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Did you know that philanthropist John Mackintosh left a will allowing the provision of a public trust for the advancement of education in Gibraltar ?
Did you know that the hadran prayer recited after studying a tractate of the Talmud is an expression of love and friendship between the student and the tractate?
Did you know that among the all-time head coaches in William & Mary Tribe football 's history, three have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and one other into the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the drama Zuster Theresia , written by a man known for comedy, featured a nun, attempted suicide, and polygamy?
Did you know that Confederate Army Colonel Levin Major Lewis was hit by a spent musket ball that stuck in his forehead at the Battle of Lone Jack in Missouri during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the Salah al-Din Road is the main highway of the Gaza Strip , running the territory's entire length?
Did you know that Anders Christian Lunde painted King Frederik VII arriving by boat at the Helligdomsklipperne cliffs of Bornholm in 1851?
Did you know that a pretender to the French throne built the De Mores Packing Plant in the Dakota Territory in 1883?
Did you know that the stems of Jatropha dioica can be tied into knots?
Did you know that Michael Sokolski , inventor of the Scantron multiple-choice optical answer sheet system, used to drive Polish tanks in Italy during World War II ?
Did you know that Jellyvision uses writers from Chicago improv troupes to develop new trivia questions weekly for its You Don't Know Jack Facebook game ?
Did you know that Elisha Coysh, great-grandfather of Sarah Coysh , was a physician renowned for his care of victims of the Great Plague of London ?
Did you know that Gene Sharp 's The Politics of Nonviolent Action claims that Gandhi "made the most significant personal contribution in the history of the nonviolent technique "?
Did you know that Bruce Haynam and Bill Mogk were part of the "million dollar infield" on the 1953 Michigan Wolverines baseball team that won the College World Series ?
Did you know that 50 new E-class Melbourne trams will be the first trams built in Australia in 12 years, with the last locally built Melbourne tram a B class built in 1994?
Did you know that a music video by Chrisye was the first by an Indonesian shown on MTV Southeast Asia ?
Did you know that the 2012 IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix was interrupted for two hours because the track broke?
Did you know that Angels Camp Museum sits on land located above two veins of the California Mother Lode ?
Did you know that the Government of Hong Kong is giving HK$ 6,000 to approximately 6.1 million people through Scheme $6,000 due to record reserves from budget surplus ?
Did you know that according to writer Toby Whithouse , the seventh series of Doctor Who will mainly consist of stand-alone episodes, each with a distinct genre?
Did you know that Stumholmen island is part of the Naval City of Karlskrona , which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998?
Did you know that Franciscan monk Pedro de Aguado wrote a history of northern South America in the late sixteenth century, which was not published for over 300 years?
Did you know that in 405, during the fall of the Western Roman Empire , manpower was so scarce that Roman soldiers were urged to allow their personal slaves to fight beside them?
Did you know that the Millennium episode " The Beginning and the End " features the Talking Heads song " Life During Wartime "?
Did you know that the National Film Board of Canada documentary My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers defends the controversial Canadian seal hunt ?
Did you know that one of the most talked-about red carpet gowns of 2000 was worn by a Spice Girl , its designer , and Matt Stone , as well as by Jennifer Lopez ?
Did you know that, despite spending almost their entire lives underground, Cape mole rats nonetheless have activity cycles linked to day and night?
Did you know that comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi went from earning 20 million yen a month to earning virtually nothing, only to then become Japan's top television personality?
Did you know that the " Family Bible " was used as toilet paper?
Did you know that the original idea for the 1996 science fiction adventure game Drowned God was based on a forged document purported to have been written by 19th-century English poet Richard Henry Horne ?
Did you know that Sir Walter Roper Lawrence , an English baronet and author who served in the Indian Civil Service , was the Settlement Commissioner of Kashmir ?
Did you know that Bob Cortner was the fiftieth person to die at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , in its first fifty years of operation?
Did you know that Rhadinoceraea micans larvae can completely defoliate waterside irises ?
Did you know that Dance Again... the Hits is the first greatest hits album to be released by Jennifer Lopez in her fourteen-year music career?
Did you know that the historic Tivoli Building in Cheyenne, Wyoming , has housed a speakeasy , a brothel , an unaccredited university, and the current state governor 's campaign headquarters?
Did you know that the spurious text of Matthew 16:2b–3 is not found in the New Testament codices 852 , 994 , 1073 , 1074 , 1080 , 1093 , and 1216 , but it is in codices 873 and 905 , although marked as doubtful?
Did you know that plant ecologist Fakhri Bazzaz was ranked as one of the ten "Most Cited Scientists in Environment/Ecology, 1992–2002"?
Did you know that missionary William McClure Thomson documented the Galilee earthquake of 1837 in the best-selling The Land and the Book ?
Did you know that American Jessie Ackermann is considered a major voice in the Australian women's suffrage movement?
Did you know that video game publisher Inscape 's founder Michael Nash chose the company's name "to focus on multimedia's capability to transport us to compelling inner landscapes"?
Did you know that three aircraft belonging to Gatari Air Service were seized after its president director was implicated in a fraud case?
Did you know that a restaurant sketch by Kabaret Olgi Lipińskiej resulted in an official protest by the Soviet embassy in Warsaw , followed by secret police questioning?
Did you know that Jahlil Okafor made all of his field goal attempts in the gold medal game of the 2011 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship , totalling 18 points?
Did you know that the sea anemone Cerianthus lloydii lives in a parchment-like tube?
Did you know that Confederate Army Colonel Wilburn Hill King acted as a general officer for more than a year but was never legally promoted?
Did you know that one of the archaeological hoards found in the Channel Islands comprised coins minted in Alexandria in Egypt?
Did you know that the satinleaf tree is endangered in its native Florida, but an invasive weed in Hawaii?
Did you know that Abdurahim Laajab is one of the key players at the Norway national futsal team ?
Did you know that reviewers felt that one of the strengths of mobile game Transformers G1: Awakening was that it was not based on the live-action film series ?
Did you know that the French battleship Charlemagne twice participated in the occupation of Mytilene , then owned by the Ottoman Empire , first with a French expedition and later in an international squadron ?
Did you know that Bambang Widjojanto , once often imprisoned by the government of Indonesia, now works for it?
Did you know that the French Embassy in Berlin opened in 2002 has struck many, including the Mayor of Mitte , as resembling a barricade with gun slits?
Did you know that many important literary and musical works of the past likely would be deemed to infringe copyright under today's law on paraphrasing of copyrighted material ?
Did you know that Farewell, My Queen , a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival ?
Did you know that in 2010, the filly Special Duty was awarded the victory in the British Classic 1000 Guineas and in its French equivalent despite being the second horse to cross the finish line in both races?
Did you know that on Yes 's 1972–73 tour , Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe played a rendition of " Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport " at an Australian show?
Did you know that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in Jersey in June 2012 after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?
Did you know that the shape that encloses two given volumes and has the minimum possible surface area is the double bubble commonly formed by soap bubbles ?
Did you know that there is debate as to whether Minetta Creek , once the largest river in Manhattan , still exists?
Did you know that Argentine nationalism sees José de San Martín , Juan Manuel de Rosas and Juan Perón as a line of historical continuity?
Did you know that one of the most popular Polish cabarets, Pod Egidą , performing since 1967, has faced persecution from the communist authorities in the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you know that 2012 College World Series Most Outstanding Player Robert Refsnyder was born in South Korea and adopted by a California couple when he was three months old?
Did you know that the print identity of UK music newspaper The Stool Pigeon is modelled on Victorian tabloids ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Hannah Davis won a bronze medal in the sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the starfish Anasterias rupicola feeds on the limpet Nacella macquariensis , sometimes hunting it in groups?
Did you know that the death of four students from Southway Comprehensive School during a school trip in 1993 led to the establishment of the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority ?
Did you know that the 2010 Grimes album, Geidi Primes , is named after the fictional planet Giedi Prime from Grimes' favourite book, Frank Herbert 's seminal novel Dune ?
Did you know that in the 5th-century CE the only indigenous Arab unit of the Byzantine army in Syria was stationed at Furqlus ?
Did you know that Room 12 at The Crown in Amersham , England, has a mural dating back to the 16th century?
Did you know that one protester was killed after security forces attacked protesters in Bahrain's Day of Rage ?
Did you know that Ed Carfrey , who played in Major League Baseball in 1890, was mistakenly omitted from baseball records until 2005?
Did you know that al-Rastan , known as "Arethusa" during the Roman period in Syria , served as the first capital of the Emesani dynasty in the mid-first-century BCE?
Did you know that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia ?
Did you know that sources give two different commanders for the Polish forces participating in the Battle of Grudziądz ?
Did you know that the Order of the British Empire was awarded posthumously to two brothers following the Edmonton air crash ?
Did you know that despite being one of the most common polypores in the eastern United States, the fungus Antrodia serialiformis was not recognized as a distinct species until 2009?
Did you know that Cuban-American athlete Manuel Huerta is training for the 2012 Summer Olympics on the side of a live volcano?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Pete Appleton changed his surname from Jablonowski to embark on a musical career, which he never did?
Did you know that Ginge Manor is currently occupied by William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor and his wife Annabel , who is the mother of Samantha Cameron , the wife of Prime Minister David Cameron ?
Did you know that there were calls for Alexander Aan to be executed for posting on Facebook ?
Did you know that in spite of the official Soviet ideology of gender equality , feminism continues to be a dirty word for women in Russia ?
Did you know that for the 1884 hanging of five Bisbee Massacre murderers in Tombstone , Arizona , invitations were sent out by the sheriff, and tickets were sold for grandstand seating?
Did you know that the regal sea fan takes part in mass spawning events which may be triggered by the full moon?
Did you know that the title of Canadian artist Cœur de pirate 's 2011 album Blonde is a double entendre which refers to both the singer's blonde hair and the Quebec French slang word for "girlfriend"?
Did you know that Japanese anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii published 172 medical research papers that reported falsified data, including 126 papers described as being "totally fabricated"?
Did you know that the Maya city of Kinal in northern Guatemala possessed an unusually complex acropolis but is noted for its complete absence of sculpted stelae and altars?
Did you know that the biggest aircraft ever to be flown under the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a Lancaster bomber piloted by Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson in 1943?
Did you know that in Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside , the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the proximity of High Times , National Lampoon , and Rolling Stone to drug paraphernalia was marketing for illegal use?
Did you know that Pink performs "energetic and vengeful as ever" on her new single " Blow Me (One Last Kiss) "?
Did you know that during a five-year shutdown, there arose a thriving enterprise selling the buildings of Romania 's Călăraşi steel works for scrap ?
Did you know that Peter Finn considered contesting the Wakatipu electorate in the 1879 New Zealand general election , but he let his brother Hugh run instead, who was successful?
Did you know that for her memoir Opium Nation , Fariba Nawa placed her life in jeopardy to collect stories from women involved in opium production in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that in the alternate history of Richard Schenkman 's 2012 mockbuster film Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies , John Wilkes Booth is a Confederate agent planted within Lincoln 's secret service staff?
Did you know that, according to the Cholodny-Went model , the roots of plants grow downward and the shoots grow towards light because of the plant hormone auxin ?
Did you know that in 683, the second Umayyad ruler Yazid I died in the Syrian Desert town of Huwwarin , his favorite recreation spot?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's first video album Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good provides a documentary -style look at the launch of her music career?
Did you know that the research facilities of the University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology date back to a botanical garden founded in 1620 by the Faculty of Medicine?
Did you know that the dissolution of the Tibetan Empire following a civil war led to the Era of Fragmentation , a period of political turmoil dominated by warlords and uprisings?
Did you know that people can surf in the Kampar River ?
Did you know that according to American recording artist Usher , his song " Sins of My Father " is a testament to the type of father he is?
Did you know that University of Michigan gymnast Sam Mikulak won the 2011 NCAA all-around championship and will represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
Did you know that Paradox released a combination EP and sampler album entitled Overcome or Burn Forever in Hell/Arachnid Terror Sampler ?
Did you know that Justin Wilson dedicated his win at the 2008 Detroit Indy Grand Prix to dying actor Paul Newman ?
Did you know that 1931's Si Pitoeng was the first film based on the life of an Indonesian Robin Hood ?
Did you know that the bartender and the psychiatrist were good ol' mates in Boston and are still good ol' mates in Seattle ?
Did you know that the identification of azibiids , a type of fossil primate including Azibius , as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates ?
Did you know that Lolab Valley in the Vale of Kashmir is an oval-shaped valley and is formed by the Lahwal River in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ?
Did you know that the masthead of Sporting Life displayed the motto "Devoted To Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports"?
Did you know that Ladislav Haškovec coined the term " Akathisia "?
Did you know that the Bahrain pearling trail is Bahrain 's second UNESCO World Heritage Site after the Bahrain Fort ?
Did you know that, originally discovered in 1873, Tutwiler's spleenwort became one of the world's rarest ferns in 2007?
Did you know that three new Wildlife Protection Areas have been established in Japan prior to the 2012 Ramsar wetland conference , which started today?
Did you know that at the end of World War I the British Cabinet decided to give Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India each 100 aircraft as an Imperial Gift ?
Did you know that unlike its closest living relatives, lemurs and lorisoids , Djebelemur from Eocene Africa probably lacked a toothcomb ?
Did you know that Indonesian singer Pinkan Mambo paid for her brothers' college through her singing?
Did you know that on low magnification the strands of Listerella paradoxa look like a string of pearls?
Did you know that Geoff Charles 's photos of 20th-century Welsh life were published at 75 dpi to prevent "illegal copying"?
Did you know that Louise Cochrane , creator of the 1950s BBC children's TV series Rag, Tag and Bobtail , was an American?
Did you know that the slime mould Prototrichia metallica is a "nivicol", meaning that it grows on the snow line at the time of snowmelt?
Did you know that former basketball player Bob Harstad is just one of four players in Missouri Valley Conference history to accrue both 2,000+ points and 1,000+ rebounds in his career?
Did you know that Emerge , a monthly news magazine with a focus on issues of interest to African Americans , was published from 1989 to 2000?
Did you know that computing applications written for 26-bit ARM systems running RISC OS can be run on newer 32-bit architectures by using Aemulor ?
Did you know that Yelverton Paperweight Centre , which has over 1000 paperweights, has its origins in the private collection of a Cornish postmaster?
Did you know that British cyclist Liam Phillips put his selection in doubt for the 2012 Summer Olympics when he broke his collarbone at the 2012 BMX World Championship?
Did you know that while attending Eton College , Max Pirkis received his first professional acting role, being cast in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ?
Did you know that Barbeyella minutissima are found in areas of up to 3,500 metres above sea level?
Did you know that when Alfred Baldey was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council , people wondered who he was?
Did you know that internees at Whitewater went on strike because they thought the guards stole their pyjamas?
Did you know that in 1894 Georges Lemaître won the world's first competitive motor race by driving from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h ( 12 mph )?
Did you know that the Hubert H. Humphrey Building , currently the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services , was the first U.S. federal building to be named after a living person?
Did you know that upon his death in June 2012 , Walter J. Zable had been the world's oldest public company CEO at age 97?
Did you know that the constellation of Circinus depicts a pair of drafting compasses ?
Did you know that The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs consists of 7000 pages of Wikipedia changelogs?
Did you know that Llanddewi Velfrey in Pembrokeshire once contained an Italianate stuccoed mansion, but it was demolished in 1957?
Did you know that when Christopher Wren was appointed to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral , London, he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford ?
Did you know that Aecidium mori causes mulberry rust disease on the mulberry flowering plant, which decreases the quantity of leaves on the trees?
Did you know that claims from a tailor, a bootmaker, a farmer, a coach-driver and a colporteur were all embedded in the Convention of London that escalated into the French intervention in Mexico ?
Did you know that Bandung Raya football club dissolved in 1997 due to financial trouble, despite reaching the 1996–97 Liga Indonesia Premier Division finals?
Did you know that the New Zealand town of Pahiatua was founded by William Wilson McCardle ?
Did you know that in 1973 country music singer Willie Nelson formed his own band, Family , after retiring early from a previous recording contract?
Did you know that baseball umpire Bull Perrine was attacked on the field twice during minor-league games in April 1905?
Did you know that Gene Sharp 's From Dictatorship to Democracy was described by CNN as "incendiary advice" that became a "viral pamphlet" that provided tactical guidance to the Arab Spring ?
Did you know that Maison Alcan marked a turning point in the preservation of historic buildings in Montreal's Golden Square Mile ?
Did you know that Third Day 's song "Cry Out to Jesus" reached number one on Billboard's Christian chart three distinct times?
Did you know that Luis Ghilardi, a former Italian officer of Garibaldi , fought alongside the Mexican Republicans to repulse the French fleet in the Battle of Acapulco ?
Did you know that in recognition of Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic , the Texas Senate declared July 4, 1975, " Willie Nelson Day", but he was fined $1,000 for violating the Texas Mass Gatherings Act?
Did you know that Operation Josephine B was the SOE 's first success in occupied France and it considerably enhanced the organisation's standing?
Did you know that Casting Crowns ' 2005 single " Lifesong " has been musically compared to rock band U2 ?
Did you know that athletes who played in Major League Baseball and the National Football League include two Heisman Trophy winners and seven inductees of the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that for the first time 3G services were used in India to announce the election result for the Andhra Pradesh by-elections in 2012?
Did you know that Argentine TV journalist Andy Kusnetzoff was considered a possible main actor for the comedy Graduados ?
Did you know that Sheffield United refused to present footballer Bob Cain with an 1898 First Division winner's medal after he agreed a transfer to Tottenham Hotspur ?
Did you know that three members of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena assaulted Prashant Bhushan due to his controversial statement on the Kashmir issue ?
Did you know that acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little released her 2008 recording The Naked Violin as a free download?
Did you know that Trichia decipiens live on deadwood of conifers and leaf trees all year around?
Did you know that naval officer James Coutts Crawford served in three sieges in the American War of Independence , once as part of the besieging forces ( Charleston ) and twice as a defender ( Savannah and Gibraltar )?
Did you know that nine years after the 1968 Belice earthquake sequence struck western Sicily, 60,000 refugees were still living in temporary accommodation?
Did you know that Greg Malcolm of electronic music duo Twine described the pair as "like Voltron "?
Did you know that former Meghalaya Chief Minister Flinder Anderson Khonglam was the first independent politician to serve as Chief Minister of any Indian state ?
Did you know that the roof of the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park is made of aluminium from a crashed Handley Page Halifax ?
Did you know that Wally Gilbert played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers , football in the NFL and professional basketball for Buffalo and Denver?
Did you know that out of the five designated protected areas in Bahrain , Al Areen Wildlife Park is the only protected area situated on land?
Did you know that André Derain painted Mountains at Collioure alongside Henri Matisse at the fishing port of Collioure ?
Did you know that Yes cancelled a show on their Fragile Tour after the van carrying their PA system broke down—as did two others sent to replace it?
Did you know that C. E. Falk beat NASCAR stars Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin to win the latter's own charity race?
Did you know that Tropaeolum tricolor can survive a drought of 10 months in summer while Tropaeolum polyphyllum can withstand temperatures down to −20 °C (−4 °F)?
Did you know that " New Day " by Alicia Keys has been called her most powerful number to date?