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Did you know that when the Disley Tunnel was constructed, the navvies used 24 simultaneous working faces?
Did you know that biochemist Harvey Itano , who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease , was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences ?
Did you know that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan , the Bakhshali manuscript , the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics , was discovered written on birch bark ?
Did you know that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?
Did you know that Jōmon Sugi , located on the island of Yakushima , is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan ?
Did you know that Sir Ian Freeland was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles ?
Did you know that Harold Lloyd's Estate , called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
Did you know that Georg Prahl Harbitz , a priest by education, served as President of the Norwegian Parliament for ten terms?
Did you know that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?
Did you know that Matsukata Kojiro , president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation , implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
Did you know that thousands of Flat Daddies , life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan , have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
Did you know that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham , Balthazar Foster had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?
Did you know that Dick Jones , a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee , also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
Did you know that Cooleemee , a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?
Did you know that Abandon 's music was first discovered when a record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door?
Did you know that phasmophobia is a fear of ghosts ?
Did you know that Holton Windmill did not have a fantail when it was a working mill?
Did you know that Halloween in the Castro , San Francisco 's gay village , started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
Did you know that Lars Andreas Oftedahl , member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, was also a renowned speaker?
Did you know that the Mother Shipton Moth is named after the likeness of the legendary witch Ursula Southeil on its wings?
Did you know that the high school quiz competition Brain Game has aired on local television in Indianapolis since 1972?
Did you know that in The Fairy's Dilemma , Victorian dramatist W. S. Gilbert parodied the harlequinade , a genre that had fascinated him since childhood?
Did you know that the wife of sawmill owner Julius Nicolai Jacobsen was said to haunt their house in Fredrikstad, Norway after she died?
Did you know that some types of vampire moth can bite and drink human blood ?
Did you know that Utu Abe Malae and the American Samoa Power Authority received an award from the Mayor of Honolulu for their policies promoting sustainable development ?
Did you know that millions of children participate in Halloween -related fundraising events for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF , a program that has raised over US$188 million worldwide?
Did you know that using the memory of his late sister as motivation, Tyler Sloan made his National Hockey League debut on October 21 after seven years in the minor leagues?
Did you know that Harold Owen claimed the ghost of his brother, the poet Wilfred Owen , appeared to him on board HMS Astraea a week after Wilfred's death?
Did you know that candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween?
Did you know that the Convention on the Continental Shelf codified international law relating to continental shelves during the first United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ?
Did you know that The Witchery of Archery , written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
Did you know that David J. Skal and Elias Savada wrote the first book-length biography of Tod Browning , who directed the films Dracula and Freaks ?
Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10 seaplane was a military trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service , and served from 1929 until the 1940 German invasion of Norway ?
Did you know that the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England ?
Did you know that the Northern River Street Historic District is a well-preserved transitional neighborhood between the industrial and commercial areas of Troy, New York ?
Did you know that the Norwegian film Cold Prey 2 was the sequel to what was called "the best slasher flick " of 2006?
Did you know that Luther Prentice Bradley , a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War , was severely wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade?
Did you know that Captain Abu Raed , Jordan 's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , is the first Jordanian feature film made in over 50 years?
Did you know that three of the last four U.S. Presidents have been left-handed , as are both major party candidates for the 2008 election ?
Did you know that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922 , less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain ?
Did you know that as founder and former chairman of Primedia , Bill Reilly built a publishing firm with more than 200 magazines , including American Baby , National Hog Farmer , Chicago and New York ?
Did you know that the proposed Macau security law would make treason punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War , the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong hung buckets of mud with urine in trees to thwart American people sniffers ?
Did you know that key relevance is a locksmithing term that refers to the measurable difference between an original key and a copy made of that key?
Did you know that the winner of the 2008 United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands will be the very first Congressional delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands ?
Did you know that despite being built for the Spanish Navy , the frigate Santa Margarita spent just five years in service with them, but served for nearly 60 years with the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan ?
Did you know that Vince Naimoli , founding owner of the Tampa Bay Rays , contributed US$1 million in 2007 for the construction of a baseball complex at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey ?
Did you know that Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve , now a protected area in Estonia , used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era ?
Did you know that British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis , in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer -husband?
Did you know that during the 1990 ethnic clashes in Osh between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks , 5,000 crimes were committed?
Did you know that no football team in Berlin was declared the winner of the Berlin Cup in 1969 because the penalty shootout was not yet introduced and the finalists were unable to schedule a re-match after a draw ?
Did you know that 2.2 million people participated in the U.S. 2008 Kids Pick the President event held by the Nickelodeon TV network?
Did you know that Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul , built in 1927 as a musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?
Did you know that mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
Did you know that the Apple Valley Airport near Buxton, Oregon , was built by Portland, Oregon TV personality Ramblin' Rod Anders ?
Did you know that the Global Health Council is an international membership alliance of public health professionals in more than 100 countries?
Did you know that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky , U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James ?
Did you know that Russian -born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
Did you know that in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat ?
Did you know that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep 's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint?
Did you know that Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited , an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold , was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao ?
Did you know that between 1874 and 1884, Norwegian politician Jens Holmboe was the head of four different government ministries , each on at least two occasions, the tenure ending with impeachment ?
Did you know that the Delmar post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola ?
Did you know that an intense rivalry between composers Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Emilio Arrieta helped rekindle the popularity of Spanish opera during the mid 19th century?
Did you know that USS Philippines (CB-4) and USS Puerto Rico (CB-5) were scheduled to be the fourth and fifth of six Alaska -class "large cruisers" of the U.S. Navy , but were canceled prior to construction?
Did you know that tin(IV) fluoride , a chemical compound of tin and fluorine , is used in toothpaste to prevent dental decay ?
Did you know that the largest group of Asian residents in Germany are Vietnamese , totalling 83,526 people as of 2004?
Did you know that Against All Odds is a video game developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees designed to teach players about the plight of refugees ?
Did you know that Dorothy Miner was acknowledged as the person "who helped establish the legal right to designate landmarks" in the U.S. for her role in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City ?
Did you know that at any given time, the United States holds as many as 31,000 illegal immigrants in administrative detention while they await removal proceedings?
Did you know that in Anyang, Gyeonggi , South Korea , a road sings the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb " to passing car drivers on the road?
Did you know that at the time of her completion in 1918, American cargo ship West Lianga held the distinction of being both the fastest- launched and the fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
Did you know that production on the 1969 Fred Zinnemann film Man's Fate was canceled one week before shooting was to begin?
Did you know that Australia Post took over the postal service on Christmas Island in 1993 and promised to issue Christmas stamps ?
Did you know that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White ?
Did you know that in 874, Byzantine admiral Niketas Oryphas hauled his ships overland over the Isthmus of Corinth in order to catch an Arab fleet by surprise and defeated it?
Did you know that Stanley Kubrick dismissed his 1953 film Fear and Desire as "a bumbling amateur film exercise"?
Did you know that in 1930/31, John Stephenson made 117 runs and took six wickets for the Europeans cricket team to guide the European side to an innings victory against the Indians cricket team ?
Did you know that Nettleship-Falls syndrome , the most common type of ocular albinism , may be caused by recessive mutations in the X chromosome ?
Did you know that in 1961, Bishop of Hamar Kristian Schjelderup ordained the first female priest in the Church of Norway ?
Did you know that many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist , Stirnerite wing?
Did you know that Julio A. Garcia , called a "legal lion" by his hometown newspaper in Laredo , Texas , once broke a bone while passionately defending a client in court?
Did you know that up to 78 percent of 1,016 leading political figures in post-Soviet Russia have served previously in organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence services like the KGB ?
Did you know that former Ohio House of Representatives minority whip and current U.S. House candidate Steve Driehaus coordinated the largest U.S. professional exchange program with the "new" South Africa ?
Did you know that the Tamil film Meera based on the life of poetess - saint Mirabai was filmed at the actual places which Mirabai had visited on her pilgrimage?
Did you know that Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion , after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan , co-founder of the Israeli – Palestinian Council?
Did you know that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.12 , the last trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the intended replacement of the 1920s Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.8 , was only built in a prototype before the German invasion of Norway halted work?
Did you know that before becoming mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers , and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects?
Did you know that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15?
Did you know that the unusual breeding season of the Monteiro's Storm-petrel was the first clue that led to the cryptic species ' recent discovery by scientists?
Did you know that in the eight seasons he played Major League Baseball , Harry Schafer played for six teams that won the league championship?
Did you know that the cost of operating mine ventilation fans can account for one-third of the entire electrical power cost for a typical underground mine ?
Did you know that prior to Singapore 's first Formula One race in 2008 , the last running of the Singapore Grand Prix was as a non-championship race run to Australian Formula Two rules in 1973 ?
Did you know that because Seattle 's Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set?
Did you know that women baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India ?
Did you know that Mike and Janet Huckabee became the first governor and spouse to run on the same ballot for state office in the 2002 Arkansas gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Qiao Lin was both born and executed on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar ?
Did you know that three of the Texas Rangers ' Opening Day starting pitchers have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
Did you know that Indian indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla once worked as a maid to pay her way through University?
Did you know that although the freshwater snail Valvata piscinalis is widely distributed in some parts of North America where it is non-indigenous , it is endangered in some of its native areas?
Did you know that Anna Elinor Jones was jailed as an accused Confederate spy due to being involved in a dispute between Union generals George Armstrong Custer and H. Judson Kilpatrick ?
Did you know that Morelia spilota spilota , the Diamond python, of East Gippsland live at the highest altitude of any python ?
Did you know that best-selling author Laurence Leamer , author of The Kennedy Women , spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment ?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of Israel judge Yoel Zussman was awarded the Israel Prize in 1975 for his contributions to Israeli law ?
Did you know that Paal Brekke has been called the father of modernism in Norway ?
Did you know that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty official Cui Youfu had a dispute with his superior Chang Gun over whether a mother cat allowing a mouse to live with her constituted a sign of good fortune or ill fortune?
Did you know that USS Samoa (CB-6) was scheduled to be the last of six Alaska -class "large cruisers" built for the United States Navy , but was canceled prior to construction?
Did you know that during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
Did you know that The Best Little Girl in the World , a 1981 film about anorexia nervosa , was back in the news in 1983 when performer Karen Carpenter died of complications from the same disorder?
Did you know that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?
Did you know that the earliest references to the hill station of Kodaikanal had been made in works of Sangam literature ?
Did you know that a former White House media manager was hired to make the political television comedy Running Mates more realistic?
Did you know that Bloodhound SSC is a pencil-shaped car powered by a jet engine and a rocket being designed to travel at approximately 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h )?
Did you know that Mickey Rooney won a Golden Globe Award in 1964 for his ABC sitcom Mickey ?
Did you know that Australian politician Greg Pearce was a director of Clean Up the World ?
Did you know that the world's shortest scheduled air route once was from Perth Airport to Rottnest Island Airport , a distance of 32 kilometres (20 mi)?
Did you know that actress-singer Anabela , who represented Portugal in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest , just finished playing the role of Maria von Trapp in the Portuguese production of The Sound of Music ?
Did you know that U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 miles (174 km) across Iowa to the Wisconsin border?
Did you know that former Governor of the Bank of England and Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett 's country house, Kew Palace , was subsequently sold to the Royal Family ?
Did you know that American Student Assistance is the oldest guarantor of student loans in the United States?
Did you know that Moshe Landau , who presided over the Eichmann Trial as a Supreme Court of Israel judge, later headed a commission that investigated the Israel Security Agency ?
Did you know that although the official government death toll of the 1997 Ardabil earthquake was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege by another general, Liu Qia?
Did you know that four of the candidates for either Governor or Lt. Governor in the 2008 American Samoa gubernatorial elections have ancestral ties to the Manu'a Islands ?
Did you know that charges of firebombing department stores against four Ecuadoreans were dismissed after the NYPD corroborated information first printed in articles by Paul L. Montgomery in The New York Times ?
Did you know that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality ?
Did you know that Gorillaz received four nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards for their song " Feel Good Inc. ", winning the award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ?
Did you know that the Lind Coulee Archaeological Site provided the first evidence of ancient human occupation of Washington , U.S.?
Did you know that Ewan Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the first Australian chief justice to stop using ceremonial court robes?
Did you know that three 1972 Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania were each awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the university in 1973?
Did you know that The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show , a western variety and comedy series , was cancelled by ABC in 1962 after 13 weeks?
Did you know that Danish -born jurist Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was disqualified from the Norwegian Parliament in 1824, having previously accepted a personal payment from the King ?
Did you know that the rock band Matchbox Twenty received two Grammy Award nominations in 2004?
Did you know that the current Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa , Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia , is the younger brother of the late Governor Tauese Sunia ?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's 2005 song " Hollaback Girl " received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards , and won the award for Best Choreography ?
Did you know that PK Dwyer is credited with forming the first-ever street band to busk at Pike Place Market , Seattle , Washington ?
Did you know that the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?
Did you know that Moshe Smoira , the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel , was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire ?
Did you know that the Higginbotham's , based in Chennai , is India 's oldest bookstore in existence?
Did you know that Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne , professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo , was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang ?
Did you know that Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted ?
Did you know that Henry Tsang was the first Asian-Australian to be Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney ?
Did you know that Washington State Route 8 , which currently runs from Elma to Olympia , originally used the current route of U.S. Route 12 from Elma to Grand Mound , from 1964 until 1967?
Did you know that exhibition drag racer Wild Bill Shrewsberry drove the drag racing replica of the Batmobile from the popular 1966 American television series Batman ?
Did you know that there have been 28 New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty due to a criminal act?
Did you know that the monastic goldsmith Spearhafoc became Bishop-elect of London in 1051, but absconded abroad with a large treasure after his consecration was prevented?
Did you know that SearchFox , a website that offers personalized RSS feeds, was co-founded by James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor and former dean of the university's School of Engineering ?
Did you know that Bill Cunningham 's lucky street photograph of Greta Garbo in 1978 has led to a 30-year career with The New York Times ?
Did you know that the Prussian state railways was the largest German company by number of employees in 1907 ?
Did you know that upcoming film Afterwards is shot entirely in English , despite being written and directed by Frenchman Gilles Bourdos , adapted from a French novel and co-produced by a French production company?
Did you know that Montserrado County is the smallest county in Liberia , but also the most populous?
Did you know that Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin - Portuguese - Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum ?