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Did you know that William Butler Yeats wrote the poem " A Prayer for My Daughter " in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Irish War of Independence ?
Did you know that the SARK , the US Navy 's Search and Rescue Knife, was designed and built within 24 hours by custom knifemaker Ernest Emerson ?
Did you know that a possible extension of the Røa Line metro to Øverland was considered in the interwar period , but did not materialize?
Did you know that after Bill Sketoe was lynched in 1864, a hole dug to facilitate his hanging remained visible for over a century?
Did you know that a network of companies including the Chester Rolling Mill , Chester Pipe and Tube Company , Standard Steel Casting Company and Combination Steel and Iron Company made shipbuilder John Roach & Sons one of America's first vertically integrated businesses?
Did you know that radio station KBCH chose its call sign to represent the "20 Miracle Miles" of beaches in Lincoln County, Oregon ?
Did you know that still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn , Beethoven and Chopin ?
Did you know that American Louis Littlepage had to receive a special permission from the US Congress to serve as a secretary to the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski ?
Did you know that the fungus Helvella corium has been found growing on caustic spoil mounds of a soda factory and on uranium tailings ?
Did you know that Ohio teenager Vicki Lynne Cole held up a sign (which she hadn't read) saying "Bring Us Together Again" at a 1968 Nixon rally, and the candidate later mentioned it in his victory speech?
Did you know that on April 7, 1977, baseball pitcher Ken Brett was the Chicago White Sox's Opening Day starter against the Toronto Blue Jays in the latter's first-ever regular season game?
Did you know that Ismail Shammout ' s painting Where to ...? , depicting the Lydda Death March of July 1948, is said to have attained iconic status in Palestinian culture?
Did you know that because actor Alan Dale was unable to go to Hawaii to appear on ABC 's Lost as Charles Widmore , the camera crew moved to London to include him on the show anyway?
Did you know that the fungus Helvella acetabulum resembles a cabbage leaf?
Did you know that Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?
Did you know that when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza , came out to see the ship?
Did you know that Karsten Solheim 's invention of the modern lob wedge golf club may have come from experimentally gluing a potato chip to a straw?
Did you know that World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker 's memoirs influenced 1930s "flying pulp" magazines such as Flying Aces ?
Did you know that opera singer Richard Suart , known for his roles in Gilbert and Sullivan , has also specialised in avant-garde modern opera?
Did you know that Richard Upjohn 's Gothic alterations to the Mandeville House , the oldest in Garrison, New York , were removed by a later owner?
Did you know that extracts from the elastic saddle fungus can dissolve fibrin blood clots ?
Did you know that in June 1994 the NBA blocked the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group seeking to move the franchise to New Orleans , thus keeping the Timberwolves in Minneapolis ?
Did you know that the Air Battle of El Mansoura in the Yom Kippur War involved nearly 180 aircraft in a continuous engagement lasting 53 minutes?
Did you know that Mary Roberts was the first recorded female miniaturist in the American colonies ?
Did you know that the Greeves motorcycle company funded production from a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar for disabled drivers?
Did you know that although Vic Gold co-wrote the first President Bush 's autobiography and wrote a novel with Dick Cheney's wife , in 2007 he wrote a book attacking the second President Bush and Cheney ?
Did you know that in the capture of Ormuz in 1622 , an Anglo - Persian force combined to expel the Portuguese ?
Did you know that 19th century wrestler John McMahon ' s career began with a 17-year undefeated streak?
Did you know that the bacterium Streptococcus iniae has been called "one the most serious aquatic pathogens in the last decade"?
Did you know that Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson 's marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards ?
Did you know that local councils in the United Kingdom can make byelaws regulating the design of bathing costumes worn on the beach?
Did you know that radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler , known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan , received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California ?
Did you know that no specialist ceramics museum has as large a collection as the 340,000 pieces in The Palace Museum, Beijing ?
Did you know that in NASCAR, 1952 was the first year that companies started to pay award monies for publicity?
Did you know that in the Capture of Ré island in 1625, English and Dutch warships were used controversially to quell a revolt of French Huguenot coreligionaries?
Did you know that Tyler Shanabarger's death was believed to be caused by sudden infant death syndrome until his father confessed to the murder?
Did you know that one can list every positive rational number without repetition by breadth-first traversal of the Calkin–Wilf tree ?
Did you know that George Cryer , Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties , was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Parrot and vice king Charles Crawford , whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang"?
Did you know that the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 resulted in the failure of the Duke of Buckingham to occupy the French island of Ile de Ré and support the Siege of La Rochelle ?
Did you know that Gene Lees wrote the English language lyrics to Antonio Carlos Jobim 's " Corcovado " on a bus travelling to Belo Horizonte ?
Did you know that Michael Scott pretends to fire Pam Beesly as a prank in The Office episode " Casual Friday ", which is a reference to a similar scene in the show's first episode ?
Did you know that in 1917, engineer William Ruthven Smith drew a 6,000-foot (1,800 m) * anti-submarine net across the channel at Hampton Roads ?
Did you know that both solvent-shared and contact ion-pairs of magnesium and sulphate ions are present in sea-water?
Did you know that after some members of the Guamanian Congress refused to attend a joint session, Governor Charles Alan Pownall removed them from office?
Did you know that the purse won by a claimed horse in a claiming race usually goes to the former owner?
Did you know that " A Supermarket in California " is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass ?
Did you know that the recipe for tomato sauce published by Antonio Latini in Naples in 1692 was the very first one?
Did you know that 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird had the second highest odds of a Derby winner?
Did you know that in 2001, Dutch musician and artist Herman Brood committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel ?
Did you know that a blister beetle was introduced in Hawaii to trim the wood-boring Sonoran carpenter bee population, but the beetle failed to survive in the islands?
Did you know that three of Nguyen Anh 's generals, Do Thanh Nhon , Chau Van Tiep and Vo Tanh , were called "Gia Định Tam Hùng" (Three Heroes of Gia Dinh ) in Vietnamese folk culture ?
Did you know that Michael Jackson was unavailable for the filming of the music video for The Jacksons ' song, " Torture ", so a wax dummy was used in his place for the video?
Did you know that Brigadier Generals Winfield Scott and Edmund P. Gaines fought bitterly over a promotion to major general in the United States Regular Army that Colonel Alexander Macomb received instead?
Did you know that when the Chinese delicacy Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was introduced to South Korea , the name ignited a controversy in the Buddhist community ?
Did you know that Abigail Bush , in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention ?
Did you know that Nymphaea leibergii is an uncommon North American dwarf waterlily whose flowers open each day and close at night?
Did you know that Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford had a father, a grandfather and a son , all with the same name?
Did you know that, despite having a run of only 18 months, close to 1.5 million Penny Venetian Red postage stamps were printed in Great Britain between 1880 and 1881?
Did you know that the Gibson Mansion , once believed to be a haunted house , is now a historical museum with a working blacksmith ?
Did you know that the Labour party lost control of Hartlepool council for the first time in 21 years after the 2000 Hartlepool Council election ?
Did you know that the Billy Joel and Ray Charles duet, " Baby Grand " , was originally produced because Charles had contacted Joel over Joel naming his daughter after Charles?
Did you know that Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe?
Did you know that, unable to sell the radio station and facing financial difficulties, KORC in Waldport, Oregon , went dark on April Fool's Day 2009?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the Orly airport attack , Varujan Garabedian , was freed and deported to Armenia in 2001, after serving 17 years in jail?
Did you know that the Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge in Pineville, Kentucky , is one of only two bridges built in Kentucky by an in-state construction company?
Did you know that British motorcycle pioneer Bert Greeves owned a 1912 Triumph with the registration 'OLD 1'?
Did you know that Charlie Crowe started an appeal to raise money for a machine to prevent Alzheimer's ?
Did you know that singles from Stone Sour 's self titled debut album received two Grammy Award nominations in consecutive years?
Did you know that Indian musician Niladri Kumar started learning the sitar at the age of four and gave his first live performance when he was six years old?
Did you know that even though MacAdam/Cage was outbid for Audrey Niffenegger 's novel The Time Traveler's Wife , Niffenegger chose the small, independent firm because of their desire to publish the work?
Did you know that Polish Jesuit and missionary Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki introduced the knowledge of logarithms to China in the mid-17th century?
Did you know that Timbaland 's " Apologize " featuring OneRepublic was Canada's longest-running chart-topping single in 2007 ?
Did you know that Alberts Frères , one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands , filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company?
Did you know that Peter Gummer , founder of Shandwick , went to Selwyn College, Cambridge wanting to be a priest?
Did you know that singer Matthew West 's song " The Motions " was "brought to life" for him after having vocal surgery?
Did you know that Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt was the first woman to throw a shot put more than 19 meters in the Summer Olympic Games ?
Did you know that the film version of Hello, Dolly used Garrison Landing , New York, for scenes set in 1890 Yonkers ?
Did you know that Tofo in southern Mozambique draws foreign tourists to its beaches and population of whale sharks ?
Did you know that critically-acclaimed Bolivian Aymara painter, Alejandro Mario Yllanes , disappeared from New York after winning, but not claiming, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1946?
Did you know that the Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck known to archeologists ?
Did you know that with his number one single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", Leon Ashley became the first country music artist to write, record, release, distribute and publish his own material?
Did you know that the suburb of South Dunedin in Dunedin , New Zealand , contains one of only three known preserved gasworks museums in the world?
Did you know that Five Tango Sensations by the Kronos Quartet was the last studio recording by tango music legend Ástor Piazzolla ?
Did you know that despite playing the position of wide receiver in American college football , LaShaun Ward was the third leading rusher for the University of California Golden Bears in 2001?
Did you know that Stevie Smith 's most famous poem , " Not Waving but Drowning ", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
Did you know that Aleksander Sulkiewicz was a Muslim Tatar who co-founded the Polish Socialist Party and probably saved the life of the future leader of Poland, Józef Piłsudski , by planning his escape from a mental hospital?
Did you know that "The Cowboy Culture Center" is a weekly three-hour block of cowboy poetry and western music on radio station KNND in Cottage Grove, Oregon ?
Did you know that Irving Phillips 's comic strip The Strange World of Mr. Mum is cited as paving the way for later titles like The Far Side and Bizarro ?
Did you know that Rafael Nadal is the first player to win five consecutive titles at the Monte Carlo Masters ?
Did you know that Dylan McGrath 's documentary The Pressure Cooker was criticised by Michelin star - winning French restaurateur Patrick Guilbaud but has been praised by L'Ecrivain owner Derry Clarke , a judge alongside Sammy Leslie on the Adare -produced Fáilte Towers ?
Did you know that a captain's clerk was a job, now obsolete, in the Royal Navy for a person employed by the captain to keep his records and correspondence, and his accounts for the Admiralty to approve?
Did you know that Nathaniel Henry Hutton was a civil engineer on routes for the Pacific Railroad Surveys and a wagon road used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the years before the American Civil War ?
Did you know that one of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace ?
Did you know that Henrich Krummedige 's 1502 murder of Knut Alvsson ended the feud started by their fathers, Hartvig Krummedige and Alv Knutsson , as well as Knut's leadership of the rebellion against King Hans' rule over Norway ?
Did you know that a New Man magazine endorsement helped convince Chuck Norris to support Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign ?
Did you know that the government of Tunisia initially believed the explosion caused by Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was accidental, until they learned he had sent a letter taking credit in the name of al-Qaeda ?
Did you know that Old Bethpage Village Restoration on Long Island, New York , has been preserving historic buildings as a living museum since 1970?
Did you know that Merle Fainsod based his book Smolensk under Soviet Rule on Soviet documents captured by the Wehrmacht during World War II ?
Did you know that the band Dead Hot Workshop got their start at a Tempe club named Long Wong's , where bands such as the Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments also performed in the 1990s ?
Did you know that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church , England , spoke so forcefully during sermons that Communion cruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor?
Did you know that MGM Group of Companies is the master franchisee of Marrybrown fast food chain for Southern India ?
Did you know that Altman Lighting Co. introduced the PAR 64 for a Rolling Stones concert tour in 1966?
Did you know that Taiwan 's first printed newspaper , the Taiwan Church News , was written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī , not Chinese characters ?
Did you know that American painters Robert Feke and Benjamin West were strongly influenced by the technique and compositions of English-born painter John Wollaston ?
Did you know that Woolmer Forest , a former royal hunting forest in Hampshire , is the only site where all twelve species of amphibians and reptiles native to England are found?
Did you know that in 1978, Franklin Jacobs high jumped 59 centimeters (23 in) above his own height, setting an indoor world record that lasted a day, and a height differential record that still stands?
Did you know that one of many examples of territorial evolution of the Caribbean is that France sold the Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy to Sweden in 1784,  who in turn sold it back to France in 1878?
Did you know that the largest striped bass ever caught in California , weighing 67.5 pounds (30.6 kg), was found in the O'Neill Forebay Reservoir in August 2008?
Did you know that the Council of Bourges in November 1225 has been called the "fountainhead" of representational democracy in Western Europe ?
Did you know that the City Hall Post Office and Courthouse in New York City , designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett , was known as "Mullett's Monstrosity" until it was torn down in 1939?
Did you know that Baroness Crawley first became involved in politics while seeking funding for a youth theatre she ran?
Did you know that Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain is the first record to result from the long and fruitful collaboration between American composer Terry Riley and the Kronos Quartet ?
Did you know that the capture of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire from the Spanish Empire in 1574 decided that North Africa would be under Muslim rather than Christian rule?
Did you know that Shadow Hare is a real-life superhero who wears a cape and mask while fighting crime in Cincinnati, Ohio ?
Did you know that the song " Lo Mejor de Tu Vida " by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias held the record for biggest leap to number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for almost 20 years?
Did you know that retired New York State Assembly Deputy Speaker Arthur Eve was an observer and negotiator at the 1971 Attica Prison riot where he entered the prison to hear inmate demands?
Did you know that the sports field at Ringstabekk , Norway , has hosted matches in the Bandy World Championships ?
Did you know that Dion Boucicault introduced the combination company to England with his first tour of The Colleen Bawn ?
Did you know that the powdery mildew fungus Phyllactinia guttata has gelatinous filaments thought to help it adhere to leaves?
Did you know that American spy Allen Dulles ran an intelligence organization from his house on Herrengasse , a street in the Old City of Berne , Switzerland , collecting information on the Nazis during World War II ?
Did you know that although the Lord of the Rings fan film The Hunt for Gollum is completely unofficial, its creators "reached an understanding" with Tolkien Enterprises ?
Did you know that the Western Weald is to be included in the proposed South Downs National Park , an outcome which author Bill Bryson said would have been "a national tragedy" had it not happened?
Did you know that Susan Boyle 's 2009 rendition of the song " I Dreamed a Dream " from the musical Les Misérables created an upsurge in public interest that elevated Patti LuPone 's original version to #45 on the UK Singles Chart ?
Did you know that Robert F. Hale was serving as Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers when President Barack Obama appointed him Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) ?
Did you know that gashing is a machining process used to rough out gears prior to final machining operations, like hobbing or shaping ?
Did you know that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff , means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan ?
Did you know that radio station KSWB in Seaside, Oregon , was originally owned by Jerden Records founder Jerry Dennon and American folk group The Brothers Four ?
Did you know that studies with sham surgery in humans have shown that treatments with cell transplants into the brains of patients with Parkinson disease were ineffective?
Did you know that J.T. Alley , police chief of Lubbock , Texas , vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes ?
Did you know that Queen Millennia was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with another Leiji Matsumoto series, Captain Harlock , to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Alex Koslov was the first Russian to wrestle in Arena Coliseo, 72 years after it was built?
Did you know that during the 2008–09 flu season in the United States, only 14.1% of influenza tests were positive for influenza ?
Did you know that Jerzy Borejsza , in charge of the Polish communist cultural policy in the early postwar years , was so influential that his network was called an "empire" or "state within a state"?
Did you know that in the comic fantasy sitcom ElvenQuest , "The Chosen One" who will find the sacred Sword of Asnagar is a dog called "Amis"?
Did you know that Spanish murderer Francisco Arce Montes developed an obsession with personal hygiene during his teenage years?
Did you know that the 85-mile (137 km) Susquehannock Trail System hiking trail passes through the 30,253-acre (12,243 ha) Hammersley Wild Area , the largest area  in Pennsylvania without a road?
Did you know that the first season of Celebrity Bainisteoir was said to have "brought the worlds of celebrity and GAA club football crashing together", and the second season features Working Girls and Wonderwomen star Katherine Lynch and Miss Universe contender Andrea Roche ?
Did you know that at the age of 61, Junko Akimoto is the oldest singer to have a number one single in Japan ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Christopher Bauman first gained recognition in a ladder match described as "psychotic"?
Did you know that Wandsworth Bridge has been described as "probably the least noteworthy bridge in London "?
Did you know that staff at KLYC in McMinnville, Oregon , reported a paranormal "presence" in the radio station 's previous studio building?
Did you know that the world's largest mathematical experiment, designed by Brian Butterworth , found women to be faster than men at subitizing ?
Did you know that Dunbrody Country House Hotel owner Kevin Dundon and Thornton's Restaurant owner Kevin Thornton of Heat were featured on Guerrilla Gourmet alongside Café Paradiso owner Denis Cotter , The Mustard Seed owner Dan Mullane and former Mint Restaurant proprietor Dylan McGrath ?
Did you know that BoA 's Best of Soul made her the first non- Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan?
Did you know that Richard Nixon was approached to run in California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 only after local Republicans failed to interest General George Patton in the race?
Did you know that in Dragon Ball Kai the story of Dragon Ball Z will be cut down to only one hundred episodes ?
Did you know that British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Percy Hurd used to go round villages in Wiltshire telling funny stories?
Did you know that a major weakness of the Japanese RED cipher arose from the desire to save money on telegrams ?
Did you know that Rufus Wainwright 's EP Waiting for a Want features guest appearances by family members Martha Wainwright and Suzzy Roche and musicians Teddy Thompson and Joan Wasser ?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer Charles Elphinstone Fleeming was once challenged to a duel by his former subordinate, Charles John Napier ?
Did you know that Microsoft 's Chrome project was so widely criticized by web developers for failing to meet media standards that the project was cancelled before it was released?
Did you know that Italian Vice Consul Vito Positano saved the future Bulgarian capital Sofia from burning by the Ottoman army?
Did you know that the Corgi Motorcycle Co Ltd. ' s Corgi scooter was branded the "Indian Papoose" for the United States market?
Did you know that actress Venida Evans has appeared as a " muse " in a series of IKEA television commercials which have been described as " surreal " and "creepy"?
Did you know that " Share the World/We Are! " made K-pop boy band TVXQ the only foreign artist to have six number one singles in Japan?
Did you know that Johannes Gerckens Bassøe was Norway's first permanent Governor of Svalbard ?