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Did you know that the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus is one of the main prey items for the Cape Clawless Otter ?
Did you know that Irwin Rosten 's 1975 documentary Man: The Incredible Machine , which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in PBS history?
Did you know that there was only one survivor when I P Suhr capsized and sank off Sandhammaren , Sweden , in 1950?
Did you know that Arline Friscia sponsored a bill making New Jersey the first U.S. state to require businesses with 50+ employees to rehire a worker at the same or comparable position after taking a family leave ?
Did you know that Booky's Crush is the third in a series of Canadian made for TV movies, and follows Booky and the Secret Santa (2006) and Booky Makes Her Mark (2007)?
Did you know that Ireland rugby union international player Thomas Ranken Lyle was commemorated on a set of postage stamps for his pioneering work on X-rays ?
Did you know that the present-day location of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania , was the result of a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States ?
Did you know that Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States was a court case in which the Supreme Court held the Court of Claims jurisdiction was not increased by Congressional reference resolutions ?
Did you know that Foster's reactance theorem ensures that plots on a Smith chart of an electrical network impedance function always travel around the chart in a clockwise direction with increasing frequency?
Did you know that Melvin Cottrell sponsored legislation to allow sports betting in Atlantic City casinos on professional and college sports that would exclude wagering on games played by New Jersey college teams?
Did you know that the thoroughbred racehorse Workforce broke the Epsom Derby course record time in only his third ever race?
Did you know that the knife known as the Seax of Beagnoth has the only known complete inscription of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet ?
Did you know that Samuel Huggins ' objections to the "so called restoration" of Chester Cathedral helped found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ?
Did you know that The New York Times called the closing of the Bordentown School "an example of desegregation in reverse" under the headline "Jersey to Close All-Negro School Because It Can't Get White Pupils"?
Did you know that Jes Staley was a founding member of J.P. Morgan 's equities business?
Did you know that the Temi Tea Garden is the only tea garden in Sikkim ?
Did you know that Percy Christopherson , his father Derman Christopherson, and nine brothers played a cricket match against Blackheath on a team named 'The Christophersons'?
Did you know that Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum planned a bayfront along Corpus Christi Bay that included a 32 foot statue of Jesus Christ , but was rejected by the city of Corpus Christi ?
Did you know that the Gilchrist State Forest is the first new state forest in Oregon since 1948?
Did you know that the Minoan Bull-leaper is the only known complete sculpture depicting Minoan bull leaping ?
Did you know that French showman and soldier Tarrare could eat his own weight in meat every day?
Did you know that the name of mineral scrutiny ite reflects the efforts spent to distinguish it from plattnerite – another form of lead dioxide ?
Did you know that Idaho's Heyburn State Park is the oldest state park in the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you know that Edward Lampert became the first hedge fund manager to earn more than US$ 1 billion in a single year, when the investments owned by his firm, ESL Investments , rose in value by 69% in 2004?
Did you know that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th-century lesbian industrialist ?
Did you know that after receiving scant interest from college basketball scouts as a high school senior, Jason Conley would go on to become the first (and only) freshman to win the NCAA Division I scoring title ?
Did you know that the scientific name of the Peacock carpenter bee ( Xylocopa bombylans ) means "bumblebee-like wood-cutter"?
Did you know that among New Jersey 's state symbols , the slogan "Come See For Yourself" was chosen in 2006 after an earlier proposal "We'll Win You Over" was deemed to be too negative?
Did you know that 40 limited edition sets of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing 's debut album Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1 came with wax cylinder recordings?
Did you know that one of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 's Commuter Rail stations is located in Rhode Island ?
Did you know that actor and mime artist Jack Birkett , who was often billed as "The Incredible Orlando", continued to perform on stage and in films after becoming totally blind ?
Did you know that the painting Landscape, Branchville was owned by J. Alden Weir , who said "I would sooner lose my right arm than sell one of Johnnie Twachtman 's paintings"?
Did you know that it has been said that the flesh of the mushroom Macrolepiota excoriata tastes like hazelnut ?
Did you know that Zeke Zechella , who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise , was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems ?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom , the oldest Orthodox Jewish congregation on Long Island , once fired its rabbi after he was alleged to have been caught eating ham in a saloon?
Did you know that William Hanna claimed that the Tom and Jerry character Jerry Mouse was named Jinx in his first appearance, while Joseph Barbera claimed that the mouse went nameless?
Did you know that New Zealand rower Rob Hamill has also stood as a political candidate, and his brother was a victim of the Khmer Rouge ?
Did you know that Saint Subber produced seven Neil Simon plays on Broadway , five of which were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play ?
Did you know that the Madagascar bat Paratriaenops auritus has a noseleaf with three straight, about equally long lancets?
Did you know that American chemist Robert L. McNeil, Jr. was responsible for the commercial development of Tylenol , for which he coined the generic name " acetaminophen "?
Did you know that alkaloid cyclopamine is named so because it induces cyclopia in sheep?
Did you know that Hans Litten so rattled Adolf Hitler on the witness stand that, years later, Hitler told Prince Wilhelm of Prussia that even he would be sent to a concentration camp if he supported Litten?
Did you know that Leslie Buck designed the Grecian -themed Anthora coffee cup , a cultural icon of New York City , to appeal to the city's Greek American restaurant owners?
Did you know that rifting in the Gulf of Suez initiated due to anticlockwise rotation of the Arabian Plate away from the African Plate , but stopped when the Dead Sea Transform developed?
Did you know that in 1910, pioneer aviator Edwin Moon made the first flight from fields which were later to become Southampton International Airport ?
Did you know that in 1974, Lieutenant General and Minister of Defense of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania Beqir Balluku was accused of planning a coup d'etat by Enver Hoxha and executed that same year?
Did you know that Jack Sinagra sponsored a bill passed by the New Jersey Senate to ban the practice of double dipping , in which elected officials served in more than one elected position simultaneously?
Did you know that the decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Hunter v Moss has been called either "sensible" and "fair", or something that could become "stigmatised", "spurious" and doctrinally wrong?
Did you know that journalist Charles E. Maple ended his career as an administrator of the Texas State Railroad , a heritage railroad between Palestine and Rusk , Texas ?
Did you know that Somerset cricketer Frederic John Poynton was a pioneer of the bacteriology of acute rheumatism ?
Did you know that Committee for Cultural Freedom co-founder Sidney Hook saw the organization as a way of undermining the popular front that existed in the U.S. in the 1930s among left-wing political groups?
Did you know that Baudissin Glacier and Challenger Glacier on Heard Island were charted in 1874 by the Challenger expedition , revisited in 1903 by the 1st German AE , but not officially named by the ANCA until 1957?
Did you know that " Ando Bien Pedo " helped Banda Los Recoditos ' album ¡Ando Bien Pedo! peak at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart?
Did you know that Operation Big Bird was an attempt to recover hidden assets of ex-President Ferdinand Marcos ?
Did you know that many cases on the disposal of equitable interests in the creation of express trusts in English law centre around people trying to avoid tax?
Did you know that Texas industrialist Ross Perot spent $ 60 million of his own money to fund his 1992 U.S. presidential campaign ?
Did you know that Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles , the French Jesuit Father who revealed to Europe in 1712 the manufacturing secrets of Chinese porcelain , has been described as an early " industrial spy "?
Did you know that the main house at the Dakin-Coleman Farm outside Millerton, New York , was at one point legally subdivided between two heirs?
Did you know that in 2008 the Goldstrike mine yielded 30% of the gold production in Nevada ?
Did you know that Erik Bakich oversaw the biggest increase in team batting average in school history as hitting coach at Vanderbilt University ?
Did you know that Larry Eyler was an American serial killer who confessed to killing 21 people?
Did you know that ispolini , ancient giants of Bulgarian mythology, perceived blackberry bushes as a great danger and offered sacrifices to them?
Did you know that "white-out" from light reflections is a problem encountered during falloposcopy ?
Did you know that Jack Faber received a B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland , where he also served as the school's Department of Microbiology head, football coach, and men's lacrosse coach?
Did you know that Garry Mallett , the former President of ACT New Zealand , is an owner-operator of a branch of a Les Mills International fitness studio?
Did you know that Roger Tory Peterson suggested that Louis and Lois Darling illustrate the first edition of the environmental book Silent Spring ?
Did you know that the Singasteinn over which Heimdall and Loki fought in Norse mythology may have been a Caribbean drift seed used as a birth amulet?
Did you know that a dissenting minister from Atherton , James Wood , earned the title "the General" at the Battle of Preston in 1715?
Did you know that the Clock Tower in Brighton city centre has been variously described as "delightful", "worthless", "a giant salt-cellar", "charmingly ugly" and "supremely confident"?
Did you know that Marion Crecco sponsored a bill in the New Jersey Assembly promoting abstinence education in schools to prevent AIDS , stating that otherwise "we are allowing our children to play Russian roulette "?
Did you know that the author of Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop previously wrote celebrity biographies on Michael Jackson , Kerry Katona , and Robbie Williams ?
Did you know that the European Cenozoic Rift System extends from the Mediterranean to the North Sea ?
Did you know that Cam Fowler , a top prospect for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft , played on the J. Ross Robertson Cup , Memorial Cup and World Junior Ice Hockey Championship winning teams in 2010?
Did you know that despite proving promising in wind tunnel testing, no examples of the Focke-Wulf Fw 42 were ever built?
Did you know that South Carolina's Redneck Shop , which sells Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor?
Did you know that although American entomologist Harry Hoogstraal was an authority on ticks and tick-borne diseases , organisms bearing his name include a squirrel , a gerbil , a snake , and 200 other species?
Did you know that Kachche Dhaage , the 1999 debut film of director Milan Luthria , stars Ajay Devgan as a smuggler delivering goods across the Rajasthan – Pakistan border?
Did you know that Kevin Killian ' s My Vocabulary Did This to Me won the American Book Award for poetry in 2008 and his Impossible Princess won the Lambda Literary Award as best gay erotic fiction in 2009?
Did you know that the Atherton oak and red bopple nut of Queensland , and the Chilean hazel of Chile are relatives of the macadamia which produce edible nuts?
Did you know that in the late 1970s, Tom Waits often performed his song " Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis " as a medley with cover versions of " Goin' Out Of My Head " and " Silent Night ?"
Did you know that John G. FitzGerald prepared Canada's first locally-made rabies vaccine ?
Did you know that some towns and villages throughout Great Britain were once nicknamed " Little Moscow ", due to their strong links with the Communist Party ?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member Olav Gunnar Ballo 's book about the suicide of his daughter Kaja Bordevich Ballo became a bestseller in Norway ?
Did you know that the valediction " have a nice day " , typically spoken by service employees, is considered a trite phrase that has been castrated by excessive usage and pretense?
Did you know that Mike Khoury wrestled his final WWF match against The Sultan at the Bryce Jordan Center on September 24, 1996?
Did you know that in 1921, Spanish surgeon Fidel Pagés discovered epidural anesthesia , which is used in millions of childbirths and surgical operations every year worldwide?
Did you know that the Siberian Slippery Jack ' s subalpine European habitat is threatened by deforestation and skiing ?
Did you know that the beetle Dermestes maculatus attacks and eats live turkeys ?
Did you know that Démocratie was the only ship of her class to have protective bulges fitted underneath her bow anchors?
Did you know that Clifford Grodd bought out the clothing store Paul Stuart from his father-in-law, and transformed it into a label worn by Fred Astaire , Mel Brooks , Cary Grant , Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra ?
Did you know that long-time Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions leader Konrad Nordahl has been called one of the most powerful people of the Norwegian labour movement?
Did you know that as executive director of the Kerner Commission , David Ginsburg warned in its 1967 report that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies—one black, one white, separate and unequal."?
Did you know that The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers was described in The Independent as "a volume which none but propeller-heads will find either curious or interesting"?
Did you know that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner Antje Boetius believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future climate change through anaerobic digestion of methane ?
Did you know that the Australian bush fly is responsible for the Aussie salute ?
Did you know that the comedy film House! , called an " Ealing-style light comedy", tells the story of how an aged bingo hall deals with the encroachment of an international conglomerate?
Did you know that Frank Chapman was once thought to have made his only Major League Baseball appearance at age 14?
Did you know that the White Horse Prophecy , attributed to Mormon founder Joseph Smith , is "not embraced as Church doctrine" by the Mormon Church ?
Did you know that Cuneus Prophetarum is considered the most prominent work of early Albanian literature ?
Did you know that Bill Russell won two NBA Championships as a player-coach of the Boston Celtics ?
Did you know that John J. Matheussen introduced legislation in the New Jersey Senate in 1999 to implement the US$1 billion property tax rebate proposed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman ?
Did you know that English jockey Mornington Cannon was named after the mount his father rode to victory on the day he was born?
Did you know that Queen Chennabhairadevi, who ruled for 54 years from Gersoppa under the Vijayanagara Empire in Uttara Kannada , India , was credited with building the Mirjan Fort in the 16th century?
Did you know that Eleazar Roberts pioneered the tonic sol-fa method of sight-singing in Wales?
Did you know that California 's first State House was originally a hotel in San Jose owned by businessman Pierre "Don Pedro" Sainsevain and his associates?
Did you know that as the mayor in the 1910s of Homer , Louisiana , Andrew R. Johnson worked to bring electric lights and water works to the municipality?
Did you know that Madison Rayne currently holds both women's championships in TNA Wrestling ?
Did you know that the various state monuments to William Smeathers , a pioneer settler of Kentucky and Texas , use three different versions of his name (Smeathers, Smithers and Smothers)?
Did you know that the Roman marble Sleeping Ariadne of the Vatican Museums was for centuries called Cleopatra because her armband was mistaken for Cleopatra's asp ?
Did you know that polonides are amongst the most stable compounds of polonium ?
Did you know that although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers , the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines?
Did you know that the Forest Park Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri , was once owned by Harold Butler , founder of the restaurant chain Denny's ?
Did you know that flautist Marina Piccinini recorded Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach , in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo, who won a scholarship at the Concert Artists Guild , twenty years after Piccinini did so?
Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Scotty Summers was once powerbombed during a match and had to be carried backstage on a stretcher ?
Did you know that before a man, Tor Halvorsen , replaced the deceased Sonja Ludvigsen as Minister of Social Affairs , a newspaper claimed that the only certain thing was that the new Minister "will be a woman"?
Did you know that Ingeborg Reichelt performed the soprano part of the Bach cantata Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 , written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726?
Did you know that the Mountain Pass rare earth mine was the largest mine for rare earth metals in the 1970s and 1980s?
Did you know that in his youth, professional baseball player Kettle Wirts would play sandlot ball with Earl Kunz , another future professional player?
Did you know that at the time of its discovery in 2003, GRB 031203 was the faintest gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
Did you know that Chris Haney and Scott Abbott developed Trivial Pursuit in about an hour one night in 1979, a game which went on to sell 100 million copies worldwide?
Did you know that the marble column used for the Civil War Memorial in Adrian, Michigan , was originally part of the former Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia ?
Did you know that professional gambler Brian Zembic had size 38C breast implants inserted into his chest to win a $100,000 bet?
Did you know that Jerome Tiger , a Native American painter from Oklahoma , was a high school dropout and worked as a laborer and prize fighter?
Did you know that one colony of the Madagascar bat Triaenops menamena contained an estimated 40,000 individuals?
Did you know that a gangster threw sulfuric acid in the face of crusading newspaper columnist Victor Riesel on a public street in New York City in April 1956, blinding him?
Did you know that the Suffren was the flagship for a squadron of four French battleships in 1915 during the Dardanelles Campaign ?
Did you know that the Ford Valve Plant was moving assembly line pioneer Henry Ford 's first "Village Industry": a small factory located in a rural community and intended to stabilize the income of farmers ?
Did you know that military historian and Purdue professor Gunther E. Rothenberg escaped the Nazis and served in the British Army , the Israel Defense Force , and the US Air Force before attending college on the GI Bill ?
Did you know that although David Campbell received multiple wounds leading a charge against German cavalry in 1914, he told the doctor "I've just had the best quarter of an hour I've ever had in my life!"?
Did you know that the mosquito Psorophora howardii can puncture through a coat, vest, and two shirts?
Did you know that Vern Partlow 's satirical song "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro- communist propaganda ?
Did you know that U-1022 was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on June 7, 1944, the day after the Allied invasion of Normandy ?
Did you know that the defeat of his army in the Siege of Berat ended Charles of Anjou 's designs to invade the Byzantine Empire over land?
Did you know that in English law , trusts for the construction of tombs are invalid if the tombs are "capricious and wasteful"?
Did you know that the railroads controlled by Alfred Holland Smith in 1918 carried one half of United States freight?
Did you know that in the town of the Chau Doc massacre , anti-government forces spread the superstition that one can fly by killing 20 people, and become an angel by killing 100?
Did you know that Gerald Roush had details of the original specifications, later modifications and ownership history of nearly every one of the 130,000 Ferraris ever manufactured?
Did you know that the evangelist Elijah Cadman originated the idea that The Salvation Army should wear uniforms ?
Did you know that at 270 seconds, GRB 011211 became the longest gamma-ray burst detected by BeppoSAX by 2002?
Did you know that audio innovator Fritz Sennheiser was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with its Scientific and Engineering Award for his development of the MKH 816 shotgun microphone ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Prinitza , 300 Achaean soldiers defeated a far superior Byzantine army, allegedly numbering 15,000 men?
Did you know that in what The New York Times described as a "food fight", Assemblymember Clare Farragher argued that the tomato , rather than the blueberry , should be chosen as New Jersey 's official state fruit ?
Did you know that while Archbishop of Adelaide , Leonard Faulkner refused to eliminate the practice of communal confession , despite pressure from the Vatican ?
Did you know that although its name means boundary ditch, the Mardyke is actually a river that flows into the Thames at Purfleet ?
Did you know that in 1952, flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer was the first woman to be named principal chair of a major US orchestra ?
Did you know that the 2002 Mindanao earthquake , which caused flooding and a tsunami , was the sixth most powerful earthquake of 2002?
Did you know that Gabriel Vargas became a chief draftsman by age 16 and went on to win the Mexican "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (National Sciences and Arts Prize)"?
Did you know that the Telegraph Act 1870 resulted in the value of shares in the Isle of Man Telegraph Company being increased to 160 times their former value?
Did you know that white Republican State Senator Norman M. Robertson criticized New Jersey 's 2001 redistricting plan , stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?
Did you know that the civil rights attorney Jesse N. Stone, Jr. , was in the first graduating class in 1950 of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge ?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 64 is named the Stegosaurus Freeway in Dinosaur ?
Did you know that in 1953, newspaper editor Erling Hall-Hofsø was imprisoned for refusing to unveil his source for a news piece?
Did you know that William Huggins enjoyed following a travelling animal circus ?
Did you know that according to police investigators, Ian Davison had enough ricin in his home to kill 1,000 people?
Did you know that seven of the seventeen apostles that Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus sent out died on their journeys?
Did you know that despite being paralysed from the chest down British Paralympic skier Talan Skeels-Piggins serves as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserves ?