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Did you know that the configuration of the Sud-Est Grognard led to the aircraft being given the nickname "Hunchback"?
Did you know that the popularity of the medieval historical work Gesta pontificum Anglorum , written by William of Malmesbury about 1125, pales besides that of its companion work the Gesta Regum Anglorum ?
Did you know that the Kolb Flyer ultralight aircraft is powered by two engines that only produce 11.5 horsepower (8.6 kW) each?
Did you know that the animators of the video game company Amanita Design created the designs of puppets for the film Kooky ?
Did you know that the Messina Palace in Valletta , a residence of wealthy naval officers for centuries, was purchased by the German-Maltese Circle in 1989, with assistance from the Federal Republic of Germany ?
Did you know that as head coach in 2003, Scott Marr brought the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team to the NCAA tournament for the first time?
Did you know that, at 115 metres (377 ft) tall, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower, planned for the 2012 Summer Olympics , will be the United Kingdom 's largest piece of public art to date?
Did you know that Triaenops goodmani , an extinct bat from Madagascar , is known only from three lower jaws?
Did you know that English suffragette Olive Wharry was imprisoned in 1913 for an arson attack at Kew Gardens ?
Did you know that the emission spectrum of GRB 020813 confirmed the relation between supernovae and gamma-ray bursts ?
Did you know that American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer created the role of the mother of Yueyang in Tan Dun 's opera The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006?
Did you know that Minuscule 714 , the manuscript of the New Testament , contains also a fragment of Sentences of Peter Lombard ?
Did you know that director Vladimir Pogačić ' s 1951 film The Last Day is considered the first Yugoslav spy film ?
Did you know that Dean Martin 's song " The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane " was a number-one in the United Kingdom but is omitted by the UK Singles Chart ?
Did you know that award-winning author Lois Duncan thinks that her novel Don't Look Behind You was a premonition of her daughter being killed by a hired gunman?
Did you know that Frederick Booth-Tucker of The Salvation Army was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1913 for his work among the poor of India ?
Did you know that the history of meditation is inherently intertwined with the religious context within which it was practiced?
Did you know that Carmelita González , who earned $21 for her first film appearance, became a leading actress during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema ?
Did you know that Carlin–type gold deposit represent some of the largest hydrothermal gold deposits in the world?
Did you know that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet Kuznetsov NK-12 ?
Did you know that the Action of 9 February 1799 fought between the frigates USS Constellation and L'Insurgente during the Quasi War was the first ever victory for the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Robert John Armstrong gave the benediction at a former farm boy 's inauguration ?
Did you know that the first prototype ConvAirCar crashed because its pilot read the wrong fuel gauge before takeoff?
Did you know that Estonian - Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich ?
Did you know that the bootlace tree and bootlace oak are found across Australia's dry interior?
Did you know that actor Matt Damon guest starred in the season finale episode of 30 Rock " I Do Do " after learning he was at the top of series creator Tina Fey 's guest star wish list?
Did you know that as a result of her parents' divorce, Princess Alexandrine became the adopted daughter of her otherwise childless uncle Frederick William IV of Prussia ?
Did you know that derivatives of diamond-like compound adamantane are used as drugs against flu and Parkinson's disease ?
Did you know that Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo reside in a subway station under Cambridge , Massachusetts ?
Did you know that during the Battle of Jutland , the German dreadnought SMS Posen accidentally rammed the light cruiser SMS Elbing , which had to be scuttled due to the damage?
Did you know that a St. Petersburg Times investigation on deaths related to Scientology was recommended in an article of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review ?
Did you know that the Old Nichol was a Cockney enclave and the East End of London 's most notorious slum in Victorian times ?
Did you know that in 1976, Arkansas Republicans nominated for governor an unknown plumber , Leon Griffith of Pine Bluff , after a Minnesota Vikings football player declined the party's offer of support?
Did you know that the fungus Epidermophyton floccosum can cause the diseases tinea pedis , tinea cruris , tinea corporis and onychomycosis ?
Did you know that American sociologist Mildred Parten developed a theory on children's stages of play ?
Did you know that in 1066, the Lutici sacrificed the head of a captured bishop to their deity?
Did you know that Odd Øyen , active in Norway's WWII resistance , later became the first non- Swede in many years to be decorated with the Order of Vasa for participation in the Congo Crisis ?
Did you know that the Dyott monoplane , built in London , was flown over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in the United States during 1913, and would have been flown in India had it not been commandeered by the Admiralty in 1914?
Did you know that theatre producer Fred O'Donovan worked with a range of people as diverse as Seán O'Casey , George Bernard Shaw , Peter O'Toole and Maureen Potter ?
Did you know that Kassian Cephas , a court photographer of the Yogyakarta Sultanate , was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer?
Did you know that the Italian ship Castore was commissioned as a gunboat , but was later redesignated as a barge , a minelayer , and a torpedo training vessel?
Did you know that William Sharp , surgeon to paupers and a princess , commissioned a painting of his family playing music on a barge ?
Did you know that the crystal symmetry of melanophlogite changes depending on the guests trapped inside it?
Did you know that over 100,000 people claim to have been at Thomond Park in 1978 when Munster became the only Irish rugby team to ever beat the All Blacks , although the stadium only had a capacity of 12,000?
Did you know that HMS Erin , a Reshadieh class battleship , was flagship of the Nore reserve in 1919?
Did you know that lesbian union organizer Mary Kay Henry was elected the first woman president of the Service Employees International Union on May 8, 2010?
Did you know that Chard Museum in Somerset , England , includes a collection of early articulated artificial limbs ?
Did you know that Kenyan long distance runner Eliud Kiptanui went on to win the Prague Marathon after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption prevented him from traveling to the Vienna Marathon three weeks earlier?
Did you know that the Saab 18 bomber could be fitted with a 57-millimetre (2.2 in) cannon under the nose for strafing missions?
Did you know that the title track of Boogie Bill Webb ' s 1989 album , Drinkin' and Stinkin', was inspired by his encounter with three drunken women?
Did you know that the 68.98-kg Welcome Nugget found in Ballarat, Victoria in 1858 was the largest gold nugget found, until eclipsed by the Welcome Stranger 11 years later?
Did you know that Josephus , who provides the sole surviving account of the Siege of Yodfat , was not only a participant of the battle but in fact commanded Yodfat 's defenders?
Did you know that the Russian frigate General Admiral evacuated Cretan insurgents and their families in 1868 during the Cretan Revolt against the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Al Martino had the first ever number-one single in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that in 1911, pioneer aviator George Dyott made one of the first nighttime flights in his Deperdussin in Nassau , carrying a searchlight powered by cables to the ground?
Did you know that typhoid adware infesting a victim's laptop may pump advertisements to "healthy" laptops close by in a wireless internet cafe without the victim's knowledge?
Did you know that not only was Wong Yu (黃裕) the sole survivor of an airline crash , he was also the hijacker of the plane?
Did you know that the American Chicago blues singer , harmonicist and songwriter , Golden "Big" Wheeler , got his enthusiasm for playing the harmonica when he was working as a taxicab driver?
Did you know that Siobhán Parkinson recently became the first ever Laureate na nÓg ?
Did you know that New Jersey State Senator John P. Scott was described by The New York Times as "one of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature "?
Did you know that the Ottoman battleship Abdul Kadir was canceled and scrapped because its keel blocks had moved?
Did you know that William Sharp , the first science teacher in a British public school , resigned in 1850 and later published papers on homeopathy ?
Did you know that it is estimated that 1.5 million Australians are descended from migrants who were received at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre ?
Did you know that one of the duties of the medieval English justice Richard Herriard (d. 1208) was paying prostitutes for King John of England ?
Did you know that following his defeat at Neopatras , John Palaiologos led the remnants of his army in a 40-mile overnight ride to come to the aid of the Byzantine fleet and win the Battle of Demetrias ?
Did you know that the grasslands of the Ord River Floodplain are the only place in Western Australia where Zitting Cisticolas occur naturally?
Did you know that Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr. played Carnegie Hall in 1974?
Did you know that Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film ?
Did you know that to prevent flooding on Colorado State Highway 74 , 34-foot high walls were constructed along the road?
Did you know that during the Battle of Pindus (1940), the Italian Julia Division , after its initial advance, was surrounded and virtually wiped out by the Greek Army ?
Did you know that the decision in R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Northumbria Police Authority was described by Robert Ward as opening "a Pandora's box – from which a host of evils were loosed upon the world"?
Did you know that Frim Frimodig played high school football with The Gipper and held Michigan State 's single-game basketball scoring record for 35 years?
Did you know that HMS Laura , captured by the French in 1812, became an American privateer , only to be recaptured by the British less than a year later?
Did you know that Albert W. Barney received an award from a day school and retired after sitting on the bench ?
Did you know that 2⅓ miles (5.8 km) of Iowa Highway 316 form the border between Marion County and Warren County, Iowa ?
Did you know that Ole Jacob Broch founded Scandinavia 's first life insurance company?
Did you know that Beta Cassiopeiae is the brightest of the Delta Scuti variables in the sky?
Did you know that each year on the Danish island of Bornholm , an artist is selected to have a street in the village of Østermarie named after him?
Did you know that painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was denounced as a thief when he attempted to take a votive painting from a Mexican church ?
Did you know that in England's Premier League football competition, 14 players from 10 different clubs have won the Golden Boot award, given to the season's top scorer?
Did you know that Emil John Mihalik , the first Byzantine Eparch of Parma, was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that 2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans included 24 McDonald's All-American Game selectees of whom about 22 are expected to play in the National Basketball Association ?
Did you know that Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker served as High Sheriff of Essex , Deputy Lieutenant of Essex , and Member of Parliament for South Essex ?
Did you know that the Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar Site sometimes holds up to 200,000 waterbirds, as well as large numbers of Freshwater Crocodiles ?
Did you know that Gooch Gauthier coached a "little band of Battling Bishops" to victory over the Michigan Wolverines in the 1928 season opener at The Big House ?
Did you know that within a period of 13 years, the Austro-Hungarian Navy succeeded in producing 13 battleships ?
Did you know that a lunar eclipse enabled Christopher Columbus to trick the indigenous people of Jamaica into resuming supplying food to him and his crew while they were stranded there?
Did you know that the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in the Old English epic poem Beowulf ?
Did you know that historian Doris Mary Stenton helped revive the dormant Pipe Roll Society in 1922, and became its organizing secretary in 1923?
Did you know that the Russian tanker Vandal was one of the first two diesel-powered ships in the world?
Did you know that Peter Deinboll was decorated with both the British Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Norwegian War Cross with Sword ?
Did you know that Mysterious Walker , who played for or coached more than 30 baseball , basketball and football teams, earned his nickname pitching for the San Francisco Seals under a pseudonym and wearing a mask?
Did you know that Denton Hall Turret is the easternmost surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall ?
Did you know that geographer Yngvar Nielsen published a travel guide book in 1879, which played an important role in the development of tourism in Norway ?
Did you know that the Littlehead porgy fish has been described as one of the most brightly colored members of the porgy family , which contains well over 100 species in 37 genera ?
Did you know that a photograph of Wem Town Hall in Shropshire , England , taken during a fire, appears to show the ghost of a young girl standing amidst the flames?
Did you know that the American Detroit blues guitarist , singer and songwriter , Bobo Jenkins , penned the politically motivated "Democrat Blues" on US Election Day in 1952?
Did you know that the Hunterian Collection includes about 30,000 coins, the majority of which are Greek or Roman?
Did you know that Boeing 's Phantom Ray UCAV was kept a secret even within the company for almost two years?
Did you know that Walter Conway ' s Tredegar Medical Aid Society was a model for Britain 's National Health Service ?
Did you know that the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam , which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
Did you know that bass Franz Kelch sang the role of Seneca in the first recording of Monteverdi ' s opera L'incoronazione di Poppea with Walter Goehr and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich ?
Did you know that baseball player Miguel Fuentes , who threw the last pitch in Seattle Pilots history, was murdered at the age of 23?
Did you know that after serving as personal assistant to Tom Cruise , Michael Doven became a film producer ?
Did you know that sultan Baybars divided the land of Ar'ara between two of his amirs in 1265–1266 CE?
Did you know that the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi , a Latin poem on the life of St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in pre-conquest England "?
Did you know that the resignation of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister of Indonesia caused its stock exchange to drop by 3.8% and its currency value to drop by 1%, and was the fourth most talked about topic in Twitter ?
Did you know that the Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class torpedo boat was the largest class of torpedo boats ever produced for the Kaiserliche Marine ?
Did you know that British shooter Matt Skelhon shot a perfect 600 score whilst winning a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that between 2005 and 2008, EContentplus funded over 60 digital content projects ‎in the European Union , including DIGMAP and Communia ?
Did you know that bass singer Harry van der Kamp founded the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam to perform madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ?
Did you know that Gernot Bergold is considered the father of biochemical insect virology ?
Did you know that the directors of Blue Mont Central College had to offer the college's building and land to the state of Kansas three times before the state accepted it and converted it into Kansas State University in 1863?
Did you know that during the Middle Ages , a papal legate holding a legatine council outranked all other council attendees?
Did you know that pitcher Amalio Carreño was ejected in his final Major League Baseball appearance?
Did you know that species of the jelly fungus genus Tremella are parasitic on wood-rotting fungi ?
Did you know that Louisiana State Sen. Robert M. Marionneaux was the first white elected to campus government at historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge ?
Did you know that a hedge or topiary made of the lillipilli Syzygium smithii is more resistant to psyllids than other lillipillies are?
Did you know that the Vilar Technology Center at Washington & Jefferson College was renamed the Technology Center , after its namesake reneged on a $18.1 million pledge to the college?
Did you know that according to local tradition, the rental paid to the king for the Scottish castle and island of Fraoch Eilean was one snowball ?
Did you know that when Bolivian veteran trade unionist Román Loayza Caero announced his presidential aspirations in 2009, the Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), which he had led for nine years, publicly denounced his candidature?
Did you know that the 1992 College Baseball All-America Team included three future Major League All-Stars , two future Olympians and the Major League career recordholder for no-hitters caught?
Did you know that George Osborne , in his first speech as the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer , announced a new independent Office for Budget Responsibility to take the politics out of economic forecasting?
Did you know that the Bloch MB.480 , despite proving successful in testing, was cancelled by the French Navy in favour of landplanes?
Did you know that Charles de Condren (1588–1641) was the second superior of the Oratory of Jesus ?
Did you know that archaeologists found pottery shards at the Bowen site linking it to the Oliver Phase of woodland culture development?
Did you know that in the Bancoult litigation, the English courts and government first decided that the Chagossians could return home, then that they couldn't, then that they could, and then that they couldn't?
Did you know that the destruction of over 150 million reis -worth of Nyassa Company stamps was ordered in 1895 by the Portuguese government because the stamps had been printed in England and not Portugal ?
Did you know that the medieval English royal administrator William of Wrotham (d. c. 1217) was responsible for the development of royal dockyards at Portsmouth ?
Did you know that the Wadi Qelt Synagogue located in Wadi Qelt west of Jericho , is the oldest synagogue in Israel that has been found to date?
Did you know that John Kobs , Michigan State 's first hockey coach, switched Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Roberts from a first baseman to a pitcher ?
Did you know that The Colm and Lucy Show began as a result of the death of Gerry Ryan , the presenter of The Gerry Ryan Show ?
Did you know that the Quebec-born Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux helped to organize French military operations in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the Napoleonic Wars (1805–1815), and the July Revolution (1830)?
Did you know that Howl 's album, Full of Hell is dedicated to people who were called ' fags ', 'weirdos' and 'losers'?
Did you know that John Rinka , the eighth-highest scoring player in NCAA men's basketball history, scored 3,251 points in the era before the three-point line was instituted?
Did you know that the Shcherbakov Shche-2 was used by the Soviet Air Force to resupply partisan forces during World War II ?
Did you know that Rocky Iaukea , a second generation American professional wrestler, is the son of King Curtis Iaukea ?
Did you know that in the documentary film Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy all eight Elm Street films are explored through interviews with over 100 members of the production team and cast?
Did you know that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis , one of the fullest and most trustworthy hagiographies from the Middle Ages?
Did you know that the caterpillar of the moth Aglaope infausta can retract its head into its prothorax ?
Did you know that reading an issue of the magazine Reflex so seriously disturbed the wife of a former Czech Prime Minister that she had to be hospitalized?
Did you know that Louisette Bertholle was one of three authors of the seminal 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking , with Julia Child and Simone Beck ?
Did you know that Lectionary 241 belonged to Matthew Baillie , physician and pathologist, before it came to the Glasgow University Library ?
Did you know that Ike Davis , the New York Mets rookie first baseman, is the 197th son to follow in their father's footsteps and became a Major League Baseball player?
Did you know the wedding featured in the 30 Rock episode " Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land " was filmed in Saint Cecilia's Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn ?
Did you know that the magazine Albania is regarded as a mini-encyclopedia of the Albanian culture of the early 20th century?
Did you know that Nazi concentration camps relied on a hierarchical prisoner functionary system to both run the day-to-day camp operations and keep the prisoners divided and dependent?
Did you know that Mien Ruys , a Dutch garden architect, started the fad of designing gardens using railroad ties (Dutch, bielzen ), so much so that her nickname became Bielzen Mien ?
Did you know that the last commander of the USS Oklahoma held that position for only 34 minutes?
Did you know that the Louisiana state appeal court Judge H. Welborn Ayres wrote a history of his native Ashland , a village in northern Natchitoches Parish ?
Did you know that the only French soldier killed in the 1940 assault on the Maginot Line 's Ouvrage Fermont is interred in its main gallery?
Did you know that Luther Halsey Gulick , son of missionary Peter Johnson Gulick , had a son Luther Halsey Gulick who is in the basketball Hall of Fame , and a grandson also named Luther Halsey Gulick ?
Did you know that Nikephoros II Orsini was killed during the Battle of Achelous and his whole army was destroyed by Albanian forces, marking the end of the Orsini dynasty in the Despotate of Epirus ?
Did you know that Ciguli Miguli is a 1952 Yugoslav film that was banned for 25 years for its satire of socialist bureaucracy ?
Did you know that cricketers Charles Winter , Charles Winter , and Charles Winter all failed to make double-figure scores when batting on their first-class debuts?
Did you know that SMS Westfalen led the retreat of the German High Seas Fleet from the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
Did you know that Johnny Noble was the first Hawaiian composer to be inducted into the ASCAP ?
Did you know that Microgale macpheei is the only known recently extinct tenrec ?
Did you know that P. T. Barnum named English showman Tom Norman the "Silver King" because of his gift for putting on a show?
Did you know that Obama Anak Menteng ( Obama, the Menteng Kid ), a novel about Barack Obama 's childhood in Indonesia , was written in just four days?
Did you know that while inspecting anemometers on the rooftop of the Bidston Observatory, John Hartnup Jr. "was seized with a fit of giddiness" and fell to his death?
Did you know that the Giaconda Winery is named after the Mona Lisa ?
Did you know that Hugh Bardulf is one of the few justices mentioned by name in the Tractatus of Glanvill , an early medieval English legal text?
Did you know that despite covering more than 50% of this planet's surface, abyssal plains are among the least explored regions on Earth?