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Did you know that the captured Tiger Tank that was once transported aboard Empire Candida is now preserved in working order at the Bovington Tank Museum ?
Did you know that the requirement to teach geometry was removed from the duties of the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford so that Edward Titchmarsh could be appointed to the post in 1931?
Did you know that the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia , will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains ?
Did you know that the Harelle was a 1382 tax revolt that began in the city of Rouen and was emulated in many other French cities?
Did you know that the tomb of a female saint in Sharafat, East Jerusalem , is venerated in the belief that she can render assistance in times of drought?
Did you know that Elizabeth Yates ' novel Amos Fortune, Free Man won the inaugural William Allen White Children's Book Award ?
Did you know that the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake , that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile , caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand ?
Did you know that German high jumper Meike Kröger spent almost a year working in an orphanage in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan ?
Did you know that, since 2007, the UK government has appointed part-time ministers for each of the nine English regions , to act as "regional champions"?
Did you know that the pygmy whitefish is the most trout -like freshwater whitefish ?
Did you know that in 1948, Johan Ulrik Olsen became Norway 's first Minister of Local Government ?
Did you know that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?
Did you know that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
Did you know that Juan Bravo Murillo tried but failed to impose an absolutist constitution on Spain in 1852?
Did you know that Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell 's first feature film French Dressing ?
Did you know that Sisko Hanhijoki won 28 Finnish championship titles in the 60 , 100 and 200 metres events between 1985 and 1993?
Did you know that Lake Abert in Lake County , Oregon , covers 57 square miles (150 km 2 ) and is teeming with brine shrimp , but has no fish?
Did you know that Samuel Oshoffa founded the Celestial Church of Christ in 1947 after being lost for three months near Porto Novo in Benin ?
Did you know that of the two competing Polish kings in 1705, one was allied with Russia and the other one with Sweden ?
Did you know that the latest possible date for the construction of the William Lawrence House in Bellefontaine, Ohio , is known from a date carved into a windowsill?
Did you know that the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve contains the only significant remnant of native woodland on the Bellarine Peninsula , Victoria, Australia , as it was prior to European settlement?
Did you know that New York Times veteran David Stout received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel Carolina Skeletons , written in his spare time?
Did you know that on April 4, 1981, a tornado struck West Bend , Wisconsin , killing 3 people and injuring another 53?
Did you know that George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon , and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon , Thomas R. Bacon, and Edward Woolsey Bacon —and all were Congregational preachers?
Did you know that U-2336 sank the last Allied ships lost in World War II on 7 May 1945, when she torpedoed and sank the freighters Avondale Park and Sneland I ?
Did you know that Theophobos was a Byzantine general who was declared emperor against his will?
Did you know that Henry Martyn was described by Wisden as "one of the finest wicket-keepers ever seen in first-class cricket "?
Did you know that, although it does not set out to compete for visitors, in 2009 the Cloppenburg Museum Village had 250,000, more than any other museum in Lower Saxony ?
Did you know that famed builder James W. McLaughlin started his Architectural studies at fifteen and when the American Civil War broke out served as a Lieutenant in the body guard of General John C Fremont ?
Did you know that the present day use of arrhae in weddings can be traced back to the Visigoth and Frank culture?
Did you know that Mexican band Camila received a Gold certification for their album Dejarte de Amar in the first day of sales in Mexico ?
Did you know that Molsheim 's former Jesuit Church is the principal 17th century church building in the Rhine Valley ?
Did you know that while Timothy Haʻalilio and William Richards were in Europe negotiating for diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843, they found out it was already under British occupation ?
Did you know that Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira received a platinum certification in Mexico for her album Loba within a week after its release?
Did you know that Jamison Square , an urban water park for children in Portland, Oregon , features "goofy tiki totems" by Kenny Scharf ?
Did you know that in August 1936, British Ambassador to France Sir George Clerk warned Yvon Delbos of the dangers of French intervention in the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that the Honduran archaeological site El Puente was founded by the people of Copán to control the crossroads of two Maya trade routes ?
Did you know that the liverwort Pellia epiphylla is monoicous , with both male and female sex organs on the same thallus ?
Did you know that Warren Terhune , upon his suicide by gunshot, became the only Governor of American Samoa to die in office?
Did you know that the Venezuelan town Potosi was intentionally flooded in 1985, but has reappeared in 2010 due to a drought?
Did you know that British Assyriologist Donald Wiseman was Cliff Richard's youth group leader at Finchley Crusaders ?
Did you know that the only male " sweat bee " to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis ?
Did you know that though she missed out on a British Academy Television Craft Award for her first television film, Pleasureland , writer Helen Blakeman won a British Academy Children's Award for Dustbin Baby , her second?
Did you know that the popularity of the British Landrace pig is partly responsible for the decline of rarer breeds in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Samuel Wanjiru , the 2008 Olympic marathon champion, won the Fukuoka Cross Country competition when he was only 16 years old?
Did you know that the concept of weak dematerialization suggests the Resurrection of Jesus ?
Did you know that game designer Gregory Weir attempted to create one new game in every month of 2009?
Did you know that the Kansas City Royals have never drafted a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
Did you know  that the extinct Neocorynura electra , found in Dominican  amber , is the only  known species of Neocorynura " sweat bee " from the Greater  Antilles ?
Did you know that in 1881, George Washington Weidler , owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that the British settlement of Black River on the Mosquito Coast of present-day Honduras was turned over to Spanish authorities on 29 August 1787 under the terms of the 1786 Convention of London ?
Did you know that on August 23, 1998, a severe weather outbreak produced an F3 tornado in Door County , Wisconsin , that caused an estimated $6.5 million in damages?
Did you know that in the Battle of Anzen , the Byzantine emperor Theophilos managed to avoid death or capture due to a sudden rainfall that loosened his enemies' bowstrings?
Did you know  that early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox  Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate ?
Did you know that Rhytidiadelphus  squarrosus is the most abundant species of moss in British lawns ?
Did you know  that Papias the  Lombard wrote "the first fully recognizable dictionary "  in the 1040s?
Did you know  that the purported paranormal activity in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Cross in Madison,  Mississippi , has been  featured in two books?
Did you know  that the upcoming video game Scrap Metal ,  set to be released on XBox Live Arcade ,  will allow players to customize monster trucks and bulldozers with  flamethrowers and rocket launchers?
Did you know that the 1901 musical play Bluebell in Fairyland was the inspiration for Peter Pan ?
Did you know that "Ducker" McLean may have lost Oxford a University Boat Race because he did not jump out of the boat?
Did you know  that English diplomat John Barker introduced vaccination to the Middle East ?
Did you know that a land use  conflict is when one sort of land use creates a negative impact on  other land uses nearby?
Did you know that the upcoming XBox Live Arcade video game Toy Soldiers will feature World War I toy miniatures battling on a model diorama in a child's bedroom?
Did you know that although Israeli forces  were planning to attack Arab Beersheba in May 1948, they were forced to  delay the Battle of Beersheba until just one day before a planned ceasefire in October 1948?
Did you know  that the Leading Edge ,  a student-run  semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award -winning cover  in 2002 by James C. Christensen ?
Did you know  that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas ?
Did you know  that the American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter , Little Sonny , often boosted his earnings by photographing customers between his on-stage appearances?
Did you know  that the English all-rounder Leslie Todd was once described as "the most perverse, most infuriating cricketer of his generation"?
Did you know that the discovery of Babakotia  radofilai , an extinct species of sloth lemur , helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids , sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs ?
Did you know that Melek Tourhan , whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve  her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt ?
Did you know that British soap opera EastEnders celebrated its 25th anniversary with a live episode revealing who killed Archie Mitchell ?
Did you know that Mar Papa was the first Catholicos (universal leader) of the Persian Church of the  East in the 4th  century?
Did you know that the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in India is building four new 'X' Class locomotives – a design dating from 1920?
Did you know that Bulgarian writers and screenwriters Moritz Yomtov and Marko Stoychev worked together as the Mormarevi Brothers even though they were unrelated?
Did you know that the Museum of Canterbury contains the original 850 AD Canterbury Cross ?
Did you know that Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana sponsored a " poetry slam " judged by poets and rappers at the International Book Fair of Guadalajara, Mexico ?
Did you know that periodic comet 22P/Kopff is expected to next make its closest approach to the Sun on October 25, 2015?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC has seven recognized supporter groups and that in 2009 they amassed the largest average attendance in the Major League Soccer with 30,943 fans?
Did you know that John Sanness , who would become professor and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee , was expelled from his secondary school for protests against the monarchy of Norway ?
Did you know that the rare, "almost legendary" Japanese lates was considered to be the same fish as the barramundi until 1984?
Did you know that Danish designer Poul Lange created a children's book about holes which had a hole all the way through it?
Did you know that Mary Nolan voted in favor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 that recognizes the service of United States Merchant Marine veterans during World War II ?
Did you know that Minuscule 629 , a Latin-Greek diglot manuscript of the New Testament, contains the Comma Johanneum written by the original scribe?
Did you know that in the 2010 gubernatorial elections , Esmael Mangudadatu will be running for governor of Maguindanao even though a rival clan murdered 57 people including his wife and sister in the Maguindanao massacre ?
Did you know that the Mountbatten Brailler allows a user to translate Braille into text and vice versa?
Did you know that Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie were selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft ?
Did you know that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola ?
Did you know that an apocryphal tale tells how George Gilbert Scott drew the initial designs for Clifton Hampden Bridge on his starched shirt cuff over dinner?
Did you know that architect Thomas D. McLaughlin designed numerous Lima, Ohio , buildings, including the city's Elks Lodge ?
Did you know that Solas fiddler Winifred Horan is a former member of the all-female musical group Cherish the Ladies ?
Did you know that the important Mesoamerican archaeological site of Cara Sucia in El Salvador was severely damaged by looters after the Land Reform Programme of 1980 ?
Did you know that Olga Sedakova won gold medals in all three synchronized swimming events at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships ?
Did you know that Oregon Public Broadcasting 's popular Oregon Field Guide has featured topics ranging from mountain unicycling to invasive species ?
Did you know that Blues Hall of Fame inductee "Sunshine" Sonny Payne received his nickname as a joke by musician Robert Jr. Lockwood ?
Did you know that at the Battle of Bathys Ryax , the Byzantines attacked with only 600 men out of an army of 4,000–5,000, leaving the rest to raise much noise so as to simulate the arrival of a far larger force?
Did you know that the Biblioteca comunale in Ancona , Italy, has a collection of musical manuscripts of more than 50 classical composers?
Did you know that in 2007, champion runner David Lelei tried to be the Orange Democratic Movement candidate for the Eldoret South Constituency seat but lost to the eventual winner Peris Simam ?
Did you know that Giant George is recognised as the tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records and measures 43 inches (110 cm) high at the withers ?
Did you know that Roald Dysthe , who was installed as a chief executive during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany , was acquitted of treason in 1951?
Did you know that An Nam chí lược , a book published in 1335 during the Yuan Dynasty , is considered the oldest historical work by a Vietnamese that has been preserved?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Madonna made her episodic TV series debut in the Will & Grace episode " Dolls and Dolls "?
Did you know that the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken ?
Did you know that according to Erich von Manstein in his book Verlorene Siege , Adolf Hitler stopped Operation Citadel too soon?
Did you know that suggested close relatives of the rare Ecuadorian rice rat Mindomys have included water rats , tree rats , and Caribbean giant rats ?
Did you know that in just over 14 years of owning Select Medical Corporation , Rocco Ortenzio and his son Robert made an estimated $200,000,000 in profit?
Did you know that Cruel and Unusual is a documentary about transsexual women incarcerated in men's prisons?
Did you know that Drew Barrymore , Wanda Sykes and Cynthia Nixon are to be honored at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards this year?
Did you know that the secret articles of the Peace of Lund , that ended the Scanian War in 1679, were not revealed until 1870?
Did you know that tennis player Johan Haanes spent nine months in a concentration camp for participation in an "illegal" ski competition?
Did you know that John Steel , the Ziegfeld Follies tenor who introduced Irving Berlin 's  song "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody", later appeared in staged boxing matches?
Did you know that Messier 58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is one of four barred spiral  galaxies included in Charles Messier's catalog ?
Did you know that at the town next to the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada ,  thousands of underage girls prostituted themselves for gold flakes while around 60–80  unsolved murders were registered every month?
Did you know that James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County  executive of Essex County, New Jersey , even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy ?
Did you know that Minuscule 546 was bought by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts in the 1860s?
Did you know that Stanley Muirhead helped lead Michigan to a national football  championship in 1923 and was a first-team All- NFL player in 1924 for the Dayton Triangles and Cleveland Bulldogs ?
Did you know that when Dana Delany and Julie Benz shared a kiss scene for the Desperate  Housewives episode " Lovely ", Delaney noticed "crew members on  the set that were never there before"?
Did you know that several families of land gastropods reach a maximum of biodiversity  in Turkey ?
Did you know that in 1787, British merchant ship Imperial Eagle , commanded by Charles William Barkley , brought fur from the Americas to sell in China without legally required licences, while sailing under the Austrian flag?
Did you know that, to stay above the reservoir the Dexter Dam would make, the Lowell Bridge , in Lowell, Oregon , was raised about 6 feet (1.8 m) in 1953?
Did you know that Cho Jae-hyun , a South Korean actor, is commonly referred to    as a persona of director Kim Ki-duk due to his appearances in almost all of Kim's films?
Did you know that America’s oldest private medical society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia , displays the conjoined liver of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker in its museum?
Did you know that some of the songs on the 2009 EP Criminal Intents/Morning Star detail the story arc of a group of rebels fighting  against a corporation out to rule the  world?
Did you know that the Nissan Terranaut concept car has a glass dome over its roof for an easy escape in case of emergency?
Did you know that the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Quelepa in eastern El Salvador was distinguished by its unusual ramped pyramids ?
Did you know  that the counter-insurgency strategy of clear and hold , widely implemented in the Vietnam War and elsewhere, has also been used extensively in the Iraq War ?
Did you know that a 1973 ruling by Sylvia Pressler forced Little  League  Baseball to  begin  admitting girls for the first time?
Did you know that Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides , a forger of manuscripts?
Did you know  that IGN 's   Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation ?
Did you know  that one of the activities that are possible at the Nevado de   Toluca National Park is scuba diving in the two  volcanic  crater lakes?
Did you know that British actress Emma Catherwood observed real bypass surgery being performed in preparation   for her role as F1 Penny Valentine in the medical drama Holby City ?
Did you know that the Vedda language is a Creole  language based on Sinhalese of Sri Lanka rather than a dialect ?
Did you know that former baseball player Joe Abreu became an enthusiast of magic after he saw former baseball  player and professional magician Carl Zamloch put on a magic show at his high  school?
Did you know that Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world executed by the USS Triton in 1960?
Did you know that the original St. Sebastian  Roman Catholic Church of Woodside, Queens , New York was built by Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr. ?
Did you know that in the 1885–86 season , West Bromwich Albion became the first team from the English Midlands to reach the FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that Bethel Academy in Kentucky was the first Methodist school west of the Appalachian Mountains ?
Did you know that comedy writer Al Jean , who has been awarded with four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons , graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics?
Did you know that in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver ?
Did you know that Minuscule 627 has an unusual order of books, with  the Book of  Revelation placed  between Acts of the Apostles and the general   epistles ?
Did you know  that in 1938, the barque Priwall recorded the fastest ever rounding of Cape Horn by a sailing ship?
Did you know  that Leland Myrick wrote the autobiographical graphic novel Missouri Boy ,  even though he considers himself  "a very private person"?
Did you know that Levi L.  Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
Did you know  that the Yeywa   Hydropower Dam is the largest hydroelectric  power plant and the  first roller-compacted concrete dam in Burma ?
Did you know that Google Images caused controversy in 2009 after  it was discovered that the number-one result for  the search term  "Michelle Obama" was a derogatory doctored photo of the US first lady?
Did you know that Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates ?
Did you know that in the 1920s , Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams , sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage , and sliced bacon ?
Did you know that Viktor Kaisiepo , a Netherlands New Guinean -born advocate of self-determination for West Papua , lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that the plant Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' was chosen as the 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association?
Did you know that in 1709, a privateering force, of which Acadian military officer Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was a member, sank 35 British ships and took 470 people prisoner?
Did you know that the 1997 flooding of Wilson Canyon in Lyon County , Nevada , resulted in $726,000 in damage to Nevada State Route 208 ?
Did you know that Letters of Ayn Rand , published in 1995, was the first book by Ayn Rand to receive a positive review in The New York Times Book Review since 1943?
Did you know that Johan Gustaf Sandberg ' s frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?
Did you know that the cheater plug has been used to remedy ground loops in audio systems , with reckless disregard of electrical safety ?
Did you know that Major-General Nick Carter is the current commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan ?
Did you know that the origin of the Postclassic K'iche' Maya patron deity Jacawitz has been traced back to a historical event at the city of Seibal ?
Did you know that Arthur Crispien , who was dismissed as editor of a Social Democratic Party newspaper for his opposition to war credits in 1914, later became the Party's Chairman?
Did you know that Danish Bacon is sliced, packed, and sold in the UK ?
Did you know that cross dressing and mooning have been prosecuted as conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the US military ?
Did you know that several French international footballers have played for FC Versailles , including Thierry Henry , Jérôme Rothen and Hatem Ben Arfa ?
Did you know that Rastafarian hardcore punk band Bad Brains signed to Neil Cooper ' s ROIR cassette label because Cooper, who had worked at the Royal Mint , gave them medallions made for Emperor Haile Selassie ?
Did you know that the Swabian-Hall Swine breed of pig was started by King William I of Württemberg ?
Did you know  that the production of art in Wales was greatly stimulated by the 18th century fashion for the sublime in landscape  painting ?
Did you know that a reviewer of the 2006 album Gigahearts by the Italian industrial band Dope Stars Inc. described the group as "the new generation of what Goth means in the 21st century"?
Did you know that in 1974 animal rights activists attempted to bomb the lab of biologist Mike Handel ?