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Did you know that three of Lieutenant General Michael Ferriter 's four children are also serving military officers?
Did you know that 2014 Olympic speed skater Anna Ringsred used to be afraid of racing, calling competition "scary and nerve-racking"?
Did you know that the term physical organic chemistry was coined by Louis Hammett in 1940 when he used the phrase as a title for his textbook?
Did you know that Ernst Roth , general manager of Boosey & Hawkes , published four late songs by Richard Strauss in 1950 after the composer's death, naming them Four Last Songs ?
Did you know that 95 churches in the USA and one in Haiti are both Primitive and Progressive ?
Did you know that the Queen Victoria Monument in Birkenhead is in the form of an Eleanor cross ?
Did you know that a famous line by Li E reads "rain/wash/autumn/lush/people/pale"?
Did you know that articles in The Accounting Review , a top accounting journal , have become increasingly mathematically rigorous over the past decades?
Did you know that when the .cz domain reached a million websites in 2012, the Czech Republic became the 12th EU member state to have reached this figure?
Did you know that the keeper of the Christiana Light was 105 when he died in 1862, the oldest known lighthouse keeper in United States history?
Did you know that although Robert fitzRoger owed his offices to the Chancellor William Longchamp , unlike most of Longchamp's appointees, fitzRoger retained those offices after Longchamp's fall from power?
Did you know that The New York Times estimated that 8,000 infants died in one year from consuming swill milk that was sold as fresh milk?
Did you know that Cobra Station gets its unusual name from the snake-like shape of the property?
Did you know that the Henry Powell House was renovated to change its architectural style from Greek Revival to Second Empire ?
Did you know that psychedelic rock concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw was sentenced to 15 days in jail and a $150 fine for flying a 15 cent kite with a dirty word written on it?
Did you know that the RAF 's pip-squeak system kept track of their fighters during the Battle of Britain using their voice radio sets?
Did you know that Cusi Cram based one of her plays on a controversy involving two lesbian mothers and the U.S. Secretary of Education that began with an episode of PBS 's Postcards from Buster ?
Did you know that the Monument to Captain John Francis Egerton commemorates a soldier who was killed in the First Anglo-Sikh War ?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln once defended Illinois State Senator Asahel Gridley in a slander trial?
Did you know that George Packer 's book The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America won the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction ?
Did you know that after briefly serving as President, Tomás Villalba helped create Uruguay's first banking regulations?
Did you know that the theft of a single axe from Odell Great Wood led to three months hard labour for one woodsman?
Did you know that the authors of the Buildings of England series say that the Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park is "grand indeed"?
Did you know that alleged drug trafficker Serafín Zambada Ortiz was arrested by US federal agents when he went out to do some Christmas shopping?
Did you know that the Aurora Film Corporation , founded in 1906, produced India's first newsreel and first children's film?
Did you know that Bill Hooper scored Darlington 's first Football League goal, which was "in all probability" the first goal scored in the Third Division North ?
Did you know that the navigator was the sole survivor of Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 which crashed near Sharjah , killing 85 people?
Did you know that during World War II, Otto Busse provided the partisans of Białystok with weapons, clothing and medicines at his own expense?
Did you know that the Indonesian wayang theatre developed from the Ravana Chhaya puppet theatre of Odisha , India?
Did you know that the Yamaha NS-10 sounded so bright that Bob Clearmountain had to hang tissue paper over the tweeter ?
Did you know that Sandra Kurtzig was the first woman to take a Silicon Valley technology company public?
Did you know that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic ( Rhaetic ) to the middle Cretaceous ( Cenomanian )?
Did you know that Dread Pirate Roberts is the founder of the "Amazon.com of illegal drugs" ?
Did you know that Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank by Steven Skiena and Charles Ward uses metadata from the English Wikipedia to rank all persons in order of significance?
Did you know that Ming China 's armies deployed their cannons to defeat the Oyirad Mongol hordes at the Kerulen and Tula rivers in 1414?
Did you know that Djoewariah began her career as a victim of human trafficking and closed it as a queen?
Did you know that at completion, the 80-meter-high Aciliu Viaduct will be the highest in Romania ?
Did you know that Olga Tañón , now the most awarded performer at the Lo Nuestro Awards , did not win when she was nominated for the Award for Tropical New Artist back in 1993?
Did you know that Tunisia's new interim prime minister, Mehdi Jomaa , is trained as an engineer?
Did you know that earnings management involves the alteration of financial reports to mislead stakeholders , and may be difficult for individual investors to detect?
Did you know that Polish writer Irena Jurgielewiczowa was also an underground teacher and a resistance fighter in WWII ?
Did you know that Anthony Seldon wants Embassy Court in Brighton to be demolished and "parties [held] to celebrate"?
Did you know that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the first game developed by Bethesda Game Studios to not include a character class system?
Did you know that the Asian clam is causing trouble in San Francisco Bay ?
Did you know that the architecture of the German Courthouse in Bremen was inspired by the French Château de Blois ?
Did you know that Warren Bardsley was the first cricketer to score centuries in each innings of a Test match ?
Did you know that prior to commanding a Confederate company , Isaac Parsons served as a Virginia House Delegate and was involved in a dispute with U.S. Congressman Charles J. Faulkner over legal fees?
Did you know that the owners of The Showgrounds refused to allow Warrenpoint Town F.C. to play there because of a projected rise in insurance costs?
Did you know that one of the Hillsboro Fire Department 's earliest pieces of equipment was previously used in Sacramento, California , Portland, Oregon , and Albany, Oregon ?
Did you know that the Lavaggi LS1 was the first Le Mans Prototype race car to be designed and built in Monte Carlo ?
Did you know that " Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu ", composed by Ilaiyaraaja , was named the fourth most popular song of all time in a 2002 online poll conducted by ‏ BBC World Service ?
Did you know that the crimes of Linda Taylor became the basis for Ronald Reagan 's mythical " welfare queen " during his 1976 presidential campaign ?
Did you know that Denny Crum retired at the end of the 2000–01 season with the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team with 675 wins, the most of any head coach for Louisville?
Did you know that Robert V. Short , a tailor by training, was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention ?
Did you know that Arsenal exited the FA Cup and Football League Cup , and lost the UEFA Cup Final , on penalties in the 1999–2000 season ?
Did you know that Bonnie McKee has co-written eight number one singles , five of which were sung by Katy Perry ?
Did you know that Poland is considered a founding member of the United Nations despite not having attended the first meeting?
Did you know that former Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
Did you know that Bascom Lamar Lunsford sold " Good Old Mountain Dew " to Scotty Wiseman for US$25 so he could buy a train ticket home?
Did you know that John Mohardt played baseball for the Detroit Tigers with Ty Cobb and football for the Chicago Bears with Red Grange ?
Did you know that a Light Elf can carry 1,250 kilograms (2,800 lb)?
Did you know that St John's Church, Egremont , has the largest unsupported ceiling in Merseyside ?
Did you know that the Minar-i Pakistan was designed by Russian-born Pakistani architect Nasreddin Murat-Khan ?
Did you know that in Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes series, Dr. Watson was first told about Holmes in the Criterion Bar ?
Did you know that the four lions surrounding the Obelisk Commemorating Roger Barnston have been described as either mourning or snoozing?
Did you know that Sardi was Indonesia's first professional music supervisor ?
Did you know that the corvette Kulish is named after the weapon of the Indian mythological god Indra ?
Did you know that film producer Bernard Glasser , whose debut was a Three Stooges film, had previously worked as a teacher?
Did you know that after almost 75 years, the Dowding system remains the canonical example of force multiplication , having achieved 100% effectiveness on several occasions?
Did you know that Butterly House in Toodyay, Western Australia , is at town lot 1?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week ?
Did you know that a penalty scored by Patrik Berger in the final of Euro 96 gave the Czech Republic a 1–0 lead over Germany, but the Czechs lost to a golden goal in extra time?
Did you know that Danilo Kiš 's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the Holocaust ?
Did you know that Janice Eberly was the first female National President of Future Farmers of America and then Chief Economist for the U.S. Treasury Department ?
Did you know that " Por Amarte Así " won an ASCAP Latin award in categories Pop/Ballad, Salsa and Duranguense for Alejandro Montalbán and Eduardo Reyes?
Did you know that Hermann Müller was mayor of Idstein for 24 years and won the Hessentag festival for the German town in 2002?
Did you know that Don Hutson led the National Football League in receiving yards for four consecutive years from 1941 to 1944, the longest such streak in NFL history?
Did you know that as a young girl, Margaret George became interested in Cleopatra because they both had dark hair, and later wrote a best-selling novel about her ?
Did you know that the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay was the inspiration for the British sitcom Fawlty Towers ?
Did you know that violence against doctors in China has been described as a "crisis", with more than 17,000 incidents reported in 2010?
Did you know that Sana Mir has captained the Pakistan women's cricket team in 33 Twenty20 Internationals , and is the team's leading wicket-taker?
Did you know that the Memorial to John Whitaker stands in the forecourt of the Sunday School that he established in 1814?
Did you know that the 1883 season was the first time a football team representing the United States Naval Academy lost a game?
Did you know that Siti Nurhaliza was anxious when performing with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra for her 2013 concert , despite having worked with London Symphony Orchestra ?
Did you know that the Wyoming Division Canal contributed to the Wyoming Valley becoming the largest producer of anthracite in the world?
Did you know that footballer Mohamad Mochtar began a 42-year career in acting after being discovered in a barbershop?
Did you know that Kerala Soil Museum in India, which opened on January 1, has been described as the world's largest soil museum?
Did you know that journalist Judith Newman wrote a New York Times article asking Wikipedians to help craft an entry about her?
Did you know that David Jewett Waller was one of the most well-known people in northeast Pennsylvania at the time of his death?
Did you know that The Silence of the Lambs is the only post- studio era film that went into wide release during the winter dump months to win the Academy Award for Best Picture ?
Did you know that physicist Ted Paige , a Fellow of the Royal Society , started researching haemochromatosis when he found out he was suffering from the disease?
Did you know that West Indian Twenty20 cricketer Deandra Dottin was the first woman to score a century in a women's Twenty20 International ?
Did you know that a lawsuit by Dorothy Proctor led to the revelation that hundreds of Canadian prisoners had been subjects of scientific experiments?
Did you know that Essighaus was the building in Bremen where Sigmund Freud had a fainting spell?
Did you know that friends of Dan Tan , the Singaporean accused of fixing soccer matches on four continents, say he rarely watches the game?
Did you know that the Pass Christian Light was deactivated in part because neighboring property owners refused to trim their trees?
Did you know that to prepare for his role in 1926's Subway Sadie , Jack Mulhall rode a subway for "practically an entire day"?
Did you know that the 1942 Belize hurricane was the only known hurricane to strike Belize in the month of November?
Did you know that at one point, there was more automotive production in Massachusetts than in Detroit, Michigan ?
Did you know that Western Australian architect Michael Cavanagh was responsible for redesigning St Mary's Cathedral , where he was married 27 years earlier?
Did you know that of the nearly 500 players to wear New York Islanders jerseys, only 14 have served as team captain and Ed Westfall was the first?
Did you know that Marie Collings , a wealthy pirate 's daughter, purchased an island and became its hereditary ruler but never visited it?
Did you know that the building of St Robert's Church, Pannal , North Yorkshire , was begun by brothers of the Trinitarian Order in the 14th century?
Did you know that during World War II, Commander Sherman E. Burroughs, Jr. , was in charge of a Naval base in the Mojave Desert ?
Did you know that the stars of Si Gomar portrayed each other's parent, child, and lover?
Did you know that Tom Crutchfield was instrumental in producing the first captive-bred albino Burmese pythons ?
Did you know that due to the damaging effects of Cyclone Gretelle in 1997, the government of Madagascar held a televised fundraiser to raise money for storm victims?
Did you know that Roger Ebert said the animated documentary film Ryan "is hard to describe, impossible to forget"?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Jon Inge Høiland scored the decisive goal when Malmö FF secured the 2004 Allsvenskan title?
Did you know that the Old College Hill Post Office in Cincinnati , Ohio , was converted into a house after closing in 1892?
Did you know that the American Horror Story: Coven episode " The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks " was inspired by rumors about Stevie Nicks and witchcraft ?
Did you know that 2013 YP 139 is the first discovered asteroid from the NEOWISE program, and is considered potentially dangerous?
Did you know that 62 Spanish ISAF peacekeepers were killed when their Yakovlev Yak-42 crashed on the flight from Afghanistan?
Did you know that Frank Scheibeck played professional baseball in Detroit in three different decades and three different leagues between 1888 and 1906?
Did you know that, unusually, Macclesfield War Memorial contains a sculpture of a soldier killed by gassing?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rösch , who studied mechanical engineering and theology, administers the Diocese of Limburg during the absence of the bishop?
Did you know that Elsa the Snow Queen , a protagonist in Walt Disney's Frozen , was originally written as a villain?
Did you know that Dean Semler was the first recipient of the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Dances with Wolves ?
Did you know that Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Russellville, Tennessee , closed after its congregants' sympathies split between the opposing sides of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the mite Archegozetes longisetosus can pull 1180 times its own weight?
Did you know that John Rutter composed " The Lord bless you and keep you " for the memorial service of his former music teacher at Highgate School ?
Did you know that completion of 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (7.2 km) of Interstate 80 in Utah marked the last portion of Interstate 80 to be completed?
Did you know that Gus Hetling was awarded an automobile in 1912 as the most valuable player in the Pacific Coast League ?
Did you know that unlike other cemeteries in Turkey that accommodate one religion only, Mersin Interfaith Cemetery includes graves of Muslims , Christians and Jews ?
Did you know that the Bay Area Museum in Texas occupies a former church building and continues to host weddings in the old sanctuary?
Did you know that Kylie Elizabeth Watson received the Military Cross after saving an Afghan soldier despite his comrades not wanting a woman to help?
Did you know that the 1958 Asian Games torch was carried in relay from the US administered Okinawa Island to Kyushu ?
Did you know that speed skater Patrick Meek qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics despite not being able to "really see anything"?
Did you know that one reviewer said Christina Aguilera 's song " Save Me from Myself " "cracks open the super diva to reveal something like a real person inside"?
Did you know that multi-award winning solar astronomer John Wainwright Evans chose the name for the town of Sunspot, New Mexico ?
Did you know that 18 different official currencies are currently in use in the countries of North America ?
Did you know that George Burditt was a writer on many episodes of the sitcom Three's Company and later became the show's executive producer?
Did you know that Game Informer wrote that Max: The Curse of Brotherhood 's central conceit was a "gimmick that simply doesn't work all that well"?
Did you know that Orangina 's bottle, shaped like an orange, with a glass texture designed to mimic the fruit, was introduced by Jean-Claude Beton in 1951?
Did you know that a New York Times reviewer wrote that Xiu Xiu 's 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina accentuated Simone's "spooky, unsettling side"?
Did you know that ruins found underneath a Cairo market in 2006 could belong to the largest sun temple built by Ramesses II ?
Did you know that Ameer Abdullah decided to return for his senior year at Nebraska because "life is bigger than football"?
Did you know that the hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise is known as "The Christian's bugle blast" due to the military-based call to arms in its lyrics?
Did you know that Hal Peck reached Major League Baseball even after shooting off two of his toes?
Did you know that after Argentine heavy metal guitarist Osvaldo Civile 's death by suicide, newspapers printed photos of him playing truco with the Grim Reaper ?
Did you know that the first session of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas occurred over three years after it was established?
Did you know that the megafauna on the seabed of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain is dominated by sea cucumbers such as Oneirophanta mutabilis , Psychropotes longicauda , and Amperima rosea ?
Did you know that Aaron McDuffie Moore was the first black physician in Durham, North Carolina, and founded a hospital for African Americans there in 1901?
Did you know that the 1932 jazz standard " Moten Swing " was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of swing music ?
Did you know that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform of a London bus , to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?
Did you know that the Swedish bishop Åke Bonnier is a billionaire in Swedish kronor ?
Did you know that Batei Saidoff , a Jerusalem courtyard neighborhood built in 1911 with two water cisterns and an outdoor bathroom tower, was considered luxurious for its time?
Did you know that Brian Davies founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 1969 and Network for Animals in 2010?
Did you know that as of December 2012, 40.9% of Filipinos in Belgium were considered "irregular", living there without legal residency status ?
Did you know that, according to co-writer Nelly , " 4x4 ", from Miley Cyrus 's album Bangerz , was "about having fun"?
Did you know that during his 1755 birthday party attended by five hundred people, John Spencer secretly married Georgiana Poyntz in an upstairs bedroom?
Did you know that the existence of Stateroom was revealed by Edward Snowden during the 2013 Global surveillance disclosure ?
Did you know that Icy Strait Point , the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska, has won awards for its preservation and economic reinvigoration of local culture?
Did you know that denial of the Cambodian genocide was made illegal in Cambodia in 2013?
Did you know that in Lady of Sherwood , Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
Did you know that Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet has been called a Francophile ?
Did you know that the daily load of manganese in Tangascootack Creek is 101 times higher than the maximum load allowable by the Environmental Protection Agency ?
Did you know that the Hanlon Expressway is named after Felix Hanlon, who helped cut the first tree to inaugurate Guelph , Ontario ?
Did you know that the Trinity Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral contains a 13th-century consecration cross painted on the wall?
Did you know that Timothy Massad is President Barack Obama 's nominee for chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ?
Did you know that the French Riviera Marathon has the second highest number of participants of all marathons in France?
Did you know that the Asus Transformer Book Duet uses both Microsoft Windows and Android as operating systems ?
Did you know that Stonewall Jackson once woke his men by singing " Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken " out of tune?
Did you know that, with its total installed capacity of 95 MW, the Kızıldere Geothermal Power Plant is the biggest of its kind in Turkey ?
Did you know that Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld used imported kikuyu grass to create the first grass rugby pitch in the Transvaal ?
Did you know that despite having public support and some land purchased, the Highclere, Kingsclere and Basingstoke Light Railway was never built?
Did you know that the clown Petruk from Javanese puppetry is most easily recognised by his long nose?
Did you know that according to charters issued by the Nemanjić rulers of Serbia , the fortified Ratac Abbey had a hospital for poor people?
Did you know that even Nazi occupiers bowed to Dame Sibyl Hathaway , the feudal ruler of the island of Sark , who was later described as a " benevolent dictator " and a "lady of unusual personality"?
Did you know that, since 1998, Alaska has been the only state in the United States without a law school ?
Did you know that the 53-year span between Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Pronovost 's first Stanley Cup championship, as a player in 1950, and eighth, as a scout in 2003, is a record?
Did you know that in 2011, a report of the Karnataka Lokayukta exposed the biggest mining scam in India ?
Did you know that St. Henry's Catholic Church is the only stone building in its rural locality ?
Did you know that the final episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise ended eighteen years of Star Trek on television?
Did you know that because of the Texas Vampires , permission is needed to study blood from Newfoundlanders ?
Did you know that parts of The Drew Carey Show episode " Drew Cam " were broadcast simultaneously on the television and the Internet, a first for a primetime show?
Did you know that French priest François Ponchaud was one of the first people to publicise the genocide in Cambodia ?
Did you know that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in kimberlite ?
Did you know that Gavin Patterson , the new CEO of BT , is known for his open shirt collar?
Did you know that after the 1936 crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe , nicknamed Sea-Aska , Russel Owen telegraphed his sponsors: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?
Did you know that Francis Bacon 's 1949 painting Head VI was his first of almost 50 works based on Diego Velázquez 's c. 1650 Portrait of Pope Innocent X ?