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Did you know that the Monumento al Ahogado , a Uruguayan landmark, was completed in only six days, even though the sculptor was given an entire summer to work on it?
Did you know that Greek singer Katy Garbi 's new album Kainourgia Ego is the last release on her current contract with Sony BMG , which has in total lasted almost 20 years?
Did you know that Poland 's only "official" ghost town , Kłomino , used to be a base of both the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army ?
Did you know that during the trial for the Toa Payoh ritual murders in Singapore , Howard Cashin received death threats for defending the accused, Adrian Lim?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies was the name of a football team in the first National Football League ?
Did you know that operatic soprano Romilda Pantaleoni sang the role of Desdemona in the original 1887 production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Otello ?
Did you know that Charter 08 , a declaration signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, was modeled on Czechoslovakian Charter 77 ?
Did you know that Archbishop D'Arcy of Armagh was a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland and a supporter of the Eugenics movement?
Did you know that Gene Krupa was asked to be in the 1947 race film Boy! What a Girl! when he stopped by to visit cast member Sid Catlett on the film's set?
Did you know that Norwegian jurist and peace activist Fredrik Heffermehl claimed that 45 percent of Nobel Peace Prize awards after 1945 are "illegal"?
Did you know that The New York Times obituary for actor/filmmaker Spencer Williams made no mention of his work as a film director?
Did you know that the Italian Royal Navy 's Indomito class of destroyers were the first large Italian destroyers and the first to be equipped with steam turbines ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Liu Ji was poisoned to death by his son Liu Zong while campaigning against the rebel general Wang Chengzong?
Did you know that WEPS in Elgin Area School District U46 is the oldest educational radio station in Illinois , USA ?
Did you know that over a ten-year period, Olaus Michael Schmidt served as Norwegian Minister of Justice for four non-consecutive terms?
Did you know that according to a legend, the Eliseyevs hid their treasures in the walls of Chicherin House before they fled Russia after the October Revolution in 1917, but this treasure was never found?
Did you know that Mangaloreans hold a Guinness world record for non-stop singing for 40 hours?
Did you know that "Johnny Mac" McDonald was elected mayor of Thomasville, Alabama , in 1976 while working at radio station WJDB-FM as announcer and account executive ?
Did you know that Namibian Deputy Defence Minister Victor Simunja received military training in both the United States and Soviet Union ?
Did you know that United States Conference of Mayors was founded at the Mayflower Hotel on the eve of the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as U.S. President in 1933?
Did you know that Peter Harboe Castberg is credited with building Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse into one of the leading banks in Norway ?
Did you know that Froudacity was an 1889 polemic which argued for self-government in the British West Indies ?
Did you know that John Fuller , who led a Union Army division at the Battle of Atlanta and participated in Sherman's March to the Sea , was one of the few foreign-born generals in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that a technician at the Beijing Film Laboratory refused to print the film or return the negatives for sex scenes from Curiosity Kills the Cat , having been punished over a similar matter?
Did you know that James Mill spent twelve years writing The History of British India from 1806 to 1818, but never visited the country?
Did you know that in 1799, the distillery adjacent to George Washington's Gristmill produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey along with apple, peach, and persimmon brandy ?
Did you know that the term "no waris" in the Papua New Guinean language Tok Pisin is derived from the Australian English " no worries "?
Did you know that because he had no family, Judge George Muter was invited to live with Thomas Todd , his fellow justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals , following Muter's retirement from the bench?
Did you know that construction of Mughal Road in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir was opposed because it impeded the movement of the Markhor goat ?
Did you know that protests by the New York Board of Rabbis and others led to changes in Alec Guinness 's portrayal of Fagin in the U.S. version of the 1948 film Oliver Twist , which was not released there until 1951?
Did you know that in 2008, almost 100 illegal fish cages were removed from the Pansipit River in the Philippines ?
Did you know that after being deposed by his brother Abdul Hamid II , Ottoman sultan Murad V was detained in the Malta Pavilion ?
Did you know that, at 73 years old, Ken Mink became the oldest person ever to score in a college basketball game?
Did you know that in 2018, when the Follo Line is completed in Norway , it will reduce travel time between Oslo and Ski from 22 to 11 minutes?
Did you know that Hiberno-Latin poet Colman nepos Cracavist wrote the first known poem about Saint Brigid ?
Did you know that the Vanity Ballroom , an intact dance hall that hosted the popular big bands of the Swing Era , billed itself as " Detroit 's most beautiful dance rendezvous"?
Did you know that male and female Sternarchogiton nattereri knifefish are so different that males were thought to be members of a different genus for 40 years?
Did you know that American painter Leon Dabo was a spy in World War I ?
Did you know that Charlie Bowman was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early country music in the 1920s and 1930s?
Did you know that the Royal Navy repair ship HMS Artifex previously served as a liner for Cunard and as an armed merchant cruiser ?
Did you know that during construction of the church that now houses the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro, Oregon , the church was given all the rock they needed for US$1,000 as long as they hauled it away?
Did you know that Baruch Steinberg was the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and died a year later as a Soviet prisoner of war in the Katyn massacre ?
Did you know that although it was the tallest building in Perth , Western Australia , for most of the 1960s, Citibank House is now only the 26th tallest in the city?
Did you know that after Frederick Gottwald lost his position as director of the Cleveland Institute of Art , he got into a fistfight with his successor?
Did you know that American general Robert S. Beightler was the only World War II National Guard general to have commanded his division for the length of the war?
Did you know that Australian pop / rock band 1927 , whose debut album ...ish sold multi-platinum , tried for a year to get a recording contract?
Did you know that Mark Rosenberg , described as "one of Hollywood's baby moguls", was only 35 years old when he succeeded Robert Shapiro as President of Worldwide Theatrical Production at Warner Bros. ?
Did you know that Ryszard Reiff was the only member of the Polish Council of State to vote against the implementation of martial law in Poland in 1981?
Did you know that since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit , Michigan , has hosted Horace Dodge , Eleanor Roosevelt , Mae West , Frank Sinatra , and The Beatles ?
Did you know that communist politician K. Ramani became the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state Tamil Nadu in 1989?
Did you know that of over 1,000 stone Buddha statues that once existed at the Korean Buddhist temple Unjusa , only 91 remain intact?
Did you know that stick candy , a form of hard candy with a colorful, barber pole -like spiral design, has a long history in the United States, dating to at least as early as 1837?
Did you know that English businessman David Ross was named one of the 100 richest people in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times ?
Did you know that the 14"/50 caliber gun was slated to be the main armament for the Lexington -class battlecruiser , but that class was redesigned in 1917?
Did you know that Keizō Tsukamoto set a Guinness World Record by creating the cover art for more than 1,900 issues of Weekly Manga Times starting in 1970?
Did you know that Birket Israel , once the largest reservoir in Jerusalem , is now a parking lot?
Did you know that while filming 1991's Barton Fink , the Coen brothers were contacted by an animal-rights group concerned about their treatment of mosquitoes ?
Did you know that the design of the U.S. anti-crop E77 balloon bomb was based on the design of the World War II Japanese fire balloon ?
Did you know that wood infected by the "green elfcup" fungus , species Chlorociboria aeruginascens , is used in the manufacture of decorative inlaid woodwork like Tunbridge ware and parquetry ?
Did you know that in January 1939, William Rosenwald and Rabbis Abba Hillel Silver and Jonah Wise combined the organizations they each led to form the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs ?
Did you know that children's book illustrator Walter Crane was the first President of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society , founded in 1887 to showcase the decorative arts ?
Did you know that Cromemco 's Dazzler was the first commercial graphics card for microcomputers , and was widely used for displaying weather forecasts in the early 1980s?
Did you know that Fairview Creek in Oregon was once a tributary of the Columbia River , but was diverted to the Columbia Slough in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis , Maryland , was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War , which had concluded four years earlier in England ?
Did you know that Peyton Short may have been responsible for the break-up of the first marriage of U.S. President Andrew Jackson 's wife Rachel ?
Did you know that coroners' juries in English inquests can bring in an open verdict that confirms a death is suspicious without specifying how it came about?
Did you know that Bill Paparian , who visited Cuba while mayor of Pasadena, California , was reported to admire both Che Guevara and the U.S. Marine Corps ?
Did you know that the failed marriage of John Milton inspired his divorce tracts : Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , Judgement of Martin Bucer , Tetrachordon , and Colasterion ?
Did you know that in Joliet, Illinois , population declined during the decade before Arthur Schultz became mayor and has nearly doubled since?
Did you know that the Khedive Palace in Istanbul , Turkey , once a mansion for Ottoman governors, now serves as an upscale restaurant?
Did you know that English violinist John Lenton wrote one of the earliest extant treatises on violin playing?
Did you know that the chance purchase of a $15 Yoruba carving in Hamburg by Warren M. Robbins led to the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of African Art ?
Did you know that live-line working involves making contact with a power line that may be energized up to 1,150,000 volts ?
Did you know that award-winning television editor Walter Balderson was the only TV cameraman inside the White House for the 1953 Inauguration Day meeting between U.S. President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower ?
Did you know that the African city of Careysburg, Liberia , hosted a large transmitter for Voice of America , the official external broadcasting service of the United States federal government ?
Did you know that the Taping river is the first tributary of Myanmar 's chief river, the Irrawaddy ?
Did you know that Executive Order 13128 led to U.S. State Department rules outlining criminal penalties for violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention ?
Did you know that Sharif el-Mashad, the named petitioner in the habeas corpus case of El Mashad v. Bush , was in the clothing trade before being sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp ?
Did you know that Humphrey Bate was the first to play old-time music on Nashville radio, and his "Possum Hunters" records are considered some of the most complex string band compositions in the genre?
Did you know that the Nāradasmṛti Indian literature is the only Dharmaśāstra text to not cover areas such as righteous conduct and penance?
Did you know that the Jewish Theological Seminary of America produced the NBC radio and TV program The Eternal Light commercial-free for 45 years, with the show's producer saying "God needs no sponsor"?
Did you know that, when a person explosively jumps up from a squat position, stabilization through preflex happens with zero time delay?
Did you know that Maurice Garin , nicknamed "The Little Chimney-sweep", won the first-ever Tour de France in 1903?
Did you know that the California Avocado Commission is responsible for 90 percent of the United States' harvest of avocado ?
Did you know that the Australian plague locust can form swarms infesting areas up to 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi)?
Did you know that S. A. K. Durga is the first Asian to have written a book on ethnomusicology ?
Did you know that the 1948 Oscar Micheaux -directed film The Betrayal was the first race film to have its premiere in a Broadway theatre in New York City ?
Did you know that British motorcycle pioneer Eugene Goodman joined his family's business, Velocette motorcycles , only after his car-making business failed in 1916?
Did you know that in 1979, ColorGraphics Weather Systems pioneered the use of color computer graphics in television weather forecasts , using the Apple II computer?
Did you know that Greek singer Paschalis Terzis 's most recent album Mia Nihta Zoriki was certified gold the day it was released?
Did you know that Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention ?
Did you know that production of the French AMX-30 and its variants amounted to a total of 3,571 units?
Did you know that U.S. minister Ashley Day Leavitt received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree during World War I for teaching that "only the righteous nation that keepeth truth may enter in the gates of the Kingdom?"
Did you know that the leftist Czechoslovak Chemical Workers' Union was expelled from the OSČ trade union centre in 1922?
Did you know that Thomas Leavitt and his brother Martin patented the first practical device in the United States to machine postmark letters?
Did you know that a twist lift in pair figure skating involves catching a falling woman by her waist as she twists in the air?
Did you know that American entrepreneur Tom Krieglstein was the first person in line for President-elect Barack Obama 's election night rally?
Did you know that although the Norfolk Island Pigeon was hunted to extinction by humans, its first hunters disappeared from Norfolk Island before it did?
Did you know that Biochimica et Biophysica Acta was the first international journal launched by publishing giant Elsevier ?
Did you know that Pennsylvania 's longest cave extends from Harlansburg to Rose Point , over 11 miles (18 km) away?
Did you know that after producing a booklet on the Zulu language , Harcourt Mortimer Bengough would go on to command at the 1879 battle of the Zulu capital Ulundi ?
Did you know that a trading halt stops stock trading in the U.S. when there is significant order imbalance between buyers and sellers in a security ?
Did you know that the Galoter process is an oil shale retorting technology that uses hot oil shale ash to heat other oil shale?
Did you know that Linda Greenlaw , the swordfishing boat captain portrayed in the book and film The Perfect Storm , is now a best-selling author?
Did you know that in the 1949 England and Wales county council elections for the boroughs outside London the Conservative Party had a 96% gain and the Labour Party an 87% seat loss?
Did you know that the Velocette LE motorcycle was used by over fifty British police forces and the police riders became known as "Noddys" because they were required to nod to senior officers?
Did you know that the Mianus River Gorge in Westchester County, New York , was the first land preservation purchase by the Nature Conservancy ?
Did you know that during the history of Pulicat between 1621 and 1665, over 38,000 Indian slaves were obtained by Dutch slave traders and shipped from the Coromandel Coast , mostly to the East Indies ?
Did you know that A. Bernard Ackerman , called "a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology ", was skeptical of the notion that exposure to sun causes melanoma , saying the link had not been proven?
Did you know that Duranta erecta , a widely cultivated ornamental plant , has been identified as an invasive species in Fiji , French Polynesia and Hawaii ?
Did you know that Thompson Pond and nearby Stissing Mountain were inspiration for the New York State Environment exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History ?
Did you know that like the Titanic , the Hans Hedtoft struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage?
Did you know that the works of landscape architect Charles Leavitt include gardens for Walter P. Chrysler and William C. Whitney , the grandstands at Forbes Field , and racetracks at Saratoga and Belmont ?
Did you know that 1998's Hurricane Karl was one of four simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean at one time, the first such occurrence since 1893?
Did you know that Collin Mooney beat the Army football single-season rushing record by one yard in the last play of his last college game, the 2008 U.S. Army-Navy Game ?
Did you know that the Main Synagogue of Barcelona may be the oldest synagogue building still standing in Europe?
Did you know that Enos Lowe was a founder of Omaha, Nebraska , and an early resident of Iowa 's Black Hawk Purchase ?
Did you know that Henry Frederick Stephenson was the First and principal Naval Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII ?
Did you know that after a kitten named Lucky survived a fall from the 65-foot-high (20 m) Granada Bridge at Ormond Beach, Florida , Lucky's owners changed her name to Timmy?
Did you know that at No Mercy (2002) , Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit became the first ever WWE Tag Team Champions by defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge ?
Did you know that William Gordon Harris 's tenure as Director-General of Highways at the British Ministry of Transport saw the construction of 650 miles (1,050 km) of motorways ?
Did you know that Clay-Ashland , a town in Liberia , is named after American slave owner Henry Clay ?
Did you know that Erasmus Ommanney entered the Royal Navy at age 12 in August 1826 and went on to discover in 1850 the first traces of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago fate of Sir John Franklin ?
Did you know that the State Street Bridge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , is flanked by two 145-foot (44 m) pylons representing the U.S. Army and Navy ?
Did you know that the former main jewel on the Bavarian crown , the Wittelsbach Diamond , was almost cut into several smaller diamonds ?
Did you know that Thomas Allin , an early settler of Kentucky , USA , laid out the cities of Lexington , Harrodsburg , and Henderson ?
Did you know that in exchange for US$50,000 from two undercover agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in the Abscam investigation, U.S. Congressman Raymond F. Lederer told the agents "I can give you me"?
Did you know that during the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573 , the 8,500-strong Venetian garrison of Famagusta in Cyprus held out for eleven months against an Ottoman army of 200,000 men?
Did you know that a medical patient's failure to maintain a fluid restriction, diet, or medication could result in acute decompensated heart failure ?
Did you know that the Balance and Ball Bearing television advertisements for the Lexus LS 400 and ES 300 , were highly honored and subsequently referenced by its competitors in their own advertising campaigns ?
Did you know that Jonathan Leavitt was the leading publisher of theological and religious books in New York City during the early 1800s?
Did you know that the high-profile recalls in 2007 and 2008 of China -manufactured toys led the U.S. to enact stricter limits on the amount of lead in paint on children's products?
Did you know that "Johnny Sausage" Barbato , charged with being a "capo" or "captain" in the Genovese crime family , was released from prison in July 2008 at age 74?
Did you know that the beech-maple forest is a climax plant community in the eastern United States and Canada ?
Did you know that the non-payment of debts is the archetype for the seventeen other Hindu titles of law , including the sexual crimes against women?
Did you know that Leavitt Peak is named after early California settler and innkeeper Hiram Leavitt ?
Did you know that species Fuligo septica , called the "dog-vomit slime mold", can tolerate unusually high levels of the metal zinc ?
Did you know that after a professional wrestling match between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar at Unforgiven (2002) , The Undertaker attacked Lesnar by throwing him through the wall of a set?
Did you know that the ancient , but lost, Nendrum Monastery was found in 1844, when a visitor recognized the remains of a round tower ?
Did you know that Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois , complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer?
Did you know that the community of Half Acre, Alabama , once contained half an acre of land that was deeded to The Devil ?
Did you know that the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived state founded in March 1914 by Greeks living in southern Albania ?
Did you know that Liz Heaston was the first woman to score points in a college football game when she kicked two extra points for the Willamette Bearcats in 1997?
Did you know that Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson , a British flying ace of World War I , scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC ?
Did you know that the first ever Hell in a Cell match to feature six professional wrestlers was held at the Armageddon pay-per-view event?
Did you know that due to standing among corpses in his coat and rubber gloves while holding a syringe , SS - Oberscharführer Josef Klehr has been described as the ultimate caricature of the omnipotent Auschwitz doctor?
Did you know that none of the Dallas Mavericks head coaches have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach ?
Did you know that the meaning and significance of kingship changed dramatically over time in India between the 2nd millennium BCE and ca. 500 BCE ?
Did you know that in 1883, a dozen years before Oscar Wilde was convicted for Gross Indecency , the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News published a cartoon showing him in convict dress ?
Did you know that the morph of proteins that function as morpheeins can be explained by a dice analogy where the one spot must contact the die face with four spots?
Did you know that after being unified with the World Heavyweight Championship in October 2002, the WWE Intercontinental Championship returned in May 2003 at the Judgment Day pay-per-view event?
Did you know that members of the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve during World War I were described by Sir Winston Churchill as "the best small boat men in the world"?
Did you know that Gerald Ford's decision to appoint John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court was largely influenced by his attorney general Edward H. Levi ?
Did you know that Italian noblewoman Bianca Riario acted as a substitute mother in the early 1500s to her half-brother, the celebrated Giovanni dalle Bande Nere , while her own mother was in prison?
Did you know that White City Amusement Park is where the first Goodyear Blimps were assembled?
Did you know that Norwegian Socialist politician Rolf Ketil Bjørn was nicknamed "the red millionaire" due to his background in the business sector?
Did you know that, of the approximately 40 total U-101 class submarines and U-107 class submarines planned for the WWI Austro-Hungarian Navy , all remained uncompleted and only five were laid down ?
Did you know that Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris ?