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Did you know that Lucy Lambert Hale , the secret fiancée of Abraham Lincoln 's assassin John Wilkes Booth , later married a United States Secretary of the Navy ?
Did you know that Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines planned the first transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?
Did you know that the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House in Washington, D.C. , has been called the "Cream White House " and the "Little White House," and was once the headquarters for NASA ?
Did you know that Save the Children 's State of the World's Mothers report ranked the United States 28th, citing a lifetime risk of maternal death six times greater in the U.S. than in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you know that John Law , bishop of Clonfert , Killala and Elphin , was a Second Wrangler ?
Did you know that pictures from the photographic archive of Michael Ochs have been featured in practically every release by Rhino Records and Bear Family Records ?
Did you know that although two prototypes of the Interstate XBDR flying bomb were ordered, only a 1/17-scale model was ever built?
Did you know that the last three New Zealand Open tournaments, the leading men's golf tournament in New Zealand , were played on Michael Hill's private golf course?
Did you know that Stephen Gately 's book The Tree of Seasons contains an introduction written by his husband describing his early life in one of "the poorest parts of Dublin City ", "a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"?
Did you know that Doug Yasinsky and Brick Bronsky started their own Harrisburg-based wrestling league, International Pro Wrestling?
Did you know that the floors in the Swanson Science Center at Washington & Jefferson College are overstabilized to protect the laboratories from vibrations due to an adjacent highway?
Did you know that Ana María Canseco has posed dressed as Greta Garbo and wore a mustache ?
Did you know that Indian Rock Schoolhouse is the only one of 12 19th-century one-room schoolhouses remaining intact in Amenia, New York ?
Did you know that the thallium -rich mineral lorandite from the Allchar deposit is being used to determine the flux of solar neutrinos ?
Did you know that Mexican painter Gabriel Flores created a mural in 1967 honoring the child heroes who died in the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War ?
Did you know that though the pearl dace faces threats such as habitat destruction , invasive species , and overharvesting , it has not yet been listed as federally endangered in the United States?
Did you know that the criminal syndicate known as Avalanche was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009?
Did you know that World War II fighter pilot Nigel Cullen , who became an ace with 16 aerial victories, was nicknamed "Ape" for his imposing physique?
Did you know that, while President of the American Statistical Association , Robert V. Hogg wore the name tag " Boss Hogg " after the character on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard ?
Did you know that breast cancer in men tends to be diagnosed later than breast cancer in women ?
Did you know that the medieval French monk Reginald of Canterbury wrote a long Latin epic poem on Malchus, a Syrian saint whose life was originally recorded by Saint Jerome ?
Did you know that the basalt of Malapai Hill is full of xenoliths of lherzolite brought up from the mantle ?
Did you know that design work on the Avro Canada CF-103 began before the aircraft it was supposed to replace entered service?
Did you know that in order for the village of Millbrook, New York , to accept the donation of Thorne Memorial School , it had to incorporate ?
Did you know that Rotrou III of Perche was one of the first to go over the walls at the Siege of Antioch , a major action of the First Crusade ?
Did you know that the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon successfully navigated the " roaring forties ", " furious fifties " and " screaming sixties " only to get wrecked on the rocks of Central California 500 feet (150 m) offshore?
Did you know that the British band Githead was originally formed in 2004 as a one-off live act to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Colin Newman 's and Malka Spigel 's record label Swim ~ ?
Did you know that the medieval English clergyman Ralph Foliot donated 20 books to Hereford Cathedral on his death?
Did you know that Heerfordt's syndrome affects 0.3% of patients afflicted with sarcoidosis ?
Did you know that in the recent UK election Nick Smith regained Blaenau Gwent for Labour , keeping a promise to the late Michael Foot ?
Did you know that a hurricane that struck Monterrey, Mexico , in 1909 resulted in the deaths of at least 4,000 people during the night of August 27?
Did you know that Norwegian film critic Arne Hestenes , a one-time jury member of the Cannes Film Festival , was an honorary citizen of Cannes ?
Did you know that the documentary film Countdown to Zero , which analyzes the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons , has been privately screened for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ?
Did you know that to save money on the construction of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Amenia Union, New York , the congregants brought building materials to the site with their own horse teams ?
Did you know that Angela de la Cruz , Susan Philipsz , Dexter Dalwood and the Otolith Group were nominated for the 2010 Turner Prize ?
Did you know that in Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) an English court permitted the separation of two conjoined twins knowing that one would die?
Did you know that photographer and artist Zoe Leonard ' s 1995 exhibition Strange Fruit (for David) featured discarded fruit skins sewn together and decorated?
Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-37 bomber Rodina was used to set a flight distance record by an all-female crew in 1938?
Did you know that the same cast members starred in Robert Altman 's 1982 Broadway and film versions of Ed Graczyk ' s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ?
Did you know that the Monza ampullae are metal pilgrimage souvenirs from the Holy Land , dating to circa AD 600, and important in art history for their iconography ?
Did you know that Canadian nun Eulalie Durocher has been associated with the recovery of a man declared dead and sudden changes in the course of two fires ?
Did you know that the 1923 children's novel King Matt the First is as popular in Poland as Peter Pan is in the English-speaking world?
Did you know that soprano Dorothee Mields sang solo and tutti in five cantatas composed for Pentecost by the prolific Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , a contemporary of Bach ?
Did you know that the Humble Indie Bundle , a week-long "pay what you want" charitable promotion from several independent video game developers , raised over $1 million?
Did you know that despite being blind and unable to walk without assistance Joaquín Balaguer won 24.6% of the vote in the 2000 Dominican Republic presidential election ?
Did you know that the traditional crop of the Pacific island of Tuvalu , pulaka , is threatened by rising sea levels, and thus is their way of life threatened as well?
Did you know that Giuliana Camerino named her Venetian fashion house Roberta di Camerino after the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta ?
Did you know that soprano Adele Stolte recorded the Bach cantata for Pentecost Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 with the Thomanerchor conducted by Erhard Mauersberger ?
Did you know that the first English translations of the works of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov were published by Breslov Research Institute more than 170 years after the Rebbe's death?
Did you know that Albanian writer Jani Vreto was excommunicated by the Orthodox metropolitan of Gjirokastër , who accused him of having committed heresy by "creating an Albanian question"?
Did you know that the horror short story compilation novel Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales won five major awards and was nominated for another?
Did you know that Lectionary 226 of the New Testament , in some parts is a palimpsest , contains lessons from the Old Testament ?
Did you know that after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon predicted General Michel Ordener would die within five or six years—and although he retired, Ordener died in 1811?
Did you know that the reed beds of Minsmere RSPB reserve , one of the UK's premier birdwatching sites, were established as a result of anti-invasion measures during World War II ?
Did you know that Edith Hughes , considered Britain's first practising woman architect , was refused entry to the all-male Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927?
Did you know that a recent gas outburst at a colliery in China led to death, poisoning, suspensions, sackings and the disappearance of one person?
Did you know that there is only one surviving example of a coin struck at the Anglo-Saxon mint at Horndon-on-the-Hill ?
Did you know that in 1921 Oliver Winfield Killam , a Texas industrialist and former Oklahoma state legislator, launched the South Texas Oil Boom centered near Laredo ?
Did you know that the headscarf of the St. Lucian national costume can be tied to show the availability of the woman for courtship?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899 , one of the candidates was assassinated and another candidate was charged as an accomplice to the crime?
Did you know that one archaeological site was discovered by groundhogs ?
Did you know that Charles Cornwallis , during his governorship in India , refused to blame General William Medows for his performance in the 1792 Siege of Seringapatam ?
Did you know that the 1991 College Baseball All-America Team included a future Major League All-Star , a future Olympic games gold medalist and the Major League career pinch hit RBI record holder?
Did you know that Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley 's poem " Little Orphant Annie " was first published in the Indianapolis Journal ?
Did you know that the design of the SECAT S-5 was based on that of an earlier aircraft, work on which the outbreak of World War II had disrupted?
Did you know that Fay Boozman , as the state health director under Governor Mike Huckabee , managed the "Healthy Arkansas " initiative, including the fight against obesity ?
Did you know that voter turnout for the 2001 judicial reform referendum in Botswana was just 4.9%?
Did you know that Shishupala Vadha , a Sanskrit epic poem by Magha , contains what has been called "the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented"?
Did you know that Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán , former president of the parliamentary Defense Committee of Bolivia , was educated in Israel ?
Did you know that Gold to Go offers 10-gram gold bars and custom pure gold coins for purchase from vending machines ?
Did you know that as a state senator in 1995, Jim Keet , the 2010 Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee , co-sponsored a law to raise safety standards for boating ?
Did you know that the nose of the F+W C-3605 had to be stretched by six feet (1.8 m) to balance its center of gravity ?
Did you know that Lithuanian -born Aldona Gustas co-founded an artistic forum in West Berlin , the "Berliner Malerpoeten", intended to attract individuals who both wrote and illustrated their works?
Did you know that 18.6% of the Croatian A1 motorway ' s route between Zagreb and Split consists of tunnels, bridges, viaducts and similar structures?
Did you know that due to Bhutanese tradition, which regards river convergence as inauspicious, there are three chortens built especially to ward off evil spirits at the point where the Paro Chhu converges with the Wong Chhu ?
Did you know that the repertoire of the Japanese musical style danmono consists of eight pieces, all very similar in style?
Did you know that Waddesdon Road railway station generated only £4 per year in passenger revenue before being taken over by the London Underground ?
Did you know that Kirt Bennett ' s Young Leaders Academy in Baton Rouge was cited for excellence on The Oprah Winfrey Show and George H.W. Bush 's "National Points of Light"?
Did you know that Les Éboulements is located in the centre of the Charlevoix crater in Quebec , and was named after a large landslide that occurred in 1663?
Did you know that for creating a writing system for his Oromo language , Sheikh Bakri Sapalo was placed under house arrest in Dire Dawa by the Ethiopian government?
Did you know that Stinking Roger can be found east of Albany to Esperance and beyond?
Did you know that the cemetery at the former Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church near West Liberty, Ohio , includes graves of veterans of both the American Revolutionary War and World War II ?
Did you know that Canadian nun Émilie Gamelin was one of only 226 women who sought to vote at the 1832 Montreal West by-election ?
Did you know that a study in three Siberian towns found that 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were due to alcoholism ?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Rep. Tommy G. Armstrong of Shreveport is particularly known for his opposition to video poker ?
Did you know that control of the Dunne D.6 was provided by a pair of levers, one for each of the pilot's hands?
Did you know that remnants of a mill and dam , originally built in late Roman /early Byzantine period, can still be seen at the place of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Mirr ?
Did you know that Bobby Weed is the co-founder of a non-profit organization that aids autistic children?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Baden was the only capital ship not successfully sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919?
Did you know that international wine critics fear that the Hochmoselbrücke will harm some of the best vineyards of the Mosel riesling ?
Did you know that in 2001, the Zaans Museum received a commendation at the presentation of the annual European Museum of the Year Award ?
Did you know that Parashqevi Qiriazi was only 11 when she started to work as an elementary teacher in "Shkolla e Vashave", the first Albanian School exclusively for girls, which opened in 1891?
Did you know that The Headbangers were reunited during the Break The Barrier , a professional wrestling supercard in 1999?
Did you know that Amos Starr Cooke ran the Royal School for the Kingdom of Hawaii before co-founding the Castle & Cooke corporation with Samuel Northrup Castle ?
Did you know that rodeo performer Bill Linderman was the first person to win three Rodeo Cowboys Association season championships in a year?
Did you know that the success of the Hot Latin Tracks number-one song, " Suavemente ", was said to have been influenced by Elvis Crespo 's son?
Did you know that two stories explain the naming of Tres Palacios Bay in Texas ; one of which involves a vision by shipwrecked Spaniards of vanishing palaces along the bay's shores?
Did you know that near Calstone Wellington the Ridgeway meets the Wansdyke ?
Did you know that USNS Zeus was the first cable repair ship specifically built for the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Brain Drill 's album Quantum Catastrophe is loosely based on the 2012 phenomenon ?
Did you know that during the 1910 London to Manchester air race , Claude Grahame-White 's Farman III biplane was guarded by boy scouts , while he ate biscuits ?
Did you know that the mines of the Iberian Pyrite Belt have been active since before Roman times?
Did you know that Lorette Wood served as both the first female city council member and the first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California ?
Did you know that before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and his wife traveled to Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
Did you know that Matagorda Bay in Texas was separated from East Matagorda Bay after local residents diverted the Colorado River to control flooding?
Did you know that actress Eileen Beldon played a parlormaid in the 1938 film adaptation of Pygmalion ?
Did you know that the American Samoa Fono , the legislature of American Samoa , formed with the encouragement of Governor Vernon Huber ?
Did you know that German literary scholar Hans Ernst Schneider had himself declared dead so that he could marry his wife again?
Did you know that no President could be elected for several weeks after the 2003 Nauruan parliamentary election due to the Parliament of Nauru being evenly split between three candidates?
Did you know that Arturo Di Modica 's Bund Bull was modelled after both Wall Street 's Charging Bull and the Chinese zodiac 's Ox ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Neopatras , a Byzantine army of about 30,000 was surprised and defeated by a force of 300–500 Latin knights ?
Did you know that people of Nova Scotia’s Bear River First Nation used to hunt porpoises for their livelihood?
Did you know that Arkansas Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett in his failed 1960 gubernatorial bid depicted Orval Faubus , the central figure of the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation case, as a tool of the NAACP ?
Did you know that the Soviets considered converting several unfinished hulls of Tsarist battlecruisers to 22,000-long-ton (22,000 t) oil barges after the end of the Russian Civil War ?
Did you know that Sir Robert Howard was twice placed in the Fleet Prison after failing to explain to the Star Chamber why Lady Purbeck kept having children?
Did you know that during the Victorian era , orchid hunters often endured tropical diseases , wild animals, cannibalistic tribes, and competition amongst each other?
Did you know that three different owners of mills at Bloomvale in Pleasant Valley, New York , defaulted on their mortgages and lost the mills to foreclosure ?
Did you know that the military efforts of the medieval English nobleman Gilbert de Lacy at Ludlow later became the basis of the medieval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn ?
Did you know that the State of Florida has twice ordered Manatee Palms Youth Services to cease admissions due to unsafe conditions?
Did you know that in a controversial 1988 referendum , the population of Sjöbo Municipality in Sweden voted in favor of banning Sjöbo from accepting foreign refugees?
Did you know that several works by Romanian Symbolist poet D. Iacobescu , who died around the age of twenty, speak about his losing battle with tuberculosis ?
Did you know that Henry Willard purchased the Willard Hotel with gold coins because the U.S. Supreme Court told him to ?
Did you know that the song " Why Don't You Love Me ", performed by Beyoncé , peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, though it was never released as single ?
Did you know that in Revelation , Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand , which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?
Did you know that the first Czech aviator , Jan Kašpar , made his first flight with Blériot XI in 1910?
Did you know that due to the Becket controversy , from 1163 to 1173 no new bishops were appointed in England?
Did you know that Théodore Chassériau 's painting of his sister Aline Chassériau , now in the Louvre , was painted when he was 16 and she was 13?
Did you know that at the time of its discovery in 2000, GRB 000131 was the most distant gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
Did you know that the Navajo Nation Zoo was facing immediate closure after a visit by the gods in 1999?
Did you know that the Classic period Maya city of Punta de Chimino was one of the last cities to survive the political collapse of the Petexbatún region of Guatemala ?
Did you know that Don Coleman was the first Michigan State football player to have his number retired, the Spartans ' first African-American coach, and the first African-American teacher at Flint Central ?
Did you know that the Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam is built from 25 historic canal houses, dating to the 17th and 18th century?
Did you know that Jonita Lattimore performed at the opening weekend at the current homes for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Grant Park Music Festival ?
Did you know that one of the first acts of the Second World War on the continent of North America was the seizure of the German cargo ship Christoph Van Doornum by the Sheriff of Botwood ?
Did you know that conductor Fritz Werner and trumpeter Maurice André collaborated on choral works of Bach and on music of Werner himself?
Did you know that Józef Kowalczyk served longer in one country than any other apostolic nuncio ?
Did you know that the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos , in Mexico City , provides more than 85 million public transport rides annually, using exclusively electric trolleybuses and light rail cars?
Did you know that Guillaume Beneman was one of several prominent late 18th-century Parisian ébénistes of German extraction , including the royal cabinetmaker Jean Henri Riesener ?
Did you know that Lindsey Hunter was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association until he was dropped by the Chicago Bulls ?
Did you know that the 2010 ANZAC Test , a rugby league match between Australia and New Zealand , was the first event to be held at Melbourne 's AAMI Park ?
Did you know that State Rep. Bryan Pedersen of Cheyenne has proposed that Wyoming invest 80 percent of its permanent minerals and land accounts into private equities and hedge funds ?
Did you know that the rice rat Transandinomys talamancae has three digits on its penis, of which the middle is longest?
Did you know that singer Jimmy Hughes recorded his 1964 hit "Steal Away" in one take?
Did you know that Lectionary 228 very often interchanges the letters " omicron " and " omega "?
Did you know that a fire station at the Louisiana State University Fireman Training Center is named in honour of former Louisiana state fire marshal V.J. Bella ?
Did you know that Karma Gon Monastery , the original monastery of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism , was founded in the 12th century by Düsum Khyenpa , the first Karmapa Lama ?
Did you know that Sellas Tetteh ' s Ghana under-20 team was the first African team to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup , in 2009?
Did you know that American singer, songwriter and record producer The Mighty Hannibal once sang with members of The Pips , and was later known for the song "Jerkin' the Dog"?
Did you know that Lincoln City was the first club to reach 100 seasons in the Football League without ever playing in the top division?
Did you know that James Dampier Palmer accepted the Stewardship of the three Chiltern Hundreds ?
Did you know that friction stir processing can make aluminum alloys into superplastics ?
Did you know that Nationaltheatret Station , which is located within the Oslo Tunnel and serves all lines of the Oslo Commuter Rail , is Norway 's only underground mainline railway station?
Did you know that Indian anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Bose , also a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi , did not agree with Gandhi's practice of active sexual celibacy ?
Did you know that the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire , Scotland , include a glass cone ?
Did you know that after Father Knows Best ended, actor Billy Gray devoted his later interest to riding and collecting motorcycles ?
Did you know that buses used on Burnley & Pendle bus route X43 are named after the Pendle witches ?
Did you know that American actor John C. Becher appeared in both the original 1966 production and the 1983 revival of Mame ?
Did you know that the mosaic floor of the Maon Synagogue shows the steps in ancient wine making?
Did you know that Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Albanian prose?
Did you know that after the first rally of the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine , participants complained of being hassled by the police in an attempt to limit the number of partakers in the rally?
Did you know that Thomas Gisborne Gordon is the only one-handed rugby football player to ever have been capped at international level?
Did you know that the German blockade runner Doggerbank was mistakenly sunk by U-43 in March 1943, with all but one of the crew lost at sea?