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Did you know that scenes from the 2009 advertisement Carousel were used in the music video for 50 Cent 's single " Ok, You're Right "?
Did you know42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Michael Lockett , a British sergeant who was killed by a roadside bomb, was the first British soldier awarded the Military Cross to die in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that physical chemist Jerome Karle won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , making him the third alumnus of Brooklyn 's Abraham Lincoln High School to win a Nobel?
Did you know that in 1960, excavations uncovered the remains of a medieval fort from the Hussite Wars at the bottom of a lake in Záběhlice , Czech Republic ?
Did you know that Kent Blazy , co-writer of Garth Brooks ' " If Tomorrow Never Comes ," has had a cut on all but one of Brooks' albums?
Did you know that despite tensions between Pakistan and India, a village called Pakistan in India's Bihar state was named in honour of its former inhabitants?
Did you know that Essex cricketers Frank Vigar and Peter Smith shared a club record 218-run last-wicket stand in 1947?
Did you know that the Eureka Diamond , the first diamond discovered in South Africa , was used as a toy by the boy who discovered it, given away for free by his mother, and sent by mail to a mineralogist in an ordinary paper envelope?
Did you know that Ateneo and La Salle supporters wore yellow as a sign of respect for Corazon Aquino who died a week prior to their first basketball game of the 2009 season ?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Bayt 'Itab was situated on a rocky knoll identified as the biblical Rock of Etam , within which Samson hid after burning the grain of the Philistines ?
Did you know that Richard Adeney , who played principal flute with the English Chamber Orchestra , was a founding member of the Melos Ensemble ?
Did you know that the ancient wall paintings in Coombes Church in West Sussex include a man grimacing as he holds up the 30-inch (76 cm)-thick chancel arch?
Did you know that Emmy Award -winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in Talk to Me where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love"?
Did you know that Randall's Thumb was the first of a long series of W.S. Gilbert 's plays  at Marie Litton's newly christened Royal Court Theatre ?
Did you know that an argument between a Catalan woman and a soldier over a chicken helped inflame the Revolt of the Barretinas against the Spanish government?
Did you know that Kjell Borgen resigned as Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications because of a decision about the location of Oslo Airport ?
Did you know that in the 1537 Siege of Corfu , the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent was joined by a French fleet under Baron de Saint-Blancard ?
Did you know that Filipino social worker Efren Peñaflorida , 2009 CNN Hero of the Year , grew up in a slum near a garbage dump?
Did you know that the Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose grows only in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge , the first wildlife refuge in the U.S. formed to protect endangered plant and insect species ?
Did you know that Hawaiians named a tsunami after 18th century surfer and statesman Naihe ?
Did you know that the opening of the Gesta principum Polonorum , a history of early Poland written sometime in the 1110s, is addressed to Martin I , Archbishop of Gniezno ?
Did you know that opera singer Fisher Morgan , a former principal soloist with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , ended his career in pantomime ?
Did you know21, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Uniform Fourpenny Post was a United Kingdom postal rate that lasted just 36 days after it was introduced on 5 December 1839?
Did you know that Tore Lindholt became involved in politics and worked in the Norwegian State Railways after leaving an academic career he declared himself too "restless" to pursue?
Did you know that Macedonia 's Matka Canyon is home to one of the world's deepest caves?
Did you know that the slave Quamina , who was executed by British colonial authorities in 1823, is considered a national hero in Guyana ?
Did you know that the controls of St. Clair Streett 's biplane ceased to function at a record high altitude, where the temperature was −78 °F (−61 °C)?
Did you know that South Hobart's record of five championships in a row from 1919 to 1923 in Football Federation Tasmania 's state championship has never been equalled?
Did you know that the Brazilian fashion label Colcci has 1,659 stores in 31 countries, but only one in the United States ?
Did you know00, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the music of Louisiana blues performer Lonesome Sundown was described by his producer as "the sound of the swamp"?
Did you know that Christian references in Islamic art include the Annunciation , the birth of Jesus and his baptism ?
Did you know that although plans were made in 1944 to repair war damage to London's Inner Temple , the repairs were not completed until 1958?
Did you know that the extinction of the Greater Antillean sloths coincided with the first colonization of their islands by humans?
Did you know that after the departure of head coach Fred Boye left the North Carolina men's basketball team coachless for two seasons, the team actually won more games?
Did you know that Nokian Tyres , a Finnish company that designed the first winter tyre , must test its summer tyres in South Africa , Spain , and Germany because of the short summers in Finland?
Did you know that Quantula striata is the only land snail that gives off flashes of light ?
Did you know56, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Mihály Iglói coached Hungarian and American distance runners to set a total of 49 world records ?
Did you know that Scottish news presenter Mary Marquis continued to work while seven months pregnant in 1963, including one interview conducted on a roof?
Did you know that in the original pitch for the animated television series Phineas and Ferb , the character Ferb Fletcher did not speak?
Did you know that Swiss Vice-Chancellor Thomas Helbling was the project manager for the Austria–Switzerland bid to host Euro 2008 ?
Did you know that the 110 mph BSA Fury British motorcycle designed by Edward Turner never went into production due to the colapse of the BSA Group ?
Did you know that during a military campaign in 1312 , Emperor Trần Anh Tông entrusted the temporary throne to his son Trần Minh Tông who was only twelve years old at that time?
Did you know that Matthew T. Dickerson is a computational geometer , scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings , novelist, blues musician , fly fisherman , maple sugar farmer , and beekeeper ?
Did you know that German Kabarett artist Andreas Rebers studied to become a teacher before beginning his artistic career?
Did you know that one naval mine caused the loss of two Empire ships , Empire Blessing and Empire Seablue ?
Did you know that the 1970 Triumph Bandit British motorcycle never went into commercial production and only five have survived?
Did you know that Orange County Community College in Middletown, New York , held its first classes in the Webb Horton House 's garage?
Did you know that Launcelot Percival was an England international rugby union player before becoming Deputy Clerk of the Closet to George VI of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Czech bandleader Karel Duba died on 21 August 1968 in Mongolia , when the bus with his band fell into an abyss?
Did you know that the bat star has five to nine arms which resemble the wings of a bat ?
Did you know44, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Abraham Ogden led the delegation that negotiated the Treaty of New York with the Seven Nations of Canada in 1796?
Did you know that among Korean regional cuisine , the luxurious style of Kaesong cuisine of North Korea is frequently compared with those of Seoul and Jeolla cuisines of South Korea ?
Did you know that Ayaan Ali Khan , son of famous Indian sarod player Amjad Ali Khan , hosted the TV music competition show Sa Re Ga Ma with brother Amaan ?
Did you know that after the WCW World Television Championship belt was thrown into the trash, Hacksaw Jim Duggan found it and became the final champion without any fights?
Did you know that pictures by amateur astrophotographer Steve Mandel help to explore faint nebulae of the Milky Way ?
Did you know that the sharpsnout stingray is caught by subsistence fishers , but not favored as food because its meat is a dark reddish color?
Did you know that in April 1995, the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League drafted Derrell Robertson , even though he had died in a car accident in December 1994?
Did you know42, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that in filmmaking, a screenwriter usually creates a production package that they hand out during their pitch , which generally includes a plot synopsis and budgeting information on their idea?
Did you know that African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney , once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
Did you know that the wreck of Indefatigable has belatedly been declared a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 to discourage further damage to the resting place of 1,015 officers and men?
Did you know that American countertenor Bejun Mehta began his musical career as a boy soprano , praised by Leonard Bernstein ?
Did you know that St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Glynwood, Ohio , was the only Irish church in an area settled primarily by German Catholics?
Did you know that Queens Borough President Joseph Bermel fled the country an hour after promising to return to a grand jury corruption inquiry?
Did you know that in 1943, Alec Cunningham-Reid fought a fellow MP in the British House of Commons ?
Did you know that although USS Cocopa was built for service in World War II , she remains on active duty with the Mexican Navy as ARM Seri ?
Did you know that both the father and son Johann Friedrich and Carl von und zu Mansbach , who spent much of their life in Hesse and Denmark , also served as commanders of Fredriksten Fortress in Norway ?
Did you know that Canadian middleweight boxing champion Del Fontaine was executed at Wandsworth Prison in 1935 for murdering his lover?
Did you know that although some sources state that they can weigh up to 3 pounds (1.4 kg), the largest recorded Saucereye porgy weighed only half that at 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg)?
Did you know that Connie Mack was the manager of Philadelphia Athletics baseball team for more than 7000  games?
Did you know that actress Aubrey Plaza said " Hunting Trip ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation , could mark the start of a romance between her character and that of actor Chris Pratt ?
Did you know that despite being over 90 years old, the Van Gilder Hotel in Seward, Alaska , is named after a man who owned it for just a few months?
Did you know that the original "Three Little Maids from School" in Gilbert and Sullivan 's 1885 opera The Mikado were Sybil Grey , Jessie Bond and Leonora Braham ?
Did you know that in the Siege of Esztergom (1543) , the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman captured the Hungarian city of Esztergom with the support of French artillery?
Did you know that intelligent disobedience is a concept whereby service animals trained to help the disabled are taught to ignore unsafe commands from their owners?
Did you know that three airmen died testing the three prototypes of the Polikarpov SPB (D) ?
Did you know that the Duchy of Belz was passed as a dowry by Władysław Jagiełło, king of Poland to Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia , upon Siemowit's marriage to Władysław's sister, Alexandra ?
Did you know that Otto Joachim Løvenskiold rejected offers to become both Minister of Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway ?
Did you know that at Modern Toilet restaurants , the chairs are made out of toilets, dishes are served on plastic miniature toilet bowls, and drinks come in miniature urinals?
Did you know39, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Kursha Monastery is the largest Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of eastern Jammu and Kashmir , India ?
Did you know that following the German invasion of Norway , General Fleischer and County Governor Hans Gabrielsen assumed all military and civilian power in Northern Norway , declaring the region a theatre of war ?
Did you know that American football center J. T. White played for NCAA national champions with both the 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team and the 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team ?
Did you know that the programmes of the National Civics Bureau , an agency of the Malaysian government , were accused of promoting the Malay supremacy and indoctrination ?
Did you know that the giant stumptail stingray is only known from two specimens caught near Vladivostok, Russia , in Peter the Great Bay ?
Did you know that after his father committed suicide, Harry Reid introduced a resolution to the United States Senate which led to the creation of the National Survivors of Suicide Day ?
Did you know that the Phiale of Megara may be the earliest attested example of local Doric Greek dialect written in ancient Macedonia , unless it actually comes from Megara ?
Did you know35, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that American gambler Lottie Deno was one of Texas ' most famous poker players in the late 1800s?
Did you know that nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum lives in the hearts of dogs ?
Did you know that archaeologist Anton Wilhelm Brøgger and his sons Waldemar and Niels were imprisoned in Grini concentration camp during World War II ?
Did you know that the play Beunans Ke , discovered in 2000, was one of the most significant finds in the study of Cornish literature and language ?
Did you know that Nunez Community College in Chalmette , Louisiana , is named for the late wife of former Louisiana State Senate President Samuel B. Nunez, Jr. ?
Did you know that HMS Aid was part of Sir Francis Drake 's fleet to meet the Spanish Armada at Plymouth ?
Did you know that in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist , Big Joe Duskin , did not touch a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil 's music?
Did you know that research supported by the Sabin Vaccine Institute to treat and prevent the neglected disease of hookworm infection includes the development of hookworm vaccines ?
Did you know that Ramón de la Sagra founded the world's first anarchist journal El Porvenir ?
Did you know that under the Policing and Crime Act 2009 , it is now an offence in England , Wales , and Northern Ireland to persistently possess alcohol in a public place if you are under 18 years of age?
Did you know that Jetrail was the world's first fully automated monorail transit system?
Did you know that Trinidad has more bat species than any other island in the Caribbean ?
Did you know that although efforts to create a transportation trades department in the AFL-CIO began in the 1960s, the idea did not gain momentum until after the Teamsters reaffiliated with the AFL-CIO in 1987?
Did you know that the Italian monitor Faà di Bruno was powered by two engines from discarded torpedo boats ?
Did you know that American football guard Justin Boren cited family values as the reason for transferring from the University of Michigan to its arch rival , The Ohio State University ?
Did you know that one of the few cases of poisoning by the Montpellier snake occurred when someone stuck his finger into the snake's mouth?
Did you know that Trần Minh Tông ceded the throne to his five-year-old son Trần Dụ Tông because he considered the eldest prince too extravagant for the position of Đại Việt Emperor ?
Did you know that Oregon doctor Augustus C. Kinney lived in Astoria , but died in Oakland, California , and was buried in Salem, Oregon ?
Did you know that the fuselage of the Polikarpov NB was built from molded plywood reinforced with a welded steel tube framework?
Did you know that John Alario , the longest-serving member of the Louisiana State Legislature whose tenure began in 1972, is currently a freshman member of the state Senate ?
Did you know that the day after the death of businessman Fairfax Harrison , The New York Times accidentally ran the wrong picture with his obituary?
Did you know14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that although British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced in 1972 that hooding was illegal, British soldiers were engaging in the practice in the Iraq War ?
Did you know that less than two years after Julia Goss thought she failed her audition, she became the principal soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
Did you know that a group of central banks known as the London Gold Pool teamed up to regulate exchange rates and gold prices in the 1960s?
Did you know that King Henry I of England granted the medieval English nobleman Walter de Beauchamp (d. around 1130) the right to keep pheasants on his lands and fine any who poached them?
Did you know that ordinary salt may be blessed by Catholic priests and used as a protective sacramental ?
Did you know that following reactions to his admission of committing the offence of handball in the France vs Republic of Ireland game on 18 November 2009, French captain Thierry Henry considered retirement from international football?
Did you know that the citizens of Morella, Spain , hold a sexennial nine-day celebration to commemorate their deliverance from the plague by the Virgin of Vallivana?
Did you know that Oregon pioneer Robert Crouch Kinney read law under Serranus Clinton Hastings , but never practiced law?
Did you know that although the Spanish introduced barley-based beer in Mexico , various Mesoamerican cultures had a corn-based fermented drink which is still made today?
Did you know that former Louisiana legislative auditor Steve Theriot investigated a police -operated toy charity which uncovered various improprieties at Mandeville City Hall?
Did you know that some garter snakes engage in kleptothermy by creating fake female pheromones that cause other males to cover them in attempted mating letting them steal their warmth?
Did you know that grinding bararite partly converts it to another polymorph cryptohalite?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Gaston Gerald has spent his later years engaged in cattle ranching and farming in East Baton Rouge and Washington parishes?
Did you know that Billy the Kid was armed with a Colt Model 1877 revolver when killed by Pat Garrett in 1881?
Did you know that Unthanksgiving day is held annually on Alcatraz Island as a counterpoint to the traditional Thanksgiving story and to give thanks for Native American survival in the face of genocide?
Did you know that the historian of the American West Herbert H. Lang researched a study of the role of Fort Worth , Texas , in the origins of the modern helium industry?
Did you know that the Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel in Seward, Alaska , carries Lowell Creek 2,068 feet (630 m) through a mountain?
Did you know that after several previous dismissals from jobs and his wife leaving him, professor Holmes Beckwith responded to his firing from Syracuse University in 1921 by shooting his dean and then himself?
Did you know that the 1975 musical The Black Mikado was based on Gilbert and Sullivan 's 1885 opera The Mikado ?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Lynn Dean , a Republican , led the move in 2003 to repeal his state's anti- sodomy law?
Did you know that railcars transiting the Eurasian Land Bridge from China to western Europe must change bogies twice?
Did you know that the Parnall Puffin was an experimental amphibious fighter-reconnaissance biplane with several unusual features, principally a single central float and an inverted fin and rudder?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Mike Cross authored a law in 1990 to add anabolic steroids to a list of illegal substances, but lawmakers failed to clarify the proper penalty?
Did you know that Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights secretary Lola Hendricks applied personally to public safety commissioner Bull Connor for permission to demonstrate in Birmingham, Alabama , during the 1963 Birmingham Campaign ?
Did you know that the unusual fully-plastered attic on the D&H Canal Co. office near Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania , may be due to use as a dormitory for laborers during high-maintenance seasons on the canal?
Did you know that Plains Cree - Blackfoot artist and author Gerald McMaster says Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger were inspirations for his art?
Did you know that Tuskegee University gives up its chance for the NCAA Division II National Football Championship each year to be able to play in the Turkey Day Classic ?
Did you know49, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the range of buildings with listed status in Worthing , West Sussex , includes a lamp-post, a dovecote and a sculpture of four male heads?
Did you know that American sports journalist William T. Porter founded of one of the earliest sports newspapers in the United States, The Spirit of the Times ?
Did you know that the Puławy Legion of the Imperial Russian Army , supported by National Democrats , was formed to counteract the Polish Legions of the Austro–Hungarian Army , an initiative of Piłsudski ?
Did you know that goalkeeper Barrie Delf only made one appearance in The Football League for Southend United , having previously played as an amateur ?
Did you know that about 75% of all the hotel rooms in the Indian town of Bhuj have been booked for the period of the opening ceremony of a new Swaminarayan Temple scheduled for May 2010?
Did you know that the Aleutian Shield Fern , an endangered species found only on the Aleutian Island , Adak Island , is one of the  least known of the world's ferns ?
Did you know that before beginning a career in animation , Jeff "Swampy" Marsh worked as a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company, where he "freaked out" and decided to quit?
Did you know that Helge Skappel was among the pioneers of aviation in Norway , and together with Viggo Widerøe he wrote a book on the pioneer days?
Did you know that Alter the Ending was released by American rock band Dashboard Confessional in a deluxe edition, which includes a full CD of acoustic versions of the album's songs?
Did you know that after the heavy American casualties over the oil refineries of Ploieşti in Operation Tidal Wave , General Gordon P. Saville called it "ridiculous and suicidal"?
Did you know that despite the 1969 Sarawak state elections scheduled end date of June 7, the May 13 incident delayed its completion for about a year?
Did you know that the pre- WWII mayor of Bergen , Asbjørn Stensaker , initially remained in his position under Nazi German rule to limit nazification, but the Nazis prevented his stepping down in 1941?
Did you know that transcranial alternating current stimulation , a method of applying alternating current above the scalp , can entrain brain waves that induce phosphenes and slow reaction times ?
Did you know that Nicole Fox , who won first place in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, is nicknamed "Bloody Eyeball"?
Did you know that the Great Western Arms Company was founded in 1953 to produce copies of the Colt SAA revolver, used in many Western movies and TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s?
Did you know that Gudmund Harlem , father of former Director-General of the World Health Organization Gro Harlem Brundtland , was a notable politician and physician in his own right?
Did you know that the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS prototype of the early 1940s had an electrically operated variable-incidence horizontal stabilizer ?
Did you know that NCAA tennis coach Dick Gould was named "Coach of the Decade" for both the 1980s and 1990s and coached 50 All-Americans, including John McEnroe and the Bryan Brothers ?
Did you know that German journalist Heribert Prantl worked as both a judge and a public prosecutor before becoming the head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung ?
Did you know that American band Person L 's use of a diverse mix of sounds and genres on their record The Positives , has been compared to the style used by Jawbox and Fugazi ?