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Did you know that the 155-student Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley was selected by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2009, one of only 50 private schools selected throughout America?
Did you know that demonstrations in Oslo , Norway in 2009, held by Arne Tumyr and the organization Stop the Islamisation of Norway , developed into street clashes?
Did you know that Stewart Brand wrote Whole Earth Discipline knowing that many environmentalists would disagree with him?
Did you know that a century ago this year, 20,000 women participated in a successful strike in New York 's garment industry?
Did you know that The Prodigy 's album The Fat of the Land was the first international alternative dance hit after charting at number one in 25 countries?
Did you know that motorcycle ambulances with double-decker sidecars were used by the British, French, and Americans during World War I ?
Did you know that Norwegian writer Gabriel Scott was named both after the country of Scotland and after Sir Walter Scott ?
Did you know that 1,868 people broke the world record for the twelve-hour continuous relay race at Breffni Park in June 2009?
Did you know that the Palestinian villages of Nuris and Zikrin were depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War ?
Did you know that Charles Wilson Cross was re-appointed to the office of Attorney-General of Alberta after resigning in scandal, only to be fired by Premier Charles Stewart six years later?
Did you know that the scales of the flaming Pholiota are easily sloughed off due to the gelatinous hyphae that make up the cap surface?
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Did you know that the first postal markings on mail from Barbados appeared in the 1760s?
Did you know that in 1988, Bill Cosby became the first recipient to accept a Golden Raspberry Award , for his work on the film Leonard Part 6 ?
Did you know that RMS Fort Victoria sank in the Ambrose Channel after she was involved in a collision with SS Algonquin in thick fog?
Did you know that W. S. Gilbert 's first full-length comedy, An Old Score , was unsuccessful partly because Victorian audiences would not accept a scene in which a son argues with his father?
Did you know that members of the Maryland Senate were not elected from districts balanced by population until 1972?
Did you know that St. Michael's Church, Southampton , England was founded in 1070?
Did you know that Lieutenant Odas Moon "bombed" the USS Langley with three ripe tomatoes?
Did you know that Toby Keith 's " Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song) " is a tribute to basketball player and musician Wayman Tisdale , a friend of Keith's who died in May 2009?
Did you know that Richard Backus has been nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards for both acting and screenwriting ?
Did you know that in 1914, the sound of the bells of St. Mary's Church, Southampton inspired Douglas Furber to write the song The Bells of St. Mary's , later made famous by Bing Crosby ?
Did you know that Leon Wasilewski of the Polish Socialist Party learned Yiddish in order to be able to edit the party's Yiddish-language newspaper Der arbeyter ?
Did you know that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's 2008 Turning Point pay-per-view event, the TNA Legends Championship was defended for the first time?
Did you know that amongst the first Japanese in Kiribati were labourers who worked in the islands' phosphate mines?
Did you know that the dispute between the English counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire over the maintenance of Datchet Bridge nearly led to the death of an elephant from Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie ?
Did you know that Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy co-created a comic book series inspired by the lyrics of his band's music?
Did you know that several Japanese bullhead sharks may lay their eggs in a single communal " nest "?
Did you know that Polish general Józef Haller de Hallenburg faked his death in the 1918 Battle of Kaniów ?
Did you know that Slebech in Wales has an important breeding roost for the rare Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) ?
Did you know that Japanese expatriates in the Solomon Islands generally consisted of fishermen from the Miyako Islands in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan?
Did you know that co-founder Elmer Winter named his firm Manpower Inc. , despite the fact that most of the company's temporary workers were women?
Did you know that six new competition venues have been constructed in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler , British Columbia ?
Did you know that a missionary brought the first trees of Kona coffee to Kealakekua Church in 1828?
Did you know that before Air Marshal Richard Williams was called "Father of the RAAF ", the title was often accorded to Group Captain Eric Harrison , who gave Williams his initial flight training?
Did you know that the 1955 Vincent Black Knight motorcycle was a modified Vincent Rapide which was fully enclosed to keep the rain and dirt from the rider?
Did you know that although it was derided as a "million dollar monster" and eventually cancelled, Ferranti Canada used their Route Reference Computer mail sorter as the basis of a series of specialized computers?
Did you know that the mill museum De Wachter Zuidlaren contains a reconstructed butcher's shop, a clog maker's workshop, grocer's shop, millwright's worksop and waggon maker's workshop?
Did you know that the Coal Act 1938 gave the Coal Commission control of all the coal in England and Wales and in Scotland , but prohibited the commission from mining any of it?
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Did you know that while 3M ceased perfluorooctanesulfonyl fluoride production in the US and Europe over environmental concerns, it has risen in China?
Did you know that in the Ottoman-Safavid War (1532–1555) , the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent invaded Persia as far as Baghdad ?
Did you know that the Romanian magazine Sămănătorul promoted pastoral imagery, antisemitic messages, and its own branch of Symbolist poetry ?
Did you know that the egg capsule of the crested bullhead shark has paired tendrils extending up to 2 m (6.6 ft), greater than the length of the adult shark?
Did you know that David Molk overcame mononucleosis to become the starting center for the 2008 Michigan Wolverines football team ?
Did you know that a group of Russian Molokans left California to start a settlement in Utah in 1914 after a judge annulled a traditional marriage between two teenagers?
Did you know that the Spanish art gallery Pinacoteca Eduardo Úrculo is named after an artist notable for his portrayal of luggage, the gentleman's hat, and the female bottom?
Did you know that babies with alveolar capillary dysplasia may seem healthy at birth, but cannot breathe well and soon die?
Did you know that a Habsburg-Persian alliance was initiated by Charles V in the 16th century, in order to open a second front in his fight against the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that soprano Ruth Holton sang at Bach 's church on the 250th anniversary of his death?
Did you know that the British battlecruisers HMS Indomitable and HMS Indefatigable bombarded Turkish fortifications on the Dardanelles two days before the British declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Roman Catholic priest Giuseppe Diana was killed by the Camorra for resisting their mafia -like rule?
Did you know that Wasur National Park is part of the largest wetland in the Papua province of Indonesia , and due to its high biodiversity is sometimes referred to as the " Serengeti of Papua"?
Did you know that despite a student poll favoring "Fighting Squirrels", the athletic teams at Indiana University of Pennsylvania were renamed the Crimson Hawks in 2006?
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Did you know that Marie-Noël Robert built and co-piloted the world's first manned hydrogen balloon , La Charlière , with professor Jacques Charles ?
Did you know that the Martin Marmon House , built in 1820, is a leading example of Quaker architecture in Ohio?
Did you know that owing to its generous seasoning, the poet Thomas Warton used the Oxford sausage as the title for his 1764 compilation of "highly spiced" political and satirical verse?
Did you know that The Fall of a Nation , the sequel to the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation , is considered to be the first film sequel ?
Did you know that in April 2005, cricketer Daleen Terblanche became the first South African woman to pass 1,000 One Day International runs?
Did you know that the U.S. Department of Defense requested to be removed from the credits of Inchon due to the film's ties to Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church ?
Did you know that the magnitude of the 1833 Sumatra earthquake was calculated from the amount of uplift recorded by coral microatolls around the Mentawai islands ?
Did you know that in William Blake 's Four Zoas myth , the Christian God is divided into four parts, Sense , Reason , Imagination , and Love , which have the counterparts Sexual Urges , Pleasure , Inspiration , and Nature ?
Did you know that the world's first 'city to city' road race , where contestants rode ' boneshakers ' from Paris to Rouen , was organised by the Le Vélocipède Illustré newspaper in 1869?
Did you know that composer André Amellér ' s stint as bassist for the Opéra National de Paris was interrupted by a stay in the Oflag XIII prison camp ?
Did you know that in the Ottoman expedition to Aceh starting in 1565, the Ottoman Empire provided military support to Aceh (modern Indonesia ) against the Portuguese ?
Did you know that during his nine terms in the New Jersey State Assembly , John V. Kelly authored 143 bills that became law, including the state's first bicycle helmet law?
Did you know that yellow-band disease is a disease that attacks colonies of coral when the coral is under stress from pollution , overfishing , and climate change ?
Did you know that The Village of Rochester Hills is the first retail lifestyle center in the Detroit area of the United States ?
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Did you know that Addison's disease 's occurrence in canines was not discovered until 1953, even though its occurrence in humans was first described in 1849?
Did you know that in 1100 Warner of Grez took control of Jerusalem to ensure that Baldwin of Boulogne would succeed Godfrey of Bouillon as King of Jerusalem ?
Did you know that the name of the flowering plant genus Tetracarpaea refers to its four conspicuous and separate carpels ?
Did you know that Anthony T. Kahoʻohanohano was awarded the Medal of Honor 58 years after his death in the Korean War ?
Did you know that the United Kingdom 's Adoption Act 1958 submitted local authorities to the same regulations as professional adoption agencies?
Did you know that John P. Yount , an American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, was buried with full military honors in 2007, over a century after his death?
Did you know that laid-off workers have turned to bossnapping , or kidnapping their bosses, as a tactic in labor disputes during the current recession ?
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Did you know that wood-carver Hristo Hristov, the debutant male lead in 2009 Bulgarian film Eastern Plays , died of a drug overdose shortly before the end of filming?
Did you know that Ferranti 's Sirius small business computer was based on a logic system known as "Neurons" that used transistors to simulate the operation of magnetic amplifiers ?
Did you know that Dee Anthony , talent manager for Peter Frampton and Devo , had three rules of success: 1) Get the money; 2) Remember to get the money; and, 3) Don't forget to always remember to get the money?
Did you know that Heli Air Monaco accounts for 90–95% of traffic at the Monaco Heliport ?
Did you know that the chemist Basil Weedon discovered the structure of many carotenoids including astaxanthin , rubixanthin and canthaxanthin ?
Did you know that " Kaboom ", an episode of NBC 's Parks and Recreation , featured the real-life charity KaBOOM! as part of a multi-network television campaign to spotlight volunteerism?
Did you know that in October 2009 Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell became the first adult in North America known to have been killed by coyotes ?
Did you know that the Roanoke River Light was moved onshore from its original site on the back of a surplus Landing Craft Infantry ?
Did you know that during a 19th-century restoration of the Parish Church of Saint Mary in North Leigh , Oxfordshire , England, a 15th-century Doom painting was uncovered in the nave ?
Did you know that wild garlic and mustard are grown in Kings Pond Park , a public park in New Jersey ?
Did you know that Fort Lahtzanit was the first fortification of the Bar Lev Line to be captured by the Egyptian Army in the Yom Kippur War ?
Did you know that Alison Brie , whose character "Annie" debuted in the pilot episode of the sitcom Community , was chosen after the producers failed to find a Latina or Asian girl for the role?
Did you know that sportswriter O. P. Caylor was the last manager of the New York Metropolitans Major League Baseball team?
Did you know that 122 years after it was first described, the identity of the Brazilian rodent Oryzomys anoblepas is still unknown?
Did you know that Canadian documentary filmmaker Louie Lawless previously did production-related jobs on television shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies and The A-Team ?
Did you know that United States courts of appeals agree that private individuals can be prosecuted for honest services fraud , but disagree on the criteria for determining guilt?
Did you know that the song " Tu vuò fà l'americano " is about an Italian who imitates the 1950s American lifestyle, drinking and rock 'n' roll dancing, but still depends on his parents for money?
Did you know that U.S. Army lieutenant general John W. O'Daniel , the top American military advisor in French Indochina , was demoted to major general so as not to outrank French lieutenant general Henri Navarre ?
Did you know that while SS Norhauk was in the ownership of the Norwegian Government she had Oslo as her port of registry ; but never visited the city?
Did you know that the season premiere of the fourth season of 30 Rock had 2.4 million fewer viewers than the premiere of the prior season ?
Did you know that Nguyen Ton Hoan learned that he had been offered the prime ministership of South Vietnam over the radio?
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Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest number of five wicket hauls in Test cricket ?
Did you know that in the 1553 invasion of Corsica , the French allied with the Ottomans to capture the island from the Republic of Genoa ?
Did you know that Wronki Prison is the largest prison in Poland ?
Did you know that in October 1788, near Tomaševac (in present day Serbia ), Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf and approximately 300 Hussars routed 1,200 Sipahis ?
Did you know that the Johnny Lee — Lane Brody duet " The Yellow Rose " uses the same melody as the folk song " The Yellow Rose of Texas "?
Did you know that Mauricio Grabois was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Brazil?
Did you know that the name of the Palestinian village of Dayr Nakhkhas translates as "monastery of the cattle drover"?
Did you know that the Women's Basketball Coaches Association doesn't just support basketball, they support academic excellence by honoring the teams with the highest GPA?
Did you know that the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937 was the first Act of Parliament to recognise the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and his Cabinet ?
Did you know that Clark Griffith was the first Chicago White Sox manager and led the team to the American League championship in 1901 ?
Did you know that Hadley Freeman accused The Killers of ripping off Richard Marx 's " Hazard " with their song " Jenny Was a Friend of Mine " ?
Did you know that the Russian artist Pavel Svedomsky painted six scenes from the life of Jesus in St Volodymyr's Cathedral ?
Did you know that upon leaving the Louisiana House of Representatives because of term limits, Henry "Tank" Powell was appointed to the state Board of Pardons by Governor Bobby Jindal ?
Did you know that Sigve Tjøtta , retired mathematics professor and a member of the Acoustical Society of America , competed in a half marathon at age 75?
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Did you know that Ireland 's former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern presented an episode of GAA television programme The Road to Croker when the usual host was at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ?
Did you know that the Upstate South Carolina plantation, Ashtabula , set the "world record" for rice production in 1845?
Did you know that, with The Duchess of Dantzic , composer Ivan Caryll took a break from writing hit Edwardian musical comedies to produce a comic opera ?
Did you know that Rage Syndrome is a neurological condition similar to epilepsy that causes a dog to suddenly act aggressively?
Did you know that his experience surviving the London Blitz gave Norman Ayrton the courage to pursue a career in theatre?
Did you know that Avakai Biryani marked the debut of Anish Kuruvilla as a feature film director and Bindu Madhavi as a mainstream actress in Telugu cinema ?
Did you know that, in 1917, Jacob Panken was the first socialist judge elected in New York City ?
Did you know that Clancy Brown was cast to play the Rhino in the The Spectacular Spider-Man episode " The Invisible Hand " because he could "turn on a dime between dangerous and comedic characterizations"?
Did you know that the rear decking of the Yakovlev Yak-2 ' s fuselage was hinged to pivot down to allow the rear gunner to use his gun?
Did you know that although his 1897 drama The Fortune Hunter is largely forgotten, a letter to The Times written by W. S. Gilbert on the day of its premiere, complaining about rail services, is frequently quoted?
Did you know that the mushroom Hebeloma aminophilum gets its common name of ghoul fungus because it grows on the carcasses of dead animals?
Did you know that recently released GOAL aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki experienced mock executions during their more than 100 days of captivity in Darfur ?
Did you know that the Hoosick Falls Armory is now one of only two still operated by the New York National Guard in the Capital District ?
Did you know that Kurt Vonnegut once called male Czech theatre director Petr Lébl "my sister"?
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Did you know that Fort Budapest was the only position of the Bar Lev Line to remain under Israeli control throughout the Yom Kippur War ?
Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode " Sister City " featured Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen in a guest role as the head of a visiting Venezuelan delegation?
Did you know that a Japanese settlement in Papua New Guinea once existed in the first half of the 20th century?
Did you know that the England amateur footballer , Leonard Dawe , became a crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and in 1944 was interrogated on suspicion of espionage in the run-up to the D-Day landings?
Did you know that with a population in excess of 200,000 people, Menik Farm in Sri Lanka is believed to be the largest IDP camp in the world?
Did you know  that Pino Puglisi was a Roman Catholic priest in the deprived Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio who was killed by the Sicilian Mafia ?
Did you know that VIAFast was an abandoned passenger rail plan that would have cut VIA Rail 's trip times throughout the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor ?
Did you know that the second director of the Australian War Memorial , John Treloar , lived in a "cubby hole" next to his office at the Memorial?
Did you know that the videogame Far Gate won the Independent Games Festival Audience Choice Award in 2000?
Did you know that a witch-hunt in 1590 inspired Hans Wiers-Jenssen ' s 1908 play Anne Pedersdotter , which was the basis for an opera by Respighi from 1934, a film from 1943 , and a second opera by Edvard Fliflet Bræin from 1971?
Did you know that Henry Dudley uncharacteristically used brick instead of stone for St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Hoosick Falls, New York ?
Did you know that John William Woolf ' s son believed that his father resigned from the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and returned to Utah because he feared prosecution under Canadian anti- polygamy laws?
Did you know that while playing for Lansdown Cricket Club in 1865, W.G. Grace and two of his brothers took all of the opposition United England Eleven 's twenty wickets?
Did you know that the sex magic technique of eroto-comatose lucidity can be traced back to the "sleep of Sialam" described by Paschal Beverly Randolph ?
Did you know that the buildings now serving as Consulate General of the United States in Hamburg were once used as local headquarters for the Nazi party ?
Did you know that the sakia (water wheel) for the former Palestinian Arab village of Zayta was built out of a Corinthian capital , marble pillars, a rough pulley, and 85 stone jars attached by grass ropes?
Did you know that every year the Portway trunk road in Bristol is closed to traffic to allow inspection of the limestone cliffs of the Avon Gorge and to allow remedial work on loose rocks to be carried out?
Did you know that the Mary E. Surratt Boarding House , where the Abraham Lincoln assassins conspired, is now home to a Chinese / Japanese restaurant ?
Did you know that as a student during World War II , Tollak B. Sirnes spent time in Buchenwald and Neuengamme concentration camps following the 1943 University of Oslo fire ?
Did you know that the United Kingdom 's Advertisements (Hire-Purchase) Act 1957 covered newspapers, posters, and cinema advertisements, but not radio broadcasts?
Did you know that Flight Lieutenant Charles Crombie shot down two Japanese bombers and damaged a third in a single action in 1943 despite his aircraft being ablaze?
Did you know that three independent studio albums released by progressive rock band Eufonius from Japan have appeared on the Japanese Oricon albums chart?
Did you know that Eric Fitch Daglish supplied wood engravings for books by authors such as Izaak Walton , Gilbert White , W. H. Hudson and Henry David Thoreau ?
Did you know that a team of 13 writers from London aged between 17 and 22 created and wrote the entire series of EastEnders: E20 at a summer school?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell ' s father is a Baptist pastor , and Cockrell is the only child amongst three sons not to also become a pastor?
Did you know that the 1968–1977 United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs first focused on those who were not eating enough, but later focused on those who were eating too much?
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Did you know that Roberts Dunstan was awarded the DSO for his efforts as a rear gunner in the Second World War despite having only one leg?
Did you know that Pushkar Fair —the largest camel fair in Asia —commenced on Kartik Ekadashi (29 Oct) and will end today on Kartik Poornima ?
Did you know that the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area in northern British Columbia is 6.4 million hectares; about the size of Latvia ?
Did you know that long before her 2009 election as chairman of the Republican Party of Texas , Cathie Adams worked in a crisis pregnancy center ?
Did you know that Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge is one of the largest Catholic churches in United Kingdom?
Did you know that hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor , the Automobile Manufacturers Association began a cooperative effort of 654 U.S. auto industry companies that accounted for a quarter of U.S. war output?
Did you know that athlete Simone Schaller began hurdling only three months before she competed in the sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the Tulsi Vivah (performed today) – the ritual wedding of the Tulsi plant and god Vishnu – marks the beginning of the current Hindu wedding season?
Did you know that an attack on Freedom Riders in May 1961 at the Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery, Alabama , led the Kennedy administration to side, for the first time, with civil rights activists?
Did you know that the Arab tenant farmers at Daliyat al-Rawha' were evicted in March 1948 by Yosef Weitz and Jewish settlers from kibbutz Kfar Masaryk ?