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Did you know that Thomas Van Scoy was the president of three universities, but only Willamette still exists?
Did you know that during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871), chef Alexandre Étienne Choron cooked up many of the animals in the Jardin d'acclimatation 's menagerie ?
Did you know that although the extinct Norfolk Island Boobook was last sighted in 1996, its genes live on in the hybrid descendants of the last living female bird?
Did you know that astronomy professor Jens Fredrik Schroeter first learned his subject during childhood when his father, a sea captain , taught him how to use the sextant ?
Did you know that according to Street Gang , a discussion at a dinner party, hosted by Joan Ganz Cooney in 1966, led to the creation of the children's television show, Sesame Street ?
Did you know that Cincinnati streetcars were the main form of public transportation in Cincinnati, Ohio , at the turn of the 20th century ?
Did you know that the founder of the Cistercian Abbeyknockmoy in 1190, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair , King of Connacht , was buried there in 1224?
Did you know that Hemming's Cartulary is the first surviving medieval English cartulary ?
Did you know that Libertas Estonia was founded in 1994 as the Estonian Blue Party?
Did you know that the original Mace of the Virginia House of Delegates was sold to partners in a silversmith firm for $101?
Did you know that Jon Hol was indicted for lèse majesté for his 1884 pamphlet, where he called for citizens to take up arms if the King and Army interfered with parliamentary process?
Did you know that the Milan–Venice railway line crosses the Venetian Lagoon on a 222-arch bridge built on 80,000 piles of larch wood?
Did you know that under the Madhouses Act 1774 in the United Kingdom , keeping more than two lunatics without a license was punishable by a £500 fine?
Did you know that S. P. Adithanar was the founder of Dina Thanthi , a widely read Tamil newspaper?
Did you know that Canadian women's ice hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser , the highest scoring female Olympic hockey player, is credited with 14 goals and 20 assists?
Did you know that Bjørn Floberg , mostly known for playing unsympathetic roles, and comedian Robin Williams each played the same character in the 1997 Norwegian film Insomnia and its 2002 American remake , respectively?
Did you know that Independent Students Union was the student arm of Polish opposition movement Solidarity ?
Did you know that Supreme Court Assessor Christopher Hansteen turned down an offer to become Prime Minister of Norway in 1892?
Did you know that Neal, James, Fordyce and Down was a Scottish banking house which collapsed in 1772 precipitating the collapse of almost every private bank in Scotland?
Did you know that the Miami, Florida , group Take Back the Land breaks into unoccupied, bank- foreclosed houses and moves homeless families into them?
Did you know that actress Louise Gold , playing Phyllis in a West End production of Follies , was described as "injured queen one moment, vamp the next"?
Did you know that right after the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans , the rulers of the Byzantine Despotate of Morea called upon the Ottomans to suppress their own peasant revolt ?
Did you know that on a voyage to the South Pacific, Simon Hatley shot an albatross, an act which later became the basis for a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
Did you know that the L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, D.C. now operates as a historic house museum ?
Did you know that Maria Antonescu , wife of Romania 's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu , presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews ?
Did you know that The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold went through three editions in six months, but is today called a "graveyard of poets"?
Did you know that the Orange-girdled Parasol mushroom has an odor that has been described as similar to rubber or cut metal?
Did you know that Norwegian linguist Christian Stang was honored by the eponymous Stang's law ?
Did you know that sister stations KTIX , KUMA , KUMA-FM , and KWHT share a single studio building at the west end of Eastern Oregon Regional Airport ?
Did you know that although criticized for poor performance in the 2006 Lebanon War by the Winograd Commission , Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg was promoted to command the Israel Defense Forces 's Gaza Division ?
Did you know that Amar Kutir in West Bengal , India , once a place of refuge for independence movement activists, has been turned into a society for the promotion of arts and crafts ?
Did you know that for security reasons, the findings relating to uranium in John Holt's 1941 PhD thesis on artificial radioactivity were not released?
Did you know that La Minerve, Quebec , named after the historic La Minerve newspaper, has only a population of 1295 but swells to nearly 15,000 in the summer?
Did you know that, as the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yai was paraded to his execution site, the people who resented him for raising the tea tax threw rocks and brick fragments at him?
Did you know that a fire in Saravana Stores , Chennai , in 2008 burnt out most of the building and killed two people?
Did you know that the only Football League match in which Billy Jervis played was abandoned due to fading daylight after his team turned up late?
Did you know that the 2008 nature documentary film The Meerkats was narrated by Paul Newman and is believed to be one of his last film credits?
Did you know that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon , a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha ?
Did you know that the Tabor-Wing House in Dover Plains, New York , has an unusual amount of exterior ornamentation for a Federal style rural home?
Did you know that Gunnar Garbo , member of the Norwegian Parliament for four electorial periods, was later Ambassador to Tanzania ?
Did you know that, at the National Women's Rights Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, Lucy Stone responded to a heckler, saying "...disappointment is the lot of woman"?
Did you know that Jacob Rigg helped write both Barack Obama's victory speech for the 2008 presidential election, and a concession speech in case Obama lost?
Did you know that the environmental organisation Counterpart Caribbean is a branch of the Counterpart International group based in Barbados ?
Did you know that on 31 March 1921, Arthur "Spud" Murphy became "Airman No. 1" on the roll of the newly established Royal Australian Air Force ?
Did you know that the only known population of Irrawaddy dolphins in India is along the coast of Orissa ?
Did you know that Michigan end Bernard Kirk , who Knute Rockne called the "apple of my eye," died of complications from a fractured skull days after being named an All-American in December 1922?
Did you know that despite the different prestige that languages and dialects have, linguists do not consider any languages or dialects to be inherently superior or inferior?
Did you know that H. Clay Earles , founder of Martinsville Speedway , the only original NASCAR track still in use, awarded grandfather clocks to race winners, with Richard Petty earning 12 clocks?
Did you know that director M. Night Shyamalan has been criticized for allowing Caucasian actors to play Asian characters in his upcoming film The Last Airbender ?
Did you know that in 1718, General Vincens Budde ' s defense of Trondheim prevailed and General Armfeldt's retreat was likened to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow ?
Did you know that as of 2006, supplying fishing tackle for recreational fishing is an industry with annual sales of five billion dollars in the United States ?
Did you know that Czech film and stage director Evald Schorm was a notable exponent of the New Wave in Czechoslovak cinema?
Did you know that World War I German U-boat UB-10 was credited with sinking 23 ships in a 13-day span in July and August 1915?
Did you know that historian V. H. Galbraith considered the medieval English monk Hemming to be the first archivist in English history?
Did you know that especially in the United States, bacon mania is a phenomenon among bacon devotees seeking to develop novel dishes and to gather at bacon camps?
Did you know that in 1890–91, Wheelock G. Veazey served simultaneously as an Interstate Commerce Commissioner and as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic ?
Did you know that the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix was stopped after just 33 laps, out of 56, when torrential rain hit the circuit ?
Did you know that philosopher Anathon Aall wrote an entry about his former brother-in-law Kristian Aars in the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon ?
Did you know that despite historical border disputes, Poland–Czechoslovakia relations were friendly, and during WWII their governments-in-exile considered forming a confederation ?
Did you know that Kate Mason Rowland introduced a motion in the United Daughters of the Confederacy to have the American Civil War known as the War Between the States?
Did you know that Arthur Bliss 's first major work for orchestra , A Colour Symphony , depicts in music the heraldic significance of the colours purple , red , blue and green , and was dedicated to the conductor Adrian Boult ?
Did you know that Jessie Webb , an Australian academic and historian , was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Warsaw in 1705 , a Swedish force of 2,000 men defeated a Polish-Lithuanian-Saxonian force five times as strong?
Did you know that in 1986 KWVR-FM of Enterprise, Oregon , became the smallest-market radio station to win a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television ?
Did you know that the parody novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies combines Jane Austen 's 1813 classic, Pride and Prejudice , with elements of zombie fiction?
Did you know that after Saudi authorities listed alleged al-Qaeda member Zubayr Al-Rimi as a conspirator in the Riyadh compound bombings , he wrote a personal letter to George W. Bush insisting he was innocent?
Did you know that the Academy of San Carlos , founded in 1781, was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas ?
Did you know that the Case of the Hooded Man was so called because the defendant was made to wear a black hood when travelling to and from the court?
Did you know that Larry Scott , CEO of the WTA , put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's athletics, an US$ 88-million deal with Sony Ericsson ?
Did you know that Broad Street in Reading , England – the site of a 1688 battle and crucial to the Earl of Essex 's siege of the town – is now a pedestrianised shopping street?
Did you know that restaurateur Pascal Rigo owns the oldest flour mill in San Francisco ?
Did you know that Rammstein ' s 2004 single " Mein Teil " was inspired by German cannibal Armin Meiwes ?
Did you know that the former actor Adam Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the Gene Hackman film , The Domino Principle , about a convict turned assassin ?
Did you know that escaramuza is an equestrienne display of choreographed patterns that was established as the tenth official event of charreada in 1992?
Did you know that Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge , where he served for over 20 years?
Did you know that during his time in the Isis-Urania Temple , E.W. Berridge wrote two of the Golden Dawn 's knowledge lectures and collaborated on a third?
Did you know that unlike many other Agaricus species, Agaricus placomyces fruits from mid to late winter rather than during the typical late spring, summer and early fall?
Did you know that Wacław Micuta was a Polish resistance fighter who liberated the Gęsiówka concentration camp and a UN diplomat who promoted renewable energy in developing countries?
Did you know that the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet , when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Rodney Taylor was one of the last officers to join the Royal Australian Navy as a 13-year-old cadet?
Did you know that during the recording of their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals , Alexisonfire recorded seven tracks in seven days?
Did you know that in 1902, the Church of Norway priest Jens Jonas Jansen was called "dangerous" by bishop Johan Christian Heuch ?
Did you know that former KGBR disc jockey Tom Lyons advised his son against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke , run guns ... but don't ever go into radio."?
Did you know that R. G. Chandramogan , an entrepreneur from Sivakasi , is the head of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the largest private dairy in India ?
Did you know that the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state?
Did you know that Fredrik Georg Gade , a tuberculosis and cancer researcher , himself died of bronchial cancer ?
Did you know that Cherry Springs Airport in Potter County , Pennsylvania , was closed because the night sky there was too dark?
Did you know that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano , not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Eat, Pray, Queef " conveys a pro-women's rights message by comparing men's contradicting opinions regarding farts and queefs ?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin 's Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 was used in the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me ?
Did you know that David Dean Shulman has been active as a leader of international campaigns to defend the Palestinians under threat of eviction from such villages as Susya in the South Hebron Hills ?
Did you know that the Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent has been called "the first nonideological diplomatic alliance " between a Christian and a non-Christian power?
Did you know that Marguerite Rawalt was the first woman ever to be elected as president of the Federal Bar Association ?
Did you know that a 2009 study found that Polycap —a five-in-one polypill combining three high blood pressure medications, a cholesterol reducer and aspirin —could cut heart attack and stroke risk in half for many?
Did you know that coprophilous fungi are species of fungi that feed on animal feces ?
Did you know that although the songs " Tougher Than the Rest " and " Spare Parts " by New Jersey musician Bruce Springsteen were not released as singles in the United States, each became a Top-20 single in Europe?
Did you know that egg whites , fish bladders and powder made from dried blood have been used as finings to clarify wine ?
Did you know that Verda Welcome was the first black woman to be elected as a State Senator ?
Did you know that SingStar ABBA is the first band-specific SingStar video game?
Did you know that Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic , nystatin ?
Did you know that the Wildlife Protection Society of India maintains a network of undercover agents and informants who gather intelligence to combat wildlife poaching and the illegal trade of wildlife parts ?
Did you know that I.C.C. Commissioner John J. Esch was accused of switching his vote in a case to secure renomination by President Coolidge and the Senate refused his confirmation , 39–29?
Did you know that the Nidaros Cathedral West Front sculpture of Archangel Michael was based on Bob Dylan ?
Did you know that Harald Gram , father of World War II resistance fighter Gregers Gram , was stipendiary magistrate in Oslo for 21 years?
Did you know that Muhammad Habibullah was India's delegate to the first session of the League of Nations in 1919?
Did you know that the Gray Mouse Lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)?
Did you know that Israel Prize recipient Avraham Yaski founded the largest architecture firm in Israel ?
Did you know that the coprophilous mushroom Conocybe rickenii may be found in large numbers in gardens where horse manure has been used to enrich the soil?
Did you know that Grand Funk Railroad 's epic 1970 song " I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home) " about a troubled sea voyage, is most commonly associated with emotions surrounding the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that H. Vasanthakumar is a MLA in India ,  owner of an entertainment channel, Vasanth TV , and of Vasanth & Co , one of the largest electronics retail chains in Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that the Salad Bowl strike of 1970–1971 caused the price of iceberg lettuce to triple overnight, and thousands of acres of lettuce were plowed under as crops spoiled on the ground?
Did you know that Jack Grout , a PGA Tour competitor from 1931 to 1953, was the first and only teacher of successful professional golfer Jack Nicklaus ?
Did you know that following the upgrade of two Oslo T-bane lines , all aging T1000 trains of the system can be replaced by MX3000 's ?
Did you know that Harry Watson scored 36 goals at the 1924 Winter Olympics , making him the highest scoring male Canadian Olympic ice hockey player ?
Did you know that Ayya Nadar along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu , India , into a thriving industrial town?
Did you know that radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon , was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy?
Did you know that Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd , who claimed to be King of Wales?
Did you know that when Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club , his " transfer fee " was a round of 52 pints of beer ?
Did you know that the Norton P11 desert racing motorcycle was launched in the US under the advertising slogan Dynamite on wheels ?
Did you know that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering ?
Did you know that the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis , Indiana , lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi stayed at the house of publisher and journalist G. A. Natesan during his first visit to Madras on returning from South Africa in 1915?
Did you know that Otto Preminger completed the film That Lady in Ermine after Ernst Lubitsch died, insisting the original director get sole screen credit out of "respect and admiration for the departed master"?
Did you know that soprano Sylvia Cecil joined and left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company three times during her career?
Did you know that World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea ?
Did you know that Will Kane was Gary Cooper 's second Academy Award-winning role?
Did you know that Concert Allegro , the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance , has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt "?
Did you know that Herb Treat , unanimously selected as a 1922 College Football All-American , was hit by a car in 1943 and plunged nine stories from a hotel window in 1947?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fengji ' s eight associates were known as the "eight passes " for the difficulty involved in going through them to meet him?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Michigan v. Jackson that a confession made during a police-initiated interrogation, after a request for counsel was made, would be inadmissible in court?
Did you know that Apolinary Hartglas was a leader of Polish Jews, a Zionist activist, and a deputy to the Polish Sejm during the interwar period?
Did you know that the red and yellow molded plastic Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times ?
Did you know that the video game Marvel Trading Card Game portrays the Vs System ruleset exactly the same as the physical playing card version?
Did you know that poet Olav Angell was awarded a prize from the Arts Council Norway for his translation of James Joyce 's novel Ulysses into Norwegian ?
Did you know that despite the Russian authorities' intention to turn the Teachers' Seminary in Veiveriai into a center of Russification , the seminary became a center of the Lithuanian National Revival ?
Did you know that a 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the " cartoonish " sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero ?
Did you know that Chablis was so devastated by spring time frost that the whole region only produced 11 cases of wine during the 1957 vintage ?
Did you know that Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government ?
Did you know that in one of the major ancient Egyptian creation myths , the creator god Atum was said to have sneezed and spat out his offspring?
Did you know that the poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls ?
Did you know that due to their rich biodiversity , Sri Lanka montane rain forests are  a globally important super-hotspot with a large number of endemic species?
Did you know that conductor George Georgescu first made music as a child by playing a violin between his legs like a cello ?
Did you know that Ray Pickerell secured 17 first-place race wins on a Norton Dunstall motorcycle in 1968?
Did you know that Mortuary Affairs , within the United States Department of Defense Quartermaster Corps , is tasked with the retrieval, identification , transportation, and burial of deceased military personnel?
Did you know that the German lichenologist and taxonomist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold had a personal herbarium of 150,000 specimens?
Did you know that according to the magico -medical text Cyranides , miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet ?
Did you know that soprano Margaret Lloyd portrayed the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd 's Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000?
Did you know that in the Vyadha Gita , a part of the epic Mahabharata , a vyadha (butcher) imparts teachings to a sannyasin (monk) on dharma and the importance of work?
Did you know that Alvin Powell was addicted to crack cocaine as a player in the National Football League , but later became a substance abuse counselor?
Did you know that the gambling magazine Total Gambler was Britain 's most widely circulated monthly men's magazine when it launched in August 2005, with an initial print run of 650,000 copies?
Did you know that at the age of 29, Bernice Cronkhite became the dean of Radcliffe College , making her the youngest person to become a dean in the United States ?
Did you know that Jodhpur Group - Malani Igneous Suite Contact , a National Geological Monument at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur , India, represents the last phase of igneous activity of Precambrian age?
Did you know that former Maryland lacrosse coach Dick Edell retired in 2001 after seventeen NCAA Division I tournament appearances, the second-most of any head coach?
Did you know that the current governor of Malai District , Cambodia , is a former Khmer Rouge diplomat and aide to Pol Pot ?
Did you know that actor Eli Mintz portrayed Uncle David in the television series The Goldbergs ?
Did you know that the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City was once a mint for manufacturing coins and even housed the Supreme Court of Mexico ?
Did you know that in 1922 , Washington & Jefferson College's Charlie "Pruner" West became the first African American to play quarterback in the Rose Bowl ?
Did you know that Francis Bacon 's painting Fragment of a Crucifixion shows two dying animals in a scene influenced by the biblical Crucifixion and Aeschylus ' The Oresteia ?
Did you know that FCC and ACLU head James Lawrence Fly ' s influence in opposing wiretapping led the FBI to start a file on him?
Did you know that Phillips Community College 's Pillow-Thompson House is noted for its Queen Anne Style architecture ?