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Did you know that Billy Squier 's number-one mainstream rock hit " Everybody Wants You " has been performed by Damone , The Unband , Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band , and players of Guitar Hero 5 ?
Did you know that the prevalence of diabetes is the prime drive in the development of biosensors such as fluorescent glucose biosensors ?
Did you know that the Tennis Palace venue which hosted some of the 1952 Summer Olympics basketball games was later converted into an art museum ?
Did you know that Nigerian boxer Franklin Egobi fought for the Latvian heavyweight title in October 2008 ?
Did you know that Louis Keppel Hamilton took a 12-pounder gun from HMS Challenger 640 miles along the Niger and Benue rivers, then 60 miles overland, to assist the taking of Garoua from the Germans ?
Did you know that Barnum's Kaleidoscape was the first Ringling show to be held under a tent since 1956 and also its first one-ring presentation in more than a century?
Did you know that in his short time with British McEvoy Motorcycles , racer George Patchett set nine world records?
Did you know that in "one of the most spectacular homicide trials ever", a jury acquitted Melvin Lane Powers and his aunt – and lover – Candy Mossler for the murder of her husband?
Did you know that Kutmichevitsa , a region of the First Bulgarian Empire now mostly in Albania , was home to one of the two most important cultural centres of 9th-century Bulgaria?
Did you know that Yoram Ben-Zeev , the current Israeli ambassador to Germany , was born on 20 July 1944 – the day of the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler ?
Did you know that Anonymous hackers redirected GeneSimmons.com to ThePirateBay.org during Operation Payback ?
Did you know that Nicholas II of Russia reportedly gave Princess Anna of Montenegro one million rubles as a dowry ?
Did you know that Howard Russell Butler , who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build Princeton 's rowing lake , was later employed to paint a solar eclipse in 1918 ?
Did you know that Michelle Williams was the only actress whom the producers met during casting for the role of Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming film My Week with Marilyn ?
Did you know that " I Hear You, I See You ", the second season premiere of the comedy-drama series Parenthood , marked the first of several appearances by William Baldwin ?
Did you know that the capitals of the Norman chancel arch of St John the Baptist's Church, Wakerley , Northamptonshire , are said to be "some of the finest in England"?
Did you know that despite her French title and ancestry, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg was born and raised in Russia, and was entitled to the rank Imperial Highness ?
Did you know that Adobe Systems, Inc. has successfully sued for the copyright infringement of a computer font , even though typefaces are not protected under U.S. copyright law ?
Did you know that Bo Shepard and Norman Shepard are the only siblings ever to have both coached North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball ?
Did you know that the only known location of Isoetes eludens , a recently discovered aquatic plant , is a single 2 m (6.6 ft) wide and 15 cm (5.9 in) deep seasonal rock pool ?
Did you know that undefeated MMA fighter Dragan "Gagi" Tešanović makes his North American debut tonight at the Bellator 34 event ?
Did you know that Ardelve has a notable population of Grebes ?
Did you know that Orgy 's cover of " Blue Monday " was said to help guide a cyberpunk revival?
Did you know that the current Brutalist synagogue building of Temple Israel of the City of New York was completed in 1967?
Did you know that Count Rudolf of Geneva performed the act of homage to his overlord, Peter II, Count of Savoy , in an orchard outside of a castle in 1263?
Did you know that American electric bluesman Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis remained a regular performer on Chicago 's Maxwell Street for over 40 years?
Did you know that the underground Elisenberg railway station at Elisenberg , Oslo , was only partially finished and never taken into use?
Did you know that boxer Jacob Hyer has been called "The Father of the American Ring" although he broke his arm in his only match, in 1816?
Did you know that Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe are among the people who have been suggested as the true author of the William Shakespeare plays?
Did you know that Starr's corollary to the Shapley–Folkman lemma was proved by an undergraduate student of Kenneth Arrow ?
Did you know that the traditional form of government in Tibet from 1642 to 1951 was the Cho-sid-nyi ?
Did you know that Parry O'Brien won the gold medal in the men's shot put at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki as part of a four-year long streak in which he won 116 consecutive meets and set 17 world records?
Did you know that Calgary 's new mayor Naheed Nenshi used social media extensively in his surprise win in the 2010 municipal election , which made him the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Bignold , MP for Wick Burghs , was the proprietor of the Achanalt Inn?
Did you know that historian Brison D. Gooch , who researched the Crimean War , concludes that Great Britain and France practically ignored their ally, the Ottoman Empire , in the two-year fight against Russia ?
Did you know that World War II search and rescue dog Crumstone Irma barked differently depending on whether those buried by rubble were dead or alive?
Did you know that Scientology spokesperson Jessica Feshbach 's father incorporated Dianetics philosophy into his firm's stock market investing ?
Did you know that a hydro dam was built by a state agency within the borders of the Munzur Valley National Park in Turkey , violating the existing laws for its protection?
Did you know that Kim Williams was the longest-running guest commentator on National Public Radio , appearing on the show All Things Considered for over ten and a half years?
Did you know that the Malta Test Station was the site of the first large test stand for static rocket engine tests in the United States ?
Did you know that Stanley Gordon Orr was the highest-scoring fighter ace of the Royal Navy during the Second World War ?
Did you know that the medieval Ca na Catanach , a drovers' road in Sutherland , begins at Dorrery Lodge and ends north of Achentoul ?
Did you know that under head coach Joe Lombardi , the IUP Crimson Hawks men's basketball team advanced to the 2010 basketball championship just two years after being placed on NCAA probation ?
Did you know that the name of Bjørnsletta Station of the Oslo Metro is ultimately derived from a bear sighting in 1852?
Did you know that the term " hatchet man " originated from the weapon of choice used in killings on Chinatown's Doyers Street , known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent gang murders in the early 20th century?
Did you know that Paul Erdős challenged Jon Folkman to solve mathematical problems immediately after Folkman's surgery for brain cancer?
Did you know that Chinese military texts have influenced strategists ranging from members of the Communist Party of China to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ?
Did you know that University of Kentucky running back Derrick Locke set the Oklahoma high-school record in the long jump ?
Did you know that Canadian artist Henry Sandham won an award at the 1878 Exposition Universelle for a composite photograph consisting of 300 separate pictures?
Did you know that the Sikorsky S-97 scout helicopter is intended to be able to fly with one, two, or no pilots ?
Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Getu Feleke set a new course record when he won the 2010 Amsterdam Marathon earlier this month?
Did you know that the most northerly outpost of Harrods is located in a former tourist information office in the Scottish Highlands between Achany Forest and Shin Falls ?
Did you know that the official proclamation of the abolition of slavery by the French government in 1794 was delivered to the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti ) by the corvette Esperance ?
Did you know that the body of Cardinal Gonzalo García Gudiel , returning from Rome to his native Toledo , was reportedly greeted in the streets by a delighted crowd of Christians , Jews and Muslims ?
Did you know that in State of Alabama v. State of Georgia in 1860, the U.S. Supreme Court defined what a river bed was?
Did you know that all five venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz were reused as venues when the Winter Olympics returned to the city twenty years later ?
Did you know that a local resident donated land for and paid part of the construction cost of the Le Roy, New York , post office ?
Did you know that during two years in the early 1950s American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meets and set four world records in the shot put ?
Did you know that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab ?
Did you know that physician Sir James Clark is said to have contributed to the agonising death of poet John Keats by putting him on a starvation diet consisting of a single anchovy and a piece of bread a day?
Did you know that the Awaaz Foundation has successfully petitioned both local and state governments in India to impose stricter noise pollution laws?
Did you know that American electric blues harmonicist Johnny Dyer , on his Rolling Fork Revisited album, did reworkings of songs by another Rolling Fork native, Muddy Waters ?
Did you know that Johan Falkberget 's satirical story Bør Børson was a feuilleton in the newspaper Nidaros before being released as a book?
Did you know that the incumbent Mayor of Invercargill , Tim Shadbolt , is currently the longest serving mayor in New Zealand ?
Did you know that cars were brought into the Empire Stadium venue to illuminate the last two decathlon events at the 1948 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Mary Malcolm , one of the BBC ’s first female announcers, was a granddaughter of Victorian actress Lily Langtry , mistress of King Edward VII of England ?
Did you know that sales at Sprinkles Cupcakes increased 50% after the store was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show ?
Did you know that New Hampshire -born Charles Coffin Harris , who served as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii , also had a business selling fern hair ?
Did you know that Walter Winchell described the 1942 British film Thunder Rock as "a glowing fantasy that lights up the dark corners of many current issues"?
Did you know that the Innu and Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern Quebec , Canada , initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility?
Did you know that Amane Gobena is the first Ethiopian runner to win the Osaka Marathon ?
Did you know that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini is the largest freshwater invertebrate in Antarctica ?
Did you know that many former Nazi rocket scientists were employed in Egypt 's rocket program in the 1960s, and were targeted by Israel in Operation Damocles , a campaign of letter bombs , assassinations and abductions ?
Did you know that American guitarist Frankie Lee Sims is regarded as "one of the great names in post-war Texas country blues "?
Did you know that William Coleman , the first editor of the New York Post , killed an adversary in a duel in 1804?
Did you know that one academic commentator described Dr. Bonham's Case simply as an "abortion"?
Did you know that the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada , is also known as the "Bridge of Sighs", as legend has it that new divorcees would toss their wedding rings from the bridge into the Truckee River ?
Did you know that the Marivagia stellata , a new genus and species of jellyfish , was identified in the summer of 2010?
Did you know that the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford , Dorset , England, is all that remains of the medieval Tarrant Abbey ?
Did you know that the Battle of Macau of 1622 was the only battle on Chinese soil to be fought between two European powers?
Did you know that The New York Times provided plans for constructing the wet-folding origami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel , but warned readers that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"?
Did you know that, together with the Moisie River , the Natashquan River is one of the most renowned salmon rivers on the North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ?
Did you know that 100,000 victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried at the port town of Lafiteau ?
Did you know that the Useless Parliament withdrew from London to Oxford because of bubonic plague ?
Did you know that the Regency of Algiers was founded around 1525 when Barbarossa recaptured the city?
Did you know that English cricketer Herbie Hewett walked off the field before play began when captaining an England XI, after receiving insults from the crowd?
Did you know that the mycelium of the mushroom Mycena maculata glows ?
Did you know that when the West German Senate of Berlin and the East Berlin Magistrat first met as a joint body during German reunification in 1990, it was dubbed the MagiSenat ?
Did you know that the specific name of the chaenopsid blenny Protemblemaria perla refers to both its place of discovery and to the white bands on its body?
Did you know that in 1960 Odd Grythe hosted the first show after the official opening of Norwegian television , Startskuddet går ?
Did you know that prototypes of the CityCar , the ultra-small urban electric car designed by MIT Media Lab , are being built in Spain to be field tested by mid 2011 in Boston , Singapore , Taiwan and Florence ?
Did you know that the longhead catshark is the only known cartilaginous fish that normally has both male and female reproductive systems ?
Did you know that American historian R.J.Q. Adams details the conflicting views of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in his work British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–1939 ?
Did you know that the Bay of Kiel was the venue for sailing events at both the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that in Constantinople, Mehmed II ordered a group of Albanian officers captured in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs?
Did you know that the Sisquoc Formation in Southern California supports the largest diatomite mining operation in the world?
Did you know that Hebraic studies specialist Harris Lenowitz has translated the works of 18th-century Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank from Polish into English ?
Did you know that Lindy, Nebraska , was named for Lucky Lindy ?
Did you know that the charity Elizabeth Finn Care was established in 1897 as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association?
Did you know that the strongest aspect of the Canaanite army – its chariots – proved to be its weakness during the biblical battle of Mount Tabor ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Poole v. Fleeger that the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had properly entered into an agreement establishing a mutual border between the two states?
Did you know that Irene Kosgei , despite injuring her knee at a drinks station early in the women's marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , edged compatriot Irene Mogaka to become the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth marathon title?
Did you know that Turkey–Morocco relations started as early as the 16th century, with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa ?
Did you know that Kenneth R. Mladenka was among those political scientists in the 1980s who pushed successfully for inclusion into the discipline of urban case studies and quantitative analysis?
Did you know that the Hamburg Historic District was settled by Germans , mostly from Schleswig-Holstein ?
Did you know that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a fox terrier , in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
Did you know that the Três Marias Dam ' s power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas, who built Marmelos Zero , South America's first major hydroelectric power plant?
Did you know that Eleanor Gates , who wrote seven Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?
Did you know that Jocotenango , Guatemala , has a coffee museum, and coffee grown in Alotenango , also located in Sacatepéquez Department , received an international award?
Did you know that Jayma Mays will perform her audition song, " Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me ", for the Rocky Horror tribute episode of Glee and its accompanying extended play ?
Did you know that in Virginia v. West Virginia in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the state of West Virginia to pay one-third of the state of Virginia 's pre- Civil War debt?
Did you know that the 1945 Japan–Washington flight made by three American air generals in three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States?
Did you know that extracts of the red volva Amanita can cause high blood sugar in mice?
Did you know that the Duncan family, of Duncan glass fame, built a 17 room Queen Anne mansion that was later donated to Washington & Jefferson College and is now used as the college's President’s House ?
Did you know that a railway station once served Aberchalder but the line closed in 1935?
Did you know that relatives of Nava Applebaum , who traveled to Jerusalem for her wedding, attended her funeral instead?
Did you know that although he began playing basketball only after high school, Notre Dame forward John Moir broke every single school scoring record set by three-time All American Moose Krause in the 1930s?
Did you know that Kenneth Nichols initiated the Atomic Energy Commission hearing in 1954 that resulted in atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance?
Did you know that the extinct paddlefish Paleopsephurus was first described from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation ?
Did you know that the last remains of Tonbridge Priory were demolished in 1842 to make way for the building of Tonbridge railway station ?
Did you know that 2006 National Capital Marathon winner Amos Tirop Matui was disqualified and received financial compensation due to a misplaced barrier on the course?
Did you know that in the 1930s, Domaine Armand Rousseau was one of the first producers to bottle its own wine in Burgundy ?
Did you know that " Make It Easy ", a Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125 ?
Did you know that during the 1658 Siege of Badajoz between Portugal and Spain , Spanish forces at the garrison of Badajoz were either dressed in rags or nude?
Did you know that according to a popular myth, the Chinese philosopher Confucius once asked the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy?
Did you know that American football running back Keith Elias graduated from Princeton University with 21 Princeton Tigers records and 4 National Collegiate Athletic Association I-AA records?
Did you know that after battling over who could use the name " Yes ", the musicians involved reconciled and released " Lift Me Up ", a number-one mainstream rock song about homelessness ?
Did you know that the mushroom Clitopilus byssisedoides , formally described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a German hothouse ?
Did you know that Manila 's Jai Alai Building , a building designed by Welton Becket , was demolished in 2000 to give way to a building that was never erected?
Did you know that the Al Wahda Dam is the largest dam in Morocco and was described as "the second most important dam in Africa after the High Aswan dam "?
Did you know that Indian badminton player Gurusai Datt took to the sport after watching 2001 All England Champion Pullela Gopichand play at a local stadium?
Did you know that jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"?
Did you know that the American electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter , Rusty Zinn , also recently worked with Sly Dunbar and Boris Gardiner ?
Did you know that in mid-1863, the Eighteen Mile House near Harrison, Ohio , was attacked by Morgan's Raiders ?
Did you know that the 2001 Boshears Skyfest was canceled because of the September 11 terrorist attacks ?
Did you know that Jean Charles Faget , a New Orleans physician, discovered the Faget sign —an important early diagnostic warning sign of yellow fever ?
Did you know that To‘rtko‘l , the former capital of Karakalpakstan , Uzbekistan , was destroyed overnight in 1942 by the Amu Darya river?
Did you know that Leroy Wright was the first repeat winner of the NCAA Division I men's basketball rebounds title , achieving the feat in 1959 and 1960?
Did you know that the Church of St Michael in the Dartmoor town of Princetown is the only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war ?
Did you know that historian Chester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty ?
Did you know that ranked Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal , Parupalli Kashyap , and Gurusai Datt all train at Hyderabad 's Gopichand Badminton Academy ?
Did you know that American Detroit and electric blues guitarist Willie D. Warren was once described as "one of the Midwest 's true blues treasures"?
Did you know that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that Hasan Pasha was the son of Barbarossa , and was three times ruler of the Algiers Regency ?
Did you know that the George B. Cox House in Cincinnati , Ohio , was the home of the city's political boss ?
Did you know that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that the modern given name Randal is ultimately derived from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning " shield " (or "rim") and " wolf "?
Did you know that Oneida I , by allowing aboriginal title claimants into federal court, "overturned one hundred forty-three years of American law "?
Did you know that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of martial law in Poland ?
Did you know that Taylor Swift 's song " Speak Now " was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
Did you know that Riessersee was the host venue for the 1936 Winter Olympics for speed skating and some ice hockey matches, while the bobsleigh was located just south of the lake?
Did you know that during World War II , the 201 Schutzmannschaft Battalion was engaged in anti-partisan operations in Belarus ?
Did you know that Petter Nome was relieved of his job as television host after protesting the prospect of an Iraq War ?
Did you know that three ancient Maya stone heads, including one of an armadillo , were uncovered at Chojolom in the Guatemalan Highlands after a period of heavy rain?
Did you know that scientists have suggested that more penes needed to be studied to assess the affinities of Van Gelder's bat with other Antrozoini ?
Did you know that when St. Louis city officials blocked the expansion of the company that would become known as Burroughs Corporation , Alvan Macauley packed the entire factory into boxcars and sent it overnight to Detroit ?
Did you know that around 2,000 members of the media from around the world traveled to the site of the rescue of the Chilean miners?
Did you know that University of Kentucky All-American Forest Sale served for five terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives before bowing out of politics?
Did you know that the Étang Saumâtre in Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating from calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water?