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Did you know that the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove , England, include the ruined West Pier —damaged by a succession of fires and storms?
Did you know that actress Sela Ward was not initially interested in playing Stacy Warner on FOX 's House , but changed her mind after watching tapes of the show?
Did you know that Torolf Prytz , a Norwegian architect turned goldsmith , also served as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for the Liberal Party ?
Did you know that the name of basketball player Aulcie Perry has become a generic phrase for a tall person in Hebrew ?
Did you know that academic Anastasios Christodoulou was named 'Anastasios' (' Resurrection ') by his parents as he was born on Easter Day ?
Did you know that the Golden-scruffy Collybia mushroom has been placed in 14 different genera ?
Did you know that walkers were encouraged to use the Buntingford Branch Line on Sundays by being offered cheap tickets ?
Did you know that the members of R&B girl group Electrik Red appeared together in Ciara 's music video for " Like a Boy "?
Did you know that thousands of Olive Ridley turtles are found dead at the mouth of the Devi River every year?
Did you know that brothers Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry made Opening Day starts for the Major League Baseball Cleveland Indians ?
Did you know that Gunvald Tomstad , a double agent for Norwegian resistance in World War II , acted as a local "ideologist" of the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling ?
Did you know that George Whitaker , president of Willamette University in Oregon , banned talking between boys and girls at the school?
Did you know that the original U.S. Forest Service ranger's cabin at Allison Ranger Station in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon was built in 1911?
Did you know that the flowers of the bamboo species Bambusa lako of Timor have yet to be scientifically observed?
Did you know that actor Billy Bob Thornton provides drums and vocals for the country rock band The Boxmasters ?
Did you know that Thomas Johannessen Heftye co-founded the Norwegian Trekking Association in 1868?
Did you know that one critic wrote that Jivin' in Be-Bop includes "one of the worst ballets ever put on film"?
Did you know that The Independent ' s reaction  to Ireland 's recent emergency budget included a cartoon of the country's Taoiseach measuring a dead tiger ?
Did you know that American race car driver Scott Gaylord asked his future wife out for their first date while competing against her in a race?
Did you know that in 1995, René Fasel of Switzerland became the first ever representative of ice hockey to become a member of the International Olympic Committee ?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in A-flat major, Op. 32, No. 2 , originally written for piano, was orchestrated in the ballet Les Sylphides ?
Did you know that LtCol. John F. Bolt , Korean War Navy Cross recipient,  remains the only U.S. Marine Corps jet aircraft flying ace ?
Did you know that Sprout Creek , whose subwatershed covers 29,342 acres (11,874 ha) of land, is the largest tributary of the Fishkill Creek ?
Did you know that Ove Gjerløw Meyer is recognized as the 1772 founder of the Norwegian Society ?
Did you know that the Orange-winged Amazon and Red-bellied Macaw mostly eat fruit from the royal palm Roystonea oleracea from July to September?
Did you know that the defunct Portland University in Oregon had only one building , so the school bookstore was a nearby general store ?
Did you know that Professor Harald Noreng led a project to list every word used in Henrik Ibsen 's oeuvre ?
Did you know that the Río Pilcomayo National Park in Argentina is included in the Ramsar Convention 's list of wetlands of international importance ?
Did you knowthat during World War II , William D. Alexander helped produce more than 250 newsreels concerning African-American soldiers and sailors?
Did you know that during the Mexican Revolution , Metropolitan Magazine sent reporter John Reed to Mexico where he stayed with Pancho Villa ?
Did you know that despite signing over 100 affiliate TV stations, the NTA Film Network never developed into a major television network ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Dragón Rojo, Jr. is one of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre 's "ambassadors" against tuberculosis ?
Did you know that 21-year-old Isuru Udana of the Wayamba province cricket team was adjudged Man of the Match and Series of the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament?
Did you know that the spring orange peel fungus infects caches of pinecones collected by squirrels ?
Did you know that George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent ?
Did you know that the Mendoza wine region produces nearly two-thirds of all the wine made in Argentina ?
Did you know that the 1998–99 NBA lockout forced the cancellation of 464 regular-season National Basketball Association games?
Did you know that Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň , Czech Republic ?
Did you know that at age 61, Ludvig Munk fathered Kirsten Munk with whom King Christian IV entered into a morganatic marriage ?
Did you know that KHSN , one of Oregon 's first radio stations , began broadcasting in 1928?
Did you know that author Jeanette Winterson was upset at being asked to rewrite the ending of her 1994 film Great Moments in Aviation ?
Did you know that Koko Guyot , an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian volcanic chain , was named for the 58th emperor of Japan , Emperor Koko ?
Did you know that linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
Did you know that Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland in Oregon is the oldest building on campus, and older than the school?
Did you know that Phú Xuân was the capital of the Nguyễn Lords , the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the Nguyễn Dynasty ?
Did you know that before a cavalry charge , Charles A. May told his soldiers, "Remember your Regiment and follow your officers!", which today remains a motto of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment ?
Did you know that the first successful flat panel display , the Aiken tube , was originally developed as an interactive plotting table for U.S. Navy anti-submarine helicopters?
Did you know that after decades as an anarcho-syndicalist , Maksim Rayevsky suddenly left the anarchist movement and went to work for the Soviet government?
Did you know that genetic monitoring of the DNA from feathers shed by the Eastern Imperial Eagle shows it is shorter lived than other long-lived raptors?
Did you know that the tomb of Pope Clement II in the Bamberg Cathedral is the only extant papal tomb outside Italy and France ?
Did you know that Fermín Salvochea was one of the early anarchist thinkers and activists in Spain ?
Did you know that the prototype two-wheeled, battery-powered, self-balancing PUMA from General Motors and Segway can carry two passengers at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) for a distance of up to 35 miles (56 km)?
Did you know that Turkish political parties cancelled their rallies ahead of the local elections in respect of the death of Yazıcıoğlu , leader of the Great Union Party , in the 2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash ?
Did you know that Andreas Paulson , a socialist and well-known literary and theatre critic , spent his professional career as a bank accountant ?
Did you know that the This is why you're fat website received 10 million page views in the first two months after its creation and features photographs of dishes like the "Homewrecker" and "30,000 Calorie Sandwich"?
Did you know that the lime-green waxy cap has a limited geographical distribution, having been collected only in California and Mexico ?
Did you know that Gideon Byamugisha was the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive?
Did you know that Google and Universal Music Group have announced Vevo , a YouTube -based, joint venture , music video - hosting website?
Did you know that American journalist and writer Bessie Breuer ' s first novel, Memory of Love (1935), was the basis for the 1939 film In Name Only which starred Cary Grant and Carol Lombard ?
Did you know that accounting ethics helps accountants and auditors resolve ethical dilemmas in ways that may not benefit a company but will benefit the public relying on the company's financial reports?
Did you know that poet and philanthropist Constant Tonegaru was imprisoned by Romania 's regime when one of his aid parcels was redirected toward anti-communist fighters ?
Did you know that the busiest ATM in the entire Buffalo , New York, region is in the hamlet of Snyder ?
Did you know that the American sisters Rose and Ottilie Sutro were the world's first duo - piano team?
Did you know that the Sumpa were a large tribe of 30,000 families in northeastern Tibet conquered and then assimilated by the Tibetans in the 7th–8th centuries CE?
Did you know that the Great Canadian Wrestling Expo ' s first two events featured puppet Ed the Sock as commissioner in 2005 and a match to determine leadership of the Power Rangers in 2006?
Did you know that the City University of New York system (CUNY) is the United States ' largest urban public university system?
Did you know that John Shearman ' s book on Quattrocento painting was commissioned by 1984, but was incomplete at his death, and remains a gap in the series?
Did you know that despite being called a " one-hit wonder "  by members of the UK music industry, singer Jamelia has had seven Top 10 singles enter the UK Singles Chart ?
Did you know that ex-professional footballer Julian Hails has a BSc honours degree in mathematical studies and became a mathematics teacher?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty Jiedushi (military governor) Li Yijian stopped his army from using two new styles of music, believing that it was the central government's prerogative to create military music?
Did you know that country music artist and Dead Reckoning Records co-founder Tammy Rogers was once a backing musician for Patty Loveless and Trisha Yearwood ?
Did you know that to strengthen its bid to air the UAAP college league , Philippine TV network ABS-CBN proposed to air the men's basketball finals at its flagship VHF channel 2 instead of at UHF channel 23 ?
Did you know that Ritchie Coliseum was called less adequate than a high school gymnasium by Maryland coach Bud Millikan ?
Did you know that Suez Canal construction reduced the salinity of Lake Timsah ?
Did you know that, in the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal , Henry Fielding declared literary war on the "armies of Grub Street " and thereby triggered the Paper War of 1752-1753 ?
Did you know that part of a $1 billion renovation of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel brought on a policy change for their toilet paper folding ?
Did you know that the bamboo species Bambusa oldhamii , known as the Giant Timber Bamboo, has been introduced into California, where it is the most common clumping bamboo?
Did you know that at least 20,000 Indigenous Australians and between 2,000 and 2,500 Europeans are estimated to have been killed in the Australian frontier wars ?
Did you know that Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS - Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part?
Did you know that HMS Spitfire captured at least nine French privateers and small naval vessels during a four year period under the command of Michael Seymour ?
Did you know that between 47,000 and 65,000 Filipinos live in France ?
Did you know that Bird Millman , once called the "most celebrated female high-wire performer of all time", was a premiere attraction with  the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ?
Did you know that the Empire Building in Manhattan is one of the oldest steel framed skyscrapers built on pneumatic caissons ?
Did you know that Wade Hampton II 's home, Millwood , now in ruins, is considered to have been the social center of antebellum South Carolina ?
Did you know that the documentary Dolce e selvaggio includes both genuine and fake scenes of human death?
Did you know that contributions to the U.S. Treasury 's Conscience Fund , a fund for voluntary gifts from people who have defrauded the U.S. Government , are not tax deductible although other gifts are?
Did you know that in 1935, the uniform of the national-conservative Bismarckjugend was banned in Germany ?
Did you know that the owner of a radio station in Corvallis, Oregon , had the station's legal call sign changed to KEJO to honor his late daughter, Emily Jo?
Did you know that Governor of Formosa Pieter Nuyts (1598–1655) was rumoured to hide an interpreter under his bed to translate pillow talk during his affairs with local women ?
Did you know that Swedish singer Agnes Carlsson 's 2009 Melodifestivalen entry " Love Love Love " was originally planned to be performed as a duet?
Did you know that the film version of the play Norman, Is That You? substitutes an African-American family for a Jewish family?
Did you know that General Hausmann , commander of Norway’s Army,  was dismissed as too warlike, but the army he built repelled Swedish attacks between 1716–1718?
Did you know that Frascati , a Federal-style plantation near Somerset, Virginia , was home to Supreme Court Associate Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour ?
Did you know that Francis Bull , a board member of the National Theatre when Nazi Germany occupied Norway in 1940, was arrested in 1941 and spent three years in a concentration camp ?
Did you know that the interactive fiction Violet won four XYZZY Awards and took first place in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Han Hong had once sent a beautiful woman as a gift to his subordinate general Li Guangyan , only to have Li reject and return her?
Did you know that the Japanese television drama Yūkan Club won four of the five possible awards at the 2007 Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix?
Did you know that Ann Arbor, Michigan , was founded by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey in 1824?
Did you know that AfterEllen.com praised the yaoi manga series The Moon and the Sandals for illustrating "the challenges gay men face in Japanese society"?
Did you know that on two occasions, the TNA World Tag Team Championship has been held by individual wrestlers rather than tag teams ?
Did you know that Choor Singh , former judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore , was the first Singaporean judge to impose the death penalty on a woman?
Did you know that Detroit Seamount , an underwater volcano in the North Pacific , is as big as the island of Hawaii ?
Did you know that when the Swedish book Are U 4 Real? was released in the United States , several parts regarding sex were removed?
Did you know that Joe Mauer won a batting title , the first by a catcher since 1942, and a Silver Slugger Award at catcher in 2006?
Did you know that the Harrell Prairie Botanical Area is one of the last undisturbed portions of the Jackson Prairie in the U.S. state of Mississippi ?
Did you know that before its broadcast, the Japanese visual novel Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity 's anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Media Factory ?
Did you know that two Spanish versions of the Italian song " Tutta la vita " peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
Did you know that when Thirwat Shehata visited Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Russian prison, he was allowed to give the al-Jihad leader a letter that authorities did not bother to translate?
Did you know that Irish rugby union commentator Ryle Nugent has worn sheepskin gloves whilst clinging to his microphone "for dear life"?
Did you know that syndicated radio show host " Delilah " got her start in radio reporting local news and sports on KDUN in Reedsport, Oregon , while still in junior high school ?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Fishsticks " spoofed rapper Kanye West who said that his feelings were hurt by the show?
Did you know that the cooperative eye hypothesis suggests an explanation for how the human eye evolved its distinctive coloring?
Did you know that there are 64 units in the State University of New York system ?
Did you know that Balu Sankaran received a Padma Shri award in 1972 for helping and treating injured soldiers in Safdarjang Hospital during the Bangladesh Liberation War ?
Did you know that Alex Rodriguez holds four offensive statistical records among shortstops during his seven Silver Slugger-winning seasons ?
Did you know that in 1958, a Royal Enfield Super Meteor motorcycle was used by the Transport Research Laboratory to test the Maxaret anti-lock braking system?
Did you know that a student at the University of Portland won US$ 3 for suggesting the new name of the student newspaper, The Beacon ?
Did you know that Robert K. Crane ' s discovery of sodium – glucose co-transport led to the development of oral rehydration therapy ?
Did you know that Minsk Ghetto was the largest ghetto in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Dag Kavlie , former rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology , participates regularly in the Birkebeinerrennet ski race?
Did you know that the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh Police officers was the second-deadliest incident for United States law enforcement since the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that former NPB catcher Katsunori Nomura was managed by his father, Katsuya Nomura , on three different teams: the Yakult Swallows , the Hanshin Tigers and the Rakuten Golden Eagles ?
Did you know that in his book The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World , author Steven A. Grasse argues that the United Kingdom was responsible for the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that Gus Van Sant casted Paranoid Park via MySpace ?
Did you know that Teresa Edwards is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in basketball ?
Did you know that the lyrics on the album Kew. Rhone. are filled with anagrams , palindromes , and other verbal puzzles?
Did you know that Henrik Mohn is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway ?
Did you know that all citizens over the age of 16 in the People's Republic of China are required by law to carry personal identification ?
Did you know that University of Pittsburgh halfback Gibby Welch broke the single-season yardage record set by Red Grange , gaining 1,964 yards in just nine games in 1926?
Did you know that students from National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research in Orissa , India , attacked its Director during a protest about living conditions in the hostel ?
Did you know that abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster was thrown in jail in 1838 for two weeks during his senior year at Dartmouth but still managed to graduate third in his class?
Did you know that Keila Costa is the South American record holder in the women's triple jump event?
Did you know that radio stations KGAL and KSHO are celebrating Oregon 's sesquicentennial with a year-long series of historical vignettes ?
Did you know that after the death of two original co-editors of Norsk biografisk leksikon , Gerhard Gran and Anders Krogvig , the third original editor Edvard Bull was joined by Einar Jansen ?
Did you know that under the United States ' doctrine of substantial similarity , a work can be found to infringe copyright even if the wording of the text has been changed?
Did you know that Thomas Heftye was the Norwegian Minister of Defence on two occasions, but for a total time of six months?
Did you know that the Roaring River Wilderness near Mount Hood in Oregon has trees that are 1,000 years old?
Did you know that Robert Fielding polygamously married Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland , a former mistress of King Charles II , within a month of marrying another woman?
Did you know that Guttorm Hansen , the President of the Norwegian Parliament who started his career as a mechanic , declined three offers for a government minister position?
Did you know that ChristianCinema.com gives filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website?
Did you know that Ritchie Hanlon became manager of St Albans City F.C. at the age of 29, three months after he retired as a player?
Did you know that the New Jersey County Colleges is a system of 19 public community colleges with over 60 campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey ?
Did you know that Raja Chelliah , a public finance expert in India , received the Padma Vibushan award in year 2007?
Did you know that when the German U-boat UB-8 was transferred to the Bulgarian Navy in May 1916, she became the first ever Bulgarian submarine ?
Did you know that Donna Kossy is "an expert on kooks [who] has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection for her subjects"?
Did you know that Li Fanwen got the opportunity to complete the first draft of his dictionary of the extinct Tangut language when Premier Zhou Enlai was told that only a few old scholars were able to read the complex Tangut script ?
Did you know that Augustin Barruel ' s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution ?
Did you know that Charles Henry Tompkins was the first Union Army officer to receive the Medal of Honor during the Civil War ?
Did you know that the policy of Cuban medical internationalism has provided, among other things, ongoing medical care to 18,000 victims of the Chernobyl disaster ?
Did you know that poet Harald Sverdrup `s literary breakthrough Sankt Elms ild (1958) earned him the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature ?
Did you know that Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals set the record of the highest Nielsen rating for any NBA game?
Did you know that the Gruban v Booth case was so popular that the barristers had difficulty making to their way through the crowds to the court on the last day?
Did you know that Anna Maria Rückerschöld was an early Swedish cookbook author who also argued that middle class women should be entitled to an education in household matters?
Did you know that as of 2006, the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography contained 13,500 author biographies?
Did you know that the pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company was founded by American Civil War veteran Colonel Eli Lilly ?
Did you know that the Gwangtonggwan in Seoul is the oldest continuously-operating bank building in Korea ?
Did you know that Alfred Madison Barbour was the superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory during John Brown's raid in 1859?
Did you know that the Trithemius cipher , created by Johannes Trithemius , is vulnerable to attack because it lacks a key , which is said to break a rule of cryptology called Kerckhoffs' principle ?
Did you know that despite serving in the Grand Fleet for a year, the only enemy warship destroyed in World War I by United States Battleship Division Nine was sunk entirely by accident?
Did you know that Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1893 for his achievements in international arbitration ?
Did you know that the Tunnel de la mort (Death tunnel), an intersection in Montreal , was the scene of an inordinate number of serious car accidents ?
Did you know that Migingo , an island about half the size of a soccer field , is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya ?
Did you know that Curtis Stone worked as an enforcer for drug dealers before becoming a Christian and founding Warriors 4 Christ Wrestling ?
Did you know that in 1933, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland supported the Bundist call for boycott of goods produced in Germany , in protest of the Hitler regime?
Did you know that ten days after a heart attack and surgery, Hillsboro, Oregon , mayor Tom Hughes helped demolish a building?
Did you know that the houndfish has been known to leap out of the water, causing injuries with its sharp beak, when attracted by the artificial lighting used to catch it?
Did you know that Cistercian architecture , "counted among the most beautiful relics of the Middle Ages ", was made possible by the Cistercian Order 's innovativeness and skill as metallurgists ?