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Did you know that the predatory land flatworm Platydemus manokwari is a serious threat to rare endemic land snails in the Pacific Islands ?
Did you know that textile manufacturing in the mill village of Hallville in Connecticut dates to 1752, when a fulling mill was built there?
Did you know that John Athalarichos had his nose and hands cut off for taking part in a plot to overthrow his father the Byzantine Emperor , Heraclius ?
Did you know that in 1923, the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey provided funding for Alma White College , the second institution in the northern US to further the Klan's aims?
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Did you know that Academy Award -winning film score composer W. Franke Harling wrote both the official hymn and official march of the United States Military Academy at West Point ?
Did you know that the 1958 BSA C15 was the first unit construction motorcycle produced by the British company BSA ?
Did you know that Queens Borough President Joseph Cassidy , who ran the borough with an iron fist and made a fortune despite a $5,000 salary, was nicknamed "The King of Queens"?
Did you know that in 1901, the head of the Russian secret police Sergei Zubatov helped found the Independent Jewish Workers Party in a bid to counter the influence of the General Jewish Labour Bund ?
Did you know that the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of the star-forming regions closest to the Earth ?
Did you know that John Kelly played in three different Major League Baseball leagues during his four-year-long career?
Did you know that the civil service of the Confederate States of America managed to cope with war work only because it employed African Americans ?
Did you know that a fireworks display at Croke Park to a soundtrack compiled by U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Jr was one of the events held in honour of today's 125th anniversary of the GAA ?
Did you know that the 1937 Bankers' Toadies incident resulted in the imprisonment of Joseph Unwin , a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta ?
Did you know that Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs— Henry VIII , Edward VI , Mary I and Elizabeth I ?
Did you know that the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka , the Sri Lankan affiliate of BirdLife International , provided humanitarian assistance following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ?
Did you know that Anthony Amoroso , who attended culinary school at Hudson County Community College , defeated Masaharu Morimoto on Iron Chef America ?
Did you know that Peter Sanders began his career as a professional association football player, switched to playing rugby union , and has subsequently spent forty years running a baseball club?
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Did you know that St. Paul’s Church, Diu is considered to be one of the best examples of baroque architecture in India ?
Did you know that Steven van Herwijck created portrait medals of both Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Elizabeth I of England ?
Did you know that notable figures buried at New Cemetery in Belgrade include Ivo Andrić , winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature , and Zoran Đinđić , the Prime Minister of Serbia who was assassinated in 2003 ?
Did you know that the mushroom species Russula albidula is commonly known as the "boring white Russula"?
Did you know that George P. Jenkins of MetLife helped build Pan American World Airways into a global airline and ABC into a major network through the firm's investments in the private placement market?
Did you know that Peyton Manning has the unusual ability to eat six saltines in one minute ?
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Did you know that in 1950s giant monster films , atomic energy aroused Godzilla , The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Them! ?
Did you know that the release of The Vampire's Assistant , starring Chris Massoglia , was moved so it could "capitalize on the Halloween season"?
Did you know that Zac Efron turned down the lead in Footloose to star in the romantic ghost story The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud ?
Did you know that 1950s blues musician Little Sammy Davis left the music scene for decades before being rediscovered in 1990?
Did you know that the tenor in the British TV advertisement ' Go Compare ' is played by Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans ?
Did you know that Jeanne Clemson is credited with both preserving the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania , from demolition, and for restoring live theater to the building?
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Did you know that Hell Gate , a ghost town in western Montana , was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
Did you know the Halloween genes include spook , spookier , phantom , disembodied , shadow and shade ?
Did you know that in the Sinhala novel Madol Doova , the two protagonists Upali and Jinna go to live on a "haunted" island?
Did you know that a 1767 gravestone at St Mary's Church, Walberton shows the victim crushed under a tree, as a laughing skeleton and scythe -wielding Father Time look on?
Did you know that Reeri Yakseya , who is believed to be the most cruel and powerful demon in Sinhalese folklore, can assume 18 different apparitions?
Did you know that, inspired by The Blair Witch Project , Stephen King had the idea of presenting The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red as real by having the fictional "Dr. Joyce Reardon" edit it?
Did you know that some have dared eat the eggs of the devil's dipstick ?
Did you know that in 1979 two Montana legislators sued the United States Department of Transportation in an unsuccessful attempt to save the North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak train?
Did you know that the Justice Party survived the no-confidence motion brought against it after the 1923 election in Madras Presidency ?
Did you know that Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma 's Proctor District , opened by John Hamrick in 1923, is now the oldest continuously operating theater in the U.S. state of Washington ?
Did you know that former Texas State Senator Marshall Formby proposed that Texas Technological College, his alma mater , be renamed Texas Tech University ?
Did you know that the U2 song " Winter " was written for the war film Brothers after the band viewed a rough cut of the film?
Did you know that out of 700 U.S. Forest Service buildings in Oregon and Washington built by New Deal programs, the Upper Sandy Guard Station Cabin is the only one crafted of stone and logs?
Did you know that between 5% and 45% of the words made by two year olds are speech repetitions , and that higher skill in infant speech repetition predicts more rapid expansion of spoken vocabulary ?
Did you know that quarterback Don Moorhead set 24 Michigan Wolverines football records from 1969 to 1970, including career records for total offense and passing yards?
Did you know that even though the French wines of Collioure have very little residual sugar , some wine drinkers perceive them as " sweet " because of how ripe the grapes get in the warm climate?
Did you know that in 2005, the Bruce High Quality Foundation pulled a floating island of parkland, complete with living trees, around New York Harbor , turning a drawing by Robert Smithson into reality?
Did you know that many government-planted trees in the Banni grasslands in India were legally cut down to make charcoal for profits from 2004 to 2008 even though the area has been a protected forest since 1955?
Did you know that professional wrestler Franky The Mobster once tagged with Kevin Steen as "Frank N' Steen"?
Did you know that Amar Ouzegane , first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism , arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism ?
Did you know that the Ballaine House was one of six built in 1905 in Seward, Alaska , known as "Millionaire's Row", not for their owners' wealth, but because they believed Alaska would soon have one million residents?
Did you know that as a self-described "geek" and a curious person, Whoopi Goldberg created Head Games to show people that there are "all kinds of science"?
Did you know that Australian Sir Noel Power became Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in 1996?
Did you know that due to the storm's poorly documented loop, the 1910 Cuba hurricane was initially reported as two separate cyclones?
Did you know that in 2007 , A. J. Wallace broke the Penn State Nittany Lions football record for kickoff return yardage in a season with 581, which broke Kenny Watson 's 1999 record of 522?
Did you know that in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna , a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey ’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul ?
Did you know that in October 2009, the Pittsburgh Penguins launched Pittsburgh Penguins Radio , the first exclusive HD radio station in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that over 100 former footballers called on President Paul Biya to stand in the 2004 Cameroonian presidential election ?
Did you know that Zodi Ikhia , the first Education Minister of the Republic of Niger , took part in a failed coup d'etat in 1963?
Did you know that Loteki Supernatural Being was the first dog to win both the Westminster Dog Show and the World Dog Show ?
Did you know that then- Louisiana Tech University President F. Jay Taylor in 1974 named Sonja Hogg to develop what became national championship teams in women's basketball ?
Did you know that the authors of the Manifesto of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian were convicted to prison sentences, exiles, and loss of civil rights?
Did you know that sociologist Bogdan Denitch of Queens College, City University of New York organized and chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference from 1983 to 2004 in New York City ?
Did you know that because of the controversy about excluding mathematicians from the Central Powers at the 1920 and 1924 International Congresses of Mathematicians , from 1932 and on the ICMs are not numbered?
Did you know that the marriage of Archduchess Isabella of Austria and Prince Georg of Bavaria was annulled on the grounds of non- consummation ?
Did you know that the animated sitcom Home Movies switched to Flash animation for its second season ?
Did you know that while searching for French zoologist Claude Riche , lost in Western Australia, botanist Jacques Labillardière collected the first specimens of Banksia repens ?
Did you know that Alexander Faris composed the theme tune for the classic 1970s television drama series Upstairs, Downstairs ?
Did you know that the Battle of Gang Toi on 8 November 1965 was one of the first engagements between Australian forces and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that the Justice Party won the first election held in Madras Presidency in 1920 after a dyarchical system of government was established in 1919?
Did you know that Puerto Rican a capella group Nota sang together for 15 years prior to winning The Sing-Off ?
Did you know that ex- Springbok and current Ireland rugby forward coach Gert Smal taught his pack some Afrikaans so they could read the South African line out calls in their match in the 2009 Autumn Internationals ?
Did you know that possible traces of interdigital webbing have been preserved in fossils of pakicetids , the ancestors of whales ?
Did you know that two of the 15 children of Rufus Anderson Lyman became the first U.S. generals of Hawaiian ancestry?
Did you know that Shmuel Flatto-Sharon successfully ran for election to the Knesset to avoid extradition to France , where he was wanted for embezzlement?
Did you know that despite losing star player Dionte Christmas , the 2009–10 Temple Owls men's basketball team is currently one of the top 25 best college basketball teams in the United States?
Did you know that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry , Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln , hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that the Famous Smoke Shop , one of the largest mail order and internet cigar businesses in the United States, was initially a retail shop on Broadway founded in 1939?
Did you know that Natural Law Party founder Bevan Morris suggested at a press conference that President Bush learn Transcendental Meditation ?
Did you know that the 1865 play Society by T W Robertson marked the London debut of actor Sir Squire Bancroft ?
Did you know that the Japanese Computer-controlled Vehicle System (CVS) originally started out as a show-floor exhibit at Expo '70 in Osaka , but developed into one of the most advanced personal rapid transit systems of its era?
Did you know that the Hanneford family of the Royal Hanneford Circus have origins in performance dating back to 1690?
Did you know that between 1970 and 1976, former Spanish-Argentine footballer and manager Juan Carlos Touriño was part of three Spanish league championships and two Spanish cup-winning squads?
Did you know that Long Creek Academy , which was a Christian school near Long Creek, South Carolina , is now the local headquarters of a whitewater rafting company?
Did you know that the Phoenicians either introduced or encouraged the spread of winemaking to several areas like Spain , Portugal , Italy and Greece ?
Did you know that André Roch , a pioneer in avalanche research, was caught in avalanches three times?
Did you know that the 1951 film Marmayogi was the first Tamil film to receive an "Adult" rating ?
Did you know that Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas is recognized as one of the best preserved Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the United States?
Did you know that all eight endemic reptile species recorded in Minneriya National Park are listed as threatened ?
Did you know that the Stephen Storm House in Claverack, New York , combines urban and rural applications of the Federal architectural style ?
Did you know that former footballer Christopher Bryan scored the Turks and Caicos Islands ' first ever international goal?
Did you know that in 1989 Cuban singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan became the first artist to simultaneously reach number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Latin Songs charts with her single " Don't Wanna Lose You "?
Did you know that London music festival Field Day hosts an annual village fête , featuring a sack race , tug of war and egg and spoon race ?
Did you know that Frank Conner is one of only two men to have competed in the U.S. Open in both tennis and golf ?
Did you know that the white wine grape Furmint is said to have been introduced to Hungary after the 13th-century Mongolian invasion , by immigrants recruited by King Béla IV ?
Did you know that Wivi Lönn was the first woman to be awarded with the honorary title Professor by the Finnish Association of Architects ?
Did you know that Botswana international footballer Donald Thobega was involved in the Test For Life campaign, which encourages supporters to get tested for HIV and AIDS ?
Did you know that the 1927 Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon , was owned by an ice cream magnate?
Did you know that Swede Anna Jansson started a successful career as a crime writer in 2000 after working twenty years as a nurse?
Did you know that although the nudibranch slug Fiona pinnata lives in open sea worldwide, it cannot swim?
Did you know that artist Émile Friant was intended to be a chemist until he gained his father's permission to leave the lycée ?
Did you know that Parteniy Pavlovich from Silistra , an 18th-century Bulgarian cleric and writer, is regarded as the author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature?
Did you know that Île Vierge , in the southwestern corner of the English Channel , has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
Did you know that Nikolai Polikarpov was arrested and imprisoned by the OGPU in September 1929 for the crime of industrial sabotage when his Polikarpov I-6 and I-5 fighter projects both failed to meet their deadlines?
Did you know that in every second of normal fluent conversation , we pronounce roughly four syllables and ten or twelve phonemes ?
Did you know that It's a Wonderful Life actors Jimmy Stewart and William Edmunds appeared in two other movies together, The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm ?
Did you know that Isla Magueyes , an island 50 meters from the coast of Puerto Rico , is home to feral populations of Cuban iguanas and Rhesus monkeys which escaped from the local university ?
Did you know that, between 1973 and 1992, Barry Malkin edited both sequel films and both compilations of the Godfather Trilogy , but was not involved in the original 1972 film ?
Did you know that Antonio de León y Gama described in his 1792 book the discovery of the Aztec sun stone ?
Did you know that more than any other recent pop star, Madonna has used MTV and music videos to establish her popularity and to enhance her recorded work?
Did you know that Final Battle 2009 was the first live pay-per-view event of professional wrestling Ring of Honor 's?
Did you know that after playing for over twenty clubs and enjoying only mild success, former professional footballer Fred Eyre made his name as a businessman, after dinner speaker , and author?
Did you know that Brookbound is one of the few Second Empire - style buildings in the Claverack, New York , area?
Did you know that studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking ?
Did you know that a marker dedicated in 2009 at Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston was the first monument added to the Henry Knox Trail since 1927?
Did you know that Frith Banbury directed plays on four continents without ever having obtained an academic degree ?
Did you know that the 1940 New Hampshire earthquake , the strongest earthquake in state history, had an intensity of VII (very strong)?
Did you know that the video game Gears of War revolutionized the cover system ?
Did you know that buildings designed by Frederick Heath include Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier and the Pythian Temple in Tacoma, Washington , two properties listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that none of the coaches of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team has ever had a overall losing record?
Did you know that the Guinea hog breed of pig was kept by former US President Thomas Jefferson ?
Did you know that the flag on the top of the Tall Hermann tower on Toompea Hill is one of the best-known symbols in Estonia of the government in power?
Did you know that mathematician Herbert Busemann was awarded 2,000 Russian rubles for winning the Lobachevsky Medal in 1985, the first American to do so?
Did you know that the Super Saturday weekend, the last weekend before Christmas , accounted for 13.6 percent of holiday retail sales in the United States in 2006?
Did you know that former Australian cricket team captain Steve Waugh was sacked from the One Day International captaincy after his team failed to qualify for the 2001–02 VB Series finals?
Did you know that the Stephen Miller House in Claverack, New York , features Dutch Colonial elements like a gambrel roof and Dutch door on a basic Federal style house?
Did you know that shortly after World War II , Douglas Aircraft designed the prototype airliner DC-8 that had engines in the fuselage and propellors in the tail?
Did you know that after retiring from professional wrestling , Rafael Halperin helped create a credit card that would not work in Israel on Sabbath ?
Did you know that Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar ?
Did you know that flooding of the Tishrin Dam reservoir in Syria was postponed so that three houses found at the archaeological site of Jerf el-Ahmar could be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere?
Did you know that François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery was awarded the Order of Saint Louis for his role in the French victory over British General Edward Braddock in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela ?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen joined The Gaslight Anthem onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2009 to perform the band's 2008 song " The '59 Sound "?
Did you know that Herbert Strutt , a High Sheriff of Derbyshire , bought the Glensanda estate where his son disappeared and was later found as a clothed skeleton?
Did you know that on July 20, 1964, the National Movement of the Revolution was declared the sole legal political party by law in the Republic of the Congo ?
Did you know that Alemayehu Bezabeh , the 2009 European Cross Country Champion , had to have X-ray tests to estimate his age?
Did you know that English dancer John D'Auban appeared in Robert the Devil at the opening of London 's Gaiety Theatre in 1861, and was billed as one of the theatre's "principal grotesque dancers and pantomimists "?
Did you know that despite being in different classes , Bradyrhizobium and Klebsiella pneumoniae have similar genes for fixing nitrogen ?
Did you know that during World War II , later architect Rolv Enge participated in the first ever sabotage mission of Aks 13000 ?
Did you know that after a winless 0–11 record in 1996, the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team won the NCAA championship in 1999 and finished in the "Super Six" in 10 of the past 11 seasons?
Did you know that ten acts, mostly newcomers in the Greek music industry , will vie for a chance to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 ?
Did you know that Frank Mazzei helped create the Pennsylvania Lottery before his expulsion from the Pennsylvania Senate in 1975?
Did you know that ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a proposed DOI for scientific authors that according to journal Nature could be used in "edits of Wikipedia entries"?
Did you know that even after Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of the " Yorkshire Ripper" murders, Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield maintained that taunting letters and tape from Wearside Jack were connected to the case?
Did you know that Oilite bearings were developed by Chrysler in the 1930s?
Did you know that Maryam Jameelah , a New York -born convert from Judaism to Islam , became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam?
Did you know that Oksbøl became the sixth largest town of Denmark because of the 37,000 inmates of the Oksbøl Refugee Camp ?
Did you know that Caroline Duby Glassman , who was born and raised in Oregon , was the first woman on the Maine Supreme Court ?
Did you know that the number-one song " Cómo Fuí a Enamorarme de Tí " was also used as the title of a movie starring Mexican band Los Bukis ?
Did you know that although holding a handgun sideways makes aiming very hard, it has become popular in movies and rap culture?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines softball team in 2005 became the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series ?
Did you know that in the run-up to the 1946 French legislative and 1947 Congolese territorial elections , Congolese Progressive Party leader Jean-Félix Tchicaya condemned the system of separate electoral colleges ?
Did you know that although 1989's " Second Chance " became the highest-charting U.S. song of 38 Special 's career, A&M Records did not renew the band's contract?
Did you know that lethal congenital contracture syndrome , characterized by fetal immobility and leading invariably to pre-natal death, may be caused by mutations in chromosome 9 ?
Did you know that Julia Moon , daughter-in-law of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon , performed Giselle with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad ?
Did you know that after the restoration of independence in 1990 , the Lithuanian society debated whether to remove a monument to writer Petras Cvirka due to his pro-Soviet attitudes?
Did you know that during his exile on Elba , Napoleon is said to have favored the island's wines made from the grape variety Aleatico ?
Did you know that the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba is one of the musical symbols of Christmas in the Czech Republic ?
Did you know that " Christmas Scandal ", an episode of NBC 's comedy series Parks and Recreation , marked the last in a string of guest performances by stand-up comedian Louis C.K. ?
Did you know that the video for Paul McCartney ' s Wonderful Christmastime was filmed at the Fountain Inn in Ashurst, West Sussex ?