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Did you know that Cormac mac Cuilennáin , bishop and king of Munster , later considered a saint , was killed in battle in 908 while leading an invasion of Leinster ?
Did you know that the Zimbabwe Open University is the largest university in Zimbabwe and the only distance education university in the country?
Did you know that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
Did you know that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft 's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor ?
Did you know that male prostitutes in Pakistan generally range from fifteen to twenty-five years of age?
Did you know that, in a bid to remain in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked his Labor Minister Blas Ople to reach out to the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame , having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach ?
Did you know that Shnaim Ohazin was an Israeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from the Talmud with fictionalized time travel segments?
Did you know that councilman Larry Gossett works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington , located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in ?
Did you know that English engineer Roy Lunn was responsible for the development of the Ford Mustang I and the first American 4WD cars?
Did you know that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot ?
Did you know that some Bahá'í prayers have been translated into more than five hundred languages?
Did you know that Cheryl Dunye 's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
Did you know that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?
Did you know that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge , a yew which may be Europe 's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain 's tallest tree?
Did you know that the dialogues for the Tamil film Parasakthi were penned by M. Karunanidhi who later became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that a scrapped demolition proposal for the Baytown Tunnel in Baytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico ?
Did you know that the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison ?
Did you know that Maher Arar was deported to Syria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada ?
Did you know that wildlife biologist Olaus Murie was the first American Fulbright Scholar to study in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Clarence Hailey Long , a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle , was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign  by Philip Morris ?
Did you know that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform ?
Did you know that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line , the Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor Matra for US$50 million?
Did you know that Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
Did you know that the Doctor Who episode " The Sontaran Stratagem " is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors ?
Did you know that the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas ?
Did you know that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local union during the first furriers' strike in the United States?
Did you know that the Abyssinian slave Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover of Razia Sultana , the first and only female Sultan of Delhi ?
Did you know that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton ?
Did you know that Durum wheat was used to make al-fidawsh , a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain ?
Did you know that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was the second largest steel manufacturer in the USA before it merged with U.S. Steel in 1907?
Did you know that the ground living warblers in the genus Tesia appear to almost lack a tail and have very long legs?
Did you know that the people of the planet Krikkit are the main antagonists in the Douglas Adams novel, Life, the Universe and Everything ?
Did you know that within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ , Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579?
Did you know that Jane Addams , Mother Jones and Abe Fortas have all made notable contributions to the history of children's rights in the United States ?
Did you know that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25 , 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack ?
Did you know that the Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall was the Great Western Railway 's first holiday destination hotel?
Did you know that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes , England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
Did you know that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction ?
Did you know that in Grosvenor Park , in the city of Chester , is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church ?
Did you know that Anna Maria Garthwaite , the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman , became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk - weaving trade in 18th century England ?
Did you know that Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons , winning two out of the three games he coached?
Did you know that Ratnakaravarni , the noted 16th-century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?
Did you know that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be  the missing head of a Colymbosaurus ?
Did you know that Richard Honaker , Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming , washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken ?
Did you know that in 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation of Shellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff?
Did you know that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party ?
Did you know that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green, Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station ?
Did you know that Heinrich Böll 's humorous short story Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for a May Day broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk ?
Did you know that Marie Studholme , one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy , was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name?
Did you know that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway ?
Did you know that in 1885, Bug Holliday became the first baseball player to make his Major League debut in post-season play?
Did you know that American actress Kim Stanley was cast in the starring role of the 1964 British film Séance on a Wet Afternoon after Deborah Kerr and Simone Signoret turned down the part?
Did you know that Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that the Vadigo , a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea ?
Did you know that William D. Washington became the first faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute to die during his tenure there?
Did you know that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires , the Hermits?
Did you know that the Halegannada , literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language ?
Did you know that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
Did you know that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson ’s 17 losses with the Hickory Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead?
Did you know that the term Sindhology as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined in 1964?
Did you know that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer , constructing more than 60 buildings?
Did you know that a Bird Flu pre- pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?
Did you know that the musical group The Wiggles ' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field 's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
Did you know that the town of Ollantaytambo , which dates back to the Inca Empire , has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America ?
Did you know that one critic describes Christopher Smart 's The Hilliad as the "loudest broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753 , a literary dispute involving Henry Fielding , John Hill , and many others?
Did you know that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms ?
Did you know that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback ?
Did you know that Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque had been an Eastern Orthodox monastery until it was converted after the Fall of Constantinople ?
Did you know that the Iowa Blue breed of chicken is not actually blue according to poultry standards?
Did you know that Karl Wahl , the leader of the Nazi Gau Schwaben , was the only Bavarian Gauleiter without a university degree ?
Did you know that tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea , facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb ?
Did you know that in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs , Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference ?
Did you know that lyric tenor Evan Gorga , who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of Giacomo Puccini 's opera La bohème , reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
Did you know that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop ?
Did you know that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States , garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ?
Did you know that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their lands?
Did you know that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II ?
Did you know that Bruno Fonseca 's paintings The War Murals , inspired by violence in Eastern Europe , have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso 's great Guernica "?
Did you know that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in 1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory?
Did you know that the statue The Naked Truth , in Compton Hill Reservoir Park , was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity ?
Did you know that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown?
Did you know that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h ) on September 20 , 2007 ?
Did you know that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather than direct intervention by the military?
Did you know that Radio Londres , a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France , read Paul Verlaine 's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?
Did you know that the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans ?
Did you know that in On the Sphere and Cylinder , Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder ?
Did you know that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in 1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III ?
Did you know that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz " by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
Did you know that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New York for US$ 5 and sold it two years later for US$1?
Did you know that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into their Friendster profiles?
Did you know that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
Did you know that Nagpur Improvement Trust , a local civic government body of Nagpur , India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation ?
Did you know that the sailing-ship Lwów was the first ship under Polish banner to cross the equator ?
Did you know that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have included parodies of Star Wars and The Apprentice ?
Did you know that Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet ?
Did you know that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne 's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania , while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan ?
Did you know that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers?
Did you know that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria 's premier football division?
Did you know that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat ?
Did you know that American children's literature author Howard Pease , who often set his stories on tramp freighters , himself shipped out when he needed new material?
Did you know that Noah W. Cross , sheriff of Concordia Parish , Louisiana , from 1944 – 1973 , was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria ?
Did you know that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss ?
Did you know that Williamsport Bills minor leaguer Dave Bresnahan was thrown off the team for substituting a potato for a baseball ?
Did you know that Price Hill is one of the oldest outlying settlements of Cincinnati, Ohio ?
Did you know that Christopher Columbus 's letter recounting his first voyage , the  first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
Did you know that in 1963, entertainment manager Bob Marcucci got a recording contract for John D'Andrea , leading D'Andrea to a regular spot on Shindig! ?
Did you know that in 2001, American screenwriter William Monahan pseudonymously wrote a comic serial narrative at New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian ?
Did you know that Norsk Hydro Rjukan , an industrial facility in Tinn , Norway , produced 30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
Did you know that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health Center , the very place where she volunteered her time for many years?
Did you know that China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development?
Did you know that Percival Goodman , described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward , was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses ' ideas for parkways in New York City ?
Did you know that Your Name is Justine , Luxembourg 's submission for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , was rejected due to insufficient creative contributions from Luxembourg in the film?
Did you know that Frank Leslie Walcott , the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations , was also an exceptional cricket umpire ?
Did you know that the Dalecarlian runes was a runic script that was in use until the 20th century?
Did you know that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza 's almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
Did you know that eight of the nine Priori of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of Florence ?
Did you know that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken , but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s?
Did you know that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the Original Amateur Hour in the 400-seat theatre at Irvington, New York 's village hall ?
Did you know that many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are examples of this?
Did you know that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris ?
Did you know that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young ward named Jim Limber‎ ?
Did you know that during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India , approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
Did you know that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise , a tourist attraction in Réunion , is one of the most active volcanoes in the world?
Did you know that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states ?
Did you know that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return home?
Did you know that Strawhead is a 1982 play by American writer Norman Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real-life code name?
Did you know that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎ , founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece ?
Did you know that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel "?
Did you know that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts ?
Did you know that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India "?
Did you know that Ernest O. Thompson , a Texas businessman , politician , and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics ?
Did you know that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall of Russia 's Kresty Prison ?
Did you know that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering ?
Did you know that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property in Wyoming ?
Did you know that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway ?
Did you know that in Puerto Rico , a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with fruit-flavored syrup ?
Did you know that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico?
Did you know that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic controller ," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide today?
Did you know that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union of Polish Syndicalists , which participated in the Warsaw Uprising ?
Did you know that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson Guitars ?
Did you know that the book Goodnight Bush , a parody of Goodnight Moon satirizing the presidency of George W. Bush , was written by two former employees of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ?
Did you know that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York , was once the site of a freshwater lake?
Did you know that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence , a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising , in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
Did you know that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement "?
Did you know that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic?
Did you know that five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
Did you know that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services?
Did you know that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean , England , dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?
Did you know that Frank McEncroe , a boilermaker from rural Victoria , invented the Chiko Roll ?
Did you know that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from British rule ?
Did you know that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway ?
Did you know that Herman Farr , an African American clergyman from Shreveport , Louisiana , single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement ?
Did you know that the Foguang Temple 's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building in China , dating from 857 AD?
Did you know that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia ?
Did you know that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys ?