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Did you know that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche , the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize ?
Did you know that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen 's poor condition?
Did you know that Welsh footballer Roy Clarke played in three different divisions of the Football League in three consecutive matches?
Did you know that Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque and also danced in the lead role?
Did you know that, in order to prevent storage of nuclear waste in Utah 's Skull Valley , the main county road through the valley became State Route 196 in 1998?
Did you know that the Treaty of Salynas in 1398 marked the third time that Vytautas the Great granted Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights in 14 years?
Did you know that the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage ?
Did you know that Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro- Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway , playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
Did you know that the 1995 Burkina Faso film Keïta! l'Héritage du griot is a retelling of the first third of Sundjata Keita 's 13th-century epic, Sundjata ?
Did you know that the novel The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association?
Did you know that Yalo , a Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1967 war , was identified by Edward Robinson as the site of the Canaanite -era city of Aijalon ?
Did you know that McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon , was founded due to occasional flooding that cut off access to the only area hospital?
Did you know that Walter G. Alexander was the first African American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly ?
Did you know that Taisto Mäki , one of the so-called Flying Finns , was the first man to run 10,000 metres in under half an hour?
Did you know that the 13th Earl of Derby established a private menagerie in the 19th century in the grounds of Knowsley Hall in Merseyside , where the 18th Earl opened a public safari park in the 20th century?
Did you know that Tiny Thompson was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to make a save by catching the puck ?
Did you know that the Israeli kibbutz Gvat was established in commemoration of the 35 Pinsk Jews shot by Polish soldiers during the Pinsk massacre ?
Did you know that, after succeeding Lai Tian, Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?
Did you know that the Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road , in Junius, New York was built with walls of field cobbles and limestone quoins in the Greek Revival style ?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?
Did you know that while in service as a troop transport after World War I , SS Ohioan carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre , one of which was a homing pigeon ?
Did you know that eight-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was the grandfather of the oceanographer of the same name ?
Did you know that the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak started a political debate regarding privatization of food inspection ?
Did you know that Misty Copeland is the first African-American ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre ?
Did you know that in 1865, the Sons of Vulcan won the first union contract in the iron and steelmaking industry and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States ?
Did you know that Johan Collett Falsen served as Norwegian Minister of Justice on four non-consecutive occasions between 1870 and 1879?
Did you know that the Conflict of the Orders which supposedly occurred in the ancient Roman Republic may not have actually happened?
Did you know that Darrin Winston still holds the baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?
Did you know that Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh 's Princes Street ?
Did you know that in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music , Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat ?
Did you know that the sloop-of-war Victoria became the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas by fighting in the First Taranaki War ?
Did you know that Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath , the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother ?
Did you know that American cargo ship SS Panaman once delivered 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of canned hominy to Los Angeles ?
Did you know that Australian politician Rick Colless ’s great-great-grandfather Richard Hargrave and great-great-uncle John Hargrave all served in the New South Wales Legislative Council ?
Did you know that an Estonian feature film set the absolute box office record in the history of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Mike Cather earned his first major-league win in an 11- inning Atlanta Braves ’ win, the same night the Braves earned the National League Eastern Division title?
Did you know that the Battle of Kokenhausen saw one of the most successful uses of the Polish hussars ?
Did you know that after suffering a heart attack , John G. McCullough moved to California and was elected as its Attorney General in 1863?
Did you know that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America 's last coastal steamer ?
Did you know that George Hammond Whalley , a British Member of Parliament , once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery ?
Did you know that some cypress trees in Louisiana 's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto 's explorations of the area?
Did you know that On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover , a satirical book on the Prime Minister of New Zealand , was described as a treatise of " sociology , psychoanalysis and cringe-making erotica "?
Did you know that following show jumper Denis Lynch 's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games ?
Did you know that the Mulberry Harbour built at Arromanches in 1944 by John Holmes Jellett landed two million men and four million tons of supplies for the Liberation of Europe ?
Did you know that the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey contains artwork by Francis David Millet , Kenyon Cox , Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle ?
Did you know that former Olympic champion Ángel Matos received a lifetime ban from the World Taekwondo Federation after attacking a referee in a bronze medal match at the 2008 Olympics ?
Did you know that people with kidney ailments used to crawl on all fours three times round the sarcophagus of Saint Nonnosus in Freising Cathedral ?
Did you know that four Mk-82 500-pound bombs are missing in the American west after the mysterious crash of an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button in 1997?
Did you know that more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá , most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina ?
Did you know that despite leaving the South West Africa People's Organization for the Congress of Democrats , Tsudao Gurirab was selected by his former party for the Pan-African Parliament ?
Did you know that Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders?
Did you know that Chika Chukwumerije had financial backing unavailable to most Nigerian athletes because of his father Uche Chukwumerije ?
Did you know that Washington State politician Vic Meyers once showed up for a candidates' forum dressed as Mahatma Gandhi and leading a goat?
Did you know that 2008 Olympic handball champion Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk was also selected as the pivot on the tournament's All-star team ?
Did you know that Maoist rebels and Nepali government forces engaged in four attacks in Sandhikharka between 2002 and 2005?
Did you know that Craig Gillespie almost turned down the chance to direct Lars and the Real Girl when he heard the film's pitch ?
Did you know that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania , to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York ?
Did you know that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse ?
Did you know that the position of the President of the Republic is the only undisputed one in the Polish order of precedence ?
Did you know that the young Bing Crosby once tried out to sing at Seattle 's elegant Butler Hotel , but was told he needed more experience?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty generals Li Zhengji , Li Baochen and Tian Chengsi all ruled Chinese territories effectively independent of the imperial government?
Did you know that labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan called the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court Marquette Bank decision "the most important of our lifetimes" since it opened the door to increased use of credit cards ?
Did you know that Henny Moan acted in the Oscar -nominated Ni liv , later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema ?
Did you know that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose 's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
Did you know that the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies ?
Did you know that according to the New Mexico Legislature , the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate "?
Did you know that Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker , an African American trombonist from the Mississippi River delta country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career?
Did you know  that jazz pianist Geoff Eales played the French horn with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and piano with the BBC Big Band ?
Did you know that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?
Did you know that four different men, including Frank W. Johnson and Sam Houston , claimed to be in charge of the Texian Army for several months during the Texas Revolution ?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Army 's Type 89 I-Go medium tank ( Otsu version) was the first diesel -powered tank to be mass-produced ?
Did you know that Tom Welling , who plays Clark Kent on Smallville , believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman mythology helps his performance?
Did you know that the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam 's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?
Did you know that a vitamin B - fortified beer was developed for the Philippine beer market?
Did you know that Bridgewater House, Runcorn , Cheshire , was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?
Did you know that in 1979, Chicago White Sox pitcher Ron Schueler retired mid-season to replace his own pitching coach who had died earlier that season?
Did you know that the synagogue built in 1925 by Congregation Beth Israel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Daba Modibo Keïta , 2008 Olympian for Mali , was the first Sub-Saharan African to be a Taekwondo World Champion ?
Did you know that a shattered goblet of Communion wine reportedly helped Saint Donatus of Arezzo convert 79 pagans to Christianity ?
Did you know that most strong hurricanes that have struck South Florida since 1900 have passed through one of two Hebert boxes on their way to landfall?
Did you know that Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Hall cites J. R. R. Tolkien as a key influence and re-reads The Lord of the Rings trilogy every year?
Did you know that the Chinese government revoked the manufacturer's license for diet pill Slim 10 after it was linked to several liver failures and deaths?
Did you know that despite being personal secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Francis Charles Lawley 's attempts at insider trading resulted in losses?
Did you know that the cargo ship SS Minnesotan carried five racing yachts from the East Coast to national championship races in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that Jack DiLauro 's 2.40 ERA is third best among New York Mets pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched?
Did you know that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
Did you know that the native copper products of the Northern Canadian aboriginal Copper Inuit were highly regarded in the Bering Strait trade network?
Did you know that actor Roger Moore likened his starring role in the 1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?
Did you know that Froduald Karamira , sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country ?
Did you know that Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/ s , enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US ?
Did you know that the 19th-century fad of Pedestrianism started with gambling over the speed of footmen by the British aristocracy ?
Did you know that the neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee surrounding the former site of the Baron Hirsch Synagogue , the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in the United States , has become a historic district ?
Did you know that Voltaire 's 1730 poem about Joan of Arc , The Maid of Orleans , was banned in most of Europe ?
Did you know that Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods ?
Did you know that the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell , Manchester , in the 19th Century?
Did you know that for the Tang Dynasty , whether to honor the general Zhang Xun for his deeds during the Anshi Rebellion was controversial due to his engaging in cannibalism ?
Did you know that the scandals involving the British fraud and impostor Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada ?
Did you know that Albert White was the first person to lead the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team in rebounds , points , and assists in the same season ?
Did you know that patients practice preoperative fasting before an operation in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents?
Did you know that the Old Warner Brothers Studio , where the first " talkie " was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana ?
Did you know that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water ?
Did you know that Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges ?
Did you know the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables ?
Did you know that WrestleMania , an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, has involved 94 celebrities in a 24-year span?
Did you know that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?
Did you know that Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain 's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ?
Did you know that Fireflight took six years to write their first album but only six months to write their second album Unbreakable ?
Did you know that US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California ?
Did you know that The GrooveGrass Boyz , a bluegrass / funk group, had chart success in 1997 with a country version of the " Macarena "?
Did you know that Charles Mears was known as the " Christopher Columbus of the West Coast"?
Did you know that the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows , culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial ?
Did you know that in the Bombay Presidency , the famine of 1899–1900 had the highest mortality—at 37.9 deaths per 1000—among all famines and scarcities between 1876 and 1919?
Did you know that Henry S. Huidekoper received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg , and later helped to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 ?
Did you know that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?
Did you know that Bill Ricker , one of the founders of fisheries science , developed the Ricker model , which can be used to predict how many fish are in a fishery ?
Did you know that Project CHLOE , a proposed system to protect airplanes from surface-to-air missiles , was named for the character Chloe O'Brian on the American television show 24 ?
Did you know that the tower of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow was used as a machine gun post by Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government ?
Did you know that German -born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language ?
Did you know that the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California , but the company only completed portions at each end?
Did you know  that in the storming of Bristol in 1643, Royalist invaders used "fire-pikes"—rudimentary flamethrowers —against the defending Parliamentarians ?
Did you know that Alfred Merle Norman , whose collection of 11,086 species was acquired by the Natural History Museum in London , was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1906?
Did you know that the Neo-Baroque Yablanski House in Sofia , Bulgaria has been deemed one of the city's highest achievements in architecture of the 1900s?
Did you know that the Alamogordo Museum of History owns a rare 47-star U.S. flag , thought to have been made in 1912 to celebrate the entry of New Mexico into the United States ?
Did you know that pro wrestler Gregg Groothuis 's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with Dusty Rhodes , in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
Did you know that the Orsini podestà of Viterbo was displaced by Charles of Anjou and replaced with a magistrate willing to expel the Orsini cardinals from the papal election, 1280–1281 ?
Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Dan Norman was once traded with three other players for Hall of Famer -to-be Tom Seaver , as part of what New York Mets fans refer to as the Midnight Massacre?
Did you know that tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes ?
Did you know that Edmond Malone said Samuel Johnson 's The Plays of William Shakespeare "threw more light on his author than all his predecessors"?
Did you know that after being declared defeated, Henry Overstolz successfully contested the mayoral election and unseated James Britton to become the twenty-fourth mayor of St. Louis, Missouri ?
Did you know that 22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten ?
Did you know that Kinoautomat , a 1967 film by Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
Did you know that at the 2008 Summer Olympics , Indian freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar won his country's second medal in the sport since the 1952 Games ?
Did you know that in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed " Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV ?
Did you know that Ross Jenkins played for Watford F.C. when they were both bottom and top of The Football League ?
Did you know that Manhattan 's Rose Hill neighborhood was the original site of Madison Square Garden , where millionaire Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit ?
Did you know that California 's Gold Country quartz- mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill ?
Did you know that although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia , he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics , is of Jamaican origin?
Did you know that the Kirkfield Lift Lock is located at the highest section of the Trent-Severn Waterway ?
Did you know that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam , Kimberley , has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa ?
Did you know that U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dalton II was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action during World War II ?
Did you know that Leon Johnson , a West Indian cricketer , captained the West Indies team at the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup ?
Did you know that when the Japanese visual novel Memories Off was released for the PlayStation Portable , it shared its opening theme song with the visual novel Memories Off 2nd for the same system?
Did you know that although Gretna F.C. 2008 represents the town of Gretna , Scotland in association football , it has never played there, instead playing its home games eight miles away in Annan ?
Did you know that the namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
Did you know that 1994's Hurricane Gilma is the most intense Pacific hurricane to occur in July ?
Did you know that the lyrics of Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast , the royal anthem of Denmark , first appeared in an 18th-century vaudeville play by Johannes Ewald ?
Did you know that the Amethyst Initiative , signed by over a hundred college presidents, seeks reconsideration of alcohol drinking age laws in the United States?
Did you know that the underground Home Army courier, Irena Adamowicz , provided communication and moral support for the Jewish ghettos of several distant cities during the occupation of Poland ?
Did you know that Nollaig Ó Gadhra 's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language ?
Did you know that The Gift , the last novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian , was initially poorly received and partially rejected?
Did you know that Hermitage Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Saint Petersburg , Russia ?
Did you know that sang piao xiao is praying mantis egg case used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence and premature ejaculation ?
Did you know that a phrase from poet Rosemonde Gérard became well-known when a jeweler engraved it on a medallion ?
Did you know that the Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Trucks were made bulletproof for the Japanese military deployed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
Did you know that Redruth railway station was only moved to its present site when a viaduct was built 61 feet (19 m) above the streets of the town?