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Did you know that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia ?
Did you know that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque ?
Did you know that mattresses lined the inside of the gun turrets of the Swedish John Ericsson -class monitors in order to catch splinters?
Did you know that Lacrosse Hall of Fame electee Scott Bacigalupo won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltender three years in a row?
Did you know that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World ?
Did you know that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine ?
Did you know that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali ?
Did you know that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball , is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
Did you know that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia ?
Did you know that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse , taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar ?
Did you know that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants ?
Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy ?
Did you know that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
Did you know that in the last days of World War II , the Red Army 's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
Did you know that Michigan 's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
Did you know that a newly constructed powership , a floating power plant , supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq ?
Did you know that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War ?
Did you know that Jon Hess , Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996 , 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
Did you know that on Easter Monday , 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising ?
Did you know that Tatyana Dyachenko , daughter of President Boris Yeltsin , worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
Did you know that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion ?
Did you know that Schenectady, New York 's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
Did you know that both Patrol 35 , based in Israel , and Tsagaan Khass , based in Mongolia , are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
Did you know that Michigan 's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
Did you know that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa ?
Did you know that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick ?
Did you know that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for " cribbing ", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams ?
Did you know that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil ?
Did you know that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh , is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics ?
Did you know that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
Did you know that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod , 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod , was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
Did you know that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin , allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall ?
Did you know that Prudent Joye , the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles , escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance ?
Did you know that in Bulgarian mythology , the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold , but it can only be identified by a tortoise ?
Did you know that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
Did you know that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
Did you know that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
Did you know that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza , a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City 's tallest building ?
Did you know that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany ?
Did you know that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
Did you know that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco , the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves ?
Did you know that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?
Did you know that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta , together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock , were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
Did you know that Pedro Almodóvar 's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections ?
Did you know that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury ?
Did you know that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
Did you know that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
Did you know that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9 , can cause sex-linked mental retardation ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Kalavrye , Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
Did you know that Peter Cushman Jones , who founded the Bank of Hawaii , arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents ?
Did you know that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
Did you know that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft ?
Did you know that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing ?
Did you know that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
Did you know that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically , sleeping a full eight hours ?
Did you know that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue "?
Did you know that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union , many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
Did you know that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt ?
Did you know that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
Did you know that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam ?
Did you know that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund , Mario G. Obledo , organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua , citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
Did you know that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate ?
Did you know that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
Did you know that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
Did you know that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?
Did you know that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
Did you know that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
Did you know that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$ 400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
Did you know that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
Did you know that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio ?
Did you know that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell 's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark , she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red "?
Did you know that Moustache , a French poodle , is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz ?
Did you know that Lusia Harris , who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft , was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA ?
Did you know that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
Did you know that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight ?
Did you know that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York , due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
Did you know that British Museum keeper John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens that was noted for its "malicious candour"?
Did you know that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa , is known as "the genius of Neive "?
Did you know that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
Did you know that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard , " Sitting on Top of the World "?
Did you know that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam , the military ruler of Ethiopia , in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
Did you know that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China 's Yunnan Province ?
Did you know that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2 ), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California ?
Did you know that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
Did you know that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou 's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie ?
Did you know that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena ?
Did you know that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that even though the Dollarway Road , Arkansas ' first road , is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356 , a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
Did you know that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
Did you know that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton , Alberta , is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson , who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
Did you know that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food ?
Did you know that Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe has scored overtime game-winning goals in both an NCAA Championship game and a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship game?
Did you know that the Albion River Bridge , the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1 , has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation ?
Did you know that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Nois threw a pig's head after him?
Did you know that Ben Cooper, Inc. , the " Halston of Halloween", said it sold a scary 4 million Halloween costumes in the United States in 1990?
Did you know that Margaret Jones was the first person in Boston to be executed for witchcraft in a New England witch hunt that lasted between 1648 and 1663?
Did you know that ghosts at Preston Manor , reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses, have included a grey lady, an excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one driving a toy tractor?
Did you know that a disc jockey at WTCM-FM created a song about the Michigan Dogman , which has been sighted in northwestern Michigan , as an April Fools' Day joke?
Did you know that the bone skipper came back from the dead after 160 years to feed on rotting bones ?
Did you know that critics praised a scene in the horror film Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp where a student is attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades?
Did you know that the " Devils Brigade " was conceived to tell of 19 men who went halfway to hell?
Did you know that the Beginning of the End could not begin until 200 grasshoppers had been sexed?
Did you know that bonfire toffee is brittle, dark toffee associated with Halloween and Bonfire Night in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that the Ipswich Witchcraft Trial has been called the "Second Salem Witch Trial ", and was the last witch trial held in the United States?
Did you know that a slime mold eats the decaying remains of the Devil's tongue barrel ?
Did you know that, according to legend, a wooded area in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania , is home to seven gates that lead directly to hell ?
Did you know that Podostroma cornu-damae can shrink your brain , make your skin fall off , cause you to speak and move abnormally and kill you?
Did you know that Johnny Cash cast Watergate scandal prosecutor James F. Neal to play a lawyer in the 1983 made-for-television movie Murder in Coweta County ?
Did you know that in various regions in India , a haunting bhoot can be thwarted using water , steel or iron objects, or the scent of burnt turmeric ?
Did you know that Irish psychic Sandra Ramdhanie , who specialises in exorcisms , was born on Halloween night?
Did you know that an 18th-century soldier, court-martialed for sleeping at his post, swore that he heard the clock of St Paul's Cathedral strike 13 times – and other witnesses corroborated it, saving his life?
Did you know that Ann Hibbins was convicted and hanged for being a witch in Boston, Massachusetts in 1656, 36 years prior to the beginning of the Salem Witch Trials ?
Did you know that in the requiem mass for John F. Kennedy , Mac Morgan performed the bass solo of Mozart 's Requiem ?
Did you know that Fohoren was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor which were ruled by a Liurai ?
Did you know that Steven Girvin 's group has successfully implemented quantum algorithms on a two- qubit quantum processor?
Did you know that St Peter's Church, Northampton is considered by the Churches Conservation Trust to be "the most outstanding Norman church in the county" of Northamptonshire ?
Did you know that Lord William VI of Montpellier (1121–49) looked out for the interests of the merchants of his town, since his revenues depended on theirs?
Did you know that two Critically Endangered palms in Madagascar , Dypsis brevicaulis and Dypsis humilis , have fewer than 60 known specimens in the wild combined?
Did you know that Harold Martin won election to the New Jersey General Assembly in the 39th District running in support of the creation of a state income tax ?
Did you know that in a best-dressed list published in 1958 by the New York Dress Institute, Consuelo Crespi was ranked third, behind the Duchess of Windsor but ahead of Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that Grace Cossington Smith 's The Bridge in Curve was rejected from the 1930 Society of Artists exhibition, but is now described as one of Australia 's most significant modernist paintings?
Did you know that Indian badminton player P. V. Sindhu reported on time at the coaching camps despite travelling 56 kilometres (35 mi) on a daily basis?
Did you know that of seven entries in a 1935 Bureau of Air Commerce competition to build a roadable aircraft from a Pitcairn autogiro , only the Autogiro Company of America AC-35 met all requirements?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team lost their "emotional leader" in Denis Clemente ?
Did you know that Harold Greenwood , acquitted in 1920 of the murder of his wife, is a rare example of a lawyer charged with murder ?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Wormsley , Herefordshire , are the chest tombs of writer Richard Payne Knight and his brother Thomas , an expert on apple trees?
Did you know that the United States federal case Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc. held that recommending trademarks for keyword advertising was commercial use?
Did you know that Chinese warlord Li Jinglin (1885–1931), nicknamed "China's First Sword", was a renowned swordsman and baguazhang martial artist?
Did you know that Czech architect Ladislav Žák found design inspiration from ocean liners and airplanes ?
Did you know that on 4 April 1866, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her brother Nicholas were accompanying their uncle, Emperor Alexander II of Russia , when someone tried to assassinate him?
Did you know that the Oregon Maneuver involved over 100,000 United States Army troops?
Did you know that American Piedmont blues singer Irene Scruggs worked alongside Clarence Williams , Joe "King" Oliver , Lonnie Johnson , and Little Brother Montgomery , but today remains largely forgotten?
Did you know that in 2008, Indian boxer Nanao Singh Thokchom won a gold medal at the inaugural Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Guadalajara , Mexico ?
Did you know that scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have created a bacterium with a synthesized genome ?
Did you know that the Acheron class torpedo boat and the Avernus were sold separately after they were joined together to become part of the Commonwealth Naval Forces ?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster has included Allens , Bateses , Covingtons , Delahantys , Ennises , Fultzes , Greens , Hamiltons , Jacksons , Kennedys , Lees , Morgans , Nicholsons , Powells , Robertses , Schmidts , Thompsons , Vukoviches , Watts , and Youngs , but never a player whose surname begins with X ?
Did you know that John E. Bush was sent on a mission to form a Polynesian empire with only one ship manned by a boy's band?
Did you know that five High Sheriffs of Kent lived at Oxon Hoath , a former manor house at West Peckham ?
Did you know that when Einar Johannessen was suspended from NRK television because of payments in his secondary job, the decision was overturned by the Ministry of Culture ?
Did you know that the Federalists of New England did not support the War of 1812 , so Captain Oliver Filley of Connecticut , who built the Oliver Filley House , commanded 40 militiamen under state control?
Did you know that Giovanni Francisco Vigani became the first professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1703?
Did you know that Viacom sued YouTube , seeking damages of US$ 1 billion ?
Did you know that eleven-year National Football League veteran defensive back Maurice Douglass was once a professional stripper ?
Did you know that Commissioner of Guam José Sisto was arrested for misappropriation of government funds and exiled to Manila in 1899?
Did you know that in Lamparello v. Falwell , Jerry Falwell lost one of the earliest cases of trademark infringement based on cybersquatting ?
Did you know that Democratic Party leaders convinced Frank Herbert to run as a write-in against white supremacist John Kucek, saying "the first thing we had to do was convince people not to vote for the Nazi "?
Did you know that the book Targeted Killing in International Law argues support in the Western world for targeted killing increased following the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that Rodrigo Rivera Salazar , Colombia 's new Minister of Defence started working in politics when he was only 20 years old as a Councilman in his native Pereira ?
Did you know that Magic Johnson , the first overall pick in the 1979 NBA Draft , won the NBA championship and the Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his first season in the league?
Did you know that Joseph Mitchell Parsons was the first prisoner to die in an execution chamber at Utah State Prison designed to accommodate both firing squads and lethal injections ?
Did you know that cheeses made from thermized milk are not considered raw-milk cheeses in Europe, but are still subject to FDA restrictions on raw-milk cheeses in the U.S.?
Did you know that Louis F. Bantle saw U.S. Tobacco 's income rise tenfold to US$ 1 billion led by sales of smokeless tobacco , telling managers, "We must sell the use of tobacco in the mouth and appeal to young people"?
Did you know that i , a British newspaper launched on 26 October 2010, contains several "matrixes" – small paragraphs of news which are expanded upon in full articles inside the paper?
Did you know that 1366 Technologies has created a technique to cast silicon wafers from the melt rather than sawing them from an ingot ?
Did you know that Wesley Bennett scored 21 points to lead Westminster College to a 37–33 victory over St. John's University in the opening game of the first college doubleheader played at Madison Square Garden ?