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Did you know that after the release of The Beatles ' " Lady Madonna " in March 1968, radio personality Larry Josephson liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and over for two hours?
Did you know42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Chief Kno–Tah statue in Hillsboro, Oregon , was designed to incorporate features of Chief Joseph ?
Did you know that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from Alice O'Sullivan ' s victory in the 1959 Rose of Tralee pageant?
Did you know that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian sound film , Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
Did you know that Tennessee politician Tommy Burnett easily won re-election to the state legislature while he was in U.S. federal prison ?
Did you know that Union College in Schenectady , New York , has the first comprehensively planned college campus and had the longest-serving college or university president in the United States ?
Did you know that according to Manichaean tradition Mar Ammo brought Manichaeanism east into Sogdiana , and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death of Mani ?
Did you know that the AFL-CIO gained its latest member union when the 265,000-member UNITE HERE reaffiliated on September 16, 2009?
Did you know that Sankey Tank in Bangalore is named after Sir Richard Hieram Sankey , an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in British India ?
Did you know that the namesake of the Victorian Bembridge House was strangled to death in 1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years?
Did you know that Trimön , a Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the reincarnated 14th Dalai Lama in 1935?
Did you know that the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California contains an ancient seabed with fossils of various marine lifeforms, such as sand dollars and bivalves ?
Did you know that the history of Bulgarians in Italy dates to the 7th century, when groups of Bulgars settled in several regions of the Italian Peninsula ?
Did you know that the first Red-fronted Parrot to be scientifically identified was named Congo Jack?
Did you know that Makiko Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her debut acting role in the 1995 film Maborosi ?
Did you know that Kompani Linge 's Oslo Detachment , a subgroup of the Special Operations Executive , was the dominant sabotage group in occupied Oslo between May and September 1944?
Did you know that professional wrestler Kerry Brown won a tag team championship with his real-life uncle, Bob Brown ?
Did you know that 851 children were reported to have been poisoned by a lead plant in Shaanxi province in China this year?
Did you know that Green Day 's Grammy Award winning concept album American Idiot has been adapted for the stage by the band members and two Tony Award winners?
Did you know that Leon Feiner , a leader of the Bund and of Żegota , wrote many communiques to the Western Allies describing the Holocaust in Poland ?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , based Norm Thompson Outfitters was started with an ad in Field & Stream magazine?
Did you know42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the mushrooms Boletus zelleri , B. mirabilis , Suillus americanus , S. brevipes , S. lakei , and Leccinum manzanitae are all examples of edible boletes ?
Did you know that gridiron football quarterback Mike Quinn was the final member of the Houston Texans ' first signings left on the team?
Did you know that in 1946, the residents of the former Palestinian village of Biriyya were arrested after the discovery of an arms cache in the village?
Did you know that South Gate Assembly , opened in 1936, was the first General Motors plant west of the Mississippi River and the first to build more than one car line?
Did you know that Australian criminal Dennis Ferguson was forced to relocate to numerous locations around Australia due to public hostility and news media attention?
Did you know that the Senate of France has an Administrative Meeting , instead of a full fledged Group , for Senators who are Independents or from small parties?
Did you know that in the 1977 pink film Fairy in a Cage , according to actress Naomi Tani , her upside-down torture scenes were not faked with suspension braces, in order to show tension in her thigh muscles?
Did you know21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Robert Searcy , who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II , was employed after the war by United Airlines cleaning aircraft?
Did you know that Arbois is the only grape variety besides Chenin blanc permitted in the Loire Valley wine of Vouvray ?
Did you know that the South African film Jerusalema is based on the real-life case of an organized crime figure taking over real estate in Johannesburg 's Hillbrow neighborhood?
Did you know that a weir built to aid fish traveling up a fish ladder in Little Butte Creek was destroyed just three months later?
Did you know that Viola Tree , her father Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and her son David Tree all performed in premieres of play or film versions of George Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion ?
Did you know that The Book of est compares Werner Erhard 's est training to The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda ?
Did you know that before the 2008 International Bowl , American football linebacker Jamaal Westerman was asked questions about the weather in Toronto , because he had lived there?
Did you know that Louis Cordier expanded the geological collection of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1,500 specimens in 1819 to 200,000 specimens in 1861?
Did you know that Gary Ablett, Jr. won the 2009 Brownlow Medal , an award that his father, Australian Football Hall of Fame member Gary Ablett, Sr. , never won?
Did you know that some houses on Union Street in Schenectady, New York , were built with a veranda -width setback to allow views of the Union College campus by those approaching it from downtown?
Did you know that Russian pilot Semyon Bychkov served both in the Soviet Air Forces and the Luftwaffe and was stripped of all Soviet awards posthumously?
Did you know that Mubarak Shah, founder of the lost city of Mubarakabad, was buried in Delhi 's Kotla Mubarakpur Complex in 1434?
Did you know that the chicken tax led to Ford importing light trucks to the United States from Turkey and immediately shredding portions of their interiors in Baltimore ?
Did you know that actor Bret Harrison 's first role was in Our Town at the Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon ?
Did you know that the coronation ceremonies of Russian Tsars Paul I , Alexander I and Nicholas I were decorated by Italian theatre set designer Pietro Gonzaga ?
Did you know that violence in the 1970 Koza riot against US military presence in Okinawa was directed specifically against white servicemen, while care was taken to avoid attacking black MPs ?
Did you know that the site of Diego Rivera 's first large-scale mural work was Mexico City ' s Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters ?
Did you know that Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas ?
Did you know that Romania 's ruling Social Democratic – Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu ' s intervention in the appointment of school directors?
Did you know that when Cooper Arms opened in Long Beach, California , it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
Did you know21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that although the 1954 Guinean by-poll was marred with irregularities, only the communists and the African Democratic Rally voted against validating the results in the French National Assembly ?
Did you know that the Long Beach Post Office has been called "Post-Quake Moderne " due to the local prevalence of the style after the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 ?
Did you know that Rafael Trujillo 's daughter presided as Queen Angelita I over the Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World in the Dominican Republic ?
Did you know that Carl Rubin made significant modifications to Meir Dizengoff 's house changing it into an art museum, which would later become Israel's Independence Hall ?
Did you know that although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario ?
Did you know that Rancho Las Mariposas , unwanted by John C. Frémont until gold was discovered in September 1849, turned out to be the richest rancho in California ?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II was taught constitutional history by Henry Marten ?
Did you know that 50 years ago today, on an Iowa farm , farmer and hybrid corn salesman Roswell Garst hosted Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev ?
Did you know that while in the lead of the last relay leg of the 2009 World Orienteering Championships , Martin Johansson was injured by a wooden stick penetrating 12 centimetres (5 in) into his leg?
Did you know that Son of Ingagi was the first film with an all- black cast in the science fiction - horror film genre?
Did you know that of Japanese band Supercell ' s eleven members, only one of them makes the music and the rest are illustrators and designers?
Did you know that the Seinfeld episode " The Revenge " was based on an experience by screenwriter Larry David , who once quit his job at Saturday Night Live and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened?
Did you know21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the 1999 anime series Digimon Adventure was first seen as an imitation of Nintendo 's Pokémon franchise when its episodes first aired in North America?
Did you know that Mirosław Iringh , a leader of Slovak Platoon 535 , wore a white-blue-red armband made out of a French military decoration once bestowed upon a fellow insurrectionist by Marshal Foch ?
Did you know that the Binford & Mort publishing company in Hillsboro, Oregon , was once the largest book publisher in the Northwestern United States ?
Did you know that John Lawford was the only captain who fought at Copenhagen in 1801 to receive an honorary reward specifically for his actions during the battle?
Did you know that in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of the Earth from 93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148?
Did you know that Arnold Laven directed feature films about a psychotic gardener/serial killer, an army of giant mollusks and George Armstrong Custer , and episodes of The A-Team ?
Did you know that the tomb of Pope John V was destroyed in the Sack of Rome in 846 AD , centuries before nearly all of the remainder of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica were demolished?
Did you know that Japanese manga Red Colored Elegy has an eponymous single performed by Morio Agata , which ranked seventh in Japan's Oricon charts in 1972?
Did you know that Clayton W. Williams, Sr. , an oilman and rancher from Fort Stockton , Texas , was part of the group that formed the American Legion in Paris in 1919?
Did you know that visually impaired chess player Reginald Bonham founded the International Braille Chess Association ?
Did you know that the land for 53rd Avenue Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , was purchased from exercise equipment maker Soloflex ?
Did you know that during the absence of Byzantine emperor Heraclius from Constantinople in 622–626, the patrician Bonus defended the city from a major Avar siege in July 626?
Did you know that when describing his time fighting jihad in Afghanistan , Mohamad Elzahabi said "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"?
Did you know that Tajammul Hussain Malik headed an unsuccessful coup attempt against Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in 1980?
Did you know that Metallica 's management company told The Quietus magazine to remove published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album Death Magnetic ?
Did you know that after the merger of UNITE and HERE in 2004, the merged union UNITE HERE owned the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago ?
Did you know that Czech ice-hockey goaltender Josef Mikoláš ' career injuries included eight lost teeth, a broken cheekbone , a double fracture of his lower jaw and 35 head sutures ?
Did you know that single-pass bore finishing can finish a bore to a size tolerance of 0.001 mm and a geometry tolerance of 0.0003 mm?
Did you know that the prewar AVA Radio Company , in Warsaw , built all the electro-mechanical equipment used by Poland 's Cipher Bureau to break German Enigma ciphers ?
Did you know that Frank Coghlan said "damn" in Gone with the Wind , but is best known for saying "Shazam" in Captain Marvel , the first big screen depiction of a comic book superhero?
Did you know14, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Mike Milligan was a Division I head coach for football and basketball at two different institutions?
Did you know that ABC aired the Marcus Welby, M.D. episode " The Outrage " despite having been zapped for the earlier episode " The Other Martin Loring "?
Did you know that Captain Isaac Coffin rescued a man from drowning while commanding HMS Alligator , but injured himself in doing so?
Did you know that the largely residential community of Dockton on Maury Island, Washington , was once an industrial center?
Did you know that Kir Ianulea , a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale , relocated Niccolò Machiavelli 's Belfagor arcidiavolo into Phanariote -era Bucharest ?
Did you know that Gordon Faber , as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon , once carried an ax while wearing an executioner's hood to an employee's performance review?
Did you know07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Columbia College acting dean Henry S. Coleman , held hostage in the Columbia University protests of 1968 , later wrote law school recommendation letters for some of his student captors?
Did you know that in writing the 1973 song " Hypnotized ", Bob Welch drew upon his perception of the Benifold mansion in Hampshire that Fleetwood Mac were inhabiting at the time, and where the song was recorded?
Did you know that a casket discovered by Anant Sadashiv Altekar near Vaishali , on display at the Patna Museum , is said to contain the remains of the Buddha ?
Did you know that Yreka phlox , an endangered flowering plant that grows in serpentine soil , is the official city flower of Yreka, California ?
Did you know that the Pedersen bicycle with its unusual cantilever frame , though never hugely popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today?
Did you know that Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling saw the reunions of both Tekno Team 2000 and the father and son team of Dusty and Dustin Rhodes ?
Did you know that Nikolay Karamzin compared the architectural projects of Vasili Bazhenov to Plato 's Republic and Thomas More 's Utopia ?
Did you know that the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945?
Did you know that after seeing Zero Hour , a play about the life of actor Zero Mostel , Theodore Bikel wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we thought was long extinct"?
Did you know that the West African trade union centre CGTA , a splinter-group of the French CGT , rejected the notion of class struggle , stating that there were no antagonistic classes in Africa ?
Did you know that only 1% of students attending Oregon Connections Academy live within the school district?
Did you know07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Andrew Berg , a Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of Alaska , became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide?
Did you know that the 1921 Triumph Ricardo British motorcycle was capable of over 70 mph and set three world speed records?
Did you know that Kilkenny beat favourites Galway in a semi-final match of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009 despite one third of their team being under the age of twenty?
Did you know that Alfred Gottschalk performed the 1972 rabbinic ordination of Sally Priesand , the second woman to be formally ordained in the history of Judaism ?
Did you know that the depiction of Eros and Psyche on the Marlborough gem , a carved onyx cameo from as early as the first century CE, was copied or reproduced by Cipriani , Bartolozzi , Wedgwood and Flaxman ?
Did you know that one of Emmy Award -winning screenwriter Frank Deasy ' s last acts before dying led to a record number of applicants for organ donor cards?
Did you know that in October 1945, shortly after unexpectedly entering a cloud, National Airlines Flight 16 crashed into a lake in Lakeland , Florida , drowning two passengers?
Did you know08, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the first African American to see the Great Falls of the Missouri River was York , a slave who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition ?
Did you know that two foiled attacks by N.D.F.L.O.A.G. guerrillas in June 1970 sparked a conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan of Oman ?
Did you know that IOC organizers proposed to demonstrate American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics as a match-up between the defending national champions at USC and East Coast powerhouse Yale University ?
Did you know that botanist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman had a wide range of interests including Māori ethnology ?
Did you know that the artist who made a stone relief of the Menorah in Israel 's Migdal Synagogue in 50 BCE – 100 CE may have seen the original Menorah in the Second Temple before its destruction in 70 CE?
Did you know that though he has won six nonconsecutive elections to the Louisiana State Senate , Joe McPherson of Rapides Parish has twice failed in bids for his state's Public Service Commission ?
Did you know that Australian band The Sundance Kids was formed in a shopping centre car park over takeaway pizza?
Did you know that when archaeologists excavated the Urartian fortress-city of Erebuni they discovered a rich collection of Persian artifacts dating back 2,500 years?
Did you know that American sprinter Walter Dix won two bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but hardly competed at all in 2009 due to injury and a legal dispute with his agent?
Did you know that the commander of the Croatian forces who carried out the Stupni Do massacre in 1993 during the Croat-Bosniak war had his name and rank changed as part of a cover-up?
Did you know that the city of Schenectady bought and demolished several other hotels to ensure the success of the Hotel Van Curler, now Schenectady County Community College 's Elston Hall ?
Did you know that the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer was watched by a global television audience of 750 million, at the time the most popular programme ever broadcast?
Did you know that Sylvan Friedman , a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1944 to 1972, was part of a small but influential Jewish community in Natchitoches Parish ?
Did you know that in the 1985 hijacking of Braathens SAFE Flight 139 , the hijacker exchanged his gun for beer?
Did you know that Akaitcho , Chief of the Yellowknives , was John Franklin 's Coppermine Expedition guide?
Did you know that the luxurious Villa Riviera was the second tallest building in Southern California from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s?
Did you know that James Aubrey , who appeared in the 1963 film version of Lord of the Flies , made his professional acting debut in Isle of Children ?
Did you know that the city of Hillsboro, Oregon , asked residents to donate their used Christmas trees for planting at Turner Creek Park ?
Did you know that Lars Peder Brekk was Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs for only 56 days, due to his cabinet withdrawing shortly after he was supplemented into it?
Did you know that the French conquest of Senegal started in 1659 with the establishment of a trading post in Saint-Louis ?
Did you know that when artist Sérvulo Gutiérrez sold a nude portrait of his lover Doris Gibson , Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"?
Did you know07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the rheology of food affects how pleasant a food feels in the mouth and therefore how desirable it is to the consumer ?
Did you know that prior to writing the book Twisted Scriptures , Mary Alice Chrnalogar had belonged to the religious group Church Universal and Triumphant ?
Did you know that while serving in the California Assembly , Republican Michael D. Duvall was described as having "blasted" attempts to legalize gay marriage ?
Did you know that the southern African frilled shark preys mainly on smaller sharks , which it swallows whole with its greatly distensible mouth?
Did you know that City View was the first charter school in Hillsboro, Oregon , when it opened in 2004?
Did you know that Norwegian ship-owner Ludvig G. Braathen founded the airline Braathens SAFE in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew?
Did you know that the co-founder of the New England Institute of Religious Research was a court-appointed guardian of 13 children removed from a religious sect in Attleboro, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that the Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict involved the houses of Ascania , Hohenzollern , Luxembourg , Pomerania , Sweden and Wittelsbach ?
Did you know that Hayden Bridge , a covered bridge on the National Register of Historic Places , had to be repaired in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it?
Did you know that a car-driving collie recently auditioned for the second series of The All Ireland Talent Show ?
Did you know that Barbara Atkinson appeared with the National Theatre Company for their 1969–1970 season?
Did you know that the AIDS activist group ACT UP twice shut down production of the Midnight Caller episode " After It Happened ", believing that it would encourage vigilantism against people with AIDS?
Did you know that in only his third full Major League Baseball season, Chuck Workman hit 25 home runs, second in the National League?
Did you know that the Bromley equation is important for the understanding of ions in river, lake and sea-water?
Did you know that Jon Olav Alstad was elected to the Norwegian Parliament at the age of 25?
Did you know that two windmills in Burdaard , the Netherlands , are named after the elephant and the swallow , and that both mills are Rijksmonuments ?
Did you know that the Cannock Chase murders sparked one of the largest manhunts in British history?
Did you know that the mineral processing plant at the Kittilä mine includes a bomb shelter , as required by a 1917 law?
Did you know that Romanian actress Ecaterina Nazare appeared in a theatrical version of Shakespeare's sonnets , produced and staged by the National Theatre Bucharest ?
Did you know that Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul launched the world's largest dredger in June 2008 with the 46,000m³ capacity Cristobal Colon ?
Did you know that James A. Kowalski , dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York , had a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother, but they joined the Episcopal Church when they started a family?
Did you know that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League ?
Did you know that Arthur P. Luff is considered one of the founders of 20th century forensic medicine ?
Did you know that almost 30 years after quitting his career as a composer , Gervase Hughes returned to music in 1960 as a writer of books on musical subjects?
Did you know that Rancho Buena Ventura , the northernmost Mexican land grant in California , was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican citizen?
Did you know that the Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend was ostensibly published by Martin Luther King in 1967, but is actually a forgery that first appeared 30 years after King's death?
Did you know that Italian Gigi Peronace has been described as the first football agent in England?