseph Bringas opposed the rise of the general Nikephoros Phokas to the Byzantine throne, but was defeated after three days of street clashes in Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that the first proper society page in the United States was the invention of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. for the New York Herald ?
text: Did you know that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of Nigeria 's Rivers State , the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
text: Did you know that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode " Grilled Cheesus " will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
text: Did you know that Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas in the Central African Republic form the Sangha Tri National Landscape with Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo and Lobéké National Park in Cameroon ?
text: Did you know that in The Color of Crime , Katheryn Russell-Brown writes that crime and young black men have become synonymous in the American mind, giving rise to the " criminalblackman " stereotype?
text: Did you know that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C. ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Landriano , the French monarch Francis I was forced to concede defeat in the War of the League of Cognac ?
text: Did you know that John Logan served as the first treasurer of the U.S. state of Kentucky and held the office for 15 years thereafter?
text: Did you know that Scribe 's debut single " Stand Up "/" Not Many " was the number-one single in New Zealand for twelve weeks, the most by any New Zealand artist?
text: Did you know that, after being rejected for the American Idol talent show , Ian David Benardo demanded to see panel judge Simon Cowell 's work visa ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Shea was the first New York City policeman ever to be tried for murder on duty due to his role in the 1973 shooting in South Jamaica, Queens ?
text: Did you know that the status of Bhutanese refugees located in seven U.N. -run camps in Nepal is a major issue affecting Bhutan–Nepal relations ?
text: Did you know that American Industrialist Samuel T. Hauser lobbied for creation of Yellowstone National Park after he prospected along the Yellowstone River ?
text: Did you know that during the 1527 sacking of Rome , the Swiss Guards sacrificed themselves to protect the Pope's retreat?
text: Did you know that, using the mantra of states' rights , former Louisiana State Rep. W. Scott Wilkinson of Shreveport argued in the 1950s for school segregation and tidelands oil revenues?
text: Did you know that the finless sleeper ray may be the smallest cartilaginous fish , with the smallest adult specimen measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in) long?
text: Did you know that English footballer Graham Lovett was forced to retire at the age of 26, after being involved in two serious road traffic collisions in less than three years?
text: Did you know that Harrisburg , now a ghost town in Utah , was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to grasshopper plagues and floods ?
text: Did you know that after the Norwegian monitor Mjølner ran aground in 1869 the court of inquiry found the ship's commander and pilot liable for the repairs, but the parliament cancelled the debt two years later?
text: Did you know that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the architect 's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
text: Did you know that the first American performance of Leoncavallo 's opera Pagliacci was conducted by Gustav Hinrichs with Giuseppe Campanari singing the role of Tonio?
text: Did you know that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000 ft to show that it would not suffer vapor lock from using automotive fuel as a power source?
text: Did you know that Alaska Territorial Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr. led the team which surveyed the Alaskan– Canadian border from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean ?
text: Did you know that the educational practice of teaching to the test has been criticised for excluding creative and abstract-thinking skills?
text: Did you know that the Southern Baptist missionary Chris Clarke carries the gospel to equestrian events, mostly in his home state of Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that Jon Stewart 's Rally to Restore Sanity will go head-to-head with Stephen Colbert 's March to Keep Fear Alive ?
text: Did you know that the Siderno Group has been involved in the movement of narcotics across three continents?
text: Did you know that Tommy Amaker coached the 2001–02 , 2002–03 , 2003–04 , 2004–05 , 2005–06 and 2006–07 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams , winning the 2004 NIT and finishing runner-up in the 2006 NIT ?
text: Did you know that the Ottoman replacement of Albanian -speaking pashas in 1844 led to a rebellion ?
text: Did you know that Symantec claims that the majority of systems infected by the computer worm Stuxnet were in Iran ?
text: Did you know that as a member of the Minnesota Twins in 1997, baseball player Matt Lawton gave 38 tickets to his family so they could attend one of his games against the Houston Astros at the Astrodome ?
text: Did you know that at least one incident of kleptoparasitism was documented at Bénoué National Park , a UNESCO -designated Biosphere Reserve in Cameroon ?
text: Did you know that Zuhal Sultan founded the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq at the age of 17?
text: Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federation 's Unforgiven (2001) event resulted from the destruction of a mop?
text: Did you know that the H. R. Stevens House in New City, New York , shows the convergence of Dutch and English building traditions ?
text: Did you know that the Serra da Mesa Dam creates the largest reservoir by volume in Brazil ?
text: Did you know that Linda G. Tucker wrote that portrayals of criminal black men perpetuate the view that "a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behaviour"?
text: Did you know that in 1892, Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen composed a Romanze in F major for clarinet and piano which had been influenced by the teachings of Johannes Brahms ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Brian Ellerbe featured Robert "Tractor" Traylor and include the 1997–98 , 1998–99 , 1999–2000 and 2000–01 teams ?
text: Did you know that via Urban Land Committees , more than 300,000 Venezuelan urban households have benefited from a land titling program?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Love Hewitt enthused about decorating her vulva with crystal glass while promoting her book The Day I Shot Cupid ?
text: Did you know that Robert Abbott is the inventor of logic mazes ?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 482 was written by an inaccurate copyist?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Steve Fisher featured Fab Five stars Juwan Howard , Jalen Rose and Chris Webber , and include the 1990–91 , 1991–92 , 1992–93 , 1993–94 , 1994–95 , 1995–96 and 1996–97 teams ?
text: Did you know that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a two-year naval blockade by France ?
text: Did you know that linaclotide has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation , a condition that may affect as many as 10 million Americans?
text: Did you know that comedian Micky Flanagan claimed his catchphrase was lifted for a television commercial?
text: Did you know that after teaching at Wānanalua Church and Punahou School , William Harrison Rice managed the first irrigation system for sugar plantations in Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that as a Major League Baseball scout for decades, Al LaMacchia would not use computers, radar guns or stop watches as scouting tools, saying "I trust my eyes ... Been good so far"?
text: Did you know that a new section of U.S. Highway 2 in Michigan was detoured around the Cut River Bridge when the latter was delayed due to World War II ?
text: Did you know that European traders originally called the Nembe Kingdom "Brass", after the local phrase for turning down a trade?
text: Did you know that the coastline of Bideford Bay incorporates both 60-metre (200 ft) high cliffs and one of the largest dune systems in Britain ?
text: Did you know that former American football player Manny Martin made the Buffalo Bills team in 1996, despite being considered by media as "the longest of long shots"?
text: Did you know that an irrigation dam failed on Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of Vale, Oregon , with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing US$ 500,000 in damage?
text: Did you know that the Sanok Castle was the seat of Isabella Jagiellon , queen of Hungary after her escape from Transylvania ?
text: Did you know that the case of Charles Stuart , a white man who murdered his wife and pretended that a black man did it, is often cited as an example of a racial hoax ?
text: Did you know that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known spider web , spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known biomaterial , that is ten times as tough as Kevlar ?
text: Did you know that the Dulit Frogmouth forms a superspecies with the Large Frogmouth ?
text: Did you know that, at age 12, Samuel South and another youth were sent by the women of Fort Boonesborough to call for help in defending the fort, touching off the Battle of Little Mountain ?
text: Did you know that the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état led by General Ayub Khan was validated by the Supreme Court of Pakistan under the " doctrine of necessity "?
text: Did you know that Catherine Chipembere was the first woman elected to the Malawi Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the Godwin-Knowles House was built as a home for an industrialist in East Liverpool, Ohio , but was later converted into a Masonic lodge ?
text: Did you know that Mickey Mangham , a walk-on player from Maryland , scored the only touchdown in the 1959 Sugar Bowl to secure a national championship for the undefeated 1958 LSU Tigers football team ?
text: Did you know that in 1940, England was protected by 15,000 miles of scaffold tubing ?
text: Did you know that Detroit mayor De Garmo Jones was eulogized as "a sort of western Vanderbilt , with a great big head"?
text: Did you know that the 73.8-metre (242 ft) tall Cross of All Nations located near the Lebanese town of Baskinta is the largest lit cross in the world?
text: Did you know that in 2006, professional baseball player Fehlandt Lentini broke the Northern League 's single-season triples record with 13, one more than the mark set during the previous year?
text: Did you know that a 63 m (207 ft) length of hull of the German battleship Preussen , a veteran of World War I , was used as a torpedo target before being bombed and sunk by Allied bombers during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Louis Theroux traveled to Kansas to interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church for the documentary film The Most Hated Family in America ?
text: Did you know that pianist and session musician Don Randi claims to have played on over three hundred hit records ?
text: Did you know that the Wal-Mart brand of women's clothing White Stag was originally a company that manufactured downhill skiing apparel in Portland, Oregon , in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that clinical studies of cheiralgia paresthetica resulting from handcuffing are hampered by the inebriated subjects?
text: Did you know that Riegeldale Tavern was opened by an owner of a mill ?
text: Did you know that Bach used four movements of his church cantata Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187 for his Missa in G minor , BWV 235?
text: Did you know that the short-tail stingray is the largest stingray species in the world?
text: Did you know that art by Varnette Honeywood showing African American life was included in the Huxtable living room on the set of The Cosby Show after Bill Cosby and his wife first saw her work on greeting cards?
text: Did you know that the Waterloo Helmet , dredged from the River Thames in 1868, is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found in Europe?
text: Did you know that the 1994 documentary, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys , brought increased attention to the pedophile group NAMBLA ?
text: Did you know that the Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Canada 's Northwest Territories is a traditional Inuvialuit whaling site?
text: Did you know that glass discovered in craters at the Descartes Highlands , the landing site of Apollo 16 on the Moon , was described as having the appearance of dried mud by mission commander John Young ?
text: Did you know that the club fungus Clavariadelphus ligula is commonly known as the strap coral?
text: Did you know that Bach scored an alto aria for two oboes d'amore and oboe da caccia in his cantata Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity ?
text: Did you know that the insignia of the 84th Infantry Regiment in the French Army carried the words "UN CONTRE DIX" (One Against Ten) to commemorate the regiment's successful defence in the Battle of Graz in 1809?
text: Did you know that Rewa Prasad Dwivedi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for his Sanskrit epic poem Svatantrya-sambhavam that portrays the Indian national freedom movement ?
text: Did you know that following The Office and Extras , the next sitcom from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant is Life's Too Short , starring Warwick Davis and about the life of a showbiz dwarf ?
text: Did you know that Warden Head Light , a lighthouse near Ulladulla , New South Wales , Australia , was relocated in 1889 to its current location?
text: Did you know that Leiden University 's Rolf Bremmer , an expert on Old Frisian language, published an alphabet book explaining the Christian aspects of concepts such as sin and foreskin ?
text: Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Quackenbush was promptly traded after winning the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct because his manager felt any player who won it did not belong on his team?
text: Did you know that Richard Funkhouser , a geologist and former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon stated, "Oil men tend to divide government people as either 'for them' or 'against them ' "?
text: Did you know that Colonia Juárez in Mexico City is home to a Korean community called "Little Seoul"?
text: Did you know that Pat "Awesomely Awesome" Audinwood makes his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut in a match against Thiago Tavares today at UFC 119 in Indianapolis ?
text: Did you know that the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount still contains the steps that Jesus "must have walked" on?
text: Did you know that the recently described genus Koilamasuchus from the Early Triassic of Argentina is the best-known early archosauriform in South America ?
text: Did you know that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule ?
text: Did you know that the British breastwork monitors designed by Sir Edward Reed were the direct ancestors of the pre-dreadnought battleship and the dreadnought ?
text: Did you know that a TV ad " I'm not lovin' it " has a woman grieving over a dead man holding a half-eaten burger as a narrator says "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian "?
text: Did you know that Julia Pirie , longtime personal secretary to British Communist Party head John Gollan , was a British spy ?
text: Did you know that the Dockum Drug Store sit-in that led to desegregation of lunch counters in Wichita, Kansas , started in July 1958 , 18 months before the more widely publicized Greensboro sit-ins ?
text: Did you know that Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch, New Jersey , was the site of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, whose performers included Buffalo Bill Cody , Annie Oakley and Chief Sitting Bull ?
text: Did you know that Romsilva owns and manages 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of forests, representing 63% of all forests in Romania ?
text: Did you know that James Billington 's use of a longer drop than usual when hanging the prisoner immortalized as "C.T.W" in Oscar Wilde 's The Ballad of Reading Gaol , stretched C.T.W's neck by eleven inches?
text: Did you know that the extinct species Trochodendron drachuckii is known from a single Eocene fossil found near Cache Creek, British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that in his three total professional basketball seasons, Bob Kinney played in the BAA , NBA and NPBL ?
text: Did you know that Graham Hawkes is a deep-sea explorer and James Bond stuntman, who invented the first robot armed with a machine gun?
text: Did you know that the Dr. Archibald Neil Sinclair House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a bomb shelter in its front yard?
text: Did you know that the hairpin ribozyme is an RNA that can encode genetic information and catalyze biological reactions ?
text: Did you know that after Annie Louisa Walker heard Ira D. Sankey 's hymn The Night Cometh she recognized that he had used her words?
text: Did you know that the discovery of the Penrith Hoard of Viking silver brooches stretched over 200 years, from 1785 to 1989?
text: Did you know that M-66 is the only state highway that runs the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that accountant David J. Porter handily unseated Victor G. Carrillo in the 2010 Republican primary for Texas railroad commissioner ?
text: Did you know that Somerset cricketer Robert Porch was the first cousin of Winston Churchill 's stepfather and first cousin once removed of political writer Walter Bagehot ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Boeing 's Plant 2 was camouflaged with houses made of plywood, cloth as well as fake streets?
text: Did you know that on 28 June 1816 five men were executed for their part in the Ely and Littleport riots ?
text: Did you know that in The Chainbearer James Fenimore Cooper presents a very strong critique of 19th-century American expansionism and concepts of land ownership?
text: Did you know that the Rawalpindi conspiracy was the first first coup attempt in Pakistani history and involved poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz ?
text: Did you know that IGN 's Doug Perry felt that Moto Racer World Tour was one of the five best motorcycle racing video games for the PlayStation ?
text: Did you know that the Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Richard V. Thomas was once the Judge Advocate General at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne ?
text: Did you know that Chirocephalus diaphanus is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Great Britain ?
text: Did you know that Communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh , a leader in the Tebhaga movement , served as vice-president and general secretary of the National Awami Party ?
text: Did you know that a rock band did not survive playing for Rob Roy?
text: Did you know that Henry Howard was a 19th century banker , lumberman , alderman , and mayor of Detroit , and the unrelated Henry Howard was a 19th century banker, lumberman, alderman, and mayor of nearby Port Huron ?
text: Did you know that in Minuscule 788 , manuscript of the four Gospels, some passages of text are relocated ( Luke 22:43–44 and John 7:53–8:11 )?
text: Did you know that Hermann Gollancz became the first British rabbi to receive a knighthood when the honour was bestowed on him by King George V in 1923?
text: Did you know that Barbadian singer Rihanna 's new single " Only Girl (In the World) " has been called a "stronger, sexier version of her" 2007 single, " Don't Stop the Music "?
text: Did you know that the aircraft industry of Russia is one of the backbones of the country's economy , employing around 355,300 people?
text: Did you know that The Child's Eye is the first Hong Kong horror film to be entirely shot in 3-D and high definition ?
text: Did you know that when St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune , Cumbria , was built, the London and North Western Railway sent a scripture reader to the church to minister to the navvies building their Ingleton Branch ?
text: Did you know that Craig "Death" Roh adopted a diet of six meals and more than 4,000 calories a day because he considered himself "tiny" at 230 pounds (104 kg)?
text: Did you know that in his will , temperance campaigner Joseph Livesey left a copy of his "malt liquor lecture" to every household in Preston , Lancashire ?
text: Did you know that one Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University in the early 20th century criticised his predecessors' "fatal inability" to "destroy things when they are done with"?
text: Did you know that one-third of the structures in Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a flash flood on June 14 , 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
text: Did you know that Scottish postman and mycologist Charles McIntosh was very likely the physical model for Mr. McGregor in Beatrix Potter 's The Tale of Peter Rabbit ?
text: Did you know that Temple II , the most thoroughly restored pyramid at the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala , was probably built by king Jasaw Chan K'awiil I to honour his wife, Lady Kalajuun Une' Mo'?
text: Did you know that music of the Baroque composer Fortunato Chelleri on Don Quixote was recorded by organist Kalevi Kiviniemi on the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ ?
text: Did you know that the Cuban idiom El Niágara en Bicicleta is used to describe a situation that is difficult to overcome?
text: Did you know that Barbara Holland enjoyed smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch and wrote her 2007 book, The Joy of Drinking , as a protest against what she saw as the rise of broccoli , exercise and Starbucks ?
text: Did you know that the lowest temperature ever recorded in Israel , −13.7 °C (7.3 °F), was measured in the Beit Netofa Valley on February 7 , 1950?
text: Did you know that in the Haidbauer incident of April 1926 the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein knocked an 11-year-old boy unconscious during class?
text: Did you know that even after returning to association football as a professional at age 30, Bulgarian player Nikolay Bozhov has continued to manage his late father's ironmonger 's business?
text: Did you know that the font in St Mary's Church, Roecliffe , North Yorkshire , came from Holy Trinity Church, Hull , while the vestry door and marble steps came from York Minster ?
text: Did you know that the pointed boobialla can be found in rainforest or wet eucalyptus forest in eastern Australia?
text: Did you know that Canadian Olympic shot putter Bishop Dolegiewicz admitted to selling steroids in the 1980s but later warned athletes of their health risks as a throwing coach ?
text: Did you know that the JPL Science Division 's research areas include studying Mars ' surface, causes and mitigation of ozone depletion and global warming , search for life in and nature and evolution of the universe ?
text: Did you know that fighting crickets are provided with female company before the fight, stimulated with tickling during the fight, and buried in silver coffins after it?
text: Did you know that the Warrior class ironclads HMS Warrior and HMS Black Prince towed a floating drydock to Bermuda in 1869?
text: Did you know that three separate wrestlers won the WWF Hardcore Championship in a single match at Unforgiven (2000) ?
text: Did you know that the abbot of Kinloss was a permanent member of the chapter of Fortrose Cathedral , seat of the medieval diocese of Ross ?
text: Did you know that advertising executive Gene Case developed the "Thanks. I needed that." face slapping campaign for Mennen's Skin Bracer aftershave and the Dragnet -inspired "tum-ta-tum-tum" for Tums antacid?
text: Did you know that Skënder Muço was one of the founders of the first battalion of the antifascist resistance movement of Balli Kombëtar in Vlorë ?
text: Did you know that What's New Pussycat? was a box office hit for British film director Clive Donner , but screenwriter Woody Allen hated the film, saying his original script had been distorted?
text: Did you know that Solomon Goldstein , a Bulgarian -born communist and personal friend of Vladimir Lenin , has been called the mastermind behind Albania 's June Revolution of 1924 ?
text: Did you know that Fifteenmile Creek is 54 miles (87 km ) long?
text: Did you know that Marc Tessier-Lavigne , chief scientific officer of Genentech , was named as President of Rockefeller University , making him the first non-academic to be chosen for the post?
text: Did you know that Mizil is the only city or town in Romania to lie on the 45th parallel north ?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer Edward Nicholas Kendall discovered Wollaston Land ?
text: Did you know that the radio station KOHI , in Columbia County, Oregon , broadcasts a late-night radio program dealing with paranormal topics?
text: Did you know that the serial sex offender Batman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?
text: Did you know that three main span girders on Croatia 's Dobra Bridge collapsed into the Dobra River during construction in 2000?
text: Did you know that the first college undergraduate to win the James E. Sullivan Award as leading U.S. amateur sportsman was athlete Leslie MacMitchell in 1941?
text: Did you know that the leak of nine-year old singer Willow Smith 's single " Whip My Hair " was covered by Billboard , Time , and CNN the day of its release, as well as garnering over 100,000 YouTube views?
text: Did you know that Jordan Valley, Oregon , is the only permanently inhabited population center along Jordan Creek ?
text: Did you know that Romania has the third largest natural gas reserves in the European Union ?
text: Did you know that John Cassell , a leading educational publisher and temperance campaigner , was brought up in a public house ?
text: Did you know that the Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing , who became a strong supporter of Darwinism , was ordained by Samuel Wilberforce , Bishop of Oxford , one of its greatest opponents?
text: Did you know that Seattle Genetics withdrew its drug lintuzumab as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia in September 2010 after a clinical study found that it offered no greater benefit than placebo therapy?
text: Did you know that cartoonist Francis Wilford-Smith recorded blues musicians in his English farmhouse using a hired tape recorder and a piano borrowed from the local village hall ?
text: Did you know that the Panamanian ferry Avrasaya was hijacked by pro-Chechen rebels in January 1996 , in the Black Sea hostage crisis ?
text: Did you know that double leg amputee Bob Wieland finished the New York City Marathon in three days and crossed America in three years, eight months, and six days—all while walking on his hands?
text: Did you know that Lucius Walker blamed Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by Contra rebels in Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"?
text: Did you know that the British breastwork monitor HMS Hydra saw service during the Russo-Turkish War with Admiral Sir Cooper Key 's Particular Service Squadron in Portland Harbour ?
text: Did you know that depleted student bodies at American universities caused by World War II enabled Dick Ives to play basketball for Iowa as a 17-year-old freshman?
text: Did you know that historian A. L. Rowse said the biography Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins "got nearer to penetrating the secret of the most remarkable woman in history than any other"?
text: Did you know that Nadine Gordimer says her novel Burger's Daughter was "a coded homage" to Bram Fischer , Nelson Mandela 's treason trial defence lawyer?
text: Did you know that a pit-house discovered near Trout Creek is at least 5,000 years old?
text: Did you know that at 11.38 km (7.07 mi) long, the Eng Sérgio Motta Dam on the Paraná River is the longest in Brazil ?
text: Did you know that the Eternal Peace , concluded between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Persia in 532, lasted for just eight years?
text: Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Abe Jacobs once defeated three other wrestlers in Johannesburg despite suffering from jet lag and competing at a high altitude?
text: Did you know that the last prioress of North Berwick nunnery handed the lands of her nunnery over to her kinsman, the fifth Lord Home ?
text: Did you know that Serbia has large but undeveloped reserves of oil shale ?
text: Did you know that Petter Jakob Bjerve defended his doctorate thesis while serving as Norway's Minister of Finance ?
text: Did you know that the British breastwork monitor HMS Cyclops and other ships of her type were described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with"?
text: Did you know that Thomas Guinzburg hired Jackie Onassis as a book editor, but she left after Viking Press published Shall We Tell the President? about a fictional plot to assassinate President Ted Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that the Miage Glacier is the largest debris -covered glacier in Europe and the longest glacier in Italy ?
text: Did you know that the Watervliet Shakers are thought to have been the first seed sellers to package seeds in small, paper envelopes?
text: Did you know that after the county cricket match between Yorkshire and Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition?
text: Did you know that Lake Zabuye is the major source of lithium in China ?
text: Did you know that Kyle Watson , a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck , is also the head Jiu-Jitsu instructor at the H.I.T. Squad ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Erickson , an American paleontologist , has a collection of about a million specimens of ancient fossils ?
text: Did you know that the accommodations aboard the Cyclops -class monitors were rated the worst in the Royal Navy and referred to by ordinary seamen as "ratholes with tinned air"?
text: Did you know that the founding leader of Bangladesh , Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , also co-founded the East Pakistan Renaissance Society which promoted East Pakistan as an independent state?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Satala in 530, a Byzantine officer captured the Persian general's flag, causing the Persian army to panic and retreat?
text: Did you know that Holly Hunter sang the traditional murder ballad " Down in the Willow Garden " as a lullaby in the 1987 film Raising Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Hugh of Amiens , archbishop of Rouen , was the first abbot of Reading ?
text: Did you know that the Itá , Machadinho and Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plants can together generate 127% of the energy demand in Brazil 's state of Santa Catarina ?
text: Did you know that despite turning professional scarcely more than a year prior, Alexander Volkov reached the final of the M-1 Global Eastern Europe tournament?
text: Did you know that Becconsall Old Church , Lancashire , was built with handmade bricks supplied by the lord of the manor ?
text: Did you know that Oscar Torp , later Prime Minister of Norway , was responsible for the successful flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
text: Did you know that archaeological finds in Călineşti-Oaş demonstrate it was inhabited by the Starčevo culture during the Early Neolithic Age ?
text: Did you know that a college scholarship program, a technical college, and a middle school are all named for T. H. Harris , who served as Louisiana education superintendent from 1908 to 1940?
text: Did you know that it is possible to calculate the age of three children from just the sum, product and uniqueness of their ages?
text: Did you know that James Haldenston , Prior of St Andrews and Dean of Theology at St Andrews University , was praised by the medieval historian Walter Bower for his hatred of Lollards ?
text: Did you know that of the nine British battlecruisers built before World War I only HMS Tiger was retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922?
text: Did you know that American diplomat R. Smith Simpson wrote in 1962 that many students interested in joining the Foreign Service knew little about the U.S. and were "wholly unprepared for diplomatic work"?
text: Did you know that the range of the pearl oyster Pinctada radiata extends from Japan to Victoria ?
text: Did you know that Sharif El-Gamal , the Muslim real estate developer behind the " Ground Zero mosque ", is a member of the local Jewish Community Center , which he says served as an inspiration for his project?
text: Did you know that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario – Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw , was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
text: Did you know that Stephen A. Swails may have been the first African American commissioned as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was recently bumped off the top spot on the French music chart by a single by René la Taupe , a virtual singing groundhog ?
text: Did you know that the origins of the team sport bando are closely connected to hockey , shinty and bandy ?
text: Did you know that on the chancel arch of St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer , North Yorkshire , is a painting of Moses and Aaron ?
text: Did you know that 2010 Summer Youth Olympics diving bronze medalist Michael Hixon 's parents are both coaches in American collegiate sports ?
text: Did you know that the Fenton Hill Observatory is home to the RAPTOR telescopes, which can swivel to any point in the sky in less than three seconds?
text: Did you know that Tony Blair was pelted with shoes and eggs the day after promoting his book on The Late Late Show in Dublin ?
text: Did you know that the Legg House was built outside of Bloomington, Indiana , but now lies near the heart of the Indiana University campus?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan did not release his 1963 song " Lay Down Your Weary Tune " until 1985, but it was covered by The Byrds and other artists in the interim?
text: Did you know that Triggs was once described as the "the fittest dog in Cheshire "?
text: Did you know that Percy Reeve , known for composing operettas and writing music criticism , also produced a book of poetry, Love & Music ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese escort ships Okinawa , CD-63 and CD-207 sunk the American submarine Bonefish ?
text: Did you know that The Causeway in Washington, D.C. , is an estate named for a bridge rather than an occupant?
text: Did you know that the fictional parish of Stoneground, setting for E. G. Swain 's Stoneground Ghost Tales , is based on Stanground, Peterborough , where Swain himself was Vicar?
text: Did you know that Moto Racer DS was the first Moto Racer video game to be released since 2002?
text: Did you know that British Army General Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe was created one of the first Companions of the Order of the Bath ?
text: Did you know that the New Ireland stingaree is the only stingaree with dermal denticles , and may represent a new genus ?
text: Did you know that Eberhard von Brauchitsch called his company's donation of about 26 million Deutsche Mark to all the major German parties between 1969 and 1981 "cultivating the political scene"?
text: Did you know that the Homagial Crown was probably the coronation crown of king Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland?
text: Did you know that some of the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing Ojibwe themes, although the Ojibwe never lived near the petroglyph site?
text: Did you know that the hidden camera conversations between Patrick van der Eem and Joran van der Sloot set a television broadcast record in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that although the Paulo Afonso Complex in Brazil dammed a waterfall , its spillways can recreate it?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Eddie Phillips never batted or fielded a ball in the major leagues , but scored four runs for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1953 season ?
text: Did you know that the broken top of the Aviation Martyrs' Monument in Istanbul is to symbolize the incomplete status of the flight missions?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Republican figure Bob Reese in his later years was a gymnastics coach and a portrait painter?
text: Did you know that after capturing the Prussian capital of Berlin in 1757 , cavalrymen of the Holy Roman Empire demanded a dozen pairs of gloves for the Empress as part of the city's ransom?
text: Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Richard Etchberger 's original nomination for the medal was rejected because the mission he was on was classified?
text: Did you know that Old Sarum Cathedral , the Norman church built at Old Sarum , Wiltshire , was replaced by a new cathedral at Salisbury in the 13th century?
text: Did you know that the 1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Big Ten Conference single-game field goals made record of 55?
text: Did you know that Bulat Okudzhava wrote song lyrics for The Adventures of Buratino but some of his work was considered too philosophical and was left out?
text: Did you know that the flushwork decorating parts of St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling , Lancashire , is in two colours of sandstone rather than the more usual materials of flint and stone?
text: Did you know that Silver Creek flows through a canyon near Riley, Oregon , with over 200-foot (60 m) tall walls?
text: Did you know that Indian leader Jairamdas Daulatram represented East Punjab in the Constituent Assembly of India before becoming the Governor of Assam ?
text: Did you know that Albin Eines started working on the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn in 1928, less than a year after he edited the Communist Party newspaper Norges Kommunistblad ?
text: Did you know that Morton Cohen 's 1995 biography of Lewis Carroll is generally considered the definitive scholarly work on Carroll 's life?
text: Did you know that the 1980 Michigan defense , led by All- Big Ten linebackers Andy Cannavino , Paul Girgash and Robert Thompson , gave up an average of only 1.8 points per game in the last five games of the season?
text: Did you know that for the film Reign of Assassins , John Woo spent over a week directing an action scene featuring his daughter Angeles?
text: Did you know that Mozambique's Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago is the focus of WWF and CARE projects aimed at preserving its spectacular reef system?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana Attorney General Bolivar Kemp, Jr. was a brother-in-law of Cajun humorist and chef Justin Wilson ?
text: Did you know that despite extreme physical similarities to the Kingdom Hearts character Roxas , Ventus is a completely different character from the same series?
text: Did you know that in April 2010, New Jersey cat sanctuary Tabby's Place received three cats from a U.S. Marine in Okinawa, Japan , marking the organization's first international rescue?
text: Did you know that Cody McKenzie , who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck , has the second-most guillotine choke victories in the world according to Sherdog.com ?
text: Did you know that the newly described monkey, Rondon's Marmoset , was named in honor of Amazonian explorer Cândido Rondon ?
text: Did you know that Hinder 's lead singer, Austin Winkler, considers the band's upcoming album, The All-American Nightmare , to be the record he is proudest of?
text: Did you know that the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender plan to make a spinoff called Avatar: Legend of Korra , which is set at least 70 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai?
text: Did you know that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
text: Did you know that the Kai stingaree has only been collected by the HMS Challenger , in 1874?
text: Did you know that Sako Chivitchian holds 11 U.S. national judo titles and won his debut mixed martial arts fight in 98 seconds at age 15?
text: Did you know that the George D. Oakley House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a window through its lava rock chimney ?
text: Did you know that Canadian artist Will Munro became known for fashioning artistic works out of men's underwear?
text: Did you know that the recently described dwarf black stingray looks like, but is less than a third as wide as, the black stingray ?
text: Did you know that in 1848, James Mathews Leigh founded a popular art school in London , providing training for many leading British artists?
text: Did you know that Gubazes II , the king of Lazica , was assassinated by two Byzantine generals whom he had accused of incompetence?
text: Did you know that the extinct fern Wessiea is known from Miocene fossils found at the "Ho ho" locality in Yakima County, Washington ?
text: Did you know that Brian Birdwell , the newest member of the Texas State Senate , was a burn victim of the terrorist attack on The Pentagon on September 11, 2001 ?
text: Did you know that Deltaterrasserne , containing features of both Independence I and Independence II cultures , is one of the largest archaeological sites in Peary Land ?
text: Did you know that John Rudometkin 's NBA career was cut short due to his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ?
text: Did you know that Seymour Pine , who led the NYPD raid that triggered the Stonewall riots , later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?
text: Did you know that Shantungosuchus , a small, primitive crocodile from the Cretaceous period, was terrestrial instead of aquatic?
text: Did you know that Manoj Pradhan , an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party , was elected from Orissa 's G. Udayagiri assembly constituency?
text: Did you know that former Louisiana Atty. Gen. Fred S. LeBlanc , as a district judge in 1959, signed the letter committing his old rival, Earl Long , to undergo evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia ?
text: Did you know that the UK charity Counsel and Care was one of the first advocates of a "death tax" as a method to fund the care of the elderly ?
text: Did you know that in the first round of the 2004 Grand Prix snooker tournament, Stephen Maguire was docked a frame for not having his chalk at the start of his match against Shaun Murphy ?
text: Did you know that artist William W. Fenn, although blind , was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art (1878–1904)?
text: Did you know that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton , Lancashire , was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
text: Did you know that the Aruba Police Force was once stationed in a clock tower at Fort Zoutman , the oldest establishment on the island?
text: Did you know that, in later life, English illustrator Lawson Wood was a recluse, living in a 15th century medieval manor house he had moved brick by brick from Sussex to the Kent border?
text: Did you know that Dickie Boon , Stanley Cup champion player with the Montreal Hockey Club of 1902–1903 is credited with inventing the poke check used in ice hockey to knock the puck off an attacking player's stick?
text: Did you know that Old St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling , Lancashire , has been called "an unusual survival of a small Georgian church"?
text: Did you know that Charles Folkard created the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip, The Adventures of Teddy Tail , for the Daily Mail in April 1915 ?
text: Did you know that the Luiz Gonzaga Dam in Brazil was renamed in honor of Luiz Gonzaga who is known as the "king of Baião " and "Gonzagão"?
text: Did you know that part of the bed of the Dry River in central Oregon is used as a hiking trail?
text: Did you know that in 1830, 80% of the residents of Mexican Texas —part of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas —were from the United States or Europe?
text: Did you know that This Ain't Avatar XXX , an American pornographic film parody of Avatar , is being shot in 3D and is the most expensive film Hustler Video has ever produced?
text: Did you know that Bach used recorders and pizzicato of the strings to evoke funeral bells in his cantata Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161 , written in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity ?
text: Did you know that during the Nannygate political controversy of 1993, Americans were asked if they had a " Zoë Baird problem"?
text: Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan 's dictum in Cone Hospital that the Federal Arbitration Act applied to state courts later became the central holding of Southland Corp. v. Keating ?
text: Did you know that about 67 powerful and destructive earthquakes occurred in 1985 ?
text: Did you know that the Academy Honorary Award and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award are presented at the Governors Awards ?
text: Did you know that Greenland 's well preserved archaeological site on Nipisat Island contains some stone artifacts that were previously unknown from the Saqqaq culture ?
text: Did you know that the two Scorpion class ironclads that were ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 from a British shipyard were seized in 1863 by the British Government to prevent their delivery?
text: Did you know that footwraps , pieces of cloth wrapped around the feet in place of socks, are being phased out by the army of Belarus in 2010?
text: Did you know that radio mogul John Lynch initially played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers , but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
text: Did you know that the new Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey lays out a roadmap for exploring extrasolar planetary systems and investigating the nature of dark energy ?
text: Did you know that American organist Carl Weinrich performed the premieres of Samuel Barber 's Prelude and Fugue in B Minor , Louis Vierne 's Organ Symphony No. 6 , and Arnold Schoenberg 's Variations on a Recitative ?
text: Did you know that after leaving the aircraft by evacuation slide , some of the passengers from Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514 foraged for mushrooms whilst awaiting rescue?
text: Did you know that the Arkansas River bridge between Johnson and Logan counties in Arkansas is named for Ada Mills , who lobbied 40 years for the project?
text: Did you know that the Church of Saint Andrew in High Ham , Somerset , England, has a 12th century lead-lined font on a stem with rope moulding?
text: Did you know that Montana Territorial Governor John Schuyler Crosby fought and subdued a crazed knife wielding valet from his sick bed?
text: Did you know that ten years after releasing an entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band Yes won their first Grammy for " Cinema ", a two-minute instrumental?
text: Did you know that author and wine educator Karen MacNeil‎ 's book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
text: Did you know that Canpotex manages the entire Saskatchewan potash -exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
text: Did you know that all of mixed martial artist Mairbek Taisumov 's documented victories have come by knockout or submission ?
text: Did you know that the first ever UK City of Culture will be Derry in 2013?
text: Did you know that the detection of supernova SN 2008D on January 9 , 2008, by Alicia M. Soderberg using data from NASA 's Swift X-ray space telescope marked the first time a supernova was observed as it occurred?
text: Did you know that the cathedra at Beirut 's Saint George Maronite Cathedral is the armchair used by Pope John Paul II during his 1997 visit to Lebanon ?
text: Did you know that Colonia Hipódromo was home to refugees from the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that after keeping a clean sheet in an FA Cup match against defending champions Manchester United , Bournemouth goalkeeper Ian Leigh was rewarded with a lifetime supply of pizzas from a local Italian restaurant?
text: Did you know that two players named John Schultz, one a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and one a catcher for the St. Louis Browns , each enjoyed cups of coffee during the 1891 Major League Baseball season ?
text: Did you know that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton , Lancashire , was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
text: Did you know that the quilting show Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel has been on the air for more than 30 years?
text: Did you know that the 7.5 M w 1985 Pichilemu earthquake lasted about three minutes?
text: Did you know that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
text: Did you know that the blackedge whipray is known in Tamil as the " salt -like ray"?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Bill Frieder won five consecutive NCAA tournament berths and include the 1980–81 , 1983–84 , 1984–85 , 1985–86 , 1986–87 , and 1987–88 teams , and 1988–89 national championship team ?
text: Did you know that the Deaf Smith County Historical Museum contains artifacts from a World War II Italian POW camp located near Hereford , Texas ?
text: Did you know that beginning in the 18th century, Tanners' Bridge was used to cross Lanë in Tirana until the stream was redirected in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Malcolm, Lord Douglas of Mains was hung, drawn and quartered in 1584 for kidnapping King James VI of Scotland in the Raid of Ruthven ?
text: Did you know that there is some confusion about whether Shigeki Osawa 's MMA fight against Katsuya Toida was a no contest or a disqualification win for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
text: Did you know that the McBarge , a futuristic floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 , has been anchored derelict next to an oil refinery since 1991?
text: Did you know that the 4th century Roman glass Lycurgus Cup is dichroic ; lit from in front it is green, but thanks to surface plasmon resonance it is red when lit from behind?
text: Did you know that the Rrashbull Tunnel of the Durrës–Tiranë railway in Albania was dug by Bulgarian volunteers, members of the Youth section of their Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that French royal troops attacked the Spanish Netherlands when portions of that province were not ceded to Louis XIV as part of his wife's dowry?
text: Did you know that American musicologist and critic Joseph Kerman described Puccini 's opera Tosca as "a shabby little shocker"?
text: Did you know that author and wine educator Mary Ewing-Mulligan was the first female American Master of Wine ?
text: Did you know that Route Trident in Afghanistan was the first road to be built by the Royal Engineers during combat since the Dhofar Rebellion in the early 1970s?
text: Did you know that when Gordon MacInnes won a State Senate seat in 1993 in the 25th Legislative District , he became the first Democrat from Morris County in 18 years to be elected to the New Jersey Legislature ?
text: Did you know that Parque México in Mexico City exists because environmental laws in the 1920s did not allow housing to be built on a former racetrack?
text: Did you know that in retaliation for Nepal recognising Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan broke off its ties with Nepal ?
text: Did you know that historian David J. Weber of Southern Methodist University was called "at least a generation ahead of his time in recognizing how entwined Mexico and the United States were and are"?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Johnny Orr featured Rudy Tomjanovich , Campy Russell , Rickey Green and Phil Hubbard and included the 1968–69 , 1969–70 , 1970–71 , 1971–72 , 1973–74 , 1976–77 , and 1979–80 teams , and the NCAA Tournament runner-up 1975–76 team ?
text: Did you know that playwright A.R. Gurney promised his parents that his play The Cocktail Hour would not be produced in their hometown of Buffalo, New York , during their lifetimes?
text: Did you know that Chile is celebrating its bicentennial on September 18, today?
text: Did you know that James L. Swauger continued his archaeological work with petroglyphs for fifteen years after his nominal retirement?
text: Did you know that Dick Button performed the first triple jump in competition at the men's figure skating event at the 1952 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Krohn Air was started by a local businessman to continue servicing the route from Molde to Trondheim , Norway , after Scandinavian Airlines terminated its service?
text: Did you know that Frank Perls , who found a copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler , also uncovered a series of forgeries attributed to Degas and Picasso ?
text: Did you know that catcher Rocky Gale made his professional baseball debut with the Eugene Emeralds , a team he watched while growing up in the area?
text: Did you know that Iraqi television presenter Riad al-Saray was assassinated the same day that Reporters Without Borders announced the Iraq War had killed more journalists than any since the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that Jerusalem 's Beit Hadfus Street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the printing houses that were established there?
text: Did you know that descendants of Wigglesworth Dole included a missionary to Hawaii , a governor of Hawaii , an attorney general of Hawaii , and a "pineapple king" ?
text: Did you know that Don Graham developed the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu , the largest outdoor shopping mall in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Colonia Guerrero in Mexico City was part of an old colonial-era indigenous neighborhood?
text: Did you know that Chicago native Scotty Moylan , who became one of Guam 's most prominent businessmen , introduced the first Volkswagen automobiles to the island in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that, in a storyline, several referees attacked Jim Korderas at the World Wrestling Federation 's Unforgiven 1999 event for not joining them in their strike ?
text: Did you know that Deborah and John Coleman Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey followed ancient caravan trails to discover a 3,500-year-old site at the Kharga Oasis in the middle of Egypt 's Western Desert ?
text: Did you know that the $30 million renovation of Proctor's Theatre in 2007 has been seen as the catalyst for the revival of downtown Schenectady ?
text: Did you know that Alex Caceres ' nickname "Bruce Leeroy" is inspired by the character of the same nickname in The Last Dragon ?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was one of the few organisations that could arrange visits from the United Kingdom to China ?
text: Did you know that as civil defense director at the height of the Cold War in 1961, Frank B. Ellis pushed for the adoption of fallout shelters to protect civilians from nuclear attack?
text: Did you know that Antardwand , an Indian film that was based on the practice of groom kidnapping , won a National Award for Best Film on Social Issues ?
text: Did you know that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard , making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in Norway ?
text: Did you know that while still the sitting Governor of Alaska Territory , Mike Stepovich appeared on the game show What's My Line?
text: Did you know that Tanymastix stagnalis is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that former professional footballer George Catleugh suffered a broken leg on two different occasions?
text: Did you know that the Wetumpka State Penitentiary was the first state prison established in Alabama ?
text: Did you know that due to his pale complexion and resemblance to a character from the Blade films, Aaron Wilkinson 's coaches nicknamed him "The Daywalker"?
text: Did you know that M. C. Burton, Jr. of the 1958–59 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first player to lead the Big Ten Conference in scoring and rebounding for a season?
text: Did you know that the Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain condemned the Int'l Cricket Council 's suspension of the three Pakistani cricketers charged with spot-fixing in the 4th Pakistan-England Test ?
text: Did you know that in 1133, the English economy received a major boost when huge silver deposits were discovered near Carlisle ?
text: Did you know that the family of Oskar Höcker , a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater , included three more writers: his brother Gustav , his son Paul Oskar , and his granddaughter Karla ?
text: Did you know that the Inland Customs Line stretched across more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of British India and was compared to the Great Wall of China ?
text: Did you know that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva ?
text: Did you know that upon completion, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station was called "a pearl of Soviet water-power engineering" and 349 of its workers were awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour medal?
text: Did you know that the film Who's That Girl? features a live cougar , which one day escaped from the set before shooting started?
text: Did you know that former world snooker champion Shaun Murphy reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time at the 2004 British Open ?
text: Did you know that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle 's keep has a different dimension?
text: Did you know that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
text: Did you know that during his 60-year career, character actor Leon Belasco appeared in films with the Marx Brothers , Bob Hope , James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart , Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire ?
text: Did you know that The World of Strawberry Shortcake , the first television special to feature American Greetings ' popular character , was rejected by the major U.S. networks and premiered in syndication instead?
text: Did you know that Satch Davidson was plate umpire when Hank Aaron hit his record 715th home run, and also when Carlton Fisk hit his 12th-inning home run to win Game 6 for the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Eaglefield Hull invented the term " mystic chord " to describe the music of Russian composer Scriabin ?
text: Did you know that due to a copy-editing error, The Washington Post inadvertently suggested that Public Enemy 's 1990 song " 911 Is a Joke " referred to the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
text: Did you know that fans threw silver coins onto the field to celebrate Bobby Lowe hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball game , the first player to accomplish that feat?
text: Did you know that in 1927, at the same time as the Norwegian Labour and the Social Democratic Labour parties reunited, a competing Unified Party of the Working Class was founded?
text: Did you know that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including gas meters , dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
text: Did you know that Princess Margaret stayed at Fort Belan for the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969?
text: Did you know that for his book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass , Theodore Dalrymple interviewed over 10,000 people who had attempted suicide ?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt called Medicine Rocks in Montana "as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen"?
text: Did you know that Tony Clunn , a British Army Major looking for Roman coins with a metal detector , discovered the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ?
text: Did you know that the front porch on the John Shelp Cobblestone House in West Shelby, New York , was probably built as a result of a heating stove fire in the dining room?
text: Did you know that within hours of its publication, A Journey , the memoir of Tony Blair , became the fastest-selling autobiography of all time?
text: Did you know that The Bravo is James Fenimore Cooper 's first novel set in Europe and was largely disliked by contemporary American critics ?
text: Did you know that Ken Livingstone , the Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, is running to regain the office in the 2012 London mayoral election ?
text: Did you know that the Action of 9 November 1822 , fought between the USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners , saw the death of Lieutenant William Howard Allen after he stood up to rally his men?
text: Did you know that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 ?
text: Did you know that Michael Johnson has signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck ?
text: Did you know that Norid manages two unused top-level domains , .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen , and .bv for Bouvet Island ?
text: Did you know that art historian Andrew Ladis has described Domenico di Bartolo 's Madonna of humility , painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance ?
text: Did you know that every year, a narrow land pass opens for a few hours between the Modo and Jindo Islands in the Yellow Sea ?
text: Did you know that Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Kitwana Jones was nicknamed " Batman " after chasing down and apprehending a purse snatcher ?
text: Did you know that the Amantaka hotel in Luang Prabang , Laos , used to be a hospital until 2005?
text: Did you know that John Phillips returned victoriously to mixed martial arts at Cage Rage 28 after being the first Cage Rage fighter to test positive for a banned substance?
text: Did you know that in April 1952, five Norwegian seal hunting ships disappeared in the West Ice of the Greenland Sea ?
text: Did you know that Earl K. Long in 1956 used humor to derail the candidacy of gubernatorial opponent Fred Preaus , a scrupulously honest, small-town automobile dealer from Farmerville, Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that former World Champion and record holder in weightlifting , Ymer Pampuri , was an acrobat of the Tirana Circus before and after his athletic career?
text: Did you know that the title of " Darling It Hurts ", a top 20 Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls , was based on a piece of infamous Sydney graffiti ?
text: Did you know that the Banglabandha inland port is aimed at increasing trade between Bangladesh and Nepal , India , and Bhutan ?
text: Did you know that of his internment in Sachsenhausen , Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?
text: Did you know that constable William Piers received a reward for bringing the head of Shane Ó Neill , "pickled in a pipkin ", to Sir Henry Sidney ?
text: Did you know that the 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team finished the season ranked in the AP Poll , but unranked in the Coaches' Poll ?
text: Did you know that Henri Gascar painted portraits of many leading ladies at the court of King Charles II of England , including several of the king's mistresses?
text: Did you know that Jerry Lawler and Ultimate Warrior 's match at the World Wrestling Federation 's 1996 King of the Ring resulted from an argument over artistic abilities?
text: Did you know that a song by the 16th c. Bengali Vaishnava padavali poet Govindadasa was included in an opera written under a disguised name by Rabindranath Tagore ?
text: Did you know that for many decades, the schoolhouse in Mississippi known as the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star housed a segregated school for African Americans ?
text: Did you know that on Swedish runestone Sö Fv1948;295 , the R rune is represented by the shape of the tongue of a serpent?
text: Did you know that Tamora, Nebraska , was named for the day after today?
text: Did you know that Colorado cowboy artist Arthur Roy Mitchell created more than 160 cover paintings for western pulp magazines ?
text: Did you know that in 1942, seven commandos captured during Operation Musketoon were executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that after seeing a map of the U.S. showing higher cancer rates in Northern states , Frank C. Garland did a study which found that increased Vitamin D from sun exposure can reduce colon cancer risk?
text: Did you know that the executive chef of the Colony in Central London is Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar ?
text: Did you know that the 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Michigan Wolverines men's basketball single-game rebound record?
text: Did you know that illustrator of children's literature Mark Burgess has been noted for his ability to reproduce the style of dead artists such as Allan Curless and E. H. Shepard ?
text: Did you know that the first Klingon language opera, ’u’ , premiered at The Hague on 9 September 2010?
text: Did you know that the LucyPhone service was inspired by the frustration of waiting lengthy periods of time when placed on hold by call center operators ?
text: Did you know that in 958 the Muslim caliph of Cordoba Abd-ar-Rahman III hosted his grandmother Onneca Fortúnez 's Christian daughter, Toda of Pamplona , so his Jewish doctor could cure her grandson of obesity ?
text: Did you know that John Tidwell of the 1960–61 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to average 20 points per game for his career?
text: Did you know that the design of Amankila , a coastal Balinese hotel, was inspired by the palaces of Ujung and Tirtagangga ?
text: Did you know that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings?
text: Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC will be defending their U.S. Open Cup title in their home stadium, Qwest Field , in the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against the Columbus Crew ?
text: Did you know that Alice of Champagne , the widowed Queen Consort of Cyprus , married Bohemond V of Antioch on Palm Island , offshore of Tripoli in 1224?
text: Did you know that Gabriele von Lutzau , the "Angel of Mogadishu ", sculpts wooden "guardian figures" using chainsaws and flamethrowers ?
text: Did you know that the 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season rebounding record?
text: Did you know that Italian tenor Vincenzo Calvesi created the role of Ferrando in the world premiere of Mozart 's Così fan tutte at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790?
text: Did you know that a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn 's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter 's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology ?
text: Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Three was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to make an overseas deployment with a Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) as part of its embarked air wing?
text: Did you know that Michigan linebacker Marty Huff intercepted three passes thrown in one game by Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Phipps ?
text: Did you know that for music concerts held at the Millennium Stadium , 12 drapes can vary the audience size from over 73,000 down to between 12,000 and 46,000, depending on where they are hung?
text: Did you know that Alaska Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman proposed dividing the territory in two and granting statehood to only one section?
text: Did you know that Bògòlanfini , a traditional Malian fabric, is dyed with fermented mud?
text: Did you know that Italian tenor Nicola Zerola began his professional operatic singing career in 1898 performing in Ruggero Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , but as a baritone ?
text: Did you know that the 1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set a record 17-game home winning streak that stood for the next 11 years?
text: Did you know that Tyonajanegen , a woman from the Oneida tribe , fought in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that Bing Crosby was a key backer in the development of Longitudinal Video Recording in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Sartaj Aziz was the Finance Minister when Pakistan conducted its 1998 nuclear tests , and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil War with India in 1999?
text: Did you know that unlike other Eocene crocodilians found in Zamora , Spain , the extinct genus Duerosuchus was primarily a fish eater?
text: Did you know that the Amanjiwo hotel in Central Java , Indonesia , is built from local limestone ?
text: Did you know that in his first two games as a starter, Denard "Shoelace" Robinson achieved the two highest single-game total offense totals in Michigan Wolverines history—and did so with his shoes untied?
text: Did you know that Gail Koff , one of three partners in Jacoby & Meyers , had her prenuptial agreement with attorney Ralph Brill invalidated, with Koff granted 65% of marital assets?
text: Did you know that the Indian film Mithya marked the singing debut of Sanchita Bhattyacharya in the Hindi cinema industry ?
text: Did you know that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of antinomianism by his congregation in Truro , and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
text: Did you know that the 1963–64 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team earned the University of Michigan its first trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four ?
text: Did you know that interior designer Michael S. Smith is responsible for the 2010 makeover of the Oval Office at the White House ?
text: Did you know that the Clyde Refinery located in Clyde , New South Wales , is Australia 's longest operating oil refinery ?
text: Did you know that at 354 metres (1,161 feet) long and 60 metres (200 feet) high, the Dabar Bridge carries the Croatian A1 motorway across a flash flood gully ?
text: Did you know that the brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos overthrew their father, the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos , only to be themselves removed from power by Constantine VII after a few weeks?
text: Did you know that fullback Ed Shuttlesworth became Michigan 's all-time leader in rushing attempts while playing for teams that finished 30–1–1 from 1971 to 1973?
text: Did you know that the Italian operatic tenor Giuseppe Siboni founded the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen?
text: Did you know that in the Norwegian 1906 election second round of voting , Torgeir Vraa was endorsed by the Liberal Party , which he left in 1897 together with Christopher Hornsrud ?
text: Did you know that according to Minuscule 782 , Jesus wrote sins of his opponents on the ground?
text: Did you know that Elton John had a number one in the 1980s with " Nikita "?
text: Did you know that the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service 's first tests at dropping torpedoes from aircraft were carried out with Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3 floatplanes?
text: Did you know that Jim Wilkinson helped sell the idea that Al Gore claimed to have "invented the Internet "?
text: Did you know that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Haben has nearly died four times, surviving a black widow bite, a sinking boat, a plane crash, and a bad case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis ?
text: Did you know that the Mesa Oil Field is within the Sespe and Vaqueros Formations , which together form the second-most-prolific oil-producing geologic unit in Southern California ?
text: Did you know that Niels Ødegaard of Gjøvik , with 40 years of total mayoral service, is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro struck two mines on 2 September 1866 , during the War of the Triple Alliance , and sank instantly with the loss of 53 of her crew?
text: Did you know that 39.2% of Schenectady, New York 's Bellevue neighborhood is zoned industrial, but excluding the General Electric plant it is only 1%?
text: Did you know that the cat statues atop the Cat House in Riga have their backside with raised tails turned to the house of the Great Guild to seek retribution?
text: Did you know that fragrant sachets were used by Queen Isabella of Spain ?
text: Did you know that one species of the extinct wasp Palaeovespa fed caterpillars to its larvae?
text: Did you know that when asked his profession in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee , poet George Hitchcock responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?
text: Did you know that Mexico City 's first formal horse racing track was built in Colonia Exhipódromo de Peralvillo ?
text: Did you know that the common name Emu-wren of the Southern , Rufous-crowned and Mallee Emu-wrens comes from their emu -like tail feathers?
text: Did you know that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?
text: Did you know that Italian operatic soprano Angiolina Bosio portrayed Gilda in the UK premiere of Verdi's Rigoletto and Lady Macbeth in the US premiere of Verdi's Macbeth ?
text: Did you know that the proposed design of the Albany Convention Center in Albany , New York , includes saving the city's oldest building , which was built in 1728?
text: Did you know that the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Parishad was created in 1958, abolished in 1985 and re-created in 2007?
text: Did you know that Charles "Buffalo" Jones , the first game warden at Yellowstone National Park , once roped an unruly bear and spanked the animal on its behind?
text: Did you know that portions of an 1820s mill race may remain underneath Main Street in Medina, New York ?
text: Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment brought back the King of the Ring tournament in 2006 for the first time since discontinuing it in 2002?
text: Did you know that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
text: Did you know that Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg had two sons with his mistress, the Berlin Opera star Mafalda Salvatini ?
text: Did you know that the engines of the Brazilian ironclad Tamandaré broke down while she was passing in front of the Paraguayan guns at Curupaity during the War of the Triple Alliance and she had to be towed to safety by the ironclad Silvado ?
text: Did you know that actor Paul Rudd appears as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare 's Henry V , opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest ?
text: Did you know that the missing wife of William Trickett Smith II was discovered in a suitcase that surfaced after the 2007 Peru earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Romstrade is the largest construction company in Romania ?
text: Did you know that Katukurunde Nanananda Thera was the first to point out a unique grammatical shift in a controversial Buddhist Pali passage?
text: Did you know that, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice in the 1977 case Bates v. State Bar of Arizona , the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers was the first in the United States to advertise on television?
text: Did you know that, after a 15-year career as a principal with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , Peggy Ann Jones moved to musicals , including in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera ?
text: Did you know that Dawid Baziak began his professional mixed martial arts career with five consecutive technical knockout victories?
text: Did you know that every round-robin tournament either has a set of players who win all games against players outside the set, or its graph of wins and losses is pancyclic , having directed cycles of all lengths?
text: Did you know that, as president of U.S. Trust , Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?
text: Did you know that contralto Sonia Prina performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi 's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Frankfurt Opera , staged as a rocker ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler that the use of the word " blackmail " in an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher did not constitute libel ?
text: Did you know that Gene Englund won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and National Basketball League championship in back-to-back seasons?
text: Did you know that the 2008 thriller Proyecto Dos is the feature film debut of Spanish television director Guillermo Fernández Groizard?
text: Did you know that in 1967 Venezuela's ruling Democratic Action party denied the winner of its primary election the nomination for the 1968 presidential race, for being too leftwing ?
text: Did you know that the village of South Salem, Ohio , was founded to serve the needs of the Salem Academy ?
text: Did you know that Italian castrato Carlo Scalzi performed at the wedding of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange in London , 1734?
text: Did you know that the Craig telescope in Wandsworth Common , London , was once the world's largest refracting telescope ?
text: Did you know that Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving has won the most American Basketball Association awards with five Most Valuable Player awards—three in the regular season and two in the playoffs ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian ironclad Barroso was hit 20 times between March 26 and 28, 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance , but was not significantly damaged?
text: Did you know that " The Most Unwanted Song " includes bagpipes , a children's choir, and an opera singer who raps about cowboys ?
text: Did you know that San Francisco Church in Valparaíso , Chile , was severely affected by a large fire in the middle of its reconstruction after the 2010 Chile earthquake ?
text: Did you know that a kulhar , a traditional handle-less terracotta cup from North India and Pakistan , gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
text: Did you know that diplomats from some countries still wear ornate diplomatic uniforms on certain occasions?
text: Did you know that the Francis Farm Petroglyphs are among Pennsylvania 's leading petroglyph sites, even though the culture of their creators is unknown?
text: Did you know that Corsair pilots of Caleb Bailey 's Marine Aircraft Group 11 would make chocolate ice cream on missions in the Palau campaign during World War II?
text: Did you know that Puritan minister Thomas Tregosse was imprisoned for holding a Conventicle in Budock ?
text: Did you know that the American Quarter Horse stallion Skipper W got his chance as a breeding stallion when his sire slipped on some ice and broke his neck?
text: Did you know that the Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily El Nacional ?
text: Did you know that C. Joseph Genster of Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
text: Did you know that on his List A cricket debut, Lewis Gregory claimed four wickets against the Pakistanis ?
text: Did you know that Missouri French is a nearly extinct dialect of French that developed in what is now the midwestern United States during the colonial period?
text: Did you know that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the Chicago Cardinals , the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
text: Did you know that Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue in their new book The Grand Design , that without God "the universe can and will create itself from nothing"?
text: Did you know that the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel is the first and so far only undersea tunnel in Greece ?
text: Did you know that Māori men achieved universal suffrage in the First Māori elections , midway through the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament in 1868 and twelve years before the European colonists?
text: Did you know that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
text: Did you know that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the Radio Caroline ship Mi Amigo served with the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the 11th century Dhuvjan Monastery in Albania contains an icon which includes remains of very important early Christian saints?
text: Did you know that the Spanish mixed martial artist Daniel Tabera has defeated two opponents in one night on two separate occasions?
text: Did you know that paper clothing was briefly very popular in the 1960s ?
text: Did you know that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
text: Did you know that the film Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story is a dramatized recreation of Hank Gathers ' struggle to leave a North Philadelphia ghetto to become a basketball player for the Loyola Marymount Lions ?
text: Did you know that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , the first female president in Africa?
text: Did you know that the Podgorica–Shkodër railway , built in 1985, was the first international railway of Albania ?
text: Did you know that in 1905 Edward Mead Johnson established Mead Johnson , maker of Enfamil and other nutrition products, after leaving the Johnson & Johnson firm that he had co-founded with his brothers in 1886?
text: Did you know that Rena Kubota has been crowned world champion at the previous two Women's Shoot Boxing Tournaments ?
text: Did you know that during the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese Army came close to "annihilating or capturing" the Vietcong leadership but was prevented from doing so by General Hoàng Văn Thái and his successful plan for the escape of the Provisional Revolutionary Government ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Krause continued his scholarly work in runology even after he became blind?
text: Did you know that Araneus angulatus was the first scientific name validly published in zoological nomenclature , when it appeared in Svenska Spindlar in 1757?
text: Did you know that Bulgarian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat Petar Parchevich was made baron by the Habsburgs ?
text: Did you know that Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent are characters of the Baccano! light novels and anime , set in the Prohibition-era United States , but also appear in the Durarara!! anime, set in modern Tokyo?
text: Did you know that after missing the whole of 2009 through injury, Jan Błachowicz returned at KSW XIII to defeat two opponents on the same night?
text: Did you know that the earliest Scottish surnames were already hereditary in England , before arriving in Scotland with Anglo-Norman settlers in the 12th century?
text: Did you know that George Alexander Parks was appointed Governor of Alaska Territory after an impressive stint as a tour guide?
text: Did you know that Bach 's cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity 1723, Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138 , was criticized by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer ?
text: Did you know that former mayor of Tirana , Qemal Butka , was the architect of the municipality building of Korçë ?
text: Did you know that the antifascist and freedom fighter Abaz Kupi was the founder of the Legality Movement , which aimed to return Zog of Albania back to his throne?
text: Did you know that in 2009, a white boar helped locate the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III died in 1485?
text: Did you know that Viktor Nemkov is an M-1 Global veteran who was approached by World Wrestling Entertainment to become a professional wrestler ?
text: Did you know that the planned Marvel Comics superhero film , X-Men: First Class is intended to take place during the 1960s and will parallel the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X ?
text: Did you know that the English educational reformer James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842) described himself as a "sacred socialist" and advocated vegetarianism , water drinking, hydrotherapy and celibacy ?
text: Did you know that Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history ?
text: Did you know that Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee William "Moon" Evans , who twice led the United States in scoring, saw action in the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Peleliu ?
text: Did you know that Plön Castle was once an elite Nazi school bearing the name of Ernst Röhm ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a Glossop mill owner, Francis Sumner lived at Glossop Hall after his mother and father died?
text: Did you know that HMS Aeolus was involved in the pursuit of USS Constitution and the capture of USS Nautilus , the first warship lost by either side in the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that the K2K experiment was the first experiment to directly measure neutrino oscillations using a laboratory source of neutrinos?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey Americans were supposed to play a playoff game on their home court in the 1967–68 ABA season , but the Teaneck Armory was booked by the circus and the team had to forfeit the game?
text: Did you know that Lucas Duda faced Tommy Hanson , whom he previously played against in high school, in his Major League Baseball debut?
text: Did you know that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe , North Yorkshire , has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"?
text: Did you know that soprano Ada Adini , a singer of Verdi 's Gilda and Leonora , appeared as Brünnhilde in the Italian premiere of Wagner 's Die Walküre at La Scala in 1893?
text: Did you know that Bajzë Rail Station was completely cleaned up in 2009 from toxic chemicals dumped in 1991–92?
text: Did you know that in 1931 Aziz Çami tried to assassinate Zog of Albania when the king was exiting the Vienna State Opera ?
text: Did you know that the Labrador Sea contains the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel , one of the world's longest underwater channels?
text: Did you know that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds , West Yorkshire , have been described as the glory of the church?
text: Did you know that during the 1689 Boston revolt , Puritan Bostonians overthrew their governor who was loyal to the Catholic James II of England ?
text: Did you know that quarterback George "Shorty" Chalmers was considered a triple threat man , and alongside Boze Berger , "one of the most dangerous pass – catch combinations in Maryland history"?
text: Did you know that the USCGC Point Caution , an 82-foot USCG Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301 , later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
text: Did you know that association football club Bradford City 's first game at Wembley Stadium in their 93-year history was the 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that independent musician and podcaster George Hrab has customized his album packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?
text: Did you know that the international Reger-Chor celebrated its 25th anniversary, singing music of Bach , Van Nuffel , Ryelandt , and Reger 's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges ?
text: Did you know that Michigan linebacker Tom Beckman worked more than 30 years for General Motors where he was in charge of new vehicle launches?
text: Did you know that members of Senostoma kill their hosts when ready to emerge?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican-American singer José Feliciano was awarded his sixth Grammy Award for his performance of the song " ¿Por Qué Te Tengo Que Olvidar? "?
text: Did you know that Romanian police officer Virgil Ardelean avoided having to take sides in the 1989 Revolution by feigning deafness when his superior ordered him to become involved?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad Marengo was on her sea trials in July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War began and was immediately placed in reserve ; she was not commissioned until after the war was over?
text: Did you know that the nickname of Japanese mixed martial arts fighter Mei Yamaguchi comes from the V1 armlock wrestling move?
text: Did you know that in 1891, Somerset County Cricket Club regained first-class status , after remaining unbeaten against county sides in 1890 ?
text: Did you know that the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest , Romania , is the largest hotel in Europe with 1,459 rooms?
text: Did you know that Albanian nationalist Safet Butka killed himself because in Albania the war against fascism was degenerating into a civil war ?
text: Did you know that Åre Old Church remains the only stone church in the Scandinavian Mountains from the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you know that inhibiting protein pigeon homolog may provide a treatment for Alzheimer's disease ?
text: Did you know that Jacob Mayer resigned in 1876 from his position as rabbi of Baltimore 's Har Sinai Congregation amid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
text: Did you know that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in " Respect ", the series finale of The Bill ?
text: Did you know that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Kucadikadi are a band of Northern Paiute Native Americans , whose names translates to " brine fly eaters"?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad Océan was assigned to the Northern Squadron that attempted to blockade Prussian ports on the Baltic Sea during the Franco-Prussian War until recalled on 16 September 1870 ?
text: Did you know that guard Pete Ladygo went to Canada to play football for the Ottawa Rough Riders rather than accept a trade to the Detroit Lions ?
text: Did you know that Schenectady, New York 's Mont Pleasant neighborhood had a residential vacancy rate of 28% in 2009, the third highest in the US state of New York ?
text: Did you know that Francisco Drinaldo , better known as Massaranduba , is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional mixed martial arts record?
text: Did you know that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?
text: Did you know that the Harris Dental Museum in Bainbridge, Ohio , preserves the first dental school in the United States?
text: Did you know that soprano Nellie Melba and tenor Agustarello Affré made their debut together at the Paris Opéra in 1890 as Lucia and Edgardo in Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor ?
text: Did you know that Cameroon is named after the crustacean Lepidophthalmus turneranus which Portuguese settlers observed swarming in the Wouri River in the 15th century?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of the Bulge , a gun crew of the American 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion knocked out a Tiger II tank by making it reverse into a house?
text: Did you know that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I ?
text: Did you know that after the Mill Creek flooded Erie , Pennsylvania in 1915, it was diverted to a tube that is large enough for a pickup truck to drive through?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad Suffren was assigned to the international squadron gathered at Ragusa in 1880 to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin and turn over the town of Ulcinj to Montenegro ?
text: Did you know that Michigan strong safety Julius Curry in 2006 formed Curry Racing, the first NASCAR racing team with sole minority ownership?
text: Did you know that historian Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that the swastika symbol was used by Norsemen to represent Thor's hammer ?
text: Did you know that in 1881, Florida granted 2.8 million acres of public land to the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad to build a rail line that ended the Panhandle 's isolation from the rest of the state?
text: Did you know that, despite losing a leg in his first term of service, Edward A. Gisburne completed two more war-time stints with the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that the bobsleigh run at the 1952 Winter Olympics was made entirely of snow?
text: Did you know that the COSMIC cancer database has documented somatic mutations from over half a million tumour samples?
text: Did you know that Jersey Circus is a webcomic mashup of images from The Family Circus newspaper comic strip and dialogue from MTV 's Jersey Shore ?
text: Did you know that suicide victim Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is believed to have been the first royal woman to be cremated ?
text: Did you know that an Australian , Alexander Sutherland, was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor by General William Westmoreland after the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6 August 1967 ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Roberts is the only other NCAA Division I men's basketball player besides Pete Maravich to score 60+ points in two or more games?
text: Did you know that Walter Powell ended his term as MP for Malmesbury when he vanished over the English Channel in a hot air balloon ?
text: Did you know that Manhattan Project scientist Jacob Bigeleisen became an advocate for nuclear disarmament , saying "having lived through that time, that any further use of nuclear weapons is out of the question"?
text: Did you know that Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company ?
text: Did you know that United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked targets in and near Singapore on eleven occasions between November 1944 and March 1945?
text: Did you know that in 1798, artist George Garrard successfully campaigned to introduce the first copyright protection for model-makers in Britain?
text: Did you know that when completed, the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant in Japan will be the largest pumped-storage power station in the world?
text: Did you know that Gioachino Rossini 's opera Tancredi premiered in 1813 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Adelaide Malanotte performing in the title role?
text: Did you know that Canadian painter Lorne Kidd Smith designed a poster for Canada's Victory Loan campaign and worked in the art department at General Motors ?
text: Did you know that Reinert Torgeirson managed the publishing house of the Norwegian Labour Party until he changed party to Communist ?
text: Did you know that for building the Ukrainian city of Kherson , Empress Catherine II gave Russian General Ivan Gannibal two orders of chivalry, a jewel-encrusted snuff box , and a 20,000 desiatina estate?
text: Did you know that a round tower was built to house the Kloster Berge school after a schoolmaster hanged himself in the cloister previously used for classes?
text: Did you know that the 1946 National League tie-breaker series was the first ever tiebreaker for the playoffs in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that there are eight different ways to earn the Scouter's Key Award ?
text: Did you know that the first Black church in Schenectady, New York , was begun by a White college student and located in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood in 1870?
text: Did you know that the operatic mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo sang the part of Azucena in the French premiere of Verdi 's Il trovatore at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1854?
text: Did you know that Electrica has an electric power distribution network of 116,500 km?
text: Did you know that Sergeant John A. Kirkwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Slim Buttes ?
text: Did you know that the Church of Saint Laud 's original, octagonal, Gothic -panelled font is buried under the church floor?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Shirlee Emmons won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson 's The Mother of Us All ?
text: Did you know that according to the visa policy of South Korea , Canada is the only country whose citizens receive six months of visa-free entry?
text: Did you know that species of Azotobacter bacteria are used in the production of ice cream and instant puddings ?
text: Did you know that under the 1960 Iraqi Associations Law , Daud as-Sayegh 's tiny faction (which published al-Mabda' ) was accorded recognition as the "Iraqi Communist Party", while the main communist group (which published Ittihad ash-Sha'ab ) was denied legal status?
text: Did you know that actor George Roubicek had small roles in The Dirty Dozen , Doctor Who and the first Star Wars film before becoming a dialogue director who dubs foreign films into English?
text: Did you know that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy ?
text: Did you know that according to U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening , Alaska Territorial Governor J. F. A. Strong was not reappointed to the post because he was not a United States citizen ?
text: Did you know that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on Sheridan 's The Rivals ?
text: Did you know that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's official language , but later translated back to it instead?
text: Did you know that in April 1945, Martin Dannenberg , a Jewish U.S. Army intelligence officer, found an original copy of the Nazi Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in a Bavarian bank vault?
text: Did you know that angiomyolipomas are the most common benign tumour of the kidney and are composed of blood vessels , smooth muscle cells and fat cells ?
text: Did you know that Ukraine is considered to have the greatest freedom of the press of all the former Soviet Union states?
text: Did you know that after Penryn MP John Bettesworth-Trevanion rebuilt Caerhays as a Gothic -style castle , he fell into debt and fled abroad?
text: Did you know that the fossil squirrel Lagrivea is characterized by deep basins in its teeth?
text: Did you know that Arvid G. Hansen edited both Arbeideren and Arbeidet , the latter in a time when Arbeidet struggled because Arbeideren was prioritized by their common owner ?
text: Did you know that Cornish MP Alexander Pendarves was listed as a member of the October Club , a group that posed a threat to the Harley administration?
text: Did you know that Shoeless Joe Jackson 's Black Betsy broke the record for the most expensive baseball bat in history, selling for US$ 577,610 in 2001?
text: Did you know that Venezuela's 2006 National Commission on Police Reform proposed a new model of policing with a new police force specifically trained in human rights?
text: Did you know that Gil Chapman was Michigan 's career leader in kickoff return yards and the first African-American elected to office in Elizabeth, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the May 2010 Mogadishu bombings were the deadliest to occur in Mogadishu , the capital of Somalia , since the 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing ?
text: Did you know that Soviet spy Ignace Poretsky was assassinated shortly after he defected ?
text: Did you know that The Right Reverend Bavi Edna Rivera is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church ?
text: Did you know that Alban Stepneth lost the 1571 Haverfordwest election despite polling more votes than his opponent John Garnons?
text: Did you know that to India 's dismay, China 's Zangmu Dam will be the first on the Brahmaputra River ?
text: Did you know that according to folklore, dwarfs guard treasures hidden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's megalith tombs ?
text: Did you know that competitors of the Hamar newspaper Demokraten (later Arbeideren ) refused to mention it by name in their columns?
text: Did you know that LeFleur's Bluff State Park is named for a French Canadian trader who established a trading post in what is now Jackson , Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar , Ireland , was awarded an RIAI Gold Medal for architecture?
text: Did you know that, the week before he was scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth II in a pre-game ceremony, University of Maryland football co-captain Gene Alderton lost a tooth—so the university had it replaced to ensure he could smile properly?
text: Did you know that due to potential tax implications, Governor Wilford Bacon Hoggatt opposed granting territorial status to the District of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that Sverre Krogh , a delegate at the Second Comintern Congress, worked as an informer for the Nazi Sicherheitspolizei many years later?
text: Did you know that Japanese pagodas , with very rare exceptions, have an odd number of tiers?
text: Did you know that in 2009, Romania cultivated around 12,900 hectares (32,000 acres) of rice fields , ranking third in the European Union ?
text: Did you know that publication of British newspaper Labour Elector was discontinued in 1890 as its editor H. H. Champion travelled to Australia ?
text: Did you know that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese prisoner of war , he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
text: Did you know that Bob Topp helped the New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Browns in 1956 by intercepting radio signals used to relay plays onto the field from the Browns' bench?
text: Did you know that 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir are for constituencies currently lying in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and thus are officially vacant?
text: Did you know that HMS Chatham was laid down at Flushing , in Holland , and launched at Woolwich in England ?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Bonn ( 7 November 921 ) was signed on a ship in the middle of the Rhine , the border between kingdoms of the two signatories, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler ?
text: Did you know that Lat found the inspiration to draw cartoons about circumcision while on assignment as a reporter to investigate dead bodies in a morgue?
text: Did you know that the 2008 King of the Ring event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment featured Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama impersonators in a match?
text: Did you know that Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
text: Did you know that the Plebiscite Front became the principal opposition to the state government of Jammu and Kashmir in the 1960s before merging into the National Conference in 1975?
text: Did you know that actress Ellen Hillingsø is the goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ?
text: Did you know that the first five columns of Lectionary 283 , a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in Siena , are written in gold?
text: Did you know that, during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown, Ioannina , as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
text: Did you know that Glenn Beck introduced a "Black-Robed Regiment" of pastors from various denominations during his Restoring Honor rally in 2010, and launched a news website called The Blaze three days later?
text: Did you know that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
text: Did you know that, as a member of the Parliament of Norway , Ole Gausdal proposed total disarmament ?
text: Did you know that when Einar Li objected to military service in 1908, he was exempted from a prison sentence he had received in 1906 and 1907?
text: Did you know that, after receiving contact lenses in 2010, Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum reported, "I could see everything like in HD"?
text: Did you know that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood , West Yorkshire , comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
text: Did you know that Mississippi -born singer J.D. Short sang the blues after both his testicles were shot off?
text: Did you know that, in 2009, there were 1,224 reports of groom kidnapping in Bihar ?
text: Did you know that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas ?
text: Did you know that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth , South Yorkshire , were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
text: Did you know that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II , professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag ?
text: Did you know that, despite her party's policy of secularism , Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed had created an alliance with the Islamist Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish ?
text: Did you know that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship , head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
text: Did you know that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
text: Did you know that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols ' " God Save the Queen " at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
text: Did you know that Prince Nikolaus of Thurn and Taxis renounced his princely rights and title to marry actress Carola Reichenberger in 1913?
text: Did you know that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?
text: Did you know that the Milk Pail Restaurant , formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster ?
text: Did you know that Walter Pilliet was a popular Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa , where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
text: Did you know that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack! , have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
text: Did you know that, for protesting the Trial of the Four , Russian academic Grigory Pomerants was barred from defending his thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies ?
text: Did you know that, when completed, the Deriner Dam will be the tallest in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Michael Puntervold , Magnus Nilssen , Arne Magnussen and Olav Kringen were the Norwegian delegates at the Labour and Socialist International founding congress in 1923?
text: Did you know that there are five different ways to earn the Scouter's Training Award ?
text: Did you know that the Aboriginal Memorial contains 200 coffins, but not a single dead person?
text: Did you know that the Taurus-Littrow valley , the landing site of Apollo 17 on the Moon , is deeper than the Grand Canyon ?
text: Did you know that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that Eugène Olaussen , a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin , shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles ' " Long and Winding Road "?
text: Did you know that Dutch illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mair published her first book Premières Rondes Enfantines in Paris, in 1904, at the age of fifteen?
text: Did you know that Star Wars Uncut is a fan film made up of 473 15-second clips, submitted by Internet users, that amount to a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ?
text: Did you know that, in 2009, the Haus des Meeres attracted a record-high number of visitors while attendance at other tourist attractions in Vienna abruptly dropped?
text: Did you know that after John Cullen 's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?
text: Did you know that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine , Bear , and Cardinal , and a coach of Billikens ?
text: Did you know that Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer won the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist at age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
text: Did you know that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
text: Did you know that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitza in 1789?
text: Did you know that Jackson Gillis , a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo , watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
text: Did you know that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting ?
text: Did you know that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo , Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal deposit in Norway?
text: Did you know that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco , the largest such shipment to that date?
text: Did you know that E. Normus Johnson is a fictional advertising mascot depicted in comic art on Big Johnson T-shirts that use double entendres ?
text: Did you know that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?
text: Did you know that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s ?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University ?
text: Did you know that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index -based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
text: Did you know that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham , as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding "?
text: Did you know that Kensington (Olympia) station lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy , the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London , who introduced the Chilean fuchsia , Fuchsia magellanica , to English gardens in 1788?
text: Did you know that the socialist -oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?
text: Did you know that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant , the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species ?
text: Did you know that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II , the line was usable once again by late 1945?
text: Did you know that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
text: Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation 's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
text: Did you know that the Milford Oyster Festival , billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut , draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
text: Did you know that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
text: Did you know that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire ?
text: Did you know that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?
text: Did you know that Kai G. Henriksen , CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet , is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
text: Did you know that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions ) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park , Kent , in 1796?
text: Did you know that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe , Air Marshal Norman Walsh , resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
text: Did you know that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
text: Did you know that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore ?
text: Did you know that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
text: Did you know that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society "?
text: Did you know that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?
text: Did you know that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church , Stretham , is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire , the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
text: Did you know that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills ?
text: Did you know that the 11 provinces of Bắc Giang , Bắc Kạn , Cao Bang , Ha Giang , Lang Son , Lao Cai , Phu Tho , Quang Ninh , Thai Nguyen , Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
text: Did you know that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868 , during the War of the Triple Alliance ?
text: Did you know that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
text: Did you know that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil , such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
text: Did you know that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars , commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse , helped pacify the Marquesas Islands , conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
text: Did you know that Ottoman rule of Macedonia lasted for roughly 500 years?
text: Did you know that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City 's Little Syria , the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex ?
text: Did you know that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland , which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
text: Did you know that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
text: Did you know that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?
text: Did you know that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland , and was noted for its harsh conditions?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley , North Yorkshire , contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Santa Catharina sank at her mooring in 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
text: Did you know that Michigan tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonauts and was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
text: Did you know that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
text: Did you know that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley 's The Water Babies ?
text: Did you know that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ?
text: Did you know that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$ 300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?
text: Did you know that the Manila Police District , with the motto " Manila 's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis ?
text: Did you know that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará -class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
text: Did you know that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson ?
text: Did you know that Palasë , on the Albanian Riviera , is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
text: Did you know that Sarcoscypha dudleyi was named after the botanist William Russell Dudley ?
text: Did you know that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club 's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
text: Did you know that Vuno , a village in the Albanian Riviera , was reported to have shown sympathy for the 1997 rebellion in Albania ?
text: Did you know that Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall , but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?
text: Did you know that Mickell Gladness once recorded 16 blocks which set the NCAA Division I men's basketball single game record?
text: Did you know that Southland Corp. v. Keating was described as "perhaps the most controversial case in the Supreme Court 's history of arbitration jurisprudence"?
text: Did you know that Ryan Boyle , who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
text: Did you know that the father of Oklahoman folk singer Woody Guthrie attended the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence in May 1911?
text: Did you know that Edward Kean coined the word " cowabunga " and tried to put a puppet President in the White House ?
text: Did you know that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire , including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House , was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
text: Did you know that the town of Tlayacapan , Morelos , Mexico , is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
text: Did you know that King of France Louis XIV (1638–1715) used toilet water for his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?
text: Did you know that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity , Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 ?
text: Did you know that the owners of MV Mariam intend to use it to cross the blockade of the Gaza Strip ?
text: Did you know that young specimens of the mushroom Coprinellus impatiens have a powdery stem that eventually sloughs off to leave a smooth surface?
text: Did you know that Dale Warren was a conservatory -trained violinist whose work as an arranger for Stax Records and others has been a fruitful source of breakbeats ?
text: Did you know that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners ?
text: Did you know that a British rider at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
text: Did you know that the Carnegie , a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
text: Did you know that in 1861, a local Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?
text: Did you know that lacrosse goaltender Trevor Tierney has won an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship , a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championship gold medal?
text: Did you know that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180 , making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
text: Did you know that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
text: Did you know that the number-one song " Abrázame Muy Fuerte " performed by Juan Gabriel was featured as the theme song of a telenovela of the same title ?
text: Did you know that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition ?
text: Did you know that the Metamora sank near Pointe au Baril in 1907 and that part of the wreck is still visible above the water?
text: Did you know that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park , which only held 4,000?
text: Did you know that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour ?
text: Did you know that Newton Hills State Park in South Dakota holds an annual pumpkin chunking competition?
text: Did you know that radio station KRMS in Osage Beach, Missouri , was once partly owned by then- U.S. Senator John Danforth ?
text: Did you know that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia ?
text: Did you know that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice , and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football "?
text: Did you know that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins , had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg "?
text: Did you know that two men, Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson , wrestled in evening gowns at the WWF 's 2000 King of the Ring event?
text: Did you know that Jurek Wilner , who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , left his notebook of poems with the Dominican nuns in Wilno , where he hid during the early part of Nazi occupation of Poland ?
text: Did you know that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria , which left 12 people dead?
text: Did you know that the garden of Caerhays Castle is home to the largest collection of magnolias in England?
text: Did you know that Major-General Humphrey Atherton 's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
text: Did you know that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy , collections of essays about theatre , have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
text: Did you know that Matt Striebel ranks eighth on the Princeton Lacrosse career assists list and eleventh on the Princeton soccer career assists list?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Pará was so badly damaged after passing the Paraguayan fort at Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race , Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
text: Did you know that Cornish Saint Endelienta , a hermit , is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?
text: Did you know that Emmanuel Rodríguez ' s boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico 's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that the first two chairmen of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City were Frederic Delano (uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt ) and Owen Roberts , U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice ?
text: Did you know that the gulls of Seymour Island breed on raised beaches unlike other Canadian Ivory Gull colonies?
text: Did you know that cartoonist Suzy Spafford , creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo , has been drawing since she was three years old?
text: Did you know that exploration for geothermal power in Indonesia dates back to the Kawah Kamojang test borings of 1926?
text: Did you know that in June 2010, a Ming -era tomb near Nanjing was identified as that of Hong Bao , one of the admirals of Zheng He 's fleet?
text: Did you know that Triple-A fill-in umpire Scott Barry ejected three Major League Baseball All-Stars within one week in August, 2010?
text: Did you know that Arab geographers described the Little Zab and the Great Zab as "demoniacally possessed"?
text: Did you know that B. J. Prager has scored overtime game-winning goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship lacrosse games?
text: Did you know that soon after the creation of the Heu-Aktion , the systematic kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany began?
text: Did you know that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge ?
text: Did you know that California cult wine producer Scarecrow is named for its founder's connection to The Wizard of Oz ?
text: Did you know that the term " the war to end war " was first used to describe World War I ?
text: Did you know that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia ?
text: Did you know that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque ?
text: Did you know that mattresses lined the inside of the gun turrets of the Swedish John Ericsson -class monitors in order to catch splinters?
text: Did you know that Lacrosse Hall of Fame electee Scott Bacigalupo won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltender three years in a row?
text: Did you know that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World ?
text: Did you know that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine ?
text: Did you know that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali ?
text: Did you know that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball , is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
text: Did you know that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia ?
text: Did you know that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse , taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar ?
text: Did you know that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants ?
text: Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you know that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
text: Did you know that in the last days of World War II , the Red Army 's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
text: Did you know that a newly constructed powership , a floating power plant , supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War ?
text: Did you know that Jon Hess , Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996 , 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
text: Did you know that on Easter Monday , 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising ?
text: Did you know that Tatyana Dyachenko , daughter of President Boris Yeltsin , worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
text: Did you know that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion ?
text: Did you know that Schenectady, New York 's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
text: Did you know that both Patrol 35 , based in Israel , and Tsagaan Khass , based in Mongolia , are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
text: Did you know that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa ?
text: Did you know that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
text: Did you know that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick ?
text: Did you know that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for " cribbing ", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil ?
text: Did you know that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh , is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics ?
text: Did you know that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
text: Did you know that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod , 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod , was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
text: Did you know that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin , allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall ?
text: Did you know that Prudent Joye , the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles , escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance ?
text: Did you know that in Bulgarian mythology , the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold , but it can only be identified by a tortoise ?
text: Did you know that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
text: Did you know that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
text: Did you know that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
text: Did you know that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza , a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City 's tallest building ?
text: Did you know that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany ?
text: Did you know that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
text: Did you know that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco , the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves ?
text: Did you know that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta , together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock , were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
text: Did you know that Pedro Almodóvar 's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections ?
text: Did you know that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury ?
text: Did you know that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
text: Did you know that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
text: Did you know that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9 , can cause sex-linked mental retardation ?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of Kalavrye , Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
text: Did you know that Peter Cushman Jones , who founded the Bank of Hawaii , arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents ?
text: Did you know that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
text: Did you know that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft ?
text: Did you know that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing ?
text: Did you know that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
text: Did you know that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically , sleeping a full eight hours ?
text: Did you know that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue "?
text: Did you know that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union , many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
text: Did you know that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt ?
text: Did you know that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
text: Did you know that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam ?
text: Did you know that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund , Mario G. Obledo , organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua , citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
text: Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
text: Did you know that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate ?
text: Did you know that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
text: Did you know that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
text: Did you know that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?
text: Did you know that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
text: Did you know that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
text: Did you know that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$ 400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
text: Did you know that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
text: Did you know that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio ?
text: Did you know that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell 's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark , she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red "?
text: Did you know that Moustache , a French poodle , is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz ?
text: Did you know that Lusia Harris , who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft , was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA ?
text: Did you know that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
text: Did you know that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight ?
text: Did you know that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York , due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
text: Did you know that British Museum keeper John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens that was noted for its "malicious candour"?
text: Did you know that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa , is known as "the genius of Neive "?
text: Did you know that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
text: Did you know that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard , " Sitting on Top of the World "?
text: Did you know that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam , the military ruler of Ethiopia , in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
text: Did you know that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China 's Yunnan Province ?
text: Did you know that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2 ), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California ?
text: Did you know that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
text: Did you know that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou 's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie ?
text: Did you know that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena ?
text: Did you know that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
text: Did you know that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that even though the Dollarway Road , Arkansas ' first road , is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356 , a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
text: Did you know that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
text: Did you know that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton , Alberta , is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson , who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food ?
text: Did you know that Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe has scored overtime game-winning goals in both an NCAA Championship game and a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship game?
text: Did you know that the Albion River Bridge , the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1 , has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation ?
text: Did you know that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Nois threw a pig's head after him?
text: Did you know that Ben Cooper, Inc. , the " Halston of Halloween", said it sold a scary 4 million Halloween costumes in the United States in 1990?
text: Did you know that Margaret Jones was the first person in Boston to be executed for witchcraft in a New England witch hunt that lasted between 1648 and 1663?
text: Did you know that ghosts at Preston Manor , reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses, have included a grey lady, an excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one driving a toy tractor?
text: Did you know that a disc jockey at WTCM-FM created a song about the Michigan Dogman , which has been sighted in northwestern Michigan , as an April Fools' Day joke?
text: Did you know that the bone skipper came back from the dead after 160 years to feed on rotting bones ?
text: Did you know that critics praised a scene in the horror film Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp where a student is attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades?
text: Did you know that the " Devils Brigade " was conceived to tell of 19 men who went halfway to hell?
text: Did you know that the Beginning of the End could not begin until 200 grasshoppers had been sexed?
text: Did you know that bonfire toffee is brittle, dark toffee associated with Halloween and Bonfire Night in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that the Ipswich Witchcraft Trial has been called the "Second Salem Witch Trial ", and was the last witch trial held in the United States?
text: Did you know that a slime mold eats the decaying remains of the Devil's tongue barrel ?
text: Did you know that, according to legend, a wooded area in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania , is home to seven gates that lead directly to hell ?
text: Did you know that Podostroma cornu-damae can shrink your brain , make your skin fall off , cause you to speak and move abnormally and kill you?
text: Did you know that Johnny Cash cast Watergate scandal prosecutor James F. Neal to play a lawyer in the 1983 made-for-television movie Murder in Coweta County ?
text: Did you know that in various regions in India , a haunting bhoot can be thwarted using water , steel or iron objects, or the scent of burnt turmeric ?
text: Did you know that Irish psychic Sandra Ramdhanie , who specialises in exorcisms , was born on Halloween night?
text: Did you know that an 18th-century soldier, court-martialed for sleeping at his post, swore that he heard the clock of St Paul's Cathedral strike 13 times – and other witnesses corroborated it, saving his life?
text: Did you know that Ann Hibbins was convicted and hanged for being a witch in Boston, Massachusetts in 1656, 36 years prior to the beginning of the Salem Witch Trials ?
text: Did you know that in the requiem mass for John F. Kennedy , Mac Morgan performed the bass solo of Mozart 's Requiem ?
text: Did you know that Fohoren was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor which were ruled by a Liurai ?
text: Did you know that Steven Girvin 's group has successfully implemented quantum algorithms on a two- qubit quantum processor?
text: Did you know that St Peter's Church, Northampton is considered by the Churches Conservation Trust to be "the most outstanding Norman church in the county" of Northamptonshire ?
text: Did you know that Lord William VI of Montpellier (1121–49) looked out for the interests of the merchants of his town, since his revenues depended on theirs?
text: Did you know that two Critically Endangered palms in Madagascar , Dypsis brevicaulis and Dypsis humilis , have fewer than 60 known specimens in the wild combined?
text: Did you know that Harold Martin won election to the New Jersey General Assembly in the 39th District running in support of the creation of a state income tax ?
text: Did you know that in a best-dressed list published in 1958 by the New York Dress Institute, Consuelo Crespi was ranked third, behind the Duchess of Windsor but ahead of Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that Grace Cossington Smith 's The Bridge in Curve was rejected from the 1930 Society of Artists exhibition, but is now described as one of Australia 's most significant modernist paintings?
text: Did you know that Indian badminton player P. V. Sindhu reported on time at the coaching camps despite travelling 56 kilometres (35 mi) on a daily basis?
text: Did you know that of seven entries in a 1935 Bureau of Air Commerce competition to build a roadable aircraft from a Pitcairn autogiro , only the Autogiro Company of America AC-35 met all requirements?
text: Did you know that the 2010–11 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team lost their "emotional leader" in Denis Clemente ?
text: Did you know that Harold Greenwood , acquitted in 1920 of the murder of his wife, is a rare example of a lawyer charged with murder ?
text: Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Wormsley , Herefordshire , are the chest tombs of writer Richard Payne Knight and his brother Thomas , an expert on apple trees?
text: Did you know that the United States federal case Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc. held that recommending trademarks for keyword advertising was commercial use?
text: Did you know that Chinese warlord Li Jinglin (1885–1931), nicknamed "China's First Sword", was a renowned swordsman and baguazhang martial artist?
text: Did you know that Czech architect Ladislav Žák found design inspiration from ocean liners and airplanes ?
text: Did you know that on 4 April 1866, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her brother Nicholas were accompanying their uncle, Emperor Alexander II of Russia , when someone tried to assassinate him?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Maneuver involved over 100,000 United States Army troops?
text: Did you know that American Piedmont blues singer Irene Scruggs worked alongside Clarence Williams , Joe "King" Oliver , Lonnie Johnson , and Little Brother Montgomery , but today remains largely forgotten?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Indian boxer Nanao Singh Thokchom won a gold medal at the inaugural Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Guadalajara , Mexico ?
text: Did you know that scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have created a bacterium with a synthesized genome ?
text: Did you know that the Acheron class torpedo boat and the Avernus were sold separately after they were joined together to become part of the Commonwealth Naval Forces ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster has included Allens , Bateses , Covingtons , Delahantys , Ennises , Fultzes , Greens , Hamiltons , Jacksons , Kennedys , Lees , Morgans , Nicholsons , Powells , Robertses , Schmidts , Thompsons , Vukoviches , Watts , and Youngs , but never a player whose surname begins with X ?
text: Did you know that John E. Bush was sent on a mission to form a Polynesian empire with only one ship manned by a boy's band?
text: Did you know that five High Sheriffs of Kent lived at Oxon Hoath , a former manor house at West Peckham ?
text: Did you know that when Einar Johannessen was suspended from NRK television because of payments in his secondary job, the decision was overturned by the Ministry of Culture ?
text: Did you know that the Federalists of New England did not support the War of 1812 , so Captain Oliver Filley of Connecticut , who built the Oliver Filley House , commanded 40 militiamen under state control?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Francisco Vigani became the first professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1703?
text: Did you know that Viacom sued YouTube , seeking damages of US$ 1 billion ?
text: Did you know that eleven-year National Football League veteran defensive back Maurice Douglass was once a professional stripper ?
text: Did you know that Commissioner of Guam José Sisto was arrested for misappropriation of government funds and exiled to Manila in 1899?
text: Did you know that in Lamparello v. Falwell , Jerry Falwell lost one of the earliest cases of trademark infringement based on cybersquatting ?
text: Did you know that Democratic Party leaders convinced Frank Herbert to run as a write-in against white supremacist John Kucek, saying "the first thing we had to do was convince people not to vote for the Nazi "?
text: Did you know that the book Targeted Killing in International Law argues support in the Western world for targeted killing increased following the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that Rodrigo Rivera Salazar , Colombia 's new Minister of Defence started working in politics when he was only 20 years old as a Councilman in his native Pereira ?
text: Did you know that Magic Johnson , the first overall pick in the 1979 NBA Draft , won the NBA championship and the Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his first season in the league?
text: Did you know that Joseph Mitchell Parsons was the first prisoner to die in an execution chamber at Utah State Prison designed to accommodate both firing squads and lethal injections ?
text: Did you know that cheeses made from thermized milk are not considered raw-milk cheeses in Europe, but are still subject to FDA restrictions on raw-milk cheeses in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that Louis F. Bantle saw U.S. Tobacco 's income rise tenfold to US$ 1 billion led by sales of smokeless tobacco , telling managers, "We must sell the use of tobacco in the mouth and appeal to young people"?
text: Did you know that i , a British newspaper launched on 26 October 2010, contains several "matrixes" – small paragraphs of news which are expanded upon in full articles inside the paper?
text: Did you know that 1366 Technologies has created a technique to cast silicon wafers from the melt rather than sawing them from an ingot ?
text: Did you know that Wesley Bennett scored 21 points to lead Westminster College to a 37–33 victory over St. John's University in the opening game of the first college doubleheader played at Madison Square Garden ?
text: Did you know that Billy Squier 's number-one mainstream rock hit " Everybody Wants You " has been performed by Damone , The Unband , Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band , and players of Guitar Hero 5 ?
text: Did you know that the prevalence of diabetes is the prime drive in the development of biosensors such as fluorescent glucose biosensors ?
text: Did you know that the Tennis Palace venue which hosted some of the 1952 Summer Olympics basketball games was later converted into an art museum ?
text: Did you know that Nigerian boxer Franklin Egobi fought for the Latvian heavyweight title in October 2008 ?
text: Did you know that Louis Keppel Hamilton took a 12-pounder gun from HMS Challenger 640 miles along the Niger and Benue rivers, then 60 miles overland, to assist the taking of Garoua from the Germans ?
text: Did you know that Barnum's Kaleidoscape was the first Ringling show to be held under a tent since 1956 and also its first one-ring presentation in more than a century?
text: Did you know that in his short time with British McEvoy Motorcycles , racer George Patchett set nine world records?
text: Did you know that in "one of the most spectacular homicide trials ever", a jury acquitted Melvin Lane Powers and his aunt – and lover – Candy Mossler for the murder of her husband?
text: Did you know that Kutmichevitsa , a region of the First Bulgarian Empire now mostly in Albania , was home to one of the two most important cultural centres of 9th-century Bulgaria?
text: Did you know that Yoram Ben-Zeev , the current Israeli ambassador to Germany , was born on 20 July 1944 – the day of the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you know that Anonymous hackers redirected GeneSimmons.com to ThePirateBay.org during Operation Payback ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas II of Russia reportedly gave Princess Anna of Montenegro one million rubles as a dowry ?
text: Did you know that Howard Russell Butler , who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build Princeton 's rowing lake , was later employed to paint a solar eclipse in 1918 ?
text: Did you know that Michelle Williams was the only actress whom the producers met during casting for the role of Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming film My Week with Marilyn ?
text: Did you know that " I Hear You, I See You ", the second season premiere of the comedy-drama series Parenthood , marked the first of several appearances by William Baldwin ?
text: Did you know that the capitals of the Norman chancel arch of St John the Baptist's Church, Wakerley , Northamptonshire , are said to be "some of the finest in England"?
text: Did you know that despite her French title and ancestry, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg was born and raised in Russia, and was entitled to the rank Imperial Highness ?
text: Did you know that Adobe Systems, Inc. has successfully sued for the copyright infringement of a computer font , even though typefaces are not protected under U.S. copyright law ?
text: Did you know that Bo Shepard and Norman Shepard are the only siblings ever to have both coached North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball ?
text: Did you know that the only known location of Isoetes eludens , a recently discovered aquatic plant , is a single 2 m (6.6 ft) wide and 15 cm (5.9 in) deep seasonal rock pool ?
text: Did you know that undefeated MMA fighter Dragan "Gagi" Tešanović makes his North American debut tonight at the Bellator 34 event ?
text: Did you know that Ardelve has a notable population of Grebes ?
text: Did you know that Orgy 's cover of " Blue Monday " was said to help guide a cyberpunk revival?
text: Did you know that the current Brutalist synagogue building of Temple Israel of the City of New York was completed in 1967?
text: Did you know that Count Rudolf of Geneva performed the act of homage to his overlord, Peter II, Count of Savoy , in an orchard outside of a castle in 1263?
text: Did you know that American electric bluesman Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis remained a regular performer on Chicago 's Maxwell Street for over 40 years?
text: Did you know that the underground Elisenberg railway station at Elisenberg , Oslo , was only partially finished and never taken into use?
text: Did you know that boxer Jacob Hyer has been called "The Father of the American Ring" although he broke his arm in his only match, in 1816?
text: Did you know that Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe are among the people who have been suggested as the true author of the William Shakespeare plays?
text: Did you know that Starr's corollary to the Shapley–Folkman lemma was proved by an undergraduate student of Kenneth Arrow ?
text: Did you know that the traditional form of government in Tibet from 1642 to 1951 was the Cho-sid-nyi ?
text: Did you know that Parry O'Brien won the gold medal in the men's shot put at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki as part of a four-year long streak in which he won 116 consecutive meets and set 17 world records?
text: Did you know that Calgary 's new mayor Naheed Nenshi used social media extensively in his surprise win in the 2010 municipal election , which made him the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city?
text: Did you know that Sir Arthur Bignold , MP for Wick Burghs , was the proprietor of the Achanalt Inn?
text: Did you know that historian Brison D. Gooch , who researched the Crimean War , concludes that Great Britain and France practically ignored their ally, the Ottoman Empire , in the two-year fight against Russia ?
text: Did you know that World War II search and rescue dog Crumstone Irma barked differently depending on whether those buried by rubble were dead or alive?
text: Did you know that Scientology spokesperson Jessica Feshbach 's father incorporated Dianetics philosophy into his firm's stock market investing ?
text: Did you know that a hydro dam was built by a state agency within the borders of the Munzur Valley National Park in Turkey , violating the existing laws for its protection?
text: Did you know that Kim Williams was the longest-running guest commentator on National Public Radio , appearing on the show All Things Considered for over ten and a half years?
text: Did you know that the Malta Test Station was the site of the first large test stand for static rocket engine tests in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Stanley Gordon Orr was the highest-scoring fighter ace of the Royal Navy during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the medieval Ca na Catanach , a drovers' road in Sutherland , begins at Dorrery Lodge and ends north of Achentoul ?
text: Did you know that under head coach Joe Lombardi , the IUP Crimson Hawks men's basketball team advanced to the 2010 basketball championship just two years after being placed on NCAA probation ?
text: Did you know that the name of Bjørnsletta Station of the Oslo Metro is ultimately derived from a bear sighting in 1852?
text: Did you know that the term " hatchet man " originated from the weapon of choice used in killings on Chinatown's Doyers Street , known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent gang murders in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that Paul Erdős challenged Jon Folkman to solve mathematical problems immediately after Folkman's surgery for brain cancer?
text: Did you know that Chinese military texts have influenced strategists ranging from members of the Communist Party of China to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ?
text: Did you know that University of Kentucky running back Derrick Locke set the Oklahoma high-school record in the long jump ?
text: Did you know that Canadian artist Henry Sandham won an award at the 1878 Exposition Universelle for a composite photograph consisting of 300 separate pictures?
text: Did you know that the Sikorsky S-97 scout helicopter is intended to be able to fly with one, two, or no pilots ?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Getu Feleke set a new course record when he won the 2010 Amsterdam Marathon earlier this month?
text: Did you know that the most northerly outpost of Harrods is located in a former tourist information office in the Scottish Highlands between Achany Forest and Shin Falls ?
text: Did you know that the official proclamation of the abolition of slavery by the French government in 1794 was delivered to the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti ) by the corvette Esperance ?
text: Did you know that the body of Cardinal Gonzalo García Gudiel , returning from Rome to his native Toledo , was reportedly greeted in the streets by a delighted crowd of Christians , Jews and Muslims ?
text: Did you know that in State of Alabama v. State of Georgia in 1860, the U.S. Supreme Court defined what a river bed was?
text: Did you know that all five venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz were reused as venues when the Winter Olympics returned to the city twenty years later ?
text: Did you know that a local resident donated land for and paid part of the construction cost of the Le Roy, New York , post office ?
text: Did you know that during two years in the early 1950s American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meets and set four world records in the shot put ?
text: Did you know that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab ?
text: Did you know that physician Sir James Clark is said to have contributed to the agonising death of poet John Keats by putting him on a starvation diet consisting of a single anchovy and a piece of bread a day?
text: Did you know that the Awaaz Foundation has successfully petitioned both local and state governments in India to impose stricter noise pollution laws?
text: Did you know that American electric blues harmonicist Johnny Dyer , on his Rolling Fork Revisited album, did reworkings of songs by another Rolling Fork native, Muddy Waters ?
text: Did you know that Johan Falkberget 's satirical story Bør Børson was a feuilleton in the newspaper Nidaros before being released as a book?
text: Did you know that the incumbent Mayor of Invercargill , Tim Shadbolt , is currently the longest serving mayor in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that cars were brought into the Empire Stadium venue to illuminate the last two decathlon events at the 1948 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Mary Malcolm , one of the BBC ’s first female announcers, was a granddaughter of Victorian actress Lily Langtry , mistress of King Edward VII of England ?
text: Did you know that sales at Sprinkles Cupcakes increased 50% after the store was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show ?
text: Did you know that New Hampshire -born Charles Coffin Harris , who served as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii , also had a business selling fern hair ?
text: Did you know that Walter Winchell described the 1942 British film Thunder Rock as "a glowing fantasy that lights up the dark corners of many current issues"?
text: Did you know that the Innu and Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern Quebec , Canada , initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility?
text: Did you know that Amane Gobena is the first Ethiopian runner to win the Osaka Marathon ?
text: Did you know that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini is the largest freshwater invertebrate in Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that many former Nazi rocket scientists were employed in Egypt 's rocket program in the 1960s, and were targeted by Israel in Operation Damocles , a campaign of letter bombs , assassinations and abductions ?
text: Did you know that American guitarist Frankie Lee Sims is regarded as "one of the great names in post-war Texas country blues "?
text: Did you know that William Coleman , the first editor of the New York Post , killed an adversary in a duel in 1804?
text: Did you know that one academic commentator described Dr. Bonham's Case simply as an "abortion"?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada , is also known as the "Bridge of Sighs", as legend has it that new divorcees would toss their wedding rings from the bridge into the Truckee River ?
text: Did you know that the Marivagia stellata , a new genus and species of jellyfish , was identified in the summer of 2010?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford , Dorset , England, is all that remains of the medieval Tarrant Abbey ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Macau of 1622 was the only battle on Chinese soil to be fought between two European powers?
text: Did you know that The New York Times provided plans for constructing the wet-folding origami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel , but warned readers that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"?
text: Did you know that, together with the Moisie River , the Natashquan River is one of the most renowned salmon rivers on the North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ?
text: Did you know that 100,000 victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried at the port town of Lafiteau ?
text: Did you know that the Useless Parliament withdrew from London to Oxford because of bubonic plague ?
text: Did you know that the Regency of Algiers was founded around 1525 when Barbarossa recaptured the city?
text: Did you know that English cricketer Herbie Hewett walked off the field before play began when captaining an England XI, after receiving insults from the crowd?
text: Did you know that the mycelium of the mushroom Mycena maculata glows ?
text: Did you know that when the West German Senate of Berlin and the East Berlin Magistrat first met as a joint body during German reunification in 1990, it was dubbed the MagiSenat ?
text: Did you know that the specific name of the chaenopsid blenny Protemblemaria perla refers to both its place of discovery and to the white bands on its body?
text: Did you know that in 1960 Odd Grythe hosted the first show after the official opening of Norwegian television , Startskuddet går ?
text: Did you know that prototypes of the CityCar , the ultra-small urban electric car designed by MIT Media Lab , are being built in Spain to be field tested by mid 2011 in Boston , Singapore , Taiwan and Florence ?
text: Did you know that the longhead catshark is the only known cartilaginous fish that normally has both male and female reproductive systems ?
text: Did you know that American historian R.J.Q. Adams details the conflicting views of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in his work British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–1939 ?
text: Did you know that the Bay of Kiel was the venue for sailing events at both the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in Constantinople, Mehmed II ordered a group of Albanian officers captured in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs?
text: Did you know that the Sisquoc Formation in Southern California supports the largest diatomite mining operation in the world?
text: Did you know that Hebraic studies specialist Harris Lenowitz has translated the works of 18th-century Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank from Polish into English ?
text: Did you know that Lindy, Nebraska , was named for Lucky Lindy ?
text: Did you know that the charity Elizabeth Finn Care was established in 1897 as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association?
text: Did you know that the strongest aspect of the Canaanite army – its chariots – proved to be its weakness during the biblical battle of Mount Tabor ?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Poole v. Fleeger that the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had properly entered into an agreement establishing a mutual border between the two states?
text: Did you know that Irene Kosgei , despite injuring her knee at a drinks station early in the women's marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , edged compatriot Irene Mogaka to become the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth marathon title?
text: Did you know that Turkey–Morocco relations started as early as the 16th century, with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa ?
text: Did you know that Kenneth R. Mladenka was among those political scientists in the 1980s who pushed successfully for inclusion into the discipline of urban case studies and quantitative analysis?
text: Did you know that the Hamburg Historic District was settled by Germans , mostly from Schleswig-Holstein ?
text: Did you know that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a fox terrier , in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
text: Did you know that the Três Marias Dam ' s power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas, who built Marmelos Zero , South America's first major hydroelectric power plant?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Gates , who wrote seven Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?
text: Did you know that Jocotenango , Guatemala , has a coffee museum, and coffee grown in Alotenango , also located in Sacatepéquez Department , received an international award?
text: Did you know that Jayma Mays will perform her audition song, " Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me ", for the Rocky Horror tribute episode of Glee and its accompanying extended play ?
text: Did you know that in Virginia v. West Virginia in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the state of West Virginia to pay one-third of the state of Virginia 's pre- Civil War debt?
text: Did you know that the 1945 Japan–Washington flight made by three American air generals in three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States?
text: Did you know that extracts of the red volva Amanita can cause high blood sugar in mice?
text: Did you know that the Duncan family, of Duncan glass fame, built a 17 room Queen Anne mansion that was later donated to Washington & Jefferson College and is now used as the college's President’s House ?
text: Did you know that a railway station once served Aberchalder but the line closed in 1935?
text: Did you know that relatives of Nava Applebaum , who traveled to Jerusalem for her wedding, attended her funeral instead?
text: Did you know that although he began playing basketball only after high school, Notre Dame forward John Moir broke every single school scoring record set by three-time All American Moose Krause in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Nichols initiated the Atomic Energy Commission hearing in 1954 that resulted in atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance?
text: Did you know that the extinct paddlefish Paleopsephurus was first described from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation ?
text: Did you know that the last remains of Tonbridge Priory were demolished in 1842 to make way for the building of Tonbridge railway station ?
text: Did you know that 2006 National Capital Marathon winner Amos Tirop Matui was disqualified and received financial compensation due to a misplaced barrier on the course?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s, Domaine Armand Rousseau was one of the first producers to bottle its own wine in Burgundy ?
text: Did you know that " Make It Easy ", a Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125 ?
text: Did you know that during the 1658 Siege of Badajoz between Portugal and Spain , Spanish forces at the garrison of Badajoz were either dressed in rags or nude?
text: Did you know that according to a popular myth, the Chinese philosopher Confucius once asked the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy?
text: Did you know that American football running back Keith Elias graduated from Princeton University with 21 Princeton Tigers records and 4 National Collegiate Athletic Association I-AA records?
text: Did you know that after battling over who could use the name " Yes ", the musicians involved reconciled and released " Lift Me Up ", a number-one mainstream rock song about homelessness ?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Clitopilus byssisedoides , formally described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a German hothouse ?
text: Did you know that Manila 's Jai Alai Building , a building designed by Welton Becket , was demolished in 2000 to give way to a building that was never erected?
text: Did you know that the Al Wahda Dam is the largest dam in Morocco and was described as "the second most important dam in Africa after the High Aswan dam "?
text: Did you know that Indian badminton player Gurusai Datt took to the sport after watching 2001 All England Champion Pullela Gopichand play at a local stadium?
text: Did you know that jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"?
text: Did you know that the American electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter , Rusty Zinn , also recently worked with Sly Dunbar and Boris Gardiner ?
text: Did you know that in mid-1863, the Eighteen Mile House near Harrison, Ohio , was attacked by Morgan's Raiders ?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Boshears Skyfest was canceled because of the September 11 terrorist attacks ?
text: Did you know that Jean Charles Faget , a New Orleans physician, discovered the Faget sign —an important early diagnostic warning sign of yellow fever ?
text: Did you know that To‘rtko‘l , the former capital of Karakalpakstan , Uzbekistan , was destroyed overnight in 1942 by the Amu Darya river?
text: Did you know that Leroy Wright was the first repeat winner of the NCAA Division I men's basketball rebounds title , achieving the feat in 1959 and 1960?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Michael in the Dartmoor town of Princetown is the only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war ?
text: Did you know that the Poor Knights Lily resembles a giant toothbrush?
text: Did you know that historian Chester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that ranked Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal , Parupalli Kashyap , and Gurusai Datt all train at Hyderabad 's Gopichand Badminton Academy ?
text: Did you know that American Detroit and electric blues guitarist Willie D. Warren was once described as "one of the Midwest 's true blues treasures"?
text: Did you know that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that Hasan Pasha was the son of Barbarossa , and was three times ruler of the Algiers Regency ?
text: Did you know that the George B. Cox House in Cincinnati , Ohio , was the home of the city's political boss ?
text: Did you know that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that the modern given name Randal is ultimately derived from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning " shield " (or "rim") and " wolf "?
text: Did you know that Oneida I , by allowing aboriginal title claimants into federal court, "overturned one hundred forty-three years of American law "?
text: Did you know that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of martial law in Poland ?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift 's song " Speak Now " was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
text: Did you know that Riessersee was the host venue for the 1936 Winter Olympics for speed skating and some ice hockey matches, while the bobsleigh was located just south of the lake?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the 201 Schutzmannschaft Battalion was engaged in anti-partisan operations in Belarus ?
text: Did you know that Petter Nome was relieved of his job as television host after protesting the prospect of an Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that three ancient Maya stone heads, including one of an armadillo , were uncovered at Chojolom in the Guatemalan Highlands after a period of heavy rain?
text: Did you know that scientists have suggested that more penes needed to be studied to assess the affinities of Van Gelder's bat with other Antrozoini ?
text: Did you know that when St. Louis city officials blocked the expansion of the company that would become known as Burroughs Corporation , Alvan Macauley packed the entire factory into boxcars and sent it overnight to Detroit ?
text: Did you know that around 2,000 members of the media from around the world traveled to the site of the rescue of the Chilean miners?
text: Did you know that University of Kentucky All-American Forest Sale served for five terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives before bowing out of politics?
text: Did you know that the Étang Saumâtre in Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating from calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water?
text: Did you know that Pedro Borrell , the Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the Caribbean Sea ?
text: Did you know that Bach assigned two opposing voices to one singer in his cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109 , for the 21st Sunday after Trinity ?
text: Did you know that Perlman syndrome is a very rare overgrowth disorder with an estimated incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world literature?
text: Did you know that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable chain being lowered into a boat?
text: Did you know that American historian Terry H. Anderson co-authored with Charles R. Bond, Jr. the first published diary of the exploits of a pilot assigned to General Claire Chennault 's World War II Flying Tigers ?
text: Did you know that the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross diocesan community in Wisconsin was founded in 1868 to teach and provide medical care to the Belgian residents?
text: Did you know that Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey discusses both issues of the fair treatment of governesses and the ethical claim of animals to human protection?
text: Did you know that the father , mother , and father-in-law of Muhoozi Kainerugaba , Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People's Defence Force , are all members of the Cabinet of Uganda ?
text: Did you know that the passing of the Food Quality Protection Act marked the first time the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to directly address the risks that pesticides posed for infants and children?
text: Did you know that the German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
text: Did you know that James Turrell 's art installations Stuck Red and Stuck Blue create an optical illusion which seems to collapse the room they occupy into a single plane ?
text: Did you know that the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition managed to march the 2.6 t elephant Jumbo over the Alps , but could not make her accept the name Hannibella ?
text: Did you know that British peer Ted Hill lived in a terraced house in Wivenhoe ?
text: Did you know that Alexis Rockman 's mural Manifest Destiny , commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
text: Did you know that the Naskapi ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve in northern Quebec , Canada , as a prerequisite to the formation of their own reserve ?
text: Did you know that in 1970, Texas historian Robert A. Calvert co-authored The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL , an inside study of the financing and organization of the popular football team ?
text: Did you know that in 1833, the opium clipper Sylph set the unbroken record of sailing from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours?
text: Did you know that the Araçuaí River valley in Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of Minas Novas ?
text: Did you know that the incomplete structural test airframe of the Avro 720 is often claimed to be the prototype of the cancelled interceptor ?
text: Did you know that Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction"?
text: Did you know that Dennis Mackrel , the last jazz drummer to be personally hired by Count Basie , is the new director of the Count Basie Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that the Saxony Apartment Building in Cincinnati , Ohio , features two facades ?
text: Did you know that BPP University College of Professional Studies is the United Kingdom's first for-profit institution of higher education ?
text: Did you know that Herman G. Felhoelter was the first US Army chaplain to win a valor award in the Korean War for his actions at the Chaplain-Medic massacre ?
text: Did you know that English vocalist Sarah Brightman had to beg Italian composer Ennio Morricone to let her add lyrics to his movie theme , " Gabriel's Oboe ", to create her own song, " Nella Fantasia "?
text: Did you know that the Fort des Ayvelles was the scene of German executions of French civilians in both World War I and World War II ?
text: Did you know that in the Expedition of Mostaganem in 1558, Spain failed to capture the Ottoman -held city of Mostaganem , and lost thousands of men?
text: Did you know that Herb Wiedoeft , Ad and Gay all played Cinderella, and that their brother Rudy and their sister Erica were both players too?
text: Did you know that the Umayyad general Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik , who led the second Arab siege of Constantinople , was also ascribed the construction of the city's first mosque in popular legend?
text: Did you know that the Nairana class escort carriers of the Royal Navy were constructed in three different countries?
text: Did you know that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for his work with Barbra Streisand ?
text: Did you know that after the 1880 general election in the United Kingdom , the election of Macclesfield MP David Chadwick was declared void, and his agent convicted of bribery?
text: Did you know that EastCare is the critical care mobile air and ground transport of Pitt County Memorial Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis ' plans to construct a luxury hotel in view of Neuschwanstein Castle caused an uproar from local Bavarian farmers, who believed it would ruin the rural landscape?
text: Did you know that Antiguan professional basketball player Kurt Looby did not play high school basketball?
text: Did you know that the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig , by an African American string band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops , reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Bluegrass chart?
text: Did you know that Texas Tech professor emeritus Alwyn Barr , who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995 , and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Greek television series To Nisi , based on the best-selling novel The Island by Victoria Hislop , is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
text: Did you know that a U.S. appeals court declared the federal government was obliged to bring a lawsuit against the state of Maine , claiming 60% of the state's land on behalf of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot ?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, Sunn Classic Pictures specialized in four wall distribution , a practice in which distributors show their films in rented theaters and keep all of the box office revenue?
text: Did you know that Evangelical mysticism , a branch of Christianity , dates back to the 18th-century works by John Wesley , founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church ?
text: Did you know that after the Ottoman invasion of the Balearic islands in 1558 , over 3,000 inhabitants were taken as slaves ?
text: Did you know that country music songwriter Bill Rice has 73 awards from ASCAP , more than any other songwriter?
text: Did you know that, as part of the agreement to end the deadly Tarakan riot in 2010, the communities involved agreed to jointly hold an Idul Fitri celebration?
text: Did you know that the American boogie-woogie pianist and singer , Mose Vinson , recorded two versions of " Forty-Four ", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone"?
text: Did you know that the only airstrikes carried out by India in its own civilian territory happened during the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising ?
text: Did you know that in the 1945 general election , Harold Roberts was one of only three Conservative MPs elected in the English city of Birmingham ?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Pre-Code film Laughter in Hell drew praise for its open depiction of the lynching of African Americans ?
text: Did you know that Texas A&M historian Walter L. Buenger wrote articles on Texas entrepreneurs H. L. Hunt and Jesse H. Jones ?
text: Did you know that the blind and oval electric rays can barely swim, instead "walking" along the sea floor ?
text: Did you know that English former professional footballer Jimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won £ 200,000 on a single race?
text: Did you know that when sailors on board Almirante Latorre mutinied , one of their demands was for more sugar?
text: Did you know that Anita Martinez was the first Mexican American woman to serve on the city council of Dallas, Texas ?
text: Did you know that approximately 8% of commuters in Portland , Oregon , bike to work , the highest proportion of any major United States city?
text: Did you know that Reginald Laurence Scoones was the last British military commander in the Sudan Defence Force ?
text: Did you know that an elaborate, three-storey tomb memorializing Sir George Shirley inside the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill , Leicestershire , was constructed 20 years before his death?
text: Did you know that the Cold War led nations to subsidise foreign exchange programs to encourage student migration from developing countries ?
text: Did you know that in State of Missouri v. State of Iowa in 1849, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a border dispute between two states that had caused the " Honey War " of 1839?
text: Did you know that Ed Beisser won three consecutive AAU basketball national championships from 1946 to 1948 and was selected as an alternate for the United States men's national basketball team ?
text: Did you know that Internet service provider Fasthosts , sold for £ 61.5 million in 2006, was founded by a 17-year-old for a school project?
text: Did you know that completion of the Croatian A4 motorway on October 22 , 2008 marked completion of the Budapest – Zagreb – Rijeka motorway route?
text: Did you know that puppeteer Van Snowden , who performed the puppetry for the H.R. Pufnstuf and Crypt Keeper characters, also developed the facial movements for Furby toys?
text: Did you know that running back Gerald White played football for Bo Schembechler at Michigan , Tom Landry at Dallas and Don Shula at Miami ?
text: Did you know that tens of thousands of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried in multiple mass graves near Titanyen ?
text: Did you know that, during the height of the Cold War , the Canadian government drew up plans for mass arrests of communists and crypto-communists ?
text: Did you know that Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant will be the largest power plant in Ethiopia when fully operational, but has been accused of aiming "to provoke Egypt ’s anger"?
text: Did you know that the Rose Bowl was used as a velodrome as one of the venues of the 1932 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Louis Henkin slept on the couch of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on Friday nights so he could attend the justices' weekly Saturday conference without violating the Jewish Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter David Halberstam 's book The Breaks of the Game was listed as one of the best sports books ever written by Sports Illustrated ?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Atsede Habtamu set a new course record at the Eindhoven Marathon with her first marathon victory earlier this month?
text: Did you know that the release of Future X-Cops was delayed, as time was needed to enhance the quality of the film's special effects ?
text: Did you know that after winning his last fight via 10-second knockout due to head kick, English welterweight Mark Scanlon was signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship ?
text: Did you know that Shamkir reservoir is the second largest reservoir in the Caucasus ?
text: Did you know that American soprano Lauren Flanigan premiered the title role of Hugo Weisgall 's opera Esther at the New York City Opera in 1993?
text: Did you know that a 13-year-old girl discovered Grotte du Vallonnet , a cave in the Alpes-Maritimes of France that contained stone tools dated to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC ?
text: Did you know that a 1967 appeal by Felix Ziegel on Soviet television led to citizens submitting a barrage of supposed unidentified flying object sightings?
text: Did you know that Jameel Sayhood was shot down by Cesar Rodriguez mere minutes after achieving one of the few Iraqi aerial victories of the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that the term educology , referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Robert Tishman co-founded Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law Jerry Speyer , a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
text: Did you know that Chesham tube station on the Chesham branch is both the northernmost and westernmost point of the London Underground ?
text: Did you know that IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen had five caps in football , two in bandy and an Olympic silver medal in sailing ?
text: Did you know that even though it was released in 1932, the Pre-Code film The Devil is Driving deals openly with sex and violence?
text: Did you know that the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Cooper Rawson was a chairman of Durex Ltd?
text: Did you know that Codex Floriacensis , an Old Latin manuscript of the New Testament , begins from the Book of Revelation ?
text: Did you know that in 1995, Canada's lower Kazan River area, an important caribou crossing as well as the ancestral home of Harvaqtuurmiut , was designated the Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site ?
text: Did you know that despite suffering from asthma , Indian badminton player Parupalli Kashyap continues to play the sport?
text: Did you know that Silvio D'Amico , first editor of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts , gave his name to the state-funded Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico ?
text: Did you know that Rusty Mike Radio broadcasts over the internet to the two hundred and fifty thousand Anglos in Israel ?
text: Did you know that Robert L. Rutherford was the vice commander of the United States Air Force 's Military Airlift Command and commander of both the Air Mobility Command and United States Transportation Command ?
text: Did you know that Yvor Winters titled the third volume in his three-volume collection of literary criticism , examining the work of prominent writers associated with Modernist poetry , The Anatomy of Nonsense ?
text: Did you know that The Waybacks , a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay , played covers from The Beatles ' album Abbey Road at the 2010 MerleFest ?
text: Did you know that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror , Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
text: Did you know that Saint Mary's College Gaels men's basketball coach Randy Bennett turned around a team that was 2–27 in 2001 to 28–6 in 2010?
text: Did you know that Jovan Ćirilov has been the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival for 43 years, the longest term in the history of international theatre festivals ?
text: Did you know that the original publishers of The Lord of the Rings also released the Slavic mythology -based short story collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 30 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Texas A&M women's studies professor and historian Sara Alpern wrote the definitive biography of Freda Kirchwey , editor of The Nation from 1933 to 1955?
text: Did you know that the 1974 Oneida I decision, holding that U.S. federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear aboriginal title disputes, "spawned a vast number of Indian land claims"?
text: Did you know that a horse was added to the buttock of the central figure of The Street Enters the House as a nod to the artist's earlier work?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo paid US$ 1 million to build and furnish the four-story Rhinelander Mansion at Madison Avenue and 72nd Street in Manhattan , but never lived in it?
text: Did you know that Virginia Governor William E. Cameron was lampooned in a comic opera after he personally led a failed expedition against illegal dredgers in the Oyster Wars ?
text: Did you know that the directors of ForceSelect , a charitable foundation aimed at supporting military service leavers, include General Sir Mike Jackson and bestselling author Andy McNab ?
text: Did you know that, in 2004, Shikha Tandon became the first female Indian swimmer to qualify for two separate events at a single Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the San José Mine in Atacama Region , Chile , began to be exploited in 1889?
text: Did you know that French priest Jean-Claude Faveyrial wrote the first recorded history of Albania ?
text: Did you know that The Hangover 2 , the upcoming sequel to the 2009 comedy film , is set to take place in Thailand ?
text: Did you know that the British Conservative Party politician Francis Lucas married the daughter of a Viscount of Portugal ?
text: Did you know that nearly one-quarter of the Vrata Tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway is actually a bridge built over an underground cavern?
text: Did you know that Matthew Werkmeister almost missed out on his audition for Neighbours because his father refused to drive the five hours it took to get there?
text: Did you know that Wobogo 's given name was Boukary Koutou, and that he lived in perpetual fear of assassination, according to Dr. Crozat?
text: Did you know that after her sister was sunk in late 1917 while anchored right next to her, Budapest took on her role of being a floating barracks?
text: Did you know that San Beda College had a 28-year men's basketball championship drought until they won in the Philippine NCAA 's 82nd season ?
text: Did you know that " Smoke and Mirrors ", the season-two finale of the BAFTA Award-winning TV series Spooks , was watched by over a third of the British television audience?
text: Did you know that after Joe C. Carr enlisted during World War II , his wife took on his role as Tennessee Secretary of State , becoming the first female constitutional officer in the state?
text: Did you know that the Croatian A6 motorway crosses the Bajer Bridge , which spans Lake Bajer, and the Kamačnik Bridge , which spans a canyon that is protected landscape ?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic Wind Connection is a planned "superhighway for clean energy" to serve 1.9 million Mid-Atlantic households with power from wind farms to be built 20 miles (32 km) offshore?
text: Did you know that Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City is known for old mansions , theaters , and prostitution ?
text: Did you know that Entrepreneur magazine dubbed Michael Sedge "the wizard of marketing"?
text: Did you know that, despite being ejected from the " boot camp " stage of the Popstars talent show , Warren Stacey was signed by an American record label and went on to support Destiny's Child in concert?
text: Did you know that Elina Ringa , who was the Latvian national pole vault champion on ten occasions, has also published a book about Microsoft Office ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Edmund in Rochdale is unique among English churches for its overt Masonic symbolism ?
text: Did you know that entertainment news journalist Roger Friedman was one of the producers of D. A. Pennebaker 's documentary film about Memphis soul musicians, Only the Strong Survive ?
text: Did you know that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998) , the state constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriages , passed through the Twentieth Alaska Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays?
text: Did you know that as a result of the approaching Soviet Red Army , Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein and her family were forced to flee eastern Germany, leaving most of their possessions behind?
text: Did you know that in addition to being made an officer of the Order of Canada , Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?
text: Did you know that the 20 days between Dallas Braden's perfect game and Roy Halladay 's was the shortest span between two perfect games since 1880?
text: Did you know that the deck of Severinske Drage Viaduct , a part of the Croatian A6 motorway , is at a constant grade at one part of the viaduct, while vertically curved at the other?
text: Did you know that during the Spanish–American War the Spanish gunboat Elcano captured the American bark Saranac , which was carrying 1,640 tons of coal from Newcastle, NSW , for Admiral Dewey's fleet?
text: Did you know that the Liberty Green Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut , contains a time capsule that should be opened on 4 July 2976?
text: Did you know that Italian operatic tenor Lodovico Graziani was described as lacking "dramatic gifts"?
text: Did you know that the memorial in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church , Hadlow to the 30 hop-pickers who drowned in the River Medway on 20 October 1859 is Grade II listed ?
text: Did you know that Norman O. Houston co-founded what was, in 1945, the largest business west of the Mississippi owned by an African American ?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Vindex still used the Fairey Swordfish biplane ?
text: Did you know that Universal Pictures sold its 1946 horror B movie The Brute Man to another distributor to avoid accusations of having exploited star Rondo Hatton , who died of acromegaly before the film's release?
text: Did you know that Filipino basketball player Gabby Espinas lost the Most Valuable Player race during the 2005 NCAA season to a former volleyball star?
text: Did you know that the British Conservative Party politician Pierse Loftus was a part-owner of Adnams Brewery ?
text: Did you know that after Long Island University chancellor R. Gordon Hoxie forced provost William Birenbaum to resign, 1,500 students protested, chanting "We want Bill" and demanding Birenbaum's reinstatement?
text: Did you know that the Blue Monkey microbrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla Porter , and 99 Red Baboons?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone?
text: Did you know that Kenyan athlete Paul Malakwen Kosgei became the World Half Marathon Champion in 2002 despite having never competed in a half marathon before?
text: Did you know that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a tenement he owned to make way for 1 Lincoln Plaza , so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?
text: Did you know that Urraca the Asturian , born in 1132 as an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile , became queen in a neighboring kingdom in 1144?
text: Did you know that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little killer bees , be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
text: Did you know that Joan Henry 's Look on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of homosexuality to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain ?
text: Did you know that the Lugenda River of Mozambique in the Yao language means simply "a large river"?
text: Did you know that the successful 1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred Lafone in Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes?
text: Did you know that the World War II search and rescue dog Jet of Iada was awarded both the RSPCA 's Medallion of Valor and the Dickin Medal ?
text: Did you know that the chief of the Chilean Army 's meteorological office predicted the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake ten days in advance?
text: Did you know that when rugby union international player David Marques arrived with the British Lions in Australia , he stepped off the plane dressed as a city gent, complete with bowler hat and umbrella?
text: Did you know that the parallel structures of Croatia 's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
text: Did you know that Clyde Lucas and His California Dons recorded background music for some of the early talkies ?
text: Did you know that producers for the sixth season of The West Wing originally cast Marley Shelton as Deputy Press Secretary Annabeth Schott ?
text: Did you know that William Rule published the first comprehensive history of the American city of Knoxville ?
text: Did you know that the Messalo River flooded its banks in March 2000 during the 2000 Mozambique flood ?
text: Did you know that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the United Kingdom after the club's captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £ 1000 from the club's coffers?
text: Did you know that before a population crash due to overfishing , the annual catch of Bering Sea Tanner crab was as much as 332,000,000 pounds (151,000,000 kg)?
text: Did you know that influential American wine critic Robert Parker is satirised in the French bande dessinée comic book Robert Parker Les sept pêchés capiteux ( Robert Parker: The Seven Heady Sins )?
text: Did you know that Parfait-Louis Monteil made an epic land journey between 1890 and 1892 from Senegal in West Africa to Lake Chad and across the Sahara to Tripoli ?
text: Did you know that in the 1622 Siege of Montpellier , Huguenot troops were able to repel the Catholic troops of Louis XIII repeatedly, until the encounter had to end in negotiations?
text: Did you know that during the 2002 season , Ateneo de Manila University prevented a 14–0 sweep of De La Salle University-Manila en route to their first men's college basketball championship since 1988?
text: Did you know that The Hollies had seven number-one singles on Wonderful Radio London 's Fab 40 chart, six of which failed to top the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s ?
text: Did you know that the 1975 Indian film Jai Santoshi Maa propelled the then little-known "new" goddess Santoshi Mata to the pan-Indian Hindu pantheon?
text: Did you know that the worst coal mining disaster in Tyldesley occurred at Yew Tree Colliery, which became part of the Tyldesley Coal Company in 1870?
text: Did you know that the SWAT team was called in to restrain unruly fans during the 2003 UAAP semifinals ?
text: Did you know that the deck of the Zečeve Drage Viaduct follows both a horizontal and a vertical curve?
text: Did you know that Rich Iott , a first-time candidate in the 2010 House of Representatives elections in Ohio , came to media prominence due to his past participation in a World War II reenactment group?
text: Did you know that Al-Musta'in was the only Cairo -based Abbasid caliph to hold both political and spiritual power?
text: Did you know that the 1629 Siege of Privas was one of the last events of the French Huguenot rebellions , and that it ended in the total plunder and destruction of the city of Privas by the troops of Louis XIII ?
text: Did you know that Suiyo Seamount , a seamount near Japan , was thought to be extinct until a hydrothermal event in 1991 was brought to light?
text: Did you know that Harry Thorneycroft was the first British Labour candidate to receive a letter of support from Winston Churchill and other leaders of the coalition government ?
text: Did you know that in a gesture of appreciation for his service in the Spanish Civil War , International Brigades veteran Sam Lesser was offered honorary Spanish citizenship in 1996?
text: Did you know that the Swedish river monitor HMS Sköld had a combined hand and steam propulsion system designed by John Ericsson ?
text: Did you know that Seattle Community Access Network carried a TV show that ran uncensored pornography ?
text: Did you know that Ching Chong Song topped a poll in The Village Voice as the "Worst Band Name in New York"?
text: Did you know that English football captain Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a bracelet in Bogotá, Colombia , during the run-up to the 1970 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the dumping of slag into Kilbirnie Loch by the local ironworks unearthed a set of logboats and a crannóg ?
text: Did you know that, despite the stock market crash of 1929 , construction of the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle went ahead with a groundbreaking ceremony held in December of 1929?
text: Did you know that the English artist Henry Clarence Whaite was one of the central figures in the formation of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art , Wales' first art academy?
text: Did you know that Roy Roundtree was the leading receiver for the 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team even though he only started four games?
text: Did you know that, according to the Dallas Morning News , William Madison McDonald was "probably Texas ' first black millionaire"?
text: Did you know that Marshall Flaum , who won two Emmys for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau , earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature for Let My People Go: The Story of Israel in 1965?
text: Did you know that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the Mozambique – Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of Lake Malawi , and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
text: Did you know that King's Carpenter John Abel also designed a wooden tank called the Sow?
text: Did you know that the Constitution of Bhutan is based on Buddhist philosophy , International Conventions on Human Rights , public opinion, and existing laws, authorities, and precedents?
text: Did you know that Chris Deschene is the first Native American to run for Secretary of State in Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the Patron of the Auto-Cycle Union which oversees the British Motocross Championship is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip , the illicit son of a white planter and a slave, wrote Emmanuel Appadocca , the first Trinidadian novel?
text: Did you know that the demolition of Mount Carmel High School , a historic landmark in Los Angeles , was filmed for the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School ?
text: Did you know that despite being the largest church in Shrewsbury , Shropshire , St Mary's was declared redundant in 1987?
text: Did you know that, during Sulla's civil wars , Romans were killed if the consul Gaius Marius did not nod to them in response to a conversation?
text: Did you know that Lom prisoner of war camp , operated by the 2nd Division during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign , held both German PoWs and Norwegians suspected of collaborationism ?
text: Did you know that soul singer and songwriter Brenda Lee Eager has written and performed in a musical theatre show based on her own life story?
text: Did you know that rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times?
text: Did you know that the Italian tanker Gianna M was captured by the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Hilary in 1941?
text: Did you know that Sakis Rouvas became the first Greek artist to have his own fashion label with the launch of the Sakis Rouvas Collection in October 2010?
text: Did you know that thawing ice forced four of the ice hockey matches at the 1932 Winter Olympics to move from an outdoor venue to an indoor one?
text: Did you know that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco 's Lombard Street ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish monitor Folke was designed opposite of her sister ships , with a gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
text: Did you know that thawing of the ice rink venue during the 1928 Winter Olympics led to the cancellation of the 10,000 m speed skating event?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine general Manuel the Armenian achieved the highest Byzantine military ranks, defected to the Abbasids , escaped back, and saved emperor Theophilos from captivity?
text: Did you know that Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a Grammy Award and a Platinum certification for his album Segundo Romance in the United States?
text: Did you know that Hyderabad -born Asher Noria is the only shooter in the world to win the double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
text: Did you know that architectural historians have described the Norman chancel arch of St James' Church, Stirchley , Shropshire , as "quite incongruously ornate"?
text: Did you know that Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse was depicted on a 1955 Huntley & Palmer biscuit tin ?
text: Did you know that Oatka Creek disappears from an area north of Le Roy, New York , during the summer months?
text: Did you know that Tenczyn Castle was captured and pillaged because of a rumor that the Polish Crown Jewels were hidden in its walls?
text: Did you know that St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham contains wall paintings dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries, painted on top of each other up to seven layers thick?
text: Did you know that Sofie is the first surgical robot to return tactile information back to the operating surgeon?
text: Did you know that Dinesh Dhamija went from selling tickets in a London tube station kiosk to a net worth of over £ 100m?
text: Did you know that Podvugleš Tunnel is separated from neighboring Javorova Kosa Tunnel by a 30-metre (98 ft) section of the Croatian A6 motorway ?
text: Did you know that Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine won an Ig Nobel Prize for research on treating hiccups with digital rectal massage?
text: Did you know that Adam of Kilconquhar , first husband of Robert the Bruce 's mother Marjory of Carrick , died on crusade at Acre in 1271?
text: Did you know that Philipsburg Manor , one of the four main manors of the Province of New York , was dissolved in 1779 because its owner was a loyalist ?
text: Did you know that the Top Pops chart , which ran for less than three years, had 15 number-one singles that failed to top the official UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that the al-'Awasim was the fortified frontier zone established by the Ummayad and Abbasid caliphates along their border with the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you know that the tower of St Bartholomew's Church, Richard's Castle , Herefordshire , is detached from the body of the church, standing about 10 metres (33 ft) to its east?
text: Did you know that the BSA B50 SS motorcycle proved its credentials by winning the 500 cc class in the Thruxton 500 and the Barcelona 24-hour endurance race?
text: Did you know that the New Academy , an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in Moscopole , Albania , was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
text: Did you know that fetuses of the endangered Giant Panda have been artificially grown in the womb of a cat?
text: Did you know that plans to restore the derelict Leah's Yard in Sheffield, England , have been put on hold because of government budget cuts ?
text: Did you know that Ekgmowechashala was the only North American genus of primate during the Late Oligocene ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey won the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions in both 1996 and 1998 , but the 1996–97 team had the best record?
text: Did you know that Figaro was brought back in 2008 for the Australian and northern sawtail catsharks ?
text: Did you know that the New Jersey Historical Commission established the Mildred Barry Garvin Prize to recognize educators in the state for outstanding teaching of African-American history ?
text: Did you know that, earlier this month, Leon Baptiste won England 's first gold medal for sprinting at the Commonwealth Games in over a decade?
text: Did you know that the first battle of the Crimean War led to an increased usage of the name Alma ?
text: Did you know that Robert Lee Bobbitt , a prominent Texas politician of the 1920s and 1930s , was a presidential elector in 1944 for the Roosevelt - Truman ticket?
text: Did you know that a series of novels based on the tale of Sleeping Beauty was removed from the Columbus Metropolitan Library in 1996?
text: Did you know that the Double-O Ranch Historic District in Harney County , Oregon , was once owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley and is now part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ?
text: Did you know that Gin Pit was the first colliery belonging to Astley and Tyldesley Collieries , and its name suggests it had horse-driven winding gear and was on the site of even older coal workings?
text: Did you know that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"?
text: Did you know that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932 Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
text: Did you know that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured?
text: Did you know that William W. Norton wrote scripts for films starring John Wayne and Burt Reynolds , but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your IQ is low enough"?
text: Did you know that Papua New Guinean Anglican archbishop Sir George Ambo was "the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop", in 1960?
text: Did you know that Robert Levin reconstructed for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage missing parts of Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162 ?
text: Did you know that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m 2 ) wave pool at Hyderabad 's Jalavihar , which is the largest in India , can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
text: Did you know that, during the 2010 Winter Olympics , Stephen Colbert visited Pride House Vancouver, which is located in the LGBT community centre Qmunity ?
text: Did you know that English photographer Greg Williams used a high-resolution video camera to create a photograph of Megan Fox for the cover of Esquire magazine?
text: Did you know that Lake Sausacocha in Peru is one of the rare Andean lakes with acidic waters?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler and Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the congregation comprised only his dog"?
text: Did you know that during the 16th century, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Preston Deanery , Northamptonshire , was used as a dog kennel and a pigeon house?
text: Did you know that French comedy actor Louis de Funès made his film debut at the age of 31 with a 40-second appearance in The Temptation of Barbizon ?
text: Did you know that the 2010–11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is coming off its first year with a postseason victory since the 1998–99 team won two games in the 1999 National Invitation Tournament ?
text: Did you know that native Pennsylvanian Alexander Fulton named the Louisiana city that he founded, Alexandria , after himself?
text: Did you know that the generation of Husák's Children was named after a communist president of Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia School of Circus Arts teaches static trapeze , corde lisse , lyra , unicycling , tightwire , and Chinese acrobatics ?
text: Did you know that Prince Abbas Hilmi , a great-grandson of both the last Ottoman sultan and the last Ottoman caliph , was the first foreign member of the London Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that the Grandview Apostolic Church was the second-oldest church in Brown County, Indiana , until it was burned last July?
text: Did you know that physician Charles de Lorme (1584–1678) prescribed an eye cosmetic concoction to French kings Henry IV and Louis XIII as a medicine?
text: Did you know that the anonymous 6th-century treatise About the Mystery of the Letters interpreted the three Greek numeral signs Digamma (6), Koppa (90) and Sampi (900) as mystical symbols of the Holy Trinity ?
text: Did you know that James Kennedy Patterson , the first president of the University of Kentucky , once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations?
text: Did you know that the deciding game of the 2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals was played a day before the 29th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila at the same venue ?
text: Did you know that baritone Georges Baklanoff created the title role in Sergei Rachmaninoff 's The Miserly Knight at the Bolshoi Theatre , Moscow in 1906?
text: Did you know that St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals , Shropshire , has been the chancel of a medieval church, the south aisle of a 19th century church, and is now a free-standing structure?
text: Did you know that when a diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a JetBlue flight, David Barger , now the company's CEO , personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
text: Did you know that after recovering from polio as a 12-year old, Leo Byrd went on to win a gold medal with the United States men's basketball team at the 1959 Pan American Games ?
text: Did you know that the father Snares Snipe looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the mother takes care of the second?
text: Did you know that in 1997, Marko Račič became the only Slovenian to receive the Gold Badge of the European Athletic Association ?
text: Did you know that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to tablet devices ?
text: Did you know that, after Bobby Godsell had resigned as Chairman of South African company Eskom in 2009, he was accused of racism but defended by both the Mineworkers Union and the ANC ?
text: Did you know that the 2009–10 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned the first postseason college basketball victory for Princeton since the 1999 National Invitation Tournament ?
text: Did you know that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative Susisuchus was one of the first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming?
text: Did you know that Tuhobić Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway route?
text: Did you know that Super Heavyweight Sean McCorkle has been nicknamed "The Hater", "The Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his nickname "to keep it interesting"?
text: Did you know that Edentulina moreleti is the only known herbivorous streptaxid ?
text: Did you know that Edward Elgar may have played on the organ of the now- redundant Pendock Church ?
text: Did you know that Kenneth North was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War for almost six years?
text: Did you know that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of Jarrow ?
text: Did you know that Creation Records , Superdry and Viz magazine were all started with funding from the Enterprise Allowance Scheme ?
text: Did you know that as a Federal Reserve System governor, Sherman J. Maisel served on a White House task force that suggested that Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae play a greater role in funding mortgages for homebuyers?
text: Did you know that at the end of the first game of the 2005 UAAP men's basketball finals , a De La Salle University-Manila assistant team manager ran onto the court and hit opposing player Arwind Santos in the back of the head?
text: Did you know that English courtier Isabella Markham , the love object and muse of poet John Harington , was the daughter of his former jailer?
text: Did you know that shots fired by Johnny Edgecombe into the door of the flat where his girlfriend was visiting led to disclosure of the Profumo Affair , a scandal which brought down UK War Secretary John Profumo ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 College Baseball All-America Team included four future Major League Baseball All-Stars : Nomar Garciaparra , Jason Varitek , Danny Graves and Mike Hampton ?
text: Did you know that from the widow's walk of the Samuel May Williams House people could watch horse races at the nearby race track?
text: Did you know that the British businessman and Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Horne owned most of the village of Shackleford in Surrey?
text: Did you know that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta brushi lives at 5,930 m (19,460 ft) in the Chilean Andes , higher than any other crustacean in the world?
text: Did you know that from the late 1860s, Danish photographer Kristen Feilberg captured many of the earliest images of the landscapes and peoples of Borneo , Sumatra and Singapore ?
text: Did you know that a Washington, DC , legend states that a Demon Cat lives in the basement crypts at Capitol Hill ?
text: Did you know that according to studies published by The Alliance for Safe Children , in Bangladesh every day an estimated 46 children die from drowning ?
text: Did you know that the parasitic mushroom Pholiota squarrosa may smell like garlic, lemon, radish, onion, or skunk?
text: Did you know that Lake Amaramba is a shallow lake in Mozambique near the border with Malawi , located in the Nyasa plateau?
text: Did you know that Herb Wilkinson , a devout Mormon , quit his professional basketball job with the Minneapolis Lakers because they made him play on Sundays?
text: Did you know that Texas Republican politician Jack Cox lost important races to two better-known candidates, John Connally and George Herbert Walker Bush ?
text: Did you know that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative Susisuchus was one of the first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming?
text: Did you know that Jim Tuck named his pioneering fusion power system the Perhapsatron , reflecting his skepticism that it would actually work?
text: Did you know that the animal characters in ABC 's 1986 primetime special, The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure , were based on biblical figures?
text: Did you know that British Cheney Racing hand-built motorcycles can take over 400 hours to complete?
text: Did you know that the Emancipation Proclamation was ceremoniously read on the 140th anniversary of its signing under the oak tree where Mary Smith Peake taught children of former slaves in 1861?
text: Did you know that Ch. Rocky Top's Sundance Kid is the most successful Colored Bull Terrier show dog of all time?
text: Did you know that Nevada politician Sharron Angle serves as a legislative chairwoman for the National Foundation for Women Legislators ?
text: Did you know that in a 1988 administrative law judgment, the High Court of Singapore held that an alien allowed to enter the country for a fixed period has no legitimate expectation of staying a day longer?
text: Did you know that though his work usually appeared to have been painted very quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You might call me a fake Zen painter"?
text: Did you know that Ralph A. Loveys left an Assembly seat from the 26th Legislative District to chair the New Jersey Turnpike Authority , but quit after Governor James Florio would not support his toll increase plan?
text: Did you know that the mushrooms Mycena clariviolacea , M. fonticola , M. fuscoaurantiaca , M. intersecta , M. lanuginosa , M. multiplicata , M. mustea , and M. nidificata , newly described in 2007, are only known from Kanagawa , Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Gwich'yaa , easternmost of the Gwich’in groups in Alaska , derive income from trapping and from selling handicrafts ?
text: Did you know that Bailey's Hotel , founded by British politician James Bailey , attracted many wealthy and foreign guests – including Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor , who lived out his last days in the hotel in 1895?
text: Did you know that five players from the 1969–70 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team were selected in the NBA Draft ?
text: Did you know that Bird class patrol vessels were so unsuccessful that they were never used in their designed role?
text: Did you know that the Kebbi Emirate in Nigeria is one of the " seven bastard kingdoms " whose rulers trace their lineage back to a Hausa king's concubine ?
text: Did you know that there is a 9 ft bronze statue of the founder of the American SPCA , Henry Bergh , petting an injured dog, standing in Milwaukee since 1891?
text: Did you know that St Nicholas of Myra's Church, Ozleworth , has one of the only two hexagonal towers in Gloucestershire ?
text: Did you know that folk singers Kathy & Carol released their second album 45 years after their debut?
text: Did you know that to honour Jaguar Cars ' 75th anniversary, the carmaker developed the Jaguar C-X75 , a plug-in hybrid two-seat concept car which debuted at the 2010 Paris Motor Show ?
text: Did you know that Brian Rose was Somerset County Cricket Club's most successful captain , leading the side to five one-day trophies in as many years?
text: Did you know that, in pre-independence Swaziland , French was taught in the colony's three White-only high schools?
text: Did you know that at the helm of United Artists , Andy Albeck oversaw production of Raging Bull , a film considered one of the greatest ever , and Heaven's Gate , the biggest box office bomb at the time?
text: Did you know that Len Garrison 's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
text: Did you know that trumpeter Gracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander Owen memorial scholarship in 1942—and won by an unprecedented 21-point margin?
text: Did you know that when Helmut de Boor taught at the University of Bern , his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
text: Did you know that Jack Parkinson passed up a Major League Baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds to play for Adolph Rupp and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team ?
text: Did you know that The CW Television Network plans to develop an adaption of the hit German sitcom Danni Lowinski , marking the first time a German TV series is adapted for American audiences?
text: Did you know that the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center was created in July 2008 to protect American consumers from potentially harmful trade goods?
text: Did you know that one of the 15 bridges in Vrnjačka Banja , Serbia , is the Bridge of Love , enclosed by love padlocks ?
text: Did you know that John Douglas conducted more than 50 opera productions at Temple University ?
text: Did you know that the southernmost section of the Wellington Fault in North Island , New Zealand , has moved at a rate of 6.0–7.6 mm (0.24–0.30 in) per year for the last 140,000 years, shown by the offset of dated river terraces ?
text: Did you know that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916 , the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
text: Did you know that, while serving in the Solomon Islands during World War II , Austin Volk discovered a river which he named "Brown Bear River" in honor of his alma mater , Brown University ?
text: Did you know that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch , aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
text: Did you know that the Hero's Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal are currently the highest and second-highest military decoration in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam , included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?
text: Did you know that despite using clean coal , Prairie State Energy Campus , due to go online in August 2011 , may become the largest source of carbon dioxide built in the United States in a quarter-century?
text: Did you know that St Wilfrid's Church and its rectory in Ribchester , Lancashire , were constructed in the 13th century of sandstone rubble ?
text: Did you know that in his final season as Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coach , John Thompson III led the 2003–04 team to the 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
text: Did you know that the world's littlest skyscraper , located in downtown Wichita Falls , Texas , is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)?
text: Did you know that a "temporary" regent of Nigeria 's Idoani Confederacy ended up ruling the state for over 14 years, as the chiefs couldn't agree on the succession ?
text: Did you know that in 1883, after Robert Russ was persuaded to donate 600 acres (240 ha) of land for a new townsite in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana , the town was called Russ Town—today the city of Ruston and the parish seat ?
text: Did you know that a student-run high school station is the only oldies radio station in the market of Knoxville, Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch Ter Apel Monastery , founded by the Croziers , used to make money by selling loam , dug from land owned by the neighboring hamlet of Weerdinge , to the hamlet of Roswinkel ?
text: Did you know that Albanian Grand Vizier Davud Pasha built the largest public baths in the Balkans ?
text: Did you know that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in Belize has revealed evidence of a Mayan city?
text: Did you know that Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey , as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
text: Did you know that Redline , Madhouse 's latest anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
text: Did you know that portable palisades carried by Texians at the Battle of Velasco were completely ineffective against Mexican gunfire?
text: Did you know that soprano Dolores Wilson lamented that "the Italian I'd learned by studying operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and tragic love affairs"?
text: Did you know that a deadly anti-Semitic riot involving approximately 10,000 people erupted in Warsaw in 1922 in response to a planned concert of Yiddish song by soprano Isa Kremer ? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Isa Kremer and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Archive 7#Did you know? 18:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC) , as well as at WT:DYK#Printing corrections and apologies .)
text: Did you know that Holly Madison 's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
text: Did you know that by taking the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 Princeton Tigers basketball teams to the National Invitational Tournament , coach Bill Carmody achieved the Ivy League record for career winning percentage?
text: Did you know that in 1418 Margery Kempe was tried for Lollardy in All Saints Church, Leicester ?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared the 1982 military coup led by General Hussain Muhammad Ershad to be illegal?
text: Did you know that in 1860 schoolteacher Thomas Hopley was found guilty of manslaughter for the beating to death of a student described as "stolid and stupid"?
text: Did you know that a human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"?
text: Did you know that the Lombardy Apartment Building has been named one of the Cincinnati region's best examples of late 19th century urban Victorian architecture ?
text: Did you know that the Superintendent of the Otago Province , John Hyde Harris , would have played an even more important role in New Zealand politics but for his difficult financial situation?
text: Did you know that jazz musician Phil Moore arranged and worked on the scores of over 30 films ?
text: Did you know that the 1979–80 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team of the Ivy League played seven games against participants in the 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament , although they did not play in the tournament themselves?
text: Did you know that the character Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars was inspired after George Lucas suggested that the bounty hunter in the series should go Western ?
text: Did you know that even though it was outside the city at the time, the medieval Church of St George in Kyustendil , Bulgaria , was Kyustendil's cathedral until 1816?
text: Did you know that Bill Andriette was 15 years old when he joined the pedophile organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) ?
text: Did you know that Bryant Fleming 's 1927 renovations to the Keeney House in Le Roy, New York , made it a more purely Federal-style building?
text: Did you know that the first Orthodox Christian service ever held in Canada was conducted by the Russian Church and took place in 1897 in the tiny hamlet of Wostok, Alberta ?
text: Did you know that with his appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1979, Stephen Lachs was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United States?
text: Did you know that one of the venues of the 1904 Summer Olympics was Forest Park , the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ?
text: Did you know that Kalaallit Jørgen Brønlund was a member of the 1902–1903 Danish Literary Greenland Expedition, along with Knud Rasmussen , Harald Moltke , and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen ?
text: Did you know that John Thompson III led the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team to postseason tournaments in his first two seasons as head coach in 2000–01 and 2001–02 ?
text: Did you know that Archaeomarasmius , Aureofungus , Coprinites , Palaeoagaracites , and Protomycena are the only five genera of agaric mushrooms known from the fossil record?
text: Did you know that Sean Morton claims that, while in India , Nepalese monks taught him the secret of time travel ?
text: Did you know that Alms and Doepke was once the leading dry goods company in the region of Cincinnati , Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence , philosophy , and cognitive science ?
text: Did you know that coach Pete Carril led the 1995–96 Princeton Tigers to an upset in the 1996 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament , and successor Bill Carmody led the 1996–97 and 1997–98 teams back to the Tournament?
text: Did you know that the hamlet of Trefasser , Pembrokeshire , is said to be named either after Asser , a friend and biographer of Alfred the Great , or Asser's nephew, Asser Meneventsis, a Benedictine monk ?
text: Did you know that the Girl Scout National Center West outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming , was one of the largest encampments in the world, covering 14,600–15,400 acres of rugged wilderness?
text: Did you know that Charles Joseph Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall were founder-shareholders in the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. along with Pre-Raphaelite artist William Morris ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish warship that fought in the Action of 13 June 1898 would later serve in the Venezuelan Navy ?
text: Did you know that the centrepiece of the Messner Mountain Museum , established by Italian mountaineer , Reinhold Messner , is at Sigmundskron Castle near Bolzano , and focuses on man's encounter with the mountains ?
text: Did you know that Hyderabad -based Snow World was India 's first and the world's biggest snow themed park at the time of its opening in 2004?
text: Did you know that the 1987–88 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team holds the national record for single-season three point field goal percentage and individuals on that team hold the career and single-season Ivy League records?
text: Did you know that Sava River Bridge carrying the A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981?
text: Did you know that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was the flagship of Admiral Rozhestvensky at the Battle of Tsushima ?
text: Did you know that despite its general accuracy, Carnegie Mellon's Never-Ending Language Learning semantic learning tool came to the conclusion that Internet cookies were a kind of baked good ?
text: Did you know that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years?
text: Did you know that Barton Kay Kirkham was the last prisoner to be hanged by the state of Utah ?
text: Did you know that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas was founded by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad in 1993 to oversee the construction of a Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya ?
text: Did you know that the 1986–87 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team led the nation in field goal percentage ?
text: Did you know that in 2004, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated a dedicated stem cell research center at Hyderabad's L. V. Prasad Eye Institute ?
text: Did you know that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused for the 2004 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that a spontaneous strike in Oslo in 1941 , due to lack of milk , led to martial law , court-martial , executions, and mass arrests ?
text: Did you know that the Tokuyama Dam is the largest dam by volume in Japan and also creates the country's largest reservoir by volume?
text: Did you know that Fleet Air Arm squadrons on the Attacker class escort carriers sank six U-Boats during the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned four consecutive invitations to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament , where the 1988–89 , 1989–90 , 1990–91 and 1991–92 teams lost by a combined total of 15 points?
text: Did you know that Kremlin adviser Georgy Arbatov acknowledged that the Soviet Union had lost the Cold War , but insisted that the United States had suffered too by losing "The Enemy"?
text: Did you know that during the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (ca. 1518–1687), water from Hyderabad 's Durgam Cheruvu lake was supplied to the residents of Golconda Fort ?
text: Did you know that during the 18th century, St Gregory's Church, Fledborough , Nottinghamshire , was regarded as "the Gretna Green of the Midlands"?
text: Did you know that High Court Justice Thomas Dickson Archibald was one of 19 children?
text: Did you know that while Comstock Lode mining millionaire Sandy Bowers claimed he had money to throw at birds, Samuel Clemens described Bowers as "miraculously ignorant"?
text: Did you know that Louis-Guillaume Perreaux was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869?
text: Did you know that, in Lesotho , English replaces Sotho as the medium of instruction after the fourth year of primary school ?
text: Did you know that Mark Friedman , founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in Warminster , Pennsylvania , as the hardest job he ever did?
text: Did you know that the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive broke the siege of Leningrad ?
text: Did you know that Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders won the Victoria Cross for playing the bagpipes whilst wounded and under fire, in the British attack on the Dargai Heights in 1897?
text: Did you know that in 1958, Texas Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Whittenburg proposed the direct election of United States Supreme Court justices?
text: Did you know that the 1980–81 , 1982–83 , and 1983–84 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams all went to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
text: Did you know that Encosta De Lago 's service fee rose to AUD$ 302,500 in the 2008 season, during which he served 227 mares who produced 166 live foals?
text: Did you know that in the week that " When It Rains, It Pours " originally aired , 30 Rock was the only Thursday program whose ratings did not fall from its season premiere ?
text: Did you know that Wheatland , the former home of the 15th US President , James Buchanan , was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Nora W. Tyson became the first woman to command a United States Navy aircraft carrier task group when she was chosen to command Carrier Strike Group Two ?
text: Did you know that the Desert Mothers were Christian ascetics and hermits who lived in the desert of Egypt during the 4th and 5th centuries?
text: Did you know that the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike in the United Kingdom led to the first UK legislation aimed at ending pay discrimination between men and women?
text: Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Neptune was deemed "a white elephant , being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
text: Did you know that John Albert Taylor chose to be executed by firing squad to embarrass the state of Utah ?
text: Did you know that due to his intense fear of flying , Bill Green was never able to play for the NBA 's Boston Celtics ?
text: Did you know that the apex organisation of Hindu saints , the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad , has welcomed the 2010 Ayodhya verdict , saying it will prevent further political exploitation of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple issue ?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s Pete Carril led two Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament – the 1975–76 and 1976–77 teams ?
text: Did you know that Élie Barnavi , an Israeli historian and a former Israeli ambassador to France, has called for an independent inquiry into the controversial Muhammad al-Durrah incident ?
text: Did you know that Washington, D.C. 's Capital Bikeshare is expected to become the largest bicycle sharing system in the U.S. when fully deployed, offering 1,100 bicycles and 110 stations?
text: Did you know that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb?
text: Did you know that the dog Old Jock , born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern Fox Terrier ?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Morgan Trent was a sprinter for the Michigan track team and set indoor state track records in the 60-yard dash and 200-meter run?
text: Did you know that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of Venosa , owner of Italian wine estate Fiorano , considered the white mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?
text: Did you know that, due to a compromise between the National Basketball Association and its player union , players banned "permanently" for substance abuse are allowed to be reinstated after two years?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church in Wilton , Wiltshire , was restored by Robert Bingham , the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom , whose ancestor Robert de Bingham was consecrated there in 1229?
text: Did you know that Prenkë Jakova wrote Mrika , the first Albanian opera , which premiered in 1958?
text: Did you know that the extinct Protosialis casca is one of only two known alderflies from the West Indies ?
text: Did you know that the Fifth Dalai Lama was installed as supreme ruler of Tibet in the 17th century at Shigatse Dzong by Mongol ruler Güshi Khan ?
text: Did you know that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first motorcycles , the steam-powered, penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
text: Did you know that chemical analysis of remains from Herod the Great 's Royal Stoa supports Josephus ' account of the Roman destruction of the Temple Mount in a great conflagration ?
text: Did you know that California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia , a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of expulsion ?
text: Did you know that in the comedic documentary The Standard of Perfection: Show Cats some show cat owners treat their cats better than family?
text: Did you know that the North Korean 766th Independent Infantry Regiment lost half its men during the Battle of P'ohang-dong in 1950?
text: Did you know that although the 1971–72 and 1974–75 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams did not win the Ivy League , they both played in the postseason in the National Invitation Tournament , and were champions in 1975 ?
text: Did you know that the rock garden in Indira Park , Hyderabad, India , is an award-winning design of 2001 by the then commissioner of customs and excise duty ?
text: Did you know that four-time NFL All-Pro safety Rick Volk spent two days in an intensive-care unit after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Jets fullback Matt Snell in Super Bowl III ?
text: Did you know that Katrin Zytomierska is one of the most-read bloggers in Sweden ?
text: Did you know that the Taft Homes of Peoria , Illinois , were originally built in 1952 as a temporary means of shelter for veterans returning from the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that Kermit the Frog asked Sesame Street adviser Gerald S. Lesser "when you get back to Harvard , how are you going to explain that you spent all day in New York talking to a frog"?
text: Did you know that in Bach's cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity , Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen, BWV 48 , a trumpet plays a chorale in canon with two oboes ?
text: Did you know that HMS Avenger was the only aircraft carrier to take part in Convoy PQ 18 , one of the Arctic convoys of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Princeton Tigers men's basketball won or shared the Ivy League regular season championship in both of Pete Carril 's first two years as head coach in 1968 and 1969 ?
text: Did you know that Edward Thorndike and company counted 18,000,000 words by hand to create the first English language words frequency list of its size?
text: Did you know that the town of Lice, Turkey , was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the earthquake in 1975 , with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later?
text: Did you know that Mekia Cox can be seen dancing with Michael Jackson to the song " The Way You Make Me Feel " in This Is It ?
text: Did you know that Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , who renounced his claim to the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1909, later claimed he had been forced to by being locked up in an insane asylum ?
text: Did you know that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete his floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008 European Championships ?
text: Did you know that the bracketed sic , while sometimes used to insinuate ignorance of a source, may also reflect upon the user's own ignorance of American and British English spelling differences ?
text: Did you know that during his five seasons as head coach of Princeton Tigers men's basketball , Butch van Breda Kolff , who retired with the highest all-time career Ivy League winning percentage, led the team to four Ivy League championships: 1963 , 1964 , 1965 , and 1967 ?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century " Frenchman's Garden " in Maisland , New Jersey , was responsible for the spread of the non-native Lombardy poplar throughout the United States?
text: Did you know that the British central battery ironclad HMS Audacious grounded twice while she was transiting through the Suez Canal despite the presence of escorting tugs ?
text: Did you know that discards from commercial fishing ships are a major food source for black dogfish in the northwestern Atlantic ?
text: Did you know that Andre Weathers returned interceptions for game-winning touchdowns against Ohio State in Michigan's 1997 national championship season and in his first NFL game in 1999?
text: Did you know that NATO nations periodically deploy fighter aircraft to Iceland under the Icelandic Air Policing mission as the country does not have an air force ?
text: Did you know that the Penicillium fungus in blue cheese is parasexual ?
text: Did you know that Mike Martin won consecutive high school state championships in both wrestling and shot put and has been called "the Most Valuable Player Not Named Denard " on the 2010 Michigan football team ?
text: Did you know that Sir Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize mainly due to his experiments on malaria at the then Begumpet military hospital in Hyderabad ?
text: Did you know that in a 2010 game against Notre Dame , Stanford football player Owen Marecic scored touchdowns on offense and defense —and did so within 13 game seconds?
text: Did you know that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduces, but does not eliminate, the disparity in criminal penalties for crack versus powder cocaine in the United States?
text: Did you know that Sir Anand Satyanand , the first Governor-General of New Zealand of Indian descent, attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Delhi , India ?
text: Did you know that the Holy Cross Church in Burley, Rutland , contains a memorial to Lady Charlotte Finch , governess to the children of George III ?
text: Did you know that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide rule and my diploma from the University of Havana " and became known as "Mr. New York"?
text: Did you know that after playing basketball for the Chicago Stags , Gene Rock joined the Los Angeles Police Department and was eventually promoted to captain ?
text: Did you know that James St. Clair Morton was the only general during the American Civil War to voluntarily reduce his rank?
text: Did you know that the explosive charge in some Canadian pipe mines would soon deteriorate into a porridge-like mush?
text: Did you know that despite receiving a budget allocation in 2003, the public sports stadium in Gibeon, Namibia hadn't been repaired as of December 2007?
text: Did you know that stockbroker Fulham Davies managed to keep open the Merrill Lynch office in Little Rock , Arkansas , during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on public roads ?
text: Did you know that Bill Henry was listed as Rice University 's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game ?
text: Did you know that snooker player Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament at the 2004 European Open in Malta ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Katz became a League of Nations envoy in Nanjing after he escaped from Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that Castle of Park , near Glenluce , Scotland , has "commodious closets "?
text: Did you know that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York , post office was officially renamed in memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year?
text: Did you know that Capricorn Silvereyes are not only socially, but also genetically, monogamous ?
text: Did you know that the salt-shaker earthstar is distinguished from other earthstar fungi by the presence of numerous holes on top of its spore sac?
text: Did you know that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch , Herefordshire, is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed Roman altar?
text: Did you know that KaBOOM! founder Darell Hammond was raised in a group home with his seven siblings?
text: Did you know that Spring Canyon, Utah , the largest coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah , was abandoned in 1969 and nothing remains of the town except a railroad trestle ?
text: Did you know that Don Doll , the only player in NFL history to register 10 or more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the Marines ?
text: Did you know that Sverre Iversen , Norway's first director of the Director of Labour , took voice classes in order to work himself up from being a mason ?
text: Did you know that even though Wesleyan missionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
text: Did you know that architect Togo Murano designed the first class lounge and dining room for the luxury liner Argentina Maru that was sunk in World War II after being converted into an aircraft carrier ?
text: Did you know that Princeton coach Franklin Cappon led the 1958–59 and 1959–60 teams to the Ivy League basketball championships, but a heart attack caused him to give up control of the champion 1960–61 team ?
text: Did you know that Tore Holden was chosen as host of the Norwegian version of the Swedish game show BingoLotto without prior TV host experience?
text: Did you know that the commune of Hiesville has three memorials related to the invasion of Normandy during World War II in the area as it was where the gliders of the 101st Airborne Division landed?
text: Did you know that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in North American horticulture", while their gardens in Vermont were said to represent "American gardening at its best"?
text: Did you know that the recently described extinct penguin Inkayacu from the Eocene of Peru is postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and white feathers of living penguins?
text: Did you know that James Stovall created Nativity: A Life Story as an African American -themed annual musical Nativity play intended to rival the Radio City Christmas Spectacular ?
text: Did you know that the Place d'Armes in Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground for the troops defending the city?
text: Did you know that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Inez Haynes Gillmore 's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
text: Did you know that Steve Munisteri , the chairman of the Texas Republican Party , met his former wife on a bus trip from Austin to Kansas City to attend the 1976 Republican National Convention ?
text: Did you know that the St. James Theatre, Auckland underwent renovations in preparation for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II , who attended a film premiere there in 1953?
text: Did you know that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that during motor-paced racing , cyclists can reach a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)?
text: Did you know that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to the BBC Somali Service ?
text: Did you know that the pygmy locust lobster is too small for fishing ?
text: Did you know that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York ?
text: Did you know that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata , Japan , as a medical student?
text: Did you know that the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies gives the annual Una Padel Award in memory of its former director ?
text: Did you know that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke , Northamptonshire , is a memorial to the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall?
text: Did you know that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James Agee , Cormac McCarthy , Mark Twain , and George Washington Harris ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge sunflower and a winged lion?
text: Did you know that former Scientology official Mike Rinder was called a " whistleblower " for his appearance on the BBC Panorama documentary , The Secrets of Scientology ?
text: Did you know that Peter Endrulat never played in the Fußball-Bundesliga again after conceding 12 goals for Borussia Mönchengladbach 's record 12–0 league victory over Borussia Dortmund ?
text: Did you know that The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795), by William Blake , represents the Feminine Will upon a patriarchal Christianity ?
text: Did you know that the poisonous mushroom Inocybe cookei smells faintly of honey ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow ?
text: Did you know that, rather than paying property taxes on land it had clear-cut , the Jackson Lumber Company donated the land that is now Geneva State Forest to Alabama ?
text: Did you know that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made from AK-47s ?
text: Did you know that George Ballis , whose photographs documented the efforts of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers , learned his craft from a class he took with Great Depression photojournalist Dorothea Lange ?
text: Did you know that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter 's Scrabble People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense ?
text: Did you know that Gus Bevona resigned from local SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of US$ 531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
text: Did you know that Operation Trident was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community ?
text: Did you know that it was assumed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz would succeed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands , as his mother and cousin were expected to give up their claims to the throne?
text: Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Enterprise had a wooden hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that residents of Colonia Peralvillo in Mexico City burned in effigy the three presidential candidates of the Mexican general election, 2000 after staging a mock trial?
text: Did you know that in addition to delivering 6,000 babies, obstetrician William Harrison performed 20,000 abortions , eventually becoming the only physician in Northwest Arkansas to perform the procedure?
text: Did you know that research by Dorothy M. Horstmann and Robert W. McCollum at Yale University showed that the poliovirus reached the brain by way of the blood, leading to the development of the polio vaccine in the early 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Ryan Premises , a national historic site in Newfoundland and Labrador , was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot 's landing in Bonavista ?
text: Did you know that Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathizer Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld translated numerous works into German , including Paul Rassinier 's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of European Jews ?
text: Did you know that the Kiruna Mine located in Kiruna , Sweden , is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world?
text: Did you know that out of a total of eight training venues for rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , seven are colleges of Delhi University ?
text: Did you know that when cut or injured, the poisonous mushroom Lactarius vinaceorufescens will ooze a white latex that rapidly turns sulfur-yellow?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Turk was a Washington, D.C. , lobbyist before she became a sculptor and was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow ?
text: Did you know that the captain of the Swedish river monitor HMS Garmer had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun?
text: Did you know that Larry Bird 's hometown team, the Indiana Pacers , did not draft him in the 1978 NBA Draft because they could not convince him to leave college early?
text: Did you know that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish dinner for four on The Early Show Saturday Edition 's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
text: Did you know that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known antique vases ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Albanian rilindas Zef Jubani argued that the Albanian language should have a unique alphabet since it was a unique language?
text: Did you know that HMS Minotaur and her sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
text: Did you know that Whitefriars , a Carmelite foundation in Bristol , England , was described by 16th-century antiquary John Leland as "the fairest friary in England"?
text: Did you know that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage ?
text: Did you know that French artist Eugène Delacroix is said to have used his own pet cat as a model to paint the tigers of A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother (1830)?
text: Did you know that the 2009 French comedy Neuilly sa mère ! revisits themes of social inequality that were explored in the 1988 French comedy Life is a Long Quiet River ?
text: Did you know that the Russian battleship Sevastopol was the only battleship not salvaged by the Japanese at Port Arthur , following destruction of the Russian Fleet ?
text: Did you know that Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres ' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic Jeffrey Steingarten , describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
text: Did you know that at the time of his death in 1995, former Gunsmoke director Robert Totten was scheduled to direct a television series based on Lonesome Dove ?
text: Did you know that before joining the Ivy League , Princeton Tigers men's basketball won six Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League college basketball conference championships: 1922 , 1925 , 1932 , 1950 , 1952 , 1955 ?
text: Did you know that the two claiming Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24 , 1619, but in different places?
text: Did you know that the Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park was launched in 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand ?
text: Did you know that Bubble Wrap , which was originally designed to be wallpaper , was invented when two men sealed shower curtains together?
text: Did you know that the Yamaha XV1900 is the largest Yamaha V-twin motorcycle in production?
text: Did you know that a Village Defence Party is organised on the basis of one platoon of men and one platoon of women for each village in Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that the first use of bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral , and they came from Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that Dutch dressage rider Edward Gal and his horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition?
text: Did you know that Deam Lake State Recreation Area is named for Charles C. Deam , who was the first state forester of Indiana and discovered 25 new plant species ?
text: Did you know that after BingoLotto in Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after being a part of the election campaign in 1997?
text: Did you know that Grainsby Halt railway station served a Victorian hall in Lincolnshire which was later said to be haunted?
text: Did you know that Jimi Heselden , owner of the company that makes the Segway personal transport system , died after a Segway he was riding fell off a cliff?
text: Did you know that "Jack" Jackson, who was called "the last slave in New Jersey ", died and was buried at the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground in 1875?
text: Did you know that while mainly charged with maintaining law and order, Bangladesh Ansars are also assigned to help in schemes promoting local development?
text: Did you know that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon , California , Nevada , and Arizona ?
text: Did you know that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in Quebec , Canada , are considered the most traditional and conservative Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
text: Did you know that Montana Territorial Governor Benjamin F. White founded the city of Dillon ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, part of Carlton Hill —originally one of Brighton 's poorest slums—became one of 34 conservation areas in the city ?
text: Did you know that Irving J. Moore directed the 1980 episode " Who shot J.R.? " of the CBS soap opera Dallas ?
text: Did you know that the Chesterfield Island , butterfly , and New Caledonian stingarees are all found off the Chesterfield Islands , the first two nowhere else ?
text: Did you know that in 1538, Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars, Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20 marks in debt, and not able to pay it"?
text: Did you know that Bob Mann , the first black player for Detroit and Green Bay , claimed he was "railroaded" out of football when he objected to a pay cut after leading the NFL in receiving yards?
text: Did you know that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station 's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
text: Did you know that Italian Iron Chef Mario Batali claimed that American chef Jody Williams was one of his favorite cooks in the world?
text: Did you know that in 2009, the Seattle Mariners drafted Dustin Ackley , Kyle Seager, and Brian Moran , who were all teammates on the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team?
text: Did you know that Babatunde Jose has been described as the "grandfather of Nigerian journalism"?
text: Did you know that one critic called Scribe's second album Rhyme Book an "attempt to be considered the Aotearoa version of Kanye West "?
text: Did you know that silent shorts featuring Fred Evans as "Pimple" rivalled those of Charlie Chaplin for popularity and have been described as "proto- Pythonesque "?
text: Did you know that Marilyn McAdams Sibley wrote histories of both the Port of Houston and The Methodist Hospital of Houston , Texas ?
text: Did you know that the geography of New York includes the Adirondack Park , the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States ?
text: Did you know that the 2003 Twenty20 Cup included the first-ever Twenty20 cricket match, played between the Hampshire Hawks and the Sussex Sharks ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Scherler of the Deutsche Oper Berlin recorded Bach's Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 with Fritz Werner's Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn ?
text: Did you know that the TLC reality television series Sister Wives follows a polygamist family of four wives and 16 children living in Lehi , Utah ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Bowman was selected to be a bishop in the Episcopal Church three times, but did not take office until his third selection in 1858?
text: Did you know that the Aurora mine , located in Beaufort County , North Carolina , is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world?
text: Did you know that Sharon Cherop fell over at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon but got back up and ran the fastest marathon ever by a woman in Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League , which is the Ivy League 's predecessor, was founded by Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan ?
text: Did you know that the expiration date of a drug required for lethal injection was a factor in delaying the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown until 2011?
text: Did you know that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York , post office , called Waiting for the Mail , shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person?
text: Did you know that marathon events have been held at the Paralympic Games since 1984?
text: Did you know that during World War II , Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942?
text: Did you know that three months after being rushed from a game to the hospital with a brain aneurysm , Swedish ice hockey forward William Wallén was back on the ice, playing for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors ?
text: Did you know that Ralph T. Coe , described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a totem pole in a Manhattan shop?
text: Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Valiant had to wait nearly five years after she was launched to receive her rifled muzzle-loading guns ?
text: Did you know that an amicus brief to the courts in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association argues that Super Mario Bros. is a violent video game?
text: Did you know that the Elias Abel House is the best-preserved historic I-house in Bloomington, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that Turkish Army 's Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport of Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955?
text: Did you know that Beatrix Potter registered The Game of Peter Rabbit at Stationers' Hall before the game board or the rules had been perfected?
text: Did you know that the Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless , who founded the first missionary medical school in India ?
text: Did you know that Scotsman Walter Forrester , future bishop of Brechin , was rector of the University of Paris between October and December 1395?
text: Did you know that " You Are the Girl " was The Cars ' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
text: Did you know that Miriam Shapira-Luria , known for her beauty, taught Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?
text: Did you know that George E. Hearn was the first licensed industrial psychologist in his native Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its philosophical implications"?
text: Did you know that attorney Jack Kershaw sculpted a monument to Confederate Army general and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1998, arguing that "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery "?
text: Did you know that after assaulting bishop of Brechin John de Crannach in his own cathedral , in 1435 the archdeacon of Brechin was excommunicated ?
text: Did you know that the German SMS Kronprinz was the only König -class battleship to escape damage at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
text: Did you know that England was invaded by the French in 1216 ?
text: Did you know that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly less white matter in their brains than do control subjects ?
text: Did you know that though the Spanish naval gunboat Ligera fired 10 shots and the American naval gunboat Foote fired 70 in the Action of 25 April 1898 , Foote was heavily damaged but Ligera was hit only once?
text: Did you know that Iranian caricaturist and satirist Javad has created a scientific/philosophical cartoon on the theory of relativity entitled 4D Humor ?
text: Did you know that Jo Andrews , former political correspondent for ITN , was the first woman to join press conferences held by the Labour Party during the run-up to the United Kingdom general election of 2001 ?
text: Did you know that the married couple who founded the Windsor Mountain School in Massachusetts had previously established a school in Germany ?
text: Did you know that all three singles from Scribe's debut album, The Crusader , including " Dreaming "/" So Nice ", were double A-sides ?
text: Did you know that according to Elizabeth Gaskell , Maria Brontë was the inspiration for the character of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre ?
text: Did you know that the National D-Day Museum honored Beth Courtney , president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting , for co-hosting a three-hour, live tribute to World War II veterans from Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that tenor Werner Güra recorded with Harnoncourt and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor at the Musikverein , Bach's cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29 ?
text: Did you know that the chicken wire statue who once rode behind the Cardiff Kook was retired to a ranch with poinsettias ?
text: Did you know that the Bulqizë , Kalimashi 1 , Kalimashi 3 , Krasta , Përroi Batrës , Qaf-Buall , Vlahna and Zogaj mines are the only mines in Albania to have reserves of over 1 million tonnes of chromium ore?
text: Did you know that a granddaughter of German businessman Paul Isenberg was the first manager of the Kauaʻi Museum ?
text: Did you know that in the season premiere episode of the fifth season of the television comedy series 30 Rock , the Jack Donaghy character makes reference to the Fabian strategy ?
text: Did you know that during his time on Purdue University's baseball team, pitcher Matt Bischoff broke the school's single-season and career strikeout records?
text: Did you know that piers of the 1,378-metre (4,521 ft) Mirna Bridge on the Croatian A9 motorway were designed to support a concave deck in order to reduce weight of the bridge?
text: Did you know that Bernard Carvalho , the current Mayor of Kauai , was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1984 after attending the University of Hawaii on a full football scholarship?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian sugar plantation owner Albert Spencer Wilcox was the son of Abner Wilcox , a New England missionary teacher to Hawaii?
text: Did you know that during the Crimean War , Captains Arthur Cumming and Astley Cooper Key took control of the town of Libau with just 110 men, without firing a shot?
text: Did you know that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin ?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers ?
text: Did you know that for the 1999 reissue of The Cars ' 1978 debut album , no usable demo of their single " Good Times Roll " could be found?
text: Did you know that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth?
text: Did you know that Dubois' seasnake is one of at least seventeen sea snake species living in the Coral Sea , and has the world's most toxic sea snake venom ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century publicist Anastas Byku held that the Albanians were descendants of the Pelasgians and the Illyrians ?
text: Did you know that within four months footballer Barry Endean went from playing for an amateur team in a public park to lining up against Manchester United at Old Trafford ?
text: Did you know that the wax flowers of eastern Australia are members of the citrus family , while those from the west are of the myrtle family ?
text: Did you know that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove , England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
text: Did you know that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana 's opera Esmeralda in 1870, The Saturday Review pronounced it "irredeemably bad"?
text: Did you know that Larry Taylor returned a punt for a touchdown in each of the Connecticut Huskies football team's first two bowl games : the 2004 Motor City Bowl and the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Maui 's present mayor , Charmaine Tavares , is the daughter of the island's longest-serving mayor, Hannibal Tavares ?
text: Did you know that the Jagiellonian tapestries became state property of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the testament of King Sigismund II Augustus ?
text: Did you know that a veal and ham pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter 's The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan ?
text: Did you know that Vinnie Doyle , one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business in Ireland , was editor of the Irish Independent for 24 years?
text: Did you know that excavations at Alba Cathedral uncovered an ancient baptistery redesigned as a burial place?
text: Did you know that the Pied Crested Cuckoo , which is considered as a harbinger of the monsoon season due to the timing of its arrival, is frequently spotted at Hyderabad's Sanjeevaiah Park ?
text: Did you know that Maria Esperanza de Bianchini , a Venezuelan Servant of God , was reportedly witnessed levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation ?
text: Did you know that after Julius Caesar 's civil war military campaign , he planned to distribute land to about 15,000 of his veterans?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Erasmo Ramírez was named the pitcher of the year for the Seattle Mariners minor league organization in 2009?
text: Did you know that the majority of the inhabitants of Saint-Augustin in Quebec , Canada , are Métis – descendants of Inuit and Europeans?
text: Did you know that although the competition for designing Old Christ Church, Waterloo , Merseyside , was won by a different firm of architects, Paley, Austin and Paley were commissioned to build it?
text: Did you know that Bhutan was one of the first countries in the world to recognize the independence of Bangladesh in 1971?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Elsing has, according to Nikolaus Pevsner , "the most sumptuous of all English church brasses "?
text: Did you know that Oregon cattle baron Bill Hanley died in 1935 after attending Bill Hanley Day at the Pendleton Round-Up ?
text: Did you know that an anti-abortion movement commercial, featuring a depiction of President Barack Obama , was CatholicVote.org 's first advertisement and recorded over 700,000 hits?
text: Did you know that Noosa National Park in Australia receives more than 1 million visitors a year?
text: Did you know that Robert Twycross was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s ?
text: Did you know that Benwick's High Street in Cambridgeshire is built on a rodham—another way of spelling roddon , an East Anglia term for an old watercourse ?
text: Did you know that coffee production in Papua New Guinea slumped by 23 percent in 2000?
text: Did you know that the spider Tetragnatha extensa can walk on water, where it can move faster than it can on land?
text: Did you know that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were allowed in the same changing room ?
text: Did you know that the Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling was once used by Zaifeng , the father of Puyi , the last emperor of China ?
text: Did you know that in the 1966 movie Hold On! , the children of American astronauts choose to name a NASA space capsule after the British band Herman's Hermits ?
text: Did you know that writer and broadcaster Clive James made a guest appearance in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as a postman?
text: Did you know that girl group Sophia Fresh ' s debut single, "What It Is", impressed Rihanna so much that she said she wished the song was hers?
text: Did you know that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood 's grave?
text: Did you know that bass-baritone Stephen Varcoe recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir , including Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 ?
text: Did you know that The Battle of Waterloo , made in five days in 1913 at a cost of £ 1,800 by British and Colonial Films , has been called "the first British epic film "?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore , an aide to and sparring partner of Theodore Roosevelt , struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?
text: Did you know that Bach scored a sopranino recorder to illustrate the morning star in the opening chorus of his cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96 ?
text: Did you know that Jim Cardwell gave up his engineering business to become full-time secretary for Melbourne Football Club , a post he held for 25 years?
text: Did you know that Wat Pasantidhamma was the first Thai Buddhist temple in the Tidewater (southeastern) region of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that a fortune made as a merchant in Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back Cambo House , a property forfeited because of his family's Jacobite sympathies?
text: Did you know that U2 wrote the song " Mothers of the Disappeared " about the Madres de Plaza de Mayo , whose children disappeared during the Dirty War ?
text: Did you know that James Eccles made the first ascent of the second-highest summit in the Alps ninety years after the first ascent of the highest ?
text: Did you know that the four statues of saints on the tower of St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton were originally intended for Bristol Cathedral , but were rejected because the dean said they were papist ?
text: Did you know that at age 25, Julius Caesar was captured by pirates, but after being ransomed, chased them, captured them, and had them crucified ?
text: Did you know that in the documentary television series about South American serial killers , Instinto Asesino ( Killer Instinct ), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
text: Did you know that eight gymnasts from the Norwegian club Bergens TF won medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics as part of the rare Men's team, free system event?
text: Did you know that the NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit – a fate repeated by its successor six years later?
text: Did you know that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that war might reach Norway in a sudden manner, but when the invasion actually came, he was removed from his command for being too passive?
text: Did you know that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still a colony of Imperial Germany ?
text: Did you know that the suggestion of repressed sexuality in Thomas Eakins ' Portrait of Maud Cook has been seen as both intriguing and disturbing?
text: Did you know that during the Newfoundland expedition of 1796, French and Spanish forces destroyed over 100 merchant vessels?
text: Did you know that Grove Church Cemetery has been called "a cemetery for the living"?
text: Did you know that the "Parasol Protectorate" steampunk books Soulless , Changeless , and Blameless by Gail Carriger will be adapted as graphic novels by Yen Press ?
text: Did you know that Clarence River Light , a lighthouse in Yamba, New South Wales , Australia , was built in 1955, replacing a previous lighthouse built in 1880?
text: Did you know that Marty Amsler was the first University of Evansville graduate to be drafted into the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová recorded alto parts with La Petite Bande in Bach cantatas such as Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 ?
text: Did you know that historian David Bushnell introduced the study of the history of Colombia in American academic circles?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Nui Le was the last major battle fought by the Australian army during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that George Munroe is a retired American professional basketball player, Navy veteran, Rhodes scholar , lawyer, and former CEO of Phelps Dodge Corporation ?
text: Did you know that British architect Charles Fitzroy Doll 's design for the dining room for the Hotel Russell in London was also later used on the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that Richard Cantillon 's treatise, Essai , was considered by economist William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy "?
text: Did you know that one of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill , was founded at the same time as Dublin , in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010 ?
text: Did you know that when Father Scott Pilarz became President of the University of Scranton he brought Georgetown University 's mascot , Jack the Bulldog , with him?
text: Did you know that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa , Bulgaria , was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree?
text: Did you know that actor and musician Chord Overstreet was named after the musical term of the same name ?
text: Did you know that the word " constable " derives from the Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable , responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the army and the imperial court?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Ji-Man Choi won the Arizona League Most Valuable Player Award after the 2010 season?
text: Did you know that Oprah Winfrey completed the America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1993, running under a pseudonym and accompanied by a bodyguard, a trainer, and a video crew?
text: Did you know that Ned Sutton was the Melbourne Football Club 's inaugural captain in the Victorian Football League in 1897?
text: Did you know that Brooke Fraser described her third album, Flags , as "a graduation"?
text: Did you know that contralto Hildegard Laurich performed in Bach's cantata for Ratswahl (inauguration of the Leipzig town council) Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120 ?
text: Did you know that because of its height, the Gaza Baptist Church was commandeered by both Fatah and Hamas troops as an observation post during the Fatah–Hamas conflict ?
text: Did you know that according to local legend Dead Timber State Recreation Area in Nebraska is named for the "dead timbers" that were left over after a wildfire ?
text: Did you know that President Obama called the Paycheck Fairness Act "a common-sense bill" that would help end persistent male–female income disparity in which American women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn?
text: Did you know that Nagesh Kukunoor 's 3 Deewarein was filmed at the then defunct and now demolished Musheerabad Jail in Hyderabad, India ?
text: Did you know that Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for income tax evasion and blamed Beber for having raised her profile?
text: Did you know that the only Christian bookstore in Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and murdered by armed extremists?
text: Did you know that the Nazis claimed the successful Blitzkrieg against France in 1940 saved the Soviet Union from an allied strategic bombing campaign called Operation Pike ?
text: Did you know that The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman was the first Chinese film to premiere at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that Australian Murray Sayle , known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war correspondent in Vietnam , tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle, climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic ?
text: Did you know that HIP Petrohemija is the largest petrochemical company in Serbia ?
text: Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer between 1868 and 1886 when she was in residence at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight ?
text: Did you know that Canadian charity Actua , which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
text: Did you know that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio 's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?
text: Did you know that Clarence Seamans was the president of the largest typewriter manufacturer in the world?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Strong was Britain's first Director General of Intelligence ?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre Dame de Paris ?
text: Did you know that sound engineer and record producer Paul De Villiers has worked with Yes , Marc Jordan , King Crimson and Mr. Mister , whose number-one hits " Kyrie " and " Broken Wings " he co-produced?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1970s, the Star Trek Concordance and The Making of Star Trek were the only references used by writers of the Star Trek: Phase II television show?
text: Did you know that Fathi Osman 's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading , in which he explained concepts in Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
text: Did you know that the SweeTango is a new variety of apple, not a romantic dance ?
text: Did you know that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia , the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
text: Did you know that Texas State Rep. Byron Cook is a leading supporter of maintaining the scenic Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine ?
text: Did you know that there are several alternative explanations of Frédéric Chopin's illness ?
text: Did you know that the six movements of a Missa of Bach , a short mass consisting of Kyrie and Gloria , are parodies of his cantata music?
text: Did you know that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack ?
text: Did you know that the Miss Albany Diner , an Albany, New York, architectural landmark , was used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed ?
text: Did you know that there is a border dispute between Canada and the United States over a part of the Beaufort Sea ?
text: Did you know that the parish churches of Ormskirk , Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire ?
text: Did you know that Padilla, Bolivia , is named in honor of Manuel Ascencio Padilla who was referred to as "a hero with the soul of a child and the heart of a lion"?
text: Did you know that as CEO of Stanley Works , Donald W. Davis helped bring the do it yourself home improvement trend to the U.S. and coined the company slogan "Stanley helps you do things right"?
text: Did you know that the Anina mine supplied Crivina Power Station with oil shale ?
text: Did you know that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ?
text: Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a gale off Pantelleria in March 1872?
text: Did you know that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a residence, Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to take care of the problem himself?
text: Did you know that once completed, the Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm will be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe ?
text: Did you know that the band OK Go 's music video for " White Knuckles " is a one-shot take of the band interacting with twelve trained dogs and a goat?
text: Did you know that the Sun and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset Space Walk ?
text: Did you know that during the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491 , the Ottomans prevailed at sea, but the Mamluks consistently resisted them on land?
text: Did you know that Gene Swick was the first college quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional football ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in Romania ?
text: Did you know that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s?
text: Did you know that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot 's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?
text: Did you know that the Çubuk-1 Dam was the first concrete dam constructed in Turkey and is recognized as one of the country's top 50 engineering feats ?
text: Did you know that oral historian Alessandro Portelli has compared the stories of industrial workers in his hometown of Terni , Italy , with those of coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that Mecklenburg's Garden in Cincinnati used a ship model to inform patrons whether alcohol could be sold safely during Prohibition in the United States ?
text: Did you know that percussionist Ollie E. Brown has produced or performed on over 100 singles and albums, including Ray Parker, Jr. 's Ghostbusters , Michael Jackson 's Bad , and the theme from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo ?
text: Did you know that a Pawnee creation account centered on Pahuk , a bluff overlooking the Platte River in Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that former Texas State Senator David Sibley lost the 2000 Senate vote for lieutenant governor by a single ballot?
text: Did you know that Cape Parry 's Thick-billed Murre colony, located in Northwest Territories , Canada , is more isolated than any other murre colony in the world?
text: Did you know that the true source of New York 's official nickname , The Empire State , is not known?
text: Did you know that Monte Robbins holds the Michigan Wolverines football records for longest punt at 82 yards and the highest career average for a punter ?
text: Did you know that Lucernaria janetae has eight lance -shaped gonads ?
text: Did you know that as an attorney, William Coblentz represented Patty Hearst , Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead , and once called Ronald Reagan "a menopausal Cary Grant "?
text: Did you know that the Adelaide leak could have landed the Australian economy in hot water?
text: Did you know that radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
text: Did you know that gravediggers working within the ruins of northern Albania 's Shirgj Monastery would often encounter mosaics from the old church?
text: Did you know that despite being eliminated from The Ultimate Fighter just weeks prior, Pablo Garza was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear tonight at WEC 51 ?
text: Did you know that in Thomas Eakins ' Self-portrait , the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
text: Did you know that an early use of pascalization in the United States was the treatment of guacamole , extending its shelf life tenfold?
text: Did you know that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry , A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzy Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
text: Did you know that after the Nazi invasion of Norway , former naval officer Olaf Kullmann bicycled around Norway to agitate for pacifism ?
text: Did you know that tensile testing is a fundamental materials science test used to find a material 's ultimate tensile strength and maximum elongation before fracture ?
text: Did you know that the 2007–08 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team included Ekpe Udoh who led both the Big Ten Conference and Big 12 Conference in blocked shots ?
text: Did you know that the remains of the San Juan de Silicia , a Spanish Armada ship which sank off the coast of Scotland , were mistaken for those of a treasure ship and destroyed by countless searches for gold?
text: Did you know that, hoping to cut off the Dalmatian coast from Croatia , Yugoslav and Serbian forces attacked the city of Šibenik for six days in 1991?
text: Did you know that the album Amar la Trama by Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler was recorded in just four days?
text: Did you know that a practice in Afghanistan , where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh ?
text: Did you know that the seventh season of The West Wing featured a live television episode that was broadcast twice for the East and West Coasts of the United States?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group , formed to rapidly reinforce Norway in wartime, disbanded after it took two years of planning and 21 days to cross the Atlantic ?
text: Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company officials learned of the 1709 Franco-Indian attack on their company's trading post at Fort Albany from uninvolved Mohawks who were visiting London ?
text: Did you know that despite being less than 1 mile (1.6 km) long, Washington State Route 433 is considered a Highway of Statewide Significance by the Washington State Department of Transportation ?
text: Did you know that the eleven Hindu deities, the Rudras , are associated with the ten vital energies of the body and the soul , and their departure is said to cause death and tears?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Tech University sociologist Robert O. Trout was his state's delegate to the 1961 White House Conference on Aging ?
text: Did you know that due to the Scottish football referee strike , foreign officials from Israel , Luxembourg and Malta were used as replacements?
text: Did you know that Tom the Great Sebastian , founded in 1950, was one of the first Jamaican sound systems ?
text: Did you know that schoolteacher Justus H. Rathbone developed the idea for founding the Knights of Pythias while reading the play, " Damon and Pythias " in the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse ?
text: Did you know that all but one of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues were damaged during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo ?
text: Did you know that the British Member of Parliament Percy Jewson was chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association ?
text: Did you know that a spring in the town of Tedef al-Yahud , Syria , is said to have been used by Ezra the Scribe 2,400 years ago?
text: Did you know that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke , including the Belmont Stakes , made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
text: Did you know that Major-General Robert Fanshawe was sacked after his successful defence in the 1918 Battle of Asiago , because his commander objected to his use of a defence in depth strategy?
text: Did you know that three of the four largest power stations in the world are in South America ?
text: Did you know that Aquila bullockensis , an extinct species of bird , is the oldest known true eagle from Australia ?
text: Did you know that the second single by French punk rock band Marie et les Garçons was produced in New York by John Cale , formerly of the Velvet Underground ?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Aiteng ater feeds on insects?
text: Did you know that a 1953 strike organized by the plantation workers trade union Sarbupri forced the Indonesian government to raise wages of estate labourers by 30%?
text: Did you know that the Armadillo , an armoured fighting vehicle extemporised by the British in 1940, used a layer of gravel to protect its crew?
text: Did you know that former Palauan Senate President Peter Sugiyama 's wife Akiko Sugiyama was the first woman ever elected to the Palau National Congress ?
text: Did you know that Trawscoed fort was explored using fluxgate gradiometer surveys?
text: Did you know that while staying at their estate near the Black Sea , George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and his family witnessed the 1905 battleship Potemkin revolt?
text: Did you know that pitcher Danny McDevitt shutout the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 24, 1957, in the final game the Dodgers played in Brooklyn before owner Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that Speedway Motorsports president Marcus G. Smith started working by picking up trash at Charlotte Motor Speedway ?
text: Did you know that the Kriegsmarine attributed the sinking of U-168 in the Java Sea to the presence of the crew's Indonesian girlfriends on board for a party ?
text: Did you know that an amendment to the Malian Family Code seeking to increase women's rights was sent back to the parliament of Mali amidst a storm of protest?
text: Did you know that after the collapse of American cotton exports in the 1860s, Azerbaijan became a large-scale cotton producer , often planting it rather than food crops ?
text: Did you know that Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , and his brother Prince Leopold caused a national scandal when Charles suggested that Leopold marry a commoner?
text: Did you know that the lift jets on the Hawker Siddeley HS.141 airliner were expected to provide a safety margin in case the V/STOL aircraft's main engines failed?
text: Did you know that West Indian batsman Brian Lara came out of retirement to play in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series , a Twenty20 cricket tournament in Zimbabwe?
text: Did you know that fortune telling fraud is a confidence game that involves persuading victims that they suffer from a curse ?
text: Did you know that Tom McMillan became the first alumnus of Jacksonville University to play in a Major League Baseball game when he made his debut with the Seattle Mariners in 1977?
text: Did you know that the exterior decoration of the medieval Church of Christ Pantocrator in Nesebar on the Bulgarian coast prominently features swastikas ?
text: Did you know that Nathan Witt , U.S. National Labor Relations Board Secretary from 1937 to 1940, drove a taxicab for two years so he could earn enough money to attend Harvard Law School ?
text: Did you know that freedom of religion in Singapore , which is guaranteed by Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore , may be restricted by a general law relating to public order, public health or morality?
text: Did you know that the University of Florida 's Lady Gators golf team has won eight SEC team championships, eight SEC individual championships, and sent almost twenty players to the LPGA ?
text: Did you know that there are only around 100 Western Ground Parrots left?
text: Did you know that The Indian Stammering Association filed a court petition against the makers of a Bollywood comedy film that portrays people who stammer as objects of ridicule?
text: Did you know that the pilot episode for South of Nowhere , which is set in a high school , was actually filmed in a prison ?
text: Did you know that the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan , Nasr ibn Sayyar , hoped to ease resentment among local Muslims by streamlining the province's tax system?
text: Did you know that the first hybrid electric double-decker to be built was operated in London on route 141 ?
text: Did you know that Major-General Thomas Marden was knighted for helping to defuse the Chanak Crisis , a confrontation between the British Army and Turkish revolutionaries in 1922?
text: Did you know that A Jewish Girl in Shanghai , an animated film set in and around the Shanghai Ghetto , has been described as " China ’s first homegrown Jewish film"?
text: Did you know that Jack Ness had a 49-game baseball hitting streak that stood as a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio ?
text: Did you know that the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1574 at the first session held outside its New York City headquarters in 14 years?
text: Did you know that during one of his campaigns, the troops of Umayyad general Sulayman ibn Hisham suffered so much due to disease and famine that many defected to the Byzantines and converted to Christianity ?
text: Did you know that the comedic poetry album Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. was made available only as a digital download and 1,000 vinyl records ?
text: Did you know that the Temagami greenstone belt in Ontario was the site of the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Bill Krieg , Emil Frisk , and Joe Riggert won a combined seven batting titles and are considered to be the best minor league baseball players of their respective eras?
text: Did you know in January 1944, fighters of No. 73 Wing participated in the two largest raids mounted by the RAAF to that time, attacking targets in New Britain ?
text: Did you know that with the money his aunt paid him not to attend university, which she considered a den of vice, Thomas Coke travelled to Italy , where the wife of Bonnie Prince Charles fell in love with him?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century antidisestablishmentarianist politician Sampson Lloyd married the daughter of a general in the Prussian Army ?
text: Did you know that Queen and Country is an artwork by Steve McQueen which commemorates the deaths of 155 British soldiers as a set of postage stamps?
text: Did you know that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist , and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940 ?
text: Did you know that the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) began offering Internet access to residents of Gilgit in 1999?
text: Did you know that Ingeborg Borgerud , former jurist for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions , was lambasted by these unions some years later for a report about working environment?
text: Did you know that Oscar Wilde liked to stay at the Gilsey House Hotel in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Christian Steinmetz was the inaugural College Basketball Player of the Year in 1905, despite being only 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighing 137 pounds (62 kg)?
text: Did you know that 9th-century Bulgarian first minister Isbul was so rich that he constructed and donated buildings to the monarch Malamir himself?
text: Did you know that Jake Adelstein was the first American to work as a Japanese language reporter for a Japanese newspaper?
text: Did you know that before the flight test program of the Sikorsky S-60 flying crane was completed, its successor was already on the drawing board?
text: Did you know that Harold I. Cammer represented his legal partner, Nathan Witt , before HUAC in 1950 when his former legal partner, Lee Pressman , accused Witt of being a communist ?
text: Did you know that Pete Cimino once scored 114 points in a high school basketball game and then became a pitcher in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that the Green Island Light was kept lit day and night during the Peshtigo Fire in a failed attempt to prevent a shipwreck?
text: Did you know that up until 2010, Vanuatuan passports were still hand-written?
text: Did you know that Bach wrote in Weimar the opening chorus of his cantata for the First Sunday of Advent Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 , as a French overture ?
text: Did you know that for 14 years Moira Hoey played a character on television considered "the quintessential Irish mammy"?
text: Did you know that physicist Gunnar Nordström 's early death may have been caused by his passion for radioactivity and consequent use of water containing radioactive matter for sauna baths?
text: Did you know that the Roman Villa Borg in Saarland , Germany, has recently been almost fully reconstructed , a century after its discovery?
text: Did you know that three crew members were each given 50 "lashes with nine tails " after HMS Whiting was lost on the dangerous Doom Bar ?
text: Did you know that William Hohri helped fellow Japanese Americans interned during World War II get $20,000 each in compensation from the U.S. government, and then used his share to buy a Japanese-made car?
text: Did you know that the format of the children's TV show Sesame Street was changed due to the success and popularity of the segment " Elmo's World "?
text: Did you know that an ancient quarry discovered near Jericho in 2009 by Israeli archaeologists may be depicted on the Byzantine era Madaba Map ?
text: Did you know that Howard Lester bought Williams-Sonoma in 1976 when it had four stores and sales of US$ 4 million and grew the company to annual sales of US$3.4 billion at 600 stores, including the Pottery Barn chain?
text: Did you know that when Pennsylvania judge Cathy Bissoon was four years old, her father was stabbed to death near the family's home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that Stefano Bernardi composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs for the consecration of the Salzburg Cathedral in 1628?
text: Did you know that the Chinese city of Yanji has two official languages, Chinese and Korean?
text: Did you know that talent agent Martin Baum "packaged" together three of his clients – actor Sidney Poitier , director Ralph Nelson and screenwriter James Poe – who collaborated on the 1963 film Lilies of the Field ?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s and 1970s, Margrethe Munthe ' s popular children's songs were criticized for being too moralizing?
text: Did you know that the first woman to serve as a French Cabinet minister was Germaine Poinso-Chapuis in 1947?
text: Did you know that Dinamo Zagreb footballer Mateo Kovačić became the youngest ever goalscorer in the Prva HNL in November 2010 at the age of 16 years and 198 days?
text: Did you know that John Mills Houston , a stage actor, was one of 19 men selected to act as President Woodrow Wilson 's honor guard during World War I?
text: Did you know that French privateer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville died of yellow fever in Cuba on July 8 , 1706 while organizing an attempt to capture the capital of the Province of Carolina (present-day South Carolina )?
text: Did you know that because of his birth and marriage to a Russian princess , Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg was Russia 's candidate to succeed Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that members of the segregated US 24th Infantry Regiment claimed that the regiment's achievements at the Battle of Sangju were not recognized due to racism?
text: Did you know that five of the seven men killed when the St Ives Lifeboat was wrecked in January 1939 were survivors of a previous lifeboat wreck in January 1938 ?
text: Did you know that although the Black Carts Turret Roman fortification is connected to Hadrian's Wall , it was probably built before the wall itself?
text: Did you know that No. 71 Wing RAAF was active to the last day of World War II , flying its final mission only hours before news arrived of the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945?
text: Did you know that the Balaghat mine operated by MOIL Limited is the deepest underground manganese mine in Asia?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Schäfer , who succeeded Helmuth Rilling as professor of choral conducting for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , is also part of the musical comedy trio BosArt?
text: Did you know that the Cambridge Modern History , launched in 1902, went on to cover the history of the world up to 1910?
text: Did you know that American musician Jennifer Frautschi plays an Antonio Stradivari violin known as the "ex- Cadiz ," dated to 1722?
text: Did you know that per his request, Ugandan environmentalist Ndyakira Amooti was buried without a coffin, his body wrapped in a palm-leaf mat?
text: Did you know that Bagyi Aung Soe , now recognized as one of Burma 's most important modern artists , lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
text: Did you know that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company , a merger of The Daily Beast and Newsweek , plans on redirecting Newsweek.com to The Daily Beast, despite the fact that the former website has higher web traffic?
text: Did you know that when the former British Member of Parliament Warwick Brookes was declared bankrupt in 1931, he had debts of £50,000 but less than £300 in assets?
text: Did you know that commando -style forces under Raymond Westerling , a Dutch army captain who led a counter-insurgency offensive in the Indonesian National Revolution , killed at least 5,000 Indonesians?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Juan Bernhardt hit the first home run in Seattle Mariners franchise history?
text: Did you know that, in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, the Maya city of Sacul was one of the few kingdoms in the southeastern Petén region to use its own Emblem Glyph ?
text: Did you know that Texas State Rep. Edmund Kuempel , while under anesthesia from surgery, hung up on former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2009, not realizing who was on the phone?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the U.S. Navy planned to equip eighteen squadrons of assault drones with a thousand Interstate TDR and Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft?
text: Did you know that the openly gay street scene in Mexico City 's Zona Rosa has drawn comparisons with Barrio de Chueca in Madrid and the Castro District in San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Coral-Balmoral ( 12 May – 6 June 1968) was the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War fought by the 1st Australian Task Force ?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the unsuccessful January Uprising , Polish insurgent Zygmunt Padlewski was captured and executed by the Russian authorities?
text: Did you know that the ironclad HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden was the largest ship built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Guinean socialist politician Barry III was nicknamed "Little Elephant", due to the similarities of his political programme with that of Sékou Touré , whose nickname was "Elephant"?
text: Did you know that accounts of the maritime history of Orissa say that the ancient ships were driven by steam engines and could travel underwater?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati 's Nast Trinity United Methodist Church was the first German Methodist Episcopal church in the world?
text: Did you know that the 2007 home invasion murders in Cheshire, Connecticut , have been called "possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history"?
text: Did you know that Cornell University labor law professor James A. Gross has worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Adenanthos eyrei was formally named after Edward John Eyre , the first explorer known to have visited the only place where this Western Australian shrub has been found?
text: Did you know that the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group traces its organizational lineage back to Carrier Division Two, which was initially commanded by legendary Fleet Admiral William "Bull" Halsey in 1937?
text: Did you know that Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Simon Vallily was once a football trainee at Middlesbrough Football Club ?
text: Did you know that episodes of The Jimmy Durante Show ended with Durante's catchphrase, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" – a reference to his deceased first wife?
text: Did you know that pitcher Jouett Meekin threw the first intentional walk in baseball history?
text: Did you know that Regulus bulgaricus , the only fossil kinglet , is known from a single ulna ?
text: Did you know that the solo parts of Joseph Haydn 's oratorio Die Schöpfung were performed by Elisabeth Scholl , Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg ?
text: Did you know that French record producer and executive Michel Esteban , who co-founded ZE Records in New York in 1978, is now the director of a cultural center in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil ?
text: Did you know that the foundation stones of Armstrong Chapel in Indian Hill, Ohio , are held together by earth rather than mortar ?
text: Did you know that when Bernard de Nonancourt , a French Resistance member and future head of Laurent-Perrier , uncovered Adolf Hitler 's wine cellar , he found hundreds of cases of 1928 Champagne Salon looted from France ?
text: Did you know that some counseling sessions of the ex-gay group Homosexuals Anonymous included " desensitizing " naked massages, but led the men being counseled to begin having sexual encounters with each other?
text: Did you know that in 2007 cashiers at Cencosud 's Santa Isabel supermarkets in Chile were subject to strip searches , and many wore diapers because they had to work nine-hour shifts without bathroom breaks?
text: Did you know that historian Dan Flores wrote a study of the Red River Expedition , which set out for the American Southwest in 1806 just as Lewis and Clark were returning from the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that the Douglas Aircraft Corporation 's Cloudster II , intended for use as an executive transport, was powered by two engines but only had a single propeller ?
text: Did you know that Tim Smith was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in his school's first year as a conference member?
text: Did you know that then-unknown singer Estelle featured on DJ Skitz ' s debut album in 2001?
text: Did you know that in 1929 the Hudson Motor Car Company ranked third in total U.S. production by targeting budget minded buyers, but introduced the Greater Eight , a premium line of cars, at the height of the Depression ?
text: Did you know that the creator of Kaboom! 's villainous "Mad Bomber" also programmed a series of Brain Games that have been said to improve memory?
text: Did you know that Dwayne Schintzius was the oldest player selected in the 2001 NBDL Supplemental Draft at 33 years old?
text: Did you know that an animation database stores fragments of animations or human movements and can be used to re-assemble new animations?
text: Did you know that the execution of Witold Pilecki , Polish Righteous among the Nations , was carried out by the Mokotów Prison Staff Sergeant Piotr Śmietański ?
text: Did you know that the Holyoke Building at the corner of First Avenue and Spring Streets in Downtown Seattle was the first permanent building to be completed after the Great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889?
text: Did you know that in 1979, the Seattle Mariners team trainer was taking pitcher Byron McLaughlin 's luggage through airport security when he was detained by authorities who discovered a .357 Magnum in his bag?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Max Reger 's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer ?
text: Did you know that Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County , the first American synagogue to hire a woman as senior rabbi , is Conservative ?
text: Did you know that the Democratic Party of Guinea organ Le Phare de Guinée was closed down in 1949, as no printing press in Guinea dared to print it due to government pressure?
text: Did you know that British company Wasp Motorcycles produces a special motorcycle sidecar designed for use by paraplegic motorcyclists?
text: Did you know that among the drawings by Andreas Bloch are caricatures in satirical magazines and illustrations in Fridtjof Nansen 's book on the Fram expedition ?
text: Did you know that United States lightship WAL 539 was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before it became part of the Coast Guard ?
text: Did you know that besides the existence of 24 tracks recorded in 1928–29, the life of American classic female blues singer Bessie Tucker remains a mystery?
text: Did you know that after right-wing , anti-Semite activist Ernst Werner Techow was released from jail he joined the French Foreign Legion and helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II ?
text: Did you know that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan ?
text: Did you know that JFK in Ireland includes an account of a disagreement between John F. Kennedy and Éamon de Valera ?
text: Did you know that of the four German destroyers of the Type 1934 class, only Z4 Richard Beitzen survived World War II , while Z1 Leberecht Maass and Z3 Max Schulz were sunk in a friendly fire incident and Z2 Georg Thiele was scuttled at Narvik ?
text: Did you know that the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb celebrates its holiday on 3 May , in memory of the 1995 rocket attack in which its building was hit, killing a student?
text: Did you know that a Roman road near Pertwood , unusually, was diverted around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it?
text: Did you know that 500 kilometres (310 mi) separates populations of the shrub Adenanthos oreophilus ?
text: Did you know that only six of the U.S. Supreme Court 's nine justices participated in a 1950 anti-communist oath case ?
text: Did you know that John Stanley Booth survived being wounded in the Battle of France and a tour of duty with Bomber Command , only to be killed when the aircraft he was flying struck a landing light ?
text: Did you know that both the British Royal Navy and German Kriegsmarine were dissatisfied with the results of the Action of 28 January 1945 ?
text: Did you know that Nomo , Mercker , Milton , Verlander , Lester , Zambrano and Sánchez pitched the latest major league no-hitters for the Dodgers , Braves , Twins , Tigers , Red Sox , Cubs and Giants , respectively?
text: Did you know that previous winners of Wayne Rooney's Street Striker have won trips to Brazil and South Africa ?
text: Did you know that unlike all later Winter Olympics , the venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York , included separate bobsleigh and luge tracks used for competition?
text: Did you know that a new fish species of the loach family was caught for the first time in 1993 in the Great Tenasserim River , located near the Burmese town of Tanintharyi ?
text: Did you know that, by 1900, there were so many Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska , that people started calling the north side of the city "Little Stockholm "?
text: Did you know that after Armin Maiwald produced an award-winning children's film depicting his own childhood experience in the grim aftermath of WWII in Germany , he said he never wanted to see the film again?
text: Did you know that after a long career as an educator, David Dwight Baldwin published historic lists of Hawaiian land snails and liverworts ?
text: Did you know that the Upper Tribunal , which can set precedent and enforce its decisions without intervention from the High Court of England and Wales , is the first UK tribunal with the power of judicial review ?
text: Did you know that on August 1, 2004, five Christian churches were car-bombed in Iraq within a few minutes of each another?
text: Did you know that in March 1994, the communist -led Indian People's Front rallied tens of thousands of barefoot, starving workers, some of whom walked more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) to reach the venue ?
text: Did you know that James II prevented the Loyal Parliament of 1685 from meeting by repeatedly proroguing it between November 1685 and its dissolution in July 1687?
text: Did you know that Norwegian hardingfele fiddler Arne Bjørndal played in more than 600 weddings and gave more than 1,000 concerts?
text: Did you know that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees ?
text: Did you know that Omar Cook and Will Conroy are the only two players to have been named to the All-NBA Development League Team three times?
text: Did you know that after suppressing the Albanian Revolt of 1910 , the Ottoman government prohibited publications written in the Albanian alphabet and closed the Albanian schools?
text: Did you know that previous winners of the Nevada City Classic , the second-oldest bicycle race in the US, include Greg LeMond (1979–81) and Lance Armstrong (2009)?
text: Did you know that the 1960 congress of the Popular Socialist Youth was the first occasion at which the Cuban motto "Fatherland or Death" was displayed in print?
text: Did you know that United Nations forces had a decisive logistical advantage in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter in the Korean War , despite having no pre-established plan for fighting there?
text: Did you know that Bruno Mars will drag a piano through Los Angeles in the music video for " Grenade "?
text: Did you know that the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team taught the members of the newly formed Notre Dame team how to play the game of football ?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Bihar legislative assembly election takes place across six phases and over one month?
text: Did you know that historian Jean A. Stuntz found that the Spanish legal system in Mexico and Texas gave much greater community property rights to women than were permitted in the original English colonies?
text: Did you know that in each of the 2001 NBDL and 2006 NBA Development League Expansion drafts , there were four players selected who had previously been chosen in NBA Drafts ?
text: Did you know that the First-tier Tribunal in the United Kingdom hears cases on such diverse subjects as freedom of information , war pensions and operating licences for gambling companies?
text: Did you know that the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy was the first United States organization focused on preserving rare breeds of livestock ?
text: Did you know that St John the Baptist's Church, Avon Dassett , Warwickshire , built in 1868, contains a coffin lid inscribed with the effigy of a 13th-century tonsured deacon ?
text: Did you know that Film Quarterly called the documentary The Truth According to Wikipedia "a sharp and wide-ranging overview of wiki - pistemology "?
text: Did you know that Henry Lambert of the Royal Navy fought the 36-gun French privateer Psyché twice in the same year with two different ships, drawing the first battle and winning the second?
text: Did you know that Master of the Mix is a reality television elimination competition among disk jockeys vying for a US$ 250,000 Smirnoff contract?
text: Did you know that Brutus Beefcake could not compete at the World Wrestling Federation 's SummerSlam in 1990 after several bones in his face were broken in a parasailing accident?
text: Did you know that the wings of Icarus in the painting The Lament for Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern?
text: Did you know that minister Benjamin Rolfe, his wife and infant child were killed in an August 29 , 1708 raid on Haverhill, Massachusetts , by a French and Indian force during Queen Anne's War ?
text: Did you know that Bay Rock Light , a lighthouse which originally stood on an islet northwest of Magnetic Island , near Townsville , Queensland , Australia , was relocated in 1992 to the Townsville Maritime Museum?
text: Did you know that pitcher Fred Klobedanz once led the National League in winning percentage but, according to one analyst, actually deserved to have a losing record ?
text: Did you know that Charles Ross , who commanded a British Army division during World War I , was the younger brother of a Nobel laureate and the author of five mystery novels ?
text: Did you know that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada , including the highest, Mercedario , were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?
text: Did you know that James Charles Fahey started self-publishing The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet when he thought editors were "butchering" his manuscripts?
text: Did you know that the Swedish runestone Östergötland Runic Inscription MÖLM1960;230 is one of four runestones that mention guilds that existed in Sweden during the Viking Age ?
text: Did you know that Wyoming received four times as much money per person from the Homeland Security Grant Program as did California and New York ?
text: Did you know that although Janis Paige 's sitcom It's Always Jan bombed, its cast included both Arte Johnson , who went on to fame in Laugh-In and Sid Melton in The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres ?
text: Did you know that in his European Cup debut, German football goalkeeper Jens Ramme conceded 6 goals in 45 minutes, turning a 5–1 lead for Dynamo Dresden into a 7–5 defeat?
text: Did you know that former college basketball standout Byron Larkin admitted that he "didn't put [his] best foot forward trying to make it" to the NBA ?
text: Did you know that the rowhouses at 322–344 East 69th Street on Manhattan 's Upper East Side are a rare surviving group of the many rowhouses built after the completion of the Third Avenue El ?
text: Did you know that Kris Faafoi is the first New Zealand Member of Parliament of Tokelauan descent?
text: Did you know that the magnitude of the 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake has been estimated with records from tide gauges set up by the Great Trigonometric Survey ?
text: Did you know that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia ?
text: Did you know that Frank Bruggy set Major League Baseball personal bests in batting average , home runs and runs batted in during the 1924 season , his rookie year?
text: Did you know that brandy and wine seized from a Dutch ship on 18 August 1779 changed hands during the night, as the captain of the Monsieur and the squadron leader, John Paul Jones , both claimed it for themselves?
text: Did you know that Spartacus: Blood and Sand actress Lesley-Ann Brandt was born in Cape Town , is fluent in Afrikaans and played competitive field hockey in South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the New York Sunday Mercury was the most widely read weekly newspaper in the United States in the mid 19th century?
text: Did you know that when the wife of the owner of Kapetanovo Castle in Serbia was told that it had to be sold, she was so devastated that she poured gasoline on herself and burned to death?
text: Did you know that the economy of the Kanmaw Kyun in the Mergui Archipelago is dependent on rubber plantations ?
text: Did you know that a follow-up study by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel showed that a child's ability at age 4 to delay eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes correlated with higher SAT test scores years later?
text: Did you know that baseball player Kevin Pasley hit his first and only major league home run in his final major league at-bat ?
text: Did you know that Ladyhawke won six prizes at the 2009 New Zealand Music Awards ?
text: Did you know that Theodore W. Kheel ' s deals ended various strikes in New York City , but Mayor Ed Koch blamed Kheel for overly generous pay packages that led to the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the Finnish novel Puhdistus (Purge) by Sofi Oksanen has won awards in Finland and France but had mixed reviews in Estonia, where the story takes place?
text: Did you know that the Ramses–Hattusili Treaty or Treaty of Kadesh, ratified by the Hittite Empire and Egypt in 1258 BC , is the oldest surviving international treaty ?
text: Did you know that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of " higher primates "?
text: Did you know that the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra is the largest combined professional orchestra and music school in the US?
text: Did you know that executioner Robert Baxter , who was blind in one eye, once caused his assistant to fall through a trapdoor along with the man sentenced to death by hanging ?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Changma earthquake in the China resulted in a surface rupture of approximately 116 km (72 mi), the largest rupture observed for a reverse- slip event in Asia in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that methoxyflurane , an emergency analgesic self-administered with a disposable inhaler , was first synthesized as a by-product of chemistry research on uranium enrichment in the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you know that in 1945 the first motor lifeboat at Ilfracombe Lifeboat Station was sold to the Netherlands because that country was short of lifeboats after World War II ?
text: Did you know that John Phillips , a prominent English master carpenter, builder and architect, constructed James Gibbs ' wooden dome for the Radcliffe Camera , Oxford ?
text: Did you know that "Scoops" Carey only played two full seasons in Major League Baseball but led the league in first basemen fielding percentage both times?
text: Did you know that Rygge Station , opened in 1879, became an airport rail link when Moss Airport, Rygge had its first flight in 2008?
text: Did you know that the muscle cuirass is one of the elements that distinguished the attire of a senior officer in the Roman Army ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Oidium mangiferae causes powdery mildew on mango trees?
text: Did you know that the round base of the original Archer Point Light , an 1883 lighthouse near Cooktown , Queensland , Australia , which was replaced in 1975, still exists at the location?
text: Did you know that in 1999, James C. Kent ruled that the Government of Canada must answer discovery questions from the Six Nations pertaining to its handling of indigenous land on the Grand River ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch ironclad HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden transported troops during the occupation of Lombok and Karangasem in July 1894 ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Dan Meyer , who would go on to play 12 seasons in Major League Baseball , was inducted into the Mater Dei High School baseball hall of fame in 1970?
text: Did you know that the Pop's Props Pinocchio , an ultralight aircraft , was designed to resemble the Fokker Eindecker of Fokker Scourge fame?
text: Did you know that the Greek gold amulet MS 5236 was created by block printing as early as the 6th century BC?
text: Did you know that Buckminster Fuller invented the Stockade Building System , which uses bricks made from wood fibers and plaster ?
text: Did you know that the 8th Viscount Galway , the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand , had his term twice extended because of World War II ?
text: Did you know that Temple Beth Israel in Plattsburgh is the only synagogue in New York north of Glens Falls that has a full-time rabbi ?
text: Did you know that while Burmese painters affiliated with the Burma Art Club accepted realistically painted nudes as art , very few of them attempted to paint nudity themselves?
text: Did you know that the only active players with a career .330 batting average in Major League Baseball are Albert Pujols and Ichiro Suzuki ?
text: Did you know that the sinking of a North Korean troop ship in the Battle of Pusan on the first day of the Korean War is credited with preventing the fall of the South Korean port city of Pusan ?
text: Did you know that Colombian singer-songwriter Ilona started her career singing on buses ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Hooman 's obituary in The Times claimed that he scored the winning goal in the 1872 FA Cup Final , contradicting all known contemporary newspaper reports on the match?
text: Did you know that the Crusher is a 13,200-pound (6,000 kg) autonomous robot capable of climbing 4-foot (1.2 m) walls and crossing 6.5-foot (2.0 m) trenches?
text: Did you know that the Connellan air disaster of 1977 remains the only aircraft suicide attack in Australia 's history?
text: Did you know that Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing , Paw Oo Thett , U Aung Khin , U Aung Myint , U Ba Kyi , U Kin Maung , U Lu Tin , U Lun Gywe , U Ngwe Gaing and Po Po are all artists from Burma ?
text: Did you know that for the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology , Activision selected the Atari 2600 homebrew game Oystron , in which the player shoots "space oysters" to collect pearls?
text: Did you know that Secretary of Guam Denver Dickerson was born in Nevada State Prison ?
text: Did you know that a Pirate ship was hit during the Action of 12 October 1950 ?
text: Did you know that a record store clerk once told Randy Newman that the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman nearly finished off Harry Nilsson 's career?
text: Did you know that the Areopagus sermon was the most dramatic and fullest speech of the missionary career of Apostle Paul ?
text: Did you know that hangmen brothers William and John Billington formed England's primary execution duo until John fell through an open trapdoor on the gallows and died?
text: Did you know that Tel Zeror , an archaeological tel in the Sharon Plain , Israel , was excavated by a Japanese expedition in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that an illuminated manuscript , the Rochefoucauld Grail , contains what is regarded as the oldest and most comprehensive version of the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail ?
text: Did you know that Hranislav , a Bulgarian military commander in Byzantine service, was stabbed by his ally Roger de Flor , head of the Catalan Company ?
text: Did you know that the formation of a Protogalaxy in Newfoundland was recorded in 2010?
text: Did you know that Kjeld Rimberg , who was CEO of the Norwegian State Railways , earlier had worked as a ski instructor in Davos ?
text: Did you know that the west gallery of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stapleford , Leicestershire , contains a Coade stone fireplace, the Royal arms , and a dome decorated with putti ?
text: Did you know that fine art photographer Michael Dweck was the first living artist to have a solo show at Sotheby's of New York, in 2003?
text: Did you know that two conductors shared performances of Verdi 's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein ?
text: Did you know that the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solón was the main leader of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that Edmonton civic leaders turned down a sizable grant from philantropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie while constructing the Old Strathcona Branch ?
text: Did you know that cardiologist Richard Bing worked with the Nobel Prize -winning surgeon Alexis Carrel and aviator Charles Lindbergh on the early development of machine perfusion ?
text: Did you know that after winning the Welsh heavyweight boxing title on Boxing Day , Tom Norris held onto the title for just 100 days before being beaten by Dick Power ?
text: Did you know that Bach 's chorale cantata Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 contains a vocal trio, rare in his cantatas ?
text: Did you know that the 2010–11 Temple Owls men's basketball team was picked to win the Atlantic 10 Conference for the fourth consecutive season?
text: Did you know that Charles Albert Watts edited the secularist Literary Guide without a break for over 60 years, having taken over a publishing business set up by his father, atheist writer Charles Watts ?
text: Did you know that two women wrestled in lingerie at the World Wrestling Federation 's No Mercy (2001) event?
text: Did you know that John Keir , who commanded a British Army corps in the First World War , was sacked after he complained about Edmund Allenby 's bullying of subordinates?
text: Did you know that the owl , dog , pelican , opossum and squirrel sculptures decorating the Perelman Building in Philadelphia symbolize attributes of insurance : wisdom , fidelity , charity , protection , and frugality ?
text: Did you know that in 1949, Jim Lacy became the first college basketball player in history to score 2,000 career points?
text: Did you know that " So It Goes " by Nick Lowe was the first record released on Stiff Records ?
text: Did you know that as of 1996, Linda J. Wachner , then chief executive officer of Warnaco Group , was the highest paid female corporate executive in the United States?
text: Did you know that independent custody visitors must be immediately admitted to a police station in the United Kingdom so that they can speak to people being detained and ensure that they are being properly treated?
text: Did you know that Crash actress Arlene Tur played professional beach volleyball during her time at Florida International University ?
text: Did you know that the Reverend David Sheppard took a sabbatical from his East End Mission for the MCC tour of Australia in 1962-63 , making a century to win the Second Test at Melbourne and preaching to packed cathedrals from Perth to Brisbane ?
text: Did you know that Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner created the 1986 video game Obsidian when he should have been revising his school exams, causing him to fail them all?
text: Did you know that Maelsuthain O'Carroll , advisor to High King Brian Boru , was called the "chief doctor of the western world in his time" and "sage of Ireland"?
text: Did you know that the UTIAS Snowbird is the first ornithopter powered by human muscles to be capable of straight-and-level flight?
text: Did you know that although the U.S. Supreme Court denied Clyde Summers the right to practice law in Illinois in 1945 in In re Summers , Summers later was a highly influential scholar in the field of labor law ?
text: Did you know that Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz survived the burning of the hydrogen balloon Star of Poland in 1938?
text: Did you know that the winner of the Notre Dame–Stanford rivalry football game is awarded the Legends Trophy , which is a combination of Irish crystal and California redwood ?
text: Did you know that the voyagers and adventurers in the Outline of canoeing and kayaking include Freya Hoffmeister , a German kayaker who was the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of Australia in 2009?
text: Did you know that a myth from Choiseul Island has a man who betrayed a tribal chief punished by suffocation by the flatulence caused by the people around him eating the kernels of the Tahitian Chestnut tree ?
text: Did you know that James "Hub" Hart was captain of the Georgetown University football team and then played three years in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that despite the construction of modern office and apartment buildings and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake , Colonia Roma still contains 1,100 of the mansions built there in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the British Conservative MP Alfred Jephcott was a trade unionist and a member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers for over 40 years?
text: Did you know that Windmill tump is a tumulus burial mound in Gloucestershire which contains the remains of ten adults and children?
text: Did you know that the German architect Johannes Krahn designed the Bienenkorbhaus (Beehive House) in Frankfurt and St. Martin in Idstein ?
text: Did you know that Gift of the Wind , a large scale kinetic sculpture by Susumu Shingu in Cambridge , Massachusetts , is considered by some to be "Cambridge's most visible landmark"?
text: Did you know that controversy over copyright infringement by Cooks Source made the phrase "but honestly Monica" into an internet meme ?
text: Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1961 short film Thigh Line Lyre Triangular documents the birth of his third child?
text: Did you know that the Makushin Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes of Alaska ?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s, poet Siegfried Sassoon lived at Teffont Magna ?
text: Did you know that the 1974 folk rock album The Children of Lir by Loudest Whisper is one of the most sought after records in Ireland?
text: Did you know that the Amur class minelayers were the first purpose-built, ocean-going minelayers when they were laid down in 1898 for the Imperial Russian Navy ?
text: Did you know that measuring 15 feet by 40 feet, Bigger Trees Near Warter is the largest painting by David Hockney ?
text: Did you know that the Roman Cirencester Amphitheatre in Gloucestershire was once used for the sport of bull-baiting ?
text: Did you know that in 1972, Denver voters approved a bond issue to build a performance hall for the Denver Symphony Orchestra , which played in theaters and auditoriums for its first 44 years?
text: Did you know that the Cross River Rail planned for Brisbane will be the largest transport project ever built in Queensland ?
text: Did you know that Peter Frederik Suhm was one of the founders of the Trondheim Society , then the northernmost scientific society in the world?
text: Did you know that during the 1975 test event, East Germany set up timers and cameras along the bobsleigh and luge venue used for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck to help their athletes?
text: Did you know that Christopher Sower printed and published the first German-language Bible in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Arlanda Line — a high-speed airport rail link to Sweden's largest airport — and its three stations, Arlanda North , Arlanda Central and Arlanda South , were partly financed by giving the Arlanda Express a 40-year monopoly ?
text: Did you know that Japanese 2channel users created the moe anthropomorphism Hinomoto Oniko to reverse the negative connotations of an ethnic slur?
text: Did you know that one newspaper referred to a recent student protest in Dublin as "the largest student protest for a generation"?
text: Did you know that when the Lincoln cent was released in 1909, hundreds of people across the United States lined up to get them?
text: Did you know that the 11th Duke of Somerset renamed 40 Park Lane as Somerset House , despite the existence of another ?
text: Did you know that on 6 April 1945, B-25 Mitchells of No. 79 Wing RAAF bombed the Japanese cruiser Isuzu , claiming two hits without loss despite anti-aircraft fire and frontal attacks by enemy fighters?
text: Did you know that Stephen Fry , Dawn French and Catherine Tate reenact events from their childhoods in the BBC comedy TV series Little Crackers ?
text: Did you know that two teams from the NBA Development League 's Western Conference played each other in the 2010 Finals to determine the champion ?
text: Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1967 short film Eye Myth took about a year to produce, despite a running time of only nine seconds?
text: Did you know that British soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders will cross over for the first time today in the Children in Need 2010 special " East Street "?
text: Did you know that when part of Norway 's Jæren Line was upgraded to double track in 2009, the Jæren Commuter Rail received four new stations: Paradis , Mariero , Jåttåvågen and Gausel ?
text: Did you know that New York City Opera percussionist Howard Van Hyning bought a set of 13 gongs made specially for use in performances of Puccini's opera Turandot ?
text: Did you know that a demonstration against raising tuition fees held earlier this month in London has been described as the largest student protest in the United Kingdom for a decade?
text: Did you know that Edward Spurway , two of his sons Michael and Francis , and his brother Robert , all played first-class cricket for Somerset ?
text: Did you know that in 8,000 BCE the Paiján people of northern Peru used needle-like projectile points mounted on hollow shafts of cane or reed as harpoons to catch fish?
text: Did you know that Carol Burnett will play a Nazi hunter on an upcoming episode of Glee ?
text: Did you know that since 1990, seven countries have tried juveniles as adults and executed them?
text: Did you know that Leona Lewis 's " Bleeding Love " is the most recent of 103 million-selling singles in the UK ?
text: Did you know that Latin American public beach resorts known as balnearios can be highly politicized?
text: Did you know that a spheromak is a stable ring of hot plasma that's been described as the electrical equivalent of a smoke ring ?
text: Did you know that before the Battle of North Borneo , No. 77 Wing RAAF surgically attacked targets at Labuan as few as 100 m (330 ft) from Allied demolition teams laying charges on the invasion beach?
text: Did you know that the armor of the Fusō -class battleships was incapable of stopping their own shells?
text: Did you know that in 1994, after The Cruel Sea won four ARIA Music Awards for their album, The Honeymoon Is Over , two of the ARIA trophies were stolen that same night?
text: Did you know that the name of Ghardaïa in northern-central Algeria has its origins in a female saint named Daïa who lived in a cave (ghār) in the M'zab valley?
text: Did you know that World War II canteen assistant Tommy Brown and two sailors boarded U-559 in order to retrieve documents which would later help break the Enigma code ?
text: Did you know that Kalin Lucas repeated as preseason conference player of the year prior to the 2010–11 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season ?
text: Did you know that Falta was the first Special Economic Zone in India?
text: Did you know that Linda Bean , heiress to part of the L.L. Bean company, twice ran for the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that Knoxville 's Lindbergh Forest neighborhood has two Lustron houses built with prefabricated enameled steel ?
text: Did you know that in Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards ' memoir Life , Richards makes unflattering claims about Mick Jagger , but adds "I love the man dearly; I'm still his mate"?
text: Did you know that Nevada Governor Denver S. Dickerson resisted pressure to stop the interracial boxing match of defending champion Jack Johnson and later supervised Johnson's federal prison sentence?
text: Did you know that the font in St Peter's Church, Adderley , Shropshire , has an inscription in Latin which translates as "Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife"?
text: Did you know that Stanley Tanger not only founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers , but he has also been credited with inventing the concept of the outlet mall itself?
text: Did you know that Mad in America was a 2002 critique of psychiatry written by American journalist Robert Whitaker ?
text: Did you know that the Australian town of Tumbulgum was the third town in the state of New South Wales to agree that retail outlets will not provide disposable plastic shopping bags?
text: Did you know that former President Jimmy Carter credited his White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz with offering insights that led to the signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer of Truth in Numbers? noted that "the Wikipedia article for the film itself was under threat of being deleted"?
text: Did you know that Edorian McCullough twice won the Texas high school 100 meter championship and later played for the Frankfurt Galaxy in World Bowl XV ?
text: Did you know that a Chinese police officer's son, convinced that he would avoid facing criminal consequences after hitting a pedestrian , yelled " My dad is Li Gang! "?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Lloyd Morain read palms in Hollywood before a career as a utilities executive, and, uniquely, served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association ?
text: Did you know that the murder of worshipers in Kysylyn during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia became the subject of a 2009 historical documentary film for Telewizja Polska ?
text: Did you know that the California Voting Rights Act makes it easier for minority groups in California to prove that their votes are being diluted in " at-large " elections?
text: Did you know that American Baptist missionary George J. Geis was working at the Kachin Bible Training School he had established in Kutkai at the time of his death in 1936?
text: Did you know that prior to the 1933 Cincinnati Reds season , a newspaper reported that Jo-Jo Morrissey "developed amazingly", yet he finished fifth in the league in errors and batted .230?
text: Did you know that Newsday reporter Donald S. Kellermann deliberately broke into a bar so that he could be arrested and write a series of articles about conditions at the Suffolk County, New York jail?
text: Did you know that a builder of St Mark's Church in Hadlow Down , East Sussex , was sacked for deliberately placing its weather vane upside down?
text: Did you know that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic ?
text: Did you know that FBI informant Angela Calomiris donated US$ 50 of government money to the legal defense fund for CPUSA leaders before testifying against them in court?
text: Did you know that the upcoming film My Idiot Brother went into production unusually quickly for an independent film , with a first cut to be completed less than a year after the script was picked up?
text: Did you know that on April 22, 1900, Roger Denzer earned the first win in Chicago White Sox franchise history?
text: Did you know that U Ba Nyan , a prominent Burmese painter, met George V of the United Kingdom in person, after he had saved one of the king's relatives from drowning?
text: Did you know that Modi Alon scored the Israeli Air Force 's first aerial victories on 3 June 1948 while flying an Avia S-199 , a derivative of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 ?
text: Did you know that the exterior of St Mary Magdalene's Church in Croome D'Abitot was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in Gothic Revival style, but the interior by Robert Adam is Georgian ?
text: Did you know that Saint Maximilian Kolbe was called the "Apostle of Consecration to Mary "?
text: Did you know that Usher 's song " Love in This Club, Part II ", which features Beyoncé and Lil Wayne , was originally planned to have guest appearances from Mariah Carey and Plies ?
text: Did you know that since 1952, the Austrian Consulate General in New York City is located in the former townhouse of the paper manufacturer Augustus G. Paine, Jr. ?
text: Did you know that parts of the shield volcano Fumarole Butte were once covered by Lake Bonneville ?
text: Did you know that in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , the guard stations where military police controlled access to atomic facilities are now listed historic properties used for meetings and education?
text: Did you know that the Luftwaffe command bunker and tower, and the German naval tactical headquarters were located in Saint Anne, Alderney during World War II ?
text: Did you know that strawweight mixed martial arts fighters Michael Willian Costa and Lincon de Sa are scheduled to face off for the inaugural Shooto South American Championship held in Brazil next month?
text: Did you know that ACI Club is the single largest marina chain in the Mediterranean ?
text: Did you know that William Dennison Clark , whose "wretched blunder" in 1905 ended Michigan 's 56-game unbeaten streak in football , killed himself 27 years later, reportedly expressing the hope to atone for his error?
text: Did you know that until the end of the 19th century, the bulk of the salt used in the United States came from salt producers in Syracuse, New York ?
text: Did you know that it was suggested for The Hives to rename their 2004 hit to " too dumb , and Dutch and broken bones "?
text: Did you know that the upthrust of Stark's Knob has been studied using snails in pillows?
text: Did you know that a 25 km (16 mi) stretch of the German Autobahn near Munich served as the venue for the cycling road team time trial event at the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Mikhail Beketov , a Russian journalist who opposed construction of the Moscow – Saint Petersburg motorway , was beaten up by unknown assailants in November 2008, leaving him wheelchair-bound?
text: Did you know that a series of diplomatic struggles between the major Mediterranean powers of the 15th century culminated in newly crowned Mehmed II ordering his first invasion of Albania ?
text: Did you know that a 3,000 ft (910 m) breakwater built by the British to protect its Navy in the 19th century shelters the Braye Harbour ?
text: Did you know that historian Paul H. Carlson co-authored a revisionist study of the 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker , seized by the Comanche in 1836, when she was a young girl?
text: Did you know that a boat made of seal skin dated to the Stone Age , as well as the world's oldest beer bottles , can be found in the Åland Museum in Mariehamn , Åland ?
text: Did you know that Walter Goodfellow obtained the type specimen of the Mikado Pheasant , comprising two long black tail feathers, from one of his porters who was wearing them in his head-dress ?
text: Did you know that Billy Hulen of the Philadelphia Phillies was the last regular left-handed shortstop in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that records of christenings , marriages , and burials in the former parish of Fisherton Delamere , Wiltshire , England are preserved back to the 1560s?
text: Did you know that Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World , written by ornithologist James Greenway , was an inspiration for the IUCN Red List ?
text: Did you know that the rare Fitzgerald Woollybush is found along with the barrel cone bush , claw flower , and dwarf sheoak in the Fitzgerald River National Park ?
text: Did you know that Louis Ayres designed the chapel at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, the Leeuwin Estate winery showcased musician Sting as part of its annual concert series , raising over A$ 4 million for Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief efforts?
text: Did you know that former Governor of Guam Templin Potts threatened to discharge any man under his command who married a native woman?
text: Did you know that when Andriza Mircovich chose to be executed by shooting , prison officials were unable to find five men willing to participate in the firing squad and had to build a shooting machine?
text: Did you know that as many as 5 million people per day come into the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City to work, shop or visit its cultural and historic sites?
text: Did you know that after reading articles by Julian Huxley on the disappearance of Africa 's wildlife , Victor Stolan wrote to him with "the germ of the idea" that led to the World Wildlife Fund ?
text: Did you know that Ayame Koike was one of three recipients of the Judges' Special Acting Award from the Japan Movie Critics Awards in recognition of their performance in Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi ?
text: Did you know that the Metro Manila radio station NU 107 's program In the Raw was created as response to President Corazon Aquino 's executive order of at least three Original Pilipino Music tracks per hour?
text: Did you know that John Frullo , a new Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives , is active in an organization which promotes the restoration of bighorn sheep to Texas ?
text: Did you know that in 1962 the England cricket captain Ted Dexter hit a ball out of the 120,000 seat Melbourne Cricket Ground , a feat previously thought impossible?
text: Did you know that the writings of Czech national poet Karel Hynek Mácha , born 200 years ago today, include the poem Máj , novel Cikáni , diary of Journey to Italy and the Diary of 1835 which deals with his relationship with his fiancée Lori ?
text: Did you know that the Mount Whaleback mine at Newman , Western Australia , is the biggest single-pit open-cut iron ore mine in the world?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Fernando Osorio wrote the last song recorded by Cuban performer Celia Cruz ?
text: Did you know that the curator of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington studied ballet under Russian prima ballerina Alexandra Danilova ?
text: Did you know that martial artist Erick Silva competed in "one of the wettest events in MMA history" when the outdoor event was subjected to torrential rain?
text: Did you know that the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus was a ministry of the California Jesuits ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Conan Doyle used photos of the Cottingley Fairies to prove the existence of supernatural entities, though an analysis of the images by Geoffrey Crawley showed that they were a hoax?
text: Did you know that a malfunctioning starting gate at the luge venue during the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo would lead to the only tie in Olympic luge history?
text: Did you know that St Swithun's Church, Worcester , is described as "one of the best preserved examples of an early Georgian church in England"?
text: Did you know that Teslim Balogun was the first African to qualify as a professional football coach?
text: Did you know that the French Battalion 's bayonet charges at the Battle of Wonju impressed General Ridgway to encourage all American units to conduct bayonet fighting during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that " Crumblin' Down " was John Cougar Mellencamp 's first single released with his real last name?
text: Did you know that Palo y hueso was Nicolás Sarquís ' first feature-length movie, shot in 1968 and costing just $15,715 to make?
text: Did you know that Robbie "The Flame" Olivier 's last fight was stopped after a fan riot made it impossible to continue?
text: Did you know that the Okomu and Cross River national parks in Nigeria , both home to many rare species including chimpanzees , are both increasingly threatened by illegal forestry?
text: Did you know that presenter Natasha Fatah said she broke down in tears in response to her interviewees' stories about being a refugee during the recording of the CBC Radio One program Promised Land ?
text: Did you know that Ashleigh "The Thunderball Kid" Grimshaw has had a negative record on two occasions in his career?
text: Did you know that Höfn , an Icelandic fishing town, has an entire museum devoted to glaciers ?
text: Did you know that the eponymous extended play by The Shadows , The Shadows to the Fore , Spotlight on The Shadows and The Boys all were number-one EPs in the UK ?
text: Did you know that Belvedere , one of the historical centres of sugar production in the United States Virgin Islands , contains a villa hotel which has been converted from an old sugar mill?
text: Did you know that boxer Lefty Satan Flynn was born Selvin Campbell and was nicknamed His Satanic Majesty ?
text: Did you know that an overactive thyroid gland can cause attacks of paralysis , particularly in young men of Chinese and Japanese origin?
text: Did you know that during World War II , when a new model of the Mitsubishi 'Zero' received its American code name , the prominent general it was named after was not very amused?
text: Did you know that in United States v. Carmack in 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal government's power under the Condemnation Act to exercise eminent domain over land owned by a state ?
text: Did you know that a milestone found near Milecastle 17 on Hadrian's Wall is the only known contemporary record of the name of Gaius Julius Marcus , Roman Governor of Britain ?
text: Did you know that the entire 2009 NBA Development League Expansion Draft took place via teleconference ?
text: Did you know that British Army soldier Matthew Kilroy was found guilty of manslaughter in the Boston Massacre ?
text: Did you know that the sod -surfaced Larson Brothers Airport was described as the "finest airport in the state" of Wisconsin in 1932?
text: Did you know that on November 14, 1942, black gospel quartet The Jubalaires had a hit with " Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition ", a response to the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous year?
text: Did you know that Leopold II 's mistress Caroline Delacroix was so loathed by the Belgian public that on one occasion, her carriage was stoned in Brussels ?
text: Did you know that the "strange, flat-bottomed boat" in which Beatrix Potter rowed on Moss Eccles Tarn is now housed in the Windermere Steamboat Museum ?
text: Did you know that Johanna Bugge Olsen was convicted of treason for having printed some "un-national" material in Arbeidet during WWII ?
text: Did you know that one definition of judicial bias in Singapore is that a "reasonable and fair-minded person" who is present in court and knows all the relevant facts suspects that a fair trial is not possible?
text: Did you know that on 21 June 2001, on the Mount Newman railway , a BHP Billiton iron ore train consisting of 682 cars broke the world record for the heaviest train, weighing 99,734 tons and being 7.3 kilometres long?
text: Did you know that when playing for the Chicago Bulls in 1985, Quintin Dailey complained that Michael Jordan received more attention from the team's coaches, arguing that he was "a player who likes to shine a little bit myself"?
text: Did you know that in the 16th century people convicted of sedition had their ears nailed to the pillory in Norwich Market , and when their pillory time was completed their ears were cut off?
text: Did you know that the proposed North Bothnia Line will allow high-speed trains to travel from Stockholm to Luleå Central Station ?
text: Did you know that Jule Sugarman helped design and administer the Head Start Program , which has served 27 million American children from low-income families since its inception in 1965?
text: Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federation 's No Mercy (2000) event resulted from one wrestler hitting another with a car to protest racism?
text: Did you know that W. G. Grace was the first cricketer to score a century of first-class centuries ?
text: Did you know that pediatric trauma accounted for 59.5% of all mortality in the United States for children in 2004?
text: Did you know that Sir Walter Raleigh mentions the church of Tevont Evias in his Discoverie of Guiana (1596)?
text: Did you know that Botetourt , one of the best known mineral springs in Virginia and one of the chief sulphuric thermals in America, was visited by General Lafayette in 1824?
text: Did you know that the British National Grid saw a record 2800 MW increase in demand due to the boiling of kettles and the opening of fridge doors after the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-Final between England and West Germany ?
text: Did you know that after being wounded at the capture of Martinique , Lt-Gen. James Murray had to sleep sitting up for the rest of his life?
text: Did you know that, with 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) of track, Rio Tinto 's Hamersley & Robe River railway is the largest privately owned heavy freight rail network in Australia ?
text: Did you know that outfielder Harl Maggert was on pace to win a batting title when he was permanently suspended from professional baseball for throwing games ?
text: Did you know that Carl Scheibler ' s method of extracting sugar from sugar beet molasses with strontium hydroxide was widely used before World War I ?
text: Did you know that West Shore , a magazine published from 1875 to 1891 in Portland , Oregon , was well known for its illustrations of scenery, architecture, and commerce of the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that after beating the highly touted prospect Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo via armbar, Yuri Alcantara was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear on their last ever event ?
text: Did you know that the 2009 single " I've Got Nothing " was written entirely through crowdsourcing in 10 weeks?
text: Did you know that a few years after the ecological restoration of Hyderabad 's Saroornagar Lake in 2003, migratory birds returned to the lake in large numbers?
text: Did you know that there is an upcoming animated series starring Spider-Man based on the Ultimate Spider-Man storyline that will air on Disney XD ?
text: Did you know that, after breaking his nose in the 1906 World Series , Ed Hahn batted .429 to help the Chicago White Sox win their first championship?
text: Did you know that the ratepayer protest led by New Zealand lawyer William Wynn-Williams nearly bankrupted Christchurch City Council ?
text: Did you know that Yin Yin Nwe , a Burmese geologist, was appointed UNICEF Representative to China on December 1, 2006?
text: Did you know that all four football venues at the 1968 Summer Olympics would be used as FIFA World Cup stadia when Mexico hosted the Cup in 1970 and 1986 ?
text: Did you know that the 27-million-year-old Cobb Seamount is so heavily encrusted in sea life that no bare rock surface has been found in dives ?
text: Did you know that Saint Sava likely had a hand in the murder of 13th-century Bulgarian noble Strez , a largely independent ruler in Macedonia ?
text: Did you know that the Charles A. Miller House was built for the oldest funeral director in Cincinnati , Ohio ?
text: Did you know that Great Migrations , the largest programming event of the National Geographic Channel , is part of the largest cross-platform initiative since the founding of the National Geographic Society in 1888?
text: Did you know that the artifacts on display at the Alderney Society Museum are as diverse as 1940 census papers, cinerary urns , dulcie cups, and curry powder bottles?
text: Did you know that gifts to monasteries in medieval Normandy were often rerecorded on pancartes ?
text: Did you know that Sir Alan Huggins was one of the first non-permanent Hong Kong judges of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal appointed in 1997?
text: Did you know that to promote Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes , two human-sized tomatoes picketed Super Bowl XVII ?
text: Did you know that despite operating from 1878 to 1896, Dartmouth Lifeboat was only required for one shipwreck?
text: Did you know that Abraham Curry and his business partners purchased a large portion of Eagle Valley for a US$ 300 down payment and set aside 10 acres ( 4 ha ) to build the Nevada State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that the new Commonwealth boxing champion Liam Walsh and his two brothers made their pro boxing debuts on the same night?
text: Did you know that when Dutch officials took control of the BredoLab botnet , they were able to use it against itself?
text: Did you know that State Representative Jim Landtroop was also a winning varsity basketball coach in Plainview , Texas ?
text: Did you know that the SimplySiti cosmetic line was founded by and named after Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza , and some of its products are named after her recordings?
text: Did you know that an upcoming soundtrack album will feature actress Gwyneth Paltrow performing a censored version of Cee Lo Green 's " Fuck You! " for an episode of Glee ?
text: Did you know that in 1937, a BSA Empire Star motorcycle ridden by Walter Handley won a race at Brooklands with a fastest lap of 107.57 miles per hour (173.12 km/h)?
text: Did you know that the Ducoudray Holstein Expedition planned to invade Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you know that the world's first glass summit cross was erected on the Schartwand in Salzburg 's Tennengebirge mountains?
text: Did you know that when Paul McCartney offered Isla Blair a ride home, his fans attacked her?
text: Did you know that Rio Tinto's Pilbara operations, consisting of the Brockman 2 , Channar , Eastern Range , Hope Downs , Marandoo , Mesa A , Mesa J , Mount Tom Price , Nammuldi , Paraburdoo , West Angelas and Yandicoogina mines , produced 202 million tonnes of iron ore in 2009, accounting for almost 13% of the world production?
text: Did you know that the short-lived CBS adventure series Spencer's Pilots starred character actor Gene Evans as the owner of a small aviation company?
text: Did you know that after hanging for nineteen years in a staff cafeteria and eleven in a living room, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 's painting Warlugulong sold at auction in 2007 for a record-breaking A$ 2.4 million ?
text: Did you know that Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60 , three between Fear and Hope, and one between Fear and the Voice of Christ ?
text: Did you know that Fowey Lifeboat Station was opened in the nearby village of Polkerris in 1859, and was not moved into the town of Fowey itself until 1922?
text: Did you know that Cockfield Football Club , from the tiny "two-street pit village" of Cockfield, County Durham , was dubbed the "Village Wonder Team" after reaching the semi-finals of the FA Amateur Cup in 1923?
text: Did you know that Kastelholm Castle is one of only five surviving Finnish medieval fortresses that is also considered to be architecturally substantial?
text: Did you know that because the Polavaram Project would submerge 276 villages in India , it was opposed by human rights and environmental activists , political parties , and neighboring governments?
text: Did you know that Nick Fazekas , the number one overall selection in the 2010 NBA Development League Draft , was a D-League All-Star before he was even picked?
text: Did you know that two major rivers of Borneo originate in the same area, flow in different directions, but have the same name ?
text: Did you know that Cuban American singer Gloria Estefan became the first female recipient of the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year award in 2008?
text: Did you know that Appianoporites , Margaretbarromyces , and Quatsinoporites are all fossil fungi from Vancouver Island , British Columbia ?
text: Did you know that the Slovenian - Italian brotherhood was one of the platforms of the United Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste ?
text: Did you know that after Ell Persons , an African American man, was lynched and decapitated in 1917, his head was thrown at a group of African Americans?
text: Did you know that the Mignot Memorial Hospital in Alderney is not covered by the National Health Service ?
text: Did you know that the last engraving by William Blake was a visiting card for his friend George Cumberland , which Blake decorated with children hoop rolling and flying kites ?
text: Did you know that American burglar Johnny Hope , the son of another burglar , may have been part of his father's gang that robbed the Manhattan Bank in 1878, netting nearly $3 million in cash and securities?
text: Did you know that in the 1777 Battle of Machias , a British amphibious assault seized stores of flour, rice, corn, shoes, and ammunition, but was driven off by United States forces assisted by Maliseet , Passamaquoddy , and Penobscot Indians?
text: Did you know that William Donald Albright homesteaded in Alberta 's Peace River region in 1913 and conducted studies there that led to his farm becoming Canada 's northernmost agricultural experiment station ?
text: Did you know that female R&B group Faya was discovered singing at a youth centre in Slough , and went on to sign a six-album deal with Def Jam Recordings ?
text: Did you know that in the 1949 municipal election in the Free Territory of Trieste , the communist -led Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union won 97% of the votes in Monrupino ?
text: Did you know that American novelist Harold "Hal" King earned the title "the crown prince of suspense" with the publication of his 1979 anti- Nazi thriller Closing Ceremonies ?
text: Did you know that in Bach 's St John Passion in the Philharmonie Luxembourg , Christoph Prégardien was the Evangelist and Andreas Pruys sang the words of Christ ?
text: Did you know that first baseman Babe Borton bribed opponents so that his team could win the 1919 Pacific Coast League championship?
text: Did you know that most leading Norwegian communists hit by the Nazi Operation Almenrausch in 1944 – including Peder Furubotn , Ørnulf Egge and Roald Halvorsen – survived?
text: Did you know that the Canfield-Wright House was built for an oil tycoon who developed Beverly Hills and Del Mar, California ?
text: Did you know that Sex, Slander, and Salvation was published just before David Berg 's death and the Love Charter 's reorganization of the Family International ?
text: Did you know that according to the FBI , purported mobster Joseph Miranda once owed his life to family boss Sam DeCavalcante ?
text: Did you know that Menara Kudus Mosque is the only mosque in Java known to have a Majapahit -style Hindu drum tower?
text: Did you know that, in 1946, Marv Rackley was hired by his teammate Jackie Robinson to play for the "Jackie Robinson All-Stars"?
text: Did you know that the chancel arch in St Michael's Church, Stretton en le Field , Leicestershire , appears to be made of stone, but is actually wood covered with stucco , giving the appearance of stone?
text: Did you know that Hangar No. 1 , once used by Charles Lindbergh , was built at Los Angeles International Airport when it consisted of a dirt landing strip in the middle of bean and barley fields?
text: Did you know that athletes from the Tønsberg FIK Norwegian track and field club have won national championships in distance running , throwing and sprints ?
text: Did you know that the extended play Hits by The Beach Boys spent 34 weeks at number-one in the EP chart ?
text: Did you know that Cefn Golau , a disused cholera cemetery near Tredegar in Wales, has many graves dating from August and September 1849 ?
text: Did you know that Vic Tandy was the first researcher to link infrasound and ghosts together?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Yes 's last top-ten rock hit " The Calling " were inspired by singer Jon Anderson 's concept of "local history"?
text: Did you know that executioner Thomas Henry Scott was fired for being with a prostitute on the night before a hanging job?
text: Did you know that a classic hypothetical example of the Wednesbury unreasonableness doctrine in administrative law , which applies in Singapore , is a public authority dismissing a teacher because of her red hair ?
text: Did you know that Arne Wam , as director of the Norwegian State Railways , ended the practice of turning all the seats in whatever direction a train was facing?
text: Did you know that the vocal quartet of Monika Frimmer , Christa Bonhoff , Dantes Diwiak , and Peter Kooy recorded the Augsburger Tafel-Confect ("Augsburg Table Confectionary") of Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert ?
text: Did you know that British engineer Bert Perrigo , who helped develop the BSA Blue Star motorcycles in the 1930s, was paid one-half-penny royalty for every motorcycle sold?
text: Did you know that James Gunn 's 1972 science fiction novel The Listeners was proposed as an unrecognized classic in the field by New Scientist magazine in November 2010?
text: Did you know that mis-transcribed versions of the Pratt-Yorke opinion of 1757 were circulated in British North America by opponents of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ?
text: Did you know that the manga character Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu was inspired by the lovelorn wanderer Tora-san ?
text: Did you know that in 1939, three Icelandic Nazi -sympathizers approached Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe with the hope of making him king of Iceland ?
text: Did you know that Abingdon Boys School , a band that shares a name with a school formerly attended by members of Radiohead , has contributed music to anime such as Darker than Black and Soul Eater ?
text: Did you know that Maine Senator Charles "Babe" Carter was known for his agility, nerve, and "wonderful handling of his massive frame" as a football player in the early 1900s?
text: Did you know that The Decemberists ' single off of their new album has been compared to R.E.M. , Neil Young , Steely Dan and Bruce Springsteen ?
text: Did you know that a 1993 parliamentary rule passed in the predominantly Catholic country of San Marino changed the loyalty oath from "Holy Gospel" to "on my honor"?
text: Did you know that a cave near Otapi is named for and linked to a legend involving the Abkhazian hero Abrskil ?
text: Did you know that in the late 1940s, American blues shouter and jazz singer Duke Henderson renounced his past and began broadcasting as Brother Henderson, a minister and gospel DJ ?
text: Did you know that in the 2009 M-1 Challenge Season in the sport of mixed martial arts , Team Benelux's Danny van Bergen was one of only two team members to finish with a positive record?
text: Did you know that Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen 's only Billboard Top 40 hit as a solo artist was " I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) ", a song inspired by the International Geophysical Year of July 1957 – December 1958 ?
text: Did you know that Meyer Foshaug held one of the first four seats won by the Labour Party in the Parliament of Norway ?
text: Did you know that, in addition to mobilizing labor brigades for the post-war reconstruction of Yugoslavia , the Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste planned sporting and cultural events?
text: Did you know that the troubadour Peire Rogier addressed a poem to Aimerico Manrique de Lara , Duke of Narbonne (c. 1152–1177), encouraging him to live up to his illustrious Spanish lineage?
text: Did you know that the 19th-century Kaplaneios School in Ioannina , Greece , evolved into the most significant intellectual center of the city through the work of Athanasios Psalidas ?
text: Did you know that after the 2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team gave up six turnovers against Navy , EMU head coach Jeff Woodruff said, "You can't beat a high school team giving up five turnovers"?
text: Did you know that the writer Frederick James Gould became a prominent agnostic and pioneering secular humanist despite having studied theology with "devout fury" during his youth?
text: Did you know that the pool for the water polo venue at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was shallow enough to allow taller Yugoslav players to stand with their heads above water?
text: Did you know that director Nobuhiko Obayashi purposely made the special effects in the Japanese horror comedy film House look unrealistic?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles attorney Norman Sterry represented the New York Yankees in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an exemption from the antitrust laws for Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that after AIDS activist Rand Schrader died in 1993, his partner David Bohnett founded the GeoCities website using the benefits from Schrader's life insurance ?
text: Did you know that although Nancy Greene won the women's alpine skiing giant slalom race at the 1968 Winter Olympics , the stop clock malfunctioned and said otherwise, leaving her with a headache for two days?
text: Did you know that a portable electric chair was moved from county to county for executions in Mississippi so that one county would not be stigmatized as a "death county"?
text: Did you know that, because of a lifelong medical condition that may be Proteus syndrome , Mandy Sellars ' legs and feet weigh about 210 lb (95 kg), while her upper body only weighs about 84 lb (38 kg)?
text: Did you know that the American government and advocates of political reform have been increasingly promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa since September 11, 2001?
text: Did you know that film studies are less concerned with filmmaking than with exploring the narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of cinema?
text: Did you know that General Sir Peter Lumsden accompanied his brother on a British military mission to Kandahar in 1857?
text: Did you know that orange ironstone , white ashlar stone, brick, red sandstone , granite and timber were all used to build the All Saints Church, Beeby ?
text: Did you know that despite the mental demands of his profession, Edward William Archibald , considered Canada 's first neurosurgeon , was described as a "distressingly absent-minded character"?
text: Did you know that Congregation Or Chadash , Chicago's oldest LGBT synagogue , may have been targeted in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot ?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the 1907 Kingston earthquake , the Governor of Jamaica refused an offer of eight surgeons from three United States warships?
text: Did you know that Raymond Kimutai Bett set a new race record to win the 2010 Athens Classic Marathon , which celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon ?
text: Did you know that American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Cash McCall has evolved in musical styles from gospel to soul to the blues ?
text: Did you know that the Cloud Break mine project, worth A$ 2 billion , was in danger of not being approved after the discovery of the incredibly rare Night Parrot in the area?
text: Did you know that, unlike other Colonial Revival post offices in New York, the Lenox Hill station on Manhattan 's Upper East Side has two main entrances on either side?
text: Did you know that the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers , a forerunner of the Royal British Legion , was founded in opposition to the re-conscription of men injured during World War I ?
text: Did you know that John Stirk played every league game during Watford Football Club's 1978–79 promotion-winning season?
text: Did you know that the catsharks of the genus Galeus — G. antillensis , G. arae , G. atlanticus , G. cadenati , G. eastmani , G. gracilis , G. longirostris , G. melastomus , G. mincaronei , G. murinus , G. nipponensis , G. piperatus , G. polli , G. priapus , G. sauteri , G. schultzi , and G. springeri —have "saws" on their tails?
text: Did you know that teenager Barbara-Ann Scott was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating with her performance at the 1948 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Major General Andrew Cumming CBE , who commanded British troops in the NATO -led Kosovo Force in 1992, became controller of the charity SSAFA Forces Help after leaving the Army in 2004?
text: Did you know that Indiana 's Gas Boom of the 1880s played a pivotal role in the development of the Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District ?
text: Did you know that the body of amateur cricketer Henry Arkwright , who was killed by an avalanche in 1866, was found 31 years later missing its head and both feet?
text: Did you know that the George W. Bush presidential campaign used John Cougar Mellencamp 's " R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. " at a campaign rally, despite Mellencamp's opposition to Bush's political positions?
text: Did you know that the Ådalen Line of Sweden will be upgraded to become part of a high-speed railway corridor between Stockholm and Umeå ?
text: Did you know that while Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama was chief of the Namibian intelligence agency , the agency was informally known as "Tshirumbu's people"?
text: Did you know that by 1978, The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and The Boston Globe banned their writers from working as official scorers for Major League Baseball due to a conflict of interest?
text: Did you know that Louisiana industrialist and political kingmaker Louis J. Roussel, Jr. began his career in the 1930s as a New Orleans bus driver ?
text: Did you know that in 1977 the body of St Mary's Church, Brentingby , Leicestershire , was partly demolished and converted into a house, leaving the tower standing?
text: Did you know that after the Maliseet Gabriel Acquin gave the Prince of Wales a ride in his canoe , he was invited to London , where he set up a wigwam in South Kensington ?
text: Did you know that philosophers differ in opinion as to whether potential future persons have value or not?
text: Did you know that in the children's book Mission: Earth , astronaut Thomas D. Jones describes using specialized radar technology to measure carbon monoxide pollution on the Earth ?
text: Did you know that floods in Malaysia in November 2010 affected the homes of a State Chief Minister and a Federal Minister ?
text: Did you know that by 1900, a 12-man outlaw gang led by desperado Jack Sully had reportedly stolen 50,000 cattle and 3,000 horses?
text: Did you know that Sharad Anantrao Joshi was the sole Member of Parliament to vote against the bill providing 33% reservation for women in the upper house of the Indian Parliament and the state assemblies ?
text: Did you know that one of Sammy Davis, Jr. 's performances in Nevada was a gig at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center ?
text: Did you know that theatre director and critic Branko Gavella refereed the opening match of the first Croatian association football championship in 1912?
text: Did you know that after visiting Sir John Fagg in 1697, Daniel Defoe wrote of Fagg's prodigious bullocks, "I never saw any thing like them"?
text: Did you know that Butchers Wheel , a cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield , could only be accessed through a single, guarded door?
text: Did you know that Douglas Lima was expected to showcase his skills with an easy victory over Brent Weedman in a mixed martial arts title fight, but lost?
text: Did you know that despite its high praise by critics, the Community episode " Epidemiology " was the least-watched non- reality component of NBC 's Comedy Night Done Right lineup?
text: Did you know that Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter Dan Sane recorded with Frank Stokes , billed as the Beale Street Sheiks?
text: Did you know that William Hancock was one of seven Hancock brothers to play rugby union for Somerset ?
text: Did you know that Charles Chauncey Burr was an abolitionist before the American Civil War but then became a Copperhead ?
text: Did you know that in the 1870s Russian liberals like Guerrier and Chicherin accused Karl Marx of being narrowly concerned with the proletariat and indifferent to the entrepreneur 's "psychic labour"?
text: Did you know that The Beatles recorded "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich" because the German label Odeon Records insisted that they record their hit songs in German to generate more sales there?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Health Security Express bus tour experienced technical difficulties, including an overheating bus?
text: Did you know that studios release films in the fall, during Oscar season , to have a better chance at winning the Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that U2 's latest live EP was created as part of a program to draw customers to independent record shops during the 2010 holiday shopping season ?
text: Did you know that brothers Amos Jr. and Paul Stagg both played quarterback for their father Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago , and later led teams against each other as college coaches themselves?
text: Did you know that the Legion of Ratu Adil was a pro- Dutch militia and private army established during the Indonesian National Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Richard Nixon unilaterally created the United States Environmental Protection Agency with Reorganization Plan No. 3 ?
text: Did you know that two unexplained stepped tunnels near King Herod 's Hyrcania fortress in the Judean desert have attracted treasure hunters looking for riches described in the Copper Scroll of Qumran ?
text: Did you know that spitballer Jimmy Dygert , who won 21 games in 1907, weighed about 115 pounds, which may make him the lightest pitcher in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that the Pawan River and the Lamandau River both flow in the Indonesian part of Borneo ?
text: Did you know that the "revolutionary" car chase sequence in the 1968 film Bullitt was edited by Oscar-winner Frank P. Keller ?
text: Did you know that Australian political journalist Alan Reid ' s exposé about B. A. Santamaria led to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955 ?
text: Did you know that American football safety Jordan Kovacs went from being a walk-on to being the second leading tackler in the Big Ten Conference ?
text: Did you know that the alumni of the Moscow State Pedagogical University include Mikhail Gorbachev 's wife Raisa ?
text: Did you know that in 1889 the English judge Samuel Boteler Bristowe was shot in the back by a German maker of false teeth ?
text: Did you know that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez , who played Nala in Broadway's The Lion King , died of leukemia despite efforts by Alicia Keys , Rihanna and 50 Cent to recruit bone marrow donors from among their fans?
text: Did you know that the English Arbitration Act 1979 was passed as the Prime Minister went to resign?
text: Did you know that, in early 1941, Johnny Sturm broke into the New York Yankees lineup after two future Hall of Famers went into slumps?
text: Did you know that the National Democratic Party was formed in 1978 as the last step in Anwar El Sadat 's four-phase program to introduce a multi-party system to Egypt ?
text: Did you know that remarks by Hall Thompson that "we don't discriminate in every other area except blacks" before the 1990 PGA Championship led golf 's governing bodies to ban holding tournaments at all-white clubs?
text: Did you know that Jews are prohibited from praying at the alleged tomb of Nahmanides , a foremost medieval rabbinic scholar and kabbalist ?
text: Did you know that a Pointer named Judy was the only dog to be registered as a World War II prisoner of war ?
text: Did you know that Roy Skinner , head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, recruited Perry Wallace as the first African American to play varsity basketball in the Southeastern Conference ?
text: Did you know that in response to the banning of the niqāb in Egypt , students protested by wearing protective face masks?
text: Did you know that when A. Skjegstad was hired by Aftenposten , he became one of the few journalists in Norway to go from a labour newspaper to a high-profile conservative newspaper?
text: Did you know that American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter James Armstrong was almost stabbed to death at his home in 1997?
text: Did you know that evidence of a Roman settlement has been discovered at Double Arches Pit , a disused sand quarry that is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest ?
text: Did you know that when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Irwin B. Laughlin advised Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson not to recognize the new government?
text: Did you know that a Peronist hymn was sung during the 1975 civil wedding of future Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández ?
text: Did you know that the Imperial Wireless Chain was a wireless telegraphy communications network, built in the 1920s to link the countries of the British Empire ?
text: Did you know that American country blues singer Lottie Kimbrough was nicknamed "the Kansas City Butterball"?
text: Did you know that in the 1984 film Who Dies on His Feet , Albanian actor Llazi Sërbo rode a descendant of Naklon , a horse that Stalin had donated to Albania ?
text: Did you know that in 1907, the winner of the first Giro al Sas 10 km road race in Trento was disqualified for taking a shortcut?
text: Did you know that U.S. President George H. W. Bush nominated Alfred C. Sikes to be chairperson of the FCC instead of Sherrie Marshall because Sikes was thought to have a better relationship with Congress ?
text: Did you know that when Harry Oliver joined Watford Football Club , Benskins Brewery paid the transfer fee on the club's behalf?
text: Did you know that in 1844, USS General Taylor conveyed abolitionist Jonathan Walker to Pensacola , where he was infamously branded "S.S." for "Slave Stealer"?
text: Did you know that in the 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , Natasha Mayers initially won the bronze, was moved up to silver, then was upgraded to the gold medal due to disqualifications?
text: Did you know that the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews at Falmouth Lifeboat Station share their building with Her Majesty's Coastguard ?
text: Did you know that Syrian -born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh debuted a concerto written especially for him at the opening of the Damascus Opera House ?
text: Did you know that John Cougar Mellencamp 's number-one rock song " Lonely Ol' Night " was inspired by the 1963 Paul Newman movie Hud ?
text: Did you know that Theodore Plucknett was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics ?
text: Did you know that one of the world's largest botanical gardens in the 19th century was located on Bogor in present-day Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Daren Queenan won the 1989 Continental Basketball Association Dunk Contest?
text: Did you know that because Arabic author Zaynab Fawwaz wore the niqāb , her husband acted as a messenger between her and the men attending her literary salon ?
text: Did you know that the communists Harald Slåttelid and Bjarne Dalland were among 17 people executed at Trandum by Norway's Nazi occupiers on 1 March 1943?
text: Did you know that after the plaintiff in the lawsuit Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System filed a motion to dismiss the case, he mailed checks for US$ 100 to each of the defendants?
text: Did you know that during the 1990s, Rinia Park in the Albanian capital of Tirana became a notorious spot for drug dealers and illegal buildings?
text: Did you know that Sempronius Stretton , who sketched people in early Canada , was painted at the Duke of Wellington's annual banquet celebrating their victory at Waterloo ?
text: Did you know that after his term as acting Governor of Guam , Raymond Stone went on to become a judge on the Supreme Court of Guam ?
text: Did you know that Libertas , a biographical film about the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić , was approved for funding in 1992, but was not finished until 2006?
text: Did you know that Louisiana politician and timber magnate Henry E. Hardtner is known as "the father of forestry in the South "?
text: Did you know that brewing beer from glacial water is only one of the many unique features of Greenlandic cuisine ?
text: Did you know that Robert-Georg Freiherr von Malapert was the first recipient of the German Cross in Gold?
text: Did you know that the Mount Lemmon Marathon is entirely uphill and climbs over 1 mile (1.61 km) from start to finish as it follows the General Hitchcock Scenic Byway ?
text: Did you know that Oscar Nilssen chaired the Hedmark branch of the Norwegian Labour Party for thirty-three years, from 1921 to 1954?
text: Did you know that the rooms of the Café Rumpelmayer in the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City were designed by the German-born architect Winold Reiss ?
text: Did you know that Liang Congjie established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you know that all eight venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics were reused when the Games returned to Innsbruck twelve years later ?
text: Did you know that Eber Brock Ward built the first Bessemer steel mill in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Mudawana is the only section of Moroccan law that relies primarily on Islamic sources rather than Spanish or French civil codes?
text: Did you know that Talyllyn Railway locomotives No. 3 Sir Haydn and No. 4 Edward Thomas both hold the unusual distinction of carrying the same number through the ownership of four different railway companies?
text: Did you know that Chinese sport shooter Liu Tianyou ‎won his first gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2006 Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that two Berlin U-Bahn stations, Paradestraße and Platz der Luftbrücke , have been called "Flughafen" (airport) because Hitler wanted the entrance to Tempelhof Airport moved?
text: Did you know that recreational physical activity reduces cancers but not melanoma ?
text: Did you know that the discovery of asbestos in B5 coaches during renovation has led to a legal dispute between the Norwegian State Railways and Bombardier Transportation ?
text: Did you know that Lorne Kusugak , a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut , was a founding director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation , a TV network that broadcasts almost entirely in Inuktitut ?
text: Did you know that Princess Xenia of Montenegro 's refusal of marriage to Alexander I of Serbia severed diplomatic relations between their two countries?
text: Did you know that the Tristan Thrush is a regular predator of the eggs and chicks of the Great Shearwater ?
text: Did you know that classic female blues singer Laura Smith recorded two songs about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 ?
text: Did you know that discretionary trusts in English law have been described as "powers in the nature of trusts" because they cross the traditional distinction between trusts and powers?
text: Did you know that P.E. de Josselin de Jong was the nephew of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong , a founding father of Dutch anthropology, and that both specialized in Indonesian ethnography ?
text: Did you know that Mary Emma Allison conceived of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 to raise funds for powdered milk for needy children, a program that had raised $160 million by the time of her death in 2010?
text: Did you know that the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem established official political ties with the Palestinian government after Yasser Arafat moved to Gaza City in 1994?
text: Did you know that among the 85 cricketers to play first-class cricket for I Zingari were one member of the British Royal Family , three barons , one Earl , three Members of Parliament and one bishop ?
text: Did you know that Gee Jon became the first person in the United States to be executed in a gas chamber , after Nevada State Prison officials found that pumping the poison directly into his cell did not work?
text: Did you know that 30% of the population in the Arab world is classified as overweight or obese , including 80% of adult women in Kuwait ?
text: Did you know that George Cain 's book Blueschild Baby was called "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son " for its portrayal of "a world that only black people can fully comprehend"?
text: Did you know that although the fungus Aseroe coccinea was characterized in 1989, its validation as a species was delayed until 2007 because the initial description was not in Latin ?
text: Did you know that in 1982 the pilot of a Applebay Zuni II glider earned at least seven FAI gliding badges during the course of a single flight?
text: Did you know that the redevelopment of the Paddington area of London was intended to be comparable in scale to Canary Wharf ?
text: Did you know that, although the Norwegian newspaper Solungen was only published from 1904 through 1914, its name was involved in a trademark dispute in 2008?
text: Did you know that Battle of Britain fighter ace Richard Dickie Cork was the only Fleet Air Arm pilot to shoot down five aircraft in a day?
text: Did you know that when the only known Cylindrocline lorencei died and its seeds would not germinate , it was considered extinct —but it was saved through in vitro culture of part of the seed embryo ?
text: Did you know that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector ?
text: Did you know that former Scientologist Tory Christman trained actor John Travolta in his initial Scientology coursework?
text: Did you know that Reimar Schefold of Leiden University lived among the Sakuddei of Siberut who believe that everything has its own spirit , free to wander as it wishes?
text: Did you know that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence ?
text: Did you know that when Sir Christopher Hatton , Lord Chancellor to Elizabeth I , built Holdenby House , he moved the dwellings of Holdenby village away from All Saints Church , leaving it isolated?
text: Did you know that March 13, 2001, was named "Ronnie McCollum Day" in Shreveport, Louisiana , to honor the basketball player of that name?
text: Did you know that Canadian pioneer Susan Louisa Moir Allison was the first European to report a sighting of Ogopogo , a cryptid lake monster ?
text: Did you know that Polly Rosenbaum 's accomplishments in her 45 years in Arizona 's state legislature included eliminating spittoons and miniskirted pages from the state House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the Blair-Dunning House in Bloomington was the home of the only politician to hold every elected legislative and executive office in Indiana's government ?
text: Did you know that scholars have recommended that " Clara cell " and other medical eponyms associated with Nazi doctors or medical experiments should be replaced?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano opera singer Martha Lipton performed 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that after Black Panther Party members Michael Tabor and Richard Moore fled to Algeria while on trial for an alleged bomb plot, party leader Huey P. Newton called them "enemies of the people"?
text: Did you know that the 1915 film The Incorrigible Dukane is the oldest surviving movie starring John Barrymore ?
text: Did you know that during the Yom Kippur War , the Israeli Air Force carried out the Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid after northern Israel had been struck by FROGs ?
text: Did you know that Bach used the first movement of his Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 as a Sinfonia for his cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52 ?
text: Did you know that the death of a zebra , while under the care of Sir Fleetwood Edwards , was said to greatly annoy Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that B.B. King and Eric Clapton won a Grammy Award in 2000 for their collaborative album Riding with the King ?
text: Did you know that when former International Lenin School worker Just Lippe fled to neutral Sweden during World War II , he was imprisoned there for a year and a half?
text: Did you know that a klotok is a type of Indonesian "motorized gondola"?
text: Did you know that Willie Jackson is the Atlantic Sun Conference 's all-time leading scorer in men's basketball?
text: Did you know that Chamaegigas intrepidus ("intrepid dwarf giant") is a tiny aquatic plant that can thrive in the desert ?
text: Did you know that World War II aviator William Atkinson is the highest scoring fighter ace of the Royal Canadian Navy and the last ace from The Commonwealth ?
text: Did you know that the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville , Kentucky , was frequented by Al Capone , who is said to have once avoided police by escaping through secret tunnels in the hotel?
text: Did you know that the first automobile in Canada was first operated by parish priest Georges-Antoine Belcourt in 1866?
text: Did you know that soon after the ocean liner SS Utopia collided with the battleship HMS Anson , resulting in 564 deaths near Gibraltar in 1891, the partially submerged wreckage was involved in another collision?
text: Did you know that the recently restored Wara Wara (1930) is the only known surviving Bolivian silent feature film?
text: Did you know that Battle of Britain pilot Francis Dawson-Paul was the leading Fleet Air Arm fighter ace on the Spitfire but was shot down in July 1940 after 25 days of combat and died of his wounds five days later?
text: Did you know that one year after Bahrain 's State Security Law was abolished in 2001, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa pronounced Bahrain a constitutional monarchy and changed his title from amir to king?
text: Did you know that Lai Pak-Hoi founded the first Chinese-owned film production company in Hong Kong , the Minxin Film Company ?
text: Did you know that the new search engine Blekko will use what The New York Times described as " Wikipedia -style policing" to weed out pages created by content farms and focus on results from trusted websites?
text: Did you know that Anglo-Saxon nobleman Ælfric Cild married into the powerful family of the ealdorman of Mercia , and succeeded him in office before being expelled by the end of two years?
text: Did you know that after finishing his National Football League career with the Atlanta Falcons , Bob Adams became a Church of Scientology vice president and spokesperson?
text: Did you know that Sir Nicholas Fuller was imprisoned for heresy after describing the Court of High Commission as "under jurisdiction not of Christ but of anti-Christ "?
text: Did you know that The Mark Levin Show is the fourth most-listened-to radio program in the United States , with over 8.5 million listeners?
text: Did you know that the most massive known neutron star is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in diameter, but has a mass twice that of the Sun ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan runner Benjamin Kiptoo set a course record of 2:07:54 at the 2010 Chuncheon Marathon ?
text: Did you know that in 1962, Texas A&M University professor J. Milton Nance wrote a regional history of Bryan , Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Diggers & Dealers conference is so popular that hotel rooms in Kalgoorlie, Australia , are booked up two years in advance?
text: Did you know that two Soviet speed skaters tied for first place and won gold in the same event at the 1956 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that actor Dax Shepard received strong reviews for both his comedic and dramatic performance in " No Good Deed ", an episode of the NBC series Parenthood ?
text: Did you know that the autobiographical film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure (which is about an intersexed woman) won a 2010 ATOM Award for Best Documentary (General)?
text: Did you know that the "strategy New Haven itself had pioneered to fight North Haven's mall " was used against the New Haven Galleria by the neighboring city of Milford 20 years later?
text: Did you know that in the 2008 Nunavut general election , candidate Allan Rumbolt achieved the lowest winning plurality of any candidate in any electoral district ?
text: Did you know that United States security assistance to the Palestinian Authority for the 2010 fiscal year was US$ 100 million ?
text: Did you know that the Pittsburg State Gorillas have won more games than any other American football program in NCAA Division II history?
text: Did you know that Reinhard Mohn took what was left of his family's publishing company (its premises demolished by Allied bombing in World War II ) and turned it into the sixth-largest media conglomerate in the world?
text: Did you know that the Murray State Racers men's basketball program had its last losing season in 1987–88?
text: Did you know that even though Simeon I of Bulgaria burned the Church of St. Mary of the Spring near the Byzantine capital Constantinople , his son Peter married the daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos there three years later?
text: Did you know that juvenile balloon sharks are preyed upon by the coelacanth ?
text: Did you know that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde ?
text: Did you know that All-Star pitcher Oral Hildebrand led Butler University to the 1929 national championship in basketball ?
text: Did you know that voice artist P. C. Ramakrishna acted in the 1969 Madras Players theatre production The Crucible ?
text: Did you know that upon being elected Mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan , Douglas R. Archer moved to eliminate the city's business tax ?
text: Did you know that the collection of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum includes a specimen of native copper that is 8 ft ( 2.4 m ) long?
text: Did you know that Samangan (Aybak) , the capital of Samangan Province , lies on the Khulm River ?
text: Did you know that Alexei Kudrin was declared "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" by Euromoney magazine?
text: Did you know that several MPs have signed an Early Day Motion to stop hunters from killing wild animals in Britain after the supposed death of the Emperor of Exmoor , a red stag ( Cervus elaphus )?
text: Did you know that Welsh bantamweight champion Tosh Powell died from a brain hemorrhage after a boxing match in Liverpool, at the age of 20?
text: Did you know that Second World War aviator Ronald Cuthbert Hay is the only Royal Marine fighter ace ?
text: Did you know that Henry Holt and Company discontinued the printing of The Last Train From Hiroshima after members of the 509th Composite Group questioned the authenticity of the book?
text: Did you know that Wallace Wilkerson declined to be executed by decapitation in Utah Territory , and instead took up to 27 minutes to die because the firing squad missed his heart?
text: Did you know that a 1994 hoax suggesting that Microsoft had acquired the Catholic Church was considered to be the first Internet hoax to reach a mass audience?
text: Did you know that at M-1 Global 's Challenge XXI event, Artiom Damkovsky defeated Mairbek Taisumov to become their inaugural Lightweight MMA Champion and Guram Gugenishvili defeated Kenny Garner (who was replacing the injured Maxim Grishin ) for their inaugural Heavyweight Championship?
text: Did you know that Emery Point Light , an active lighthouse at Larrakeyah Barracks , near Darwin , Northern Territory , Australia , was the only navigational aid to remain functional in the path of Cyclone Tracy ?
text: Did you know that various authors speculate that the Byzantine aristocratic Phokas family are of Arab , ancient Roman , Armenian or Georgian origin?
text: Did you know that Charles Darwin experienced the 1835 Concepción earthquake , describing the effects of both the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami ?
text: Did you know that soprano Myrna Sharlow once upstaged acclaimed opera singer Mary Garden in a performance of a minor role at the Boston Opera House ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming Commissioner of the Northwest Territories , George Tuccaro anchored the first daily current affairs television show in Canada's north?
text: Did you know that historian Gary Clayton Anderson describes the white man's advance into Texas in the 19th century as ethnic cleansing of the American Indians ?
text: Did you know that politician James R. Lewis was involved in plans to build a laser gun "designed to blind people", sell it to a Guatemalan colonel, and use the proceeds to build a laetrile factory in South America?
text: Did you know that soprano Christiane Kohl appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as the Rhinemaiden Woglinde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung ?
text: Did you know that no northern-born Canadian Aboriginal had been appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories until the appointment of Daniel L. Norris in 1989?
text: Did you know that despite having to teach out of a poorly converted hotel building, Mary Adams transformed the Wesleyan Female College into a highly regarded institution?
text: Did you know that " The Ballad of Molly Mogg " was "writ by two or three men of wit" – John Gay , Alexander Pope and Dean Swift – while sheltering from a storm?
text: Did you know that Scott Ashjian faced a legal challenge prior to the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Nevada as he changed parties after submitting his candidacy?
text: Did you know that Torstein Grythe started the boys' choir Sølvguttene in 1940, and retired as conductor of the choir as late as 2004?
text: Did you know that the New York Times described Dick Miles as "perhaps the greatest table tennis player the United States has ever produced" after Miles won 10 national championships in the sport?
text: Did you know that Chilean journalist Pamela Jiles announced her presidential candidacy using the slogan "We are millions, the idiots"?
text: Did you know that the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin houses the world's fastest supercomputer ?
text: Did you know that Sandrine Salerno , current mayor of Geneva, Switzerland , is the daughter of a French mother and an Italian father?
text: Did you know that Nick Leggett , the Mayor of Porirua who succeeded Jenny Brash , is currently the youngest mayor in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that the Wittenberg Tigers from Springfield, Ohio , have won more games than any other Division III college football team?
text: Did you know that St Peter's Church, Wolfhampcote stands isolated in a field, surrounded by mounds remaining from a deserted medieval village, disused canal workings, and a redundant railway?
text: Did you know that Troughman is mythically famous in Sydney , Australia , for lying down in urinals ?
text: Did you know that following a sexist joke by a political opponent, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Lisa MacLeod wrote the cookbook I’d Rather Be Baking Cookies ?
text: Did you know that the phonomotor , patented by Thomas Edison in 1878 and powered only by the human voice, could drill a hole in a board?
text: Did you know that Apple introduced Game Sprockets in 1996 to improve game development on the Mac OS , but cancelled development only a year later?
text: Did you know that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War , a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International ?
text: Did you know that the idea behind " Pavor Nocturnus ", a second season episode of the Canadian television series Sanctuary came from the 2007 film I Am Legend ?
text: Did you know that in 1979 Taunton Town F.C. moved from the Southern section of the Southern Football League to the Midlands section due to the opening of the M5 motorway ?
text: Did you know that a Leo Cullum cartoon published in the first illustrated issue of The New Yorker printed after the September 11 attacks had the caption "I thought I'd never laugh again. Then I saw your jacket"?
text: Did you know that Robert Wilson was a principal tenor with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1930s before beginning a 25-year concert, variety and radio career?
text: Did you know that Peter Bossman , born in Ghana , has been elected by the people of Piran to become Slovenia 's first black mayor ?
text: Did you know that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara first met in Colonia Tabacalera , Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that in 1859, ex- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California David S. Terry killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in a duel ?
text: Did you know that Frankism , an 18th-century movement derived from Judaism , maintained that the best way to emulate God—and one's most important personal responsibility—was to transgress every taboo?
text: Did you know that Thomas Barrie , found guilty in 1538 of spreading rumours about Henry VIII of England , had his ears cut off while in the pillory and later died from shock ?
text: Did you know that Betty S. Murphy was the first woman to serve on and the first woman chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board , and the first woman to lead the Dept. of Labor's Wage and Hour Division ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Tehawehron David was a Mohawk artist who became known for his role as a warrior during the Oka crisis in 1990?
text: Did you know that Detroit mayor William G. Thompson was considerably pummeled in a sensational public fight with his brother-in-law, who accused him of talking about his wife in barrooms?
text: Did you know that a typhoid outbreak was caused by a church meeting in Monark Springs, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that Holland Island , currently underwater at high tide, used to be one of the largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay ?
text: Did you know that Olga Ivinskaya , the mistress of Boris Pasternak , was the inspiration for the heroine of Dr. Zhivago ?
text: Did you know that a large fragment of the Northumbrian Easby Cross was over 1,000 years old when it was found built into a wall in a field?
text: Did you know that the two earliest aboriginal title cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall were examples of collusive litigation ?
text: Did you know that the first church service in the village of Alliance, Alberta was held in a pool hall , with most of the congregation seated on pool tables ?
text: Did you know that clarinetist Margot Leverett started a band that fuses bluegrass music with the traditional Jewish musical style called klezmer ?
text: Did you know that before departing from Kraków for his victorious Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Empire , king Jan III Sobieski said his final prayers at the Carmelite Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary ?
text: Did you know that the drawings of Violette Lecoq from her experiences in the Ravensbrück concentration camp were used as evidence at the trials in 1946?
text: Did you know that the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta has variously been considered a thrush , a starling and a honeyeater ?
text: Did you know that some leading botanists believe that Afghanistan is the birthplace of pomegranate cultivation ?
text: Did you know that Belgian soldiers continued to defend Fort de Tancrémont even after Belgium had already capitulated to Nazi Germany on 28 May 1940?
text: Did you know that despite suffering from an injured fist, Indian boxer Shiva Thapa won a silver medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ?
text: Did you know that by 2001, there were over 1,000 research studies regarding the children's television show Sesame Street 's efficacy, impact, and effect on American culture?
text: Did you know that R&B singer Tobi Lark 's most successful recording was issued under a different name, became very popular in Wigan , and has recently been compared to a Shakespeare sonnet ?
text: Did you know that the largest ethnic group in Makambako , Tanzania , is the Kinga ?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 220 was one of twelve highways removed from the Washington state highway system in 1991?
text: Did you know that industrialist and inventor William Edenborn once tried to use monkeys to harvest cotton on his experimental farm in Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that graphic designer S. Neil Fujita created iconic covers for such books as Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood and Mario Puzo 's The Godfather ?
text: Did you know that alternative rock band Klaxons ' records have charted in multiple countries worldwide?
text: Did you know that American boogie-woogie pianist Booker T. Laury appeared in two films, but did not record his debut album until he was almost eighty years of age?
text: Did you know that over 110 people were killed when SS Vestris sank in 1928?
text: Did you know that Wendall Woodbury was the first television anchor in the United States to report on the unfolding Three Mile Island accident in 1979?
text: Did you know that the venue for the 1960 Summer Olympic marathon event included the Appian Way , finished at the Arch of Constantine , and was lit at night by Italian soldiers holding torches ?
text: Did you know that catcher Harry Bemis once beat Ty Cobb over the head with a baseball after a home plate collision?
text: Did you know that the children's book Don't Forget the Bacon! was used in an education case study teaching students about reliability of spoken language ?
text: Did you know that Marilyn Monroe 's 1952 live rendition of the George Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva song " Do It Again " before thousands of marines at Camp Pendleton caused a "near riot"?
text: Did you know that Austroplatypus incompertus forms colonies in the heartwood of some Eucalyptus trees and was the first beetle recognized as eusocial ?
text: Did you know that Ogden H. Hammond , the father of New Jersey congresswoman Millicent Fenwick , survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania , though his wife did not?
text: Did you know that one of the earliest driving clubs in Britain, the Bensington Driving Club, was also called the Black and White Club, after the Black Dog and White Hart public houses where it met?
text: Did you know that the succulent plant Frerea indica was once on a list of the twelve most endangered plants on earth?
text: Did you know that Mary J. Rathbun described over 1000 new crustacean taxa, but never attended college, and received a Ph.D. only after she retired?
text: Did you know that the Sanctuary of Atotonilco in Guanajuato , Mexico , has been called the Sistine Chapel of Mexico?
text: Did you know that the 1964 BSA A65 Rocket motorcycle had a top speed of 108 mph and was sold as the fastest motorcycle being produced by BSA ?
text: Did you know that Norwegian folk singer Jack Berntsen had a cultural prize named after him?
text: Did you know that the Matengo people are believed to have lived in southern Tanzania 's Matengo Highlands since the Iron Age ?
text: Did you know that the Antlia Dwarf galaxy may have distorted the shape of its neighbour NGC 3109 one billion years ago?
text: Did you know that newly hatched Aylesbury ducks were traditionally fed on toast , boiled eggs , rice , beef liver , greaves and boiled horses or sheep ?
text: Did you know that between 1933 and 1935, American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer Walter Roland recorded around fifty songs for Banner Records ?
text: Did you know that Empire Conveyor was the only ship sunk by U-122 ?
text: Did you know that Phallus calongei is a pink-tipped phallic mushroom covered with greenish slime ?
text: Did you know that Otto Schimming wrote the first letter to the United Nations protesting Namibia 's incorporation to South Africa ?
text: Did you know that the first Principal of Federico Errázuriz Regional Institute was José Kuhl, a Pallottine priest from Limburg , Germany ?
text: Did you know that three of the venues used for the 1956 Winter Olympics went on to appear in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only ?
text: Did you know that, in the 1880s, stage actress Pauline Hall performed Erminie a record-breaking 800 times in the United States ?
text: Did you know that a Bristol Scout from the British aircraft carrier Vindex made the first interception of an airship by a carrier-based aircraft on 2 August 1916 when it attacked a Zeppelin with explosive Ranken darts ?
text: Did you know that Justus Smith Stearns built the first all electric sawmill in the United States?
text: Did you know that the porch of St Swithun's Church, Brookthorpe , Gloucestershire , contains a wall plate with a chronogram hiding the date of the execution of Charles I ?
text: Did you know that due of a lack of an official UK Singles Chart before 1969 the BBC averaged four different charts in the early 1960s, none of which are now regarded as the canonical source?
text: Did you know that the organ case in St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover , Warwickshire , was originally made for St John's College, Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that despite numerous proposed changes to the Constitution of American Samoa , voters in today's constitutional referendum cannot vote on each of them individually?
text: Did you know that conservative theologians believe the Confession of 1967 radically changed how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) interpreted the Bible ?
text: Did you know that American football player Bryant Moniz , who began the 2009 season as a walk-on for Hawaii delivering pizzas to pay his expenses, currently leads the NCAA in both passing yards and total offense ?
text: Did you know that the NSB Class 72 trains could at first not be used on the high-speed Gardermoen Line because their electronics interfered with the signaling system?
text: Did you know that Annie Meinertzhagen spent part of her honeymoon studying birds at Walter Rothschild ’s ornithological museum ?
text: Did you know that Bronx judge Burton B. Roberts , known for his no-nonsense manner and stentorian voice, was the model for the character Myron Kovitsky in Tom Wolfe 's 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities ?
text: Did you know that the British Engineerium , created by a steam enthusiast who started with £ 300, was later bought for £3 million by another enthusiast?
text: Did you know that the Piccolo Quintet , composed by Graham Waterhouse , was performed in a lecture concert of the first Sergiu Celibidache Festival in Munich?
text: Did you know that nine athletes managed to win more than one medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics despite there only being 17 events?
text: Did you know that in the Cincinnati Riots of 1884 many soldiers from the Ohio National Guard refused to report for riot duty, and some even joined the rioters?
text: Did you know that prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh , imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin Prison , went on a month-long hunger strike to protest her ill-treatment?
text: Did you know that Norway 's train radio system Scanet was replaced by GSM-R after only 13 years of operation?
text: Did you know that the Benton City – Kiona Bridge is believed to be the first steel box girder bridge in the United States, and still carries Washington State Route 225 today?
text: Did you know that Gervase Bennet , MP for Derby during the Commonwealth , originated the name "Quakers" for members of the Religious Society of Friends ?
text: Did you know that the traditionalist Italian wine producer Giacomo Conterno has long held the motto that at the time of bottling, their barolos should be "undrinkable"?
text: Did you know that each book in the Epic Horse series has a new protagonist and setting?
text: Did you know that the Maya city of La Blanca in northern Guatemala features an unusually well-built palace complex for such a small city?
text: Did you know that Louisiana Highway 975 is a gravel state highway along the banks of the Atchafalaya River ?
text: Did you know that editor Hans Aarnes established the first formal education program for journalists in Norway?
text: Did you know that the People's Republic of China , much like the United States and Russia , has allegedly engaged in cyberwarfare ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's short film Runaway was inspired in part by painters Picasso and Matisse , as well as directors Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick ?
text: Did you know that Yahoo! Kids , formerly known as Yahooligans!, is the oldest online search directory for children?
text: Did you know that Nunavut Day , originally celebrated on April 1 , was moved to July 9 in 2001 because the former date was not considered to be significant enough to the people of Nunavut ?
text: Did you know that the process of cheese ripening determines the texture and flavour of cheese ?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Kandahar , Nader Shah told his Bakhtiari troops that they would each be given 1,000 rupees and a share of the spoils if their assault was successful?
text: Did you know that eight players selected in the 1980 NBA Draft went on to became head coaches in the league ?
text: Did you know that the Cincinnati Riots of 1836 were triggered by U.S. Independence Day celebrations and were observed by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the mayor of Cincinnati?
text: Did you know that in his pursuit of the Byzantine throne, Leo Phokas the Elder was outmaneuvered by Romanos Lekapenos , who had failed to support him in the lead-up to the disastrous Battle of Acheloos ?
text: Did you know that the Tucana Dwarf galaxy is located on the opposite side of the Milky Way to most of the rest of the Local Group ?
text: Did you know that Point Charles Light , established 1893, is the oldest lighthouse in the Northern Territory , Australia ?
text: Did you know that you can drink carbonated water from Soda Spring while hiking along the Silver Knapsack Trail in California 's Sierra Nevada Mountains?
text: Did you know that in 1968, historian Betty Miller Unterberger became the first woman professor at the formerly all-male Texas A&M University ?
text: Did you know that nipple adenomas are rare benign growths in the nipple that can look like cancer?
text: Did you know that William White built the Southbridge and Pleasant Point branch railways?
text: Did you know that poet John Dryden was baptised in the now- redundant Church of All Saints, Aldwincle in Northamptonshire ?
text: Did you know that theosophist John Varian was a leader of the utopian community of Halcyon , an influence to composer Henry Cowell , a friend of photographer Ansel Adams , and father of Russell and Sigurd who invented the klystron ?
text: Did you know that handheld video game Galaxian 2 , released in 1981, is titled as such not because it is a sequel to Galaxian , but because it has a two-player mode ?
text: Did you know that Pollanisus nielseni , a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen , a noted Danish entomologist ?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Grosset of Grosset Wines led a movement in the 1980s to stop Australian wines that do not contain Riesling grapes from using the word "Riesling" on their labels?
text: Did you know that Ingolf Schanche was the first artistic director of the Det Nye Teater , which opened in Oslo in 1929?
text: Did you know that Wolke Hegenbarth ' s first name means "cloud" in German?
text: Did you know that Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough played for Hall of Fame football coach John Gagliardi at Saint John's University ?
text: Did you know that politician Olav Steinnes , who dabbled in nuclear physics as a hobby , claimed to have made "the most important discoveries ever made in history by a single man"?
text: Did you know that Victor Jackovich was the first United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you know that the removal of Omar Gjesteby as a deputy trade union leader in 1940 was partially investigated by his son, a Norwegian police investigator, some years later?
text: Did you know that mural artist Henry Bird taught drawing to the modernist architect Will Alsop by insisting that he draw bricks for three months?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court reheard James v. Dravo Contracting Co. in 1937 after Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter 's retirement altered the judicial balance of the court?
text: Did you know that the first Open Era tennis tournament was held at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth ?
text: Did you know that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle , 500 miles from the sea?
text: Did you know that the Yes song " Saving My Heart " was originally intended to be a collaboration with Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson , but Yes vocalist Jon Anderson wanted to sing it himself?
text: Did you know that the Fall of Agadir took place in 1541 after a six-month siege of the Portuguese garrison by the future Moroccan sultan, Mohammed ash-Sheikh ?
text: Did you know that the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture is one of three separate U.S. ambassadors stationed in Rome , Italy ?
text: Did you know that actor and producer J. B. Fagan was the first manager of the Oxford Playhouse ?
text: Did you know that 29 employees were killed in the Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion when a fire spread down an assembly line and detonated 56,322 magnesium tripflares that had been manufactured for the U.S. Army ?
text: Did you know that death can be found living on hell's half acre ?
text: Did you know that two American presidents nearly lost their souls to the Devils River ?
text: Did you know that the ghosts of a bride who tripped and died and her groom who committed suicide in 1904 are said to haunt an upscale restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that the isolated All Saints Church at Highbrook, West Sussex , was paid for by two sisters who thought the parish church at West Hoathly was too far to travel?
text: Did you know that according to Zuni folklore, the giant cannibalistic demon Átahsaia tried to feed soup made from dead children to two maidens?
text: Did you know that the manga Haunted House continues Mitsukazu Mihara 's death-themed material?
text: Did you know that by riddling your ashes on Halloween, you might determine who in your household will be the next to die?
text: Did you know that the Ferry Plantation House in Virginia Beach is reportedly haunted by 11 spirits and offers special tours, including one on Halloween called "The Stroll of Lost Souls"?
text: Did you know that killer shrimp have invaded Western Europe and could soon invade North America ?
text: Did you know that according to the folklore of the Crow Nation , the Little People of the Pryor Mountains were dwarves so violent and fearsome they could tear the heart out of an enemy's horse?
text: Did you know that the Lenape Native American tribe called one of their Ohio settlements Clear Town, but the Germans called it Hell ?
text: Did you know that the Jew's Ear is an edible reminder of a suicide ?
text: Did you know that Bach combined in both his cantata Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55 , and his St Matthew Passion the words Erbarme Dich with the same chorale ?
text: Did you know that the powerful Voorleser would hold babies' heads under water , stuff children's brains , tie their parents together , dress up the dead , tell tales about them and prepare a place for them in the underworld ?
text: Did you know that the administrative offices of the Caprivi Region were once located beneath a giant baobab in Katima Mulilo that today is known as the "Toilet Tree"?
text: Did you know that a lawsuit brought by William Shernoff against an insurance firm that refused to pay claims for damage from Cyclone Val in American Samoa yielded penalty payments of $ 86.7 million ?
text: Did you know that the power plant workers union SITRANDE was the first public sector trade union founded in Paraguay after the fall of Stroessner ?
text: Did you know that Harry Neal Baum ghostwrote the 1917 novel Mary Louise Solves a Mystery when his ailing father, L. Frank Baum , could not fulfill his obligations to his publishers?
text: Did you know that during World War I the United States Army recruited over 28,000 soldiers for the Spruce Production Division , which harvested Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you know that the help of Cyrus Eaton , Jerome Wiesner and Nikita Khrushchev was needed so that Frederick and Milena Jelinek could marry?
text: Did you know that the Kentuckian LaVerne Butler was a leader in the "Conservative Resurgence" within the Southern Baptist denomination in the 1970s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that Zakopane Style architecture became so popular that designs inspired by it were built in Warsaw , Łódź , and even a train station in Saldutiškis , Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that during its operational history, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade has ranged in size from 1,200 men to almost 10,000?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Lefty Herring later became a position player and made it back to the major leagues five years after his first game?
text: Did you know that Terry Bradshaw 's daughter Rachel co-wrote Jerrod Niemann 's " What Do You Want " and appeared in the song's music video ?
text: Did you know that the tower of St Martin's Church, Colchester , Essex , was damaged in 1648 during the Civil War , and has never been repaired?
text: Did you know that Harry Kingman was the first Major League Baseball player to be born in China?
text: Did you know that socialist politician Kiranmoy Nanda has been the Fisheries Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 1982?
text: Did you know that an experience at an auction in the early 1960s led John Rice Irwin to start the Museum of Appalachia ?
text: Did you know that the High Virgo ballistic missile was launched from a B-58 bomber at a speed of Mach 2 ?
text: Did you know that although American surf music group The Astronauts only spent one week on the Billboard Hot 100 in their entire career, they outsold The Beach Boys in Japan in the early 1960s?
text: Did you know that Hannibal killed 15 swans?
text: Did you know that after an unsuccessful debut album, Mexican singer-songwriter Mario Domm formed the band Camila ?
text: Did you know that Anubias afzelii , described in 1857, was the first species of the genus of popular aquarium plants, Anubias , known to science?
text: Did you know that Frank Bancroft managed his now-defunct Major League Baseball team , the Providence Grays , to the 1884 World Series championship?
text: Did you know that No. 201 Flight 's role was considered so secret by the Royal Australian Air Force that few people outside the unit knew that it even existed?
text: Did you know that Nelson Mandela proposed that Robben Island , where he was imprisoned for 18 years, be renamed after Xhosa warrior and prophet Makana ?
text: Did you know that Common Sense Media protested the ESRB 's rating downgrade of a revised version of Manhunt 2 from "Adults Only" to "Mature", since that version was still banned in the UK?
text: Did you know that Basil Cave issued an ultimatum that led to the shortest war in history ?
text: Did you know that the aviary Bird Kingdom was once a museum that at one time held the mummy of Ramesses I ?
text: Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football running back Michael Shaw was a teammate of Roy Roundtree at Trotwood-Madison High School , where he was coached by National Football League veteran Maurice Douglass ?
text: Did you know that the Nationalist Citizens' Party ' s platform during the 1957 Philippine elections was described as "businessman's nationalism"?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan recorded his song " Gates of Eden " in a single take on January 15, 1965?
text: Did you know that the 1 kg (2.2 lb) $ 3,000 Platinum Koala coin is an official means of payment in Australia?
text: Did you know that the Alzheimer's disease medication Galanthamine is synthesized using Saegusa-Ito oxidation ?
text: Did you know that the Lawrason Act , named for State Sen. Samuel Lawrason , allows Louisiana municipalities to create their own form of government without legislative approval?
text: Did you know that the communist student organization CGMI ran campaigns against hazing at Indonesian universities?
text: Did you know that Bill James described Mike Mitchell , who set a National League assists record as a rookie, as having the best outfield arm in baseball ?
text: Did you know that Tom Derrick received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Sattelberg in November 1943 ?
text: Did you know that future Star Wars make-up artist Rick Baker handled the effects for The Incredible Melting Man , a 1977 horror film about an astronaut whose body is literally melting?
text: Did you know that Judson Welliver is widely regarded as having been the first presidential speechwriter ?
text: Did you know that the Azerbaijan region has been producing wine since the 2nd millennium BC and was noted by Herodotus , Strabo , Abu'l-Fida and Al-Muqaddasi ?
text: Did you know that American anthropologist Frank Bessac was fleeing China when his group was attacked by Tibetan border guards, killing three of his party, including the first CIA agent to be killed in the line of duty?
text: Did you know that the Ansbach Grizzlies , one of the oldest American football teams in Germany , played in every one of the first eight editions of the German Bowl ?
text: Did you know that in the lyrics of the 2010 song " Coming Home ", Diddy makes references to the classic 1979 song " Ain't No Stopping Us Now " by McFadden & Whitehead , as well as events in his own life?
text: Did you know that the Umm al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad , Iraq , has minarets in the shape of Scud missiles and Kalashnikov rifle barrels?
text: Did you know that it was debated in 1896 whether the Louisiana planter Meredith Calhoun was the model for the character of Simon Legree in Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
text: Did you know that the aquarium plant Anubias heterophylla has reportedly been used as a stomachic for children?
text: Did you know that Hydro-Québec 's project of four hydro-electric power stations on the Romaine River is called "the biggest construction project in Canada "?
text: Did you know that the Batavia, New York post office is one of only three in the state to be a contributing property to its historic district despite being ineligible for an independent listing on the NRHP ?
text: Did you know that Colin Beyer was informed about the sex reassignment surgery planned by his stepdaughter, former New Zealand MP Georgina Beyer , before her mother received the news?
text: Did you know that the Wilmington, North Carolina airport was named for Arthur Bluethenthal , a Princeton football All-American who was awarded the Croix de guerre twice, and died in combat for France in World War I?
text: Did you know that after dropping out of the 1992 New York City Marathon due to breathing problems, Kim Jones suffered from bronchitis and was bedridden for a month?
text: Did you know that Maxim model and reality television contestant Gia Allemand has been selected to play the role of Ava Gardner in an upcoming film about the life of Gianni Russo ?
text: Did you know that Mexico's Biutiful was named Best Foreign Language Film of 2010 at the 17th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards ?
text: Did you know that since March 2007 there have been controversial discussions about including of parts of the northern Steigerwald Nature Park in UNESCO 's World Heritage Programme by turning them into a national park ?
text: Did you know that Ralph "Human Ripcord" Savidge invented a baseball pitch called the "finger nail curve"?
text: Did you know that the 1999 film The Sixth Sense received six Academy Award nominations , and grossed more than sixteen times its budget?
text: Did you know that Sir Francis Wythens was illegally returned to Parliament after a book containing 700 votes for the opposition "was artificially mislaid and lost by the officers trusted"?
text: Did you know that archaeologist David Ussishkin has described the Chalcolithic Temple of Ein Gedi as "a monumental edifice in terms of contemporary architecture"?
text: Did you know that although the bat Myotis alcathoe was only described in 2001, it is now known to range widely across Europe?
text: Did you know that Arthur Augustus Tilley resigned as a tutor of King's College, Cambridge , after being blamed for the throwing into the college fountain of the "long-haired bounder" Robbie Ross ?
text: Did you know that during the Great Depression , the construction of a country estate named for a candy bar was the largest source of jobs in Giles County, Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that though his early burlesques , including The Merry Zingara , featured actresses performing male roles , W. S. Gilbert later renounced this practice?
text: Did you know that the Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire was built in response to the success of a tram at Cannon Mountain ?
text: Did you know that the Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference defines information technology law jargon using legal opinion from case law ?
text: Did you know that the name for the Mexican band Jotdog was inspired by the pop art work of Andy Warhol ?
text: Did you know that despite having reconstructive Tommy John surgery prior to the season, Zach Daeges was named to the first-team all- Missouri Valley Conference squad as a designated hitter in 2005?
text: Did you know that a decomposing rhino carcass and lack of water led to the establishment of Henties Bay ?
text: Did you know that, when Thomas M. Carnegie tried to get his brother, Andrew Carnegie , to invest in the Edgar Thomson Steel Works (later a key element in the Carnegie steel empire), Andrew initially refused?
text: Did you know that a signal mortar used to be fired to summon the lifeboat crew to Poole Lifeboat Station but this was stopped in 1914 as people could mistake the sound for an explosion at the nearby gas works ?
text: Did you know that in 1944, Sam Caldwell , as the mayor of Shreveport , ran against Jimmie Davis for governor of Louisiana even though both had served in the same municipal administration?
text: Did you know that the Nobel Prize -winning chemist E.J. Corey described a total synthesis of hexacyclinol as "blatantly wrong science"?
text: Did you know that in the 1932 NFL championship game , Chicago Bears coach George Halas stuck out his foot from the sidelines and tripped Ace Gutowsky while he was returning a kickoff for the Portsmouth Spartans ?
text: Did you know that 37 different contracts were issued for venue construction and renovation among three different governmental ministries for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens ?
text: Did you know that, according to Fieldhouse , militant agitation by the Indonesian communist trade union Serbuni during the 1963/1964 confrontation sought to prevent nationalization of Unilever factories?
text: Did you know that the American painter George Burroughs Torrey , who was also known as the "painter of presidents", was decorated with the Order of the Savior by King George I of Greece for his services?
text: Did you know that W. K. Henderson , the founder in 1925 of KWKH Radio in Shreveport , Louisiana , rallied his listeners against the new Federal Communications Commission and chain stores ?
text: Did you know that remains of the largest known stone ship , either 170 or 354 metres long, have been found under the two royal barrows at Jelling in Denmark ?
text: Did you know that former Oregon Duck and Detroit Lion George Christensen co-founded a multinational manufacturing company with factories in France, Japan, Canada and the United States?
text: Did you know that the Bible manuscript minuscule 801 has an unusual order of books, with the Gospels placed at the end, after the Pauline epistles ?
text: Did you know that the tropical marine fish Gillellus inescatus possesses an esca similar to that of an anglerfish , which might be used for luring prey and attracting mates?
text: Did you know that contractor George Caldwell was sentenced to four years in a U.S. Penitentiary for income tax evasion and kickbacks received on buildings that he completed at Louisiana State University ?
text: Did you know that the construction of a summer palace for the King of Jordan was interrupted by the 1967 Arab–Israeli War , and the unfinished building in Tell el-Ful near Jerusalem is now a haven for drug addicts ?
text: Did you know that the selection of Jamshid Amouzegar as Prime Minister of Iran in 1977 instead of Hushang Ansary has been called “one of the shah ’s two biggest mistakes, leading to the revolution ”?
text: Did you know that pitcher Davey Dunkle won 30 minor league baseball games in 1902 and made it back to the major leagues the following season?
text: Did you know that award-winning experimental filmmaker and animator Skip Battaglia is also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology ?
text: Did you know that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruitfly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila ?
text: Did you know that as a lobbyist in 1997, former State Rep. Randy Pendleton worked for the constitutional amendment which permits home-equity loans in Texas ?
text: Did you know that visitors of the 2002 Winter Olympics had the option of traveling to one of the venues by horse-drawn sleigh ?
text: Did you know that Australian child murderers John and Sarah Makin were caught after the bodies of two of their many victims were discovered in a blocked drain ?
text: Did you know that the design of the Third Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ohio , may have been patterned after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem ?
text: Did you know that Bill Kemmer set a Texas League record with 12 runs batted in during a single baseball game?
text: Did you know that after serving as a deputy MP in Norway , Martha Schrøder worked as an ergotherapist and a spinning wheel teacher?
text: Did you know that New York Mayor Ed Koch expressed his frustration with the overly generous deals Eric Schmertz negotiated with unions, saying that city workers should say "Thank you Mr. Mayor, for the Schmertz"?
text: Did you know that the principal exhibit of the Fabergé Museum in the German town of Baden-Baden is an egg bought for nine million pounds ?
text: Did you know that Bach has a choir of trombones double the choir in his cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64 , for the Third Day of Christmas ?
text: Did you know that Episcopal bishop of Louisiana Charles Edward Jenkins III retired due to post-traumatic stress disorder from Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that in his first professional baseball season, Lefty Houtz led the Texas League in triples , home runs , hits , total bases, and slugging percentage ?
text: Did you know that the German Benedictine missionary and bishop Thomas Spreiter helped found Inkamana Abbey in KwaZulu-Natal ?
text: Did you know that as the runaway winner of a special election for his late father's seat in the Texas House of Representatives , John Kuempel of Seguin is the 101st Republican in the 150-seat body?
text: Did you know that a playboy originally was a boy performing in a theatre ?
text: Did you know that since 1989, Don Shows has coached his West Monroe High School Rebels to seven Louisiana state football championships and five runner-up designations?
text: Did you know that Whitney Houston 's 1985 single " How Will I Know " was originally written for Janet Jackson ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player and former fireman Len Koenecke was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher ?
text: Did you know that Dratshang Lhentshog is the Commission for the Monastic Affairs of Bhutan ?
text: Did you know that diplomat and historian Ignas Jonynas contributed articles to the first universal encyclopedia in the Lithuanian language ?
text: Did you know that the Salcombe Lifeboat capsized in 1916 with the loss of 13 lives, and again in 1983, with no loss of life?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century judge Sir William Dolben was described by biographer Roger North as an "arrant old snarler"?
text: Did you know that peroxides were used in the 2005 London bombings and the 2001 shoe bomb plot ?
text: Did you know that Matt K. Miller , a stage actor and playwright who recently became the artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company , is also a voice artist for Japanese anime ?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century Lectionary 303 was taken to Paris and later to America despite a colophon threatening "the wrath of the eternal Word of God" for anyone who removed it?
text: Did you know that Mexican band Jotdog included a cover version of a song previously recorded by Cyndi Lauper on their debut album ?
text: Did you know that from 1902 to 1996 , Ham Iburg had the most wins in Major League Baseball for a pitcher whose last name starts with the letter "I"?
text: Did you know that African American Republican Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans held the post of comptroller of customs under both Presidents Harding and Coolidge ?
text: Did you know that the Puszcza Darżlubska Forest is the second largest site of Nazi mass killings of Poles and Jews in Pomerania ?
text: Did you know that Isuzu Yamada was the first actress to receive the Order of Culture , Japan's top cultural award, from the Emperor of Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Powder Ridge Ski Area was home to the first quad chairlift in New England ?
text: Did you know that Francis Skeat designed over 400 stained glass windows, including memorials to the footballer Duncan Edwards and the explorer John Smith ?
text: Did you know that although Justices of the King's Bench received salaries from 1278, the first pension provisions were not made until 1799?
text: Did you know that Gardiner considers Bach the "best writer of dramatic declamation ... since Monteverdi " for the dialogue in his cantata for the Second Day of Christmas , Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57 ?
text: Did you know that American diplomat, orator, and Harvard professor Edward Everett bought two New Testament manuscripts , Lectionary 297 and Lectionary 298 , during a visit to Greece in 1819?
text: Did you know that Dick Hoerner played in three consecutive NFL Championship Games , became the Los Angeles Rams ' all-time leading rusher and was considered "a murderous line backer "?
text: Did you know that insertion reactions are integral to the Cativa process , a method used to produce millions of tons of acetic acid annually?
text: Did you know that the only remaining original scrolled station sign on the New York City Subway can be found at the Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street station?
text: Did you know that Harvey Wells founded the city of Wellston, Ohio , but he never owned his own house there?
text: Did you know that Stephen Venard , a 19th century Nevada City, California lawman and renowned road agent killer, used a Henry rifle ?
text: Did you know that Louis Gruenberg 's The Emperor Jones was available to premiere at New York City 's Metropolitan Opera because an opera by a Jew about a black was not wanted in Berlin in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Jacksonville Rockets , an Eastern Hockey League franchise based in Jacksonville , were Florida 's first professional ice hockey team?
text: Did you know that the crest of the Königstein Ridge near Westerhausen , Germany , is dominated by the striking Kamelfelsen rocks whose shape resembles two camels lying down?
text: Did you know that Monte Scheinblum , son of All-Star baseball player Richie Scheinblum , hit a golf ball over 329 yards (301 meters) into a 20 mph ( 32 kph ) wind to win the 1992 U.S. National Long Driving Championship?
text: Did you know that despite attaching an inscription to his first wife's grave implying he would not marry again, British politician Giles Eyre not only remarried but buried his second wife in the same grave?
text: Did you know that Teresa Teng 's " The Moon Represents My Heart " was one of the first love songs to become popular in mainland China under the Open Door Policy ?
text: Did you know that when District of Columbia judge Robert L. Wilkins was recently out of law school, he was stopped by Maryland State Police for " driving while black " and won a landmark racial profiling lawsuit?
text: Did you know that 11 out of 19 species of land snails found on the Samoan island of Tutuila are endemic?
text: Did you know that the drama series Huge , created by Savannah Dooley and her mother, Winnie Holzman , employed Dooley's father as an actor and her uncle as the cinematographer?
text: Did you know that Jim Cockman is the oldest player to ever make his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Yankees ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Gambuh dance is performed in Batuan, Bali , every full moon ?
text: Did you know that after a tsutsugamushi epidemic occurred at Sausapor , research was conducted on the area's rats and mites , using C-rations as rat bait, to better understand the illness's epidemiology ?
text: Did you know that Spanish songwriter Javier Limón earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2004 ?
text: Did you know that the world's first quantum machine "literally vibrated a little and a lot at the same time" and was named " Breakthrough of the Year " by Science in 2010?
text: Did you know that when Great Britain lost the 1951 Ryder Cup by a score of 9½–2½, golfer Arthur Lees took part in the team's only two match wins?
text: Did you know that A Christmas Record released in 1981 on the ZE label was described as the first-ever alternative Christmas album and contains both a hit single and a "blasphemous, nearly tuneless piece of skronk"?
text: Did you know that the Christmas album Una Navidad con Gilberto by Gilberto Santa Rosa won a Latin Grammy Award for "Best Traditional Tropical Album" in 2009?
text: Did you know that the Aero HC-2 Heli Baby was the first Czechoslovakian-designed helicopter to go into production?
text: Did you know that although Geographia Neoteriki , written by Grigorios Konstantas and Daniel Philippidis , was welcomed with enthusiasm by western intellectuals, it was largely neglected by Greek scholars?
text: Did you know that after winning a minor league baseball batting title in 1903, Charlie Loudenslager joined a major league team but only appeared in one game?
text: Did you know that the Cincinnati Riot of 1853 involved Germans objecting to the presence of an Italian cardinal preaching in French in the United States on Christmas Day?
text: Did you know that in 1874, a 5720 pound copper nugget whose surface had been worked by prehistoric miners was discovered at the Minong Mine ?
text: Did you know that Joe Marshall , also known as "Home Run Joe", did not hit any home runs in his Major League Baseball career?
text: Did you know that Dylan Thomas ' short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales was first published under its own title two years after his death?
text: Did you know that in 1958 the Public Personnel Association named the New Orleans attorney Charles E. Dunbar "Mr. Civil Service of North America"?
text: Did you know that a Group Representation Constituency is a type of electoral division in Singapore in which a team of candidates stands for election and is voted into Parliament as a group?
text: Did you know that Dionte Christmas led the 2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team in points per game , three-pointers completed, and total steals ?
text: Did you know that the freshman State Rep. Leopold Caspari in 1884 pushed successfully for the creation of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala , protects the source of its food supply, green scale insects , by removing predatory larvae that might eat them?
text: Did you know that Derek Lynch won his first NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race during his first full season on the tour?
text: Did you know that Brace Mountain , the highest peak in Dutchess County, New York , is a popular launch spot for hang gliding and paragliding due to the smooth geography of the area?
text: Did you know that Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 's first released single was a blues rock cover of Bo Diddley 's " Diddy Wah Diddy "?
text: Did you know that the people of Saukorem produce Korwar figures, which are often made with the skulls of deceased family members?
text: Did you know that Andrew McKinley , David Aiken , and Leon Lishner created the parts of the Three Kings in the world premiere of Menotti 's Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors which was broadcast live by NBC to an audience of millions on Christmas Eve 1951?
text: Did you know that the investigation by the Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung into the Crossair Flight 850 accident took 3,005 days to complete?
text: Did you know that Claybrook Cottingham , the president of two colleges in Louisiana , began his academic career as an assistant principal at an academy in Virginia when he was 19?
text: Did you know that Jason Aldean 's duet with Kelly Clarkson , " Don't You Wanna Stay ", is the first duet of his career?
text: Did you know that Ed Householder won his first minor league baseball batting title at the age of 37?
text: Did you know that the official Chicago Christmas tree was constructed from multiple individual trees until 2009?
text: Did you know that the Rugby League Atlantic Cup , held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida , is contested by emerging rugby league nations in North America ?
text: Did you know that the Schnarcherklippen rocks in the German High Harz are mentioned in Goethe 's dramas Faust I and Faust II ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Farmer Steelman appeared in one game for the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas and was the only rookie to play for that team during the entire season?
text: Did you know that Dexter executive producer Daniel Cerone encouraged the mother of his son's friend not to let her son audition for " Seeing Red " because he would be filmed sitting in a pool of blood?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Malaysia is some of the most diverse in the world, existing in forests believed to be 130 million years old?
text: Did you know that the Scott Sisters of Mississippi are serving life sentences for their alleged involvement in a robbery in which $11 was stolen and no one was injured, although they had no previous criminal records?
text: Did you know that the communist -led federation SOBSI was the largest trade union movement in Indonesia prior to the Suharto era ?
text: Did you know that former New Zealand wrestler Onno Boelee worked as an actor and opened a private security company after his retirement from wrestling?
text: Did you know that Swedish financial assistance to the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO increased significantly under the Torbjörn Fälldin cabinet?
text: Did you know that Milwaukee's Bronze Fonz is an $85,000 public artwork of a Happy Days TV show character?
text: Did you know that the crew of the ill-fated slave ship Luxborough Galley became cannibals?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Bobby Walker sued World Championship Wrestling for making him look "obnoxious" and "shiftless"?
text: Did you know that the Marlborough White Horse was cut from a hillside in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy?
text: Did you know that college football coach A. M. Miller was notified to testify during the Scopes Monkey Trials ?
text: Did you know that one of the stages in the Xbox Live Arcade game Faery: Legends of Avalon takes place in a city on the back of a giant beetle?
text: Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Fred H. Mills, Jr. , wrote legislation in 2010 to permit pharmacists , such as himself, to administer medication therapy management services?
text: Did you know that Harvard Divinity School 's Hollis Professor of Divinity has the right to graze a cow on the Harvard Yard ?
text: Did you know that before his elections in 1944 and 1956 to both houses of the Louisiana Legislature , Frank Estes Cole had been an LSU Tigers football player and a high school coach in Rayville and Many, Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiserin was the first battleship to pass through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in July 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I ?
text: Did you know that one of the largest aboriginal title claims in the United States was rejected based on an interpretation of the Articles of Confederation ?
text: Did you know that Sakis ' Parafora (2010) received more bids than any other Greek album to be released as a covermount since the practice became common after the recent economic crisis , and all were refused?
text: Did you know that Albanian American Anthony Athanas , who rode a donkey en route to the United States , became a multi-millionaire restaurateur in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that the former Confederate officer Christopher Columbus Nash , as sheriff in Grant Parish , Louisiana , crushed the Colfax Riot in 1873 and formed the White League in 1874?
text: Did you know that 40,000 people were involved in the construction of venues for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney ?
text: Did you know that the deindustrialization of Youngstown has had the effect of cutting the population of the Ohio city in half?
text: Did you know that the Soviet ship MO-103 sank the German submarine U-250 , capturing the commander and five crewmen in July 1944 ?
text: Did you know that Roald Hoffmann 's development of the isolobal principle helped him earn the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ?
text: Did you know that feathers from a dead swan , which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's antependium ?
text: Did you know that Karuizawa , Japan , where curling competitions were held during the 1998 Nagano Olympics , is the first town to have hosted both Summer and Winter Olympic events?
text: Did you know that the CBC 's senior correspondent Neil Macdonald is the brother of comedian Norm Macdonald ?
text: Did you know that the busiest Namibian border post is the Angolan one at Oshikango in the town of Helao Nafidi ?
text: Did you know that the Atlanta Neighborhood Union , an all-women African-American association founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?
text: Did you know that the light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? was an honourable mention at Fujimi Shobo 's 20th Fantasia Awards?
text: Did you know that before the 62nd Grey Cup , CFL defensive back Tony Proudfoot fired staples from a staple gun into his shoes to improve his traction on an icy football field?
text: Did you know that the award-winning war photographer Yuri Kozyrev , who spent several years working for the American press in Baghdad , lived together with Iraqis in the city?
text: Did you know that newly promoted Arkansas State head football coach Hugh Freeze was depicted in the movie The Blind Side about Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher ?
text: Did you know that Hiroshi Ishikawa won the New Montreal Film Festival 's Best Director award for Su-ki-da , his second film?
text: Did you know that Sir William Blackstone 's Commentaries on the Laws of England (published 1765–1769) is still cited by the Supreme Court of the United States between 10 and 12 times a year?
text: Did you know that zombie apocalypse drama The Walking Dead was named as one of the top 10 television programs of 2010 by the American Film Institute ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana state court judge O. E. Price of Bossier City participated in two triathlons when he was in his fifties?
text: Did you know that in 1936, the North Fork Shenandoah River flooded Cootes Store in Virginia during the Great Flood which reached four feet high at its worst?
text: Did you know that the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story was written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports reporter and narrated by Dustin Hoffman ?
text: Did you know that 17 years after an aircraft crash killed most of the Zambia national football team , the Zambian government has yet to release a report on the crash?
text: Did you know that a survey conducted in 1993 on the influence of the children's television program Sesame Street found that by the age of three, 95% of all American children had watched the show?
text: Did you know that the English landscape architect Edward Kemp was buried in Birkenhead , Merseyside , in the Flaybrick Hill Cemetery , which he had designed himself?
text: Did you know that the Bulgar notable Mauros intended to organize an uprising in Thessaloniki on the night before Easter in order to catch its defenders unprepared?
text: Did you know that Bach first performed his cantata for Advent , Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132 , on 22 December 1715 in the Schlosskirche Weimar ?
text: Did you know that the Louisiana sheriff Cat Doucet of St. Landry Parish apparently obtained his nickname from his practice of protecting illegal "cathouses," a slang term for brothels ?
text: Did you know that Monica Nashandi was removed from the 2009 Namibian general election SWAPO electoral list because she had not registered to vote in the previous election ?
text: Did you know that " The Virgin's Cradle Hymn ", a lullaby collected by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Germany in 1799, was derived from a Flemish engraving by Hieronymus Wierix ?
text: Did you know that Mark Miodownik is delivering the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ?
text: Did you know that the Pervenetz class ironclad was the first ironclad class of ships in the Russian Navy ?
text: Did you know that the music of songwriter Lincoln Chase , who wrote " Such a Night ", " Jim Dandy ", and " The Clapping Song ", has been described as "like a black Frank Zappa but groovier"?
text: Did you know that the Richmond Theatre fire of 1811, which killed around 72 people, was at the time the worst urban disaster in American history?
text: Did you know that of the great glaciers of the French Oisans , the Glacier Noir descends farthest because of favourable topography and moraines that screen it from the sun ?
text: Did you know that though 2000 lay dead on the field of the Battle of Zappolino (November 1325), when forces of Modena routed Bologna , the status quo was re-established afterwards and historians generally ignore the event?
text: Did you know that John Deering volunteered to have his heart monitored by an electrocardiogram while he was shot to death ?
text: Did you know that Western Wood was preselected for the City of London seat in 1861 in preference to future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ?
text: Did you know that The Pretty Druidess (1869) was the last of W. S. Gilbert 's early operatic burlesques , written before the Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
text: Did you know that Frederick S. Lyman 's account of the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano and 1868 Hawaii earthquake was written from a nearby sheep and goat ranch?
text: Did you know that Plas yn Rhiw house in Gwynedd was originally built in the 10th century to prevent incursions by Vikings into Porth Neigwl, and is reportedly haunted?
text: Did you know that medieval Bulgarian noble Aldimir , the despot of Kran , changed sides to the Byzantines even though he had blinded a rival in order to gain the Bulgarian emperor 's trust?
text: Did you know that when Weymouth Lifeboat Station was sent a new lifeboat in 1930 it was too big to fit in the boathouse so it had to be kept moored in the harbour instead?
text: Did you know that actress Julia Stiles had no idea whether her character was going to live or die in " The Big One ", the fifth season finale of the Showtime series Dexter ?
text: Did you know that a radar station which was active at Grassy Hill Light during World War II included an imitation lighthouse keeper 's cottage for camouflage purposes?
text: Did you know that Stanford and Detroit Lions running back Ernie Caddel , known as the "Blond Antelope," led the NFL in average yards gained per rushing carry for three consecutive years?
text: Did you know that despite his role in the Counter-Reformation , the abbot of Göttweig Abbey David Gregor Corner reluctantly included Protestant hymns in his 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch ?
text: Did you know that The Fisherman's Cot in Devon overlooks the River Exe and a bridge which was wrongly thought for many years to be the inspiration for Paul Simon 's song " Bridge Over Troubled Water "?
text: Did you know that in 1925, Hortense Sparks Ward led a special all-female Texas Supreme Court after no male judges or lawyers could be found to hear a case?
text: Did you know that the scams uncovered by Operation Broken Trust , the largest investment fraud sweep by the US Government , may have involved over 120,000 victims?
text: Did you know that English -born footballer Ellis Remy made his international debut playing for the Montserrat national football team ?
text: Did you know that La Vivandière (1867) was one of the early comedies by W. S. Gilbert that used satiric devices later employed in his famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
text: Did you know that chef Louis Diat , a recipient of the distinguished Chevalier du Mérite Agricole , learned to cook at the age of five?
text: Did you know that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico ?
text: Did you know that in 1863 the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was propelled underground from Holborn to Euston railway station in a parcel capsule to demonstrate the system built by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company ?
text: Did you know that artist Thomas Eakins suggested Anna Willess Williams pose for the depiction of Liberty on the Morgan dollar ?
text: Did you know that seven Croatian Army generals were forcibly retired in 2000 for signing an open letter to the Croatian public ?
text: Did you know that English artist Chantal Joffe , who sometimes uses pornography for source material, created such large paintings that she required scaffolding to work on them?
text: Did you know that the Albuquerque Thunderbirds were awarded the first overall selection in the 2009 NBA Development League Draft ?
text: Did you know that when New Zealand -born pop artist Dinah Lee became 'Queen of the Mods ' in 1964, her own mother could not recognise her?
text: Did you know that James W. Rodgers requested a bulletproof vest before he was executed by firing squad ?
text: Did you know that six years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Louisiana NAACP president Emmitt Douglas was arrested for trying to desegregate a restaurant in Baton Rouge ?
text: Did you know that adult males of the parasitic wasp , Encarsia perplexa , can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
text: Did you know that Ellingham Hall , an 18th century country house near Bungay , Norfolk , is the temporary residence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his extradition hearings in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that in 1878, the old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard sang one of his poems over the grave of Dodge City Marshal Ed Masterson , the victim of a gunfight?
text: Did you know that during the wreck of the Algoma , the worst loss of life in Lake Superior history, victims were literally dashed to pieces?
text: Did you know that diners at beefsteak banquets "keep score" by piling up the bread slices that come with their beef tenderloin ?
text: Did you know that Richard Bustillo learned Jeet Kune Do directly from Bruce Lee and went on to instruct Lee's children Shannon and Brandon in the martial art?
text: Did you know that the action role-playing game Infinity Blade is the fastest grossing application on Apple 's iOS , selling 271,424 copies in merely four days?
text: Did you know that in 1934, the congregation of the St. John's Lutheran Church in New Finland , Saskatchewan , Canada , had their church cut into two halves so as to relocate it by five miles using a tractor ?
text: Did you know that Jonah Hex was named "Worst Picture" of 2010 by the Houston Film Critics Society at their 2010 awards ceremony ?
text: Did you know that McGaheysville in Virginia was originally named "Ursulaburg" after the wife of the ousted Reverend Charles Lang, who was ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia in 1771 and left Ursula behind?
text: Did you know that a by-election in 1869 was held in the borough of Blackburn , Lancashire , England , after an election petition led to a previous election being overturned due to systematic intimidation?
text: Did you know that the Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall in Hawaii cost twice its original budget, partially due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the Admiral Lazarev class monitors had their main armament replaced during their career, allowing them to remain among the most powerful ships in the Russian Navy 's Baltic Fleet ?
text: Did you know that in May 2009, when proposing that Nominated Members of Parliament should be a permanent part of Singapore 's Parliament , the Prime Minister said they had "outshone even the Opposition MPs "?
text: Did you know that New Zealand explorer and surveyor Charlie Douglas claimed that not being able to swim "had saved his life many a time"?
text: Did you know that a 1977 book by the historian Martin V. Melosi examines the role of partisan politics in delaying public disclosure of events leading to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that the Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone National Park burned while being demolished in 1960?
text: Did you know that Oregon entrepreneur Norm Winningstad helped found Floating Point Systems , Thrustmaster , and Lattice Semiconductor ?
text: Did you know that on December 19, 1981, the entire crew of the Penlee Lifeboat were killed trying to rescue people from a ship in a storm, but sufficient volunteers came forward within a day to form a new lifeboat crew?
text: Did you know that "football nut" "Sturzy" Sturzenegger spent most of his career coaching college football at Michigan , USC and UCLA despite having attended Harvard Law School ?
text: Did you know that San Andrés islanders practice obeah , a voodoo witchcraft of West Indies ?
text: Did you know that Guy Touvron has been called "one of the leading pedagogues of trumpet technique and interpretation France has ever produced"?
text: Did you know that the Duke of Wellington chose not to buy Somerhill House in Kent because he considered the local fox hunting not good enough?
text: Did you know that Sam McMackin died less than six months after making his Major League Baseball debut?
text: Did you know that St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Carson City is the oldest building still in use by the Episcopal Church in the state of Nevada ?
text: Did you know that the Ashuapmushuan River in Quebec , Canada , is named for an Innu word meaning "place where one lies in wait for moose "?
text: Did you know that after a period of retirement which included a stint as a beer delivery man, Alberto Davila returned to boxing and won the World Boxing Council bantamweight title in 1983?
text: Did you know that the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum in Mexico City was the world's first museum dedicated to watercolor painting ?
text: Did you know that Chris Brown 's song " Sing Like Me " is a slow jam R&B and pop ballad , featuring 808 drum beats and Asian-influenced strings ?
text: Did you know that the Florida Reef is the third largest coral barrier reef in the world, and that in the middle of the 19th century there were close to 50 shipwrecks a year on the reef?
text: Did you know that Johann Wilhelm Schwedler preferred other engineering solutions over his own invention, the Schwedler truss , on aesthetic grounds?
text: Did you know that Kristubhagavatam: A mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ , a Sanskrit epic poem in 33 cantos and 1600 verses, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1980?
text: Did you know that the Childress County Heritage Museum contains an exhibit on World War II bombardier training held near Childress , Texas ?
text: Did you know that Tell Shemshara in Iraq was once the capital of the "land of the gatekeeper"?
text: Did you know that American yachtswoman J. J. Isler , who competed in both the Olympics and the America’s Cup races, was the first woman named to the Sailing World Hall of Fame?
text: Did you know that Brad Paisley released " This Is Country Music " as a single long before the album was to come out, even though it was "bad timing for his label"?
text: Did you know that Walter Keane , known for paintings of "big-eyed waifs," claimed a sore shoulder and declined a 1986 court-ordered paint-off with his ex-wife , resulting in a US$4 million judgment against him?
text: Did you know that jars uncovered at Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Zagros Mountains contained wine and resin residue which suggested that the inhabitants were making a wine similar to Retsina over 7 millennia ago?
text: Did you know that The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant in the Cotswolds is reputed to be the oldest existing hotel in England, dated to 1220 ?
text: Did you know that Erik Røring Møinichen was a Norwegian Minister of Finance five times?
text: Did you know that when it was built in 1795, Fort Carondelet was the farthest western outpost of the Chouteau fur trading operation in the Spanish Louisiana Territory ?
text: Did you know that communist politician Salawati Daud was the first female mayor in Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Little Sea Hill Light was the first of a group of eight lighthouses in Queensland made of a hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron ?
text: Did you know that the marine worm , Parborlasia corrugatus , fires an adhesive, barbed proboscis as a means of defense, and to capture prey?
text: Did you know that screenwriter and film director Norman Thaddeus Vane referenced the 1931 movie Dracula in his work Shadow of the Hawk ?
text: Did you know that xiaochi , or Chinese and Taiwanese "small eats", can include such ingredients as stinky tofu , sheep head, grass jelly or pork intestines?
text: Did you know that Not Worse Than Thomon , edited by Sergei Olegovich Kuznetsov , was described by Vremya Novostei as one of the best Russian books in the field of art in 2007?
text: Did you know that Nerstrand City Hall was built at the center of a close-knit community of Norwegian American pioneers including the Osmundson , Bonde and Veblen families ?
text: Did you know that an obituary for Hughie Hearne stated that he was a "well known baseball star" and "one of the game's best catchers ," although he never played a full major league season?
text: Did you know the Hydnaceae family contains mushrooms with "teeth"?
text: Did you know that Olympia Bucureşti was the winner of the inaugural Romanian football championship held between 1909 and 1910 ?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church in North Cockerington , Lincolnshire , England , stands a mile away from the village it served, sharing the churchyard of the adjoining parish church ?
text: Did you know that the A535 road in Cheshire is the main road that gives access to the Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Quinta Garden, both founded by Sir Bernard Lovell ?
text: Did you know that California Court of Appeal Associate Justice James A. McIntyre was previously a Little League Baseball manager ?
text: Did you know that the Trudenstein rocks in the Harz Mountains are so-named because they supposedly resemble a drude , a German witch-like figure associated with dreams?
text: Did you know that the Westerman Lumber Office and House is now home to Big Honza, who is "bigger, smarter and wiser" than Paul Bunyan ?
text: Did you know that the manuscripts of Thomas Kantzow 's 16th-century chronicles were rediscovered in 1729, 1832 and 1973?
text: Did you know that on October 21, 1915, a band of Mexicans invaded the United States and conducted a raid on Ojo de Agua in Texas as part of the Plan de San Diego ?
text: Did you know that The Skywalk Is Gone was the first short film to ever get a theatrical commercial run in Taiwan ?
text: Did you know that the American historian Gerald W. Wolff collaborated on studies of six Indian tribes, the Arikara , Hidatsa , Mandan , Ponca , Ottawa , and Comanche ?
text: Did you know that Chapultepec Park is the largest urban park in Latin America ?
text: Did you know that Italian model and skydiver Roberta Mancino has performed several thousand skydives , including four while completely naked?
text: Did you know that Triple H won his match at the World Wrestling Federation 's Armageddon (1999) event after hitting Vince McMahon , his father-in-law and boss, with a sledgehammer?
text: Did you know that German epigrapher Nikolai Grube co-presented workshops teaching Maya hieroglyphs to native Maya in Mexico and Guatemala ?
text: Did you know that in 1922–23, journalist Elmo Scott Watson wrote Stories of Great Indians, an attempt to refute the noble savage concept then popular among writers about the Native American tribes?
text: Did you know that Slovenia's Velenje Castle , along with two castles in Šalek and Ekenštajn, played a key role in defending the routes from the Celje Basin to Carinthia ?
text: Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , based Acumed , a medical device company, once built a motorcycle that included titanium body parts?
text: Did you know that the Time pyramid , a public work of art begun in 1993, is scheduled for completion in the year 3183?
text: Did you know that in a plasma antenna , plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional radio antenna ?
text: Did you know that Clancy Carlile wrote the novel and the screenplay for Honkytonk Man that starred Clint Eastwood ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Wormy hillock henge is the burial site of a dragon?
text: Did you know that the surprise about the WikiLeaks revelations of spying on UN leaders by US diplomats was not that it was done, but rather who would be doing it, and what information would be required?
text: Did you know that the church St. Bonifatius was built in Wiesbaden in Gothic Revival style , after a first building had collapsed?
text: Did you know that John Tyner and Charles Krauthammer don't want you touching their junk , but Michael Kinsley wants you to go ahead and touch his, and Wendy Kaminer thinks Krauthammer just wants you to touch someone else's?
text: Did you know that Tsar Alexander II regarded his morganatic son Prince George Alexandrovich Yurievsky as a "true Russian ", causing rumors that he was considering giving him dynastic rights?
text: Did you know that Bullacta exarata is a commercially important sea snail in eastern China?
text: Did you know that the Magni M-16 Tandem Trainer autogyro is used by traffic reporters and farmers as well as sport pilots ?
text: Did you know that visitors to the Wank mountain in Germany can use a Wankpass to ride the Wankbahn up to the Wank-Haus at the summit?
text: Did you know that the NFL's first championship game was won by Chicago over New York via a successful hook and ladder play run by the Bears with less than two minutes remaining?
text: Did you know that of roughly 200 magic spells in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead , five are intended to protect the dead from snakes in the afterlife?
text: Did you know that the Airedale Terrier Paddy the Wanderer was a famous stowaway and traveler who had Wellington harbour as his base?
text: Did you know that Marie Kudeříková wrote her literary legacy while waiting for her execution in Breslau ?
text: Did you know that style of handwriting of lectionaries ℓ 296 and ℓ 1599 have resemblance to Codex Cyprius ?
text: Did you know that IGN 's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?
text: Did you know that John Hartwell Cocke , who helped Thomas Jefferson build the University of Virginia , has been cited by historians for his knowledge of Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings ?
text: Did you know that the rainforests of eastern Australia harbour such trees as the yellow satinheart , five-leaf bonewood , northern yellow boxwood , shiny-leaved condoo , yellow bulletwood and veiny lace-flower ?
text: Did you know that after acquiring the script for Santa Santita , the director did not start production for five years due to the lack of an appropriate lead actress?
text: Did you know that nearly 10,000 quartz artifacts were found at a Neolithic site known as the Scord of Brouster ?
text: Did you know that Anne Rouse 's poetry often draws upon her experiences as a mental health worker, such as the preoccupations of patients on a dementia ward?
text: Did you know that San Francisco City Clinic is a specialty municipal sexual health center that opened in 1933 and serves people over the age of 12?
text: Did you know that Sir William Blackstone 's A Discourse on the Study of the Law was his only work to survive its various editions without alterations by the author?
text: Did you know that Heaven 17 's 1981 song " (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang " was banned by the BBC over fears it libeled Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you know that La Stazione , a restaurant and former train station in New Paltz , New York , burned down in 1907, killing the station agent 's dog?
text: Did you know that the Pluton -class minelayers , built just before World War I , were the first purpose-built minelayers in the French Navy?
text: Did you know that The River was called a " porn movie " by the lead actor's father?
text: Did you know that college football coach Harry Baum helped build the Broadmoor Hotel and three state capitol buildings?
text: Did you know that after the Woodlawn subway station was opened in The Bronx in 1917, nearby Woodlawn Cemetery built a new sales office to meet demand?
text: Did you know that the phrase "more bang for the buck " was used to describe the United States' New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons , rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check?
text: Did you know that LZ7 's 2010 single " This Little Light " is based around the 20th century gospel song " This Little Light of Mine "?
text: Did you know that the science fiction film Laserblast consistently ranks among the Internet Movie Database 's bottom 100 films list, and was featured in the last episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 broadcast on Comedy Central ?
text: Did you know that in August each year, City of London Councillor Sir Alpheus Morton used to present the Lord Mayor with a basket of mulberries from the garden at Finsbury Circus ?
text: Did you know that the 1896 South Australian referendum was the first referendum to be held in Australia ?
text: Did you know that although Owen Bieber intended to be an auto parts worker only for a single summer, he stayed on the job and later became president of the United Auto Workers ?
text: Did you know that while most of Austria labels their wine similar to Germany , with names such as Spätlese and Auslese , producers in Wachau label their wines after feather grass , falconry and a green lizard ?
text: Did you know that both bombings, in May 2008 , by Spain's ETA in Legutiano and Getxo involved Citroën Berlingos ?
text: Did you know that sprinter Seun Ogunkoya broke the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres before turning 20 years old?
text: Did you know that underwater welding was invented by Konstantin Khrenov in 1932?
text: Did you know that under football coach J. White Guyn , the cash-strapped Kentucky program arranged to play Michigan to generate revenue, but travel costs limited its income and the team lost, 62–0?
text: Did you know that the Minnesota Building became more Moderne as it was being built?
text: Did you know that after losing the Second 2010–11 Ashes Test to England , the selectors for the Australian cricket team thought that Beer could help them in the Third Test ?
text: Did you know that John Francis Wheaton was the first African American elected to the Minnesota State Legislature ?
text: Did you know that e-Government and controlled thermonuclear fusion are among the long-term goals of the Medvedev modernisation programme in Russia ?
text: Did you know that the 1958–59 ABC reality show Confession , hosted by Jack Wyatt , featured criminals discussing the circumstances which propelled them into a life of lawlessness?
text: Did you know that Michigan footballer and Rhodes Scholar James K. Watkins became Detroit Police Commissioner and formed a group in 1936 "to save their country from a perpetuation of the New Deal "?
text: Did you know that the California towns of La Placita and Agua Mansa , located across from each other on the Santa Ana River , were the largest settlements between New Mexico and Los Angeles in the 1840s?
text: Did you know that during the 1892–1894 war in the Eastern Congo , Baron Dhanis allowed his men to bring their wives, slaves and servants along with his army?
text: Did you know that Chris Strachwitz , German -born founder of blues and Cajun music specialist Arhoolie Records , accumulated the largest private collection of Mexican and Mexican-American music in the world?
text: Did you know that Bremo Slave Chapel is the only place of worship known to have been built for slaves in the Commonwealth of Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Orsini was the nephew of Pope Nicholas III , a legate for Pope John XXII , helped to drive Antipope Nicholas V from Rome , and took part in the election of Pope Benedict XII ?
text: Did you know that the Bristol Festival of Ideas , set up in 2005 as part of the city 's bid to become European Capital of Culture , now awards one of the most valuable annual book prizes in the UK ?
text: Did you know that in 1899, Major League Baseball rookie Jimmy Williams set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record with his 27-game hitting streak ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand Army officer Rhys Jones , the next Chief of Defence Force , was told in 2000 that he would receive no further promotions?
text: Did you know that Knute Rockne called Thomas A. Barry "the man who laid the football foundation at Notre Dame "?
text: Did you know that the Gruta das Torres is a three-dimensional braided lava tube system, the longest in the Azores ?
text: Did you know that film director Tracie Laymon won the 2009 award for Best Short Film from the Women's Image Network for her work directing the short film Inside ?
text: Did you know that although it was originally designed as a test machine, Sceptre was turned into a fusion reactor when ZETA apparently produced fusion?
text: Did you know that Rev. Shubael Dummer was killed at York, Maine , by the Abenaki in the Candlemas Massacre of January 1692 ?
text: Did you know that the French armored cruiser Sully struck a rock in Halong Bay , French Indochina , in 1905, only eight months after she was completed, and was a total loss?
text: Did you know that the Viveros de Coyoacán was the first tree nursery in Mexico and the first large scale tree nursery in Latin America ?
text: Did you know that the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is the predominant U.S. federal government sponsor for research in the physical sciences and initiated the Human Genome Project ?
text: Did you know that former CANOE Live host Janette Luu was the first ever Vietnamese TV anchor in Toronto, Canada ?
text: Did you know that in St Peter's Church, Kingerby , Lincolnshire , is a slab carved with the effigy of a knight whose lower body and legs have been replaced by a cross?
text: Did you know that basketball player Charlie T. Black won two national championships and was named the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year while at Kansas ?
text: Did you know that Grover, Utah used to be named "Carcass Creek"?
text: Did you know that one of the educational goals of the children's television show Sesame Street was to prepare young children for school?
text: Did you know that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent ever?
text: Did you know that within a year after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , one venue was converted into a baseball stadium while two others were imploded?
text: Did you know that No. 61 Wing RAAF built a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway at Darwin, Northern Territory , in 1944 to accommodate a proposed deployment of 100 USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers that never eventuated?
text: Did you know that, after giving up five runs in his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds , pitcher Martin Glendon quit the team and moved to San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that the fungus Entomophthora muscae makes flies climb upwards before killing them, so they are better able to release a shower of spores for the next cycle of infection?
text: Did you know that Bruce DuMont , investigative reporter and host of Beyond the Beltway , is the nephew of the inventor of the first commercially viable television ?
text: Did you know that the namesake of the Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke , Virginia , is the American Founding Father Patrick Henry ?
text: Did you know that Jason Ratcliff was the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion crew chief?
text: Did you know that with the foundation of the Athonite Academy , near Vatopedi monastery , the monastic community of Mount Athos took a leading role in the 18th century modern Greek Enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that an oxaziridine rearrangement reaction is the key step in the synthesis of erectile dysfunction medication yohimbine ?
text: Did you know that the location of one of the venues of the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer was moved because the original site was too close to a bird sanctuary ?
text: Did you know that over 30,000 eggs were used to prepare the paint and glaze that went into the elaborate decorations of the Šarena Džamija of Tetovo ?
text: Did you know that former Florida State Seminoles player Ryan Reid had more wins than any other player in the school's college basketball history?
text: Did you know that there were only two successful prison breaks in the history of Chi Hoa Prison ?
text: Did you know that Old Caloundra Light , a lighthouse inactive since 1968, was relocated twice, in 1970 and back in 1999, and was damaged on the second relocation attempt?
text: Did you know that Harry W. Child received a knighthood from the King of Sweden after giving the king a guided tour of Yellowstone National Park ?
text: Did you know that in its early years, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra featured a solo performance by Isaac Stern and the premiere of a musical composition about a nuclear reactor ?
text: Did you know that before he co-founded Soundcraft , Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 ?
text: Did you know that all 16 episodes from the third season of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation will be filmed before the first one is aired?
text: Did you know that George Leslie Hunter 's early work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ?
text: Did you know that the German battleship SMS Markgraf is a popular diving site in Scapa Flow , where it was scuttled in 1919 ?
text: Did you know that Sri Lankan politician A. M. M. Naushad , as Deputy Secretary of the UNP , created a problem for his party leader by advocating his view that "his community came first and the party next"?
text: Did you know that the Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs annual concerts in honor of the birthday of Elvis Presley ?
text: Did you know that Jeremiah Dummer (1643–1718) was the first American-born silversmith ?
text: Did you know that the new Royal Enfield Fury 500cc single is the first Royal Enfield motorcycle in 40 years with twin exhaust pipes?
text: Did you know that it was not until the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that housing discrimination in the United States became illegal?
text: Did you know that according to a study by the International Committee of the Red Cross , the civilian casualty ratio in wars fought since the mid-20th century has been 10 civilian deaths for every soldier death?
text: Did you know that the home of Danish sea captain Cornelius Jensen on the Jensen Alvarado Ranch is the oldest non- adobe structure in California 's Inland Empire ?
text: Did you know that both Joe Matthews and his father were charged with and acquitted of treason in 1956?
text: Did you know that there were numerous complaints from the contestants over dead rats and appliances floating at the venue for the sailing competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona ?
text: Did you know that Seattle 's historic counterculture coffeehouse, the Last Exit on Brooklyn , was a noted chess venue frequented by grandmasters Peter Biyiasas and Yasser Seirawan ?
text: Did you know that the Lympha is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water ?
text: Did you know that Bill Mizeur never batted under .300 until his 14th season in professional baseball ?
text: Did you know that one design for a flight deck cruiser was described as a cross between a Brooklyn -class light cruiser and the aircraft carrier USS Wasp ?
text: Did you know that the Rosendale trestle , once the highest span bridge in the United States , was sold in 1986 for one dollar ?
text: Did you know that between 90% and 98% of all amputees report retaining all or part of the missing limb in their body schema ?
text: Did you know that snowy plovers nest in former salt evaporation ponds in the Moss Landing Wildlife Area ?
text: Did you know that the match for the WWE Championship at Royal Rumble (2004) was booked after Brock Lesnar legitimately broke his opponent's neck?
text: Did you know that Frank "Piano Mover" Smith was the first Chicago White Sox baseball pitcher to throw two no-hitters ?
text: Did you know that the Tiger of Pilibhit was responsible for killing and partially eating eight people before being captured?
text: Did you know that the boathouse for the Burnham Area Rescue Boat was built in just three days as part of the Challenge Anneka television series?
text: Did you know that the Mount Baker waxy cap was named after the volcano on which it was first collected?
text: Did you know that as Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge for over 40 years, Christopher Green did "little if any teaching"?
text: Did you know that the Russian monitor Smerch was constructed at the Charles Mitchell shipyard in England, broken down, and shipped to Saint Petersburg for reassembly?
text: Did you know that Helena Bliss married her co-star from the original Broadway production of Gypsy Lady ?
text: Did you know that The Big Tree Plant is a new Government-sponsored campaign in England to promote the planting of one million trees in neighbourhoods?
text: Did you know that in 1857, Peter White was a storekeeper, lawyer, county clerk , registrar of deeds , school board treasurer, postmaster , customs collector , state representative , and a newlywed?
text: Did you know that after the Russian Revolution and Civil War , Princess Catherine Yurievskaya , a daughter of Czar Alexander II , became a professional singer ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, Gus and Tavo Vildósola of the Vildosola Racing team became the first Mexican competitors to win the Baja 1000 , an annual off-road race held in Mexico?
text: Did you know that Brett Domino 's song about Gillian McKeith was inspired by McKeith's exploits on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! ?
text: Did you know that German metallurgist Curt Netto was honored by the Japanese Emperor with the Order of the Rising Sun in 1885?
text: Did you know that the speed skating venue for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was the last outdoor rink to hold Olympic speed skating competitions ?
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text: Did you know that Constance Ortmayer designed a commemorative coin for the anniversary of an event that never happened?
text: Did you know that Michael Rimington raised an irregular cavalry force in the Boer War , known as Rimington's Tigers ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese translations of the IS (Infinite Stratos) light novels were under indefinite suspension because the publisher had entered into overseas contracts without the writer's consent?
text: Did you know that in 1952 the pastor L. L. Clover launched Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary with two students studying from his home in Minden , Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that the art of the United Kingdom only dates from 1707 onwards?
text: Did you know that the planned community of Celebration, Florida , was the 1989 brainchild of Pete Rummell when he was President of Disney Development Company ?
text: Did you know that until the Spanish Civil War , chocolate was a much more popular drink than coffee in Spain?
text: Did you know that the 14th century Englishman Thomas Fastolf is the first known to have reported cases in the papal court known as the Rota ?
text: Did you know that the Bremo Plantation at Bremo Bluff, Virginia , provided refuge to the family of General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the communist Moni Guha was amongst the first in India to criticize the 1956 line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Activision founder Larry Kaplan called Street Racer the one game he wished he had done differently?
text: Did you know that Katy Munger is known for her writing in the Tart Noir genre?
text: Did you know that the ravens of the Tower of London are enlisted as soldiers of the Kingdom, and can be dismissed for unsatisfactory conduct ?
text: Did you know that the oriental mole cricket , Gryllotalpa orientalis , can not only dig a burrow a metre deep but can also swim?
text: Did you know that pastor A. T. Powers , president of the American Baptist Association from 1957 to 1959, once led a blue collar church in Monticello , Arkansas , which paid him only US$ 12.50 per month?
text: Did you know that silos for the Advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile were intended to be 10 times harder than those used by Minutemen ?
text: Did you know that Thomas R. Potts , the first mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota , was a physician ?
text: Did you know that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Hormead , Hertfordshire , is particularly noted for its preserved 12th-century ironwork door which depicts a serpentine dragon ?
text: Did you know that the 1997 production of its passion play caused a controversy when the Park Performing Arts Center cast an African-American actor to play the role of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that the historian James L. McCorkle, Jr. , has researched heavily on the importance of rural truck farming in feeding the urban population of the American South ?
text: Did you know that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north , some of its rocks originated near the South Pole ?
text: Did you know that Swedish emigrants brought kalvdans , a dessert made out of colostrum milk, to North America ?
text: Did you know that although the seeds of Cycas rumphii contain a toxic glucoside , they can be made edible by pounding, washing and cooking?
text: Did you know that General Lee and the Confederate Army retreated over the Sachs Covered Bridge after being defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg ?
text: Did you know that the historical novel Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist , about the rise of modern physics , inspired a lecture by Steven Weinberg called "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist"?
text: Did you know that 20 Province of Carolina traders and 300 Tallapoosa and Alabama Indians laid siege to Pensacola (then in Spanish Florida ) in November 1707 ?
text: Did you know that baseball catcher George Yeager had his best statistical season cut short after 19 games due to a knee injury?
text: Did you know that the Olympic Saddledome venue used for the 1988 Winter Olympics was under construction in 1981 when Calgary was awarded the Games?
text: Did you know that when the Ottoman Turks controlled Santorini , they still permitted production of the local wine , despite Islamic laws against alcohol , and even its trade to enemies like the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you know that artist Teodoro Cano García was discovered by Diego Rivera and is known for his works depicting the Totonac culture of his native Papantla ?
text: Did you know that a pile of junk wooden pallets built up by Daniel Van Meter became a cultural historic monument?
text: Did you know that many sturgeons of the Sungari River spent the last several months of their lives in Fate Town , Jilin ?
text: Did you know that nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is used to kill slug pests ?
text: Did you know that Íslendingur , the Icelandic replica of the Gokstad Viking ship that sailed across the Atlantic to L’Anse aux Meadows in 2000, is now displayed in the new Viking World museum in Reykjanesbær ?
text: Did you know that after he injured Indianapolis Colts linebacker O'Brien Alston , New York Jets running back Freeman McNeil was so distraught that he "committed a flagrant act of compassion"?
text: Did you know that Kunitz domains , the active protein domains of certain protease inhibitors , are used for the development of new drugs ?
text: Did you know that in 1935, muralist Gilbert Brown Wilson was paid only US$ 28 in coins collected by schoolchildren for three years of work in Woodrow Wilson Middle School , Terre Haute, Indiana ?
text: Did you know that the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on Lake Saint-Jean in Quebec , Canada , had an original size of 23,040 acres (93.2 km 2 ) but currently is only 3,600 acres (14.6 km 2 )?
text: Did you know that the Palestinian Authority has detained Palestinian blogger Walid Husayin for allegedly blaspheming against Islam on Facebook and in his personal blog?
text: Did you know that under Article 9 of the Singapore Constitution no one may be deprived of life or personal liberty save in accordance with law, which a 1980 case says includes fundamental rules of natural justice ?
text: Did you know that to this day, Tulane University and Louisiana State University dispute the results of a football game coached by H. T. Summersgill in 1901?
text: Did you know that the comic series Lips Tullian was selected as the third most significant Czech comic in the history of the genre?
text: Did you know that in Devon a cream tea includes a scone spread with clotted cream and topped with jam, but in Cornwall it is prepared the other way around?
text: Did you know that Joseph Levien became Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand , after the City Council had gone bankrupt?
text: Did you know that a documentary investigating corruption within FIFA was broadcast in the week that the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup hosts were chosen?
text: Did you know that Louisiana educator and debate coach E. R. Minchew was himself the winner in 1929 of the state collegiate championship in oratory ?
text: Did you know that a woman's G-Spot can be easily reached in the spoons sex position ?
text: Did you know that although Persier was due to be scuttled as a blockship during Operation Overlord in June 1944 , she was returned to service, only to be torpedoed and sunk in February 1945 ?
text: Did you know that John McKechnie , recipient of a 1987 Coach of the Year award, was winless in college football ?
text: Did you know that in the deepest underwater rescue in history, CURV-III , a US Navy ROV , saved two men stranded in a submersible at a depth of 1,575 ft (480 m) with just minutes of air remaining?
text: Did you know that Arnold Aronson , a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights , helped inspire the career of his nephew, singer-songwriter and organizer Si Kahn ?
text: Did you know that Creek Indians assisted by English traders defeated a larger force of Apalachee and Spanish fighters in the October 1702 Battle of Flint River ?
text: Did you know that research on the acochlidians , a group with 30 species, resulted in the redefinition of the Heterobranchia , the largest clade of gastropods , and has led to the creation of the new clades Euopisthobranchia and Panpulmonata in 2010?
text: Did you know that Walter T. Bailey was the first licensed African-American architect in Illinois ?
text: Did you know that despite being a builder of railroad rolling stock , US Railcar has no facilities with which to construct their products?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Richard Goldman and his wife established a prize in 1990 that has been called "The Green Nobel"?
text: Did you know that the first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, the Jackson Mine , was established where iron ore was found in the roots of a fallen tree?
text: Did you know that this year a U.S. Embassy attaché visited the tomb of Samuel Lucas who lived to hear the "tidings of the destruction of the slave power in the United States"?
text: Did you know that the reality TV programme Bedsitcom featured actors following the producer's instructions, as well as unaware members of the public, leading to it being labelled "morally reprehensible"?
text: Did you know that M-1 Global 's welterweight ( Shamil Zavurov vs. Abner Lloveras ), middleweight ( Magomed Sultanakhmedov vs. Rafał Moks ), and light heavyweight ( Tomasz Narkun vs. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky ) mixed martial arts champions will be determined at M-1 Challenge XXII today?
text: Did you know that Bill Wiese claims to have spent 23 Minutes in Hell ?
text: Did you know that Chase Aircraft lost the contract to produce its C-123 transport aircraft due to a scandal involving Henry J. Kaiser , that also resulted in Chase's CEO starting his own company ?
text: Did you know that in his last professional baseball season, Bobby Treviño set a Texas League record by hitting safely in 37 consecutive games?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Harihar Narayan Prabhakar began his political career in the Communist Party of India , but later represented the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly of Bihar ?
text: Did you know that actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their Thor movie roles in the video game, Thor: God of Thunder ?
text: Did you know that in certain organisms sperm stored by females allows for a process called sperm competition ?
text: Did you know that Australian actress and filmmaker Elsa Chauvel met her future husband Charles when he scouted her for the lead role in Greenhide ?
text: Did you know that Frantisek Janecek , founder of Jawa motorcycles , was originally famous as the inventor of the Janecek hand grenade ?
text: Did you know that the second CIA spyplane developed under Project Isinglass was designed to fly at Mach 22 ?
text: Did you know that William Huskisson MP was killed at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by Stephenson's Rocket ?
text: Did you know that during the creation of the Ottoman Archives in the 19th century, hatt-i humayuns were cut out from their documents without cross-referencing, resulting in great loss of information to historians?
text: Did you know that during the Great Recoinage of 1816 the design of the portrait of King George III by Benedetto Pistrucci was met with such public hostility that it was withdrawn?
text: Did you know that the Devil's Highway and the Mother Road are two of the U.S. Routes in the U.S. state of New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Eliseo Medina is the first Mexican American to serve on the executive board of the Service Employees International Union ?
text: Did you know that the Maya city of Ixkun in Guatemala erected one of the tallest stone stelae in the entire Petén Basin ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Benton Cooley was inducted into the Legion of Honour for his work with the children of France during World War I and later discovered "Cooley's anemia"?
text: Did you know that in the mid-1940s Temple Beth Israel of Sharon, Pennsylvania, held Reform services on Friday nights and Orthodox ones on Saturday mornings?
text: Did you know that Gerard Hodgkinson – a Royal Flying Corps pilot, Swahili -speaking former Somerset cricketer and owner of Wookey Hole Caves – sued John Cowper Powys for libel and won, even though the story was fictionalized?
text: Did you know that despite having only one arm, Arthur Lea played international football for Wales ?
text: Did you know that Brian Halligan , an executive and author, draws inspiration for marketing from the rock band the Grateful Dead ?
text: Did you know that the Trilokinath Temple at Tunde in Lahul , Himachal Pradesh , India, is sacred to both Tibetan Buddhists and Hindus ?
text: Did you know that Daniel O'Brien , senior editor for Cracked.com , was confronted by the FBI and United States Secret Service after writing an article titled "How to Kidnap the President's Daughter?"
text: Did you know that with regards to black history and ice hockey , Grant Fuhr was the first black player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the extinct sandfly species Lutzomyia adiketis is host to the Paleoleishmania species P. neotropicum ?
text: Did you know that Burnham-on-Sea's lifeboat used to be pulled by horses along a railway line from its lifeboat station to the beach where it could be launched?
text: Did you know that the most recent no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians , pitched by Len Barker in 1981, and that for the Cincinnati Reds , by Tom Browning in 1988, were both perfect games ?
text: Did you know that Cullen Wines ' chief wine maker, Vanya Cullen, trained and received a degree in zoology prior to joining the family winery?
text: Did you know that, prior to the 2010–11 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season , the Charlotte 49ers fired coach Bobby Lutz , despite his being the team's all-time wins leader?
text: Did you know that the National Assembly of Azerbaijan was the first secular republican parliament in the Muslim world?
text: Did you know that the jazz history of 1924 included George Gershwin 's Rhapsody in Blue , widely regarded as one of the finest compositions of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that in preparation for moving to HD broadcasting , the British soap opera EastEnders ' set was lit on fire ?
text: Did you know that British politician Edward Jenkins was best known as the author of satirical political novels?
text: Did you know that many of the venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics were tested when Seoul , South Korea , hosted the Asian Games two years earlier?
text: Did you know that when No. 72 Wing of the Royal Australian Air Force deployed in 1943, it was to what was described as "a desolate marshy little port" in Dutch New Guinea ?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Ed Kinsella won 144 games in a 10-year minor league career but had only one major league victory?
text: Did you know that Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika was said to be "keeping a watchful eye" over the investigation into the crash of South East Airlines Flight 372 ?
text: Did you know that in 1955 the Indonesian film workers union Sarbufis launched a campaign to ban American newsreel film?
text: Did you know that Gustav Jebsen researched, and later oversaw as chief executive, the mid-1910s innovation in production of titanium white ?
text: Did you know that the bronze bust of Robert Dale Owen at the Indiana Statehouse was stolen in 1970 and the culprit(s) have never been found?
text: Did you know that Fort Julien near the mouth of the Nile in Egypt was the place where French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799?
text: Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens , is the oldest continuously serving Presbyterian church in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Whittaker , who has 2,200 pressed plants in Derby Museum , sold 300 South Australian plants he collected in 1839–40 to Kew Gardens ?
text: Did you know that after Steven Posner filed suit against his financier father Victor Posner , the amount of the settlement was determined based on the result of a golden coin flipped in front of the judge?
text: Did you know that, as suggested by Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov , Alexander I established the Depository of Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia ?
text: Did you know that the squidworm is a newly discovered genus of deep water worms with physical characteristics of both seabed-dwelling and free-swimming worms?
text: Did you know that members of the Belize Evangelical Mennonite Church include Creoles , Garifuna , Maya , and Mestizos ?
text: Did you know that while on location in Alaska shooting the 1933 film Eskimo , Oscar winner Clyde De Vinna was rescued from carbon monoxide poisoning because he was using his short wave radio ?
text: Did you know that ZALA Aero is the only company in Russia that produces unmanned helicopters ?
text: Did you know that Enrico Vittori's sculpture Christopher Columbus at the Indiana Statehouse was donated by members of the state's Italian American community as a tribute to America?
text: Did you know that Al Jacks was the football coach for Williams College for just five days?
text: Did you know that the Şeyh Süleyman Mosque in Istanbul was almost certainly an annex of Constantinople 's Monastery of Pantokrator in the Byzantine Age ?
text: Did you know that the composer Olof Åhlström , who had parallel careers in the Swedish war office and as an organist in two Stockholm churches, also founded the first larger-scale musical printing press in Sweden?
text: Did you know that, when BHP Billiton awarded the contract to manage the Yarrie mine to Ngarda Civil & Mining , it was the largest-ever mining contract awarded to an Australian Aboriginal -owned company?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Minister of Education Prijono received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954?
text: Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company fur trader John Work fell out of a tree during an 1840 expedition and tore open his abdomen, but pushed his intestines back inside, recovered and continued his journey?
text: Did you know that the 2006 homebrew Medieval Mayhem and the 1984 Starpath Supercharger version of Frogger are the only two Atari 2600 games to receive an "A+" rating from The Video Game Critic ?
text: Did you know that the 27th Laird of Pitmilly was the joint fastest man in the world in 1892?
text: Did you know that " 1000 Miles Apart " was written by a British army captain serving in Afghanistan and is a contender for the 2010 UK Christmas number-one single ?
text: Did you know that the house in which Leon Trotsky was murdered is a museum which hosts yearly exhibits by graffiti artists?
text: Did you know that the sixth generation descendants of Joseph Dodson , one of the early brewers of Nelson, New Zealand , are still in the brewing business?
text: Did you know that a 7-foot-8 Japanese basketball player , a future Baseball Hall of Famer and a former college football star were selected in the 1981 NBA Draft , but none of them ever played in the league ?
text: Did you know that when the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Syria was founded in 1974, its collection consisted of only 140 objects?
text: Did you know that Adam Houghton , a former Lord Chancellor , helped to negotiate the marriage of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia ?
text: Did you know that Sandy Cape on Queensland's Fraser Island is a rookery for the endangered loggerhead and green turtles ?
text: Did you know that, in his Major League Baseball debut, Bill Harrelson got involved in a pitchers' duel with a future Hall of Famer ?
text: Did you know that a 2010 study found eleven carcinogenic compounds in third-hand smoke ?
text: Did you know that Tart Noir , a type of crime fiction , was created by four writers who decided to make the genre while they were drunk at a writer's conference?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old NASCAR driver Johanna Long became the second woman to win the Snowball Derby ?
text: Did you know that the black bean aphid is able to reproduce asexually , giving birth to live offspring through a process known as parthenogenesis ?
text: Did you know that in 2010, Aaron Kelton became Williams College 's first black varsity coach, and its first football coach to go undefeated in his debut season?
text: Did you know that Bustard Head Light , an 1868 lighthouse near 1770, Queensland , Australia , was the first to be established in Queensland after Queensland's formation in 1859?
text: Did you know that the British cricketer and politician Sir Arthur Priestley went pig-sticking in Patiala ?
text: Did you know that in the spring of 1904, Ed Poole was arrested twice for playing a Major League Baseball game on Sunday ?
text: Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his poem " To H. F. Brown " to celebrate Horatio Brown 's book Life on the Lagoons ?
text: Did you know that shells of Achatina vassei are held by only two museums worldwide?
text: Did you know that a Billboard review called Justin Bieber 's vocals on " Bigger " both "boyish" and "mature"?
text: Did you know that despite being a friend of Kim Il-sung , a Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , and a decorated general during the Korean War , Lee Kwon Mu was purged in 1959?
text: Did you know that Charles Chauvel conceived his Australian historical film Heritage in order to maximise his likelihood of winning a £2,500 Commonwealth Prize?
text: Did you know that in 1893, T. L. Bayne coached both sides in a college football game, which prompted the Chicago Daily Tribune to note that "Bayne's Tulane team whipped Bayne's L.S.U. team"?
text: Did you know that screenwriter Shauna Cross is adapting the pregnancy guide What to Expect When You're Expecting into a romantic comedy film ?
text: Did you know that the most recent no-hitter by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers went into extra innings and concluded with a pinch-hit walk-off home run ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Sinclair , second Colonial Secretary of New Zealand , has 16 New Zealand plants named for him?
text: Did you know that " Down to Earth " is a ballad by Justin Bieber inspired by his parents' divorce?
text: Did you know that the death in June 1945 of the Labour Party candidate Walter Windsor caused Hull East to be the last constituency to declare a result in the 1945 general election in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola 's book The Five Orders of Architecture from 1562 is considered to be "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written" despite having almost no text?
text: Did you know that fashion model Ann Ward , who was mocked as a child due to her height, was the only contestant of America's Next Top Model to be named best photo five times in a row?
text: Did you know that although "relatively little scholarly attention" was paid to William Blackstone 's An Analysis of the Laws of England , its initial success necessitated the printing of four editions in four years?
text: Did you know that director Andrei Konchalovsky stated that " ballet cannot work in cinema very well," and as such, did not include any in his 2010 film, The Nutcracker in 3D ?
text: Did you know that William Albrecht of the University of Missouri made a significant contribution to soil ecology with his work on the Base Cation Saturation Ratio ?
text: Did you know that the namesake peak of the 1950 Battle of Battle Mountain changed hands 20 times in two weeks of fighting?
text: Did you know that the first no-hitter in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise was pitched on October 4, 1891 , by Ted Breitenstein in his first major league start?
text: Did you know that when Tiberius was dethroned in 681, he and his brother and Byzantine co-emperor Heraclius were mutilated , but after Tiberius III was deposed in 705, he and his brother Heraclius were executed ?
text: Did you know that in 1846, Ashbourne Hall and its Derbyshire estate were withdrawn from a sale and sold later in 46 lots by a local solicitor?
text: Did you know that composer Rudi Spring accompanied Salome Kammer in songs and chansons at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Furuset and Grorud Lines of the Oslo Metro each serve one side of the Grorud Valley , and several proposals have been made to connect the two?
text: Did you know that the upcoming BBC TV series Just William is the latest in a number of BBC-TV adaptations of the Just William books?
text: Did you know that Syracuse University dean emeritus William Harrison Mace was a Michigan Wolverines football player in 1882?
text: Did you know that samarium monosulfide changes color from black to golden when scratched?
text: Did you know that a long-range artillery shell killed General Abel Douay on the first day of the first battle of the Franco-Prussian War ?
text: Did you know that the 1976 thriller movie Deadly Hero features James Earl Jones as a mugger named Rabbit?
text: Did you know that Oleg Nikolaenko was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation , which believes him to be responsible for one-third of the world's electronic spam ?
text: Did you know that critic Christopher Gray said the U2 song " Yahweh " could be about Jesus or lead singer Bono 's two children?
text: Did you know that Tainan mayor-elect William Lai was named Taiwan 's "Best Legislator " for four consecutive years?
text: Did you know that the ancestral home of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison , believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia , was built by Benjamin Harrison IV in 1726?
text: Did you know that RAAF Base Richmond , one of the largest military airfields in Australia, was established in 1925 on a piece of land known as Ham Common?
text: Did you know that ABC 's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1957–1960) invited numerous African American singers to perform, including Pearl Bailey , Count Basie , Ella Fitzgerald , Johnny Mathis , and The Mills Brothers ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Army's Parachute Rigger Badge first appeared in action during Exercise Swarmer ?
text: Did you know that Peter Shivute , Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of Namibia , spends his office hours on a fault ?
text: Did you know that Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor , a Baptist abolitionist from Massachusetts , made a significant contribution to the problem of squaring the circle ?
text: Did you know that after the Nürnberger Platz Berlin U-Bahn station was replaced by Spichernstraße and demolished, the Augsburger Straße station had to be built to reduce the distance between stations?
text: Did you know that Daniel D. Badger , with James Bogardus , was one of the major forces in creating cast-iron architecture in the United States?
text: Did you know that the three prevailing causes of geriatric trauma are falls , traffic collisions and burns ?
text: Did you know that from 1914 to 1922 the British Member of Parliament Arthur Fell led an all-party committee which campaigned for a Channel Tunnel ?
text: Did you know that performance of Bach's cantata Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! , for the Second Sunday of Advent in Weimar, was not acceptable in Leipzig during Advent?
text: Did you know that the legacy of the mercantile Röhss family in Gothenburg includes a museum for design and three professorial chairs at Gothenburg University ?
text: Did you know that Richard Herbert raised a foot regiment and a troop of horse for the king during the English Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the archaeological sites of Tell Fray and Dibsi Faraj in Syria were flooded by the rising waters of Lake Assad ?
text: Did you know that Lt. Governor Frank G. Higgins was the first person born in Montana to become a member of the state's bar and of its legislature ?
text: Did you know that in the 2010 book Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 , the author estimates an overall mortality of 45 million for the Great Chinese Famine , including some 2 to 3 million beaten or tortured to death?
text: Did you know that Guinea was the only French colony to reject the 1958 constititution in a referendum , thereby opting for independence?
text: Did you know that Uspenski Gospels is the oldest dated Greek manuscript of the New Testament ?
text: Did you know that Troy , an unincorporated area in the U.S. state of Virginia , is named after the president of the defunct Virginia Air Line Railway ?
text: Did you know that the British Conservative MP Sir Edmund Royds was defeated at the 1922 general election when the National Farmers Union supported his Liberal opponent?
text: Did you know that in 2008–09, 64 percent of the 316 million tonnes of iron ore produced in Western Australia was exported to China ?
text: Did you know that the US 35th Infantry Regiment guarded a bridge for a week during the 1950 Battle of Nam River before it was accidentally destroyed by US bombers?
text: Did you know that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal traced the origin of the concept of equality in Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore to the 40th article of the Magna Carta of 1215?
text: Did you know that the song " Una Canción Me Trajo Hasta Aquí " performed by Jorge Drexler received two nominations for the 11th Latin Grammy Awards even though it was not promoted to radio in the United States?
text: Did you know that South African President Jacob Zuma has commented on the " special relationship " between his country and Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Canada has vowed to boycott the United Nations Durban III conference, calling it a "charade" and a "hatefest"?
text: Did you know that Zimbabwe only played one One Day International cricket series in 2009–10 , beating Kenya 4–1 ?
text: Did you know that after Lieutenant-General Hew Fanshawe was removed from command of the British V Corps in 1916, he was replaced by his elder brother Edward – who was himself sacked in 1918?
text: Did you know that online Facebook game Car Town features pace cars used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the 2010 Brickyard 400 ?
text: Did you know that Anika Moa has released platinum-certified albums under multiple record labels ?
text: Did you know that the opening of Seagram's Distillery in Louisville , Kentucky , in 1937 drew a crowd of 71,000 people during the week of the Kentucky Derby ?
text: Did you know that, only one month after the Berlin Wall was built, two West German aircraft accidentally violated East German airspace, flying to Berlin Tegel Airport on 14 September 1961?
text: Did you know that Jacob B. Warlow was commended for his service as a police captain during the New York Draft Riots , which protested the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Erkin Rakishev parody film My Brother, Borat is intended by the director to counter the negative perceptions of Kazakhstan generated by the 2006 film Borat ?
text: Did you know that despite being enveloped by the urban sprawl of Mexico City , the borough of Coyoacán still has areas with the narrow winding roads of rural villages?
text: Did you know that American lawyer Lloyd K. Garrison was chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board , the National War Labor Board , and the New York City Board of Education ?
text: Did you know that the role-playing game Shining Hearts features hearts, collectible and usable by the player, that represent the other characters' feelings about the player's actions?
text: Did you know that deputy minister Roman Romkowski , charged along with Director-general Anatol Fejgin and Col. Józef Różański of the Polish Ministry of Public Security , was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1957?
text: Did you know that Clarence Brown 's 1925 silent film Smouldering Fires starring Pauline Frederick is considered a cautionary tale?
text: Did you know that the list of no-hitters by Baltimore Orioles pitchers includes a loss in the 1967 season , with runs given up in the ninth inning on walks , a wild pitch and an error ?
text: Did you know that the Guinean journalist Siradiou Diallo was suspected of being a double agent for President Sékou Touré ?
text: Did you know that the First Battle of Yeonpyeong was a deadly clash between the navies of North and South Korea in 1999 off Yeonpyeong island, which North Korea subsequently attacked in November 2010 ?
text: Did you know that James Gross considers NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. , NLRB v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. , and NLRB v. Sands Mfg.Co. the most significant Supreme Court rulings on the National Labor Relations Act since the Court upheld the Act ?
text: Did you know that when the Portuguese Royalty moved to Brazil to escape the French invasion of Portugal the Brazil–Portugal relationship was of a former colony ruling the Portuguese Empire?
text: Did you know that German lawyer Rainer Rene Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , founder of the Federation of German mercenaries, was the subject of a question in the German Parliament in regards to organ donor laws?
text: Did you know that Moss Airport, Rygge is the first airport in Europe to replace all the runway and taxiway lights with light emitting diodes ?
text: Did you know that medieval Bulgarian anti- Bogomil writer Cosmas the Priest was regarded as a saint although there is no data that he was ever canonised?
text: Did you know that the Russian ironclad Kniaz Pozharsky was the first Russian armored ship to leave European waters when she cruised the Pacific Ocean in 1873–75?
text: Did you know that more than 9,000 women were sterilized during the Iron Fist Campaign ?
text: Did you know that the Specialized Stumpjumper became the first mass-produced mountain bike when it was first introduced in 1981?
text: Did you know that by the time Jeannie Carson joined Hey, Jeannie! she had become the second highest paid entertainer in the UK, behind Vivien Leigh ?
text: Did you know that fish have been sighted in Lake Burton, Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that Bill Stein hit a home run in his Major League Baseball debut on September 6, 1972?
text: Did you know that by 1962 the communist -led Indonesian forest workers union Sarbuksi claimed to have a quarter of a million members?
text: Did you know that Brock Reservoir in California saves unused water from the All-American Canal that would otherwise be "lost" to Mexico?
text: Did you know that three composers, flutist Jens Josef , cellist Graham Waterhouse and pianist Rudi Spring , each set a Christmas carol for their trio concert at the Gasteig ?
text: Did you know that 1973 comedy film Bad Charleston Charlie was loosely based on gangster Charles Birger , the last man to be executed in Illinois by public hanging ?
text: Did you know that in 1899 the Lynmouth Lifeboat was pulled over a 1,423-foot (434 m) hill by men and horses so that it could launch to the aid of a ship 15 miles (24 km) from Lynmouth ?
text: Did you know that only two new permanent venues were constructed for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the first Australian baseball player to sign a professional contract with a Major League Baseball organisation, after the dead-ball era , was Neil Page , who signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 1966?
text: Did you know that the NBC television series The Ford Show referred to the sponsor, the Ford Motor Company , rather than the star, Tennessee Ernie Ford ?
text: Did you know that Nels Johnson built Century tower clocks , designed to last 100 years?
text: Did you know that Eugenios Voulgaris , scholar and first director of the Maroutsaia School in Ioannina , Greece , insisted that the Greek intellectual revival should remain theologically and socially conservative?
text: Did you know that the National Docks Secondary freight rail line uses a short tunnel that took eight years to build at twice the originally estimated cost because of a frog war with the Pennsylvania Railroad ?
text: Did you know that the 2009–10 Stanbic Bank 20 Series was heralded as a success by Zimbabwe Cricket , after the crowd for the final was described as "the biggest for a domestic match in living memory"?
text: Did you know that Diethard Hellmann reconstructed the music of the lost Bach cantata for the Third Sunday in Advent , Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a ?
text: Did you know that Guinean Fodéba Keïta was the founder of the first professional African theatrical troupe, Theatre Africain?
text: Did you know the indigenous people of Malaysia, known as the Orang Asal , were originally named as such by communist rebels seeking support during the Malayan Emergency ?
text: Did you know that when the Queensbury mill-owner William Henry Foster died in 1908, a special train brought the Lord Mayor of Bradford to his funeral near Hornby Castle ?
text: Did you know that the wings of the Rans S-11 Pursuit provide only 20% of the aircraft's lift ?
text: Did you know that several days after Nicholas II 's abdication , his relative Alexander, Duke of Leuchtenberg warned the British ambassador the tsar was in "the gravest danger"?
text: Did you know that Joe Raposo , first musical director of the children's show Sesame Street , won four Grammys for writing much of the show's music ?
text: Did you know that Oliver Dyer established the first American periodical devoted to shorthand ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian trade union centre SOBRI decided to join the World Federation of Trade Unions following the death of Stalin in 1953?
text: Did you know that the Michigan Federation of Labor in 1906 wrote that perhaps no individual had done more to "promote the interests of wage-earners than William W. Hannan , the real estate hustler"?
text: Did you know that it was so cold during the 1962 NFL Championship Game that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite ?
text: Did you know that when Prohibition forced the Kentucky -based Bavarian Brewing Company to stop producing beer , it continued to produce soft drinks as The William Riedlin Beverage Company?
text: Did you know that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand native speakers of a unique French dialect around Old Mines, Missouri , descendants of French colonists from the early 1700s?
text: Did you know that in 1996 Chaturanan Mishra became one of the two first communist cabinet members in India ?
text: Did you know that the first no-hitter by an Oakland Athletics pitcher after the Major League Baseball club relocated to Oakland, California , was a perfect game by Catfish Hunter in 1968?
text: Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 's East Rutherford Operations Center has a state-of-the art automated 1 million cubic foot vault for storing US currency ?
text: Did you know that bent edge was created as a counter-movement to straight edge and was a sign of a rising tide of anti-Dischord sentiment in the DC punk scene ?
text: Did you know that Provino Mosca, the founder of the Louisiana Creole Italian restaurant Mosca's , was reportedly a chef for Al Capone ?
text: Did you know that in 1947, baseball player Buck Frierson led the Big State League with 58 home runs and 197 runs batted in ?
text: Did you know that haematite found during the excavation of Nympsfield Long Barrow may have been used to make face-paint, so that the dead could appear alive?
text: Did you know that Punjabi revolutionary Baba Bujha Singh predicted the disintegration of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that British spies helped sink some German minesweepers of the Sperrbrecher type, through determining how to adjust the fuses on magnetic mines ?
text: Did you know that when choosing Suillus pungens mushrooms for the table, one should pick young specimens to avoid "fat, agitated maggots "?
text: Did you know that following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the venues used for the 1980 Summer Olympics were divided between four of the new sovereign states?
text: Did you know that a good contact-connection between undamaged plain waveguide flanges can outperform a choke-connection, but a bad one can cause arcing ?
text: Did you know that John Keble , founding member of the Oxford Movement , was curate to St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin , Gloucestershire , and a bridge nearby was named after him?
text: Did you know that The New York Times called the U.S. Supreme Court 's Ontario v. Quon decision "almost aggressively unhelpful" to lawyers and judges in electronic privacy cases?
text: Did you know that General Stafford played over 100 Major League Baseball games at three different positions?
text: Did you know that hairy aspen is from the citrus family ?
text: Did you know that Nelly's first five studio albums all reached the top three of the Billboard 200 ?
text: Did you know that actor Antonio Te Maioha of the television drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand publicly promotes the recycling organization Xtreme Waste , but resists being called an environmentalist ?
text: Did you know that the English historian Walter Alison Phillips was the first Lecky professor in the University of Dublin ?
text: Did you know that holders of the position that would become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council have included Eleanor Roosevelt and Geraldine Ferraro ?
text: Did you know that Greg Koubek was the first men's basketball player to play in four NCAA Tournament Final Fours ?
text: Did you know that banana powder was utilized by scientists in the 1980s for its antiulcer compounds that both helped prevent ulcers and helped in healing areas where ulcers had previously occurred?
text: Did you know that Thomas Tropenell built the Manor House at Great Chalfield ?
text: Did you know that the first album released by the black metal record label The Ajna Offensive was not part of the metal genre?
text: Did you know that a Welshman, Dai Davies , is the only person to have appeared in both the rugby league Challenge Cup final and the association football FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Sextans B is one of the smallest galaxies in which planetary nebulae have been detected?
text: Did you know that twink gay porn star Tory Mason was discovered through his dudesnude profile?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Kyle O'Reilly once wrestled in almost 40 matches in a period of 72 hours for charity?
text: Did you know that Judge Howard Abbott was the captain and quarterback of the first Minnesota Golden Gophers football team in 1886?
text: Did you know that plans to convert the tomb of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi on the Mount of Olives , Israel , into a church sparked strong protests?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Sumatra earthquake is considered to be a foreshock of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Zimbabwean cricketer Ryan Butterworth ' s performances in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series saw him named as player of the series ?
text: Did you know that the Radioplane RP-77D target drone was planned to be capable of launching target drones itself?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Roy Hitt , a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame , was nicknamed "Rhino" because his shape reminded people of a rhinoceros ?
text: Did you know that Transportation Security Administration officials tipped off Covenant Aviation Security employees to undercover tests of their luggage screeners at airport checkpoints?
text: Did you know that German footballer Willy Tröger began his career as a goalkeeper , but converted into a successful forward after losing his hand in World War II ?
text: Did you know that the bottom section of the Burgundy Premier Cru vineyard Clos Saint-Jacques used to be planted with alfalfa instead of grapevines?
text: Did you know that RAAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon Steege was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German aircraft in one mission during the North African campaign in 1941?
text: Did you know that the shortest state road in New Mexico is only 0.250 miles (402 m) long?
text: Did you know that the Italian Barnabite missionary Father Sangermano preached in Burma from 1783 to 1808 to descendants of Portuguese colonists?
text: Did you know that the first All-Star Game in National Hockey League history was played in 1934 to benefit Toronto 's Ace Bailey , who was nearly killed by a violent on-ice hit earlier in the season?
text: Did you know that during the Western Bulldogs ' 2010 season, Australian rules footballer Andrew Hooper was described by the Herald Sun as a "cult figure"?
text: Did you know that the warden of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women defied an order by the Virginia Department of Corrections to ban cosmetics from the inmates?
text: Did you know that anglers using the Motueka River in New Zealand must clean their boots to stop the spread of invasive algae or face up to five years in prison?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Russ Christopher 's only All-Star appearance was canceled due to World War II ?
text: Did you know that Jim Matheson and his father Jack are both sports journalists in Canada , but are members of halls of fame in different sports?
text: Did you know that current President of Bolivia Evo Morales was elected to parliament in 1997 on a United Left ticket?
text: Did you know that Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach , in their 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior , concluded that there is a "basic mammalian capacity" for homosexuality ?
text: Did you know that Baku 's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?
text: Did you know that in 2010, Sudha Ragunathan gave a Carnatic recital at Yaksha despite suffering from a severe bout of viral fever?