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Did you know that the People's Republic of China , much like the United States and Russia , has allegedly engaged in cyberwarfare ?
Did you know that Kanye West 's short film Runaway was inspired in part by painters Picasso and Matisse , as well as directors Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick ?
Did you know that Yahoo! Kids , formerly known as Yahooligans!, is the oldest online search directory for children?
Did you know that Nunavut Day , originally celebrated on April 1 , was moved to July 9 in 2001 because the former date was not considered to be significant enough to the people of Nunavut ?
Did you know that the process of cheese ripening determines the texture and flavour of cheese ?
Did you know that during the Siege of Kandahar , Nader Shah told his Bakhtiari troops that they would each be given 1,000 rupees and a share of the spoils if their assault was successful?
Did you know that eight players selected in the 1980 NBA Draft went on to became head coaches in the league ?
Did you know that the Cincinnati Riots of 1836 were triggered by U.S. Independence Day celebrations and were observed by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the mayor of Cincinnati?
Did you know that in his pursuit of the Byzantine throne, Leo Phokas the Elder was outmaneuvered by Romanos Lekapenos , who had failed to support him in the lead-up to the disastrous Battle of Acheloos ?
Did you know that the Tucana Dwarf galaxy is located on the opposite side of the Milky Way to most of the rest of the Local Group ?
Did you know that Point Charles Light , established 1893, is the oldest lighthouse in the Northern Territory , Australia ?
Did you know that you can drink carbonated water from Soda Spring while hiking along the Silver Knapsack Trail in California 's Sierra Nevada Mountains?
Did you know that in 1968, historian Betty Miller Unterberger became the first woman professor at the formerly all-male Texas A&M University ?
Did you know that nipple adenomas are rare benign growths in the nipple that can look like cancer?
Did you know that poet John Dryden was baptised in the now- redundant Church of All Saints, Aldwincle in Northamptonshire ?
Did you know that theosophist John Varian was a leader of the utopian community of Halcyon , an influence to composer Henry Cowell , a friend of photographer Ansel Adams , and father of Russell and Sigurd who invented the klystron ?
Did you know that handheld video game Galaxian 2 , released in 1981, is titled as such not because it is a sequel to Galaxian , but because it has a two-player mode ?
Did you know that Pollanisus nielseni , a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen , a noted Danish entomologist ?
Did you know that Jeffrey Grosset of Grosset Wines led a movement in the 1980s to stop Australian wines that do not contain Riesling grapes from using the word "Riesling" on their labels?
Did you know that Ingolf Schanche was the first artistic director of the Det Nye Teater , which opened in Oslo in 1929?
Did you know that Wolke Hegenbarth ' s first name means "cloud" in German?
Did you know that Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough played for Hall of Fame football coach John Gagliardi at Saint John's University ?
Did you know that politician Olav Steinnes , who dabbled in nuclear physics as a hobby , claimed to have made "the most important discoveries ever made in history by a single man"?
Did you know that Victor Jackovich was the first United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you know that the removal of Omar Gjesteby as a deputy trade union leader in 1940 was partially investigated by his son, a Norwegian police investigator, some years later?
Did you know that mural artist Henry Bird taught drawing to the modernist architect Will Alsop by insisting that he draw bricks for three months?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court reheard James v. Dravo Contracting Co. in 1937 after Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter 's retirement altered the judicial balance of the court?
Did you know that the first Open Era tennis tournament was held at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth ?
Did you know that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle , 500 miles from the sea?
Did you know that the Yes song " Saving My Heart " was originally intended to be a collaboration with Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson , but Yes vocalist Jon Anderson wanted to sing it himself?
Did you know that the Fall of Agadir took place in 1541 after a six-month siege of the Portuguese garrison by the future Moroccan sultan, Mohammed ash-Sheikh ?
Did you know that the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture is one of three separate U.S. ambassadors stationed in Rome , Italy ?
Did you know that actor and producer J. B. Fagan was the first manager of the Oxford Playhouse ?
Did you know that 29 employees were killed in the Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion when a fire spread down an assembly line and detonated 56,322 magnesium tripflares that had been manufactured for the U.S. Army ?
Did you know that death can be found living on hell's half acre ?
Did you know that two American presidents nearly lost their souls to the Devils River ?
Did you know that the ghosts of a bride who tripped and died and her groom who committed suicide in 1904 are said to haunt an upscale restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey ?
Did you know that the isolated All Saints Church at Highbrook, West Sussex , was paid for by two sisters who thought the parish church at West Hoathly was too far to travel?
Did you know that according to Zuni folklore, the giant cannibalistic demon Átahsaia tried to feed soup made from dead children to two maidens?
Did you know that the manga Haunted House continues Mitsukazu Mihara 's death-themed material?
Did you know that by riddling your ashes on Halloween, you might determine who in your household will be the next to die?
Did you know that the Ferry Plantation House in Virginia Beach is reportedly haunted by 11 spirits and offers special tours, including one on Halloween called "The Stroll of Lost Souls"?
Did you know that killer shrimp have invaded Western Europe and could soon invade North America ?
Did you know that according to the folklore of the Crow Nation , the Little People of the Pryor Mountains were dwarves so violent and fearsome they could tear the heart out of an enemy's horse?
Did you know that the Lenape Native American tribe called one of their Ohio settlements Clear Town, but the Germans called it Hell ?
Did you know that the Jew's Ear is an edible reminder of a suicide ?
Did you know that Bach combined in both his cantata Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55 , and his St Matthew Passion the words Erbarme Dich with the same chorale ?
Did you know that the powerful Voorleser would hold babies' heads under water , stuff children's brains , tie their parents together , dress up the dead , tell tales about them and prepare a place for them in the underworld ?
Did you know that the administrative offices of the Caprivi Region were once located beneath a giant baobab in Katima Mulilo that today is known as the "Toilet Tree"?
Did you know that a lawsuit brought by William Shernoff against an insurance firm that refused to pay claims for damage from Cyclone Val in American Samoa yielded penalty payments of $ 86.7 million ?
Did you know that the power plant workers union SITRANDE was the first public sector trade union founded in Paraguay after the fall of Stroessner ?
Did you know that Harry Neal Baum ghostwrote the 1917 novel Mary Louise Solves a Mystery when his ailing father, L. Frank Baum , could not fulfill his obligations to his publishers?
Did you know that during World War I the United States Army recruited over 28,000 soldiers for the Spruce Production Division , which harvested Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you know that the help of Cyrus Eaton , Jerome Wiesner and Nikita Khrushchev was needed so that Frederick and Milena Jelinek could marry?
Did you know that the Kentuckian LaVerne Butler was a leader in the "Conservative Resurgence" within the Southern Baptist denomination in the 1970s and 1980s?
Did you know that Zakopane Style architecture became so popular that designs inspired by it were built in Warsaw , Łódź , and even a train station in Saldutiškis , Lithuania ?
Did you know that during its operational history, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade has ranged in size from 1,200 men to almost 10,000?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Lefty Herring later became a position player and made it back to the major leagues five years after his first game?
Did you know that Terry Bradshaw 's daughter Rachel co-wrote Jerrod Niemann 's " What Do You Want " and appeared in the song's music video ?
Did you know that the tower of St Martin's Church, Colchester , Essex , was damaged in 1648 during the Civil War , and has never been repaired?
Did you know that Harry Kingman was the first Major League Baseball player to be born in China?
Did you know that socialist politician Kiranmoy Nanda has been the Fisheries Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 1982?
Did you know that an experience at an auction in the early 1960s led John Rice Irwin to start the Museum of Appalachia ?
Did you know that the High Virgo ballistic missile was launched from a B-58 bomber at a speed of Mach 2 ?
Did you know that although American surf music group The Astronauts only spent one week on the Billboard Hot 100 in their entire career, they outsold The Beach Boys in Japan in the early 1960s?
Did you know that after an unsuccessful debut album, Mexican singer-songwriter Mario Domm formed the band Camila ?
Did you know that Anubias afzelii , described in 1857, was the first species of the genus of popular aquarium plants, Anubias , known to science?
Did you know that Frank Bancroft managed his now-defunct Major League Baseball team , the Providence Grays , to the 1884 World Series championship?
Did you know that No. 201 Flight 's role was considered so secret by the Royal Australian Air Force that few people outside the unit knew that it even existed?
Did you know that Nelson Mandela proposed that Robben Island , where he was imprisoned for 18 years, be renamed after Xhosa warrior and prophet Makana ?
Did you know that Common Sense Media protested the ESRB 's rating downgrade of a revised version of Manhunt 2 from "Adults Only" to "Mature", since that version was still banned in the UK?
Did you know that Basil Cave issued an ultimatum that led to the shortest war in history ?
Did you know that the aviary Bird Kingdom was once a museum that at one time held the mummy of Ramesses I ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football running back Michael Shaw was a teammate of Roy Roundtree at Trotwood-Madison High School , where he was coached by National Football League veteran Maurice Douglass ?
Did you know that the Nationalist Citizens' Party ' s platform during the 1957 Philippine elections was described as "businessman's nationalism"?
Did you know that Bob Dylan recorded his song " Gates of Eden " in a single take on January 15, 1965?
Did you know that the 1 kg (2.2 lb) $ 3,000 Platinum Koala coin is an official means of payment in Australia?
Did you know that the Alzheimer's disease medication Galanthamine is synthesized using Saegusa-Ito oxidation ?
Did you know that the Lawrason Act , named for State Sen. Samuel Lawrason , allows Louisiana municipalities to create their own form of government without legislative approval?
Did you know that Bill James described Mike Mitchell , who set a National League assists record as a rookie, as having the best outfield arm in baseball ?
Did you know that Tom Derrick received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Sattelberg in November 1943 ?
Did you know that future Star Wars make-up artist Rick Baker handled the effects for The Incredible Melting Man , a 1977 horror film about an astronaut whose body is literally melting?
Did you know that Judson Welliver is widely regarded as having been the first presidential speechwriter ?
Did you know that the Azerbaijan region has been producing wine since the 2nd millennium BC and was noted by Herodotus , Strabo , Abu'l-Fida and Al-Muqaddasi ?
Did you know that American anthropologist Frank Bessac was fleeing China when his group was attacked by Tibetan border guards, killing three of his party, including the first CIA agent to be killed in the line of duty?
Did you know that the Ansbach Grizzlies , one of the oldest American football teams in Germany , played in every one of the first eight editions of the German Bowl ?
Did you know that in the lyrics of the 2010 song " Coming Home ", Diddy makes references to the classic 1979 song " Ain't No Stopping Us Now " by McFadden & Whitehead , as well as events in his own life?
Did you know that the Umm al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad , Iraq , has minarets in the shape of Scud missiles and Kalashnikov rifle barrels?
Did you know that it was debated in 1896 whether the Louisiana planter Meredith Calhoun was the model for the character of Simon Legree in Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
Did you know that the aquarium plant Anubias heterophylla has reportedly been used as a stomachic for children?
Did you know that Hydro-Québec 's project of four hydro-electric power stations on the Romaine River is called "the biggest construction project in Canada "?
Did you know that the Batavia, New York post office is one of only three in the state to be a contributing property to its historic district despite being ineligible for an independent listing on the NRHP ?
Did you know that Colin Beyer was informed about the sex reassignment surgery planned by his stepdaughter, former New Zealand MP Georgina Beyer , before her mother received the news?
Did you know that the Wilmington, North Carolina airport was named for Arthur Bluethenthal , a Princeton football All-American who was awarded the Croix de guerre twice, and died in combat for France in World War I?
Did you know that after dropping out of the 1992 New York City Marathon due to breathing problems, Kim Jones suffered from bronchitis and was bedridden for a month?
Did you know that Maxim model and reality television contestant Gia Allemand has been selected to play the role of Ava Gardner in an upcoming film about the life of Gianni Russo ?
Did you know that Mexico's Biutiful was named Best Foreign Language Film of 2010 at the 17th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards ?
Did you know that since March 2007 there have been controversial discussions about including of parts of the northern Steigerwald Nature Park in UNESCO 's World Heritage Programme by turning them into a national park ?
Did you know that Ralph "Human Ripcord" Savidge invented a baseball pitch called the "finger nail curve"?
Did you know that the 1999 film The Sixth Sense received six Academy Award nominations , and grossed more than sixteen times its budget?
Did you know that Sir Francis Wythens was illegally returned to Parliament after a book containing 700 votes for the opposition "was artificially mislaid and lost by the officers trusted"?
Did you know that archaeologist David Ussishkin has described the Chalcolithic Temple of Ein Gedi as "a monumental edifice in terms of contemporary architecture"?
Did you know that although the bat Myotis alcathoe was only described in 2001, it is now known to range widely across Europe?
Did you know that Arthur Augustus Tilley resigned as a tutor of King's College, Cambridge , after being blamed for the throwing into the college fountain of the "long-haired bounder" Robbie Ross ?
Did you know that during the Great Depression , the construction of a country estate named for a candy bar was the largest source of jobs in Giles County, Tennessee ?
Did you know that though his early burlesques , including The Merry Zingara , featured actresses performing male roles , W. S. Gilbert later renounced this practice?
Did you know that the Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire was built in response to the success of a tram at Cannon Mountain ?
Did you know that the Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference defines information technology law jargon using legal opinion from case law ?
Did you know that the name for the Mexican band Jotdog was inspired by the pop art work of Andy Warhol ?
Did you know that despite having reconstructive Tommy John surgery prior to the season, Zach Daeges was named to the first-team all- Missouri Valley Conference squad as a designated hitter in 2005?
Did you know that a decomposing rhino carcass and lack of water led to the establishment of Henties Bay ?
Did you know that, when Thomas M. Carnegie tried to get his brother, Andrew Carnegie , to invest in the Edgar Thomson Steel Works (later a key element in the Carnegie steel empire), Andrew initially refused?
Did you know that a signal mortar used to be fired to summon the lifeboat crew to Poole Lifeboat Station but this was stopped in 1914 as people could mistake the sound for an explosion at the nearby gas works ?
Did you know that in 1944, Sam Caldwell , as the mayor of Shreveport , ran against Jimmie Davis for governor of Louisiana even though both had served in the same municipal administration?
Did you know that the Nobel Prize -winning chemist E.J. Corey described a total synthesis of hexacyclinol as "blatantly wrong science"?
Did you know that in the 1932 NFL championship game , Chicago Bears coach George Halas stuck out his foot from the sidelines and tripped Ace Gutowsky while he was returning a kickoff for the Portsmouth Spartans ?
Did you know that 37 different contracts were issued for venue construction and renovation among three different governmental ministries for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens ?
Did you know that, according to Fieldhouse , militant agitation by the Indonesian communist trade union Serbuni during the 1963/1964 confrontation sought to prevent nationalization of Unilever factories?
Did you know that the American painter George Burroughs Torrey , who was also known as the "painter of presidents", was decorated with the Order of the Savior by King George I of Greece for his services?
Did you know that W. K. Henderson , the founder in 1925 of KWKH Radio in Shreveport , Louisiana , rallied his listeners against the new Federal Communications Commission and chain stores ?
Did you know that remains of the largest known stone ship , either 170 or 354 metres long, have been found under the two royal barrows at Jelling in Denmark ?
Did you know that former Oregon Duck and Detroit Lion George Christensen co-founded a multinational manufacturing company with factories in France, Japan, Canada and the United States?
Did you know that the Bible manuscript minuscule 801 has an unusual order of books, with the Gospels placed at the end, after the Pauline epistles ?
Did you know that the tropical marine fish Gillellus inescatus possesses an esca similar to that of an anglerfish , which might be used for luring prey and attracting mates?
Did you know that contractor George Caldwell was sentenced to four years in a U.S. Penitentiary for income tax evasion and kickbacks received on buildings that he completed at Louisiana State University ?
Did you know that the construction of a summer palace for the King of Jordan was interrupted by the 1967 Arab–Israeli War , and the unfinished building in Tell el-Ful near Jerusalem is now a haven for drug addicts ?
Did you know that the selection of Jamshid Amouzegar as Prime Minister of Iran in 1977 instead of Hushang Ansary has been called “one of the shah ’s two biggest mistakes, leading to the revolution ”?
Did you know that pitcher Davey Dunkle won 30 minor league baseball games in 1902 and made it back to the major leagues the following season?
Did you know that award-winning experimental filmmaker and animator Skip Battaglia is also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology ?
Did you know that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruitfly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila ?
Did you know that as a lobbyist in 1997, former State Rep. Randy Pendleton worked for the constitutional amendment which permits home-equity loans in Texas ?
Did you know that visitors of the 2002 Winter Olympics had the option of traveling to one of the venues by horse-drawn sleigh ?
Did you know that Australian child murderers John and Sarah Makin were caught after the bodies of two of their many victims were discovered in a blocked drain ?
Did you know that the design of the Third Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ohio , may have been patterned after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem ?
Did you know that Bill Kemmer set a Texas League record with 12 runs batted in during a single baseball game?
Did you know that after serving as a deputy MP in Norway , Martha Schrøder worked as an ergotherapist and a spinning wheel teacher?
Did you know that New York Mayor Ed Koch expressed his frustration with the overly generous deals Eric Schmertz negotiated with unions, saying that city workers should say "Thank you Mr. Mayor, for the Schmertz"?
Did you know that the principal exhibit of the Fabergé Museum in the German town of Baden-Baden is an egg bought for nine million pounds ?
Did you know that Bach has a choir of trombones double the choir in his cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64 , for the Third Day of Christmas ?
Did you know that Episcopal bishop of Louisiana Charles Edward Jenkins III retired due to post-traumatic stress disorder from Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that in his first professional baseball season, Lefty Houtz led the Texas League in triples , home runs , hits , total bases, and slugging percentage ?
Did you know that the German Benedictine missionary and bishop Thomas Spreiter helped found Inkamana Abbey in KwaZulu-Natal ?
Did you know that as the runaway winner of a special election for his late father's seat in the Texas House of Representatives , John Kuempel of Seguin is the 101st Republican in the 150-seat body?
Did you know that a playboy originally was a boy performing in a theatre ?
Did you know that since 1989, Don Shows has coached his West Monroe High School Rebels to seven Louisiana state football championships and five runner-up designations?
Did you know that Whitney Houston 's 1985 single " How Will I Know " was originally written for Janet Jackson ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player and former fireman Len Koenecke was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher ?
Did you know that Dratshang Lhentshog is the Commission for the Monastic Affairs of Bhutan ?
Did you know that diplomat and historian Ignas Jonynas contributed articles to the first universal encyclopedia in the Lithuanian language ?
Did you know that the Salcombe Lifeboat capsized in 1916 with the loss of 13 lives, and again in 1983, with no loss of life?
Did you know that the 16th-century judge Sir William Dolben was described by biographer Roger North as an "arrant old snarler"?
Did you know that peroxides were used in the 2005 London bombings and the 2001 shoe bomb plot ?
Did you know that Matt K. Miller , a stage actor and playwright who recently became the artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company , is also a voice artist for Japanese anime ?
Did you know that the 12th-century Lectionary 303 was taken to Paris and later to America despite a colophon threatening "the wrath of the eternal Word of God" for anyone who removed it?
Did you know that Mexican band Jotdog included a cover version of a song previously recorded by Cyndi Lauper on their debut album ?
Did you know that from 1902 to 1996 , Ham Iburg had the most wins in Major League Baseball for a pitcher whose last name starts with the letter "I"?
Did you know that African American Republican Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans held the post of comptroller of customs under both Presidents Harding and Coolidge ?
Did you know that the Puszcza Darżlubska Forest is the second largest site of Nazi mass killings of Poles and Jews in Pomerania ?
Did you know that Isuzu Yamada was the first actress to receive the Order of Culture , Japan's top cultural award, from the Emperor of Japan ?
Did you know that the Powder Ridge Ski Area was home to the first quad chairlift in New England ?