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Did you know that at the Convention of 1836 , delegates approved the Texas Declaration of Independence with no debate?
Did you know that Polish writer Adam Wawrosz fought in the Polish Army in the Battle of Kock during World War II ?
Did you know that Henry Fairfield Osborn almost doubled the size of Castle Rock , his father's Garrison, New York , mansion , to accommodate his family?
Did you know that liver biopsy (obtaining a tissue sample from the liver ) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of hepatitis ?
Did you know that the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario ?
Did you know that before earning a B.A. at New School for Social Research , science writer Mary Batten worked as a library clerk at the New York Public Library ?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Eternal Fantasy consists of an overworld map and a combat system, typical of console role-playing games , other than its traditional visual novel gameplay?
Did you know that Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful oil well in the Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
Did you know that Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park is the only state park dedicated solely to veterans of the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that former Virginia Tech running back Lee Suggs set the NCAA Division I -A record for consecutive American college football games with a rushing touchdown (27) in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl ?
Did you know that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings ?
Did you know that according to Franz Oppenheimer 's book The State , the purpose of the political state is to establish and enforce class divisions between conquerors and the dominated?
Did you know that James Ludington never lived in Ludington, Michigan – the town that bears his name?
Did you know that although the longfin trevally is a prized table fish in Thailand and Cambodia , it is overall too rare to sustain commercial fisheries ?
Did you know that Ronald Ribman ' s play The Journey of the Fifth Horse , based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev , won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman ?
Did you know that many slogans and several mottoes currently used in heraldry originated as war cries or battle cries ?
Did you know that the only trio of brothers to appear in a Major League Lacrosse game as members of the same team are Michael , Gregory , and Stephen Peyser of the New Jersey Pride ?
Did you know that Wilfrid Noyce forced a route up to the South Col on the first ascent of Mount Everest by the 1953 British Expedition ?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville , and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
Did you know that the 1946 Mexican film Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the United States until 1983?
Did you know that what is now the southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica according to the SWEAT model ?
Did you know that a group of Irish publishers tried to print pirated copies of Samuel Richardson ′s final novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison , before the actual first edition was released?
Did you know that the Muleshoe Heritage Center in Muleshoe, Texas , greets visitors with a 22-foot-high muleshoe which weighs 15,000 pounds and was an Eagle Scout project?
Did you know that the Payne-Desha House in Georgetown, Kentucky was built by a war hero from the Battle of the Thames and also was the last residence of the ninth governor of Kentucky ?
Did you know that future admirals Samuel Barrington , George Darby , Hugh Palliser , Thomas Pasley , Thomas Troubridge and Horatio Nelson all served aboard HMS Seahorse ?
Did you know that the town of Kendenup in Western Australia was featured in a classified advertisement in the New York Times in 1922?
Did you know that Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy is the only extant original orphanage in California ?
Did you know that John Milton (1562–1647) was so successful as a composer and scrivener that his son John Milton —author of Paradise Lost —never had to work for a living?
Did you know that the Okinawa Prefectural Museum was originally established under the U.S. Occupation in 1946?
Did you know that Italian composer Francesco Portinaro survived an outbreak of bubonic plague that killed 12,000 to become maestro di capella at Padua Cathedral ?
Did you know that the Neutra Office Building , once the office of Modernist architect Richard Neutra , is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
Did you know that the first conversion of a New Caledonian to the Bahá'í Faith took place in 1961?
Did you know that the British Columbia mountain search and rescue organization North Shore Rescue was originally formed for responding to an urban nuclear attack?
Did you know that although £ 5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom , tickets were touted on eBay for £250?
Did you know that Burr Caswell built his farmhouse in 1849 out of old driftwood and it is now a museum centerpiece?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Kiko , a tropical cyclone of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season , caused at least 15 deaths at sea?
Did you know that Diverse Harmony is the first gay-straight alliance chorus in the United States?
Did you know that 19 crewmen of the Russian oceanliner SS Czar received the Silver Sea Gallantry Medal from King George V of the United Kingdom for rescuing 102 survivors from a burning ship in October 1913?
Did you know that Lloyd Seay , described by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. as the "best pure race driver I ever saw", was killed by his cousin during a dispute in the family's moonshine business?
Did you know that there are 64 varieties of mammal in Tam Dao National Park in Vietnam and some are on the menu ?
Did you know that the Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was the first floating battery to engage in hostilities during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn walked out in disgust in the middle of the 1827 premiere of his opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho , and cancelled the remaining performances?
Did you know that Robert Berning first introduced Trader Joe's private wine label as a way to get around California 's fair trade laws that made it illegal to sell wines at a cheaper price than branded competitors?
Did you know that the Rockies Express Pipeline , currently under construction, will be one of the largest natural gas pipelines ever built in North America ?
Did you know that Argentine adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$ 306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
Did you know that organisations such as Unilever PLC , Tate Gallery , Penguin Books , and Prudential all have collections of Laura Ford's sculptures?
Did you know that through Khitan , the Islamic rite of male circumcision , Muslims are the largest single religious group to circumcise males?
Did you know that Achille-Louis Foville was made a professor at Charenton in 1840, filling the vacancy created by the death of his old teacher Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol ?
Did you know that the defection of Saddam and Hussein Kamel helped prompt the 1995 Iraqi presidential election ?
Did you know  that "Pink Fairhead" is a common name for Calocybe carnea , a small pink mushroom of grassy areas in Europe and North America ?
Did you know that the Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in Kentucky dedicated to Union soldiers , and it took an act of Congress to build it?
Did you know that Henry Conway , nicknamed "Queen Sloane ," once showed up to a London nightclub in a horse drawn carriage ?
Did you know that Salem Hospital has the busiest emergency room in the state of Oregon ?
Did you know that Mount Bate , on Vancouver Island , British Columbia , is probably named after William Thornton Bate , a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War ?
Did you know that T-shirts which featured Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney , which were seen in a 30 Rock episode entitled " Jack Gets in the Game " , were made commercially available by NBC ?
Did you know that during production of the film The Natural , Robert Redford was coached by Major League Baseball pitcher Spec Shea on how to pitch in an old-time style?
Did you know that one of the chief motivations for anarcho-capitalist revolution is the impossibility of implementing anarchy through peaceful means?
Did you know that Henrik I. Christensen , a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology , was the founder of the European Robotics Research Network (EURON)?
Did you know that the site of the aboriginal village of Nocoroco , near Ormond Beach, Florida ,  is marked by a large fountain sculpture, called the "Tomokie Fountain"?
Did you know that the Regimental Pipes and Drums of The Calgary Highlanders mistakenly wore the Royal Stewart tartan until they arrived in England during World War II and were told to stop?
Did you know that the Virginia Capital Trail connects three historic capitals of Virginia ( Williamsburg , Jamestown and Richmond ) with a 54-mile (87 km) long paved bicycle and pedestrian trail ?
Did you know that the Swansea and Welsh rugby duo Dick Jones and Dicky Owen were known affectionately as the Dancing Dicks ?
Did you know that the forthcoming Canadian film Smash Cut will feature a cameo appearance by filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis who invented the splatter film genre ?
Did you know that the highlight of Aliwan Fiesta is a four-kilometer dance parade of different cultural festivals of the Philippines ?
Did you know that the faculty of the College of Engineering , University of California, Santa Barbara boast of two Nobel Prize winners and one Millennium Technology Prize winner?
Did you know that the Cheonhado is a type of circular world map developed in Korea during the 17th century that displays both real and fictional places?
Did you know that archedictyon is a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects ?
Did you know that " Blooddrunk " , a track by Finnish band Children of Bodom about self-destructive behaviour, debuted at number one in Finland?
Did you know that after a gift of candles they sent was mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh Show , sales at Wicks n' More increased fivefold?
Did you know that Donald Colman invented the football dugout in the 1930s while working as coach of Aberdeen ?
Did you know that the Smith Estate was the home of a writer on occultism , the head of a railroad, and a deputy mayor , and the shooting location for the cult film Spider Baby ?
Did you know that the Loire Valley estate Château de Goulaine is believed to be the oldest winery in existence and the third oldest commercial enterprise in the world?
Did you know that Christopher Smart 's two oratorios , Hannah and Abimelech , are based on the story of biblical women who became fertile because of their devotion to God ?
Did you know that the 335th and 336th squadrons are the oldest in Greece's Hellenic Air Force , having been formed as units of the British RAF in the Second World War ?
Did you know that the opposition Democratic Party refused to accept the results of the 2001 Albanian parliamentary election and boycotted Parliament for six months after?
Did you know that New Year's Revolution (2005) was the first pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment to be held in Puerto Rico ?
Did you knowthat the Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly , convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the Democratic party controlled both houses of the state's legislature?
Did you know that Welsh sportsman Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for Swansea and cricket for Glamorgan at St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?
Did you know that the "Madame Marie" mentioned in the 1973 song 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) by Bruce Springsteen was a real-life fortune teller on the Asbury Park boardwalk?
Did you know that while setting a Guinness World Record for distance travelled by a solar vehicle, the University of Waterloo 's Midnight Sun VII was twice mistaken for a UFO ?
Did you know that Sidney Weighell , General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , played professional football with Sunderland for two seasons as an inside left ?
Did you know that David Nichtern , who wrote " Midnight at the Oasis ", is the son of the first female to win a Tony Award ?
Did you know that the stages-of-growth model describes the changing role of information technology in organizations ?
Did you know that military sociology , one of the branches of sociology , looks at issues such as gender , minorities and power in the military ?
Did you know that the Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818?
Did you know that while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear ?
Did you know that the Laurel Valley Store in Laurel, Oregon , opened in 1893 and is still in use?
Did you know that John Montague of the Seattle Mariners earned the first save in team history, pitching two scoreless innings to preserve a 5–1 win against the California Angels on April 9, 1977?
Did you know that the 2006 film Strawberry Fields is a documentary about Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel – Hamas military conflict?
Did you know that New York State Route 146B was decommissioned after as little as 17 years after its initial designation?
Did you know that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov , the largest Russian landowner after the tsar , owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland ?
Did you know that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets , described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument ?
Did you know that the 15th-century figure Sir John Juyn served simultaneously as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , only relinquishing the positions when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench ?
Did you know that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school , but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?
Did you know that the Portuguese village Cacela Velha was once the site of the Medina of Qast’alla Daraj, an Islamic town dating back to the 10th century?
Did you know that Sir Francis Gawdy , his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation ?
Did you know that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary ?
Did you know that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records?
Did you know that vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Angel Island Chuckwalla , an Iguanidae species, was considered such an important food item to the Seri people that they translocated the species to islands within the Sea of Cortés ?
Did you know that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France , Bohemia , Italy and Burgundy ?
Did you know that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton 's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?
Did you know that the Korean traditional winter hat nambawi can be luxuriously adorned with gold leaf decoration for women?
Did you know that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand 's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?
Did you know that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the Gabonese opposition garnered 46% of the vote in a 1964 legislative election ?
Did you know that Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow , Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader ?
Did you know that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA ?
Did you know that the Dome of the Prophet was built by the Ottomans on the spot where some believe Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed on the night of Isra and Mi'raj ?
Did you know that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park ?
Did you know that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar ?
Did you know that New York State Route 194 was the only state highway in Lewis County removed because of the 1980 state maintenance swaps?
Did you know that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark , Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen , both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall ?
Did you know that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga , meaning "completely blocked by sand"?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Constanţa , Romania , which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?
Did you know that the cause of the Svenskehuset Tragedy , where 17 men died on Svalbard in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?
Did you know that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby / Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again ?
Did you know that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty ?
Did you know that George Odgers was the last living member of the 14 historians who wrote the official history of Australia's involvement in World War II , Australia in the War of 1939–1945 ?
Did you know that the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York , with a recessed porch and columns ?
Did you know that during the Siege of Paris , French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
Did you know that " Where do you want to go today? ", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft 's first global image advertising campaign ?
Did you know that the 17th-century gardeners of the Izmaylovo Estate managed to grow figs , coconuts and melons but failed to breed silk worms ?
Did you know that after filing to run for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court , judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
Did you know that during the 2008 – 2009 television season , the actress Shenae Grimes has starring roles in both the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation , and the first season of 90210 ?
Did you know that Cameroonian politician Louis-Paul Aujoulat 's thesis was named best in his faculty at the Catholic University ?
Did you know that in the Toronto Blue Jays seasons , they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day ?
Did you know that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig , he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?
Did you know that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again?
Did you know that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later?
Did you know that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton , a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics , has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School ?
Did you know that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina ?
Did you know that the Texel Disaster of 1940 resulted in severe damage to HMS Express and the sinking of two other ships who went to her aid?
Did you know that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics , but recovered in time for the actual Olympics ?
Did you know that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane ?
Did you know that George Ashley Campbell decided to use loading coils for improving telephone line quality only after he realized that the manholes were the right distance apart to allow this cheaper solution?
Did you know that the Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy?
Did you know that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius ?
Did you know that unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills , the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators?
Did you know that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest ?
Did you know that James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue ?
Did you know that the current National Palace of Mexico , despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II ?
Did you know that Sydney Deane , who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket , was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?
Did you know that SS Empire Simba , a British cargo ship , was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II ?
Did you know that the Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture?
Did you know that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Schools Plus , an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark , was boycotted by 15 schools?
Did you know that Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
Did you know that former Thai Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit rather than mathematics?
Did you know that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?
Did you know that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple , which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?
Did you know that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post- Cold War era?
Did you know that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge , appointed in 1993?
Did you know that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager ?
Did you know that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever won by the Seattle Mariners , a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the California Angels ?
Did you know that six hours after it had been forecast to become a tropical storm , Hurricane Joyce unexpectedly dissipated?