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Did you know that while one reviewer called the recent Fringe episode " The End of All Things " the best of the season , another remarked that it "failed to make my dinger hum"?
Did you know that the loss of a French column at the Battle of El Herri was blamed on the commander's disobedience of orders?
Did you know that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur , who later wrote The Art of Beowulf , was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?
Did you know that missionaries to the colony of New France welcomed the 1663 Charlevoix earthquake as a miracle rather than a disaster?
Did you know that the W. B. Thompson Mansion in Yonkers, New York , was used as a location for the films A Beautiful Mind , The Royal Tenenbaums and Mona Lisa Smile ?
Did you know that Alicia McCormack , a member of the Australia women's national water polo team , received a bow from Prince William at a Sydney barbecue?
Did you know that terror suspect Amine El Khalifi believed he was in touch with an al-Qaeda operative, but was actually communicating with an FBI agent?
Did you know that the car of Los Angeles Clippers fan Clipper Darrell features the team's colors on the exterior and interior with the team's logo and autographs on the hood?
Did you know that historian Charlotte Zeepvat ' s first book, published in 1998, was about Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany , the haemophiliac youngest son of Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that Australian politician John Hart described William Bloomfield Douglas as a "fool" for wanting the job of Government Resident of the Northern Territory ?
Did you know that the Chuck Berry House is an unusual inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places , in that it is associated with a living person ?
Did you know that dubstep musician James Blake released the three extended plays The Bells Sketch , CMYK , and Klavierwerke in only one year?
Did you know that the New Stables , a building complex in central Berlin , Germany, that had housed the Imperial horses and carriages, later housed revolutionaries in the Christmas Crisis of 1918 ?
Did you know that Olympic athlete Arthur Keily ran over 130 miles (210 km) a week to train for marathons?
Did you know that Italian Renaissance portrait styles reached England through the medium of Brussels tapestry ?
Did you know that Jennifer Worth wrote her bestseller Call the Midwife in response to an article in the British Midwifery Journal , criticising the lack of midwives in literature?
Did you know that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
Did you know that the French military used the " Mikado strategy" during Operation Septentrion in the Uzbin Valley of Afghanistan ?
Did you know that the developer of Volunia , a potential competitor to Google , has said it may represent the "search engine of the future"?
Did you know that one reviewer found several scenes in Millennium 's " The Well-Worn Lock " to be as horrifying as anything he had seen on television?
Did you know that women are encouraged to go topless in public and men are told to cover their chest by wearing bras or bikinis on Go Topless Day , an event to promote the right to go bare-chested for women?
Did you know that the 'R' in the World War II British deception unit R Force was meant to make the Germans believe it was a reconnaissance unit?
Did you know that Australian national team water polo player Hannah Buckling made the Australian junior team after 20 months of serious training with a new coach?
Did you know that through his extensive building works, Sanjar al-Jawli transformed Karak and Gaza into major cities?
Did you know that in August 2000, 37 people were banned from attending matches at Arsenal F.C. 's stadium because of their involvement in the Battle of Copenhagen ?
Did you know that the first Cray-1 was delivered to the customer without a supercomputer operating system ?
Did you know that the work of ornithologist Chandler Robbins helped inspire Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring ?
Did you know that " We Belong Together " won the Academy Award for Best Original Song , but was not nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media ?
Did you know that Meyer Kestnbaum led a business with a long record of peaceful labor relations , and after he died the company and its labor union collaborated on a memorial to him?
Did you know that Sandra Laing was legally declared "coloured" largely on the basis of a pencil test , despite being born of two "white" parents?
Did you know that Millennium 's " Dead Letters " ventures into " Lynchian nightmare territory"?
Did you know that Toby Litt 's novel Journey into Space takes place on board a generation ship ?
Did you know that Bentworth Hall was built in 1832 to replace the former 14th-century hall, now called Hall Place ?
Did you know that John King 's win in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ' 2012 event at Daytona International Speedway was only the third victory of his racing career?
Did you know that Sean Combs ' Revolt , Robert Rodriguez ' El Rey and Magic Johnson 's Aspire are upcoming U.S. ethnic minority-owned television networks that Comcast agreed to promote in order to secure the NBCUniversal acquisition?
Did you know that the T37 rocket could be fired by "Cowcatcher", "Woofus", "Whiz Bang" and "Grand Slam"?
Did you know that a document from the 1960s STRAT-X US nuclear deterrent study was composed from a Soviet perspective, disapproving of capitalism and glorifying socialism ?
Did you know that the 19th-century Fort Widley was later reused as an emergency civil control centre ?
Did you know that the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel , like the sig -runes worn on SS uniforms, stood for Nazi values but were actually inspired by the neopagan occultism of mystic Guido von List ?
Did you know that Australian Stinger Kelsey Wakefield took a year off university in order to try to make the 2012 Summer Olympics in water polo?
Did you know that Australian Stingers Ashleigh Southern , Glencora Ralph , Zoe Arancini , Rowena Webster and Nicola Zagame are five of seventeen water polo players trying to make the 2012 Summer Olympics squad?
Did you know that Druid's Lodge in the parish of Woodford , Wiltshire was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II?
Did you know that there has been a 33% decrease in cars entering Milan 's city center since the Area C congestion charge was introduced?
Did you know that Erkki Kourula was the first Finn to be elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court ?
Did you know that the Limestone Corner area of Hadrian's Wall is not made from limestone ?
Did you know that Caroline Birley 's lifelong love of geology started with stones she collected as a child on family holidays?
Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts ?
Did you know that Rémi Ochlik , who was killed in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs , won the 2012 World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a Libyan rebel fighter?
Did you know that Australian Stinger coach Greg McFadden requires members of the national water polo team to eat every thing on their plates?
Did you know that Margaret Thatcher joked that her statue in the Houses of Parliament should have been made of iron?
Did you know that, until the Los Angeles class , the Sturgeon class was the most-produced class of nuclear-powered warships ?
Did you know that only Reginald Owen , Carleton Hobbs , Jeremy Brett , and Patrick Macnee have portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson professionally, with Macnee portraying Holmes in The Hound of London ?
Did you know that Abidin Bey was the first governor of Egyptian Dongola ?
Did you know that the Swedish Asatru Assembly, now the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly , held a blót at Gamla Uppsala to celebrate the Church of Sweden no longer being the state church ?
Did you know that, since 2011, cash mobs have supported businesses in more than 32 U.S. states and in Canada ?
Did you know that the Thomas Cook European Timetable , in publication since 1873, was called "the most revered and accurate railway reference in existence" by travel guide-book editor Stephen Birnbaum ?
Did you know that by acquiring the commercial division of the Norwegian Mapping Agency , the company now called Nordeca became a market leader in leisure maps in Norway?
Did you know that Orland Kurtenbach was the Vancouver Canucks ' first captain and first member of their Ring of Honour ?
Did you know that a former chapel at Monmouth Cemetery is now used as a genealogy centre?
Did you know that patches of broom crowberry in New Jersey began to sprout seedlings again after an F-16 set them on fire?
Did you know that Pat Hawkins from Perth , Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2,489 km (1,547 mi) in seven days in 1940?
Did you know that many cabanas at 9 Beaches resort in Bermuda feature Plexiglas floors to allow guests to view the ocean below their hotel room?
Did you know that the mint plant largeflower false rosemary has the largest flowers of the genus Conradina ?
Did you know that the largest credit union merger in Michigan history took place in 2008, resulting in the creation of Genisys Credit Union ?
Did you know that the Philippe Starck -designed A has been described as both "the most extraordinary yacht launched in recent memory" and "one of the ghastliest megayachts ever created"?
Did you know that Bay Darnell crashed his race car into Lake Lloyd during an ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway in 1964?
Did you know that the Coimbatore bypass included construction of a 32.2 metres (106 ft) toll bridge over the Noyyal River in India ?
Did you know that the 126-acre Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens , which opened November 15 , 2008, contains 13 separate and distinct ecosystems ?
Did you know that an entire print run of Svetlana Kalinkina 's newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police ?
Did you know that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest ?
Did you know that the Anacostia Community Museum was the first federally funded community museum in the United States?
Did you know that Looking for Madonna , meant to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Papua , used shots of a green bra to symbolise sex?
Did you know that the Jarvis launch vehicle was designed to deliver up to six satellites into different orbits on a single flight?
Did you know that Czech international footballer Jan Suchopárek dislocated his shoulder while attempting a bicycle kick ?
Did you know that the partitioning of the state of Jin , during the reign of Duke Chu , is often considered the start of China's Warring States period ?
Did you know that the Flaming Lips plan to include blood samples from their collaborators in the vinyl edition of their album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends ?
Did you know that Shlomo Moussaieff owns rare gemstones worth millions of dollars, including a flawless blue diamond and the world's largest known red diamond ?
Did you know that Megitza , the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
Did you know that the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup Final player of the match Nicky Shaw only played in the final because a teammate suffered an injury during the warm-up ?
Did you know that numismatist and historian Don Taxay walked away from his career to become a Rajneeshee ?
Did you know that the Costa Chica of Guerrero is one of two regions in Mexico with a significant Afro-Mexican population?
Did you know that the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881 (though partially repealed in 1888 ) still requires dozens of newspapers published in the United Kingdom to be centrally registered?
Did you know that, according to a 2008 book, Kareem Abdul Jabbar doesn't want to blow you up ?
Did you know that Mississippi Highway 198 is the designation given to former alignments of U.S. Highway 98 in the state?
Did you know that Teguh Karya 's film Mother , which won nine Citra Awards , did not turn a profit?
Did you know that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team , the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it?
Did you know that Barry Klarberg manages celebrities including Charlie Sheen , Justin Timberlake and Anna Kournikova ?
Did you know that the midwater squid uses bioluminescence as a camouflage to counter-illuminate its underside to match the sparkling sea surface above?
Did you know that Lachie Neale and Alex Forster, who were both selected by Fremantle in the 2011 Australian Football League Draft , both grew up in Kybybolite , a very small town in south-eastern South Australia?
Did you know that some men find lower-back tattoos on women erotic, but generally avoid the lower back when choosing tattoos for themselves?
Did you know that the mangrove jingle shell has two different colour varieties , but pale specimens normally found on mangrove leaves can darken when moved to the tree 's bark?
Did you know that the popularity of Canadian author David Gilmour 's memoir The Film Club helped him become Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Toronto ?
Did you know that the Indonesian film Get Married was described as contrasting the rich and poor, with the rich being prone to violence?
Did you know that between the start of the competition in 1947 and 1995, the Victorian women's softball team won the Gilleys Shield 22 times?
Did you know that the freeway sections of M-5 , a state highway in Michigan , were originally planned as parts of two different Interstate Highways ?
Did you know that in the 1714 Bach cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen , BWV 12 , the first choral section was described as a " tombeau ... most impressive and deeply affecting"?
Did you know that navigational instrument maker William Spencer signed a contract in which he agreed not to fornicate for seven years?
Did you know that pioneer of rescue archeology John Bailey Shelton was awarded the RSPCA 's Queen Victoria Medal for saving his horses during the Coventry Blitz ?
Did you know that Philip Humber 's April 21, 2012, perfect game was only the 21st in Major League Baseball history dating back to 1869?
Did you know that hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant Sam Wo had the world's rudest waiter and was closed in 2012 for rat feces after 100 years of operating in San Francisco's Chinatown ?
Did you know that the Zanzibar women's national football team has few women's teams to play against and has beaten men's teams?
Did you know that the Kowmung River in New South Wales gained its name from the local aboriginal word for "sore eyes", possibly trachoma ?
Did you know that " These Arms of Mine " was Otis Redding 's first hit single?
Did you know that "gay penguins" Roy and Silo raised a chick at New York's Central Park Zoo , which when fully grown, entered into a same-sex relationship of its own?
Did you know that Filipino band Up Dharma Down declined to label their album Bipolar with a specific genre?
Did you know that the seeds of the breadnut Artocarpus camansi from New Guinea taste like chestnuts, and can be processed to make paste, flour, butter or oil?
Did you know that the deepest lake dammed by sand dunes along the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon is Woahink Lake ?
Did you know that the website for the viral video Kony 2012 crashed after the video became popular worldwide, but the video went on to have tens of millions of page views on various websites?
Did you know that South Australian Samuel Morcom began playing first-class cricket five years before his state's team played its first match?
Did you know that the Fleet class USVs are the first unmanned vessels to receive U.S. Navy hull numbers ?
Did you know that Harry Trihey set the record for the most goals in a regular season major professional hockey match over a hundred years ago?
Did you know that Mutilator was described as an excellent case study in DIY ethics ?
Did you know that the British scholar Percy Brown was one of the earliest pioneers who wrote on Indian and Buddhist architecture ?
Did you know that over fifty women were assaulted during the Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame manager Miller Huggins executed the first delayed steal in recorded baseball history?
Did you know that when " Tanzania's most popular film star " died, his mourners included his country's Vice President , First Lady and 20,000 other people?
Did you know that in 1204, the wife of Hugh de Neville paid John, King of England 200 chickens for the right to sleep one night with her own husband?
Did you know that Wallace Neff ' s Bubble Houses in Litchfield Park, Arizona , were built in a community planned and owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ?
Did you know that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor , Cornwall , was only rediscovered in 1954?
Did you know that the 1939 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played against Fordham in the second ever televised college football game ?
Did you know that Atiqah Hasiholan considered her role in the Oscar-submitted Jamila and the President a "regular slutty prostitute"?
Did you know that inventor John Browning provided the first electric lights in London, for the occasion of the visit of the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that NASCAR powerhouse team Richard Childress Racing sold one of its race teams to Virginia car dealer Joe Falk ?
Did you know that the golden mussel can make good use of a discarded plastic bottle ?
Did you know that the privileges of Polish nobility were unprecedented in Europe, giving the nobles the right to control most legislation, foreign relations, taxation, elect a king and rebel against him ?
Did you know that the main leaders of the Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association were purged and executed in 1977?
Did you know that the song " Ode to Mel Bay ", popularized by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins , has lyrics by Shel Silverstein about a missing page 23 in Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords ?
Did you know that " A House Divided " was the Dallas television series episode that led to the eight-month Who shot J. R.? hysteria?
Did you know that World War I British flying ace Harold Stackard was credited with fifteen aerial victories?
Did you know that one man loved the 1943 film Immensee so much that in 1975 he bought the estate where it was filmed?
Did you know that " Drunk on Love " contains a sample of The xx ' s song "Intro", with Jamie Smith being credited as co-writer?
Did you know that the mangrove tunicate produces an anti-tumour drug, trabectedin , which becomes concentrated in the tiger flatworm when it feeds on the tunicate ?
Did you know that Kid Elberfeld discovered future Hall of Famer Travis Jackson when Jackson was 14 years old?
Did you know that the music of the film Lakshmi Putrudu was launched by Andhra Pradesh state Information Technology minister Damodar Reddy?
Did you know that former Elitserien and National Hockey League player Håkan Loob was one of the first members of the Triple Gold Club , winning the Stanley Cup , World Championship and Olympic gold ?
Did you know that the Syrian town of al-Harra was owned by Beirut -based landowner Selim Freige?
Did you know that Matt Barnes and Michael Roth were named college baseball First Team NCAA Division I All-Americans in 2011 ?
Did you know that the Glass Palace Chronicle in 1829 proclaimed Abhiyaza as the founder of the Burmese monarchy in contradiction to the prevailing pre-Buddhist origin myth ?
Did you know that U.S. Route 287 Business passes the Fort Worth Stockyards ?
Did you know that Istanbul University Professor Semavi Eyice is regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey ?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War , when Lt. Col. Byron P. Howlett heard that one of the medivac helicopters under his command had crashed, he personally oversaw and piloted the Rescue of Dustoff 65 ?
Did you know that " Snail " was the first woman to compete in an international motor race?
Did you know that the 1938 Alabama Crimson Tide football team still holds defensive team records for the fewest total, rushing and passing yards in a season?
Did you know that three medieval walls dated to 1282 were found in the grounds at Maenan Abbey in 2011, whilst workmen were working on the drainage?
Did you know that critics described the 2002 comedy thriller Triggermen as "neither noticeably comic nor remotely thrilling"?
Did you know that the bailiff John Knibb also built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford ?
Did you know that U.S. state governors Blagojevich , Blanton , Edwards , Hall , Kerner , Mandel , Moore , Rowland , Ryan , and Siegelman have been convicted of federal public corruption crimes ?
Did you know that the number of ways to place n diagonally symmetric rooks on an n × n chessboard in such a way that no two rooks attack each other is a telephone number ?
Did you know that although a Spanish treasure convoy was captured at the Action of 26 April 1797 , the cargo had already been smuggled to safety aboard a fishing boat?
Did you know that the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the SEC championship after Hayward Sanford kicked a fourth quarter, game-winning field goal against Vanderbilt ?
Did you know that when Thomas M. Messer retired in 1988, after 27 years as director of the Guggenheim Foundation , he had served longer than any other major museum director in New York City?
Did you know that thieves have recently stolen the memorial plaques from the Livesey Hall War Memorial ?
Did you know that Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig , Holocaust survivor and one of the Schindlerjuden , appeared in a documentary with the daughter of Amon Goeth , her Nazi tormentor?
Did you know that Winston Churchill 's father once owned " Abscess on the Jaw "?
Did you know that Robert B. Cohen opened the first Hudson News , the world's largest airport newsstand retailer, in LaGuardia Airport in 1987?
Did you know that the Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center in Hillsboro, Oregon , was built for $2.5 million but remodeled and expanded at a cost of $9 million ?
Did you know that the author of The Undying Flame , who wrote the novel when he was 22, felt it resounded with teenage sentimentality?
Did you know that Australia women's national softball coach Kere Johanson won two men's softball world championships as a player with New Zealand's team?
Did you know that George Hubert Kemp , a flying ace from World War I , was fatally wounded on his last sortie, having shot down twelve enemy aircraft in the previous three weeks?
Did you know that the Seri people believed that the leaves of Standley's cloak fern brought good luck when carried in a bag?
Did you know that Jason Krizan set a National Collegiate Athletic Association record for doubles ?
Did you know that RNAD Coulport in Argyll , Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the United Kingdom's stock of Trident nuclear warheads ?
Did you know that Duncan Barrett , co-author of The Sugar Girls , once directed Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?
Did you know that according to one reviewer, the reggae drum fill in " Watch n' Learn " originates from Bob Marley 's 1983 single " Buffalo Soldier "?
Did you know that San Jose State University and Australia women's national softball team player Michelle Cox played softball in New South Wales for the state under-16 team?
Did you know that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 ?
Did you know that U.S. Route 6 in Ohio crosses the Black River on the Charles Berry Bridge , the second-largest bascule bridge in the world?
Did you know that WWI British flying ace Bruce Digby-Worsley scored the majority of his aerial victories against the Fokker D.VII ?
Did you know that " Saturday Night Glee-ver " is Glee 's tribute to the Bee Gees and Saturday Night Fever ?
Did you know that Filipino fashion designer and Project Runway Philippines judge Rajo Laurel has held exhibitions in New York City , San Francisco , Shanghai , Sydney , and Bali ?