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Did you know that the recently defunct Pacific Magazine , a current affairs publication focusing on the Pacific Islands of Oceania , was the region's longest continuously published magazine ?
Did you know that Adolph C. Miller served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior before being appointed as an original Governor of the Federal Reserve System ?
Did you know that the account of the death of 12,000 prisoners aboard the Gulag ship Dzhurma has been disproven?
Did you know that the Japanese band Daisy × Daisy provided the song "Brave your truth" as the opening theme song of the episodes of the Chrome Shelled Regios anime ?
Did you know that Maurice Catarcio , at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records ?
Did you know that Premier of Alberta John Edward Brownlee was forced to resign in 1934 due to a sex scandal ?
Did you know that the Jamaican Gun Court Act of 1974 mandated a sentence of indefinite imprisonment with hard labor for all firearms offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?
Did you know that only after the end of World War II was it publicly revealed that the Norwegian ships SS Irma and SS Henry had been sunk by the Royal Norwegian Navy ?
Did you know that then-President Bill Clinton 's selection to give the 2000 Jefferson Lecture , the U.S.'s highest humanities honor, was criticized as a politicization of the National Endowment for the Humanities ?
Did you know that Indonesia 's largest container terminal , handling more than 3.5 million TEU 's of freight in 2007, is in the Port of Jakarta ?
Did you know that Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse , a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?
Did you know that the television series Use It or Lose It documented the return of former association footballers Niall Quinn and Ronnie Whelan to their respective youth teams?
Did you know that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the Atlanta Hawks was Roger Potter , whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?
Did you know that six prehistoric meteorite impacts have created large astroblemes affecting the geology of Saskatchewan ?
Did you know that the New York Assembly passed a 1970 abortion rights law sponsored by Constance Cook and Franz Leichter after George Michaels broke a 74–74 deadlock by switching his vote?
Did you know that of the ten Brough Superior Austin Four motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?
Did you know that according to US and Turkish officials, the MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the illicit drug load?
Did you know that James Brady , who wrote a celebrity profile for nearly 25 years in Parade magazine, won the Bronze Star Medal for his Korean War service and wrote a Pulitzer Prize -finalist book about his war experiences?
Did you know that landscape architecture firm West 8 designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between Leidsche Rijn and Utrecht in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that two members of the Boston Red Sox 's Golden Outfield have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that ruins from Bradenstoke Abbey in Wiltshire , England , were bought by William Randolph Hearst and used in alterations to St Donat's Castle in Wales ?
Did you know that the GDP of the Ming Dynasty was 31 percent of the world's GDP , a percentage which is relatively higher than the GDP of the United States in 1997?
Did you know that the Old L & N Station in Bardstown, Kentucky , was the state's only dry stone railroad station ?
Did you know that British economist Gilbert Slater suggested in the Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency ?
Did you know that in Cheney v. United States District Court , Supreme Court Justice Scalia was alleged to have had a conflict of interest because he had recently hunted ducks with Dick Cheney , a party to the case?
Did you know that Stephen Neill , former bishop of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu , suffered from insomnia which helped him to author his magnum opus , History of Christianity in India ?
Did you know that Eddie Tolan , the first African-American to be the "world's fastest human" after winning double gold at the 1932 Olympics , returned home jobless and appeared in vaudeville with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson ?
Did you know that General Motors 's pioneering CAD system, DAC-1 , could digitize hand-drawn diagrams , turn them into 3D models , and then build models of them on milling machines ?
Did you know that Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach 's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War -era defection of individuals in the field of dance?
Did you know that the controversial 1982 anti-racism film White Dog was director Samuel Fuller 's last American film due to his disgust with Paramount Pictures ' refusal to release the film?
Did you know that the small Croatian town of Jastrebarsko was home to two cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church , who were also both archbishops of the country's capital Zagreb ?
Did you know that the St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame is the only professional wrestling hall of fame that lets fans select the inductees?
Did you know that in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe ?
Did you know that Callianassa subterranea is a burrowing shrimp that ingests sediment particles and digests their organic coating ?
Did you know that Maurice Maeterlinck threatened legal action and physical violence against Claude Debussy after he did not cast  Maeterlinck's lover, Georgette Leblanc , in the title role of their opera Pelléas et Mélisande ?
Did you know that the Willow Creek Transit Center in Oregon has artwork with a reading theme for a planned library branch nearby that was never built?
Did you know that celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR ?
Did you know that Bob Foster ’s win on a New Imperial in the 1936 Isle of Man TT was the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT?
Did you know that despite its acrid taste, Lactarius vietus is edible after boiling?
Did you know that during World War I , President Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane ?
Did you know that the Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match was confirmed only because Manny Pacquiao 's friend drank three bottles of beer?
Did you know that the roughtail stingray is the largest stingray in the Atlantic Ocean , at up to 2.2 metres (7.2 ft) across and weighing 300 kilograms (660 lb)?
Did you know that Ebba Haslund 's adolescence novel Nothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books?
Did you know that the community of Weed Heights , Nevada , was built to support the open pit mining operation at the Anaconda Copper Mine ?
Did you know that Ælfhelm , ealdorman of York , was the grandfather of Harold Harefoot , king of England ?
Did you know that the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt , the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Wei Chun changed his name to Wei Guanzhi to observe a naming taboo for Emperor Xianzong , whose personal name was Li Chun?
Did you know that ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar danced as the Snow Queen in the first American production of The Nutcracker ?
Did you know that the original Sinhalese Sports Club Ground was situated on land of Victoria Park with sandy soil and covered with cinnamon trees?
Did you know that future A.B.A. president Loyd Wright represented Mary Pickford in her divorce of Douglas Fairbanks and Jane Wyman against Ronald Reagan ?
Did you know that the property  of Sjøholmen in Bærum , Norway , started out as a farm, was suburbanized and is now, in part, an alternative school where children are taught to be mariners ?
Did you know that during his study of the palm family , Harold E. Moore collected all but 18 of the approximately 200 genera of palms, and earned membership in The Explorers Club ?
Did you know that the Galápagos hotspot , located in the east Pacific Ocean , is responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands ?
Did you know that association footballer Mikkel Diskerud played both for and against the United States national youth team in the spring of 2008?
Did you know that phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom Bovista nigrescens and species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa ?
Did you know that Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky , at the time Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the Austrian Empire , commissioned three string quartets from Beethoven ?
Did you know that in 1709, Ninguta , an important center of commerce , provided government-sponsored ginseng -harvesting expeditions?
Did you know  that Native American sculptor Willard Stone became a master wood carver despite an accidental explosion that cost him his right thumb and two fingers when he was 13 years old?
Did you know that the Ludowy Theatre in Kraków gained countrywide notability in the People's Republic of Poland by staging performances evoking death camp experiences of Auschwitz ?
Did you know that Grammy -nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards?
Did you know that footballer Chic Brodie ' s professional career ended when he collided with a dog on the playing field ?
Did you know that of the 55 miles (89 km) of railways on the Isle of Wight inherited by British Railways in 1948, only 14 miles (23 km) are in use today?
Did you know that The New York Times said that trumpeter Stephen Burns "uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias "?
Did you know that the willow-leaved cotoneaster, Cotoneaster salicifolius , is a woody plant which is native to Western China , with over 30 cultivars which range from tiny groundcovers to large shrubs ?
Did you know that in 1953, Christen Gran Bøgh administered the inaugural Bergen International Festival ?
Did you know that the PlayStation Portable video game Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem had a shorter development cycle than the film it was based on ?
Did you know that footballer Bob Wilson was the last player to captain the original Accrington Stanley club in a professional match?
Did you know that Oregon radio station KBZY is the flagship station for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League of Professional Baseball ?
Did you know that Sir Ronald Holmes , the acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong , made no compromise with the Communists during the 1967 Leftist Riots in that city?
Did you know that video game Bloody Fun Day 's theme of slaying cute creatures was inspired by the short story Everything Can Be Beaten by Jhonen Vasquez ?
Did you know that Debbie Kruger based her 2005 book Songwriters Speak on interviews with songwriters when publicising the 2001 Top 30 Australian songs list for the at the APRA Awards ?
Did you know that the McClellan Committee served 8,000 subpoenas , took testimony from 1,526 witnesses (343 of whom invoked the Fifth Amendment ), and compiled almost 150,000 pages of evidence?
Did you know that Gerhard Gran was appointed professor in the history of literature at the University of Kristiania in 1899, despite there being remarks about "the holes present in his knowledge"?
Did you know that the 1933 film Design for Living is about three Americans in Paris and their risqué ménage à trois ?
Did you know that the Ruby Cycle Co Ltd was bankrupted when a large motorcycle order from the Imperial Russian Army was stopped by the Russian Revolution ?
Did you know that former Houston Astro Craig Biggio won his first Silver Slugger Award as a catcher before winning four at second base ?
Did you know that young escapees from a military police boot camp in Serei Saophoan District , Cambodia , are beaten by other residents when they are recaptured?
Did you know that while commonly found in central California , Agaricus lilaceps can sometimes be found at the campus of Stanford University under the eucalyptus located there?
Did you know that despite being a professor of Finno-Ugric languages , Knut Bergsland spent his final years studying the unrelated language Aleut ?
Did you know that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution ?
Did you know that the development of Darkness over Daggerford , an expansion for the computer game Neverwinter Nights , was coordinated mostly over Skype ?
Did you know that after the Tang Dynasty general Li Jiang died in a mutiny , his successor Wen Zao slaughtered the mutineers and offered their heads to Li Jiang as a sacrifice?
Did you know that Laura Wilson 's 2004 novel The Lover is a fictionalized account of Gordon Cummins , a British airman turned serial killer who began murdering prostitutes in London during World War II ?
Did you know that while Northman and Waltheof were ealdormen in northern Northumbria , Bamburgh was sacked by the Viking king Óláfr Tryggvason ?
Did you know that paper locals , which can be used to extort money from employers or secure sweetheart contracts , are denounced by the AFL-CIO Code of Ethical Practices?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Zhang Hongjing exhumed the bodies of the Anshi Rebellion leaders An Lushan and Shi Siming and destroyed their caskets?
Did you know that " New Boss " is the first of six episodes of the U.S. version of The Office with appearances by The Wire actor Idris Elba ?
Did you know that the rules of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna forbade mentioning any country or conflict by name, and instead human rights had to be discussed in the abstract?
Did you know that pianist Mona Golabek wrote a book about her mother's experience as part of the Kindertransport , a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis ?
Did you know that only two of the seven non- Soviet ruling Communist political parties in the Eastern Bloc used the word " Communist " in their names when they were first established?
Did you know that Leslie George Katz founded the Eakins Press , which printed a number of books by his wife Jane Mayhall , using funds from the sale of several Thomas Eakins paintings that Katz's father had secretly collected?
Did you know that Entertainment Weekly reported comedian Ellie Kemper is set to take on the role of Dunder Mifflin receptionist in NBC 's U.S. version of The Office ?
Did you know that in 2007, internet users in Slovenia had the highest Firefox use rate among European countries?
Did you know that Robert Tills was the first American naval officer killed during the Battle of the Philippines , and had a ship named in his honor?
Did you know that if the beak-like rostrum on Caridina gracilirostris is broken off, it will regrow itself?
Did you know that the 1948 All-America team was the first to include separate offensive and defensive college football teams?
Did you know that Alberto Cavos designed and rebuilt two Bolshoi Theatres— one in Saint Petersburg and one in Moscow ?
Did you know that Grace Kelly made her screen debut in Fourteen Hours , a 1951 film about a man contemplating suicide?
Did you know that the postponement of the 2000 PBA All-Filipino Cup series between Purefoods TJ Giants and Tanduay Rhum Masters was the first one that was not for a typhoon , earthquake or bomb threat ?
Did you know that the Command & Conquer series has three main factions : The Global Defence Initiative , the Brotherhood of Nod and the Scrin ?
Did you know that London 's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway was built at the start of the 20th century, from parts of three other railways' routes?
Did you know that even though he had inherited a fortune, the "millionaire hobo " James Eads How chose to live as a homeless vagrant ?
Did you know that Arthur W. Ryder taught the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit to J. Robert Oppenheimer , who said it shaped his philosophy of life and famously quoted it at the Trinity nuclear test explosion?
Did you know that the first SS class blimp entered service on 18 March 1915, fewer than three weeks after work began on it?
Did you know that the Fifth Avenue Theatre became the first air-conditioned theatre in the world in 1877?
Did you know that Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch , chief of Clan Scott , survived the Battles of Flodden and Pinkie Cleugh only to be murdered in the High Street of Edinburgh in 1552?
Did you know that the Christian Science Monitor once described radio station KSLM (now KVXX ) in Salem, Oregon , as "a barricade holding questionable advertising material from the ears of listeners"?
Did you know that Captain George Murray led Nelson's fleet at the attack on Copenhagen using knowledge he had gained from surveying the area a decade earlier?
Did you know that the founders of the Pipeline , an early internet service provider , got together because of a shared interest in bridge ?
Did you know that the return value optimization is one of the very few compiler optimizations that are allowed to change the observable behaviour of a C++ program?
Did you know that professional wrestler Johnny Valentine needed a clamp to hold his back together after a 1975 plane crash?
Did you know that operatic tenor Chad Shelton has sung in numerous world premieres, including leading roles in Mark Adamo 's Little Women and Philip Glass 's Appomattox ?
Did you know that the Whisky Creek Cabin , built about 1880, is the oldest remaining mining cabin along the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon ?
Did you know that after his release from prison in 1087, the English rebel Siward Barn is thought by some historians to have founded a colony on the Black Sea with other refugees from the Norman Conquest of England ?
Did you know that Camp Gilwell is a Scouts Canada camp which features the haunted home of Maurice Macdonald Seymour ?
Did you know that two of cellist Jeffrey Solow 's recordings were nominated for a Grammy Award ?
Did you know that Operation Bringing Home the Goods was launched by Israel to capture Palestinian prisoners in Jericho to make sure they were not released?
Did you know that the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount , Chennai got its name from Job Charnock , the founder of Kolkata , whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St. Thomas Mount?
Did you know that Glenn Sundby , a co-founder of what is now USA Gymnastics , appeared in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! after walking down all 898 steps of the Washington Monument on his hands?
Did you know that the collectivization of agriculture in the Eastern Bloc economies was less violent and disruptive than it had been in the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that golfer Jane Park reached the final of the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 2003 and 2004, and won the latter event?
Did you know that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas as a sign of a resurgent interest in anarchist philosophy ?
Did you know that baritone William Dooley performed the title role in the world premiere of Marcel Mihalovici 's one character opera Krapp, ou, La dernière bande in 1961?
Did you know that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009?
Did you know that Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti- Tuberculosis League?
Did you know that one year after a fire damaged Lausanne Hall at Willamette University , the dormitory had to be evacuated due to a suspicious package?
Did you know that there were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro active in Russia during the civil war , one in the Bolshevik government and the other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it?
Did you know that Asad Ali Khan , one of a few remaining rudra veena players, was awarded the Indian civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008?
Did you know that Blender magazine called the Huey Lewis and the News hit song " The Heart of Rock & Roll "  one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"?
Did you know that although the name "Joni" was retired after the 1992–93 South Pacific cyclone season by the WMO , it remained on the naming lists to be used again for Cyclone Joni (2009) ?
Did you know that Carter Brey was appointed the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996?
Did you know that the Southern White-cheeked Gibbon may be a hybrid species of the Northern White-cheeked Gibbon and the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon ?
Did you know that former American football linebacker Craig Sauer has three brothers who have played professional ice hockey ?
Did you know that murri , an Arabic condiment akin to soy sauce , is made from barley dough allowed to ferment for 40 days?
Did you know that the long jumper Fred Salle originally represented England in international competitions, then changed allegiance to Cameroon before returning to England some years later?
Did you know that original Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant got his start in television as a news reporter for ATV Today ?
Did you know that the son of Sultan Ali of Johor , Tengku Alam Shah , inspired the Jementah Civil War in 1879 after he failed to claim inheritance of his father's territory at  Kessang?
Did you know that KNOE-FM , founded in 1967 by former Governor of Louisiana James A. Noe , was one of five stations in Louisiana that Noe named for himself?
Did you know that when Bobby Folds joined Gillingham F.C. in 1966, he became the club's first ever apprentice -professional footballer ?
Did you know that with the winning Audi R15 TDI averaging a speed of 117.986 mph (189.880 km/h), the 2009 running was the fastest 12 Hours of Sebring in its history?
Did you know that Indian independence activist and Managing-Director of The Hindu from 1905 to 1923, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar , was a brother of Anglophile Indian civil servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar?
Did you know that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve featured Howard Duff and Ida Lupino , then married to each other in real life, as a fictitious husband/wife acting duo living in Beverly Hills ?
Did you know that after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic , Nazi General Arno von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism " in  1949?
Did you know that the 16-volume series of theatre history books , The London Stage , by J. P. Wearing has been called "invaluable, thoroughly accurate" and "a proverbial mine of useful information"?
Did you know that the Miami Hurricanes won 26 Big East Conference football awards in the 14 years  they belonged to the conference (1991–2004)?
Did you know that Indian social worker and 2009 Padma Bhushan awardee , Sarojini Varadappan is a daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras , M. Bhaktavatsalam ?
Did you know that the American Bar Association Journal is allegedly read every month by half of the 1 million lawyers in the United States ?
Did you know that Polish writer Henryk Rzewuski fought for Poland's independence in 1809 but later collaborated with the Russian Imperial Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland , Ivan Paskevich ?
Did you know that in 1960, the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson featured Harpo Marx in the role of a deaf mute who witnesses a gangland murder?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Quan Deyu was said to be able to write poetry at age three?