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Did you know that Estonia created project EstWin to connect all citizens to the internet with 100 Mbit/s speed by 2015?
Did you know that press agent Benjamin Sonnenberg described himself as a "cabinetmaker who fashioned large pedestals for small statues"?
Did you know that the remains of the ghost town of Copano, Texas , are at risk of falling into Copano Bay ?
Did you know that on May 16, 2002, Susan Ershler and her husband Phil became the first married couple to reach all Seven Summits ?
Did you know that Dikken Zwilgmeyer ' s "Inger Johanne" books were popular around 1900, and are regarded as a significant innovation of Norwegian children's literature ?
Did you know that Rock for the Rainforest holds the Guinness World Record for the largest environmental fundraising event?
Did you know that Frederick S. Neilon received the Medal of Honor but was forced to retire from the military due to a leg injury, and was discharged on a certificate of disability in 1875?
Did you know that the Friendship Games were dubbed the " Eastern Bloc 's alternative Olympics" of 1984 by the Western press?
Did you know that Hindu sadhus live in the cremation grounds of Tarapith as they believe that goddess Tara – who is attracted to bones – dwells there?
Did you know that the British wrecked the engines of the Russian battleship Evstafi during 22–24 April 1919 when they left the Crimea to prevent the advancing Bolsheviks from using her against the White Russians ?
Did you know that Harry Söderman , who was in charge of the education of Norwegian police troops in Sweden during World War II , liberated the political prisoners at the Grini concentration camp on 7 May 1945?
Did you know that as of 2009, there had been 99 nuclear accidents worldwide ?
Did you know that in the Fishman case Dick Anthony played a key role in convincing the court that Margaret Singer ’s brainwashing theory lacked scientific support, leading to her rejection as an expert witness ?
Did you know that the German submarine U-27 was the second German submarine to be sunk in World War II?
Did you know that a memorial for the Doodlebug Disaster was a result of a school project by three 13-year-olds?
Did you know that Sussex Heights , Brighton ' s tallest building, has a resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons with their own webcam ?
Did you know that ice hockey defenceman Johan Fransson won a Swedish Championship in bandy ?
Did you know that Douglas Brand , chief police adviser to the Iraqi Interior Ministry in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion , was nicknamed "The Tower of London" due to his distinctive height?
Did you know that the 1984 Oklahoma Sooners football team set a school single season record by only allowing 2.2 yards per rush attempt?
Did you know that according to a 13th-century saga , Þórketill Þórmóðsson , and two of his sons, were slain in a loch near the Isle of Skye , but another son survived by leaping onto a cask that floated by?
Did you know that John Francis O'Sullivan was awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry at the Staked Plains in 1874?
Did you know that Alice in Wonderland , a Game Boy Color video game, begins with the player as Alice following the White Rabbit down its hole?
Did you know that, after attempts were made to seize two works by Egon Schiele that he had bought, Rudolf Leopold insisted that he had not dealt in looted art , saying "I'm not a Nazi and I'm not a Nazi profiteer"?
Did you know that Malcolm Marshall has taken more Test and ODI wickets for the West Indies cricket team than any other Barbados born player ?
Did you know that the residence of Medal of Honor recipient Solon D. Neal later became the site of the HemisFair '68 Tower?
Did you know that in the massacre of the Albanian beys , around 500 southern Albanian leaders ( beys ) and their forces were treacherously killed by Ottoman forces when they were invited to a ceremonial salute parade?
Did you know that All-American Rickey Dixon set several school interception records with the 1987 Oklahoma Sooners football team ?
Did you know that the extinct New Zealand Musk Duck was becoming more sedentary than its closest relative, the Australian Musk Duck ?
Did you know that Radio23 , a radio station based out of Portland, Oregon , provides an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world?
Did you know that in 1944, the Lyon to Paris rail line was blown up 22 times by the Special Air Service during Operation Houndsworth ?
Did you know that the Wright's Almshouses in Nantwich , Cheshire , which date from 1638, were moved in the 1970s to stand by the Crewe Almshouses ?
Did you know that the Japanese ROV ABISMO collected core samples of sediment from the seabed at a depth of 9,760 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench during sea trials in 2007?
Did you know that Codex Glazier , Coptic manuscript of Book of Acts , is very close textually to the Greek manuscript Codex Bezae ?
Did you know that Reichenbach Castle was once owned by Rudolf von Erlach , the legendary commander of the victorious Bernese in the Battle of Laupen ?
Did you know that all but one of U-109 ' s successes took place during the six patrols she carried out under the command of the U-boat ace, Heinrich Bleichrodt ?
Did you know that Selva Zoque is the largest intact tropical rainforest in Mexico , an important but threatened ecological area?
Did you know that British Insurance insured three sisters for £1 million if one of them gave birth to the Second Coming of Christ ?
Did you know that Sharron Backus played on seven national and two international championship softball teams and coached UCLA to nine national championships?
Did you know that the Bloody Sunday events of 1926 in Alsace were the starting point of cooperation between communists and clerical autonomists , which led to the expulsion of the Neue Welt group of Charles Hueber and Jean-Pierre Mourer from the French Communist Party and the formation of the Alsatian Opposition Communist Party ?
Did you know that during World War I Dr. William Eldon Tucker performed 150 amputations on troops within a month, while during World War II Dr. William Eldon Tucker made improvised artificial limbs for prisoners of war?
Did you know that Anatoly Malofeyev was a first secretary of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Soviet Union era and Belarusian parliament speaker?
Did you know that the Holy Soap website is the official British home of the Australian soap operas Home and Away and Neighbours ?
Did you know that 2010 NBA Draft pick Magnum Rolle 's first foul shot went over the backboard?
Did you know that the hedge fund Clarium Capital , which had US$ 7.8 billion in assets under management in June 2008, saw it drop to $1.5 billion a year later because investors feared the fund worsening?
Did you know that the Miguel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman boxing match was the first fight held at the new Yankee Stadium since the September 1976 bout between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton , which took place in the original stadium ?
Did you know that there are over 50,000 standard drill bushing configurations available in customary units ?
Did you know that, asked for his thoughts two decades after the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing that killed a physics researcher, Dwight Armstrong said "I don't care what public opinion is; we did what was right"?
Did you know that funnyman and germ-phobic Howie Mandel released his autobiography in the midst of the H1N1 flu pandemic ?
Did you know that Henri-Pierre Picou has been called the most fashionable painter towards the close of the Second French Empire ?
Did you know that the first non-family member to become CEO of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was Philip B. Hofmann ?
Did you know that John Champe , American Revolutionary rebel double-agent sent to capture Benedict Arnold , was spotted and chased from the landmark the Three Pigeons by fellow rebels, before diving into the Hudson ?
Did you know that Diane McWhorter wrote in Carry Me Home that a 1963 Bill Hudson photo of a black protester being attacked by a police dog drove "international opinion to the side of the civil rights revolution"?
Did you know that despite being only 9.3 mi (15.0 km) long, South Carolina Highway 291 runs by two colleges and an airport in Greenville ?
Did you know that, in 2004, Portland City Grill became Oregon 's first restaurant to make Restaurants & Institutions magazine's list of the "top 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants" in the United States ?
Did you know that, after the Battle of Lucas Bend during the American Civil War , the opposing commanders floated insults and challenges to each other using buoys ?
Did you know that Brandon Bess , a "surprise debutant" for the West Indies cricket team in June 2010, was rushed late to the ground, eventually arriving in the second over of the match?
Did you know that the Electric Company helped O.J. Simpson set several current National Football League records?
Did you know that the Italian Tocco family became the rulers of several Ionian Islands and formed the last dynasty of the Despotate of Epirus in Greece , before they were conquered by the Ottomans ?
Did you know that mathematician Lennart Carleson received his Ph.D. when he was 22 years old and later supervised the thesis of Svante Janson , who received his first Ph.D. on his 22nd birthday?
Did you know that Bonded by Blood recorded a thrash metal version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song?
Did you know that, seven years after California football coach Stub Allison 's "nasty, opportunistic defense" helped win a national championship , he was fired for "shackl[ing] good material with a dull offense"?
Did you know that Indriði Indriðason , an Icelandic medium , was once claimed to levitate at chest-height in front of a window and seem in danger of being thrown through it?
Did you know that the 1974–75 Buffalo Sabres had three separate 10-game unbeaten streaks during the 80-game season ?
Did you know that Johnson & Johnson CEO Richard B. Sellars kept the firm in New Brunswick, New Jersey as "the survival of our country depends on the survival of its cities, so we'd all better get involved in cleaning them up"?
Did you know that Richard Travis received a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions around Rossignol Wood on 24 July 1918?
Did you know that Claude Simons, Jr. , son of a Tulane University basketball and baseball coach, followed in his father 's footsteps by holding those same positions?
Did you know that Marlon Stockinger is the first Filipino to have won a formula race in Europe ?
Did you know that the Marvel Studios film, Captain America: The First Avenger set for release in 2011 has been in development since 1997?
Did you know that Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, Georgia, was designed by a Benedictine Monk and architect from Belmont Abbey ?
Did you know that head coach Chris Scelfo ' s Tulane football team was forced to play all eleven of its games in different cities during the 2005 season after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans ?
Did you know that dramatist Theodore Ward , writer of Big White Fog , had his first attempt at writing a play thrown into a fire at age seven by his father?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient John Nihill won so many shooting medals, he was barred from competing for further US Army awards?
Did you know that some of the suspects in an alleged network of Russian spies planted in the United States were paired as couples and had children together to help maintain their covert status?
Did you know that Richard Alan Minsky was a used car salesman who was featured on America's Most Wanted for being a scam artist and subsequently sentenced to 146 years in prison?
Did you know that the "TTG" of Hollywood recording studio TTG Studios stood for "two terrible guys"?
Did you know that one method of preparing a tiger penis for consumption is to place it dried, with testicles still attached, into a bottle of French cognac or Chinese wine and let it soak for many weeks?
Did you know that sculptor Seymour Lipton produced three works of ceremonial art for the bimah of Temple Israel in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Did you know that after serving in the Culpeper County Militia under Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette , Mordecai Barbour embarked upon successful ventures in manufactories and toll bridges?
Did you know that Stephen B. Shepard , a former editor of BusinessWeek and later dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism called Chris Welles "probably the premier business writer" of his generation?
Did you know that software company Arbor Networks sells network security and monitoring software in use by over 70% of all Internet service providers , giving it unique insight into Internet traffic ?
Did you know that the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller 's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
Did you know that male Monobia quadridens wasps will try to sting like a female, but have neither stinger nor venom ?
Did you know that Abu Dhabi generates more than half a million cubic metres of wastewater each day , and almost all is treated and re-used to irrigate green space in the city?
Did you know that the defeat of a joint Byzantine - Genoese fleet by a smaller Venetian fleet at the Battle of Settepozzi caused Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to distance himself from his alliance with Genoa?
Did you know that George E. Jonas founded and funded a leadership-training program for disadvantaged boys after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and later expanded it to include boys from all over the world?
Did you know that the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition rescued the castaways of the Dundonald ?
Did you know that Theodore , the brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius , was publicly humiliated and imprisoned due to his failure to counter the Muslim raids and his opposition to Heraclius' marriage with Martina ?
Did you know that common bracken 's scientific name of Pteridium aquilinum is derived from its frond 's resemblance to eagle wings?
Did you know that the wheelie bike fad drove bicycle sales to over 4 million units in the US?
Did you know that, in an eventually successful effort to end the nation's longest losing streak, Eastern Michigan University football coach Bob LaPointe hired a local hypnotist?
Did you know that, in the South Korean legal system , litigants prefer to hire former judges or prosecutors as their lawyers, because they think sitting judges will treat them more favourably ?
Did you know that, as a reserve player for the New Zealand All Blacks , Mark Donaldson set up the play that won the historic 1981 Auckland rugby union test match against the South African Springboks ?
Did you know that State Senator John H. Ewing of New Jersey 's 16th District opposed state funding for poorer school districts, as "some drive a Ford Taurus, like me", but "we can't pay for everyone to drive a Mercedes"?
Did you know that the only external feature that distinguishes the rice rat genera Transandinomys and Hylaeamys may be length of the whiskers ?
Did you know that a tree planting marathon organized by Project GreenHands resulted in 852,587 saplings being planted in Tamil Nadu which resulted in the setting of a Guinness World Record ?
Did you know that, along with Michael Glynn and John Nihill, Henry Newman was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry?
Did you know that vegan cupcakes beat traditional cupcakes in the reality TV show Cupcake Wars ?
Did you know that Avid Radiopharmaceuticals is developing a radioactive tracer which has the potential to detect Alzheimer's disease using PET scans ?
Did you know that visitors can climb through the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's temporary art installation, Big Bambú , which is constantly evolving as a crew of rock climbers builds it throughout its six-month run?
Did you know that Edwin L. Elwood received the Medal of Honor during the Campaign of the Rocky Mesa, in which he was shot in the chest?
Did you know that Gerald S. Lesser wrote Children and Television in 1974 to defend Sesame Street against its critics?
Did you know that the Malagasy bat species Pipistrellus raceyi is characterized by a long, straight penis?
Did you know that, in his two Football League appearances, goalkeeper James Mangham conceded a total of ten goals?
Did you know that Gauleiter of Tyrol and Vorarlberg Franz Hofer arranged the surrender of the troops under his command with an American sergeant, and a Jewish emigrant from Germany , Fred Mayer ?
Did you know that George H. Eldridge received the Medal of Honor for gallantry fighting the Kiowa Indians and Chief Kicking Bird at the Battle of the Little Wichita River?
Did you know that Bach arranged the central duet of his chorale cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93 , written for the fifth Sunday after Trinity , as one of his Schübler Chorales ?
Did you know that the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore ?
Did you know that, after reaching Angola in the Dorsland Trek of the 1870s, many South African Boers turned back when the Portuguese tried to convert them to Catholicism and forbade their language in schools?
Did you know that Grand Street was a magazine created by Ben Sonnenberg , who said "I thought a magazine would be a good way to give money to individuals whose writing I liked"?
Did you know that Somerset 's Anya Shrubsole was conferred the Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer Award by The Cricket Society in 2008?
Did you know that, in September 1944 during Operation Loyton , a member of the French Resistance died eating plastic explosives he had mistaken for cheese ?
Did you know that, despite having served as a Confederate congressman during the American Civil War , Judge Horatio Washington Bruce was among the first Kentuckians to advocate that the testimony of African-Americans be considered admissible in court?
Did you know that the tomb of Son Ferrer on the island of Majorca served as a necropolis where the remains of over a hundred people, including infants, have been found?
Did you know that Legend of Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
Did you know that excavations of Turret 10A of Hadrian's Wall have revealed pre-historic ard marks?
Did you know that Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris ?
Did you know that, at 95,940 words in four volumes, the 1925 will of Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook is the longest ever, yet it disposed of only $100,000?
Did you know that an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House , Brighton , to win a bet?
Did you know that Eric Hamilton , the youngest American college football head coach when hired by Trenton State College at age 23, has held the same job for 33 years?
Did you know that the website The Oatmeal , with comics of subjects ranging from zombies, to horse care, to English grammar, receives over 20 million hits a month after existing for less than a year?
Did you know that the list of college football coaches with 200 career wins is topped by John Gagliardi , Eddie Robinson , and Joe Paterno ?
Did you know that the Hoxne Hoard , the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold discovered in Great Britain , includes pepper pots, silverware and a body chain?
Did you know that mycologist Olav Johan Sopp suggested classifying fungi as belonging to neither plantae nor animalia , but to a third kingdom , back in the 1890s?
Did you know that using a continuously recording fathometer , WHOI scientists aboard RV Atlantis located and described the first abyssal plain in 1947?
Did you know that, in a niche on the corner of the Palais Equitable in Vienna , is the Stock im Eisen , a tree trunk that people have hammered nails into since the Middle Ages ?
Did you know that ethylene oxide is a common disinfectant and a main component of thermobaric weapons ?
Did you know that Swiss photographer Antoine Sonrel created carte de visite portraits for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , Abbott Lawrence Rotch , and Anne Whitney ?
Did you know that the 21st Mechanized Corps , a Soviet Red Army formation, was disbanded in August 1941 due to failing to defend Lithuania and Latvia from Germany ?
Did you know that American heavy metal band Mastodon agreed to record the Jonah Hex soundtrack for "basically nothing"?
Did you know that Gerald R. Stockman 's support of fair housing efforts in New Jersey earned him recognition by The New York Times as "one of the Legislature's strongest open-housing advocates"?
Did you know that English common law tracing is so limited many leading academics and judges have called for its abolition as an independent doctrine?
Did you know that the first issue of Inspire , an English-language online magazine published by al-Qaeda , includes an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom"?
Did you know that football coach Denny Douds , climbing the career wins list after decades at the same university, jumped with the U.S. Army Parachute Team in May 2010 at age 69?
Did you know that Grove Farm was founded in 1854 by Hermann Widemann , and kept in the estate of George Wilcox until 2000?
Did you know that Keith Piper successfully perpetuated the single-wing , "the formation-of-choice during football 's leather-helmet era," for decades after it had been discarded by other teams?
Did you know that the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula , Montana , was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve ?
Did you know that the term firecane is used in New Orleans to describe a hurricane capable of producing a firestorm from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that connoisseurs say that buffalo burgers taste just like beef did 30 or 40 years ago?
Did you know that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?
Did you know that the farmyard of the 1844 John and Eliza Barr Patterson House still contains a rosebush , peonies , and daylilies dating from the late 19th and early 20th century?
Did you know that Dick LaRossa was elected to the New Jersey Senate after serving as weekend host of the New Jersey Lottery drawings, which made him "arguably one of the most recognizable faces in the state"?
Did you know that the mobile gaming magazine Pocket Gamer peaked at a circulation of 700,000 copies when it was published in all T-Mobile and O2 UK stores in the UK and on the websites of Vodafone and 3 UK ?
Did you know that Florida A&M football coach Joe Taylor has a career record of 214–82–4 and won four Black College Championships at Hampton ?
Did you know that the literary critic Francis Jeffrey declared William Wordsworth 's Immortality Ode , printed in Poems in Two Volumes , "beyond all doubt, the most illegible and unintelligible part of the publication"?
Did you know that Salvador Cristau Coll , who is an Archpriest , was incardinated two times?
Did you know that contrary to most music festivals , The Edge Festival takes place across multiple different locations, with fifty artists performing across seven venues in 2009?
Did you know that among the works of egyptologist Jens Lieblein are dictionaries of hieroglyphic names published in 1871 and 1891?
Did you know that the PWS-6 was the first Polish aircraft fitted with slats —but the prototype is the only model ever produced?
Did you know that Carmine DeSopo was elected to office in 1995 in the New Jersey General Assembly 's 7th Legislative District in the first legislative race in state history in which spending exceeded $1 million ?
Did you know that the 1930s American radio show, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater , drew an estimated 25 million listeners in its first season?
Did you know that Abraham Blum , a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , was murdered by the Gestapo , but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka , a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland ?