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Did you know that although audio spill is often undesirable in the recording of popular music, it can be heard on records by The Beatles and Christina Aguilera ?
Did you know that Anthony Sadowski , after escaping captivity in the Great Northern War in 1704, came to America and helped Daniel Boone 's father found Amity Township , Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Berry Hinton had only three losing seasons in his twenty-three years as head baseball coach from 1943 to 1967 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston ?
Did you know that the use of herbicide on the natural habitat of the Lesser Prairie Chicken may have created a perceptual trap ?
Did you know that Kipling 's Rewards and Fairies includes " If— " which has been voted Britain's most popular poem?
Did you know that Burmese prisoner of conscience Nilar Thein once evaded police capture by rickshaw taxi?
Did you know that " Semper Fidelis " by John Philip Sousa is regarded as the official march of the United States Marine Corps ?
Did you know that US actor Martin Sheen has advocated on behalf of imprisoned Kyrgyzstani activist and journalist Azimzhan Askarov ?
Did you know that a riot after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. resulted in a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages at sporting events in Scotland ?
Did you know that the sex organs of Anthoceros laevis are visible on its dorsal surface?
Did you know that NBC accidentally ran a promo about a secret wedding from the Parks and Recreation episode " Andy and April's Fancy Party " two months before the episode aired?
Did you know that Namibian entrepreneur Harold Pupkewitz (age 95) has managed his business conglomerate since 1937?
Did you know that in 1889, the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company agreed to build a smelter in Great Falls, Montana , if a local power company built a dam to supply it with power?
Did you know that on his debut album, The Experiment , Dane Rumble found it difficult to write his former band's usual hip hop music , so he turned to pop rock ?
Did you know that Richard Waghorn was awarded the Air Force Cross after winning the 1929 Schneider Trophy seaplane race?
Did you know that the extinct planthopper Tainosia quisqueyae was named for the Taíno people and Hispaniola ?
Did you know that when he made his major league debut, Chicago Cubs pitcher James Russell became the 97th former Texas Longhorn to play in the major leagues?
Did you know that Theâtre de l'Étoile du Nord has been said to be "as boho as Tunis gets"?
Did you know that in 2007, the foundation headed by Guatemalan human rights activist Norma Cruz helped to convict over 30 individuals accused of murdering women?
Did you know that despite having won all its round-robin matches, South Africa lost to India in the final of the Titan Cup ?
Did you know that African American artist Herman "Kofi" Bailey was the one-time artist-in-residence for Kwame Nkrumah , the first president of Ghana ?
Did you know that Walraversijde , the site of a reconstructed medieval fishing village , is the most studied archaeological site of its type in Europe?
Did you know that Hal Stalmaster landed his role in Disney 's 1957 film about the American Revolution , Johnny Tremain , without the help of his brother, casting director Lynn Stalmaster ?
Did you know that the Janet Smith case , the unsolved 1924 murder of a Scottish nursemaid in Vancouver , led to an attempt to make it illegal to employ Orientals and white women in the same household?
Did you know that Golondrina points are considered the most prevalent of Paleo-Indian points in the South Texas Plains and typify the region's first distinguished cultural pattern?
Did you know that the plant Fumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by the Rev. W. H. Painter ?
Did you know that during the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party , Raúl Castro proposed term limits for the country's leaders?
Did you know that, in the 1918 season , Joseph McCulloch coached star American football players from multiple schools, including 1917 All-American Archie Weston ?
Did you know that Avenue Habib Bourguiba is the principal thoroughfare of Tunis ?
Did you know that Perry Como 's musical conductor, Mitchell Ayres , was offered his long-time job with the singer during a golf game?
Did you know that after the Rwandan Genocide , social worker and survivor Godeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
Did you know that the 1934 United States Trust Company theft was the work of an international gang that stole more than $ 2,000,000 in multiple robberies?
Did you know that the Millennium Dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia will house Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant and impound the continent's largest reservoir when completed?
Did you know that the release from prison of Iosif Begun , a leader of the campaign to free the Jews of the USSR , was announced in 1987 by Soviet politician Georgy Arbatov on Face the Nation ?
Did you know that in the Finnish card game Ristikontra , a player wins a trick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?
Did you know that Christopher Isherwood named the character Sally Bowles after Paul Bowles , because he found Bowles attractive?
Did you know that Liberty Cinema in Mumbai got its name as it was built in 1947, the year of Indian Independence ?
Did you know that Small Heath F.C. went through the 1893–94 season without drawing a League match?
Did you know that the dense forest in the area around Csóványos in Northern Hungary has been described as "almost mystical"?
Did you know that Kenyan Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai ran a course record to win the 2011 London Marathon and become the fourth fastest man ever in the marathon ?
Did you know that during convoy escort duty in the Battle of the North Atlantic in 1943, HMS Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using new weapons technology?
Did you know that Gendang beleq , a music and dance performance popular in Lombok , Indonesia , is so named because it uses two big drums ?
Did you know that Louisiana Attorney General Percy Saint in 1929 ruled that impeachment proceedings against Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. were constitutional?
Did you know that artificial deformation of a skull enabled archaeologists to identify the Adena as the builders of the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound in Tiltonsville, Ohio ?
Did you know that James Parfitt ' s best bowling in first-class cricket came in his second match, when he claimed seven wickets in the first innings , all bowled ?
Did you know that the bone disease opsismodysplasia was named from the Greek word opsismos meaning "late"?
Did you know that Byzantine historian Timothy E. Gregory served as director of the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia ?
Did you know that after plans for the Douglas 2229 SST left no room for fuel other than in the fuselage, a designer sketched a cartoon with diving suit -clad passengers immersed in fuel, under "No Smoking" signs?
Did you know that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico , the making of amate , or bark paper, never disappeared?
Did you know that pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped by suspected members of a Islamic militant group operating in Gaza and later found hanged ?
Did you know that Will Ferrell produced and stars in the upcoming Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre , which has been described as in the style of "an overly dramatic telenovela "?
Did you know that around 252 glider infantry of the 1st Airlanding Brigade were drowned during the Allied invasion of Sicily ?
Did you know that although Charles Messier discovered the galaxy M91 in 1781, it was added to his catalogue only two centuries later?
Did you know that after her role in the 1972 horror film Frogs , actress Lynn Borden began collecting frog figurines as a hobby?
Did you know that when Bach derived his third cantata for Easter of 1724, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134 , from his secular cantata for New Year's Day , he just wrote new text under old text?
Did you know that poet Jacqueline Berger compares the writing process to dreaming ?
Did you know that the Falkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day in winter and only 6 hours in summer ?
Did you know that " Heartaches ," featuring Elmo Tanner 's whistling , became a number 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded?
Did you know that Lagmann mac Gofraid , a late 11th-century King of Mann and the Isles , has been labelled as the only known Scot who took part in the First Crusade ?
Did you know that the upcoming 2012 film, Jack the Giant Killer (directed by Bryan Singer ), is expected to take an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend?
Did you know that Steven Hallard and Richard Priestman were part of a team that won Great Britain 's first Olympic archery medal in 80 years?
Did you know that Abutilon pitcairnense is extinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005?
Did you know that after eight years singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for other opera companies?
Did you know that a two-mass-skate bicycle has demonstrated self-stability even though it has minimal gyroscopic effects and does not have positive trail , two features most commonly associated with bike stability?
Did you know that Alexander , the eldest son of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman , converted to Islam to avoid execution and died as governor of Ottoman Smyrna ?
Did you know that even though ...And the Native Hipsters 's first single , "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on the UK Indie Charts ?
Did you know that the sinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat?
Did you know that George B. Jackson , a businessman in San Angelo , Texas , who had been born into slavery in Virginia , was termed "the wealthiest colored man in Texas" in the late 19th century ?
Did you know that most of the victims of 2011 Cirebon bombing were police officers attending Friday prayer ?
Did you know that the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, which is now part of Maryland Route 194 , was the last private toll road in Maryland when it was purchased by the state in 1921?
Did you know that in 1991, Vladimir Velichko became the first First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that rugby league club Warrington paid £ 20 to sign Riki Papakura from New Zealand in 1911?
Did you know that one hotel in Mogadishu advises tourists visiting Somalia to hire at least ten armed guards for their protection?
Did you know that despite the previous session permanently fixing the territorial capital in Tucson , the 9th Arizona Territorial Legislature 's first act was to move it to Prescott ?
Did you know that sportswriter Neil Stevens was presented with the Hockey Hall of Fame 's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2008?
Did you know that the ocean liner SS Ranpura ran aground near Gibraltar on 15 April 1936 while carrying $50 million (1936 dollars ) of rare Chinese art ?
Did you know that catcher Dave Liddell faced only one pitch in his Major League career, and got a hit ?
Did you know that the 1929 drama film Betrayal was the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone and the last silent film performed by Gary Cooper ?
Did you know that as principal bassoonist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra , Julie Price celebrated her predecessor William Waterhouse in the recent concert The Proud Bassoon at Wigmore Hall ?
Did you know that Rhett Akins was inspired to write Blake Shelton 's song " Honey Bee " after reading an article on Mike Huckabee ?
Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach 's cantata for the Second Day of Easter , Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66 , has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?
Did you know that archaeologists believe they have uncovered the Monastery of the Virgins described in a 6th-century account of Byzantine Jerusalem ?
Did you know that four-time Winter Paralympic bronze medalist Matthew Stockford became the manager of Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott ?
Did you know that Wharton Reef Light , now on display at the Townsville Maritime Museum, Queensland , is the only survivor of a series of 20 automatic lighthouses installed from 1913 to the early 1920s?
Did you know that author Andrew Morton 's biography, Madonna , sold only half of its initial print run of 500,000 copies?
Did you know that The Motherfucker With the Hat was the Broadway debut for actor Chris Rock ?
Did you know that the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway and the growth in population of Northwood ?
Did you know that Jovan Skerlić 's role in literature and general cultural and political development has resulted in the suggestion that the 1900–1914 period in Serbian history should be named after him?
Did you know that the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick , has the largest collection of Atlantic organisms in Canada ?
Did you know that Metropolitan Police officer Chris Allison was the Gold Commander for police operations in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings ?
Did you know that the community-initiated Nata Bird Sanctuary in Botswana opened in 1993 and the same year received the "Tourism for Tomorrow" award for the Southern Hemisphere ?
Did you know that while playing for Barrow , footballer Fred Laycock left the pitch to sign for Nelson before completing the match, and was then fined for representing Barrow while contracted to another club?
Did you know that in Ghanian women's health , breast cancer is the leading malignancy , accounting for over 15% of all malignancies in Ghana ?
Did you know that Center Point, Camp County, Texas , was settled in 1865 by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation , and is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad ?
Did you know that the extinct trapdoor spiders Baltocteniza and Electrocteniza were both identified from specimens in Baltic amber ?
Did you know that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor ?
Did you know that Democratic and Republican plans for the 2012 United States federal budget both focus on deficit reduction, but differ in their changes to taxation , entitlement programs , and research funding ?
Did you know that the longest-running number one of the UK Dance Chart in 2005 was " Hung Up " by Madonna , which spent four weeks at the top of the chart ?
Did you know that Representative J. D. Rumberg of the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature ‎ tried to ban all horse racing in the territory but was only able to have it outlawed on his own ranch?
Did you know that the award-winning writer Evelyn M. Richardson lived on a 600-acre island for 35 years?
Did you know that nordic skier Peter Young won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics , ten years after winning his first Paralympic medal at the 1984 Games ?
Did you know that after energy and climate " czar " Carol Browner left the Obama administration , Heather Zichal took over those responsibilities but not the informal title?
Did you know that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics , "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
Did you know that the first woman to write a book on childbirth was Louise Bourgeois Boursier ?
Did you know that a live album released in 2009 includes a duet by Fito Páez and Joaquín Sabina , who had not spoken for more than 10 years?
Did you know that child actor Darryl Richard made his last TV appearance on the series finale of ABC 's The Donna Reed Show , March 19 , 1966, a day after his 20th birthday?
Did you know that it is said that Thomas à Becket preached either in the church dedicated to him , in Capel , Kent , or in its churchyard?
Did you know that Joseph Bloomfield Leake left the Iowa State Senate to serve in the American Civil War but was later elected back to the Senate?
Did you know that St. Andrews Biological Station in New Brunswick is Canada's first marine biological research station?
Did you know that Nelson F.C. lost only one home match in the Football League Third Division North during the 1924–25 season ?
Did you know that Geoff Emerick , who co-created the send tape echo echo delay audio effect at Abbey Road Studios , once said that "God only knows" how it worked?
Did you know that James C. Nelson , appointed as a Montana Supreme Court Justice by George W. Bush 's campaign chair , wrote that blocking same-sex marriage was a "societal cancer grounded in bigotry and hate "?
Did you know that St Mary Magdalene's Church in Tortington is decorated with carvings of grotesque, boggle-eyed monsters, rare beakhead figures and chevron ornamentation?
Did you know that Aziz Ahmad is considered one of the best Buzkashi players in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that Angry Birds was named App of the Year at the British Appy Awards ?
Did you know that in the Fourth Test of the 1965–66 Ashes series the Australian cricket captain Bobby Simpson and his batting partner Bill Lawry made 244 runs in 255 minutes, the highest opening stand against England in Australia ?
Did you know that in the burrowing wolf spider Allocosa brasiliensis , males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferredly mating with virgins?
Did you know that the only known specimen of the extinct planthopper Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasitic mite ?
Did you know that Felipe González González was Governor of Aguascalientes from 1998 to 2004?
Did you know that artist Edward Hopper 's wife served as the model for both women in his painting Hotel Lobby ?
Did you know that Steve and Christian Thomas are the first father-son combination to each score at least 50 goals in a single Ontario Hockey League season?
Did you know that in the 2010 documentary film 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless , Jeff Johnson emulates the 1968 journey made by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins ?
Did you know that Charles Silent tried to resign from the Arizona Supreme Court almost immediately upon taking up the office?
Did you know that M. A. Muqtedar Khan calls Jewish rabbi Mukhayriq "the first Jewish martyr of Islam" and "a true Islamic hero"?
Did you know that police used cryptic messages placed in a newspaper and disguised as Mensa puzzles to communicate with the perpetrator of a letter bomb campaign ?
Did you know that Juice Newton played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club ?
Did you know that attack helicopters racked up an impressive five-to-one kill ratio over jet fighters during the J-CATCH exercises in the late 1970s?
Did you know that boxer Adrian Dodson competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the 5th Arizona Territorial Legislature had difficulty maintaining a quorum in its lower house due to the large number of members that did not attend the session?
Did you know that wrestler Charles B. Sprott sued the reigning World Heavyweight Champion in 1973 for calling him names in a parking lot?
Did you know that Bright Angel , composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon , relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
Did you know that Alimuddin Zumla was the first Zambian doctor to be shortlisted for the BMJ Group 's Lifetime Achievement Award?
Did you know that organocerium compounds can serve as an "environmentally friendly alternative" to other organometallic reagents ?
Did you know that the first musical episode of Grey's Anatomy was conceived over seven years before it was produced, while the series was still untitled?
Did you know that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the fate of English cricketer Walter Gilbert for 60 years after his death?
Did you know that Barend Joseph Stokvis , a Dutch professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare disease acute porphyria in a 1889 study?
Did you know that the first phase of Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign was announced via a video message?
Did you know that Pedro Virgili , from Vilallonga del Camp , was one of the most prominent royal surgeons of Spain in the 18th century?
Did you know that Alaungpaya was a village headman who founded the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma , and unified the country for the third time in its history?
Did you know that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft , Lincolnshire , in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure ?
Did you know that the Indianapolis Art Center was founded in 1934 as a Works Progress Administration project?
Did you know that Supernatural , a 1998 album by British singer Des'ree , sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 album I Ain't Movin' sold over a million copies?
Did you know that artist Charles Alston 's bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was the first image of an African American displayed at the White House ?
Did you know that RCA used its Triniscope color television design during FCC meetings, even though it was clear it would not be accepted?
Did you know that Edward J. Burke coached the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team to their first NCAA Tournament ?
Did you know that the 6th Arizona Territorial Legislature was delayed from 1869 until 1871 because no Territorial Governor was available to call for elections ?
Did you know that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle , Worcestershire , to a large meteor?
Did you know that when the first cents coined by the U.S. Mint were ridiculed for their crudeness, Mint worker Adam Eckfeldt replaced the chain design with a wreath and put a trefoil under Liberty 's head?
Did you know that the medieval fortresses Lardea and Ktenia in modern southeastern Bulgaria were lost by the Second Bulgarian Empire to Byzantium in 1322 only to be recovered in 1324, then ceded back and once again recaptured in 1332?
Did you know that Gandrung traditional dance, popular in Java , Bali and Lombok , was originally dedicated to the rice goddess, Dewi Sri ?
Did you know that Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris , who clerked for U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist , was the starting fullback in the 1986 Gator Bowl for the Stanford Cardinal football team?
Did you know that every Good Friday since 1922, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (The Netherlands Bach Society) has performed Bach 's St Matthew Passion in Naarden ?
Did you know that Louisa Hubbard founded the Women's Emigration Society in 1880 to help young women from London find employment outside of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that most of the remaining redwoods in Oregon are in the Winchuck River watershed?
Did you know that African-American writer Felicia D. Henderson has worked on projects as varied as the television series Soul Food , Gossip Girl , and Fringe , and the comic series Teen Titans ?
Did you know that the Loire Valley chansonniers are 15th century illustrated songbooks that are smaller than a modern paperback ?
Did you know that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch ?
Did you know that in the 1820s, chemist Antoine Labarraque won a prize of 1,500 francs for discovering a way to remove the appalling smell from Paris 's gut-processing factories?
Did you know that after The Redmond Spokesman won University of Oregon 's Hal E. Hoss trophy for the best weekly newspaper in Oregon three times in five years, the award was retired and given to The Spokesman 's publisher?
Did you know that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
Did you know that footballers Denis Law , Robert Smyth McColl and Hughie Gallacher have each scored three hat-tricks for Scotland ?