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Did you knowthat, in December 2007, the Canadian bobsleigh duo of Pierre Lueders and Justin Kripps were the first people to slide down the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that will be used for the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
Did you knowthat trains to London ran eastwards from Devonport Kings Road railway station when it opened in 1876, but from 1890 they ran westwards?
Did you knowthat Bill Orwig hired Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana, Michigan and Toledo ?
Did you knowthat about three-quarters of the Oroville-Chico Highway (now Route 149) in California 's Sacramento Valley has been absorbed by realignments of Routes 70 and 99 ?
Did you knowthat when Shiv Chowrasia , a former caddie , won the 2008 Indian Masters golf tournament , he became the third Indian to win a European Tour event?
Did you knowthat Marie Hartwig , faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's Hall of Honor ?
Did you knowthat the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul ?
Did you knowthat eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
Did you knowthat the first Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to crash was West Coast Airlines Flight 956 in 1966?
Did you knowthat ' HMS Incomparable was a design for a mammoth battlecruiser , proposed by British Admiral Jackie Fisher in 1915, but never built?
Did you knowthat Odd Nansen , son of the famed scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen , founded Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway , then survived Sachsenhausen himself?
Did you knowthat Crookham, a village in England , dates as far back as the Domesday Book , but that it split into Crookham Village and Church Crookham upon the founding of the nearby Christ Church in 1840?
Did you knowthat after Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall resigned, F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
Did you knowthat according to John of Ephesus , in 583, Empress Constantina , consort of Maurice , gave birth to the first heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years?
Did you knowthat the art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to King Louis XV 's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi ?
Did you knowthat Academy Award - winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of " The Ruptured Duck ," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the World War II -era Crescent City class attack transports USS Crescent City and USS Calvert each received ten battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation ?
Did you knowthat Qabala treasures , monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan , contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors ?
Did you knowthat historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast , held hostage in Jordan , shot at in Lebanon , kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya ?
Did you knowthat the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district ?
Did you knowthat early plans for Washington, D.C. had the White House facing a convergence of radial avenues centered on the present-day North Lawn , with gardens descending to Tiber Creek in the present-day South Lawn ?
Did you knowthat Satoru Kobayashi , one of Japan 's most prolific directors , wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962 ?
Did you knowthat Lambda Sigma , a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?
Did you knowthat the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allen Poe 's Scenes From 'Politian' ?
Did you knowthat most of Petroleum Road , a privately owned asphalt road in the Golan Heights , is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?
Did you knowthat film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols , earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ?
Did you knowthat "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by Qamanirjuaq Lake ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court held in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. that although employees cannot be fired for exercising their right to strike , they can be "permanently replaced" by strikebreakers ?
Did you knowthat the Pine Creek Rail Trail , a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania , was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today ?
Did you knowthat the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811 , which lasted for three days and burned down the whole Podil neighborhood of Kiev , was children playing with fire?
Did you knowthat traditional Chinese phoenixes in carved reliefs of the Qianling Mausoleum are modeled on ostriches ?
Did you knowthat halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl , having decided the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
Did you knowthat the Ormsby -class attack transports USS Ormsby and USS Sheridan earned six battle stars for WWII service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969?
Did you knowthat architect Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle Max Born 's popular physics book?
Did you knowthat textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant , animal , or synthetic fibers to construct and decorate objects such as clothing , carpets , and curtains ?
Did you knowthat the fictional character " Thirteen " in the FOX medical drama House is referred to as such on the show's daily call sheets to further propagate an inside joke within the show's narrative ?
Did you knowthat Lactarius helvus , a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek , was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig , Germany ?
Did you knowthat William Bambridge , the father of England Football international Charles Bambridge was a member of the Te Waimate mission , New Zealand who became official photographer to Queen Victoria ?
Did you knowthat NASCAR official Robin Pemberton ' s decision concerning the final outcome of the 2007 Daytona 500 resulted in his brother's team finishing second instead of first?
Did you knowthat the 1989 Malta Summit between the United States and Soviet Union was held onboard SS Maxim Gorkiy , a Soviet cruise ship that had partially sunk near Svalbard less than six months before?
Did you knowthat Annie Fargé , who played a scatterbrained French wife to an American architect in the 1960 CBS sitcom Angel , was described by Time as "easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy" though the series folded after one season?
Did you knowthat a poster in the 2003 Estonian European Union membership referendum called on Estonians to vote yes "for access to millions of sexier men"?
Did you knowthat Dr. John Roberton proposed "medical police" and advocated use of cantharides whilst another Dr. John Roberton was a pioneer of obstetrics ?
Did you knowthat most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky , including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses ?
Did you knowthat the Atlantic Marine ecozone , with its dense fog and massive icebergs , has been feared by mariners who have dubbed its northern extent "Iceberg Alley"?
Did you knowthat Narmada Bachao Andolan , a NGO in India , was the main reason for World Bank to conduct its first-ever independent review of any of its projects?
Did you knowthat the 20-year tenure of District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion ?
Did you knowthat key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky 's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss ?
Did you knowthat the old block of the Bank of China Building in Singapore was the tallest building in the central business district , Raffles Place , from 1954 till 1974?
Did you knowthat the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera ?
Did you knowthat Saint-Bris is the only appellation out of 150 in the French wine region of Burgundy where the wines may contain the grape variety Sauvignon blanc ?
Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story " The Business Man " using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
Did you knowthat every year 70,000 to 80,000 migratory birds visit Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary , an artificially created forest in West Bengal , India ?
Did you knowthat judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell 's voting to uphold Georgia 's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk ?
Did you knowthat the small private rooms called cabinets gave rise to the political sense of cabinet , after English monarchs began to discuss matters of state in these settings?
Did you knowthat the postage stamps of the Palestinian National Authority have featured many well-known figures, but those with Pope John Paul II might be fake illegal stamps ?
Did you knowthat many villages in Tajikistan received only one to two hours of electricity per day during an on-going energy crisis in Central Asia ?
Did you knowthat Miś Uszatek , a children's cartoon about a bear and his friends, is one of the best-selling export products of Polish TV?
Did you knowthat the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks "?
Did you knowthat Robert Parker 's newsletter The Wine Advocate was the first to widely adopt the 50–100 scale wine rating scale, using it as parallel to the American educational grading system ?
Did you knowthat Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered ?
Did you knowthat an ongoing strike by Gaelic footballers and hurlers in County Cork , Ireland , has led to Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern asking for the players and the county board to resolve their dispute?
Did you knowthat Equine Hippique Canada , Canada 's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams?
Did you knowthe world's longest tunnel system is the two parallel tunnels at the Atatürk Dam of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey ?
Did you knowthat vin jaune , from the French wine region of Château-Chalon , is made with a layer of yeast that grows on top of the wine while in the barrel ?
Did you knowthat the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war , the Wars of the Roses ?
Did you knowthat John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the " The Great Escape ", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF ?
Did you knowthat in a college prank televised across the United States , spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word " CALTECH " in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field ?
Did you knowthat TenneT , the Dutch transmission system operator , is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed , the longest high- voltage undersea power line in the world?
Did you knowthat Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$ 3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
Did you knowthat the European fungus Ramaria formosa , found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral ?
Did you knowthat English publishers John Stockdale and his son John Joseph Stockdale were involved in separate lawsuits decades apart, which led to changes in the law in 1792 and in 1840 , respectively?
Did you knowthat the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad , the second railroad built in the United States , was a major precursor to the roller coaster ?
Did you knowthat Michiko Maeda , the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?
Did you knowthat the French wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a wine law banning the overhead flying, landing or taking off of flying saucers ?
Did you knowthat before he became involved in the Ituri conflict , alleged war criminal Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was a nurse?
Did you knowthat the Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert phenol from U.S. explosives production to prop up German Bayer 's aspirin business?
Did you knowthat rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript , but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy , or scoring tools for tests in education?
Did you knowthat Wally Weber , football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
Did you knowthat British Labour MP James Lamond was criticised in the 1980s as an apologist for the Soviet Union because he defended the invasion of Afghanistan ?
Did you knowthat Tunisian Railways operates a standard gauge network in the North and a meter gauge network in the South of Tunisia ?
Did you knowthat financier Gurdon Wattles was responsible for building the historically significant Wattles House in Omaha and the Wattles Mansion in Hollywood ?
Did you knowthat Juliusz Wertheim , a Polish pianist , conductor and composer , was a mentor of Arthur Rubinstein , considered one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th Century?
Did you knowthat the WWII -era Windsor -class attack transport USS Queens (APA-103) was sunk as an artificial reef off Texas in 2007?
Did you knowthat Jake Simmons, Jr. was the most successful African-American entrepreneur in the history of the petroleum industry ?
Did you knowthat the New Zealand Railways Department 's experimental RM class Westinghouse railcar was the first railcar to enter revenue service in New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain , head of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1900 to the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising , is credited with inventing the game of snooker ?
Did you knowthat Independent Operational Group Polesie , composed of mostly reserve and second line troops, was nonetheless the last  regular unit of the Polish Army to capitulate during the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
Did you knowthat USOC president Doug Roby initially took no action against Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics , but expelled them after an IOC threat to expel the entire U.S. track team?
Did you knowthat while Isko Moreno was running for vice mayor in Manila in 2007, posters were distributed of him wearing only swimming briefs ?
Did you knowthat William Hogarth 's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane contrast the misery of gin drinkers with the happiness and good health of those who drink beer ?
Did you knowthat Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier made the Bugatti 370 – a $200,000 watch in honour of the supercar Bugatti Veyron – which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year" Award from the Japanese press?
Did you knowthat the CPF Building , which houses the Central Provident Fund Board , was the site of a silent protest by four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in Singapore ?
Did you knowthat tais weaving in East Timor is performed solely by women, using techniques passed down through generations in an oral tradition ?
Did you knowthat Heimir was a Gothic hero who evolved into a traitor through centuries of story-telling?
Did you knowthat the tide of the Texas-Indian Wars was turned at the Battle of Bandera Pass when six-shot revolvers were used for the first time against the Comanches ?
Did you knowthat Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena is a rare street in Chad to have retained its French name despite President François Tombalbaye 's Authenticité Africanization program?
Did you knowthat state senator Mike Kopp is the only Gulf War veteran currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly ?
Did you knowthat two members of No. 450 Squadron , Royal Australian Air Force , were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo , following The Great Escape in 1944 ?
Did you knowthat Keith Munyan, Jr. , the Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff , Cindy Crawford , Jessica Simpson , and other celebrities is himself a former model ?
Did you knowthat during the later stages of World War II , the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces ?
Did you knowthat John Percival , when headmaster of Rugby School , gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?
Did you knowthat Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?
Did you knowthat about 12 million people were forced laborers in Nazi Germany during World War II , and less than 2 million received direct compensation after the war?
Did you knowthat after the New Zealand Railways Department 's RM class Thomas Transmission railcar was written off in 1925, the railcar 's body was used as a private dwelling?
Did you knowthat Margaret Downey 's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism?
Did you knowthat the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you knowthat Thaddeus Radzilowski , a Polish-American historian, is a cofounder of the Piast Institute ?
Did you knowthat dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas , Mississippi and Tennessee , USA?
Did you knowthat 6 Battery Road , a high-rise in Singapore , was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company?
Did you knowthat a 1907 mansion in Hollywood, California known as Jualita was the location for scenes from the film Rain Man and the TV show The O.C. ?
Did you knowthat while repelling Soviet advances across the frozen Lake Suvanto , Finland managed to capture 12 anti-tank guns , 140 machine guns , 200 light machine guns and 1500 rifles in the Battle of Kelja in 1939?
Did you knowthat after surviving the battles at Badoeng Strait and Midway , the Japanese destroyer Asashio was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea while picking up survivors from her sister ship, the Arashio ?
Did you knowthat Louisville's Union Station was the largest such facility in the southern United States ?
Did you knowthat Herbert Armitage James , who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
Did you knowthat when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl , the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?
Did you knowthat the lead ship of the Frederick Funston class , the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89) , was named after a US Army General lampooned by Mark Twain ?
Did you knowthat vineyard owners in the Provence wine region of Cassis used to hire prostitutes from Marseilles to assist with picking grapes at harvest time?
Did you knowthat Raymond Jacobs maintained to have been the last surviving member of the original party of Marines who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima ?
Did you knowthat French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism " for the role he played in birth of the art movement?
Did you knowthat the Peachtree Road Race , held annually on July 4 ( U.S. Independence Day ) in Atlanta , Georgia , is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
Did you knowthat Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki -like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation ?
Did you knowthat the two parts of California State Route 139 were constructed by a joint highway district of Lassen and Modoc Counties and by the U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state ?
Did you knowthat at 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the Missouri River Valley drains one-sixth of the United States , and is the longest river valley on the North American continent?
Did you knowthat the Michigan Railroad Commission twice condemned the St. Joseph Valley Railroad because of the poor condition of the latter's line?
Did you knowthat the death of Orvil Dryfoos , publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, was attributed to stress from a 114-day strike by his staff?
Did you knowthat award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google "?
Did you knowthat the physical and chemical properties of water are markedly different when it is heated under pressure at temperatures between 100 and 374°C?
Did you knowthat during the 2004-2005 vintage , the European Union wine growing zones accounted for nearly 70% of worldwide wine production?
Did you knowthat Ancient Tondo became so prosperous that the Kingdom of Brunei had to attack it and set up a rival settlement to keep it in check?
Did you knowthat Academy Award -nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo , the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York , to write her screenplay for The Savages ?
Did you knowthat the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast ?
Did you knowthat the Owyhee Dam near Adrian, Oregon , was the tallest dam of its type in the world when it was completed in 1932?
Did you knowthat the SIA Building , a skyscraper in Singapore , is the flagship building of Singapore Airlines ?
Did you knowthat Sir George Everest , after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove , despite being born in Wales , dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town?
Did you knowthat the case of Styllou Christofi , the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint , was not very glamorous?
Did you knowthat the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish , a higher number than any other place on earth?
Did you knowthat Master of Wines , David Peppercorn and his wife Serena Sutcliffe questioned the authenticity of Imperial bottles of Château Pétrus owned by Hardy Rodenstock , inciting a controversy?
Did you knowthat the 1996 TV film Hidden in America reminded viewers that on any given night, up to five million children in America go to bed hungry?
Did you knowthat the Tumblagooda sandstone contains the earliest record of animals walking on the land?
Did you knowthat while only three Avro Chinooks , Canada 's first jet engine design, were ever built, they led to the very successful Orenda design that followed?
Did you knowthat swimming Hall of Famer Harry Holiday won 6 NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to World War II ?