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Did you know that the Marine Corps Test Unit along with the 3rd Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade carried out mock maneuvers 3,500 yards away from the detonation site of a nuclear bomb ?
Did you know that Nolan Reimold led the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in home runs (20), runs batted in (60), total bases (137), on-base % (.496), and slugging % (.770) throughout the baseball regular season ?
Did you know that the Irish TV show Hanging with Hector was criticised for being "about as original as washing your teeth each morning"?
Did you know that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War , George Henry Chapman served as a judge in the Indiana Criminal Court, and later a state legislator in the Indiana Senate ?
Did you know that William Kaufmann developed the counterforce approach in the 1950s, in which a Soviet invasion of Western Europe would be met by a sequence of escalating responses, not by massive retaliation ?
Did you know that Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński is best remembered through his hymns and carols ?
Did you know that Joseph Kahn and Howard Pack had both been in the fur trade before entering the shipping business, culminating with their 1965 purchase of Seatrain Lines ?
Did you know that out of three partitions of Poland , the Austrian partition had the most local autonomy, but was also the poorest?
Did you know that Barack Obama biographer Christoph von Marschall compares his life story with the American Dream ?
Did you know that a 1930 proposal in the Czechoslovak parliament for greater autonomy for Transcarpathia , presented by the Autonomous Agrarian Union , gained support from the German National Socialists ?
Did you know that Royce Howes won the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial on the shared responsibility of labor and management for an unauthorized strike that put 45,000 Chrysler workers out of work?
Did you know that Norwegian resistance fighter Gregers Gram conducted several sabotage missions together with Max Manus , before being killed in an ambuscade in 1944?
Did you know that vascular myelopathy refers to an abnormality of the spinal cord in regards to its blood supply ?
Did you know that, according to the modern historian Bo Yang , the large body of petitions written by Tang Dynasty chancellor Lu Zhi was important to understanding mid-Tang life?
Did you know that Indian revolutionary poet Jwalamukhi was arrested for his writings in 1971?
Did you know that Republican Joan Huffman , a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Li Shigu , in his illness, refused to endorse his brother Li Shidao as his successor because Li Shidao spent too much time painting and playing the bili ?
Did you know that Order of Australia Medal recipient Bill Scott began writing poetry while serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II ?
Did you know that the army career of the Tang Dynasty general Wu Shaocheng was launched when the general Li Xilie adopted his suggestions in the campaign against Liang Chongyi ?
Did you know that Jones Hewson played leading roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1896 to 1901 but died in 1902 at the age of 27?
Did you know that although Frede Castberg retired as a professor of jurisprudence at the age of seventy, he continued to preside over the Hague Academy of International Law for thirteen years?
Did you know that broadcasting brothers James R. Doss, Jr. and James L. Doss named Alabama radio stations WJRD and WJLD after themselves?
Did you know that out of three partitions of Poland , the Russian partition was the largest and most populous?
Did you know that as Texas Attorney General from 1957 to 1963, Will Wilson cracked down on prostitution rings operating in such Texan cities as Galveston , Beaumont , Texarkana and Victoria ?
Did you know that the Chinese beverage suanmeitang is made with ingredients such as sour plums , sweet osmanthus , licorice root , rock sugar , and rose petals?
Did you know that the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army received a Presidential Unit Citation for its role in the Siege of Bastogne ?
Did you know that Dorje Pakmo ('The Diamond Sow') is the highest female incarnation in Tibet, and the third-highest ranking person in the lamaist hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama ?
Did you know that the fifth season premiere of the television show Lost , titled " Because You Left ", was the first episode of the series to be both shot and edited in high-definition ?
Did you know that Lisa Rossbacher , president of Southern Polytechnic State University , is the first female geologist to become a university president?
Did you know that an exit bag , consisting of a large, clear plastic bag with a drawstring, is a commercially available device for committing suicide ?
Did you know that Katrina Mumaw became the youngest person to break the sound barrier when she piloted a MIG-29 fighter jet at Mach 1.3 on July 12, 1994 at the age of eleven?
Did you know that the Konovalyuk Commission has claimed that Ukraine 's arms sales to Georgia before and during the 2008 South Ossetia War adversely affected the country's defense capabilities?
Did you know that five former members of the Portland Trail Blazers have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Olav Ulleren , who in 1999 left his position as mayor of Tinn, Norway to become a State Secretary , lost his new position after less than one year?
Did you know that the 1930 silent film A Daughter of the Congo was billed as a “talking, singing, dancing picture” although it only contained a single short sound sequence?
Did you know that Merrill Connally , a county judge , played a part in Steven Spielberg 's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind ?
Did you know that New South Greenland was a phantom island near Antarctica , described in 1832 by Benjamin Morrell, who was called "the biggest liar in the Southern Ocean "?
Did you know that Bill Johnston was the last Australian to take 100 wickets on an Ashes tour of England , being the leading wicket-taker during the 1948 Invincibles tour ?
Did you know that the U.S. state of New York offers a school tax rebate program that saves homeowners money by reducing the assessed value of a home when calculating the property tax ?
Did you know that a principal work of mathematician Wilhelm Cauer was twice destroyed during World War II and was only published after his death by his family, who reconstructed it from the table of contents?
Did you know that Freedom House , founded in 1949, raised money to support Operation Exodus, a voluntary desegregation and busing project in Boston before court-ordered desegregation?
Did you know that the history of the ancient Mayan city of Dos Pilas has been reconstructed in more detail than almost any other Mayan site?
Did you know that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that the SS Empire Advocate was seized twice by Britain —from Germany after the First World War , and then from Italy during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Iraqi lawyer Dheyaa al-Saadi was elected president of the Iraqi Bar Association in 2006, but his election was annulled because he was once a member of Saddam Hussein 's Baath Party ?
Did you know that in the Prussian partition of Poland , Germanization policies had the opposite effect of strengthening Polish national consciousness?
Did you know that Wayne Connally , a brother of former Texas governor John Connally , was honored as "Governor for a Day" on October 7, 1971?
Did you know that Ole Georg Gjøsteen —supported by his brother Johan —is considered the " father "  of Norway 's comprehensive school system?
Did you know that the Abbott-Holloway Farm has two of the only four pre-1840 buildings in Bethlehem, Indiana , that were not destroyed by fire or tornado?
Did you know that Oleg Bogayev was honored for his absurdist play about an impoverished Russian pensioner who engages in fanciful correspondence with Queen Elizabeth II , Vladimir Lenin , and Robinson Crusoe ?
Did you know that before being used by American soldiers in the Vietnam War , the racial slur " gook " was originally directed towards Filipinos ?
Did you know that North Audley Street in Mayfair , London , is named after the English moneylender Hugh Audley ?
Did you know that the Frazier–Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1935 as violating the Fifth Amendment ?
Did you know that the German Social Democratic Party in Poland was formed in 1922 by the merger of Silesian branches of the German SPD , USPD and the Austrian SDAP ?
Did you know that the Chicago Transit Authority closed its Kostner station only eleven years after it opened, making it one of the city's shortest-lived train stations?
Did you know that Canadian authorities used the academic enrollment list of a diploma mill to arrest 24 students they wrongly accused of being an "al-Qaeda sleeper cell" in Project Thread ?
Did you know that Oregon politician Ralph Carey Geer 's grandson, Homer Davenport , was a political cartoonist ?
Did you know that while serving in the elite Russian Preobrazhensky regiment , Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy served with the future literary critic Faddei Bulgarin ?
Did you know that U.S. testing during Operation Big Itch successfully dispersed rat fleas from an aircraft?
Did you know that due to a bureaucratic error Sir Curtis Keeble was placed in charge of 2000 Russian refugees despite not speaking fluent Russian ?
Did you know that Israel 's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists ' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine ?
Did you know that quarterback Scott McBrien transferred from West Virginia to the Maryland and led Maryland to a 41–7 win over his former alma mater in the 2004 Gator Bowl ?
Did you know that Senegal pumps 1.4 billion cubic meters of water per year, 92% of which is for agriculture?
Did you know that U.S. Judge John Sprizzo refused to extradite Provisional IRA member Joe Doherty in the 1981 killing of a British soldier, citing the ambush as a "political act"?
Did you know that English dramatist Edward Rose published The Rose Reader , "a new way of teaching to read," that only used words that were spelled as they sounded?
Did you know that the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue building in the city of Detroit , Michigan ?
Did you know that Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas became the Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scouts-in-Exile when scouting was banned by the Communist government after World War II ?
Did you know that the May 1938 interception of the Rex was the largest training exercise conducted up to that time by the United States Army Air Corps ?
Did you know that the former Arab village of Majdal Yaba with its large fortress was the center of power of a clan that controlled up to 25 villages in Sanjak Nablus ?
Did you know that Wang Shizhen , then a guard commander for his brother-in-law, the Tang Dynasty warlord Li Weiyue , turned against Li Weiyue to allow his father Wang Wujun to kill Li?
Did you know that the childhood home of Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson was dedicated as an Alabama state shrine in 1947?
Did you know that a Saudi businessman offered US$10 million to buy the shoes thrown by al-Baghdadia TV correspondent Muntadhar al-Zaidi at U.S. President George W. Bush during a recent press conference?
Did you know that the Danish Monarchy's status was changed from absolute to constitutional on 5 June 1849?
Did you know that the Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan was developed by a U.S. ambassador in 1955 to reduce conflict between Israel , Jordan , and their neighbors?
Did you know that after United States Navy SEAL Erik Kristensen died in Afghanistan in 2005 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called for flags at the state Capitol to be flown at half-staff ?
Did you know that the fisheries of Chilka Lake in India sustain more than 150,000 fisherfolk living in 132 villages?
Did you know that there is suspicion that the death in prison of Kenneth Michael Trentadue was related to the Oklahoma City bombing ?
Did you know that Daniel Hoevels ' s work has been described as "helping critics rediscover Hamburg 's theater"?
Did you know that the Lola T93/30 Formula 1 car was described as "virtually undriveable" by the team 's drivers after its first race, 1993 South African Grand Prix , because of its aerodynamic deficiencies?
Did you know that author Jacqueline Wilson described Dustbin Baby , the BBC dramatisation of her novel of the same name , as the best ever film adaptation of her work?
Did you know that Finnish Swede Gustav Orreus was the first Doctor of Medicine ever commissioned in Russia ?
Did you know that there have been nine head coaches who have spent their entire National Hockey League head coaching careers with the Montreal Canadiens , a Canadian professional ice hockey franchise?
Did you know that The Golden Age is the ninth studio album by sadcore band American Music Club ?
Did you know that prior to the 1930 election the Polish government declared the candidacy of Heinrich Scheibler, the leader of the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left , to be invalid?
Did you know that 19th-century California bandit Procopio , also known as Red-Handed Dick, was said to "love the feel and the color of warm blood," and his name was used by mothers to frighten their children?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sears v. Stiffel that companies can make and sell exact copies of other companies' inventions if they are not patented ?
Did you know that the Early Cretaceous turtle Caririemys was the fifth such turtle genus to have been discovered in Brazil 's Santana Formation ?
Did you know that The New York Times called CBS News executive Robert Chandler the "creator of the 60 Minutes format" of television newsmagazines?
Did you know that a march fracture is a fracture of metatarsals mostly occurring in soldiers who need to do a lot of marching ?
Did you know that the Tigris River 's tributary, the Botan in southeastern Turkey , looks during times of peak discharge much bigger than the Tigris?
Did you know that Evald Rygh , a former Norwegian Minister of Finance and Customs , helped establish the Holmenkollen ski jump ?
Did you know that, during the team's first official season, a Maryland Terrapins football player was accused of "unaccreditable ignorance of football" after running the wrong way for 30 yards (27 metres)?
Did you know that the Little Blitzen River is a tributary of Oregon 's Donner und Blitzen River and part of the first redband trout reserve in the United States ?
Did you know that the Westminster Retable , a 13th-century panel painting at Westminster Abbey , is the oldest known altarpiece in England ?
Did you know that in Doris Lessing 's 1983 novel, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire , language becomes so distorted that some of the characters succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric"?
Did you know that the Naked Camera character Jake Stevens released the Christmas single " Merry Christmas Jakey Boy " in 2006?
Did you know that the species name Symphurus thermophilus means "heat lover", referring to the organism's association with hydrothermal vents ?
Did you know that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Christmas lights and decorations on Summer Street in Duboistown, Pennsylvania , the mayor proclaimed " December as Candy Cane Lane month forever more"?
Did you know that The Irish Times referred to a single by the band The Kinetiks as "‘Kin brilliant"?
Did you know that a plant pathologist conducted research on Christmas tree stands that showed just 6 of 22 had adequate water capacity for large Christmas trees ?
Did you know that the novel Uncle Daddy by Ralph Fletcher was awarded a 2002 Christopher Medal in the books for ages 10–12 category?
Did you know that presenter Pat Kenny tore up two tickets for The Late Late Toy Show live on air in 2008?
Did you know that the interior vaulting of the wooden synagogue of Wolpa is considered to have been "the most magnificent of all known wooden ceilings" in Europe?
Did you know that in the town of Santa Claus, Arizona , visitors could once purchase Dasher and Dancer omelettes and Santa burgers?
Did you know that in 1599, English bookseller William Barley helped publish Anthony Holborne 's Pavans, Galliards, Almains , the first instrumental (rather than vocal) music to be printed in England?
Did you know that California 's Sierra Nevada Conservancy is the largest state conservation effort of its kind in the United States ?
Did you know that " the boy Jones " repeatedly broke into Buckingham Palace in the early years of Queen Victoria 's reign?
Did you know that the 2002 album Happy Clucking Holidays consists of Christmas songs performed by Dirk Keysser clucking like a chicken?
Did you know that WKKR and WZMG (now known as WTLM ) were the first radio stations in Alabama to win NAB Crystal Radio Awards for outstanding commitment to community service ?
Did you know that Paul Lynde , who played the lead role in the 1977 U.S. television special 'Twas the Night Before Christmas , was responsible for casting fellow actor Martha Raye as his character's mother-in-law?
Did you know that Kellogg v. Nabisco , a court case about Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal , "may be the [U.S.] Supreme Court's most ... influential trademark decision"?
Did you know that the computer game " Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Trees " invites players to stop mutant fake trees from sucking the spirit out of Christmas?
Did you know that Bill May , an international champion in synchronized swimming , was barred from competing in the Olympics because of his gender?
Did you know that Robert Wells and Mel Tormé wrote " The Christmas Song " in the sweltering July heat as a means of keeping themselves cool?
Did you know that the Hooded Butcherbird of New Guinea mimics other birds such as the Rusty Pitohui , Spangled Drongo , and Helmeted Friarbird ?
Did you know that the forger who wrote an extra verse to the Norwegian Christmas song Musevisa claimed to have been inspired by the Hitler Diaries ?
Did you know that Samira Hill Gold Mine is the first commercial gold mine in Niger ?
Did you know that Bóg się rodzi , a Polish Christmas carol , has been called "one of the most beloved Polish Christmas carols"?
Did you know that Million Fax on Washington is a petition to the transition administration of Barack Obama organized by the UFO community to put the extraterrestrial issue on the new U.S. administration's agenda?
Did you know that Henrik Anker Bjerregaard wrote Norway 's first national anthem ?
Did you know that American Civil War soldiers celebrated Christmas by using salt pork and hardtack as ornaments on Christmas trees ?
Did you know that houses in the Indian village Shani Shingnapur do not have doors?
Did you know that in 1937, Harry Osman was the last footballer to score a goal on Christmas Day at Southampton 's The Dell stadium?
Did you know that the village of Christmas Common was the home of philologist and lexicographer William Craigie ?
Did you know that Bill Guckeyson , the first Maryland football player selected in the National Football League 's Draft , attended West Point and was later shot down as a fighter pilot in World War II ?
Did you know that Christmas Island National Park hosts the world's largest population of the world's largest land invertebrate , the Coconut crab ?
Did you know that celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean was featured in a number of Sunday newspapers when he bought a jet for his wife?
Did you know that some of the earliest artificial Christmas trees were made of feathers ?
Did you know that Guri Hjeltnes , though a professor of journalism , has mainly concentrated on Norwegian World War II history during her academic career?
Did you know that the annual Christmas on the River festival in Demopolis, Alabama , features a parade with floats on boats?
Did you know that Jack Armstrong pitched a no-hitter for the Nashville Sounds against the Indianapolis Indians a day after Randy Johnson and Pat Pacillo of the Indians combined for a no-hitter against the Sounds?
Did you know that Shakin' Stevens recently launched Christmas FM , Ireland 's first radio station dedicated to the festival?
Did you know that Trina Belamide , who has written songs for most of the Philippines ' top recording artists, also writes custom theme songs for weddings ?
Did you know that lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
Did you know that despite being described as "one of the strongest fortifications in the Atlantic Wall ", the fortress of Le Havre fell after only three days of attacks by British and Canadian forces in Operation Astonia ?
Did you know that as President of the Professional Golfers' Association of America , Max Elbin oversaw the departure of tournament professionals led by Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to form the PGA Tour ?
Did you know that Peloroplites was one of the largest nodosaurid dinosaurs , and came from a time when armored dinosaurs in general were attaining large sizes?
Did you know that composer William Furst died of a blood clot in his brain after injuring his foot while gardening?
Did you know that after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk , the Polish II Corps in Russia refused to surrender to the Germans ?
Did you know that it took the publisher's lawyers 14 months to approve the publication of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again , Julia Phillips ' scandalous autobiography?
Did you know that tree moss, lichen species Pseudevernia furfuracea , was used in ancient Egyptian embalming ?
Did you know that the land that became Quail Hollow State Park was owned by only two families between 1820 and its sale to Ohio as a park in 1975?
Did you know that under current Mongolian nationality law , dual citizenship is not accepted?
Did you know that although the Ironton Railroad was built to haul iron ore , it was used to deliver deer and buffalo to the Trexler Game Preserve in 1911?
Did you know that Walter Sisulu considered Moses Kotane to be a "giant of the struggle" because of his logical and non-dogmatic approach against apartheid ?
Did you know that the first draft of the script for Remember Last Night? was rejected by the Production Code Administration for its depiction of excessive drinking?
Did you know that in the Latin poem De vetula , its supposed author Ovid renounces adultery ?
Did you know that the Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration is scheduled for four days of celebration, with Washington, D.C. bars authorized to stay open until 5:00 a.m.?
Did you know that Norwegian historian Tore Pryser has criticised the perceived importance of Norwegian resistance members during World War II ?
Did you know that a murder conviction without a body was considered impossible in English law for nearly 300 years?
Did you know that Julius Fast 's first novel, Watchful at Night , won the first award presented at the inaugural Edgar Allan Poe Award ceremonies in 1946 as Best First Novel by an American author?
Did you know that tenor Albert Reiss sang in 1,070 performances at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that the captain of the Italian submarine who misidentified patrol boat USS PC-496 for a destroyer and torpedoed her was court-martialed for "wasting" a torpedo on such a small ship?
Did you know that John Tortorella is the only American to be the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning , a professional ice hockey team based in the USA ?
Did you know that although Melchior Broederlam is regarded as being key in the emergence of Early Netherlandish painting , only two of his paintings survive today?
Did you know that the Reformed Church of Beacon has the only manual-tracker pipe organ in the Hudson Valley ?
Did you know that in 1908, Maypole Colliery in Abram, Greater Manchester , England , was the site of an underground explosion that killed 75 miners?