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Did you know that Moose Brook State Park in New Hampshire is considered to be an excellent example of Civilian Conservation Corps design?
Did you know that Robert Riefling , who debuted as a classical pianist in 1922, was appointed Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music more than fifty years later?
Did you know that in 1675 bones of five Christian saints and one Hungarian monarch were discovered at the Pula Cathedral in Croatia ?
Did you know that Edward L. Rowan is a retired sex therapist and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award ?
Did you know that the Requiem of Max Reger is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem , but of a poem Requiem written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel ?
Did you know that KANUKOKA is an association that facilitates cooperation between the four municipalities of Greenland —including the largest and the second largest municipalities in the world by area?
Did you know that there is a monument in Colonia Obrera , Mexico City , to the seamstresses who died here during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake ?
Did you know that by the Treaties of Cölln and Mewe , the Teutonic Order first pawned, then sold, Neumark to Brandenburg to pay its mercenaries ?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Babe Siebert drowned in Lake Huron before he could take up a new role as coach of the Montreal Canadiens in 1939?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Ceratobasidium cause economically important plant diseases such as sharp eyespot of cereals and black rot of coffee ?
Did you know that the ferry from Godbout to Matane , Quebec , is Godbout's main employer?
Did you know that Claude Bracey , know as "the Texas Flyer," won the 100- and 220-yard sprints at the 1928 NCAA Track Championships and tied the world record in the 100-meter race in 1932?
Did you know that the E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge is the only bridge crossing of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska ?
Did you know that as a New Jersey State Senator , John J. Fay, Jr. proposed a bill creating the Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, and was later appointed its first ombudsman?
Did you know that the Shapwick Hoard , found by metal detecting cousins in 1998, contained the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Great Britain and was equivalent to ten years' pay for a Roman legionary ?
Did you know that Bach composed in Leipzig his cantata Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186 , for the seventh Sunday after Trinity expanding his cantata written in Weimar for Advent ?
Did you know that the common soft bracken of eastern Australia is not actually a bracken , but a member of a tree fern family ?
Did you know that professional baseball player Joe Hague replaced profane language in his everyday speech with the word mullet ?
Did you know that ronde-bosse involved the partial concealment of genuine gold, whereas traditional enamelling practices saw lesser materials such as copper or silver being gilded to look like gold?
Did you know that Andrew J. Weaher was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1869 at one of the US Army 's largest-ever presentations of the medal at the time?
Did you know that Shinan District , Qingdao , China, is the site of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre , a sailing marina constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that in the years 1998 , 2000 and 2001 , the Michigan Wolverines football team led the Big Ten Conference in different areas including total defense , passing efficiency and turnover margin ?
Did you know that Frederick Arthur Whitaker , Civil Engineer-in-Chief to The Admiralty , was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the French Legion of Honor ?
Did you know that 18 commercial coffee plantations were established in 1926 in Sangara , Papua New Guinea , paving the way for commercial production from 1928?
Did you know that MEP Ryszard Czarnecki thought fellow Polish MEP Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein might harm the Civic Platform in the 2009 elections because of her German -sounding name?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient First Lieutenant Lewis Warrington III is the grandson of American naval hero Lewis Warrington ?
Did you know that the 2010 Coke Zero 400 was the first NASCAR race broadcast in 3D ?
Did you know that the State Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler , particularly known for his outspoken opposition to illegal immigration , is a candidate for Speaker of the Texas House in 2011?
Did you know that Indian communist politician and six-time Tripura Legislative Assembly member Bidya Debbarma never lost any election he contested?
Did you know that Jeffrey A. Warsh proposed banning the use of photo radar systems , calling them an "assault on the system of American jurisprudence" that would replace "the tradition that we are innocent until proven guilty "?
Did you know that Todmorden Unitarian Church in West Yorkshire was built in memory of "Honest John" Fielden , and paid for by his three sons?
Did you know that according to legend, Hockey Hall of Famer Duke Keats once scored a goal after carrying the puck the length of the ice while skating backwards?
Did you know that James H. Turpin was among 23 U.S. cavalrymen awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in actions with Apaches " in the winter campaign of 1872–1873?
Did you know that while John Fawcett was minister of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire , he wrote the words of the hymn Blessed Be the Tie that Binds ?
Did you know that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, " The Three Bells " by The Browns , and had to splice two takes together to fix it?
Did you know that on April 5, 1933, the Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh sent President Roosevelt a case of low point beer to celebrate the passing of the Cullen-Harrison Act ?
Did you know that American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921?
Did you know that during World War II , Fort McGilvray sat 650 feet above Alaska's Resurrection Bay to defend against a possible Japanese invasion?
Did you know that early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska , its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?
Did you know that the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission , forerunner of the American Red Cross ?
Did you know that the Petitcodiac River once held some of the world's highest tidal bores , before a causeway was built in 1968?
Did you know that Irish stage actor Enda Oates ' theatrical career includes roles such as Macduff in the play Macbeth and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice ?
Did you know that only 9.5% of voters turned out in a Slovak referendum in 1997 , due to an opposition boycott ?
Did you know that Laurence S. Weiss was a key supporter of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio 's $2.8 billion tax hike, but later pushed for its repeal after losing his re-election bid in the 19th Legislative District ?
Did you know that the "dougie" dance referred to in Cali Swag District 's " Teach Me How to Dougie " actually originated in Dallas, Texas ?
Did you know that Shorty Green led the first players' strike in National Hockey League history as the Hamilton Tigers ' players refused to participate in the 1925 playoffs unless they received C$ 200 bonuses?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team 's records in years such as 1990 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , and 1997 include those in field goals , school completion percentage, single-game receptions, and the largest comeback among others?
Did you know that the Dissenters' Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery , London, was the first purpose-built Nonconformist chapel to be built in a public cemetery in England?
Did you know that Ture Königson of the People's Party in Sweden decided the outcome of the crucial 1959 vote on pension reform by abstaining?
Did you know that the football club Ulf-Sandnes altered its name to Sandnes Ulf to accommodate the merger partner Sandnes FK ?
Did you know that college lacrosse coach Bud Beardmore led Maryland to the 1975 NCAA tournament championship , despite the fact that the team lost two of its six NCAA games and almost failed to qualify?
Did you know that Andy Williams ' album Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes stayed on the Billboard 200 list for over 176 weeks?
Did you know that Don Dodge , a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft , switched from using a Windows -based computer to a Mac -based one after he moved to Google ?
Did you know that during Maurice W. Long ' s directorship of the Georgia Tech Research Institute , the Engineering Experiment station set a new record of $5.2 million in grants and contracts?
Did you know that despite great risks, the Polish minesweeper ORP Rybitwa successfully towed her sister ship ORP Mewa to port after Mewa had been hit by German bombs in September 1939?
Did you know that after Ernest L. Oros proposed a bill to tack a $5 surcharge on New Jersey traffic tickets to pay for new police cars, opponents argued that police officers would only be encouraged to give out more tickets?
Did you know that in 2009, direct Chinese investment in Ethiopia reached approximately $900 million ?
Did you know that Japanese film director and actress Tomoko Matsunashi was described as one of the Japanese directors who "have brought some needed originality and talent to contemporary Japanese cinema"?
Did you know that GRB 980425 provided the first evidence that gamma-ray bursts and supernovae might be related?
Did you know that Ramón Estévez , who played a sycophantic , "spineless corporal " in Cadence , wore glasses and "his hat most of the time" to keep from being recognized as Charlie Sheen 's brother?
Did you know that, in his first two and a half years as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti , Mark Cutifani led a program that reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%?
Did you know that Alberta 's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
Did you know that Steven C. Krane , who was at age 44 the youngest president of the New York State Bar Association , died in June 2010 at the age of 53?
Did you know that the Stanchester Hoard , which was found by metal detectors , is remarkable because the hundreds of Roman coins are not clipped ?
Did you know that editor Willi Eichler 's 1932 Urgent Call for Unity to thwart the Nazi Party 's rise to power was signed by 33 leading German intellectuals including Albert Einstein , Erich Kästner and Käthe Kollwitz ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Ignacio of August 1997 caused unprecedented rainfall in San Francisco, California , which typically receives only a trace of precipitation during the month?
Did you know that eleven-year-old Ellen Sadler fell asleep in 1871 and purportedly did not wake for nine years?
Did you know that in 2003, the Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania became the first religious group granted official state recognition since just after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ?
Did you know that on 28 August 1920, Peter Ronald scored Watford Football Club 's first ever Football League goal?
Did you know that Weidmann's Restaurant , established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi ?
Did you know that Codex Vaticanus 2061 , a double palimpsest , contains some parts of the New Testament , homilies of several authors, and Strabon 's Geographica ?
Did you know that the grave of Medal of Honor recipient John Tracy was unmarked for almost a century after his interment?
Did you know that Moscow Oblast hosts the Russian Mission Control Centers for spacecraft and military satellites ?
Did you know that when asked if he would be willing to direct all 10 plays in August Wilson 's The Pittsburgh Cycle , Israel Hicks replied "Hell, yeah" and accomplished the feat over 20 years of directing?
Did you know that Wally Johansen , a starting guard on the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship team in 1939, later became president of the Oregon State Bar ?
Did you know that the unsuccessful 1960 Ethiopian coup was the most serious threat to Emperor Haile Selassie 's rule between his return to Ethiopia in 1941 and his deposition in 1974 ?
Did you know that 23 U.S. cavalrymen, including Jacob Trautman and Paul H. Weinert , were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?
Did you know that Sashes Island was the site of a Roman crossing of the River Thames and a Saxon defensive burh ?
Did you know that Antonio Liozzi , an 18th-century Italian artist, trained under the tutelage of Marco Benefial ?
Did you know that Creole slaves under the leadership of Oude Ram Afrikaner were among the first to call themselves Africans , and that Afrikaans got its name from this appellation?
Did you know that Tiny Gooch , placed third in the discus at the NCAA track championships , won the Southwest Conference heavyweight wrestling championship and was acknowledged as "the tallest attorney in Texas" until 1950?
Did you know that upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell 's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
Did you know that the part of state highway Arkansas Highway 29 that goes through Hope, Arkansas , is referred to as " Bill Clinton Drive"?
Did you know that together with his wife Arvilla, American mycologist Job Bicknell Ellis collected, dried, and distributed 200,000 specimens of fungi to subscribers?
Did you know that Thorvaldsen 's equestrian statue of a Polish military hero spent 80 years in the country estate of a Russian Field Marshal but was destroyed within 20 years after its return to Warsaw ?
Did you know that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys , fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s ?
Did you know that the Shepherdsville train wreck , which caused about fifty deaths when two trains collided in December 1917, is the deadliest train wreck in the history of Kentucky ?
Did you know that Vidyadharas , semi-gods of Hindu mythology , milked Mother Earth , who had assumed the form of a cow, to collect mystic powers and the art of flying as her milk?
Did you know that Gordie Gillespie is the all-time winningest college baseball coach and was also selected as the head coach of the Chicago Tribune all-time Illinois high school football team?
Did you know that the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland , Oregon , was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians ?
Did you know that after leading African-American troops in the American Civil War , Alfred Stedman Hartwell became a supreme court judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
Did you know that an investment group led by Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton converted America's oldest limestone roundhouse to an entertainment center?
Did you know that the United States Army sends Military History Detachments to war zones to collect historical documents, such as oral histories , for writing histories ?
Did you know that the Banta-Coe House in Teaneck, New Jersey , is one of the oldest existing homes in the Garden State ?
Did you know that The Level Club has been called "the only true-to-size rendering of King Solomon's Temple that exists in the world today"?
Did you know that Admiral Sir William Young 's clashes with Lord Cochrane led to Frederick Marryat including Young in a novel as 'Sir Hurricane Humbug'?
Did you know that despite losing Belgium to the Allies , Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
Did you know that the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany , New York , has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government ?
Did you know that despite being Watford's top scorer as they won the Southern League in 1914–15 , professional footballer George Edmonds continued working as a printer ?
Did you know that during the week of the release of his fifth studio album Loso's Way , Fabolous decided to contribute to Trey Songz 's single " Say Aah "?
Did you know that Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley , Staffordshire , now redundant , has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries "?
Did you know that having taken a single dance class at Dartmouth College , Jonathan Wolken co-founded Pilobolus , which The New York Times called "one of the most popular modern-dance companies in the world"?
Did you know that research by Clement Finch showed that bloodletting could be an effective treatment for hemochromatosis ?
Did you know that the Bukit Timah Monkey Man is a cryptid said to roam around the city-state of Singapore ?
Did you know that in the 1650s the Patriarch of Antioch Macarios III Zaim played a large part in the liturgical reforms of the Russian Patriarch Nikon which led to the Raskol schism?
Did you know that the 1978–79 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team played two of its Big Eight Conference opponents four times?
Did you know that Frank Tolan was one of 22 American soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for volunteering to carry water to comrades wounded in the Battle of the Little Bighorn ?
Did you know that systemin was the first identified plant peptide hormone and helps protect tomato plants against damage from herbivorous insects?
Did you know that George Otlowski resigned after 14 years as mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey , describing the job as "like fighting some kind of dragon"?
Did you know that the experimental fiction project The Mongoliad , led by speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson , is to be released via smartphones as a serialized novel to which readers can contribute?
Did you know that American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy ?
Did you know that in 1577 German Reformation theologian Lucas Maius helped develop a philosophical conundrum known as the 'Devil's Cross' that was said to have turned numerous parishioners away from the devil ?
Did you know that 1989–90 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team established school records by scoring 173 points and winning by a 95-point margin three nights later?
Did you know that after earning the Medal of Honor in 1890, U.S. Cavalryman Frederick E. Toy went on to serve as an orderly to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ?
Did you know that Consolidated Edison distributed dry ice to its customers who lost power during the July 2010 Canada/United States heatwave ?
Did you know that one of the professors hired by Beck University , David Barton , was described by founder Glenn Beck as "the Library of Congress in shoes"?
Did you know that when the Chicago Junction Railway stopped regularly maintaining the Kenwood branch , the Chicago Rapid Transit Company refused to pay rent on the line?
Did you know that only 1,404 people died in the 1930 Irpinia earthquake , despite 70% of houses being destroyed near the epicenter , as most villagers were sleeping in the fields during the wheat harvest?
Did you know that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado ?
Did you know that Liberal Democratic Party member Akihiko Kumashiro , a four-termer in Japan's House of Representatives , dropped out of a race for re-election when his party fielded another candidate against him?
Did you know that 650,000 cubic yards (500,000 m 3 ) of sediment were taken from Kingman Lake in Washington, D.C. , and replaced with twice as much fill to build approach ramps to the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge ?
Did you know that the National Archives of Indonesia holds the largest archive collection related to the Dutch East India Company worldwide?
Did you know that Knobbed porgies are born female , but become males over their lifetimes?
Did you know that Blount Island in the St. Johns River is home to both the United States Marine Corps ' Maritime Prepositioning ship program and the largest container facility at the Port of Jacksonville ?
Did you know that Polish lawyer Henryk Cederbaum was expelled from the bar after defending a Polish shopkeeper who accused the Russian governor-general's wife of shoplifting?
Did you know that the 1987–88 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team , which was led by three future NBA Draft first round selections, defeated every ranked opponent they faced and averaged 102.5 points per game?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1847, Vice-Admiral William Young had spent 70 years serving in the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that the honorary president of Bendinat , Majorca 's exclusive golf club, is King Juan Carlos of Spain ?
Did you know that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata found in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs ?
Did you know that in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana ?
Did you know that Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a in 1719 as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Anhalt-Köthen ?
Did you know that after being ambushed by the Tonto Apaches , U.S. Calvaryman Bernard Taylor carried his wounded commanding officer half a mile back to their encampment under heavy fire?
Did you know that the 1988–89 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team set a school record by scoring 100 points twenty times?
Did you know that Swedish singer Anna-Lena Löfgren had more than 40 songs on Svensktoppen between 1962 and 1995?
Did you know that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the Pink-headed Warbler ?
Did you know that the first Spinka Rebbe, Joseph Meir Weiss , was buried in Romania in 1909, but reinterred in Petah Tikva , Israel in 1972?
Did you know that in 1997, Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Richie Castellano persuaded Paul McCartney to sing with the CHS Guitar Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ?
Did you know that Harriet E. Derman of New Jersey's 18th Legislative District supported a bill expanding those who could arrange adoptions as "we should do everything we can to encourage adoption versus abortion"?
Did you know that " Quién Como Tú " is the third number-one single on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart for Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel ?
Did you know that after the broadcast of images of nude paintings of Brian Cowen on RTÉ , Cathal Goan was asked to "consider his position" as Director-General of RTÉ ?
Did you know that Wayman Tisdale became the first college basketball player selected to the Associated Press All American first team as a freshman, sophomore and junior with the 1982–83, 1983–84 , and 1984–85 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball teams ?
Did you know that in 1772, Lieutenant Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn claimed sovereignty over Western Australia on behalf of France ?
Did you know that for its first two years, the Norwegian newspaper Telemarksavisa was not published out of Telemark , but from Larvik and Drammen ?
Did you know that Danny Valencia , who after being drafted only 576th in baseball's 2006 draft said: "It does not matter where you start, but where you finish", debuted in the majors in 2010?
Did you know that U.S. Cavalry officer William Foster earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in a surprise raid on the Comanche Indians at the Red River in 1872?
Did you know that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka , a wetsuit , and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X ?
Did you know that cricketer Ian Botham's three five-wicket hauls in the 1981 Ashes series led to the nickname "Botham's Ashes"?
Did you know that Camilla Tilling was the soprano soloist in Mahler 's Resurrection Symphony in the opening concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2010, conducted by Paavo Järvi ?
Did you know that the 1920s cost of US$30,000-per-mile ($658,000-per-mile in 2010 dollars) was a major deterrent to the completion of U.S. Route 30 in Iowa ?
Did you know that the weeping willow planted by John Parke Custis on his Abingdon plantation is known as the progenitor of all weeping willows in the United States ?
Did you know that six Israeli soldiers may face disciplinary action for filming a viral dance video called IDF Tick Tock ?