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Did you know that the USS PGM-18 was blown five feet (1.5 m) out of the water after striking a Japanese mine off the coast during the Battle of Okinawa ?
Did you know that Irish writer Edna O'Brien made her screen debut as an extra in an  adaptation of her novel, Wild Decembers ?
Did you know that Charles S. Moore served as county judge for Klamath, Oregon , USA , after his father had served as the first judge there?
Did you know that the privately-held phone call switch company TouchWave was purchased for US$46 million two years after its 1997 founding?
Did you know that the Irish quiz show series Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper was named after a constipation cure?
Did you know that linguist Carol Chomsky developed the technique of repeated reading, in which children gain fluency by reading along with a recording of a text until they can do so on their own?
Did you know that the Scotch Professors , a group of 19th-century Scottish footballers , are credited with inventing the passing style of the modern game and spreading the sport globally?
Did you know that English once had a four-form yes and no system, employed by Shakespeare and others, instead of the two-form system that it has today?
Did you know that Major-General Richard Hutton Davies , the first New Zealand officer to command a division in World War I , committed suicide in 1918?
Did you know that the 1981 Rose Bowl was the first bowl victory for Michigan Wolverines football Coach Bo Schembechler – after seven prior bowl game losses?
Did you know that " Albino Ballerina ", the final single by indie rock band Sweet Jesus , gained extensive critical acclaim before the band's commercial success dwindled and they soon disbanded?
Did you know that the history of netball is linked to that of basketball , and that netball was primarily developed as a women's sport ?
Did you know that Charles Darwin frequently visited Osmaston Hall in Derby , England ?
Did you know that Silesian socialist politician Józef Biniszkiewicz died at Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II ?
Did you know that the Everett Railroad is named after its former location near Everett, Pennsylvania , USA ?
Did you know that Handling Ships , the first animated British Technicolor feature film , was never meant to be released to theatres but was an "Official Selection" at Cannes in 1946?
Did you know that the first road in Alaska was built on Woody Island for horses, brought in by the Russian-American Company to cut ice blocks, to exercise?
Did you know that at a fantasy basketball camp, John W. Rogers, Jr. defeated Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one, witnessed by John Thompson, Jr. , Mike Krzyzewski and Damon Wayans ?
Did you know that the gardens of St George's Square , Pimlico , London , contain a statue of William Huskisson MP, the first person ever to be run over and killed by a railway engine ?
Did you know that country music songwriter Tim Nichols once worked in a factory, manufacturing buckets for KFC ?
Did you know that one of the specimens used to describe the extinct turtle Cearachelys was actually procured eight years prior to it being formally described in 2001?
Did you know that Irish ballerina Monica Loughman , aged 14, was the first Westerner to dance for the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Perm , Russia ?
Did you know that the 1987 hospital massacre in Jaffna , Sri Lanka , took place on Diwali , a major Hindu holiday?
Did you know that Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"?
Did you know that Rangzieb Ahmed was the first Al-Qaeda operative to be convicted of directing terrorism in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Detroit 's Rosedale Park , containing 1,533 properties, is the largest district in Michigan to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that two carved wood altarpieces of 1399 by Jacques de Baerze have no comparable Netherlandish survivals for another 80 years?
Did you know that in 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in the United States ?
Did you know that American Basketball Association player Al Smith was a standout in three different sports during his high school days?
Did you know that the "lung lichen ", species Lobaria pulmonaria , has been used for dyeing , tanning , perfume manufacturing, and brewing ?
Did you know that Gale Benson was not a spy according to her brother, even though the 2008 film The Bank Job depicted her as one?
Did you know that 14th-century Turkish polymath Al-Taftazani completed one of his best-known works at the age of 16?
Did you know that the recent ice storm in the Northeastern United States was the worst in over a decade , resulting in at least four deaths and more than a million utility customers left without power ?
Did you know that 18th–19th century British fur trader John Johnston was a leader in the Ojibwa tribe near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan , USA ?
Did you know that tropical ulcers are lesions occurring on the ankles of those who often go barefoot?
Did you know that Francis A. Chenoweth served as speaker of both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Washington House of Representatives ?
Did you know that a species of the 80-million year-old sea turtle Terlinguachelys fischbecki was actually named after a school teacher?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Tian Ji'an , in anger, buried his staff member Qiu Jiang alive?
Did you know that the first themed Lego Modular Houses set, released in April 2007, was designed for people aged 16 and older and meant to be "toys for adults"?
Did you know that Hanan Porat , who was evacuated as an infant from the Jewish village of Kfar Etzion in the Judean Mountains , later founded the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank ?
Did you know that Holy Deadlock , a 1934 novel by A. P. Herbert , was credited with helping create a more favourable attitude toward reform of English divorce law ?
Did you know that teenage aviatrix Elinor Smith , the "Flying Flapper of Freeport ", had her pilot's license suspended for 15 days for flying under New York City 's four East River bridges in 1928?
Did you know that the Bayeux War Cemetery , the largest for World War II Commonwealth soldiers, includes the Bayeux Memorial, honoring more than 1,800 soldiers killed in the Normandy Landings with no known grave?
Did you know that the Palestinian Arab village of Abil al-Qamh near Safad was established on a site that had been inhabited since 2900 BCE?
Did you know that screenwriter Dana Fox works with Diablo Cody and Lorene Scafaria in a writing group they call "The Fempire"?
Did you know that 1949 Michigan football MVP Dick Kempthorn later flew more than 100 missions as a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War and received the Distinguished Flying Cross ?
Did you know that the Griffdu was the 37th and final ship built by J. F. Duthie & Company ?
Did you know that Johanna Wokalek portrayed Red Army Faction terrorist Gudrun Ensslin in the Golden Globe -nominated film The Baader Meinhof Complex ?
Did you know that the Matchless G12 CSR motorcycle designation officially stood for Competition, Sport, Road , but was dubbed the Coffee Shop Racer by its rivals?
Did you know that Ron Carey was the first Teamsters General President elected by a direct vote of the membership?
Did you know that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , 105 Israelis were taken prisoner by Egypt in the Battle of Nitzanim , which was viewed as humiliating in Israel?
Did you know that the New York Giants ' hype of Andy Cohen was called "the most efficient job of ballyhoo that has been performed in the sport industry", with "ice cream Cohens" sold to fans at the Polo Grounds ?
Did you know that the designation of Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff will necessitate at least one 2009 United States House of Representatives special election in Illinois ?
Did you know that in 1976, Japanese pink film actor Mitsuyasu Maeno carried out a kamikaze attack on multi-millionaire and ultra-nationalist leader Yoshio Kodama ?
Did you know that during the 1975 earthquake in Morris, Minnesota , USA , one man thought the loud bangs he heard came from a nearby gas plant that he thought exploded?
Did you know that Dutch baroque painter Jan Wyck spent most of his career in England , where he influenced the development of British military art ?
Did you know that the 1980 Michigan Wolverines football team did not give up a touchdown in the final 22 quarters of the season?
Did you know that Denzil Onslow was Member of Parliament for Guildford after his nephew Foot Onslow, and was then succeeded by another nephew, Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow ?
Did you know that Norman Mailer claimed his 1968 experimental film Wild 90 "has the most repetitive, pervasive obscenity of any film ever made"?
Did you know that Bruce Hilkene was captain of the 1947 Wolverines who were selected as the greatest Michigan football team of all time?
Did you know that a screening of the documentary film Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case may have led to the St Petersburg branch of the human rights charity Memorial being raided by the Russian authorities?
Did you know that the Audubon Society of Portland , Oregon , USA , rehabilitates 3,500 animals and has over 20,000 hours volunteered each year?
Did you know that the only surviving Brough Superior Golden Dream , on display at the British National Motorcycle Museum has never run, as there are no internals in the engine or gearbox ?
Did you know that the USS PGM-17 received no enemy damage while stranded on a coral reef for over a month during intense kamikaze attacks in the region during the Battle of Okinawa ?
Did you know that Matthias Dolderer finished second at the 2008 World Aerobatics Cup's "Unlimited" Category in the Czech Republic and in doing so he qualified for the 2009 Red Bull Air Race ?
Did you know that BodyLove is an Alabama -based radio soap opera that uses drama to reach African American listeners with messages that promote diabetes awareness and healthy lifestyles?
Did you know that Russian ski jumper Valery Kobelev ' s 1999 crash in Planica , Slovenia , has been called one of the worst ski jumping crashes ever?
Did you know that Washington, D.C. 's location as the U.S. capital on the Potomac River was decided by Congress , with passage of the Residence Act of 1790?
Did you know that Beninese physician Basile Adjou Moumouni won his country's 1968 presidential election with 80 percent of the vote only to have the results annulled by incumbent Alphonse Amadou Alley ?
Did you know that the recently-discovered dinosaur Austroraptor is the largest dromaeosaur to have been found in the Southern Hemisphere ?
Did you know that the Chicago Tribune 's John McCormick received the 2002 Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing for his work on 9/11 , Afghanistan , and the sale of naming rights for Soldier Field ?
Did you know that 410 Squadron RCAF was the top-scoring night-fighter unit in 2nd Tactical Air Force in the period between D-Day and VE Day ?
Did you know that the phrase "It's your Wally" refers to Queensland 's test cricketer Wally Grout and typically means that it is the listener's turn to buy a round of drinks?
Did you know that not a single woman in the village of Kunan Poshpora in Kashmir received a marriage proposal within three years after the Indian Army launched a search and interrogation operation there in 1991?
Did you know that member of the Order of Canada Carlo Cattarello received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in Sudbury , Ontario , after he turned 80?
Did you know that the origins of the Church of Caucasian Albania date to Saint Eliseus' efforts in the first century AD to spread Christianity to the area?
Did you know that the unincorporated community of Oatmeal, Texas , was inhabited by a colony of former slaves after the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the style of Irish investigative journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes has been compared to that of fictional detective Hercule Poirot ?
Did you know that Julia's House is the first and only hospice in Dorset , England , for children with life-limiting conditions?
Did you know that William Stevens wrote a law review article, The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule , which treated the development of one of baseball 's most-misunderstood rules as if it were a legal matter?
Did you know that millipedes in the genus Desmoxytes give off an almond -like smell as they produce hydrogen cyanide to ward off predators ?
Did you know that in an incident he described as the highlight of his career, Phil Ochs sang " I Ain't Marching Anymore " and inspired hundreds of young men to burn their draft cards ?
Did you know that the Nazi German Reich Office for Economic Expansion got the nickname Office for the Expansion of IG Farben , because its head Carl Krauch was also the chairman of that company?
Did you know that in 1996, over a dozen university professors documented the oral history of the Quindaro Townsite by interviewing Kansas City residents?
Did you know that Pakistan 's newly created Ministry of Human Rights has announced a law which will assist in uncovering the fate of thousands who have disappeared since the War on Terror began?
Did you know that in the first day of sales, the tickets sold by the Cincinnati Bearcats for the 2009 Orange Bowl netted an estimated US$500,000 for the University of Cincinnati ?
Did you know that Filipino actor of Igorot descent, Marky Cielo , is one of four recent Philippine young celebrities who died unexpectedly, after Julie Vega , Rico Yan , and Miko Sotto ?
Did you know that Van Buren State Park in Ohio has family, large group, and equestrian camping areas, the latter with manure bins and picket lines ?
Did you know that the Black-faced Antbird follows columns of army ants in order to catch insects flushed by the swarms?
Did you know that according to Fortune , Chanda Kochhar , soon to be CEO of India's largest private bank , is the 25th most powerful woman in business?
Did you know that pioneering African American aviator Hubert Julian was an associate producer for the 1940 race film The Notorious Elinor Lee ?
Did you know that Newark Park , a Tudor hunting lodge in Gloucestershire , was built in 1544 for a Groom of the Bedchamber to King Henry VIII ?
Did you know that women outnumber men 69% to 31% among students at Ozarka College in Melbourne, Arkansas ?
Did you know that Table to Table is an Israeli charity that collects leftover and surplus food, gathering enough each week to provide 12,000 to 14,000 meals and 40 to 50 tons of produce?
Did you know that James Whitfield Williamson , a politician from Vivian , Louisiana , won a silver medal in 1987 at his state's seniors tennis tournament?
Did you know that cricketer Johnny Lawrence refused to allow Sunday matches or raffles to be used to raise money for his benefit season because he was a staunch Methodist ?
Did you know that the tendency of the Weteye bomb 's aluminum casing and liquid nerve agent to interact and explode made disposal of the weapon difficult?
Did you know that Robin Toner was the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times ?
Did you know that the 1999 hit song " Tomber la chemise " ("Take Off Your Shirt") was part of a sudden popularity trend by rappers of North African immigrant origins in France ?
Did you know that of the four Marines charged in the 2008 execution-style murders of California-based U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife, two were under Pietrzak's command?
Did you know that Tiv Ta'am is the largest supermarket chain in Israel to sell non- kosher food?
Did you know that Brett Leonhardt , Washington Capitals web site producer, was called upon to be a backup goaltender for nine minutes?
Did you know that when Royal Navy Captain Robert Corbet was killed in action in September 1810, rumours were spread that he had been murdered by his own crew ?
Did you know that it is proposed to assist the conservation of the Canarian Egyptian Vulture by the establishment of "vulture restaurants"?
Did you know that Shanty Hogan , a catcher with the New York Giants , joined with teammate Andy Cohen to form a vaudeville duo billed as "Cohen and Hogan", except in Boston , where they performed as "Hogan and Cohen"?
Did you know that the 1883 utopian novel The Diothas has been called "the second most important American nineteenth-century ideal society"?
Did you know that Harriet Holter , an economist by education, has been described as a pioneer of women's studies in the Nordic countries ?
Did you know that when The Mighty Diamonds ' album Right Time was released in 1976, music charts were banned in Jamaica because of violence within the music industry?
Did you know that rocket scientist Daniel Jubb claims to have built his first rocket at age five?
Did you know that University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Henry Hatch lived with his wife and daughter on the grounds of Michigan Stadium for more than a decade?
Did you know that the Lebanese Commando Regiment , established in 1966, was the first special forces regiment to be established in the Lebanese Armed Forces ?
Did you know that on the debut episode of Man v. Food , host Adam Richman completed the 72-ounce (2 kg) Big Texan challenge at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas ?
Did you know that Paul-Émile de Souza was installed head of Benin because the military did not recognise Maurice Kouandété as the official leader?
Did you know that the British pub rock music genre was started by American band Eggs over Easy , who were in England for less than a year?
Did you know that the early pre-Columbian site of Xochitecatl in Mexico was abandoned for centuries after the Popocatepetl volcano erupted around 150 AD?
Did you know that former Calgary Flames trainer Bearcat Murray was famously on the ice tending to fallen goaltender Mike Vernon as the Flames scored a goal in the 1989 Stanley Cup Playoffs ?
Did you know that the 2008 NYPD subway sodomy incident has been compared to the 1997 assault of Abner Louima in New York City ?
Did you know that Yuzuru Hiraga was a Japanese naval architect , noted for work on innovative warships such as the cruiser Yubari and Yamato for the Imperial Japanese Navy ?
Did you know that the WJBE call letters now used by a radio station in Five Points, Alabama , were used by singer James Brown for his James Brown Enterprises radio station?
Did you know that parts of the 2008 Dutch film White Light were shot in Ugandese refugee camps?
Did you know that the Friends Meeting House at Ifield , England , built in 1676, is one of the oldest purpose-built Friends meeting houses in the world?
Did you know that in 2002, a Trotskyist became the general secretary of the trade union centre C.G.T.G in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe ?
Did you know that the visitor's locker room at the Alabama Crimson Tide football stadium was recently named "The Fail Room" after alumnus contributor James M. Fail ?
Did you know that after the inexplicable sinking of four identical trawlers in Acadia , the Canadian government took possession of the "cursed ship" Marc Guylaine in 1972, simply changed its name and re-sold it?
Did you know that in 1978, Pueblo Community College became part of the Colorado Community College System after having been a branch campus of Southern Colorado State College ?
Did you know that A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 , based on the diary of Henry Maundrell , was translated into French , Dutch and German by 1792?
Did you know that the Laogai Museum , which showcases China 's laogai prison system, was financed by the same company that once turned a dissident, Shi Tao , in to the Chinese authorities?
Did you know that American Basketball Association player Lee Davis appeared in the 1970 ABA All-Star Game despite playing in only sixteen games all season?
Did you know that from 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan , to match the rest of Japan ?
Did you know that in the 1962 film Invasion of the Star Creatures , extra-terrestrial monsters were played by actors wearing carrot costumes?
Did you know that Filipina singer and actress Didith Reyes was one of the "Jukebox Queens" of the 1970s Philippine music scene along with her friends Imelda Papin and Claire dela Fuente ?
Did you know that the Cal State Fullerton Titans football team holds NCAA records for both most fumbles and most fumbles lost for a single season with 73 and 41 respectively?
Did you know that the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista ?
Did you know that due to his blindness, it took Sir John Wall , the first visually impaired judge of the 20th-century High Court of Justice , over 400 applications and 53 interviews before he was offered a job?
Did you know that the BZ -laden white smoke produced by the M44 generator cluster bomb was problematic because BZ is easily defeated with a few layers of cloth?
Did you know that the Goode-Hall House near Town Creek, Alabama , is a vernacular interpretation of Palladian architecture ?
Did you know that Ron Ben-Yishai , the first journalist to inform Ariel Sharon of the Sabra and Shatila massacre , was later cast in Waltz with Bashir , an animated film about the incident?
Did you know that there have been 16 managers for the San Diego Padres , a Major League Baseball franchise?
Did you know that in December 2008, Anibal dos Santos , convicted murderer of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso , has escaped maximum security jail for a third time?
Did you know that the first seigneur of Beloeil, Quebec , participated in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield ?
Did you know that Sid Bernstein helped start the British Invasion by getting The Beatles to play at Carnegie Hall ?
Did you know that the 14th-century Tree House , the former manor house of Crawley , England , was named after an ancient elm whose trunk was hollowed out to form a room in which travellers stayed overnight?
Did you know that Hussniya Jabara was the first Israeli Arab woman to be elected to the Knesset ?
Did you know that James Bond attributed the extinction of the Puerto Rican Conure to pigeon hunters visiting Mona Island ?
Did you know that the Gal Oya riots were the first ethnic riots that targeted the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir was once barred from a nightclub near Ottawa , Canada , because Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King disapproved of his father ?
Did you know that the M43 cluster bomb , designed to hold three stacks of 19 BZ-containing M138 bomblets , was unattractive to military planners in part because paranoia and mania were common symptoms of casualties?
Did you know that the English folkloric story Dick Whittington and His Cat is based on the real Richard Whittington , but there is no historical evidence that he ever had a cat?
Did you know that one of the factors threatening the Canarian Houbara is disturbance by truffle collectors?
Did you know that the 2003 film Scorched cost US$ 7 million to make but only earned US$8,000 at the box office , approximately 0.1% of its initial cost?
Did you know that although his crew were merely taking geological observations, the British Government believed Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace had claimed New Zealand for France ?
Did you know that Tommy Dunderdale is the only Australian -born player to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Canada ?
Did you know that the M34 cluster bomb was the first major U.S. chemical weapon designed to deliver sarin nerve agent ?
Did you know that the Dravidian parties extensively used Tamil cinema for their propaganda ?
Did you know that Olav Rytter , a Slavic philologist who fled German-invaded Norway in 1940, returned in 1944 to participate in the liberation of Northern Norway ?