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Did you know that Eagle Butte Mine in Gillette , Wyoming, is an open-pit "truck and shovel" mine that has produced over 500 million short tons of coal since 1978?
Did you know that John H. Foley was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading a charge into a Sioux encampment without knowing the enemy's strength?
Did you know that Holy Spirit College in Atlanta , Georgia , will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
Did you know that Irish Socialist Republican Party co-founder Robert Dorman became the first Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland ?
Did you know that Ed Reulbach of the 1908 Chicago Cubs is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to have pitched two shutouts on the same day?
Did you know that Jean-Joseph Marcel was first to realize that the middle text of the Rosetta Stone was Egyptian demotic script, and not Syriac ?
Did you know that the plot of Pac-Man Pinball Advance focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?
Did you know that six-year-old Elena Desserich left hundreds of notes, which were published in Notes Left Behind , for her parents to find after her death?
Did you know that Erysiphe alphitoides , which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics ?
Did you know that the Louisiana Reconstruction politician Marshall H. Twitchell survived six bullets in an 1876 assassination attempt but lost the use of both arms?
Did you know that although St Benet's Chapel, Netherton , Liverpool , was built in 1793, when Catholics were free to worship openly, it was concealed behind the presbytery ?
Did you know that deuterium burning acts as a thermostat in newly forming stars ?
Did you know that the Nazi false flag liquidation operation Blumenpflücken has, well into the 1990s, misled people to believe that non-Nazis carried out certain liquidations?
Did you know that, two years after winning the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Indian Wars , George W. Thompson deserted the U.S. Army ?
Did you know that the Hindu goddess Chhaya was born from the shadow of goddess Sanjna and replaced Sanjna in her house, after the latter abandoned her husband?
Did you know that in June 1940 the Royal Air Force supplied the boats for Operation Collar , the first British raid on occupied France ?
Did you know that the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary ?
Did you know that the National Library of Indonesia was established in 1980 through a consolidation of four libraries?
Did you know that Thomas H. Paterniti introduced legislation in the state of New Jersey that would hold owners of adult bookstores liable if individuals contracted AIDS as a result of sexual activity on the premises?
Did you know that Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar ?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust was named for Saint John Chrysostom ?
Did you know that Herb Gardiner , nicknamed "the ironman of hockey", won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player after being said to have played every minute of every game for the Montreal Canadiens in 1926–27 ?
Did you know that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa ?
Did you know that although it cost just £ 500,000 to make, on its opening day Morris: A Life with Bells On had a higher take per screen than the studio-backed big budget film The Soloist ?
Did you know that the extent of damage to buildings in the 1978 Miyagi earthquake caused revisions to both the Japanese Building Standards act and the Earthquake Insurance System ?
Did you know that Frankliniella tritici , known as Eastern flower thrips , is an insect that damages crops in the United States of America, including strawberries , grapes , beans and asparagus ?
Did you know that in 1962, biophysicist Jerome Wolken proposed sending cockroaches into space as part of an effort to detect signs of extraterrestrial life ?
Did you know that the first ever boycott to be given that name was organised by the Irish Land League against Captain Charles Boycott ?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Mosienko is most famous for scoring three goals in a span of 21 seconds in a 1952 game, a feat that remains a National Hockey League record?
Did you know that in neutral Sweden during World War II , the communist newspapers Ny Dag and Sydsvenska Kuriren were banned from being carried on trains and public buses?
Did you know that Mexican bandit Chucho el Roto has been compared to Robin Hood ?
Did you know that the Koebel House was the first commission for the father-and-son firm of Eliel and Eero Saarinen , and included a built-in electrical and sound system controlled from the master bedroom?
Did you know that a Catholic church in the Lithuanian town of Valkininkai claims to have the body of Saint Boniface of Tarsus , a 4th-century martyr?
Did you know that Australia's native broom is a pea ?
Did you know that the many descendants of merchant ship captain Joseph Oliver Carter included diplomat Henry A. P. Carter , Parker Ranch manager Alfred W. Carter , and Hawaii Governor George R. Carter ?
Did you know that, in 2009, Somerset County Cricket Club were boosted by the batting of Marcus Trescothick , who scored 1,817 runs ?
Did you know that Melvin Bernhardt made his London directing debut with a production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ?
Did you know that the walls of the Catholic church in Cassella, Ohio , which burned in an 1888 fire, remained unrepaired for nearly thirty years?
Did you know that although the Malagasy bat Neoromicia malagasyensis was first collected in 1967, it was not formally described until 1995?
Did you know that Larissa Riquelme , who gained international fame as a spectator at the 2010 FIFA World Cup , is Paraguay 's highest-paid model ?
Did you know that Nueces Bay in Texas was once referred to as papelote or Wastepaper Bay ?
Did you know that during the early Middle Ages the Gothic rulers in Western Europe established their own ( Arian ) churches alongside the Roman churches of their subjects?
Did you know that Alan M. Kriegsman won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his work at The Washington Post , the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for reporting as a dance critic?
Did you know that the Ślężanie were a tribe of West Slavs of the Polish group , inhabiting territories of Silesia , which is named after them, near Ślęża mountain and river, up to the area of modern city of Wrocław ?
Did you know that Somerset cricketer Bill Hyman hit 62 runs from two overs of lob bowling by W G Grace 's older brother ?
Did you know that during the Byzantine Iconoclasm , Michael Lachanodrakon allegedly forced monks and nuns to marry, abolished monasteries, tortured and executed iconophiles and set fire to relics and scriptures?
Did you know that HootSuite , which helps users organize their online identities, is used by the Obama administration and Jimmy Wales , the co-founder of Wikipedia , among 400,000 other people?
Did you know that the former Smith Tavern in Armonk, New York , has been a militia headquarters, stagecoach stop, post office, parsonage , farmhouse and museum in over 200 years of existence?
Did you know that Malcolm Shabazz is the first male descendant of Malcolm X ?
Did you know that, during Meridian City Hall 's renovation , 1,643 terracotta tiles had to be replaced with exact replicas , which only two companies in the world could manufacture?
Did you know that Victorien Sardou successfully sued the French periodical Gil Blas for damages when it published a plot description of his play La Tosca before the opening night?
Did you know that the fossil dormouse Seorsumuscardinus is known only from isolated teeth?
Did you know that Catherine Pollard was the first female Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America ?
Did you know that the Third Battle of Seoul was the British 29th Infantry Brigade 's first action during the Korean War ?
Did you know that the Holbrooke Hotel includes a restaurant whose chef gets mushrooms and wild lettuce from local State Park Rangers ?
Did you know that the U.S. Army created the "Combat Infantry Band" in World War II specifically to play Frank Loesser 's song, " The Ballad of Rodger Young " (listen) ⓘ ?
Did you know that professional baseball player Hank Erickson was nicknamed "Popeye" due to his supposed resemblance to the comic strip character ?
Did you know that Coanwood Friends Meeting House in Northumberland has not been modified since it was built in 1760, other than replacing its thatched roof with slates ?
Did you know that William Robert Ming helped obtain an acquittal on perjury charges for Martin Luther King, Jr. from an all-white jury in 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama ?
Did you know that the prisoner rehabilitation Second Chance Program , based on works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard , was criticized during the 2010 United States Senate elections in Nevada ?
Did you know that the phototypesetting process developed by inventors Louis Moyroud and Rene Alphonse Higonnet in the 1940s helped make the hot metal typesetting of the Linotype machine obsolete?
Did you know that although it has been said that she had enough money to buy the city of Hoboken , the "Witch of Wall Street " Hetty Green chose to rent a small, cheap apartment in the Yellow Flats for $19 a month?
Did you know that in 1980 the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros in three straight games by one run each to force a tie-breaker game between the two teams which the Dodgers ultimately lost?
Did you know that several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that the praetorium site of the Pilate's Court is believed to be either Antonia Fortress or the Palace of Herod?
Did you know that according to the Catholic religious scholar John A. Saliba , new religious movements often serve as a temporary haven for young people, enabling them to stabilise their lives?
Did you know that in 1943 all the British Commandos involved in Operation Checkmate were captured and sent to concentration camps ?
Did you know that Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon characters but only 50% of common species of British wildlife ?
Did you know that the Wairau , Awatere , Clarence and Hope faults , are the main active faults of the Marlborough Fault System , and carry most of the displacement on the Australian - Pacific plate boundary in northern South Island ?
Did you know that Bach 's solo cantata for alto Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 for the sixth Sunday after Trinity , was recorded by Maureen Forrester , Andreas Scholl and Julia Hamari ?
Did you know that the 5th century Yemeni King Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad is widely believed to have been a convert to Judaism ?
Did you know that a telescope , high school , bridge , and locks and dam are among the places named for United States Senator Robert Byrd in the U.S. state of West Virginia ?
Did you know that the historian Robert W. Mondy 's Jesse Mercer : A Study in Frontier Religion , is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon , Georgia ?
Did you know that the Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party , founded in 1903, was the first Catholic political organization in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine ?
Did you know that while interned in a Japanese POW camp , the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk cultured yeast to ferment rice, producing much-needed vitamins for fellow prisoners?
Did you know that Abbot Peter of Farfa rescued his abbey's library and archives when it was attacked by the Saracens in 897?
Did you know that following his return to Chile in 1880, the newspaper editor Recaredo Santos Tornero established the country's first paper mill ?
Did you know that although Chris Young was voted Tu'i Manu'a Elisala by several chiefs in American Samoa , Governor Edward Stanley Kellogg denied him the title, claiming it was incompatible with the United States Constitution ?
Did you know that Novum Testamentum Graece published by Eberhard Nestle in 1898 is still edited to the present day?
Did you know that the dam at Red Hills State Park was damaged by the 2008 Illinois earthquake ?
Did you know that Thomas H. Forsyth was denied the Medal of Honor by the United States Department of War but later received it after a petition nearly 20 years later?
Did you know that the villagers of the Romanian village of Bigar largely speak Czech rather than Romanian ?
Did you know that there are over 300 trails in the Boy Scouts of America 's Historic Trails Award program and that there is at least one in every US state?
Did you know that the Simmons & Wright Company building, built in far eastern Mississippi in 1884, was filmed for the movie Due Date ?
Did you know that Cherubim Dambui was the first premier of Papua New Guinea 's East Sepik Province and the first Sepik person to be ordained a Catholic priest ?
Did you know that Robert de Munro , the first chief of the Clan Munro to appear in contemporary sources, was slain in about 1369?
Did you know that the rare American Walking Fern can be found in Wildcat Mountain State Park , a Wisconsin state park in the Driftless Area ?
Did you know that a French expedition in Syria occurred in 1860–61, to reestablish order following the massacre of Maronite Christians by Druzes and Muslims ?
Did you know that the extensive manhunt that took place after the Stalag Luft III murders was the only time that a major war crime was investigated by a single service branch of any nation's military?
Did you know that Harry Oliver , Barney Stanley and Rusty Crawford , members of the Calgary Tigers in the 1920s, all went on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that it is reputed that Salem Chapel, East Budleigh , Devon , was involved with smuggling during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Did you know that Cleveland Indians first-round draft pick CC Sabathia won the Major League Baseball Cy Young Award in 2007?
Did you know that the Congregational Chapel of Nantwich , Cheshire , was founded in 1780 by a former captain of the dragoons preaching in a coachmaker 's shop?
Did you know that Yuri Matochkin , the first post- Soviet governor of Kaliningrad Oblast , favoured closer ties with the European Union ?
Did you know that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood , like the spiny lobster , through its co-operatives ?
Did you know that the asteroid 21 Lutetia discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt is being visited by the ESA spacecraft Rosetta today?
Did you know that the 1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team was never sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for using ineligible players although the Big Eight Conference vacated three wins?
Did you know that after the six-year study A Christian reflection on the New Age , the Catholic Church rejected all that is close to the New Age ?
Did you know that when former General Motors president F. James McDonald was asked what he might have done differently, he said he "would make the Eldorado seven inches longer"?
Did you know that the Family E is one of the earliest textual families of the Byzantine text-type ?
Did you know that in mycology , a sanctioned name refers to those used in early taxonomical works by Persoon or Fries ?
Did you know that the Kildare Poems , one of the first documents of Irish English , contain a satire written by 14th-century Franciscan monks against the immoral lifestyle of other monks?
Did you know that New Zealand MP William Downie Stewart ' s son, William Downie Stewart , became Mayor of Dunedin —and his daughter Mary served as Lady Mayoress ?
Did you know that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft 's E3 2010 press conference?
Did you know that the Holocaust's Arab hero Khaled Abdul-Wahab is sometimes called an Arab Oskar Schindler ?
Did you know that at least four different knuckleball pitchers have been credited as the inventor of the knuckleball , first used in the 1907 or 1908 baseball season?
Did you know that Truth was the first crime genre novel to win Australia's Miles Franklin Award ?
Did you know that, in one study on the aetosaur Redondasuchus , the orientation of a diagram in the paper may have contributed to the misidentification of its holotype as a left scute rather than a right?
Did you know that the Kentucky attorney and politician Fuller Harding died in 2010 in the same house in which he was born in 1915?
Did you know that Frank Curto Park , named after a local horticulturist , contains a collection of unusual urban art pieces?
Did you know that in the 19th century Albanian scholar and patriot Naum Veqilharxhi invented a brand new alphabet to write in the Albanian language ?
Did you know that the Oklahoma football team coached by Fred Ewing played one game that had a ten-minute half and was on a 75-yard field , the lines of which the players chalked themselves?
Did you know that the 2001 discovery of the Serendib Scops Owl was the first discovery of a new endemic bird species in Sri Lanka since 1868?
Did you know that John James was awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in action" after defending the Lyman Train from Indian attacks for three days?
Did you know that modernist architect Peter Womersley (1923–1993) designed a house and studio for the textile designer Bernat Klein , both of which are now Category A listed buildings ?
Did you know that Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is not in the U.S. State of Arizona but rather in Oregon ?
Did you know that Brigadier General James Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor twenty years after his actions in the pursuit of Chief Joseph following the Battle of the Clearwater in 1877?
Did you know that Lithuanian art historian Paulius Galaunė studied psychoneurology at the University of St. Petersburg ?
Did you know that Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso , Texas , is the site of the only tin mine ever operated in the United States?
Did you know that Irish neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick drew upon influences from the X-Men character of Wolverine to pioneer bionic development for animals?
Did you know that in the Eccles by-election of 1890 , Henry John Roby of the Liberal Party gained the seat from the Conservatives , which was seen as a setback for the Unionist government of Lord Salisbury ?
Did you know that in 1979 Stanley Wagner opened his vineyard in the Finger Lakes area and by 1981 The New York Times said its wine had the characteristics of "some of the great white Burgundies of France"?
Did you know that, according to the Bible , Jezebel was defenestrated in Jezreel ?
Did you know that the cargo ship Nikolai Bauman was scuttled in 1964 with a load of nuclear waste ?
Did you know that Chaim Sofer ruled that under Jewish law , abortions were not allowed in some cases?
Did you know that in 2008, after 104 years of existence, Hull City was promoted to play in the English Premier League for the first time?
Did you know that the election of Upendra J. Chivukula to the New Jersey General Assembly from the 17th Legislative District made him the first South Asian elected to the New Jersey Legislature ?
Did you know that Frederick Jarvis is one of only eight Medal of Honor recipients from Utah and one of only three buried in the state?
Did you know that electric drive cars are so quiet at slow speeds that they pose a safety hazard for pedestrians, and will be equipped with electric warning sounds ?
Did you know that Corey Allen fought James Dean and cut him with a knife during filming of Rebel Without A Cause ?
Did you know that Bill Dague was the first consensus All-American football player from the United States Naval Academy ?
Did you know that the Landespartei , which represented the most radical wing of the Alsatian autonomist movement, moved closer to fascist positions during the 1930s?
Did you know that Hugh Knox , son of the U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General , was an All-American halfback at Yale ?
Did you know that siege towers at the Siege of Coria in 1138 reached above the city walls, but the general leading the assault, Rodrigo Martínez , was killed while climbing one?
Did you know that the a cappella ensemble amarcord , five former members of the Thomanerchor , won the CARA award "Best classical album" again in 2010, for Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love)?
Did you know that the 1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team set the all-time college football Division I record for rushing yards per game?
Did you know that in late 17th-century London , men put on women's clothing and walked the streets in hopes of catching the eye of Whipping Tom ?
Did you know that Liber Eliensis records that Ælfwaru granted to Ely Abbey the lands of Bridgham , Hingham , Weeting , Rattlesden , Mundford , Thetford , and fisheries around those marshes?
Did you know that in 1947, 72 out of 126 trade unions in Singapore were affiliated to the communist -led Singapore Federation of Trade Unions ?
Did you know that William O'Neill was awarded the Medal of Honor for his part in a charge at Fort Sill in 1872 which ended 17 years of combat?
Did you know that composer Allyn Ferguson , co-creator of themes for Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels , was cited by Variety as being "among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years"?
Did you know that the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors are still sung by Albanian bards, who are assumed to be the very last traditional native singers of epic verses in Europe ?
Did you know that Frank Joranko was selected as the most valuable football player in the MIAA and later coached Albion College to nine MIAA baseball championships?
Did you know that according to Hindu cosmology , women seduce and increase the sexual energy of men who enter the first realm of the underworld by intoxicating them?
Did you know that members of the Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement Intercessors of the Lamb wear teal habits because the color represents intercession between a green earth and a blue heaven?
Did you know that Bam Aquino became the youngest person in Philippine history to head a government agency when he was appointed at age 26 to become Chairman of the National Youth Commission ?
Did you know that art collective Vertical Submarine , winners of the President’s Young Talents award in 2009, placed gray sunflowers in the Singapore Botanic Gardens with a poem by the fictional Chien Swee-Teng?
Did you know that Oklahoma Sooners football head coach Barry Switzer won eight consecutive Big Eight Conference college football championships in his first eight years with the 1973 , 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 , and 1980 teams ?
Did you know that the clientele of Diego's Hair Salon has included politicians, diplomats, and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices ?
Did you know that officials at Brooklyn College implored federal officials not to hire William L. Taylor for a government job, saying he had "espoused liberal causes such as the rights of the Negro in the South"?
Did you know that a German submarine sank the Soviet Revolution ?
Did you know that Clemens von Delbrück received the Order of the Black Eagle on his dismissal as Vice-Chancellor of Germany ?
Did you know that Canadian TV series Brothers TV was described as "lowbrow comedic stuff that is ever-so-watchable" but only ran for eight episodes?
Did you know that Sergeant John O'Callaghan and Private Michael O'Regan were among thirty men in the same regiment to be awarded the Medal of Honor , one of the largest presentations ever made at the time?
Did you know that the success of the album Dos by Myriam Hernández helped her to sign a recording contract with Warner Music ?
Did you know that Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles ?