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Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci , angry that he was removed from command due to his brother Zhu Tao 's rebellion, later tried to become emperor of his own state of Qin?
Did you know that the members of the Canadian alternative dance band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker met while stocking the beer fridge at a golf course?
Did you know that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association ?
Did you know that Baghdad was under siege for more than a year during a civil war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate ?
Did you know that architect Andrew Rebori once referred to modern buildings as "steel and glass upside-down cakes"?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Gilma was, in terms of wind speed , the weakest named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season ?
Did you know that two weeks before the 1964 bombings of the United States Embassy in Libreville , Gabon , the country had undergone an abortive coup d'etat which overthrew its president, Leon M'ba ?
Did you know that Farhad Reza , along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers , was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League ?
Did you know that the papal election in 1159 that followed the death of Pope Adrian IV resulted in a papal schism , which lasted until 1178?
Did you know that Michael P.C. Carns , who was the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1991–94, received numerous military awards and decorations such as the Silver Star ?
Did you know that the Instructions of Shuruppak , first attested in a tablet from Abu Salabikh , has been called "the most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian "?
Did you know that J. Clarence Karcher invented the reflection seismograph and founded Geophysical Service Incorporated , which became Texas Instruments ?
Did you know that Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game ?
Did you know that the damaged and demasted brig Polly drifted over six months and more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the Atlantic with its surviving crew?
Did you know that the Lombard duke Euin had to twice defend the Duchy of Trent from the Franks , in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?
Did you know that Vihar Lake , the largest in Mumbai , was created in 1860?
Did you know that socialite Hazel Crane 's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy ?
Did you know that reforms enacted by Eleftherios Venizelos , after the 1909 Goudi coup helped bring him to power, largely forestalled the development of strong socialist and agrarian movements then seen elsewhere in the Balkans ?
Did you know that Diocesan School for Girls students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops?
Did you know that Britain 's Heather Fell , the 2008 Olympic silver medallist in modern pentathlon , had to work three part-time jobs in order to fund her training?
Did you know that Fateh Sagar Lake was re-created in 1888 by re-constructing an earlier earth dam which got washed away?
Did you know that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia 's win at the 1989 contest ?
Did you know that The City Sun , a black-owned newspaper, told David Dinkins , New York City 's first African American mayor, that he was "beginning to look like a wimp"?
Did you know that according to recent research, the shadow trevally is one of the first fish to move in after a ship is scuttled ?
Did you know that Myna Potts , an historical preservationist from West Texas , converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?
Did you know that the Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper II armoured vehicle has a 0.5-inch (13 mm) thick armour that can provide protection against 7.62mm armour piercing ammunition ?
Did you know that new Manchester City F.C. chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak was also the man who negotiated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 's inclusion in the 2009 Formula One season ?
Did you know that North University Park in Los Angeles contains many well-preserved Victorian houses and was the birthplace of U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson ?
Did you know that when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning , his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
Did you know that the coastal trevally is frequently known under an incorrect Latin name because of a typo in the first volume to describe it?
Did you know that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon , Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?
Did you know that in Norse mythology , Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme " Jack and Jill "?
Did you know that Al Jackson and Roger Craig share the worst winning percentage of the Opening Day starting pitchers for the New York Mets with a record of 0–2?
Did you know that Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar , Austria and Portugal ?
Did you know that the ceiling of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme ?
Did you know that in the fictional 1977 novel The Sword of Shannara , Shea Ohmsford is the only descendant of Jerle Shannara left in the Four Lands , and therefore the only one left who can use the Sword of Shannara ?
Did you know that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)?
Did you know that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury ?
Did you know that British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency 's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that " All the Way " by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks ?
Did you know that the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690?
Did you know that photojournalist Stanley Greene 's image of a tutu -clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall ?
Did you know that when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
Did you know that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers , including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson ?
Did you know that when Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies orchestrated Swansea rugby club 's defeat of the touring All Blacks they were both still schoolboys?
Did you know that the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash caused the Columbia Metropolitan Airport to be closed for a day because the other runway at the airport was also unusable since it was undergoing resurfacing?
Did you know that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay ?
Did you know that " Go, Cubs, Go " was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
Did you know that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine ?
Did you know that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season , Billy Coutu 's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?
Did you know that the works of German artist Erich Buchholz were labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis , and only after the end of WWII his work became appreciated?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang ?
Did you know that the Pakistan Cricket Board accused Cricket Australia of double-standards when the latter expressed its willingness to tour India even while cancelling its tour to Pakistan earlier this year?
Did you know that Ageratina adenophora , a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia , India and the United States , causes respiratory  failure called "blowing disease" in horses ?
Did you know that before her election to the New York State Senate , Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City ?
Did you know that Azúcar Moreno 's song " Bandido " caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?
Did you know that Jack Hillman was responsible for the earliest recorded case of match fixing in football ?
Did you know that Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke drowned when his boat capsized returning to shore?
Did you know that there were several allegations of cheating during the 1994 Formula One season ?
Did you know that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II ?
Did you know that Udo Zimmermann 's opera , Die weisse Rose tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl , a brother and sister who were guillotined by the Nazis for leading a non-violent resistance group?
Did you know that Half Japanese 's Greatest Hits was included in Blender 's top 100 indie rock albums?
Did you know that the Idangai or left-hand is the name of a faction of six castes which existed in Tamil society in ancient times?
Did you know that Orson Welles ' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel 's Simon of the Desert ?
Did you know that the first library catalog was the Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria ?
Did you know that in 1998, Henry Kissinger introduced Lynn Forester to her future husband, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild ?
Did you know that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple ?
Did you know that victory in the 1904 FA Cup Final gave Manchester City F.C. their first major honour?
Did you know that architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?
Did you know that the producers of 2008 Hindi espionage thriller film Mukhbiir offered a money back guarantee for those who did not like the film, but prepared the refund for only 5,000 viewers?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Jones was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas as a reward for his severity in sentencing, and then removed three years later for not being severe enough?
Did you know that Partenope was the first opera written by an American -born composer ?
Did you know that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish , and that she herself is responsible for their translation ?
Did you know that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros ' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona , who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas ?
Did you know that in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site?
Did you know that as captain of the cruiser Pittsburgh , future four-star admiral John E. Gingrich managed to sail his ship 900 miles (1,400 km) to safety after a typhoon tore off its bow ?
Did you know that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
Did you know that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg , and later tried and executed for treason ?
Did you know that jökulhlaups , glacial bursts, from Oregon 's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?
Did you know that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales , with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death ?
Did you know that New York State Assembly member David Koon has pushed for full funding for E911 , a system of automatically locating 9-1-1 callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?
Did you know that the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao ?
Did you know that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff , Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated ?
Did you know that after examining 2,500 witness statements and approximately 270,000 pages of evidence, The Shipman Inquiry concluded that doctor Harold Shipman had murdered 250 of his patients?
Did you know that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?
Did you know that Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch , responsible for identifying remains of 9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed ?
Did you know that the lattice phase equaliser was invented by Otto Zobel , better known for his work on constant-resistance networks to equalise amplitude?
Did you know that the 1935 short subject Alibi Bye Bye was the last film appearance of the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough ?
Did you know that systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?
Did you know that the 1993 Independence Bowl was the first game in which a blocked field goal was returned for a touchdown by a Virginia Tech football player?
Did you know that 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun , the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan ?
Did you know that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov 's novel Pale Fire ?
Did you know that the spectators killed in Alex Fiorio 's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver?
Did you know that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke ?
Did you know that Charles Beattie became a British Member of Parliament despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out?
Did you know that Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America?
Did you know that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island , were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?
Did you know that, since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?
Did you know that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet ?
Did you know that Henry Taylor Parker , a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was " Boston 's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
Did you know that Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner ?
Did you know that in the Florida Marlins ' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day ?
Did you know that Louis Réard , who invented the bikini , chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris ?
Did you know that despite a US$ 900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?
Did you know that the via ferrata Ivano Dibona in the Cristallo in the Dolomites is a restored historical route which was used during World War I ?
Did you know that Herbert Mayfield , one of the Mayfield Brothers, a bluegrass band , earned his living as a welder for cattle feedlots in West Texas ?
Did you know that Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique ?
Did you know that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London 's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?
Did you know that U.S. bodybuilding champion Brandon Curry was first interested in weight training when he received a pair of Hulk Hogan -branded dumbbells for his sixth birthday?
Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove , designed by Sir Charles Barry , was the first Italianate-style church in England ?
Did you know that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library 's Helen Bernstein Book Award?
Did you know that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds ?
Did you know that United Copper survived a lengthy battle with Standard Oil -controlled Amalgamated Copper , backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller , only to collapse in the Panic of 1907 ?
Did you know that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing ?
Did you know that some believe the pictographs in Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a puberty ritual?
Did you know that The Dave Clark Five sang London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball 's 1966 TV special Lucy in London ?
Did you know that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage , at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22 ?
Did you know that Philip Marc , King John 's sheriff in Nottinghamshire , should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta ?
Did you know that Orson Welles shot the footage for his unfinished film The Dreamers in his Hollywood home?
Did you know that athlete So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau that allowed him time to train?
Did you know that the first mail chute was installed in the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York in 1884?
Did you know that Operation Mole Cricket 19 was the first time a Western air force successfully destroyed a Soviet -built SAM network?
Did you know that historian Maurice Isserman , known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left , has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas ?
Did you know that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess , saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?
Did you know that the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?
Did you know that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel -powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?
Did you know that Paralympic gold medalist swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis are nicknamed the "golden couple" of disability swimming?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court 's Prima Paint decision created the separability principle , requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses be decided by the arbitrator?
Did you know that Kamio Mitsuomi , an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI ?
Did you know that the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York , is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
Did you know that the Smallville version of fictional character Lex Luthor was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?
Did you know that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War , HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar ?
Did you know that a Saturday Night Live sketch , featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
Did you know that goalkeeper Peter Litchfield donated the man of the match award from his Football League debut to motor neurone disease in memory of former teammate Mel Holden?
Did you know that the 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python was inspired by a 7th-century myth of the Wagadu people of Western Africa ?
Did you know that New Zealand telecommunications entrepreneur Annette Presley once claimed that she would work as the CEO of Telecom New Zealand for NZ$ 1?
Did you know that the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut ?
Did you know that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI , led to Charles Townshend 's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut ?
Did you know that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library ?
Did you know that Kitigan Zibi , a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec , is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
Did you know that the Commercial & Financial Chronicle was modeled after The Economist to be the first weekly national  business newspaper in the United States?
Did you know that Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
Did you know that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet ?
Did you know that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day ?
Did you know that Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain ?
Did you know that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville , she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore?
Did you know that in 2005, Abdullah Wardak , a former Mujahideen commander from Afghanistan , received the " key to the city " of Evansville, Indiana ?
Did you know that a recent live performance of " The Robots " by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles ?
Did you know that the origin of Chicano literature , the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen , in search of immortality , consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist , which eventually killed him?
Did you know that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle -based apple export company?
Did you know that men were forbidden to enter the Palestinian village of Ijnisinya by Helena of Constantinople to ensure that she and her maids could swim in its lake with total freedom?
Did you know that John G. Jackson became a contributor to influential black nationalist journal Negro World while still in high school?