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Did you know that the Kay Moor coal mine near Fayetteville, West Virginia , was first worked with mule-drawn railcars?
Did you know that Michael Christian Festing was Thomas Arne 's mentor and it is through his influence that Arne was able to pursue a music career?
Did you know that Guyana's sugar production was halved between 1978 and 1988 due to the economic decline of the nation during the 1980s?
Did you know that Balanadarajah Iyer was the second Sri Lankan journalist to be assassinated in 2004?
Did you know that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
Did you know that the noted medieval Telugu-language writer and poet Palkuriki Somanatha wrote important classics in Kannada and Sanskrit as well?
Did you know that the Beverly Hilton Hotel has hosted the Golden Globe Awards since 1961?
Did you know that Trailanga Swami , an Indian yogi , is reputed to have lived nearly 300 years and reportedly "read people’s minds like books"?
Did you know that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon , has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
Did you know that both Charles Langbridge Morgan , a civil engineer, and his son Charles Langbridge Morgan , a playwright and novelist, served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War ?
Did you know that although Katharine Hepburn wrote most of the filmed script for Travels with My Aunt , she was denied screen credit because she was not a member of the Screen Writers Guild ?
Did you know that the village of Worsley is centred around the coal mines that helped kickstart the industrial revolution in nearby Manchester ?
Did you know that New York Road Runners CEO Mary Wittenberg was the first female director of a major international marathon?
Did you know that Sega changed a dainty, big-eyed female character into a Vallejo -like golden bikini -clad female barbarian, to market the video game Alisia Dragoon to the Western market?
Did you know that the first container ship arrived in the Port of Tokyo 's Shinagawa terminal in 1967?
Did you know that Haskel Lookstein , who succeeded his father Joseph Lookstein as Rabbi of New York City 's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in 1979, was Newsweek magazine's second-ranked U.S. pulpit rabbi in 2008?
Did you know that around 80 percent of El Salvador 's forests are associated with shade coffee plantations ?
Did you know that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War , Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee ?
Did you know that The Beatles appeared ten times on the BBC Radio programme Saturday Club in the early 1960s?
Did you know that University of Pennsylvania track coach Ken Doherty removed Bruce Dern from the track team in 1957 after his Elvis -like sideburns caused a commotion while running the two-mile relay ?
Did you know that a split in India 's Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1988 resulted in a split in the Congress party in Tamil Nadu , leading to the birth of the new party Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani ?
Did you know that the Diamond darter , discovered in 2008, lives only in the Elk River of West Virginia , USA ?
Did you know that the invitations to the inauguration of Barack Obama were produced in an environmentally friendly manner by companies certified by the Forest Stewardship Council ?
Did you know that George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen was the acting Viceroy of India from June 1929 to April 1931?
Did you know that Chicago 's Fountain of Time by Lorado Taft is considered the earliest outdoor concrete sculpture?
Did you know that when Jean-Jacques Démafouth , in exile from the Central African Republic , agreed to lead the APRD rebel group in March 2008, he stipulated they must negotiate a peace deal?
Did you know that controversy erupted when Virginia Tech was selected to play in the 2002 Gator Bowl college football game instead of Syracuse , which had more wins in the regular season ?
Did you know that Corethrellidae , a family of parasitic midges belonging to the same order as the common housefly , have been found to spread the disease -causing protozoan Trypanosoma among their host frog populations?
Did you know that designer Shigeo Fukuda 's poster "Victory 1945" of a projectile heading straight at the opening of a cannon barrel was described as a "bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war"?
Did you know that President George W. Bush appointed three Cabinet members who had been born outside of the United States , the most of any U.S. president?
Did you know that Château de Cayx is a royal residence of the Danish monarch in France ?
Did you know that Holly Coors , wife of beer magnate Joseph Coors , stated while planning to run for Governor of Colorado that the way to help women was "not the Equal Rights Amendment but through free enterprise "?
Did you know that Typhoon Wayne , which roamed the South China Sea and Formosa Strait for over three weeks in 1986, remains the longest lived tropical cyclone on record in the western Pacific Ocean ?
Did you know that in May 1776, the future Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha?
Did you know that Star Trek: Countdown , a comic book prequel to the 2009 film Star Trek , is also a sequel to the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis ?
Did you know that Barashnûm is a Zoroastrian purification ritual in which a "defiled" person is confined to a corner of the house called Armêsht-gah for a period of nine nights?
Did you know that Count Hans von Schack of South Jutland was given Schackenborg Castle as a token of Frederick III of Denmark 's gratitude for his military achievements in the Northern Wars ?
Did you know that Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon was the first hospital in the United States to earn a Gold LEED certification ?
Did you know that child actor Asa Butterfield appeared on the cover of Patrick Skene Catling's autobiography Better Than Working ?
Did you know that after surviving 1945's Battle of Manila , the Avenue Theater along Rizal Avenue was demolished in 2006 in order to turn it into a parking lot?
Did you know that rapper T.I. is starring in T.I.'s Road To Redemption , an upcoming reality television show?
Did you know that the legend of Sumbha and Nisumbha , demons from Hindu mythology , is used as a warning against the dangers of seduction in Shashi Tharoor 's novel The Great Indian Novel ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin served five separate terms as manager of the New York Yankees ?
Did you know that Captain John Maitland's decisive quashing of an attempted mutiny was termed 'Doctor Maitland's recipe' by Admiral John Jervis ?
Did you know that ever since the Griffin v. California case in the U.S. Supreme Court , judges and prosecutors are forbidden from mentioning that a defendant has refused to testify?
Did you know that Al-Maquar , which contains the royal residence of Jordan , was built on the camp-site for the armies of the Arab Revolt , who captured Amman in 1918?
Did you know that Marcia P. Sward , who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids , started her career as a mathematician ?
Did you know that because of differences in the demands for a separate nation called Dravida Nadu , India 's DMK party split in 1962 and a short-lived Tamil National Party was formed?
Did you know that Alexander Ross was Engineer-in-Chief of the Breydon Viaduct ?
Did you know that there was public outcry when the Sea Alarm —formerly one of Britain's WWII Empire ships —was scrapped after the closure of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum ?
Did you know that in the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s, Frenchy Martin accompanied Dino Bravo to the ring with a sign that read "USA is not OK"?
Did you know that in Maya mythology, wayob were the powerful spirit forms of lords, priests and gods?
Did you know that during the Battle of Tipton's Island , Colonel Tipton punished a talkative soldier under his command by tying him to a tree ?
Did you know that Nijaguna Shivayogi , a petty chieftain in 15th-century Karnataka , India, was a visionary writer and poet in the Kannada language ?
Did you know that tab shows —cut-down versions of Broadway and other musicals , with portable scenery—often shared the bill with early 20th-century vaudeville and burlesque shows in the USA?
Did you know that Captain Charles Powell Hamilton was present at both the loss of HMS Alexander in the Action of 6 November 1794 , and her recapture at the Battle of Groix ?
Did you know that Filipinos are expected to become the second-largest group of foreign workers in Qatar by the end of 2009?
Did you know that New York City 's Ramaz School , with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein , whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
Did you know that a Liveline phone-in debate on gay adoption staged by Evelyn O'Rourke led to more than half of the total complaints issued against the radio show in a six-month period?
Did you know that in 1952, three BSA A7 motorcycles won the Maudes Trophy and the International Six Days Enduro , achieving 4,500 miles (7,200 km) without any problems?
Did you know that Maraimalai Adigal , a Saivite and considered the father of the Pure Tamil movement , disagreed with the atheistic beliefs of Periyar 's Self-Respect Movement ?
Did you know that in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill making Oregon the first U.S. state to require prescriptions for cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine , a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine ?
Did you know that, being a descendant of Pliohippus , Astrohippus is not considered to be an ancestor to modern horses ?
Did you know that in 1975, Tivi Etok , a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
Did you know that a 2009 Pennsylvania court case ruled that poker is a game of skill, thus not subject to the state laws related to gambling ?
Did you know that the Norwegian Minister of the Interior and President of the Storting , Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne , was a business partner of Theodor Peterson before entering politics?
Did you know that Murder on a Sunday Morning , a French film about the 2000 Brenton Butler murder case in Jacksonville, Florida , won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2001?
Did you know that Étienne-Émile Baulieu , the "father of the abortion pill ", first described the concept of neurosteroids ?
Did you know that NBC 's 2009 reality television program Superstars of Dance is hosted by "Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley ?
Did you know that East Wallabi Island has the highest number of plant species on any island of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago in the Indian Ocean ?
Did you know that many modern legal commentators believe the decision in Stilk v Myrick was made at least partly due to public policy?
Did you know that Steven Hoefflin grafted skin to Michael Jackson ’s scalp after the singer was burnt during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984?
Did you know that Sedgeley , designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1799 and built in Philadelphia , was the first Gothic revival -style house in the U.S. ?
Did you know that Oslac , the first ealdorman of southern Northumbria , is said to have escorted the Scottish king Cináed mac Maíl Coluim to the court of the English king Edgar the Peaceful ?
Did you know that Ron Rothstein was the first head coach of the Miami Heat , an American professional basketball team based in Miami , Florida ?
Did you know that remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters on West Wallabi Island , constructed by survivors of the 1629 Batavia shipwreck, are the oldest known European-built structures in Australia ?
Did you know that Brett Queener , an American goalkeeper in professional field lacrosse , plays an offensive position in professional indoor lacrosse ?
Did you know that the Wolf Popper Synagogue in Kraków , Poland , was founded in 1620 by one of the richest European traders in saltpetre , used for the making of gunpowder ?
Did you know that Bob May got the role of the Robot in the 1960s TV series Lost in Space when he met the show's creator Irwin Allen in the studio lot who said "if you can fit in the suit, you've got the job"?
Did you know that the Moss, Norway -based corporation Peterson started as a general store in 1801, later expanding into packaging and paper industry via timber trade and shipping ?
Did you know that the U.S. Olympic Committee awarded medals to Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman 62 years after the only two Jews on the U.S. track team were pulled from the 400-meter relay team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ?
Did you know that Jagannatha Dasa is one of the widely known 18th-century saint-poets of the Kannada language ?
Did you know that the Weberian apparatus , a set of modified bones that link the swim bladder and inner ear of some fishes, is a distinguishing characteristic of the superorder Ostariophysi ?
Did you know that the collection of the Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely includes 275 aircraft, of which approximately 110 are on public display?
Did you know that college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position ?
Did you know that the 2005 World Series of Poker Ladies Champion had been nominated for an Academy Award in 1994?
Did you know that the Citizen's Briefing Book is a compilation work of citizen recommendations to Barack Obama , to be presented to him after his inauguration as President of the United States ?
Did you know that the birth place of Tipu Sultan , also known as the Tiger of Mysore , is located 150 metres (490 ft) south-west of Devanahalli Fort in Karnataka , India ?
Did you know that Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger , the captain of US Airways Flight 1549 , also runs an aviation safety consultant company and has worked as an accident investigator for the USAF , NTSB , and FAA ?
Did you know that Empire Athelstan was the first merchant ship built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow in Furness after the Second World War ?
Did you know that C. Natesa Mudaliar was responsible for bringing bitter rivals Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair together and is remembered as one of the founders of India's Justice Party ?
Did you know that development of the Namsos Line was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the Nordland Line used another route via Snåsa , and in 1927, when the Norwegian Minister of Labour stopped construction?
Did you know that following Andrew Jackson 's inauguration in 1829 , a drunken mob inside the White House was only dispersed once bowls of punch and liquor were placed on the front lawn?
Did you know that Leonard Andrews created The New York Standard , the largest alternative paper printed during the 114-day 1962 New York City newspaper strike , with a peak circulation over 400,000 in its 67 issues?
Did you know that the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra , a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish ?
Did you know that Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova regarded Osip Mandelstam 's poem on Russian poetess Mariya Petrovykh as the "best love poem of the twentieth century"?
Did you know that the Indiana Rangers inspired the creation of the more famous Texas Rangers ?
Did you know that the MV Domala was the first ship of the British-India Steam Navigation Company that was powered by diesel engines ?
Did you know that, in 2008, college football player Russell Wilson of North Carolina State became the first freshman quarterback to ever be named to the All- Atlantic Coast Conference first team?
Did you know that the Little Wattlebird lacks the wattles which characterise the wattlebirds ?
Did you know that the Singsaker Line was the first part of the Trondheim Tramway , Norway , to be closed?
Did you know that after escaping from German forces in World War II , Peter Lewis hid in a safe house in Modena for almost two months in late 1943?
Did you know that the UNIO High School in Satu Mare , Romania , was established only to train and promote skilled workers for the UNIO Company?
Did you know that entrepreneur Ralph D. Foster and his partner started Missouri radio station KGBX (now KSGF ) in 1926 to advertise their Firestone Tires dealership?
Did you know that Australian forces were deployed as a part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force and North Russia Relief Force during the Russian Civil War ?
Did you know that Stephen Etnier , an American realist painter, commanded the United States Navy ship USS Mizpah during World War II ?
Did you know that the title for Peter Benchley 's best-selling 1974 novel Jaws was not agreed until 20 minutes before it went into production?
Did you know that IBM 's Automatic Language Translator machines used by the US Air Force had optical disks that stored thousands of Russian -to- English translations?
Did you know that during the captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam , 30,000 of the captured 60,000 Christians were forcibly converted to Islam by Tipu Sultan ?
Did you know that microbiologist Hans Knöll defended the historic center of Jena , which was threatened by the construction of the Jen-Tower ?
Did you know that the four-part A&E documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs is being used in many college and university courses on anthropology and archaeology ?
Did you know that after being sent to the GULAG , Ukrainian writer Hryhorii Epik continued to write and sent one of his works to the NKVD in Moscow before his execution during the Great Purge in 1937?
Did you know that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
Did you know that Steve Farrell , called "the greatest professional foot-racer" in America, raced against horses for several years in the 1890s and reportedly only lost a half dozen times?
Did you know that undercover apartheid agent Fabio Barraclough used a cover identity as an anti-apartheid campaigner ?
Did you know that the 1983 song " Everyday I Write the Book " was Elvis Costello 's first hit single in the United States ?
Did you know that Malaysian royalty's immunity from legal prosecution was removed after a 1992 assault incident , involving Tunku Majid of Johor , sparked a constitutional crisis ?
Did you know that the US Air Force 's cold-weather testing facility was moved from Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska , to a refrigerated hangar, the McKinley Climatic Laboratory , at Eglin Air Force Base , Florida ?
Did you know that an electronic opera Raab by the Czech composer Jaroslav Krček was banned by the communist regime in 1972?
Did you know that the United States Department of Transportation incorrectly lists the former Interstate 87 bridge on Warren County Route 35 as an old state road?
Did you know that professional wrestler George "Two Ton" Harris was promised continued employment with Jim Crockett Promotions when he assured the owner that he would learn to read and write?
Did you know that Cheshire landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall , to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style?
Did you know that after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation , two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga , were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that only 100 Mahatma Gandhi 10 Rs. stamps were overprinted with "Service", making it the world's least printed stamp?
Did you know that disputes between Confederate Generals William Hardee and John Creed Moore caused Moore to resign his commission?
Did you know that Cosmos 1818 , which has an inactive nuclear reactor , was fractured by either a collision or thermal stresses , generating radioactive debris in a high earth orbit ?
Did you know that Elliott Woods , who was Architect of the Capitol from 1902 to 1923, oversaw the construction of the Cannon House Office Building and the Russell Senate Office Building ?
Did you know that protozoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed to have started the use of hamsters as pets in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that the Temple of Human Passions , first building of Art Nouveau 's architect Victor Horta , was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899?
Did you know that Joseph P. Williams led the team that created the BankAmericard in 1958, the first national bank credit card in the United States?
Did you know that the Candy cap mushroom species Lactarius camphoratus has been used as part of a pipe tobacco mix?
Did you know that the "London Cage," a World War II prisoner of war facility commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland , was beset by allegations of torture ?
Did you know that Bryan Trottier , Denis Potvin , Mike Bossy , and Bryan Berard all won the Calder Memorial Trophy while playing for the New York Islanders ?
Did you know that sprint champion Charles Hoyt , who lost a chance for an Olympic medal when the 1916 games were cancelled due to World War I , later coached Eddie Tolan to two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics ?
Did you know that people have had to be taken to hospital due to drug overdoses at dance parties ?
Did you know that instead of abducting people , Francesco Paolo Varsallona , who became an outlaw in 1893, introduced tribute payments for guaranteed safety and was credited with modernizing brigandage in Sicily ?
Did you know that in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at Cumberland, Maryland , overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US$250,000 in damages?
Did you know that Royal Air Force pilot Robert Leith-Macgregor was twice shot down during World War II and then strafed by German fighters, but survived uninjured both times?
Did you know that Kentucky 's Great Saltpetre Cave , which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812 , was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below ?
Did you know that composer Egidio Duni was particularly influential in creating a new genre of opera which blended Italian opera elements with traditional French ones?
Did you know that the Polhemus Memorial Clinic in Brooklyn, New York , is considered to be the first skyscraper hospital ever built?
Did you know that despite its name, the Corsican Hare is not native to Corsica and is rarely found on this Mediterranean island today?
Did you know that composer Jonathan Battishill once performed several airs from Samuel Arnold 's oratorio The Prodigal Son without the sheet music , and after not hearing the work for more than 20 years?
Did you know that in addition to her academic career, German - Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries?
Did you know that though students spend their entire high school career at Tech Valley High School in New York's Capital District , their diploma comes from their home school district?
Did you know that Robert Millar has been credited for establishing modern marketing in Norway ?
Did you know that the private railroad car Georgia 300 has been used by United States Presidents George H.W. Bush , Bill Clinton , and Barack Obama , as well as presidential candidate John Kerry ?
Did you know that Sam , an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps , posthumously received the Dickin Medal in 2003 for holding off armed rioters in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you know that the Dalsenget fire in 1956 caused the Trondheim Tramway to lose its 26 newest trams?
Did you know that Hedda and Ingrid Berntsen became the first siblings in Norway to compete in different events at the same Olympic Games ?
Did you know that the avant-garde magazine 291 is credited with first introducing visual poetry to the United States back in 1915?
Did you know that according to De primo Saxonum adventu , Osulf of Bamburgh was the first English "earl" of Northumbria ?