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Did you know that James Charles Fahey started self-publishing The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet when he thought editors were "butchering" his manuscripts?
Did you know that the Swedish runestone Östergötland Runic Inscription MÖLM1960;230 is one of four runestones that mention guilds that existed in Sweden during the Viking Age ?
Did you know that Wyoming received four times as much money per person from the Homeland Security Grant Program as did California and New York ?
Did you know that although Janis Paige 's sitcom It's Always Jan bombed, its cast included both Arte Johnson , who went on to fame in Laugh-In and Sid Melton in The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres ?
Did you know that in his European Cup debut, German football goalkeeper Jens Ramme conceded 6 goals in 45 minutes, turning a 5–1 lead for Dynamo Dresden into a 7–5 defeat?
Did you know that former college basketball standout Byron Larkin admitted that he "didn't put [his] best foot forward trying to make it" to the NBA ?
Did you know that the rowhouses at 322–344 East 69th Street on Manhattan 's Upper East Side are a rare surviving group of the many rowhouses built after the completion of the Third Avenue El ?
Did you know that Kris Faafoi is the first New Zealand Member of Parliament of Tokelauan descent?
Did you know that the magnitude of the 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake has been estimated with records from tide gauges set up by the Great Trigonometric Survey ?
Did you know that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia ?
Did you know that Frank Bruggy set Major League Baseball personal bests in batting average , home runs and runs batted in during the 1924 season , his rookie year?
Did you know that brandy and wine seized from a Dutch ship on 18 August 1779 changed hands during the night, as the captain of the Monsieur and the squadron leader, John Paul Jones , both claimed it for themselves?
Did you know that Spartacus: Blood and Sand actress Lesley-Ann Brandt was born in Cape Town , is fluent in Afrikaans and played competitive field hockey in South Africa ?
Did you know that the New York Sunday Mercury was the most widely read weekly newspaper in the United States in the mid 19th century?
Did you know that when the wife of the owner of Kapetanovo Castle in Serbia was told that it had to be sold, she was so devastated that she poured gasoline on herself and burned to death?
Did you know that the economy of the Kanmaw Kyun in the Mergui Archipelago is dependent on rubber plantations ?
Did you know that a follow-up study by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel showed that a child's ability at age 4 to delay eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes correlated with higher SAT test scores years later?
Did you know that baseball player Kevin Pasley hit his first and only major league home run in his final major league at-bat ?
Did you know that Ladyhawke won six prizes at the 2009 New Zealand Music Awards ?
Did you know that Theodore W. Kheel ' s deals ended various strikes in New York City , but Mayor Ed Koch blamed Kheel for overly generous pay packages that led to the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Finnish novel Puhdistus (Purge) by Sofi Oksanen has won awards in Finland and France but had mixed reviews in Estonia, where the story takes place?
Did you know that the Ramses–Hattusili Treaty or Treaty of Kadesh, ratified by the Hittite Empire and Egypt in 1258 BC , is the oldest surviving international treaty ?
Did you know that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of " higher primates "?
Did you know that the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra is the largest combined professional orchestra and music school in the US?
Did you know that executioner Robert Baxter , who was blind in one eye, once caused his assistant to fall through a trapdoor along with the man sentenced to death by hanging ?
Did you know that the 1932 Changma earthquake in the China resulted in a surface rupture of approximately 116 km (72 mi), the largest rupture observed for a reverse- slip event in Asia in the 20th century?
Did you know that methoxyflurane , an emergency analgesic self-administered with a disposable inhaler , was first synthesized as a by-product of chemistry research on uranium enrichment in the Manhattan Project ?
Did you know that in 1945 the first motor lifeboat at Ilfracombe Lifeboat Station was sold to the Netherlands because that country was short of lifeboats after World War II ?
Did you know that John Phillips , a prominent English master carpenter, builder and architect, constructed James Gibbs ' wooden dome for the Radcliffe Camera , Oxford ?
Did you know that "Scoops" Carey only played two full seasons in Major League Baseball but led the league in first basemen fielding percentage both times?
Did you know that Rygge Station , opened in 1879, became an airport rail link when Moss Airport, Rygge had its first flight in 2008?
Did you know that the muscle cuirass is one of the elements that distinguished the attire of a senior officer in the Roman Army ?
Did you know that the fungus Oidium mangiferae causes powdery mildew on mango trees?
Did you know that the round base of the original Archer Point Light , an 1883 lighthouse near Cooktown , Queensland , Australia , which was replaced in 1975, still exists at the location?
Did you know that in 1999, James C. Kent ruled that the Government of Canada must answer discovery questions from the Six Nations pertaining to its handling of indigenous land on the Grand River ?
Did you know that the Dutch ironclad HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden transported troops during the occupation of Lombok and Karangasem in July 1894 ?
Did you know that baseball player Dan Meyer , who would go on to play 12 seasons in Major League Baseball , was inducted into the Mater Dei High School baseball hall of fame in 1970?
Did you know that the Pop's Props Pinocchio , an ultralight aircraft , was designed to resemble the Fokker Eindecker of Fokker Scourge fame?
Did you know that the Greek gold amulet MS 5236 was created by block printing as early as the 6th century BC?
Did you know that Buckminster Fuller invented the Stockade Building System , which uses bricks made from wood fibers and plaster ?
Did you know that the 8th Viscount Galway , the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand , had his term twice extended because of World War II ?
Did you know that Temple Beth Israel in Plattsburgh is the only synagogue in New York north of Glens Falls that has a full-time rabbi ?
Did you know that while Burmese painters affiliated with the Burma Art Club accepted realistically painted nudes as art , very few of them attempted to paint nudity themselves?
Did you know that the only active players with a career .330 batting average in Major League Baseball are Albert Pujols and Ichiro Suzuki ?
Did you know that the sinking of a North Korean troop ship in the Battle of Pusan on the first day of the Korean War is credited with preventing the fall of the South Korean port city of Pusan ?
Did you know that Colombian singer-songwriter Ilona started her career singing on buses ?
Did you know that Thomas Hooman 's obituary in The Times claimed that he scored the winning goal in the 1872 FA Cup Final , contradicting all known contemporary newspaper reports on the match?
Did you know that the Crusher is a 13,200-pound (6,000 kg) autonomous robot capable of climbing 4-foot (1.2 m) walls and crossing 6.5-foot (2.0 m) trenches?
Did you know that the Connellan air disaster of 1977 remains the only aircraft suicide attack in Australia 's history?
Did you know that Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing , Paw Oo Thett , U Aung Khin , U Aung Myint , U Ba Kyi , U Kin Maung , U Lu Tin , U Lun Gywe , U Ngwe Gaing and Po Po are all artists from Burma ?
Did you know that for the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology , Activision selected the Atari 2600 homebrew game Oystron , in which the player shoots "space oysters" to collect pearls?
Did you know that Secretary of Guam Denver Dickerson was born in Nevada State Prison ?
Did you know that a Pirate ship was hit during the Action of 12 October 1950 ?
Did you know that a record store clerk once told Randy Newman that the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman nearly finished off Harry Nilsson 's career?
Did you know that the Areopagus sermon was the most dramatic and fullest speech of the missionary career of Apostle Paul ?
Did you know that hangmen brothers William and John Billington formed England's primary execution duo until John fell through an open trapdoor on the gallows and died?
Did you know that Tel Zeror , an archaeological tel in the Sharon Plain , Israel , was excavated by a Japanese expedition in the 1960s?
Did you know that an illuminated manuscript , the Rochefoucauld Grail , contains what is regarded as the oldest and most comprehensive version of the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail ?
Did you know that Hranislav , a Bulgarian military commander in Byzantine service, was stabbed by his ally Roger de Flor , head of the Catalan Company ?
Did you know that the formation of a Protogalaxy in Newfoundland was recorded in 2010?
Did you know that Kjeld Rimberg , who was CEO of the Norwegian State Railways , earlier had worked as a ski instructor in Davos ?
Did you know that the west gallery of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Stapleford , Leicestershire , contains a Coade stone fireplace, the Royal arms , and a dome decorated with putti ?
Did you know that fine art photographer Michael Dweck was the first living artist to have a solo show at Sotheby's of New York, in 2003?
Did you know that two conductors shared performances of Verdi 's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein ?
Did you know that the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solón was the main leader of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s?
Did you know that Edmonton civic leaders turned down a sizable grant from philantropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie while constructing the Old Strathcona Branch ?
Did you know that cardiologist Richard Bing worked with the Nobel Prize -winning surgeon Alexis Carrel and aviator Charles Lindbergh on the early development of machine perfusion ?
Did you know that after winning the Welsh heavyweight boxing title on Boxing Day , Tom Norris held onto the title for just 100 days before being beaten by Dick Power ?
Did you know that Bach 's chorale cantata Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 contains a vocal trio, rare in his cantatas ?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Temple Owls men's basketball team was picked to win the Atlantic 10 Conference for the fourth consecutive season?
Did you know that Charles Albert Watts edited the secularist Literary Guide without a break for over 60 years, having taken over a publishing business set up by his father, atheist writer Charles Watts ?
Did you know that two women wrestled in lingerie at the World Wrestling Federation 's No Mercy (2001) event?
Did you know that John Keir , who commanded a British Army corps in the First World War , was sacked after he complained about Edmund Allenby 's bullying of subordinates?
Did you know that the owl , dog , pelican , opossum and squirrel sculptures decorating the Perelman Building in Philadelphia symbolize attributes of insurance : wisdom , fidelity , charity , protection , and frugality ?
Did you know that in 1949, Jim Lacy became the first college basketball player in history to score 2,000 career points?
Did you know that " So It Goes " by Nick Lowe was the first record released on Stiff Records ?
Did you know that as of 1996, Linda J. Wachner , then chief executive officer of Warnaco Group , was the highest paid female corporate executive in the United States?
Did you know that independent custody visitors must be immediately admitted to a police station in the United Kingdom so that they can speak to people being detained and ensure that they are being properly treated?
Did you know that Crash actress Arlene Tur played professional beach volleyball during her time at Florida International University ?
Did you know that the Reverend David Sheppard took a sabbatical from his East End Mission for the MCC tour of Australia in 1962-63 , making a century to win the Second Test at Melbourne and preaching to packed cathedrals from Perth to Brisbane ?
Did you know that Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner created the 1986 video game Obsidian when he should have been revising his school exams, causing him to fail them all?
Did you know that Maelsuthain O'Carroll , advisor to High King Brian Boru , was called the "chief doctor of the western world in his time" and "sage of Ireland"?
Did you know that the UTIAS Snowbird is the first ornithopter powered by human muscles to be capable of straight-and-level flight?
Did you know that although the U.S. Supreme Court denied Clyde Summers the right to practice law in Illinois in 1945 in In re Summers , Summers later was a highly influential scholar in the field of labor law ?
Did you know that Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz survived the burning of the hydrogen balloon Star of Poland in 1938?
Did you know that the winner of the Notre Dame–Stanford rivalry football game is awarded the Legends Trophy , which is a combination of Irish crystal and California redwood ?
Did you know that the voyagers and adventurers in the Outline of canoeing and kayaking include Freya Hoffmeister , a German kayaker who was the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of Australia in 2009?
Did you know that a myth from Choiseul Island has a man who betrayed a tribal chief punished by suffocation by the flatulence caused by the people around him eating the kernels of the Tahitian Chestnut tree ?
Did you know that James "Hub" Hart was captain of the Georgetown University football team and then played three years in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that despite the construction of modern office and apartment buildings and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake , Colonia Roma still contains 1,100 of the mansions built there in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the British Conservative MP Alfred Jephcott was a trade unionist and a member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers for over 40 years?
Did you know that Windmill tump is a tumulus burial mound in Gloucestershire which contains the remains of ten adults and children?
Did you know that the German architect Johannes Krahn designed the Bienenkorbhaus (Beehive House) in Frankfurt and St. Martin in Idstein ?
Did you know that Gift of the Wind , a large scale kinetic sculpture by Susumu Shingu in Cambridge , Massachusetts , is considered by some to be "Cambridge's most visible landmark"?
Did you know that controversy over copyright infringement by Cooks Source made the phrase "but honestly Monica" into an internet meme ?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1961 short film Thigh Line Lyre Triangular documents the birth of his third child?
Did you know that the Makushin Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes of Alaska ?
Did you know that in the 1930s, poet Siegfried Sassoon lived at Teffont Magna ?
Did you know that the 1974 folk rock album The Children of Lir by Loudest Whisper is one of the most sought after records in Ireland?
Did you know that the Amur class minelayers were the first purpose-built, ocean-going minelayers when they were laid down in 1898 for the Imperial Russian Navy ?
Did you know that measuring 15 feet by 40 feet, Bigger Trees Near Warter is the largest painting by David Hockney ?
Did you know that the Roman Cirencester Amphitheatre in Gloucestershire was once used for the sport of bull-baiting ?
Did you know that in 1972, Denver voters approved a bond issue to build a performance hall for the Denver Symphony Orchestra , which played in theaters and auditoriums for its first 44 years?
Did you know that the Cross River Rail planned for Brisbane will be the largest transport project ever built in Queensland ?
Did you know that Peter Frederik Suhm was one of the founders of the Trondheim Society , then the northernmost scientific society in the world?
Did you know that during the 1975 test event, East Germany set up timers and cameras along the bobsleigh and luge venue used for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck to help their athletes?
Did you know that Christopher Sower printed and published the first German-language Bible in the United States?
Did you know that the Arlanda Line — a high-speed airport rail link to Sweden's largest airport — and its three stations, Arlanda North , Arlanda Central and Arlanda South , were partly financed by giving the Arlanda Express a 40-year monopoly ?
Did you know that Japanese 2channel users created the moe anthropomorphism Hinomoto Oniko to reverse the negative connotations of an ethnic slur?
Did you know that one newspaper referred to a recent student protest in Dublin as "the largest student protest for a generation"?
Did you know that when the Lincoln cent was released in 1909, hundreds of people across the United States lined up to get them?
Did you know that the 11th Duke of Somerset renamed 40 Park Lane as Somerset House , despite the existence of another ?
Did you know that on 6 April 1945, B-25 Mitchells of No. 79 Wing RAAF bombed the Japanese cruiser Isuzu , claiming two hits without loss despite anti-aircraft fire and frontal attacks by enemy fighters?
Did you know that Stephen Fry , Dawn French and Catherine Tate reenact events from their childhoods in the BBC comedy TV series Little Crackers ?
Did you know that two teams from the NBA Development League 's Western Conference played each other in the 2010 Finals to determine the champion ?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1967 short film Eye Myth took about a year to produce, despite a running time of only nine seconds?
Did you know that British soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders will cross over for the first time today in the Children in Need 2010 special " East Street "?
Did you know that when part of Norway 's Jæren Line was upgraded to double track in 2009, the Jæren Commuter Rail received four new stations: Paradis , Mariero , Jåttåvågen and Gausel ?
Did you know that New York City Opera percussionist Howard Van Hyning bought a set of 13 gongs made specially for use in performances of Puccini's opera Turandot ?
Did you know that a demonstration against raising tuition fees held earlier this month in London has been described as the largest student protest in the United Kingdom for a decade?
Did you know that Edward Spurway , two of his sons Michael and Francis , and his brother Robert , all played first-class cricket for Somerset ?
Did you know that in 8,000 BCE the Paiján people of northern Peru used needle-like projectile points mounted on hollow shafts of cane or reed as harpoons to catch fish?
Did you know that Carol Burnett will play a Nazi hunter on an upcoming episode of Glee ?
Did you know that since 1990, seven countries have tried juveniles as adults and executed them?
Did you know that Leona Lewis 's " Bleeding Love " is the most recent of 103 million-selling singles in the UK ?
Did you know that Latin American public beach resorts known as balnearios can be highly politicized?
Did you know that a spheromak is a stable ring of hot plasma that's been described as the electrical equivalent of a smoke ring ?
Did you know that before the Battle of North Borneo , No. 77 Wing RAAF surgically attacked targets at Labuan as few as 100 m (330 ft) from Allied demolition teams laying charges on the invasion beach?
Did you know that the armor of the Fusō -class battleships was incapable of stopping their own shells?
Did you know that in 1994, after The Cruel Sea won four ARIA Music Awards for their album, The Honeymoon Is Over , two of the ARIA trophies were stolen that same night?
Did you know that the name of Ghardaïa in northern-central Algeria has its origins in a female saint named Daïa who lived in a cave (ghār) in the M'zab valley?
Did you know that World War II canteen assistant Tommy Brown and two sailors boarded U-559 in order to retrieve documents which would later help break the Enigma code ?
Did you know that Kalin Lucas repeated as preseason conference player of the year prior to the 2010–11 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season ?
Did you know that Linda Bean , heiress to part of the L.L. Bean company, twice ran for the United States Congress ?
Did you know that Knoxville 's Lindbergh Forest neighborhood has two Lustron houses built with prefabricated enameled steel ?
Did you know that in Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards ' memoir Life , Richards makes unflattering claims about Mick Jagger , but adds "I love the man dearly; I'm still his mate"?
Did you know that Nevada Governor Denver S. Dickerson resisted pressure to stop the interracial boxing match of defending champion Jack Johnson and later supervised Johnson's federal prison sentence?
Did you know that the font in St Peter's Church, Adderley , Shropshire , has an inscription in Latin which translates as "Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife"?
Did you know that Stanley Tanger not only founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers , but he has also been credited with inventing the concept of the outlet mall itself?
Did you know that Mad in America was a 2002 critique of psychiatry written by American journalist Robert Whitaker ?
Did you know that the Australian town of Tumbulgum was the third town in the state of New South Wales to agree that retail outlets will not provide disposable plastic shopping bags?
Did you know that former President Jimmy Carter credited his White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz with offering insights that led to the signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel ?
Did you know that one reviewer of Truth in Numbers? noted that "the Wikipedia article for the film itself was under threat of being deleted"?
Did you know that Edorian McCullough twice won the Texas high school 100 meter championship and later played for the Frankfurt Galaxy in World Bowl XV ?
Did you know that a Chinese police officer's son, convinced that he would avoid facing criminal consequences after hitting a pedestrian , yelled " My dad is Li Gang! "?
Did you know that philanthropist Lloyd Morain read palms in Hollywood before a career as a utilities executive, and, uniquely, served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association ?
Did you know that the murder of worshipers in Kysylyn during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia became the subject of a 2009 historical documentary film for Telewizja Polska ?
Did you know that the California Voting Rights Act makes it easier for minority groups in California to prove that their votes are being diluted in " at-large " elections?
Did you know that American Baptist missionary George J. Geis was working at the Kachin Bible Training School he had established in Kutkai at the time of his death in 1936?
Did you know that prior to the 1933 Cincinnati Reds season , a newspaper reported that Jo-Jo Morrissey "developed amazingly", yet he finished fifth in the league in errors and batted .230?
Did you know that Newsday reporter Donald S. Kellermann deliberately broke into a bar so that he could be arrested and write a series of articles about conditions at the Suffolk County, New York jail?
Did you know that a builder of St Mark's Church in Hadlow Down , East Sussex , was sacked for deliberately placing its weather vane upside down?
Did you know that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic ?
Did you know that FBI informant Angela Calomiris donated US$ 50 of government money to the legal defense fund for CPUSA leaders before testifying against them in court?
Did you know that the upcoming film My Idiot Brother went into production unusually quickly for an independent film , with a first cut to be completed less than a year after the script was picked up?
Did you know that on April 22, 1900, Roger Denzer earned the first win in Chicago White Sox franchise history?