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Did you know that Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corp. seeks to "reconstruct the entire world" for $100 trillion?
Did you know that development proposals for Washington, D.C. 's Kingman Island have included an airport , a landfill , a public aquarium , stadium parking lots , and a theme park ?
Did you know that medrogestone is a synthetic steroid with activity similar to the natural hormone progesterone , but unlike progesterone, is not transported by transcortin in the blood?
Did you know that the 2009 Grammy -winning song " Rich Woman " was first released in 1955 by Li'l Millet and was written by himself and Dorothy LaBostrie ?
Did you know that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier , performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
Did you know that the American Petroleum Institute awarded George R. Brown a medal for the design of the first oil platform to be built out of sight of land?
Did you know that the snail species Oxygyrus keraudrenii shows an evolutionary reduction of the gastropod shell for living in open sea?
Did you know that the 8th-century Sæbø sword has a runic inscription incorporating a swastika that has been interpreted as representing Thor ?
Did you know that George Malley , whose St. Ignatius High School football team was once compared to Notre Dame under Knute Rockne , resigned from the University of San Francisco with a losing record?
Did you know that Tadeusz Adamowski , a pioneer of ice hockey in interwar Poland , played the sport at Harvard , coached the Polish national team , and was imprisoned in a German Oflag during World War II ?
Did you know that St Briavels Castle , once the royal hunting lodge of King John of England , later became a notorious debtors' prison ?
Did you know that Wendy Barlow was inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame, and that her father Bob Barlow played in 77 NHL games with the Minnesota North Stars ?
Did you know that the cruiser SMS Bremse was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, but was salvaged a decade later by Ernest Cox ?
Did you know that radio host Siv Stubsveen starred in A Story About Love , a film on the Internet Movie Database 's bottom 100 list?
Did you know that the KunstHausWien , a private museum in Vienna , occupies the former building of the Thonet furniture factory, creator of the iconic bistro chair ?
Did you know that the Memphite Formula , a standardized greeting on ancient Egyptian letters, was used so frequently that papyrus intended for use as letters would be prepared with the greeting already written?
Did you know that bandleader Joe Lutcher abandoned his secular music career because of his religious beliefs, and influenced rock and roll star Little Richard to do the same?
Did you know that James Sumner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in a skirmish with Cochise during the Apache Wars ?
Did you know that Bump was the billionth application downloaded on Apple 's App Store ?
Did you know that Kirkleatham 's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls ?
Did you know that on the American syndicated game show Jeopardy! , five-time champion Chuck Forrest held the regular winnings record from early Season 2 to early Season 6?
Did you know that the gold medal winner of boys' triathlon at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics , Aaron Barclay , had never previously raced outside Oceania ?
Did you know that the office building that houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was built by Freemasons and once held an auditorium said to be the second largest in the American West ?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen was inspired to write his songs " Youngstown " and " The New Timer " after reading stories of dying steel towns in Dale Maharidge 's book Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass ?
Did you know that Chilean Eloísa Díaz was the first female doctor in South America ?
Did you know that Jamila M'Barek demanded to be styled " Lady Shaftesbury " while being tried for the murder of Lord Shaftesbury ?
Did you know that baritone Günter Reich recorded the part of Moses in Schoenberg 's opera Moses und Aron with both Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez ?
Did you know that Angelo Gaja, owner of Piemonte wine producer Gaja , is often described as "the man who dragged Piedmont into the modern world"?
Did you know that Operation Banquet was a contingency plan to use every available aircraft in a last-ditch effort to repel a German invasion of Britain in 1940 or 1941?
Did you know that R.C. Bannon , co-writer of Barbara Mandrell 's " One of a Kind Pair of Fools ," was formerly married to Barbara's sister, Louise ?
Did you know that the jellyfish Haliclystus auricula acquired the common name "Kaleidoscope" from a naming contest held in Britain?
Did you know that the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation oversees 900 acres (360 ha) of parks and 68 recreational facilities—including 25 outdoor swimming pools , 10 indoor pools, and 8 spray parks ?
Did you know that the current President of Bolivia , Evo Morales , was one of four Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians elected to parliament in 1997?
Did you know that Aarti Sequeira , the sixth season winner of The Next Food Network Star , once worked as a producer for the cable news company CNN ?
Did you know that the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers ?
Did you know that radio station WGGH owner Jimmy "Fish" Fishback provided the imaging voice of the fictional "V-Rock" radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories ?
Did you know that the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira ?
Did you know that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen , conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera ?
Did you know that the 6 mm sea snail Atlanta lesueurii achieves vertical migration of several tens of meters each day?
Did you know that the music video to a song based on news about an attempted rape was viewed over 10 million times on YouTube in less than three weeks?
Did you know that imprisoned former congressman Randy Cunningham spends his days at the U.S. Penitentiary at Tucson , Arizona , teaching fellow inmates to get their GED ?
Did you know that the medieval English archdeacon Osbert de Bayeux was accused of murdering an Archbishop of York by poisoning the communion chalice ?
Did you know that Abbot's Palace , a roccoco palace in Oliwa funded by the last Cistercian abbot of the Oliwa monastery, Jacek Rybiński , was burned down by German troops during World War II?
Did you know that one of the many interpretations of the anecdotal meeting of Diogenes and Alexander was that of Samuel Johnson , who related it to wasting other people's time?
Did you know that the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson shows the first interview with Claude Johnson, who in 1998 was legally declared Delta blues legend Robert Johnson 's son?
Did you know that, called out of retirement to work on the murder case of JonBenét Ramsey , detective Lou Smit resigned 18 months later after concluding that "the Ramseys did not do it"?
Did you know that St George's Church, Little Thetford , is a 14th century Anglican church in the village of Little Thetford , Cambridgeshire , England, which was struck by lightning in 1886 and required extensive rebuilding?
Did you know that as the Victoria Barge Canal was dredged near Guadalupe Bay , ancient artifacts and middens were discovered at what is now the Guadalupe Bay Archeological Site?
Did you know that the first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games was awarded to Yuka Sato of Japan in the 2010 girls' triathlon ?
Did you know that The Feildian , a monthly magazine of Bishop Feild College , was the first publication of its kind in Newfoundland?
Did you know that Udaya Wickramasinghe , the Sri Lankan cricket umpire is remembered for giving three lbw decisions which enabled Pakistani bowler Aaqib Javed to achieve a hat-trick and world record ?
Did you know that using cocaine while pregnant is thought to be less harmful to the baby than alcohol ?
Did you know that since 2005, after a gap of a century, stone traps are allowed again for bird trapping in selected regions of France ?
Did you know that Chief Engraver of the United States Mint Frank Gasparro called the Susan B. Anthony dollar his "top achievement", though the coin was largely rejected by the American public?
Did you know that the Comber Historical Society Museum on Ontario Highway 77 was established in the former Maple Grove schoolhouse, built in 1894?
Did you know that it seems Ugandan President Milton Obote did not consult his cabinet when issuing the 1970 Nakivubo Pronouncement and beginning the process of nationalising 80 of Uganda's biggest firms?
Did you know that the sports club Bygdø Monolitten IL is partly named after the sculpture The Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park ?
Did you know that the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station in Iraq helps siphon water under the Euphrates River and is the largest of its type in the Middle East ?
Did you know that in 1884, Norwegian Supreme Court accessor Frederik Platou cast a minority vote against the impeachment of Christian Selmer , a former government colleague?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen has described his hit song " Waitin' on a Sunny Day " as the type of song he tends to want to throw out?
Did you know that the Andrei Pervozvanny class battleships were the only Old World battleships fitted with lattice masts ?
Did you know that Simon of Southwell was treasurer of the cathedral chapter of Lichfield Cathedral in 1203?
Did you know that Murray Wier was the first officially recognized NCAA men's basketball season scoring leader in 1947–48?
Did you know that soul singer Veda Brown , who recorded for the Stax label in the 1970s, later became a cosmetologist , choir leader, and black history teacher in the Missouri Bootheel ?
Did you know that Helen Gray Cone was the first woman to hold the title of professor at the Normal College of the City of New York (later renamed Hunter College)?
Did you know that 70% of the population of Tamil Nadu is engaged in the Indian state's agricultural sector and related industries for their livelihood?
Did you know that the government of Indonesia did not provide funding for its national team until one month prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ?
Did you know that studies have shown that media coverage of climate change significantly understates the strength of the scientific consensus on climate change ?
Did you know that Robert Brown Job was the oldest elected member of the Newfoundland National Convention ?
Did you know that the City of Besançon got a regional Parlement from Louis XIV partly as compensation for losing its democratic government and claims to independence?
Did you know that upon Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis ' death at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, he was succeeded by his uncle as heir presumptive to the Headship of the House of Thurn and Taxis ?
Did you know that after forming their coalition government the first joint interview with David Cameron and Nick Clegg was a televised debate on the economy?
Did you know that after watching "the greatest single play" in team history, Bob Ufer exclaimed " Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played!"?
Did you know that the dramatist George Bernard Shaw campaigned for the Labour Party candidate at the St Albans by-election in 1919 ?
Did you know that the Japanese legend of the Straw Millionaire depicts a peasant who becomes rich through a series of trades starting with a piece of straw?
Did you know that although Rangers won the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final , they were banned from competing the following year because their fans started a riot ?
Did you know that Jobs ' vessel, the Blue Peter , was the first floating, frozen-fish processing outfit in Newfoundland ?
Did you know that Nicholas Treadwell started his art gallery in 1963 in a double-decker bus and two furniture vans?
Did you know that software archaeology uses software visualization and other techniques to understand poorly documented legacy software ?
Did you know that Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union was founded using only US$ 107 in 1950 and has since grown to over 500 million dollars in assets?
Did you know that the pure blood theory in Korea says that all Koreans descend from a single, purest and cleanest source of ancestors?
Did you know that Lady Gaga 's EP The Cherrytree Sessions , initially only available through Borders stores and digital outlets, was reissued in August 2010?
Did you know that the Scottish Review of Books is a quarterly literary magazine published in Scotland that aims to promote discussion of Scottish literature and to challenge people's perceptions?
Did you know that in the Singer World Series , Aravinda de Silva scored 334 runs and did not lose his wicket in all four innings he played?
Did you know that versions of Roberto Cantoral 's songs have been recorded over 1,000 times by other artists, including Plácido Domingo , José José , Luis Miguel , Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt ?
Did you know that after assassinating Abraham Lincoln , John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland 's Zekiah Swamp ?
Did you know that shot putter Ivan Ivančić is the oldest ever finalist at the World Championships in Athletics ?
Did you know that the Mr. Ekenhead in the second canto of Don Juan was a real-life lieutenant of the HMS Salsette marines who swam the Hellespont with Lord Byron on 3 May 1810?
Did you know that American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny B. Moore was once described as "one of Chicago 's interesting secrets"?
Did you know that the 11th-century church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello , Italy , has a pulpit with Arabic script and motifs which influenced the Dutch artist M.C. Escher ?
Did you know that despite their roles in her overthrow and counter-revolution , lawyers William O. Smith and William A. Kinney were later hired by Queen Liliʻuokalani ?
Did you know that at a command performance of Box and Cox (1847) at Windsor Castle , Queen Victoria and her court "laughed heartily" at the hit London farce ?
Did you know that the British politician Frederick William Verney was a former Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant ?
Did you know that the distinct structures of different cellular organelles may be the effects of the differing mechanics of the many proteins that create them during organelle biogenesis ?
Did you know that although Typhoon Sudal was the strongest storm to hit the island of Yap in 50 years, damaging or destroying 90% of property, there were no deaths?
Did you know that the collapse of the Parrot Corporation , a manufacturer of floppy diskettes , caused a British political controversy?
Did you know that the FC Barcelona Museum attracts 1.2 million yearly visitors, making it the second most visited museum in Barcelona, only surpassed by the Museu Picasso ?
Did you know that Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet , British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte , commissioned his own friend Luigi Mayer to draw pictures of places in the Ottoman Empire for his collection?
Did you know that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival ?
Did you know that Ludwig von Wurmb , a general from Hesse-Kassel during the Napoleonic Wars , was known as the "bitter Wurmb" to distinguish him from his siblings?
Did you know that Zydeco musician Roy Carrier started out playing la la on a frottoir ?
Did you know that at the St Albans by-election in 1943 , John Grimston was elected without a vote after his opponent William Douglas-Home missed the deadline for nominations?
Did you know that while serving as the chief of staff of the Hawaiian Department of the US Army, Philip Hayes warned about the possibility of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan?
Did you know that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7 , a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms ?
Did you know that Ivar Eskeland was accomplished as a philologist , publisher, translator, biographer, literary critic, newspaper editor, theatre worker, radio personality and organizational leader?
Did you know that the lintel over the doorway of Holy Trinity Church, Coverham , North Yorkshire , consists of a re-used Anglo-Saxon cross shaft?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled that an Indian could not be tried for killing another Indian in Ex parte Crow Dog , resulting in the passage of the Major Crimes Act ?
Did you know that Sir Richard Glass , who was knighted for his part in creating the first transatlantic telegraph cable , lasted only a few months as an MP ?
Did you know that The Titan's Goblet , an 1833 landscape painting by Thomas Cole , "defies full explanation" according to the museum that owns it?
Did you know that the first stone building in Latvia was a church and a fortress of Ikšķile built by missionary Saint Meinhard in 1185–1186?
Did you know that the Freemasons Tavern in Hove , with its elaborate mosaic exterior decorated with Masonic symbols, is "reminiscent of the Viennese Secession "?
Did you know that wool-stapler George Goodman was a four-time mayor of Leeds ?
Did you know that astronomers believe that the Great Comet of 1264 and the Great Comet of 1556 were the same comet ?
Did you know that the New Ulyanovsk Bridge , one of Europe's longest bridges , took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that a New Jersey State Senator unsuccessfully attempted to block Marianne Espinosa 's renomination to family court , citing complaints that she "giggles and throws pencils on the desk during testimony"?
Did you know that when Lieutenant Nevelskoy of the 14-gun Opyt surrendered to Captain Bathurst of the 42-gun frigate HMS Salsette , Bathurst returned Nevelskoy's sword because of the heroic fight he had put up?
Did you know that in 1972, the Uganda Development Corporation ' s portfolio was swelled with the addition of 90 nationalised British holdings?
Did you know that professional baseball player Ollie Carnegie is the International League's career home run and RBI leader?
Did you know that BioShock Infinite , Irrational Games ' next title in its video game series, is set during 1912 in a giant airborne city constructed at the height of American exceptionalism ?
Did you know that while being stipendiary magistrate in Sarpsborg , Oluf Falck-Ytter edited the newspaper Glommen anonymously?
Did you know that Jobar , a suburb of Damascus , is home to the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue ?
Did you know that British Conservative Party politician William Carlile owned Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire, the former home of one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot ?
Did you know that because Prince George produced many of his plays under pseudonyms , most of his audiences were unaware a Prussian prince was behind them?
Did you know that the only life-tariff prisoner in the UK protesting his innocence is Jeremy Bamber ?
Did you know that Terry Byrne was the only person to accompany David Beckham to the changing room after his red card in the 1998 World Cup , and later became his personal manager?
Did you know that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.2 was the first type of aircraft operated by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service that could carry bombs ?
Did you know that religious master Longchen Rabjam had foreseen Tang Rimochen Lhakhang in Bhutan in a vision?
Did you know that Berman's Bakery , Israel's second-largest, got its start by peddling black bread and honey cakes to Christian pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ?
Did you know that the eponymous first album by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft includes the song "The White Ship", directly inspired by a short story by the writer from whom the group took their name?
Did you know that Ohio's Paulding County Courthouse was patterned after Michigan's Lenawee County Courthouse ?
Did you know that Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional alcoholic beverage in a comic strip before it was produced in real life as a soft drink ?
Did you know that before becoming a professional mixed martial artist , Eduard Folayang was a high school teacher?
Did you know that Christopher Nugent was the third United States Marine to receive the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that American soul blues singer Kip Anderson used "A Knife and a Fork" as a warning concerning his girlfriend's food consumption?
Did you know that British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Gordon Drummond Campbell had been an educational adviser to King Chulalongkorn of Siam ?
Did you know that Michael Taylor led Michigan to consecutive Big Ten football championships and became the school's all-time leader in passing efficiency ?
Did you know that Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture , after Beauty and the Beast ?
Did you know that one of the textbooks written by Ludvig Stoud Platou was reissued 15 times, including 7 times by his son Carl Nicolai ?
Did you know that Dr. Nicholas Lang of the University of Arkansas advised against ever consuming a hamdog at any point in one's lifetime?
Did you know that to show his opposition to Wilhelm II , Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz forbade any demonstrations of mourning for the deaths of emperors Wilhelm I and Frederick III ?
Did you know that Montreal Alouettes kick returner Tim Maypray returned a missed field goal for a touchdown twice in 2010—both against the Saskatchewan Roughriders ?
Did you know that the first New Zealanders were Eastern Polynesians , who are thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 750 years ago?
Did you know that the port of Aransas City lost its customhouse after Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar relocated it to the self-named town of Lamar ?
Did you know that British Labour Party politician William Jackson was injured in the Battle of the Somme ?
Did you know that Smaalenenes Amtstidende was the first newspaper in Østfold county , Norway ?
Did you know that Angel Bakeries is the sole supplier of hamburger buns for McDonald's restaurants in Israel ?
Did you know that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £ 750,000 penthouse at Brighton 's Van Alen Building ?
Did you know that the lithium salt of the hexafluorophosphate anion is a common electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries ?
Did you know that the largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts is housed in Saint Petersburg ?
Did you know that American stock car racer Nelson Stacy lost one of the closest season points battle in ARCA history before winning the next three championships?
Did you know that the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham , South Yorkshire , depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving?
Did you know that Danish orienteer Ida Bobach won three gold medals at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships , winning the sprint, the long course and the relay?
Did you know that bacteria expressing the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase are resistant to all standard intravenous antibiotics for treatment of severe infections?
Did you know that the Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Alfons Mucha consists of 20 canvases , up to six metres tall and eight metres wide?
Did you know that a 1999 internet hoax led people to believe that a wealthy family in the 16th century would share bacon with their guests so they could sit around and " chew the fat "?
Did you know that during the Battle of Ratsua , Frank Partridge became the youngest Australian soldier to earn the Victoria Cross ?
Did you know that Tadahiro Matsushita is one of only four People's New Party members in the House of Representatives of Japan ?