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Did you know that Mexican-born merchant Estevan Ochoa undertook a dangerous 250-mile (400 km) journey through Apache territory to avoid swearing loyalty to the Confederate States of America ?
Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct tortoise beetle Denaeaspis is only 6.04 millimetres (0.238 in) long?
Did you know that New England Patriots assistant George Godsey is the most accurate quarterback in Georgia Tech history ?
Did you know that three singer-songwriters formed the supergroup Alex, Jorge y Lena ?
Did you know that bookseller Johan Dahl is immortalized through a farce by Henrik Wergeland from 1835?
Did you know that the Military Officers Association of America reports that the " I'm a lighthouse. Your call " urban legend is forwarded to the organization an average of three times a day?
Did you know that Saltford Brass Mill contains a complete annealing furnace claimed to be one of the best remaining examples of this technology in Britain?
Did you know that Gardiner regards the unusual use of independent trombones in Bach's cantata Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25 , as an "anticipation of the finale to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony "?
Did you know that National Football League offensive tackle Levi Horn is a member of the Cheyenne tribe ?
Did you know that the Eternal Diet , "a bladeless knife without a handle", followed the Youngest Recess of the Holy Roman Empire ?
Did you know that less than a decade after he fought Seminoles in Florida to keep them from aiding the Spanish, U.S. Senator John Williams voted against the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. ?
Did you know that Hurricane Norbert fluctuated from a Category 3 to Category 4 three times in two days?
Did you know that the Young Justice episode " Independence Day " introduces a younger version of the DC Universe ?
Did you know that the Indian astronomer Chinthamani Ragoonatha Chary discovered the variable star R Reticuli in 1867?
Did you know that Blessing in Disguise condemns conservative traditionalism in a two-page discussion of Indonesian witch-doctors ?
Did you know that Lou Frost was elected nine times as public defender in Jacksonville, Florida , without opposition?
Did you know that the plant Hakea macraeana was first described in The Australian Journal of Pharmacy ?
Did you know that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union , discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type ?
Did you know that Belinda Clark of Australia is the first person of either sex to score a double century in international limited overs cricket ?
Did you know that a listing on eBay led to the discovery of a new species ?
Did you know that award-winning Indonesian film director Teguh Karya directed numerous romances, but never married?
Did you know that the Chennakesava Perumal Temple in Chennai , India, is dedicated to Chennakesava Perumal , the patron deity of the city?
Did you know that New Zealand trade union leader Tom Skinner was manager of the 1960 New Zealand national rugby league team 's tour to Britain?
Did you know that David Lynch experimented with backwards speech for Eraserhead before deciding to use it in " Episode 2 " of Twin Peaks ?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that Katia Plaschka , "quite accurately described as a high soprano, sings music of stratospheric difficulty" when performing Luigi Nono 's music?
Did you know that after the English Civil War , a statue of King Charles I was hidden by a metalsmith whilst he sold cutlery that he claimed was made from its melted-down metal?
Did you know that the venom of the lesser Asian scorpion contains proteins that are toxic to Plasmodium falciparum , a pathogenic parasite that causes malaria in humans?
Did you know that Brian Epstein was so angered that The Beatles were paid in loose change for a gig at the Aintree Institute , he never booked with the venue's promoter again?
Did you know that Markus Flaig brought Handel's darkness and great light to St. Martin, Idstein ?
Did you know that Ali Jawad al-Sheikh was killed when he was allegedly hit by a tear gas canister during protests after an initial government crackdown in Bahrain?
Did you know that Bach structures his cantata movement Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben, BWV 77 , on the Great Commandment by a canon of trumpet and continuo on a chorale on the Ten Commandments ?
Did you know that Yrkingar by Janus Djurhuus was the first collection of a Faroese poet's works to be published?
Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct bulldog ant Macabeemyrma ovata is the fossilized remains of an adult queen preserved in shale ?
Did you know that the Bright Copper , Fiery Copper and Clouded Footman can be found on the prickly box in Australia?
Did you know that the owners of Potato Valley Cafe , located in Annapolis, Maryland , are not worried about competition because no other restaurant serves only potatoes ?
Did you know that while preparing for the air assault over the River Rhine , the commanders of the 3rd Parachute Brigade were told to expect almost a third of their strength to become casualties?
Did you know that members of the Queensland Shearers Union and British Seamen's Union blockaded wool bales produced by non-union shearers in Brisbane in 1890?
Did you know that Amnesty International has described Fiji 's Essential National Industries (Employment) Decree 2011 as "a breathtaking abuse of fundamental rights"?
Did you know that The Shirelles singer Shirley Owens made her voice sound almost off-tune to sound innocent in the sexually charged single " Tonight's the Night "?
Did you know that Barney Gilligan died on April Fools' Day ?
Did you know that if Go Vacation players get bored of scuba diving they can throw pies at each other?
Did you know that the Rędziński Bridge , a recently constructed cable-stayed bridge spanning the Oder river in Wrocław , is the tallest and longest bridge in Poland?
Did you know that although Daniel is portrayed as a young man by Rubens in his depiction of Daniel in the lions' den , Daniel would have been over eighty according to biblical chronology?
Did you know that astronomers have discovered a real-life " Tatooine "?
Did you know that actor Holter Graham lived in Baltimore, Maryland , while growing up, but spent summers on a Montana cattle ranch?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Anil Kumble took 37 five-wicket hauls and is only the second player to take 10 wickets in an innings after Jim Laker ?
Did you know that Sekar Ayu Asmara 's directorial debut, The Stringless Violin , with "pat" dialogue and "illogical" scenes, was submitted for an Oscar ?
Did you know that the architect of the Houses of Parliament initially objected to a statue of Richard the Lionheart being placed nearby?
Did you know that the Great Famine in Greece during the Axis occupation is claimed to be the worst famine that Greeks have experienced since ancient times ?
Did you know that Miró named a painting Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement because of something Rembrandt said?
Did you know that Jim Hunter is the first Canadian male skier to win a medal in the World Championships for alpine skiing ?
Did you know that Kirsopp Lake published the text of the Codex Sinaiticus ?
Did you know that during the 1967 Six-Day War , Israel's 147 Squadron flew the lightly armed Fouga Magister trainer in combat, losing six aircraft and pilots?
Did you know that Marie Antoinette 's favorite hairdresser , Leonard, designed a hairstyle called the loge d'opera that towered five feet upon the wearer's head?
Did you know that the breakaway North America Vishwa Kannada Association was formed in March 2009 by 7 founder members of the Association of Kannada Kootas of America and 25 others?
Did you know that in 1737 cooper Charles Milsom discovered a spring in Lyncombe, Bath , while fixing a fishpond, and styled himself as a doctor to market the spring water for its health-giving properties?
Did you know that Argentina stayed neutral during most of World War II , and declared war on the Axis powers on March 27, 1945?
Did you know that even after Hurricane Estelle dissipated, rain continued over Hawaii for three days?
Did you know that the controversial novel Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen gave its name to a literary movement in Norway in the 1880s?
Did you know that Lady Gaga embarked early on her 2009–11 Monster Ball Tour due to the cancellation of her Fame Kills tour with Kanye West ?
Did you know that, though it owes much in design to the Royal Crescent in Bath , Buxton Crescent is said to be "more richly decorated and altogether more complex"?
Did you know that Junior Hemingway was expected to be the biggest beneficiary of the 2011 Michigan Wolverines football team 's decision to switch to a pro-style offense from a spread offense ?
Did you know that the Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album was earned in 2009 by Draco Rosa for his album Teatro ?
Did you know that Wojciech Pietranik was told to replace the Sydney Opera House with the Roman Colosseum in his design for the Sydney 2000 Olympic medals ?
Did you know that Bagsværd Church , designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon , has a vault made from concrete shells spanning 17 metres (56 ft)?
Did you know that most of the habitat of the vulnerable tree Eucalyptus benthamii has disappeared under Warragamba Dam or been cleared?
Did you know that 1995 College Football All-America Team selection Heath Irwin is the nephew of World Golf Hall of Fame member Hale Irwin ?
Did you know that despite reports that they played so badly their set was cut short, The Beatles ' first performance at Lathom Hall led to a number of future bookings there, earning them the 2005 equivalent of £120 per concert?
Did you know that Steve Crosby was named the National Football League 's top special teams coach in 2007 and developed the league's most accurate kicker of all-time?
Did you know that the report National Science Foundation: Under the Microscope , by US Senator Tom Coburn , has generated controversy for portraying much scientific research as "silly"?
Did you know that Jin Guangping , Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun , three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script , are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor ?
Did you know that A Day in the Life is an internet television documentary web series produced by Morgan Spurlock that represents Hulu 's first original long-form programming venture?
Did you know that Eduar Villanueva set a Venezuelan national record while competing in the men's 1500m event during the World Championships in Athletics held earlier this month in Daegu , South Korea ?
Did you know that Mircea Florian , seen as one of the four leading protest singers in Communist Romania in his folk rock years, pioneered minimal music in his career as a computer scientist?
Did you know that Sericothrips staphylinus were released as part of biological control of gorse in New Zealand , but have not spread far because too few of them have wings?
Did you know that there were over a dozen Zaporozhian Cossacks uprisings against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire ?
Did you know that Iowa politician James B. Weaver wrote in 1912 that the current Jasper County Courthouse in Newton, Iowa , will last "long after the pages of the county's history are worn and turned yellow"?
Did you know that the Burrunan dolphin is only the third new dolphin species to be recognized since the late 19th century?
Did you know that some fans of the National Football League 's San Diego Chargers have played the team's fight song at their weddings?
Did you know that only weeks after Hurricane Celia devastated southern Texas in 1970 , residents had to evacuate again when Hurricane Ella threatened?
Did you know that of the three described species in the Eocene bulldog ant genus Avitomyrmex , one species is known only from worker caste individuals?
Did you know that Amos P. Catlin authored the law that made Sacramento the permanent capital of California ?
Did you know that Norsemen made vows at Yule on the bristles of a sacrificial boar ?
Did you know that water-filled holes in the trunk of Platypodium elegans are an important habitat for the larvae of giant damselflies ?
Did you know that William Butler Yeats loathed Robin de la Condamine 's performance in his The Shadowy Waters , but could not fire him because all the actors were working for free?
Did you know that Prince Mahidol used to teach medicine at Windsor Palace before it was demolished to make way for the National Stadium ?
Did you know that John Danowski coached the Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse team to its first NCAA national championship in 2010?
Did you know that inhaling spores from the devil's snuff-box can cause the respiratory disease lycoperdonosis ?
Did you know that during Operation Hasty in Italy, a German division was kept in reserve because of the presence of 60 British parachutists?
Did you know that Henry P. Moulton appointed William H. Lewis to serve as the first African-American Assistant United States Attorney ?
Did you know that about 12,000 local people died during clearance of the oil concession Block 5A in Unity State , South Sudan?
Did you know that the editor of the Tribune , Richard Clements , was accused of being a Soviet agent?
Did you know that in 2008, Thuraya Alzaabi became the first female athlete to represent the United Arab Emirates at the Paralympics ?
Did you know that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region ?
Did you know that for the production of the upcoming U2 documentary, From the Sky Down , director Davis Guggenheim was given full access to the band's archives?
Did you know that The Straits Times criticized the Singapore Port Authority for refusing its reporter access to the tanker Norse Commander when it caught fire?
Did you know that the Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album was awarded in 2008 to Rodolfo ?
Did you know that the 1773 French satirical drawing of the First Partition of Poland , The Troelfth Cake , was banned in several European countries?
Did you know that Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel in Robertsbridge was founded by a "mystical Micawber "?
Did you know that the Dorrigo waratah and its relatives have had red terminal flowers for over sixty million years?
Did you know that Ottoman officer Ahmed Niyazi Bey never lived to see his estate, the Saraj , completed?
Did you know that Darlenys Obregón helped set a national record in the 4 × 100 metres relay in 2005?
Did you know that a former owner of Ascog House on the Isle of Bute kept a litter of pigs in his bedroom?
Did you know that some of the proceeds from the 2009 album Connie Talbot's Holiday Magic went to Toys for Tots ?
Did you know that Indonesian singer Ari Lasso quit smoking after his son hid his cigarettes?
Did you know that Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton owned the world's largest collection of boxing fight films?
Did you know that DreamWorks plans to produce at least three films in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise ?
Did you know that the 400,000-ton Valemax ships are the largest bulk carriers ever built?
Did you know that the theft of a saddlebag from the Sioux City Public Museum in 1996 may have been part of a string of museum thefts which involved stealing Native American artifacts ?
Did you know that Turtagrø was the location for the first climbing school in Norway ?
Did you know that Bruce Timm , the producer of the animated film adaptation Batman: Year One , said that adapting the comic story arc was straightforward since the original story was already cinematic?
Did you know that former Idaho Vandals basketball player Orlando Lightfoot once scored 50 of his team's 69 points in a game?
Did you know that Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Uttar Pradesh, India, is the world's first university which is exclusively for the disabled?
Did you know that concert organist Zsolt Gárdonyi played his father 's Partita " Veni Creator Spiritus " along with his own jazzy Mozart Changes at the Marktkirche ?
Did you know that Mick the Miller has been called "the world's most famous Greyhound "?
Did you know that the vicar of St John the Baptist's Church, Allington in Wiltshire was engaged to Cassandra , sister of Jane Austen , but he died before he could marry her?
Did you know that according to Slow Food experts, the Bulgarian Cherni Vit green cheese is the only traditional mold cheese produced in the Balkans?
Did you know that the Mississippi restaurant Mammy's Cupboard , built in the shape of a woman, has been said to resemble Aunt Jemima ?
Did you know that Eris is the first successful detailed simulation of a Milky Way -like galaxy ?
Did you know that John Hearne was so important in drafting the 1937 Constitution of Ireland that he was referred to as the Irish Thomas Jefferson ?
Did you know that the freehold for Michelin starred restaurant Club Gascon is owned by homeless charity Centrepoint ?
Did you know that, three days before his death in a plane crash , Chilean journalist Roberto Bruce replaced the host of a breakfast programme for the first time?
Did you know that printed solar panels can be printed on ordinary untreated paper at a cost similar to that of inkjet printing ?
Did you know that by sponsoring the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in Windhoek (1975–1977), the South African government attempted to quell armed resistance waged by the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ?
Did you know that the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad offered "millions of acres" of cheap land as a motivation for settlers to move to Iowa and Nebraska in 1872?
Did you know that when Jane Colebrook won the 800 metres race at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in San Sebastián , Spain, she set a British indoor record that would stand for 26 years?
Did you know that one species of the extinct Eocene bulldog ant Ypresiomyrma reached up to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) in length?
Did you know that Carl Sagan worked with the US Air Force on detonating a nuclear device on the Moon ?
Did you know that The Secret of the Nagas was in such high demand before its release that 80,000 copies of the book were pre-ordered?
Did you know that Wenderholm Regional Park includes a house built by Sir Robert Graham ?
Did you know that after trying out with the Sacramento Kings in the NBA Summer League , forward Marquin Chandler signed with the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs ?
Did you know that Graham Waterhouse composed the piano trio Bei Nacht (At Night) , inspired by a Kandinsky oil painting entitled Nacht ?
Did you know that ancient scholars considered the Mutiny at Sucro the most important event of Scipio Africanus ' early military career?
Did you know that M-78 , a state highway in Michigan , was extended several times and converted into a freeway , but now follows its original 1919 routing?
Did you know that musicologists Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe wrote a Grieg biography in 1980 that was later translated into English, German, and Russian?
Did you know that in addition to serving as Lizzie Borden 's defense attorney, Melvin O. Adams was a U.S. Attorney and a railroad executive?
Did you know that Rob Feaster is the Patriot League 's all-time men's basketball scoring leader, yet still only ranks second at his own school ?
Did you know that the exceptional Holstein sire Carlin M Ivanhoe Bell passed on the genes for both good milk production and complex vertebral malformation , a lethal genetic disorder?
Did you know that Louise Casey , a British civil servant known for being outspoken, once said that "doing things sober is no way to get things done"?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC will face the Chicago Fire in the 2011 U.S. Open Cup Final on October 4 , 2011, for a chance to three-peat as champion?
Did you know that a review of " The Rise of the Blue Beetle! " said that it is not for people who dislike "wormholes, single-cell organisms and evil intergalactic pirates being mentioned in the same breath as Batman "?
Did you know that in 1899, Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Bates lost 18 of 19 games while making "a circus-like assortment of pitching mistakes"?
Did you know that the world's smallest electric motor is made up of a single molecule and can be driven at up to one million revolutions per second?
Did you know that the Calabar River was a major conduit of supply for the Atlantic slave trade ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball outfielder George Bristow once won 23 consecutive games as a pitcher in the minor leagues?
Did you know that there is a community of over 20,000 recent African migrants in a concentrated area in Guangzhou , China?
Did you know that East Timor made its debut in the Asian Games in 2002 , just four months after its declaration of independence?
Did you know that science fiction author Lisa Tuttle is the only person to have refused a Nebula Award ?
Did you know that Gevra mine in India's Korba Coalfield has been described as the largest open cast mine in Asia and has reported a record daily production of 100,000 tonnes ?
Did you know that Getic king Dromichaetes defeated and captured Lysimachus , a former general of Alexander the Great ?
Did you know that prior to its reconstruction, the Sioux Narrows Bridge , located along Ontario Highway 71 , featured the longest single span of a wooden bridge in North America, at 64 metres (210 ft)?
Did you know that the last song on El Mundo Cabe en Una Canción is a tribute to singer-songwriter Fito Páez 's hometown ?
Did you know that the old YMCA building in Albany, New York , hosted the first basketball game played away from Springfield College , where the sport was developed?
Did you know that the lyrics of Baldur , the début album of the Icelandic Viking / folk metal band Skálmöld , are written in the dróttkvætt style?
Did you know that Cheap Trick guitarist and songwriter Rick Nielsen got the idea for the song " Hello There " from Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera ?
Did you know that rally driver Michèle Mouton and her all-female team won their class at the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
Did you know that the frilled anemone may be eaten by the shag rug nudibranch ?
Did you know that Captain William Lechmere missed the chance to command a ship at the Battle of Trafalgar by a single week?
Did you know that the thin-leaved stringybark is so named as the bark fibres can be peeled off the trunk in strings?
Did you know that after moving into the Bethesda Home for Boys at age seven, current San Francisco 49er Demarcus Dobbs moved in with his high school football coach's family in 2005?
Did you know that, according to specialist midwife Comfort Momoh , 74,000 women living in the UK in 2000 had undergone female genital mutilation ?
Did you know that fossils of the extinct reptile Acallosuchus were found in a cigar box in 1983?
Did you know that part of the Great Wall of China is submerged in the reservoir formed by the construction of the Panjiakou Dam in Hebei Province , and sometimes it re-emerges during droughts?
Did you know that in his first career start for Notre Dame , defensive end Ronald Talley recorded seven tackles?
Did you know that an 1869 decision to use earthquake-resistant timber construction led to St Michael's Church being the only Christchurch Central City Anglican church in use after the 2011 earthquake ?
Did you know that AP Columbae , the closest young star known, formed after the dinosaurs became extinct?
Did you know that Robert Graves was in charge of aliens at the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works ?
Did you know that the song " He's a Whore ", originally performed by Cheap Trick , is not just about sex?
Did you know that the sea anemone Adamsia palliata growing on the exterior of a gastropod shell inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus prideaux is capable of enlarging the shell to better accommodate the crab inside?
Did you know that the trumpet plays the chorale melody in Bach 's cantata Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137 , in C major within an aria in A minor in "a battle for harmonic supremacy"?
Did you know that Ronald Ngala led the Kenya African Democratic Union political party from its creation until its dissolution?