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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 ?
Did you know that the European great raft spider eats small fish and tadpoles ?
Did you know that because of the Rwandan Genocide , Air Rwanda stopped operating domestic flights within Rwanda in 1994?
Did you know that comedian Will Arnett starred alongside his real-life wife Amy Poehler in the Parks and Recreation episode, " The Set-Up "?
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?
Did you know00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that the tail of the Indonesian Long-tailed Starling can be longer than its body?
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 ?
Did you know that Afro-Abkhazians may be related to the descendants of Ethiopian Jews , and place names of Abkhazia resemble those in Ethiopia?
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"?
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 ?
Did you know that Making Our Economy Right , a free market think tank in Bangladesh , was established in 1991 by Nizam Ahmad?
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?
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 ?
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°?
Did you know that the German chemist Lorenz von Crell published the first periodical focusing on chemistry in 1778?
Did you know that no man could own stock in the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association ?
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"?
Did you know that Mertens' Water Monitors are threatened by poisoning from eating Cane Toads ?
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 ?
Did you know that Bertrand Tavernier's 1996 film Capitaine Conan is based on a 1934 novel by Roger Vercel?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that Saint Indract of Glastonbury was the subject of a lost work by William of Malmesbury ?
Did you know that the hand-cranked Saugatuck River Bridge is the oldest surviving movable bridge in the U.S. state of Connecticut ?
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?
Did you know that the Office of Thrift Supervision was the primary regulator for American International Group when it needed a bailout?
Did you know that the mushroom Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus has been described as "beautiful, but bitter-tasting"?
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 ?
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?
Did you know00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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 ?
Did you know that the early-February 1995 winter storm was the only major nor'easter of the 1994–1995 winter?
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?
Did you know that after winning the 1960 general election in Burma , premier-elect U Nu said, "I guess people like us"?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that in 1925 the Labour and Socialist International urged the League of Nations to accept the Rif Republic as a member?
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?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that The West Wing actor Dule Hill voiced the audiobook of Jacqueline Woodson 's young adult novel Miracle’s Boys ?
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?
Did you know that former Northern Ireland footballer Phil Hughes is the only goalkeeper ever to have won international caps while playing for Bury ?
Did you know that early humans inhabited the area surrounding Aransas Bay as early as 6,000 to 8,000 years ago?
Did you know that Calgary Flames ' defenceman Adam Pardy grew up in Bonavista, Newfoundland , a town of about 3,800 people?
Did you know that Cryptothallus mirabilis is the only bryophyte that grows underground and obtains all its nutrients by parasitizing a fungus?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you know that poker tool software program SitNGo Wizard has a quiz mode that serves as poker 's electronic analogue to flash cards ?
Did you know that Sir John Gurney first rose to fame as a barrister within two months of qualifying ?
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?
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?
Did you know00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
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?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Sinop was the first large warship to use triple expansion steam engines ?
Did you know that Arne Kjelstrup from the Norwegian heavy water sabotage team also participated in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that the Yantai , blackish , and Chinese stingrays are the three most commonly sold stingrays in China ?
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?
Did you know that actress Naya Rivera from the musical comedy series Glee had a talent agent before she was even one year old?
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?
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?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
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 ?
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?
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"?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that Knut Getz Wold served as a State Secretary in a Labour Party cabinet despite belonging to the Liberal Party ?
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? "?
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?
Did you know00, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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?
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 ?
Did you know that Admiral John Elliot transported the members of the Carlisle Peace Commission to North America ?
Did you know that the freshwater whipray is the only Australian stingray restricted to fresh and brackish water ?
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?
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"?
Did you know that despite the masculine pen name , British author George Paston was a woman?
Did you know that Calvisius Sabinus and Marcius Censorinus were the only two senators who tried to defend Julius Caesar during his assassination ?
Did you know that the John Tigard House in Tigard, Oregon , was moved and is still listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Queensland produces 94% of Australia's sugar ?
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 ?
Did you know that in a plebiscite of June 18, 1950, 57% of the people in North Rhine-Westphalia ratified its new constitution ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you know that the Anemone hupehensis is often called the Japanese anemone, but is actually native to China ?
Did you know that the Bethany settlement house in Laredo , Texas , serves nearly 300,000 free meals annually to the homeless and other indigent?
Did you know that Shmuel Rechtman was the first member of the Knesset to be sent to prison?
Did you know that the marathon course at the 1972 Summer Olympics was designed to represent the first Olympic mascot , Waldi ?
Did you know that Cake Man Raven baked the world's tallest wedding cake and unveiled it on Good Morning America in 2005?
Did you know that Craig Biggio , a first-round draft pick of the Houston Astros , is a member of the 3000 hit club ?
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?
Did you know that using a dynamic aspect weaver has been shown to improve the performance of aspect-oriented software by 26%?
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 ?
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?
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"?
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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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 ?
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"?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that in 1194, one of the taxes in medieval England imposed a 25% tax on all personal property and income?
Did you know that several publications, including GamePro and IGN , consider Jade to be one of video games' greatest heroines?
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that Harrytown Catholic High School originated as a convent school within the 250 year old Harrytown Hall ?
Did you know that the oil spill which spread from the Wei River to the Yellow River was ultimately contained in the Sanmenxia reservoir?
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?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that Haim Bar Lev said that the Battle of Nirim decided the outcome of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
Did you know that the Dickson Tavern is the oldest building in Erie , Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that publishers at first considered Nora Roberts ' debut novel Irish Thoroughbred to be too ethnic because the heroine was from Ireland ?
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?
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?
Did you know that Harrington Bridge is a listed building , except for the central section which crosses the River Trent into Derbyshire, England ?
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"?
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"?
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?
Did you know that before it was scientifically described , the stingray Dasyatis acutirostra was often confused with Dasyatis zugei ?
Did you know that in 1883, Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann discovered how to synthesise amides from amines and acid chlorides ?
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?
Did you know that with the Peace of Travendal , Sweden forced Denmark-Norway out of the Great Northern War in the first war year?
Did you know that Ashley Madison is an online dating service for people currently in a relationship who wish to cheat on their partners?
Did you know00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that after a meeting in 1940, the English Judges' Council did not meet for another 10 years?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that Charles Gray was one of the original trustees of the British Museum ?
Did you know that no more than 250 mature northern river sharks are estimated to live in the wild?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that the Will & Grace episode " Fagel Attraction " was actor Michael Douglas ' first television acting role in almost thirty years?
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?
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?