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Did you know that Peter Stuart , who formed the band Dog's Eye View , toured with Paula Cole by following her tour bus in his rental car ?
Did you know that in Bach's chorale cantata Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott , BWV 139 , the part of a second obbligato instrument for a tenor aria is missing?
Did you know that Colonel Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf led a short-lived rebellion from the city of Mosul in a bid to overthrow Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959?
Did you know that in 1997 the Belgian socialist daily Le Peuple , founded in 1885, was acquired by the Rossel media group ?
Did you know that the village of Borzęcin was first mentioned in historical documents by the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz in his Liber beneficiorum ?
Did you know that write-only memory , devised as an insider joke , does have real uses and may even increase the power of a quantum computer ?
Did you know that professional baseball player Josh Sullivan walked on to Auburn University 's college football team, backing up Jason Campbell at quarterback ?
Did you know that in the 1980 case Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor , the Privy Council held that fundamental liberties in the Singapore Constitution should be given a "generous interpretation"?
Did you know that congresswoman-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico 's Agency on Aging under three different governors ?
Did you know that Michelle Rzepecki, a member of the 2011–12 Australia women's national goalball team , scored an own goal in the team's final London Paralympics game against Sweden?
Did you know that ratings for season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation showed that it was the highest rated syndicated series on television, but a reviewer later said it was "cheesy" and "bad"?
Did you know that during the partitions of Poland , on the lands of the Austrian partition , the Polish parliamentary tradition was continued first by the Sejm of the Estates and later, by the Sejm of the Land ?
Did you know that Rabbi Herbert Tarr , author of The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen , left the pulpit to write novels because he believed that "religion is basically out of touch with people"?
Did you know that the US 31–Pentwater River Bridge could not have been built prior to the 1930s because manufacturing techniques could produce a span no longer than 45 feet (14 m)?
Did you know that former South African Ambassador to Israel Fumanekile Gqiba named his daughter "Israela" in honor of her birth-place?
Did you know that Obie is a dachshund who weighed as much as 77 pounds (35 kilograms)?
Did you know that chef Mikael Jonsson won a Michelin star at the first restaurant he ever worked in, the year after he founded it?
Did you know that the superzoom bridge camera Pentax X-5 automates the creation of time-lapse video ?
Did you know that after joining Vålerenga from the Norwegian Second Division team Skeid , Dawda Leigh immediately became a regular in Vålerenga's starting line-up in Tippeligaen ?
Did you know that phycologist Mary Parke first described the oyster larvae food Isochrysis galbana ?
Did you know that openness correlates with liking jazz and that extraversion correlates with liking pop ?
Did you know that two Toyota 92C-V s were the only cars in their class (Group C2) to start at the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
Did you know that most Russian-speakers in the United States are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Shelli Yoder , a candidate for the United States House of Representatives , was Miss Indiana in 1992?
Did you know that the Smithsonian Gardens ' orchid collection contains over 8,000 plants representing 256 genera ?
Did you know that one reason to become a vegetarian is that "eating a lamb does not make a man lamb-like in his character any more than eating a missionary converts a savage into a Christian"?
Did you know that Occupy Harvard provoked administrators to lock down Harvard Yard for six weeks in 2011?
Did you know that Dan Kildee ' s efforts to revitalize Flint, Michigan , by demolishing abandoned buildings are being adopted in other cities, including Detroit , Baltimore , Memphis , Philadelphia , and Pittsburgh ?
Did you know that whilst the Yiddish newspaper Di Tsayt was published in Saint Petersburg , its editorial team was based in Vienna ?
Did you know that the name of the Tinner's Arms pub in Zennor , Cornwall , is derived from the tinners (tin miners), a historic industry in the region?
Did you know that baseball's Salem Senators once tried to use a convicted murderer incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary in a game?
Did you know that at over 400 years old, a Žametovka vine growing in Maribor, Slovenia , is believed to be the world's oldest grapevine still producing fruit?
Did you know that Izena Island was the birthplace of Shō En (1415–76), the first king of the second Shō Shi Dynasty of the Ryūkyū Kingdom ?
Did you know that the 1974 Indonesian film Atheis reused a sequence from the 1925 Russian film Battleship Potemkin ?
Did you know that some hamsters hide their young in their cheek pouches to carry them when they fear danger?
Did you know that Brann 's goalkeeper Håkon Opdal scored the goal that eliminated Bodø/Glimt from the 2004 Norwegian Football Cup ?
Did you know that the Wongs ' Indonesia Malaise , targeted at native Indonesians , was paired with a film meant for Dutchmen?
Did you know that Luke Messer served as John McCain 's 2008 presidential campaign co-chair in Indiana ?
Did you know that the Roman Theatre at Apamea in Syria is one of the largest surviving theatres of the Roman world ?
Did you know that Neil Young 's 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream reveals the musician's love for model trains ?
Did you know that while rescuers freeing people trapped in grain run the risk of heat illness , the victim may suffer from hypothermia due to moisture in the grain?
Did you know that Val Demings became the first female Chief of Police for the Orlando Police Department ?
Did you know that the fossil bee Anthophorula persephone is named for a Greek goddess?
Did you know that a television pilot of Melissa de la Cruz 's Witches of East End is being made starring Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan ?
Did you know that Kettering Town goalkeeper Scott Endersby is credited with being the youngest footballer to play in the FA Cup proper at the age of 15 in 1977?
Did you know that Hertha Ayrton 's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law?
Did you know that Erich Barke , professor of microelectronic systems and since 2005 president of the University of Hannover , was elected as president for a second term?
Did you know that Steinitz' prawn goby shares a burrow excavated by a shrimp ?
Did you know that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta ?
Did you know that in 2011, a major fire occurred in the attic of the Haus Cumberland in Charlottenburg , Berlin , causing the left side of the roof to collapse?
Did you know that Bai Anqi , a Chinese swimmer, is nicknamed "White Angel"?
Did you know that Australian para-alpine skier Mark Soyer twice survived childhood leukemia only to sever his spinal cord while riding his motorbike on his parents' farm at the age of 26?
Did you know that although the 1931 adaptation of Kwee Tek Hoay 's Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang kept the Chinese characters, the 1975 one did not?
Did you know that software functions that are "locked" and disabled still infringe on patent protection laws ?
Did you know that Singaporean sprinter C Kunalan 's feat of 10.38 seconds in the 1968 Summer Olympic Games 100 metres was a national record for 33 years?
Did you know that an alcoholic Texas man, who had difficulty ingesting alcohol due to a painful throat ailment, died in 2004 after receiving an alcohol enema of two large bottles of sherry from his wife?
Did you know that Cynthia McKinney , John Kerry , and Hillary Clinton tried to release sealed FBI files on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
Did you know that Polish minority politician in Czechoslovakia , Augustyn Łukosz , was a deputy in the autonomous Silesian Parliament in Poland before his death at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp ?
Did you know that a near-Earth asteroid was discovered on the night of 15 to 16 November 2011 by Morocco's Cadi Ayyad University using a MOSS telescope?
Did you know that Russia has the largest number of brown bears, believed to exceed 100,000 , while estimates in the U.S. are around 33,000, Canada 25,000, and Europe (excluding Russia) 14,000?
Did you know that Idaho politician Marvin Richardson had his name legally changed to Pro-Life ?
Did you know that Ibrahim Hananu , the leader of the 1919 Syrian Revolt, was born in the northern Syrian town of Kafr Takharim ?
Did you know that in the 1994 case Chan Hiang Leng Colin v. Public Prosecutor the Singapore High Court held that a ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and their publications did not violate their freedom of religion ?
Did you know that the Orthodox metropolitan bishops Gregory and Ambrosios were executed by the Turkish Army in 1922, at the end of the Greco-Turkish War ?
Did you know that in the BBC series Masters of Money , Stephanie Flanders speculates as to how John Maynard Keynes , Friedrich Hayek , and Karl Marx would have responded to the current economic crisis ?
Did you know that German novelist, playwright and poet Thaddäus Troll also wrote a sex education book in Swabian dialect ?
Did you know that the 1847 Shiraz plantings at Turkey Flat in the Barossa Valley are considered to be among the oldest grapevines still in commercial use?
Did you know that Warsaw-born Canadian skier Karolina Wisniewska was the first Canadian to win four para-alpine medals at a single Paralympic Games?
Did you know that the 11th-century Japanese fictional work Shinsarugakuki provides insights into Chinese trade, comic sketches, lion dances , puppets, rice-planting songs, and solo sumo wrestling ?
Did you know that John Wosky designed a number of historic structures at Yosemite National Park , including Crane Flat Fire Lookout and the Generals' Highway Stone Bridges ?
Did you know that during the Battle of Santo Tomas on May 4, 1899, Philippine general Antonio Luna was wounded by American fire but was saved by gold coins and Colonel Alejandro Avecilla?
Did you know that David Gwilym Morris Roberts helped design Baghdad 's first sewage treatment system?
Did you know that the French author of the World War II anti-war slogan Why Die for Danzig? , Marcel Déat , later became a Nazi collaborator ?
Did you know that the National Association of Manufacturers distributed its TV show Industry on Parade to local stations, schools, and community groups across America—for free?
Did you know that netball in Kenya had a governing body called the Kenya Inter-racial Netball and Rounders Association, which only became the Kenya Netball Association in 1966?
Did you know that Libor Michálek is the first Pirate Party candidate to hold office in a national legislature?
Did you know that the second-millennium-BC stele of Baal with Thunderbolt shows the king of Ugarit receiving divine protection from the Semitic god of storm Baʿal ?
Did you know that the Holmes County Courthouse in Millersburg, Ohio , has an area for horse-and-buggy parking for the county's heavy Amish population?
Did you know that during the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925, al-Qurayya served as the chief meeting place for the sheikhs of local rebel clans?
Did you know that the Norwegian footballer Stefan Johansen scored a goal from a free kick that was identical to a goal he scored 11 days earlier?
Did you know that the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History exhibits an internally spiked ring meant to slip over a sleeping man's penis shaft , so as to prevent nocturnal emission ?
Did you know that the Fuerte de Isla Verde was one of the few Spanish military installations in the Bay of Gibraltar not destroyed by the British in 1810?
Did you know that doctors believed New Zealand para-alpine skier Peter Williams would live only a few days and told his mother not to bother to feed him?
Did you know that the score Elliot Goldenthal composed for the 2002 film Frida earned him five accolades , including an Academy Award ?
Did you know that the winning run for Harvard over Yale in the 1902 baseball series was scored in front of 9,000 fans by William Clarence Matthews , the only African-American player in the game?
Did you know that Edmon Marukyan , the only non-partisan member of the Armenian parliament , has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Minnesota Law School ?
Did you know that the USS Ling , a World War II submarine, is trapped in silt just upstream of the Court Street Bridge ?
Did you know that British mathematician Margaret Meyer was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society ?
Did you know that the McDonald's Gospelfest , held annually in Newark, New Jersey , has been described as "the largest collection of gospel talent ever assembled"?
Did you know that over fifty organizations helped director Stanley Kubrick to imagine the technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey ?
Did you know that even after Tunisia was conquered by Arab Muslims in the eighth century, local wine production continued, albeit reduced?
Did you know that 2010 Olympic aerialist skier Bree Munro was in the running to go to the 2006 Winter Olympics but Jacqui Cooper was chosen ahead of her on the Australian team?
Did you know that Mino Guerrini 's direction of Omicidio per appuntamento has been compared to that of Mario Bava ?
Did you know that Austin Friars was the only friary in London to have its own prison, but became the focus of a scandal when an imprisoned friar died there in 1525?
Did you know that at Sheikh Badr Cemetery in central Jerusalem , bodies were placed in caskets and left above-ground?
Did you know that a participant of The Tuesday Club was fined by Hong Kong and Arsenal for throwing prawn crackers at a taxi?
Did you know that in " Ice Cream " by Hyuna , Psy makes a cameo appearance and starts the music video eating ice cream cones?
Did you know that David Segal writes a weekly column in The New York Times about customer services woes?
Did you know that Tangutology developed as an academic discipline after the Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov discovered a hoard of Tangut documents at the lost city of Khara-Khoto in 1908?
Did you know that one can be sued for encouraging others to cybersquat on a trademarked domain name ?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , native Colt Lyerla played running back and linebacker in high school, but now plays at the tight end position for the Oregon Ducks football team?
Did you know that Bach created a "musical sleep scene ... that could have graced any opera of the time" in his chorale cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit , BWV 115 ?
Did you know that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952?
Did you know that Ottoman sultan Selim I ordered construction of a tower in Ghabaghib , a stop on the hajj route from Damascus?
Did you know that although Wellek and Warren 's Theory of Literature was imprinted with three copyright dates, none were the year it was published?
Did you know that a fire broke out in Southwold lighthouse just six days after it opened in 1890?
Did you know that May Byron wrote a series of biographies of which critics could not decide whether they were first-hand experiences or fiction based on research?
Did you know that 1968's La morte ha fatto l'uovo has been compared to the works of Michelangelo Antonioni , David Lynch and Luis Buñuel ?
Did you know that 1933 Japanese Wimbledon doubles finalist Jiro Sato couldn't take the pressure put on him by his country and its Tennis Federation, and committed suicide en route to a 1934 Davis Cup match?
Did you know that sightings of the Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait are most common between September and November?
Did you know that Hurricane Katrina , Hurricane Isaac , and Hurricane Sandy have all been claimed to be divine retribution by one or more religious leaders?
Did you know that the strategic significance of Bassein diminished after the defeat of the Marathas by the British in 1818?
Did you know that Cecilia McIntosh has competed in Australian rules football and weightlifting at the national level, and athletics and bobsleigh at the international level?
Did you know that Interstate 75 is the only highway on both of Michigan 's Upper and Lower peninsulas?
Did you know that Ba Zaw , the Burmese watercolor painter , was afraid of the colors green and violet, but passionate about orange and red?
Did you know that Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski drew his inspiration from exotic and biblical sources, but inadvertently translated them back into Polish folklore in his own art?
Did you know that Mitchell Gourley made his Australian national para-alpine team début in 2006 as a fifteen-year-old?
Did you know that the Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club was one of the first yacht clubs to be founded outside of Britain ?
Did you know that Connie B. Gay is credited with coining the term " country music " which had until then been called " hillbilly music "?
Did you know that it was once a common practice to conceal shoes in the structure of a building to ward off evil spirits, or to ensure the fertility of its female occupants?
Did you know that the 2004 Women's Manifesto for Ghana demands 50% female control over the Ghanaian legislature by 2012?
Did you know that two times British Hard Court tennis champion Kho Sin-Kie raised money for the Malaya Patriotic Fund in WWII ?
Did you know that the programme King George and Queen Mary explains that the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck occurred because Prince Albert Victor , Mary's original fiancé , died from influenza ?
Did you know that Brookside ' s producer Paul Marquess received letters complaining that Lance Powell , a character featured in the soap opera, was a "betrayal of all gay men"?
Did you know that a horse, an execution, alcohol, and lots of dancing are part of a celebration designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic ?
Did you know that basketball player Paul Miller was not selected in the 2006 NBA Draft even though he had been named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year earlier that year?
Did you know that Ricardo Arjona released a compilation album under the same name as Alejandro Fernández , Rocío Dúrcal and Sin Bandera did?
Did you know that Katya Crema was one of two Australian women to compete at the Olympic debut for women's Ski cross ?
Did you know that the action in the play James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire takes place immediately before a real meeting between author James Baldwin and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ?
Did you know that pharmacologist Edith Bülbring 's work on catecholamines and smooth muscle led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society ?
Did you know that the detection dog Theo was awarded the Dickin Medal in 2012, described as the animals' Victoria Cross ?
Did you know that the extinct Syndesus ambericus is the only stag beetle known from the Caribbean?
Did you know that by promoting Bill Geivett , the Colorado Rockies broke with baseball tradition?
Did you know that crofelemer , a substance found in dragon's blood , is being studied for the treatment of diarrhoea ?
Did you know that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have co-written the last five James Bond movies as well as the Bond spoof Johnny English ?
Did you know that the Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of all private universities in Venezuela ?
Did you know that in the 1946 Wimbledon Championships Polish tennis champion Ignacy Tłoczyński was declared stateless by the People's Republic of Poland because of his Allied affiliations in World War II ?
Did you know that during Operation Fluid Drive , one family abandoned their Lebanon -evacuation efforts when told their dog would need to stay behind?
Did you know that a whole new shipbuilding facility had to be created to build the 90-metre (300 ft) luxury yacht Nero ?
Did you know that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1311–3430 has the shortest known orbital period among pulsars in binary systems, but that it may eventually vaporize its companion?
Did you know that James Francis Carney was the first Archbishop of Vancouver born in the city ?
Did you know that the titan acorn barnacle is extending its range in the eastern United States but suffered a setback in the cold winter of 2009–10?
Did you know that an electrical engineer and interim president of Georgia Tech , Henry C. Bourne, Jr. , funded an academic chair in poetry?
Did you know that the Hillsboro, Oregon , based Hops minor league baseball team is the first professional sports team to be named after the beer ingredient ?
Did you know that Little Birds is loosely based on the life of director and former Friends Stand United founder Elgin James ?
Did you know that Yadira Silva , who twice represented Mexico in the Olympic Games , was born in Cuba ?
Did you know that Spain attempted to silence Princess Royal's Battery during the 1727 siege by excavating a mine below it, to be loaded with explosives?
Did you know that anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood ran Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum from 1938 until 1959?
Did you know that the earliest known variant of " The dog ate my homework " as an excuse dates to 1905?
Did you know that in 2009, when Fatima-Zahra Mansouri was elected mayor of Marrakech , she became only the second woman in Morocco 's history to be elected mayor of a Moroccan city?
Did you know that Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who was drafted into the Japanese , Soviet and German armies, and captured by US soldiers in Normandy on D-Day ?
Did you know that Ida Freund was the first female university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Ezra Pound believed that no man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the " Parable of the sunfish "?
Did you know that the ban on mailing Lillian Smith 's Strange Fruit within the United States was repealed upon a request from the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt ?
Did you know that an 1865 strike in Marquette, Michigan , was broken up by sailors operating an armored train ?
Did you know that the body wall of the small spine sea star is composed of a latticework of collagen fibres and calcareous plates that give it both flexibility and rigidity?
Did you know that The Bullet Vanishes is the eighth highest grossing Chinese film of 2012 ?
Did you know that Beatrice Hicks , the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers , created a device that made the moon landings possible?
Did you know that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?
Did you know that the launch of Intelsat 23 was the first of a Proton-M rocket since the failed launch of Ekspress MD2 and Telkom-3 ?
Did you know that Yaxha , the third largest Maya ruin in Guatemala , is one of very few Maya cities to have built a twin pyramid complex , an architectural arrangement characteristic of Tikal ?
Did you know that even though The ScareHouse 's Creepo the Clown hates early Christmas decorations he wears a Santa hat?
Did you know that Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford , was abducted by the half-brother of her intended bridegroom?
Did you know that over 130 works of literature were published in the propaganda newspaper Asia Raja ?
Did you know that forest degradation and illegal exports threaten the survival of the Rainforest Chameleon ?
Did you know that Hans Østerholt edited the satirical magazine Hvepsen from 1905 to 1925?
Did you know that over 10 million people visited the Africa Joint Pavilion during Expo 2010 ?
Did you know that the inaugural running of the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes was won by the colt Wizard in 1809?
Did you know that cricketer Allan Border holds the record for making the most number of consecutive appearances (153 matches) in Tests ?
Did you know that at one time Arizona Territorial Delegate Hiram Sanford Stevens owned a sheep ranch in Colorado and was one of the richest men in Arizona?