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Did you know that the U.S. Patent Office 1836 fire occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?
Did you know that in 1907, statues of the Twelve Apostles helped English sculptor Harry Hems pay his income tax?
Did you know that the Mountaineer was the first passenger train Amtrak operated over the Norfolk and Western Railway ?
Did you know that the head of the Indonesian Communist Party addressed Wongsonegoro so softly that other people had to "be his microphone"?
Did you know that the 2007 Morocco–Spain diplomatic conflict arose after the announcement of the impending visit of the King of Spain to the Spanish autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla ?
Did you know that a band or singer can only qualify for the UK Indie Breakers Chart if they have never had a Top 20 hit on the UK's mainstream charts before?
Did you know that in 1884 Frederick Stanley Arnot determined that the Zambezi , the largest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa, rose near Kalene Hill ?
Did you know that some 3000 to 5000 people were killed in Haiti in 1804 in an ethnic cleansing that targeted white people ?
Did you know that what Matthew Morrison calls " the most spectacular [marriage] proposal I've ever seen " is scheduled to occur on Glee in January 2012?
Did you know that Wilopo , in office only 26 days, is the shortest-serving Foreign Minister of Indonesia to date?
Did you know that Arthur Duncan was a small Backscratcher in Chicago ?
Did you know that Gholhak Garden , a British diplomatic compound in northern Tehran , has been at the centre of diplomatic controversy between Britain and Iran ?
Did you know that The Naval and Military Magazine warned that people might not like the cut of Sir Henry Heathcote 's jib ?
Did you know that a Russian state prosecutor proposes to put a commented translation of the Bhagavad Gita on the same list of banned materials as Hitler 's Mein Kampf ?
Did you know that the version of Rossetti ' s Lady Lilith in The Met was said to be mostly painted by Henry Treffry Dunn ?
Did you know that Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding featured Papa Celestin 's final recording session before his death?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom the George Marshall Trophy is awarded annually to an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution towards helping visually impaired people?
Did you know that the OPEN Act is a proposed alternative to SOPA that would not require American ISPs to block access to suspect Web sites?
Did you know that Ania Bien ' s 1986 photographic installation on the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam , which was destroyed in a fire that killed 33 people , included images alluding to the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the extinct Eocene maple Acer republicense is known from only one fossil seed?
Did you know that brothers Frank and John Rolleston were both simultaneously elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1922 and defeated in 1928 ?
Did you know that the seeds of Bigelow's sedge can remain viable for two centuries?
Did you know that Swedish hip hop artist Roffe Ruff has kept his identity secret to make listeners concentrate more on his music than his personality?
Did you know that although Verle A. Pope was nicknamed "The Lion of St. Johns" for his oratory skills, he didn't start speaking until age seven?
Did you know that the writs for the next New Zealand general election must be issued no later than 24 December 2014?
Did you know that the mustache that Frenchy Bordagaray grew in 1936 is likely to have been the only mustache worn in Major League Baseball between 1914 and 1972?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Havelock and her sister Hesperus attacked the wreck of U-246 on 30 April 1945 thinking that it was another German submarine which had been spotted earlier that day?
Did you know that Euripides ' lost play Andromeda may have contained the first ever depiction of a man falling in love with a woman onstage?
Did you know that Jack Nicholson and Lou Adler bought the historic Newberry House so they would have a place in Aspen, Colorado , to watch televised Lakers games together?
Did you know that Karl Marx 's theory of historical trajectory attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of capitalism ?
Did you know that although William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention , he was not even a delegate when the convention started?
Did you know that Theodore M. Stuart , an end and halfback for the "Point-a-Minute" football teams at the University of Michigan in 1904 and 1905, was also the university's tennis champion?
Did you know that the Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki contains an illustration of the regent extorting poems from two ladies?
Did you know that the king of the Mataram Sultanate during the First Java War used the reconstruction of a terrace as an excuse for not providing soldiers?
Did you know that the application Read It Later obtained venture capital investments totaling $2.5 million in 2011?
Did you know that the U.S. House of Representatives has had a Princeton University alumnus in its membership in every year since it was established in 1789?
Did you know that despite its name, the long-stolon sedge does not form stolons ?
Did you know that The Wall Street Journal called the scandal involving Olympus Corporation "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history"?
Did you know that although St Silas' Church in Blackburn , Lancashire , was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Martina Koppelstetter has recorded Lieder by Rudi Spring for BR, Bavarian Radio ?
Did you know that cyanobacteria can be washed up on the shore in a green scum, which may contain an acute neurotoxin known as the Very Fast Death Factor , which leads to fast death by paralysis?
Did you know that a spree killer from Ontario , saved from the death penalty by reason of insanity , later received a "hero's funeral"?
Did you know that a small volume 2 of The Young Men's Magazine written by a teenaged Charlotte Brontë sold for £690,850?
Did you know that the seeds of six-weeks grama grass are eaten by desert kangaroo rats ?
Did you know that Gavin Bryars 's Doctor Ox's Experiment is the third opera to be based on Jules Verne 's science fiction novella " Dr. Ox's Experiment "?
Did you know that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole Stefan Banach ?
Did you know that a trademark dispute between piano makers Steinway & Sons and Grotrian-Steinweg resulted in establishing the legal concept of " initial interest confusion "?
Did you know that the vulnerable buttercup Ranunculus allenii was first collected from Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula in 1881?
Did you know that the music video for the Tanglish song " Why This Kolaveri Di " had more than 10 million YouTube hits in the two weeks after its posting?
Did you know that Perry Dorrestein 's first start for the Michigan Wolverines football team was in a Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry game?
Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints' Church, Hertford , as "completely alien" in Hertfordshire ?
Did you know that the galaxy Markarian 501 produces very high energy gamma rays ?
Did you know that after directing several episodes of Glee , Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed large choreographed musical television advertisements for Chevrolet and T-Mobile ?
Did you know that The Relaxation Response describes two steps as essential: a passive attitude and a mental device to keep the mind from wandering?
Did you know that Gustav Sobottka, Jr. was imprisoned by the Nazis at age 18 and by Stalin 's secret police at age 23?
Did you know that the opening of San Francisco 's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?
Did you know that the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies pioneered the usage of video testimonies to record eyewitness accounts of major historical events and inspired video testimony projects documenting other atrocities?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Bajeux was Haiti 's culture minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide but later turned against him?
Did you know that the extinct, Miocene age, maple Acer browni ranged from southern Oregon to the north shore of the Haida Gwaii ?
Did you know that tight end Martell Webb was a 2006 USA Today All-USA second team selection along with fellow Michigan matriculant Ryan Mallett ?
Did you know that the ancient Greek drama Lysistrata by Aristophanes has been adapted as a Broadway musical titled Lysistrata Jones about a basketball team and its cheerleaders?
Did you know that in Wildwood by The Decemberists ' Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis , "bespectacled, bike-riding, vinyl -­browsing, Kurosawa -­referencing" Portland kids save a baby kidnapped by a murder of crows?
Did you know that the dance performed during the Kundum Festival of the Ahanta people of Ghana originated from dwarfs?
Did you know that the communist newspaper Deutsche Zentral Zeitung ran volumes of show trial transcripts, but never the consequences, and ceased publication after most of the staff were also arrested?
Did you know that Euripides ' posthumously produced lost play Alcmaeon in Corinth was part of a trilogy that won first prize at the Dionysia in Athens?
Did you know that decisional balance sheets are used to help people with addictive behaviours decide to make changes in their lives?
Did you know that the spiny lobster Jasus caveorum lives only on one of the Foundation Seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean ?
Did you know that comedian Graham Norton won his first comedy award after standing in as a guest presenter on The Jack Docherty Show while Docherty was on holiday?
Did you know that after suffering from polio as a youth, Maria Farida Indrati went on to become the first female justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia ?
Did you know that a month after its launch, the Facebook game CastleVille had amassed 26.6 million players?
Did you know that, in 1987, German ice hockey executive Heinz Weifenbach negotiated a deal in which his club, the ECD Iserlohn , would advertise Muammar Gaddafi 's Green Book ?
Did you know that in 1963, a whole farm—including machinery, staff and a pedigree herd of Hereford cattle —travelled by train from Tetbury railway station to Stranraer in advance of the Beeching Axe ?
Did you know that blackfellows hemp is associated with turpentine ?
Did you know that according to The People's Book of Records , the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hurricane rescued 451 survivors from the passenger-cargo liner SS City of Nagpur and landed them at Greenock , Scotland , on 1 May 1941?
Did you know that the aerial photograph of Palembang taken in 1984 revealed the ancient canal network that is now Srivijaya archaeological park ?
Did you know that Max Gresham , the 18-year-old 2011 NASCAR East Series champion, started racing at the age of 8?
Did you know that the perennial herb Frasera caroliniensis can take up to thirty years to flower?
Did you know that " Red Lipstick " was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and " Wait Your Turn "?
Did you know that the ideology of Ba'athism was developed mostly in Syria by Zaki al-Arsuzi , Salah al-Din al-Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who is considered the founder of Ba'athist thought, as a way to unite the Arab world into one nation?
Did you know that Jerry Blackwell 's Southern Championship Wrestling was the last "territorial" wrestling promotion in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
Did you know that Bill Bellamy , who was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
Did you know that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million ?
Did you know that Ruislip High School is the fictional "Rudge Park Comprehensive" from the E4 television series The Inbetweeners ?
Did you know that poet W. H. Auden said of the letters of Vincent van Gogh "there is scarcely one ... which I ... do not find fascinating"?
Did you know that Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy ?
Did you know that the prairie goldenrod can flourish during drought conditions where native plants and grasses have died out?
Did you know that Koji Mitsui was unsuccessfully posted to Major League Baseball twice in one offseason?
Did you know that Kenneth Stewart Cole , an organizer of the Biophysical Society 's first meeting, said that the meeting had "the ulterior motive of finding out if there was such a thing as biophysics "?
Did you know that Lost in Paradise is considered Vietnam 's first gay film?
Did you know that the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake badly damaged the Sans-Souci Palace built by Henri Christophe ?
Did you know that the 2013 United States federal budget may impose a 23% cut on the defense budget due to the Budget Control Act of 2011 , according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ?
Did you know that Canadian mystery writer Eric Wilson based the formula for his Tom and Liz Austen books on the preferences of his eighth-grade students?
Did you know that the Experiment was a boat powered by horses running on a treadmill and propelled by a then-novel type of screw propeller ?
Did you know that Dolphin D. Overton became a flying ace in just four days during the Korean War , the fastest in history for a jet fighter pilot?
Did you know that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street , the Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines American football linebacker Kenny Demens had 11 tackles in the 2007 Michigan High School Athletic Association championship game?
Did you know that livestock eating white locoweed develop a neurological syndrome known as locoism?
Did you know that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to be "channelling" Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper Neneh Cherry on " Cockiness (Love It) " in a "pseudo-melodic" impersonation?
Did you know that the song " Cosas del Amor " has been performed by several female singers including Vikki Carr , Ana Gabriel , Milly Quezada , Jenni Rivera , Olga Tañón and Yuri ?
Did you know that Adolphe Braun , whose photos were published worldwide and shown in prominent museums, first took up photography to aid in designing floral patterns for textiles?
Did you know that the failed 2010 Brown–Kaufman amendment aimed to break up the largest U.S. banks based on Alan Greenspan ' s idea that "If they're too big to fail , they're too big"?
Did you know that Besar Mertokusumo has been called the first Indonesian advocate?
Did you know that Paleodictyon nodosum made use of a new source of energy not dependent on the Sun?
Did you know that Ryan Van Bergen was ranked among the top-20 high school football players nationally as both a tight end and defensive end ?
Did you know that Soepomo , Indonesia's first Minister of Justice, criticized Dutch colonialism in his thesis on the agrarian system of Surakarta ?
Did you know that Count Grog 's Southern Championship Wrestling once promoted a benefit show in Louisburg, North Carolina , from which all the proceeds went to a seriously injured wrestler?
Did you know that the ideas of 17th-century Polish reformer Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki have been both praised as the harbinger of later reforms, and criticized for not going far enough?
Did you know that architects Fisher & Fisher , the sibling partnership of Arthur and William Ellsworth Fisher , designed the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming , in a unified Spanish colonial style to foster community?
Did you know that the coastline from Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth , in north Cornwall , was one of the last British breeding sites of the Large Blue butterfly, which was declared nationally extinct in 1979?
Did you know that Thomas Crawford captured Dumbarton Castle with ropes and scaling ladders under cover of darkness?
Did you know that future Minister of Justice Abdoel Gaffar Pringgodigdo reported losing much of his archive when the Dutch seized Yogyakarta ?
Did you know that in December 2011, the Home Affordable Refinance Program was expanded so many U.S. homeowners can refinance their mortgage even if their home value is underwater ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines American football cornerback J. T. Floyd made his first two interceptions against Notre Dame , but in different seasons?
Did you know that some music critics hear echoes of work by Diana Ross and Leslie Gore in Selena ' s song "Missing My Baby", which was featured on Entre a Mi Mundo ?
Did you know that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro , who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
Did you know that Chief Wahoo McDaniel came out of retirement in 1996 to wrestle Death & Destruction in a tag team match?
Did you know that, while still a schoolboy, Rhys Morgan led an effort to raise awareness of the risks of the alternative medicine product Miracle Mineral Supplement ?
Did you know that Traveler's Rest near Lolo, Montana , is the only place along the Lewis and Clark Trail where physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been found?
Did you know that Sancti Spiritu , the first European settlement in modern Argentina , was destroyed by natives two years later?
Did you know that Yad Sarah , the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder, Uri Lupolianski , former mayor of Jerusalem?
Did you know that the cliffs and offshore rocks from Godrevy Head to St Agnes are host to the largest colony of breeding Black-legged Kittiwakes in Cornwall , UK?
Did you know that Jeff Wright , a county drain commissioner in Michigan, has also served as an FBI informant?
Did you know that The Who 's 1971 song " Bargain " and 1981 song " Don't Let Go the Coat " were both inspired by Indian mystic Meher Baba ?
Did you know that before Brighton ' s Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
Did you know that after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) at the age of 34?
Did you know that female baseball player Mary Rountree earned a medical degree by studying in the off-season?
Did you know that Three Sisters , a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern , played for only two months in London in 1934, and didn't debut in America until 2011?
Did you know that 30-to-120-centimetre (12 to 47 in) tall hairy pagodas can be found throughout eastern North America?
Did you know that Kazimierz Karwowski holds the record for being elected to the most Sejms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that the leaves of the beard-heath Leucopogon amplexicaulis surround the stem?
Did you know that the Glee episode " Hold On to Sixteen " featured covers of songs by Michael Jackson , Janet Jackson , and The Jackson 5 ?
Did you know that the sea whip , a colonial soft coral , produces chemicals which prevent algae , barnacles and bryozoans from growing on it?
Did you know that the mixed-breed dog Tich was awarded the animal's Victoria Cross for devotion to duty with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Left Column theater troupe left Germany on the eve of Nazism only to lose many members to the Stalinist purges ?
Did you know that Wroniec , a dark fairy tale by Jacek Dukaj , was a taboo -breaking take on martial law in Poland , which was in effect from 13 December 1981?
Did you know that Bat-El Gatterer , Israeli women's taekwondo champion, is a religiously observant Jew who was born in the West Bank ?
Did you know that during Royce White 's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive basketball , he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the piano ?
Did you know that in November 1921, the schooner Cymric collided with a tram in Dublin ?
Did you know that Boston Celtics center Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships during his 13-year playing career, including two titles as player-coach ?
Did you know that jewel beetle larvae live in galls on the stems of the Australian shrub Daviesia corymbosa ?
Did you know that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake ?
Did you know that Juan Martínez de Recalde was second-in-command of the Spanish Armada ?
Did you know that Pro Wrestling Illustrated has called manager Count Grog the "least employee friendly boss around" due to his frequently double-crossing his own wrestlers?
Did you know that the Grammy Award -winning album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra brought bachata music into the mainstream in the Dominican Republic?
Did you know that seven of the twenty-nine times when Duke and Michigan played one another in men's basketball , both teams were ranked in the top ten in the AP Poll ?
Did you know that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , opened in 1889, is the oldest purpose-built museum of portraits in the world?
Did you know that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from debate moderator Hal Bruno of ABC News ?
Did you know that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company ' s slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ?
Did you know that singer Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song " Dear Jessie "?
Did you know that efforts by George Tchobanoglous have contributed to UV disinfection of wastewater being accepted as a technology for water reuse ?
Did you know that Dutch Antillean sprinter Churandy Martina would have won silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics if he had not been disqualified?
Did you know that William Hamlin was the first engraver for the state of Rhode Island?
Did you know that several pelagic gooseneck barnacles were once found attached to an American crocodile ?
Did you know that the rights to freedom of speech , assembly and association are guaranteed by Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution only to Singapore citizens ?
Did you know that Donald Norman rewrote his 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things after some industrial designers felt affronted by an earlier draft?
Did you know that the Tonhalle , a concert hall in Zurich praised for its acoustics, was inaugurated by Johannes Brahms conducting in 1895?
Did you know that the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs annually receives $1.7 billion of research and development funding for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development ?
Did you know that the mother of Korean American composer Donald Sur was a picture bride ?
Did you know that the Harrington Hump has been built for railway stations in the United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
Did you know that the Rihanna song " Where Have You Been " contains compositional elements of Geoff Mack 's " I've Been Everywhere "?
Did you know that the Jacksonville headquarters of the Atlantic National Bank was the tallest building in Florida when it was completed in 1909?
Did you know that the seeds of Petrophile pulchella can be found germinating in bushland up to 700 days after bushfire ?
Did you know that the Four Square Laundry in Belfast was a front company for a British Army intelligence unit?
Did you know that South Africa were coached by former New Zealand international Paul Matete at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup ?