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Did you know that Australian triathlete Mirinda Carfrae in her first attempt at the Ironman distance broke the women's marathon course record at the 2009 World Championships ?
Did you know that Louis Robertshaw flew combat missions in World War II and Korea and flew an F-4D Phantom fighter in Vietnam as commanding general of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing ?
Did you know that in the Treaty of Bromberg , Poland-Lithuania accepted Hohenzollern sovereignty in the Duchy of Prussia in turn for an "eternal alliance"?
Did you know that Thai director Yongyoot Thongkongtoon ' s debut film was The Iron Ladies , a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men?
Did you know that during the Convention of Aguascalientes the Zapatista Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama said that the Mexican flag symbolized "triumph of clerical reaction" and was then threatened by other attendees?
Did you know that some participants in the men's singles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics complained that track changes made after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili gave an advantage to stronger starters?
Did you know that Alf Whist , Minister of Industry and Shipping in the Quisling regime , had no political experience prior to joining the Fascist party during Nazi Germany's occupation in the 1940s?
Did you know that the American Pie franchise , consisting of a trilogy and spin-off spiritual successor series of four more films, spawned from the 1999 film American Pie ?
Did you know that Robert C. Janiszewski , longtime County Executive of Hudson County , New Jersey , was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI ?
Did you know that Bangladesh football goalkeeper Biplob Bhattacharjee made his international debut at the age of 18?
Did you know that the female Green Pygmy Goose has a lower pitched whistle than the male?
Did you know that Norwegian journalist Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn is known for her unusual name and consistent use of Nynorsk ?
Did you know  that Magnar Lundemo competed in international  championships in both running and skiing in 1962?
Did you know  that only one of the twenty-five aircraft operated by Invicta  International Airlines was a jet , a Boeing 720B ?
Did you know that in 1871, Lars Havstad became one of the first two deaf people to pass the final examination in secondary  schools in Norway ?
Did you know that the Salisbury and  Yeovil Railway has been described as "the most  successful of all railways in Southern England"?
Did you know  that the substellar  object orbiting G 196-3 was the second discovery of a brown dwarf found around a young low-mass star ?
Did you know that Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash while posted in the United Kingdom and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s?
Did you know  that Electrinocellia peculiaris is named for the Latin "electrum"  meaning amber ,  " Inocellia ", the type genus for Inocelliidae ,  and "peculiaris" for the enigmatic nature of the species?
Did you know that Frank Allen originally worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer at the age of 24?
Did you know that the Humboldt Fault Zone , which produced the 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake , still poses a formidable threat to the state of Kansas?
Did you know that Cao Văn Viên was one of only two four-star generals in the history of South Vietnam ?
Did you know that the catfish Pimelodus pictus has extremely long barbels , or whiskers, that can extend past the fish's tail fin ?
Did you know that Chicago-born record producer Lou Reizner conceived and produced the orchestral version of The Who 's rock opera Tommy ?
Did you know that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle ?
Did you know that in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California ?
Did you know that squire Richard Cooke shot dead two tax collectors as he claimed that they were poachers ?
Did you know that the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare ?
Did you know that in 1929, Wales international footballer Moses Russell was threatened with a pistol during a pitch invasion whilst on a tour of Canada?
Did you know that Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda , a Declared Monument in Hong Kong , was built in 1486 to improve the local fung shui ?
Did you know that Gandhi biographer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar , a student of Eisenstein , is considered to be one of the pioneers of documentary film making in India ?
Did you know that the Vĩnh Tế Canal , built during the Nguyễn Dynasty in southern Vietnam , was a symbol of mistreatment of the Khmer people and later used by the Khmer Rouge in anti- Vietnamese propaganda?
Did you know that Edwin C. Burt 's shoe company issued a series of trade cards , one of which featured children sitting in a sailboat-shaped shoe?
Did you know that Perica Vlašić won Diamonds at Henley , even though he turned up the day before the regatta without a boat?
Did you know that David Wilson was Nelson F.C. 's first manager in the Football League ?
Did you know that residents of Texcoco, Mexico State have resisted, sometimes violently, the development of a major airport since the 1990s?
Did you know that Tony Award -winning producer Richard Barr took part in the infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds ?
Did you know that four members of the Australian 7th Battalion received the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915?
Did you know that Norman Doidge , author of popular science book The Brain That Changes Itself , presented his research into psychotherapy at the White House in 1993?
Did you know that the Bahá'í Faith was first brought to Haiti in 1927?
Did you know that Bloom Energy was awarded a patent in 2009 for a power device that utilizes yttria-stabilized zirconia ?
Did you know that the late Louisiana State Rep. Shady Wall once pulled a pistol on colleague Carl Gunter, Jr. , when Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's telephone?
Did you know that Alhaji Grunshi was the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the First World War ?
Did you know  that the principles of insanity in English law have been described as based on a "now obsolete" belief and "not  therefore a satisfactory test of criminal responsibility"?
Did you know  that comedian and actor Dane Cook is referenced in the Archer episode " Training Day "  when main character Archer negatively compares karate to him?
Did you know  that out of the described snakefly specimens from the Florissant Formation , the Raphidia  funerata holotype is the most complete?
Did you know that Fox Brothers ,  established in 1772, has provided cloth to Bob Hope , Winston  Churchill , the Duke of Windsor and Cary Grant ?
Did you know  that Norwegian cross-country skier Øystein  Pettersen won a gold medal in the team sprint  event at the 2010 Winter Olympics after filling in for a teammate  who withdrew from the race due to illness?
Did you know that copies of a forthcoming Kraken Opus book about Diego Maradona will be sold with samples of his blood and hair?
Did you know that West Indian cricketer Brian Lara has made the highest individual score and only quadruple century in Test cricket ?
Did you know that in order to convince defensive end Jody Schulz to sign a letter-of-intent , former East Carolina Pirates football coach Ed Emory took a plane to Kent Island during a snowstorm?
Did you know that Joseph Gutnick , chairman of Great Central Mines , was advised by the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson to go back to the Australian desert and search for "gold and diamonds"?
Did you know that Chinese Buddhist monk Song Yun and companions traveled to northwest India at the request of Empress Hu during the Northern Wei dynasty ?
Did you know that some historians consider a 1619 strike by Polish craftsmen in the Jamestown Settlement to be the first strike in North American history?
Did you know that cartoonist Ken Emerson wrote the second-longest running comic strip in Australia ?
Did you know that pre-colonial sexual customs in the Philippines involved equating the size of a woman's breasts and the wideness of her hips with the price of the dowry ?
Did you know that Francisco Goya 's Witches' Sabbath was a protest against superstitious beliefs encouraged by leaders of the Spanish Inquisition ?
Did you know that literary historian Rolf Nyboe Nettum , one of Norway 's central Knut Hamsun researchers, grew up as a neighbour of polar explorer Otto Sverdrup ?
Did you know that the ancient Amber Road passed through the Postojna Gate to reach the Mediterranean ?
Did you know that 18th-century Swedish admiral Olof Strömstierna was the son of a fisherman?
Did you know that rubicline was the first mineral discovered with rubidium as an essential constituent?
Did you know that Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni was Galileo's personal instrument maker and helped Galileo make military compasses and other instruments?
Did you know that French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis , who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics , was born in Montana ?
Did you know  that after inheriting her late husband's tools in 1760, Hester Bateman successfully ran a family silversmithing business for 30 years?
Did you know  that Dean Fredericks , who portrayed Air Force pilot Steve Canyon in the 1958–59 NBC television series , was awarded a Purple Heart during World War II ?
Did you know that the mushroom Cortinarius archeri is featured on the cover of the book Fungi of Southern Australia ?
Did you know  that during the Mexican Revolution , the rebel leader Jesús Salgado , whose revolt often shaded into outright banditry , led 5000 Zapatista troops in the taking of the capital of Guerrero , Chilpancingo ?
Did you know that between its 1960 closing and its current use as a museum, District School No. 14 in Pine Hill, New York , was a coat factory and a furniture repair shop?
Did you know that Amy Williams , gold medal winner in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics , was accused of getting an unfair advantage from ridges in her helmet?
Did you know that college basketball point guard Demetri McCamey and Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner were once teammates at Isiah Thomas ' former high school?
Did you know that Camp Na'aleh , which was established in 1932 with help from Golda Meir , the future Prime Minister of Israel , is the oldest Habonim Dror summer camp in North America?
Did you know that for most of his European Parliamentary term, Gerhard Hager was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria , before leaving the party just over one year before the end of his second term?
Did you know that R&B singer Barrence Whitfield changed his name from Barry White, to avoid confusion with the other Barry White , who had changed his name from Barrence?
Did you know that College Sports Information Directors of America has conferred Academic All-American to athletes in all National Collegiate Athletic Association championship sports since 1952?
Did you know that the arrest of the Ghassanid ruler Al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith in 581 provoked a two-year revolt by his sons against the Byzantine Empire ?
Did you know that the Old Harbor Light in Savannah, Georgia , also known as the Savannah Harbor Rear Range Light, resembles a giant streetlight ?
Did you know that Erin Carmody 's curling team twice won the Prince Edward Island provincial junior championships  with an undefeated record?
Did you know that Nanoraphidia electroburmica , known from a fossil in amber , is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
Did you know that American Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomas has walked 19,000 miles (31,000 km) on peace pilgrimages?
Did you know that the renovated Russian embassy has been described as the most  magnificent embassy in Luxembourg ?
Did you know that Crystal  Taliefero , percussionist with the Billy Joel Band ,  also narrates children's audiobooks?
Did you know that efforts to remove street vendors in the Tlaxcoaque area of Mexico City have resulted in threats to public officials?
Did you know that Janet Vida Watson ' s first job involved researching the growth of chickens, but that she went on to become the first woman  president of the Geological Society of London ?
Did you know that Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Arved Crüger was married to the actress Carola Höhn ?
Did you know  that the 14.44-mile (23.2 km) Stert and  Westbury Railway shortened the distance from London Paddington station to Weymouth by 14.24 miles (22.9 km)?
Did you know that West Indians Viv Richards and Hallam Moseley top the batting and bowling charts in List A cricket for Somerset  County Cricket Club ?
Did you know  that the mushroom Russula integra is a popular food in Northern Europe ?
Did you know  that Joseph Huddart , who made a fortune from making  rope, first worked with his father to process fish that suddenly  appeared in Solway Firth ?
Did you know  that players can use the Wii Balance Board and shift their weight to control  the monkey ball in Super Monkey Ball:  Step & Roll ?
Did you know  that Alphastates vocalist Catherine Dowling has been compared to both Beth Gibbons and Shirley Manson and called "a lady with the most evocative vocals in Irish music"?
Did you know that Marchwood Military Port in Southampton supported war efforts in both the Normandy landings and the Falklands war ?
Did you know  that Austrian brothers Wolfgang and Andreas Linger beat out Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Šics for the gold medal in the doubles luge  event at the 2010 Winter  Olympics ?
Did you know that the Amalgamated Sugar Company , the second-largest polluter of sulfur dioxide in Oregon in 1995, marketed its White Satin sugar as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar"?
Did you know that sibling alpine skiers Ornella and Manfred Oettl Reyes are members of Peru's first team at the Winter Olympics , despite being born and living their entire lives in Germany ?
Did you know that critics of the prosecution of anarchist Sherman Austin pointed out that Wikipedia contained more online bomb-making instructions than his website did?
Did you know that Neighbours actor Jordan Smith was born in Scotland and did not emigrate to Australia until 2003?
Did you know that the bloater , which inhabits the depths of the Great Lakes , swells when brought to the surface?
Did you know that Continental Navy Captain William Pickles ' ship, the Morris , was destroyed by a hurricane and replaced shortly before the 1779 Battle of Lake Pontchartrain ?
Did you know that indoor plumbing was not installed in a former lock tender's cottage on the Delaware and Hudson Canal at High Falls, New York , until the 1960s, over a century after it was built?
Did you know that Manuel Pinho was forced to resign as Portugal 's Minister of Economy and Innovation after making a gesture towards an opposition member during a session of parliament ?
Did you know that University of  Michigan freshman Devin Gardner compiled 3,287 yards of total offense as a high school junior and was ranked as the top quarterback prospect in the United States in  2009?
Did you know  that " The Iron Shroud " by William  Mudford influenced Edgar Allan  Poe 's writing of the " Pit and the Pendulum "?
Did you know that the American Piedmont blues guitarist Baby Tate worked with a Blind Boy and a Peg Leg during his five-decade-long  career?
Did you know  that Jeon Ok ,  a Korean actress and the mother of actress Kang Hyo-shil ,  was referred to as "Queen of Tears" for her excellence at acting for tragic dramas ?
Did you know  that in TCU's first season in the Mountain West Conference , the 2005 TCU Horned Frogs football team won its first outright conference championship since 1958?
Did you know  that before becoming a Member of the  European Parliament , Peter Sichrovsky edited a book featuring a  collection of interviews with the children of Nazi families?
Did you know  that women who wish to participate in the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla must ritually ask forgiveness for being a woman?
Did you know that the American Detroit blues musician Washboard Willie , derived his backing group's name, the Super Suds of Rhythm, from his job as a car washer ?
Did you know that the Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala was one of the first places to be settled in the Maya lowlands?
Did you know that most of the world's pure bred Holstein cattle descend from the herd of 20th century Canadian actuary Thomas Bassett Macaulay ?
Did you know that Irish-born artist Francis Bacon painted 28 known triptychs between 1944 and 1984?
Did you know that former Governor of American Samoa Gatewood Lincoln was the first cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you know that numerically-controlled oscillators offer several advantages over other types of oscillators in terms of agility, accuracy, stability, and reliability?
Did you know that in 1749, London newspapers advertised that at the Haymarket Theatre , and in full view of the audience, the Bottle Conjuror would climb into a wine bottle?
Did you know that in 2004, MEP Hans Kronberger unsuccessfully contested his fellow Freedom Party of Austria candidate's election to the European Parliament in the Constitutional Court of Austria ?
Did you know that Captain Phil Harris , best known from the Discovery Channel's reality TV series Deadliest Catch , developed a line of coffees called "Captain's Reserve"?
Did you know that Vespula flaviceps larvae are considered a delicacy in Japan ?
Did you know that Bulgarian graphic artist Stefan Kanchev , the author of 1,600 logos, has been called the "father of Bulgarian graphic design" and the "master of the trademark "?
Did you know that the silent comedy Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford was playing at Washington, D.C. 's Knickerbocker Theatre when it collapsed under the weight of snow from a blizzard in 1922, killing 98 people?
Did you know that Latvian Haralds Silovs is the first Olympic athlete to compete in both the short and long track speed skating events on the same day?
Did you know that one oldfield mouse was observed gently pulling out her young with her forefeet while giving birth?
Did you know that the recently discovered extrasolar planet HIP 79431 b is regarded as one of the most massive planets around M dwarf stars ?
Did you know that Arthur Stayner , an English horticulturist who was important in the founding of the sugar industry in Utah , died in 1899 of lead poisoning from a lead pellet embedded in his heel?
Did you know that Galentine's Day , an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , had a story so romantic, its characters said it made The Notebook look like Saw V ?
Did you know that the Arlington Club , a private club organized by business and banking leaders in Portland, Oregon , excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
Did you know that Björn Ferry , winner of the Men's pursuit biathlon event at the 2010 Winter Olympics , has suggested that athletes who use banned substances be given the death penalty ?
Did you know that despite being the oldest covered bridge in Lane County, Oregon , the Mosby Creek Bridge still remains open to traffic?
Did you know that during the "Christmas coup" at radio station WBAI , Utrice Leid changed the locks on the doors?
Did you know that in 2003, Member of the European Parliament Marialiese Flemming proposed more than 80 amendments to a European Commission human tissue safety standards proposal?
Did you know that at the Osborne House , Lonicera nitida shrubs were clipped to form stags that rise from beds of Felicia amelloides , Festuca glauca , and scarlet pelargoniums ?
Did you know that Paul Harrington , inventor of the Harrington implant , once tried out for the United States Olympic team ?
Did you know that the Trent Waterworks Company introduced Britain's first high pressure constant supply of mains water in Nottingham in 1831?
Did you know that the Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes proves the only case of the Hodge conjecture , a Clay Mathematics Institute million-dollar Millennium Prize Problem , which is known to be true on all Kähler manifolds ?
Did you know that in the Treaty of Labiau , Charles X Gustav of Sweden released Frederick William I of Brandenburg from the vassalage he had imposed on him in the Treaty of Königsberg ?
Did you know that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point , trained Iran 's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion ?
Did you know that Johnny Spillane's silver in the individual normal hill/10 km at the 2010 Winter Olympics is the first medal won by an American in Nordic combined ?
Did you know that the Beaverkill Valley Inn , near Lew Beach, New York , is the only remaining fishing lodge on the upper Beaver Kill from the early days of dry-fly trout fishing in the Catskills ?
Did you know that country music songwriter Chris Waters , who has written songs for Tim McGraw , Terri Clark and Rhett Akins , is the older brother of singer Holly Dunn ?
Did you know that the Beit Hanoun wedge was part of the Israeli strategy in Operation Yoav that sought to divide the Egyptian army into a number of pockets?
Did you know that Stephen Crane 's novella The Monster is thought to have been inspired in part by the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York ?
Did you know that according to the National Geographic Society , Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva found the richest unlooted pre-Columbian tomb in the Western Hemisphere ?
Did you know that silver nitride is a contact explosive which can detonate from even the slightest touch, such as a falling water droplet?
Did you know that Austrian court painter Peter Fendi , known for his erotic paintings , was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period?
Did you know that Đại Việt sử lược is considered the oldest remaining annals of the history of Vietnam ?
Did you know that Mo Tae-Bum ,  a South Korean long track speed skater , won a 2010 Olympic gold medal on his 21st birthday?
Did you know that the oldest association between Trypanosoma , which causes Chagas disease , and its vector , the assassin bug Triatoma , is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus ?
Did you know that in 2003, Austrian Member of the European Parliament Daniela Raschhofer was conferred a Grand Decoration of Honour ?
Did you know that Horagolla National Park is the only urban park in the Western Province of Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that Bernhard Heiliger was regarded as " West Germany 's foremost sculptor"?
Did you know that when police raided the Cambridge College of Learning, a London-based bogus college for overseas students, they discovered just three classrooms and eleven desks?
Did you know that Kurao Hiroshima was a two-time Olympian , two-time Japanese marathon champion , and two-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon ?
Did you know that Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men was the first number one of the Billboard ' s Independent Albums chart, and would later go on to be the biggest selling independent album of 2001?
Did you know that director and writer Juanita Wilson spent time in "the most radioactive place on earth" while working on her debut Academy Award -nominated short film?
Did you know that the Polish Independent Socialist Labour Party of Joseph Kruk merged into the Labour Zionist Poalei Zion in 1937?
Did you know that an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
Did you know  that in 1968 American archaeologist A. Ledyard  Smith received the Order of the Quetzal  from the Guatemalan government for his services to the cultural heritage of the country?
Did you know that Anthony R. Cucci , the 40th Mayor of Jersey City , threatened to foreclose on the Statue of Liberty and sell it at auction for an overdue water bill?
Did you know that Glen "Frosty"  Little is one of only four people ever to  be named "Master Clown" by the Ringling  Brothers circus  organization?