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Did you know that the extensive ornamentation on the Haverstraw, New York , post office may be due to the influence of Postmaster General James Farley , a native of the area?
Did you know that the Somali Ostrich faces eradication in the Horn of Africa ?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ?
Did you know that architect Charles Durrett has designed more than 50 cohousing communities in North America?
Did you know14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 gets its name from an actual headline in the Harvard Crimson ?
Did you know that Japanese erotic film actress Motoko Sasaki made her screen debut at the advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36?
Did you know that despite leading the New York Giants in tackles in 2004, Kevin Lewis was released before 2005?
Did you know that the Map of Rensselaerswyck shows that Kiliaen van Rensselaer originally named areas around the upper Hudson River , near Fort Orange , after the women in his life?
Did you know that Venezuelan performer José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" received a Grammy Award nomination for his number-one song " Baila Mi Rumba "?
Did you know that five months after the 2nd Arizona Territorial Legislature created Pah-Ute County most of the county's land was given to Nevada ?
Did you know that following the depopulation of the Palestinian village of Bayt Susin in 1948, the moshav of Ta'oz was established just two years later?
Did you know that Robert Sommers , who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes ?
Did you know that the 1st Special Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with defending Australia and New Zealand during World War I ?
Did you know that both scutching and heckling are steps in the process of turning flax into linen ?
Did you know that Bathwick Hill, Bath is the site of a large Italianate villa, built by Henry Goodridge as his own house?
Did you know that the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship , I Walked With a Zombie , and Zombies on Broadway ?
Did you know that one thousand human sacrifices are required to retrieve a treasure hidden in the Bopath Ella Falls ?
Did you know that infection by pistil smut induces the development of female sex organs in a male?
Did you know that The Haunted House written by Charles Dickens in 1859 is the inspiration for an attraction which can be seen at Chatham in Kent ?
Did you know that half- Egyptian Bazil Ashmawy spent a night with ghostbusters in a haunted shopping centre and was hypnotised by witches to meet his ancestors for his TV show Baz's Culture Clash ?
Did you know that on every Wednesday and Saturday, the demons of Sri Lanka assemble to give an account of their activities to their king?
Did you know00, 31 October 2009 (UTC) Halloween hooks
Did you know that Cutting Edge haunted house was recently awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest haunted house attraction?
Did you know that the title witch of action game Bayonetta can form giant boots with her hair to attack enemies, but loses some of her clothing in the process?
Did you know that the demon Maha Sohona , whose head has been replaced with that of a bear, haunts graveyards and feasts on human flesh?
Did you know that so many witnesses saw the spectre of Stephen Decatur appear at a window at Decatur House , one of the haunted locations in Washington, D.C. , that the window was walled up?
Did you know that The Sunday Business Post praised Fight Like Apes frontwoman MayKay for her "long black hair and banshee wail"?
Did you know that Devil's doors allowed the Devil to escape from churches after leaving the souls of newly baptised babies?
Did you know that Mycena nargan was so named because its white speckles were like the eyes of the mythical nargun of  Australian aborigines?
Did you know that people paid to see a skeleton strike a thigh bone against a human skull every sixty minutes ?
Did you know that the carnivorous monster called a Hidebehind from American folklore cannot be accurately described because it is always hiding behind something?
Did you know that the first Canadian musical staged at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival really sucked ?
Did you know that the Wells and Mendip Museum has a skeleton believed to be that of the Witch of Wookey Hole ?
Did you know that according to the Testament of Solomon , the one-winged demon Abezethibou is trapped underneath the Red Sea ?
Did you know that in the children's book I Like Pumpkins , the narrator sees Frankenstein and his pet alligator buying pumpkins?
Did you know00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Terrestrial Physics is a sculpture made out of a 1 million volt (low energy) particle accelerator ?
Did you know that far right British National Party leader Nick Griffin feared for his safety over his first ever appearance on the BBC 's Question Time panel?
Did you know that the Seinfeld episode " The Phone Message " was written to replace a script in which one of the main characters bought a handgun , which was considered too provocative?
Did you know that footballer James Constable worked in an undergarment lining factory while playing as a semi-professional ?
Did you know that the Alliance political party claimed in 1998 that the Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Charles Upham was "doing a passable imitation between a lemon and a white elephant "?
Did you know that as special counsel for compliance in the United States Department of Energy , Paul Bloom recovered $6 billion from American oil companies that had overcharged refiners for their "old oil"?
Did you know that in the 30 Rock episode " Into the Crevasse " , Jack Donaghy redesigns a microwave oven , turning it into the Pontiac Aztek ?
Did you know that church services may be held in Serbia under the crown of a zapis , a large oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated?
Did you know that noblemen in the Byzantine Empire were often mutilated to make them ineligible to be Emperor ?
Did you know that radio personality Yngvar Ustvedt has written more than seventy books?
Did you know that the lyrics in the U2 song " No Line on the Horizon " were inspired by an image of a place "where the sea meets the sky and you can't tell the difference between the two"?
Did you know that the dachshund - terrier , Otto , is the oldest dog in the world at one hundred and forty-five dog years ?
Did you know that during the Seven Years' War , Kolberg was besieged three times ?
Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode " Beauty Pageant " was directed by Jason Woliner , who directed Parks star Aziz Ansari in the MTV sketch comedy show, Human Giant ?
Did you know00, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Les Cocker , a coach with the victorious England team at the 1966 World Cup , received a winner's medal in June 2009, nearly 30 years after his death, following a campaign launched by his family?
Did you know that by the time their lands were ceded to the United States in the Kalapuya Treaty of 1855, only 400 Kalapuya Native Americans remained, the rest having died of disease or armed conflict?
Did you know that ceftaroline is a novel antibiotic against MRSA and other resistant bacterial strains and is under clinical trial as a treatment for infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia ?
Did you know that the 1919 novel Lad: A Dog is a fictionalized account of the life of author Albert Payson Terhune 's real life rough collie Lad?
Did you know that a 2008 study concluded that the Ramapo Fault in New York has the potential to cause a magnitude 7 earthquake and billions of dollars in damages?
Did you know that the Pará class destroyers were based on the River class destroyers and served in the Brazilian Navy for 38 years?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Heulette Fontenot wrote legislation to require that disaster preparedness officials also provide for the safety of household pets during evacuations?
Did you know that from 1850 until 1872, the Party Processions Act made it illegal to parade in Ireland with music, flags or banners?
Did you know that many congenital malformations in babies share the common life-threatening complication of pulmonary hypoplasia ?
Did you know that while tortillerias are a long-time fixture in Latin America , they now are becoming common in some areas of the United States ?
Did you know that when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing , painting , or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had?
Did you know that during the American Civil Rights Movement , Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama , turned away a wounded Freedom rider ,  but treated the man who blew up the  16th Street Baptist Church ?
Did you know that despite making his national team debut in 1924, footballer James Mitchell remains the only player to represent England while wearing spectacles ?
Did you know that it took the U.S. government seven years to design, then two additional years to build, the Hoosick Falls, New York , post office after it acquired the land?
Did you know35, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the head of Polish communist secret police Stanisław Radkiewicz ordered his agents to "liquidate" members of the Polish Peasant Party , and make it look like the work of the anti-communist underground ?
Did you know that American band Cartel took one year to record their third full-length album, Cycles , after spending less than a month in the studio for each of their previous two albums?
Did you know that Stephen Barnett was a leading critic of the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 , arguing that it led to newspaper monopolies and the demise of smaller papers in cities in the United States ?
Did you know that the U2 song " Fez – Being Born ", created by joining the two in-progress songs "Fez" and "Being Born" together, was originally called "Chromium Chords"?
Did you know that contraception expert Dr. Sheldon Segal led the team that developed the implantable device Norplant , described as "the first significant advance in birth control since the pill "?
Did you know that although United Kingdom law has a principle of "innocent until proven guilty", under parts of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 the burden is on the defendant to prove his innocence?
Did you know that Kentucky judge Benjamin Mills ' opinion regarding the rights of slaves brought to the Northwest Territory was cited as a precedent in U.S. courts until the U.S. abolished slavery following the American Civil War ?
Did you know that as a Seattle School Board member during World War I , German -born Nathan Eckstein bowed to pressure to drop German language classes in Seattle Public Schools ?
Did you know that the Olympic Runners were widely assumed to be an American funk band until their identities were revealed to be British session musicians including Mike Vernon and Pete Wingfield ?
Did you know that part of the land where the depopulated Palestinian village territory of Jahula lay is used to cultivate cotton and watermelons today?
Did you know that Kwame "The Snow Leopard" Nkrumah-Acheampong is the first Ghanaian to qualify for the Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that local lore in Salem, New York , has it that one of the first people buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery was an unknown local Indian who wandered into town and died?
Did you know that Emilia Malessa , a Polish soldier in the anti-communist resistance , committed suicide after she had trusted the security chief Różański and revealed her fellow soldiers which led to their arrest?
Did you know49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer resigned after Der Spiegel uncovered an illegal wiretapping of physicist Klaus Traube ?
Did you know that the Phosphorite War is regarded in Estonia as a catalyst that led to the dissolution of the Soviet regime?
Did you know that Ritchie Yorke instigated and organized the first political meeting between a pop star and a prime minister, between John Lennon and Pierre Trudeau in 1969?
Did you know that the Salem, New York , historic district was the site of one of the earliest churches built in New York north of Albany ?
Did you know that despite the escalating human-elephant conflict , the number of elephants in the dry zone of Sri Lanka has increased, and 211 individuals were counted in Kaudulla National Park ?
Did you know that PNC Financial Services bought National City Corp using TARP funds only hours after accepting the funds while National City itself was denied funds?
Did you know that the annual Emsley Carr Mile was created to encourage athletes to break the four-minute mile , but by the second race in 1954, Roger Bannister had already broken it?
Did you know21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that a minute of silence was held in memory of murdered rugby player Shane Geoghegan at Ireland 's 2008 international match against New Zealand ?
Did you know that Overlook Hospital , founded in 1906 by a 26-year-old entrepreneur, established the first hematology oncology children's clinic in New Jersey , in 1977?
Did you know that despite serving as the editor of The Observer for fifty years, Lewis Doxat prided himself on never having written a single article for the paper?
Did you know that the constitutions of Greece , Ireland , Switzerland and several U.S. states are enacted in the name of God ?
Did you know that Joseph G. Aulisi was the costume designer for Die Hard with a Vengeance and Bicentennial Man ?
Did you know that Hong Kong property developer Henderson Land Development claims to have sold the most expensive apartment in the world at 39 Conduit Road ?
Did you know that Sir Maurice Amos was the third member of his family to become a legal professor at University College London , after his father and grandfather?
Did you know that globs are millimeter sized modules in the V4 complex part of the brain where humans and other primates first perceive color hue ?
Did you know that her own troubled divorce prompted Louisiana State Senator Julie Quinn to work for the law that requires the violator of a protective order to serve at least a 90-day sentence?
Did you know that the Charomskiy ACh-30 B aircraft diesel engine was tested as a motorjet where the jet engine's compressor was driven by the piston engine's turbochargers ?
Did you know that of the 104 celebrity competitors that have appeared on the American version of Dancing with the Stars to date, three withdrew from the competition?
Did you know that Bottisham Village College was the second of the Village Colleges established by Henry Morris in his vision for a better education for country people in Cambridgeshire ?
Did you know that the exact location of the city of Cialis , where Bento de Góis became convinced in 1605 that Cathay is China , has been a subject of debate among later historians?
Did you know that Nephila komaci is the largest web -spinning spider known to date?
Did you know42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that in 2003, Judge Sybil Moses ordered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to release transcripts of employee radio transmissions in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that the Byzantine theme of Lykandos , which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab wars of the early 10th century, was founded by Melias , an Armenian prince, and settled by Armenians?
Did you know that actress Michelle Wild , whose real name is Katalin Vad, changed her name to accommodate to the international distribution of Hungarian pornography ?
Did you know that the Satyashodhak Communist Party was founded in Maharastra , India , in 1978, seeking to combine the philosophies of Karl Marx , B.R. Ambedkar and Jyotirao Phule ?
Did you know that the U.S. State Department tried to pressure International Astronomical Union delegate Leo Goldberg into demanding membership for the Republic of China , despite the country's lack of professional astronomers?
Did you know that in 1944 the Soviet Factory No. 500 began to disassemble the stored Charomskiy M-40 engines to use their components in the closely related Charomskiy ACh-30B engine?
Did you know that when the musical Kelly closed after one night on Broadway , a reviewer noted " Ella Logan was written out of Kelly before it reached the Broadhurst Theater Saturday night. Congratulations, Miss Logan"?
Did you know21, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that William Waterhouse considered the rapport between violist Cecil Aronowitz and cellist Terence Weil the special distinction of the Melos Ensemble ?
Did you know that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to ease the task of setting up small Wi-Fi networks with their new Wi-Fi Direct standard?
Did you know that Italian writer Dante Troisi was posthumously awarded the Feronia Literary Prize in 2005?
Did you know that Finland band Nightwish was nominated for 27 awards including  2 Echo Awards and 13 Emma-gaala Awards ?
Did you know that Diane Winston lost a special election for the Louisiana State Senate in 2005, despite having led the first round of balloting?
Did you know that in spite of the fact that child labour in India is illegal, children as young as five years are employed?
Did you know that Arthur Schütz managed to get the Neue Freie Presse to print a letter in which he complained about the use of fireproof coal and oval wheels by the Federal Railway of Austria ?
Did you know00, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that by identifying watermarks in the paper of the incunabulum Missale Speciale , a book alleged to pre-date the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), Allan H. Stevenson proved it was printed nearly 20 years later?
Did you know that the defeat of the US 8th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Unsan has been called "one of the most devastating US losses of the Korean War ."?
Did you know that although SS Empire Beatrice was scrapped in 1966, a 50-foot (15 m) long section of her can still be found off Dungeness , Kent ?
Did you know that Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting , nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?
Did you know that 26 nations have ratified the Treaty of Lisbon since 2007, and only one country, the Czech Republic , has yet to complete the process?
Did you know that Japanese manga artist Seizō Watase worked at an insurance company for 16 years before retiring to work on manga full time?
Did you know that New Jersey Route 324 is the only state highway in New Jersey where neither of its termini is another roadway?
Did you know that in an Air Madagascar DC-4 crash in 1967 at Antananarivo Airport , among those killed was the Malagasy foreign minister Albert Sylla ?
Did you know that the proceedings of the British Summary Court were in both English and German ?
Did you know that Sara Szweber , one of a few women who held leadership positions in the Jewish socialist movement , after the invasion of Poland was threatened with arrest by the NKVD and fled to the United States ?
Did you know that the first golf course in North America was a three-hole course built in 1868 in the village of Sainte-Pétronille near Quebec City , Canada ?
Did you know that Chinese 'cultbuster' and qigong master Sima Nan has publicly exposed qigong trickery in China?
Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketers hold the world record for the highest team total of 260 for 6 in Twenty20 Internationals ?
Did you know that when Swede Anna Bågenholm got trapped under a layer of ice in a river for eighty minutes, her body temperature decreased to 13.7 °C (56.7 °F) — the lowest survived body temperature ever recorded in a human?
Did you know28, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Tanco Mine in Manitoba , Canada , is the world's largest producer of caesium ?
Did you know that reporter M. A. Farber was jailed for 40 days and The New York Times fined $285,000, for Farber's refusal to turn over notes in the Mario Jascalevich "Dr. X" curare murder trial in 1978?
Did you know that the 2009 science fiction television series Twin Spica was produced in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ?
Did you know that Judge Morris Pashman upheld a ban on the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey , calling it "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment "?
Did you know that Lookingglass, Oregon , became nationally famous in the 1970s when a parking meter for horses was installed in front of the general store ?
Did you know that former New York City Medical Examiner Michael Baden credited Dr. Valentino Mazzia with creating the field of forensic anesthesiology ?
Did you know that during the Second World War , SS Hispania was detained by the French , seized by the Vichy French , declared a war prize , passed to the Kriegsmarine and eventually sold back to her original owners?
Did you know14, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the national park Sumapaz Paramo in Colombia , is the largest Paramo ecosystem in the world?
Did you know that the mayor of Rongelap , James Matayoshi , led the Marshallese who suffered from radiation sickness due to nuclear testing in seeking monetary compensation?
Did you know that the electricity generating capacity of Ethiopia is projected to double when the Gibe III dam and the associated hydropower plant, currently under construction on the Omo River , are completed?
Did you know that as Bergen County, New Jersey prosecutor, Guy W. Calissi obtained murder convictions and death sentences for Edgar Smith and Thomas Trantino , though neither would ever go to the electric chair?
Did you know that the Parnall Pixie won both the fuel consumption test and the speed prize at the 1924 Lympne Light Aircraft Trials , with the aid of interchangeable wings?
Did you know that Canadian singer Térez Montcalm 's debut album, Risque , saw her nominated for five Félix Awards in 1995?
Did you know that Jamaica 's Dry River isn't?
Did you know that outfielder Bill Taylor never made an error in his five-year Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that there are five main types of metal casting defects : gas porosity , shrinkage defects, mold material defects, pouring metal defects, and metallurgical defects?
Did you know that Narcyz Wiatr , a Polish activist in the agrarian movement and member of the anti-Nazi resistance group Peasant Battalions , was murdered by the communist secret police in Kraków ’s Planty Park ?
Did you know that the Schluchsee , at 930 metres above sea level , is the highest reservoir in Germany and also the largest lake in the Black Forest ?
Did you know that Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
Did you know that in the Siege of Tripoli (1551) the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Tripoli in modern-day Libya from the Knights of Malta ?
Did you know that Robert Brown 's 1818 botanical article Congo was deemed by one reviewer to be remarkable for its frequent use of the word "remarkable"?
Did you know that Hubert Whittell , a career soldier in the Indian Army , studied Urdu , Pashto and Persian , before moving to Western Australia to become a farmer and ornithologist ?
Did you know that the U2 song " Stand Up Comedy " was recreated so many times during the No Line on the Horizon sessions that six different songs were written as a result?
Did you know that former U.S. Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtrie Godley testified in 1992 to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs that no POWs remained behind after the end of the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that after being reported as the site of the alleged murders by "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich , Riverdell Hospital closed in 1981 due to declining numbers of patients?