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Did you know that after Eustathios Maleinos hosted Byzantine Emperor Basil II on his estate in 995, the Emperor, alarmed by Maleinos' wealth and power, placed him under house arrest in Constantinople ?
Did you know that American Texas and electric blues musician Mike Morgan ' s backing band, the Crawl, was named after a Lonnie Brooks song?
Did you know that Kallina House , designed by Vjekoslav Bastl for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch studio, is one of the finest examples of Secessionist -style street architecture in Zagreb ?
Did you know  that the Portland Winterhawks were the first US team to compete for Canada's national junior hockey championship at the 1982 Memorial Cup , and the first to win it the following year ?
Did you know that iron-55 source will be used in an X-ray diffraction instrument flown to Mars in 2018?
Did you know that Agalinis aspera (tall false foxglove), a purple and pink flowering plant native to the United States and Canada, is endangered?
Did you know that Justice Henry Barron , the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland , also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year?
Did you know that some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York , suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?
Did you know that Bobbi Trout became the first woman to fly an aircraft all night and broke the previous women's solo endurance record in a February 10, 1929, flight?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Priscus survived the violent depositions of two successive Byzantine emperors and retained high office under their successors?
Did you know that Director Park in Portland , Oregon , was designed by Laurie Olin , who also designed Bryant Park in New York City ?
Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians ?
Did you know that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City?
Did you know that Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace , Hägar the Horrible , and Funky Winkerbean on the box?
Did you know that Jose Peralta was the first Latino elected to the New York State Assembly from Queens, New York ?
Did you know that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge 's motion captures of humans?
Did you know that the Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport, Iowa , has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg , Herbert Hoover , Richard Nixon , Jack Dempsey , Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton ?
Did you know that between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus , Syria , for 47 years?
Did you know that Kobyaysky Ulus in the middle of the Sakha Republic of Russia has notable gold and silver reserves?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company started in 1924, but went bankrupt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ?
Did you know that Jan de Jong , the ice master at Thialf , manipulated the ice cleaning schedule in the 1981 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men so that Eric Heiden would lose?
Did you know that after retiring from the National Football League , Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut ?
Did you know that the chemist Hugo Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880?
Did you know that southbound M-52 in downtown Adrian, Michigan , carries both directions of the US 223 business loop in town?
Did you know that country music singer David Nail 's single " Turning Home " was co-written by Kenny Chesney ?
Did you know that George Fielding Eliot 's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event?
Did you know that the variant of the wedding cord known as God ’s knot or cord -of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles ?
Did you know that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?
Did you know that the 1930s Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving was the grandson of the Victorian era actor Sir Henry Irving ?
Did you know that insurers use the condition of average to reduce insurance claims if they think you are underinsured?
Did you know that despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula , Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology ?
Did you know that the Apastovsky Museum in Apastovo , Tatarstan , contains archaeological and paleontological finds such as ancient tools, bone needles, stone hammers, a skull of a rhinoceros and mammoth teeth?
Did you know that in Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee and the Liverpool Post and Echo Ltd , Lord Nicholls decided that the disputed test applied by the High Court judge was not necessarily wrong, but allowed the appeal anyway?
Did you know that " Indian Camp " (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi- autobiographical character Nick Adams ?
Did you know that World War I fighter pilot Les Holden gained the nicknames "Lucky Les" and "the homing pigeon" after returning from successive missions with his aircraft riddled with bullet holes?
Did you know that the American Detroit blues guitarist , singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica player?
Did you know that the J.W. Knapp Company Building , one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel -covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows?
Did you know that Bessie A. Buchanan , who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature , previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club ?
Did you know that although much of its habitat has been destroyed, isolated populations of the Mexican rice rat Oryzomys albiventer likely still survive?
Did you know that Wilt Chamberlain won the National Basketball Association rebounding title a record eleven times in his career?
Did you know that following the invasion of Tibet in 1959, the fifth Keutsang incarnation of the Keutsang Hermitage was incarcerated and later sought asylum in India in the 1980s?
Did you know that Andy Hartzell created his graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny without a single line of text?
Did you know that Heath Calhoun and Andy Soule , both double-leg amputees due to wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan , respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics ?
Did you know that St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio , lies near the center of the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches ?
Did you know that sex therapy pioneer Helen Singer Kaplan advocated for people to enjoy sexual intercourse as much as possible as opposed to seeing it as something dirty or harmful?
Did you know that Gaius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus , a three-time Roman consul in the 4th century BCE, was the first plebeian to build a temple in the Roman Republic ?
Did you know that a family in the village of Auchencairn reported stones being thrown, cattle moved and buildings set alight by a poltergeist in 1695?
Did you know that the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property ?
Did you know that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod , a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?
Did you know that in 1989, Michel Hansenne was elected the first post- Cold War Director-General of the International Labour Organization ?
Did you know that the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Vasco Abadjiev was one of the youngest violinists to make his international debut in the 20th century, at the age of 6, in June 1932 in Vienna ?
Did you know that the Interactive Museum of Economics in Mexico City is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics?
Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
Did you know that Ragnhild was the only ship in convoy KMS 96G ?
Did you know that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing " Crucifixion ", tears came to his eyes?
Did you know that periodic comet 50P/Arend is expected to make its next closest approach to the Sun in 2016?
Did you know that Mahela Jayawardene holds several batting records in Test cricket for Sri Lanka , including the most centuries ?
Did you know that in the 840s, the emir of Malatya , Umar al-Aqta , gave refuge to the Paulicians who were being persecuted by the Byzantine Empire , and gave them territory where they founded their own state?
Did you know that the American industrialist Nathaniel Wheeler became a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna for sewing machines ?
Did you know that the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper , rope , charcoal and traditional medications against cough , sore throat , toothache , gonorrhea and yellow fever ?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1947, the Spanish financier José Lázaro Galdiano has amassed a collection of about 12,000 art works, mainly by European Old Masters ?
Did you know that Australian rugby union player Steve Williams was selected to play for the German national rugby union team while backpacking around Europe?
Did you know that the residence of former Mayor of Christchurch , New Zealand, James Arthur Flesher is now used as a community centre ?
Did you know that the initial letters in Lectionary 187 are decorated with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic motifs (birds, fishes, hands)?
Did you know that Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I ?
Did you know that in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
Did you know that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods ?
Did you know that the Hot and Hot Fish Club was a gentlemen's club dedicated to epicurean pursuits?
Did you know that Thomas Rutherford Bacon , a 19th century Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut , was called "the original mugwump of Connecticut"?
Did you know that downtown Napoleon, Ohio , is bracketed by the historical and vastly different First Presbyterian Church and St. Augustine's Catholic Church ?
Did you know that Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I ?
Did you know that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin , Italy?
Did you know that Kesha Rogers , who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district , is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama ?
Did you know that the last inhabitant of drowned settlement Hampton-on-Sea was retiree Edmund Reid, previously Metropolitan police head of CID who investigated the Jack the Ripper case?
Did you know that chamberlain Egeberg established a sports prize that was regarded the highest achievement in Norwegian sports?
Did you know that the name of Ouvrage Rochonvillers of the Maginot Line was a state secret until 1971?
Did you know that the state flag of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is used on state police boats ?
Did you know that in 2010, Jennie M. Forehand sponsored a bill limiting the ability of judges to sentence criminals to time in local jails if those jails are not reimbursed by the state?
Did you know that Eastern Michigan University 's McKenny Union , opened in 1931, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers' college ?
Did you know that Patricia Travers was a child prodigy with the violin but withdrew from public performances at age 23?
Did you know that in Tell Balata , a tell in the West Bank , there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
Did you know that Sri Lanka 's first and so far only national referendum was held in 1982 to postpone parliamentary elections by six years?
Did you know that Tickle Em Jock was the first Scottish Terrier to be best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
Did you know that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics , once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States ?
Did you know that the smallscale archerfish does not need brackish water like other members of genus Toxotes , and is thus sometimes sold as a "freshwater archerfish"?
Did you know that the Museo de la Estampa , along with the Museo Nacional de Arte , manages Mexico's largest collection of graphic arts including works by José Guadalupe Posada ?
Did you know that George Matthew Snelson , the first Mayor of Palmerston North , New Zealand , is regarded as the father of his city ?
Did you know that English football clubs entering administration have fewer points deducted in the Premier League than in the Football League because they play fewer games?
Did you know that Sir Simon Degge , a barrister in Derby , wrote about glebes and the crime of simony ?
Did you know that of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity ?
Did you know that writer Zahari Stoyanov said of Bulgarian general, regent and Minister of War Sava Mutkurov that "by the time Mutkurov opened his mouth, the market would close up"?
Did you know that one common route up New York 's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills ?
Did you know that medical student Bob Kolesar was one of Michigan 's renowned "Seven Oak Posts" in 1942 ?
Did you know that Francisco Goya's etching Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón records an event from 1801 when a Spanish politician was impaled and killed after a bull crashed through the barriers at a Madrid bullfight ?
Did you know that Tofiri Kibuuka , one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro , was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that three Byzantine emperors in the 6th century served as commanders of the imperial guard, known as the Excubitors , prior to assuming the throne?
Did you know that American architect Kemper Nomland was a conscientious objector who spent World War II at Civilian Public Service camps in Oregon along with several other artists and writers?
Did you know that American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey 's best days are ahead of him ?
Did you know that Early Archaic peoples used the Houserville Site in Pennsylvania ten millennia ago?
Did you know that Niall McCrudden became known as the "optician to the stars" after selling a pair of sunglasses to Jim Corr ?
Did you know that Minuscule 642 , a manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by Joseph Carlyle , orientalist?
Did you know that an essay in The Cherryh Odyssey describes American science fiction author C. J. Cherryh as "a master of detail, tone, and emotional wallop"?
Did you know that during a tornado outbreak on June 18, 2001, police in Siren, Wisconsin , shouted warnings at local residents to take cover when the village's tornado siren malfunctioned?
Did you know that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics ?
Did you know that in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter , a rock cave in South Africa , some of the earliest use of symbols by humans has been found upon water containers made out of ostrich eggshells?
Did you know that the Cuban national baseball team won the gold or silver medal at every Summer Olympics where baseball was an official Olympic sport ?
Did you know that 19th-century white churchman Leonard Woolsey Bacon caused controversy when, as a pastor in Savannah, Georgia , he reportedly said he wouldn't mind his daughter marrying an African-American man?
Did you know that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India ?
Did you know that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla 's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station?
Did you know that 17th-century ironmaster George Sitwell ' s vertically integrated business was so successful he exported a rolling mill to the West Indies ?
Did you know that Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian -language newspaper in the United States ?
Did you know that the German submarine U-1065 was sunk after only six days at sea by rockets from 10 de Havilland Mosquitos ?
Did you know that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled ?
Did you know that the customers of Martha Matilda Harper ' s hair salons included Susan B. Anthony , Woodrow Wilson , Calvin Coolidge , and Jacqueline Kennedy ?
Did you know that the book Commentarii de Bello Civili , written by Julius Caesar , is staple reading among students of Latin ?
Did you know that Emma Roberto Steiner , one of the first American women to make a living from conducting , took a ten year hiatus from her musical career to prospect for tin near Nome, Alaska ?
Did you know that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead —a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion?
Did you know that Franjo Mihalić , winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon , set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics ?
Did you know that the collector urchin is so named because of its tendency to collect debris on its dorsal side ?
Did you know that the mother of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was the main sponsor of Tibetan Rakhadrak Hermitage ?
Did you know that Mildred "Micky" Axton , who was the first woman to fly a B-29 , died on February 8, 2010, before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010?
Did you know that España y Filipinas ( Spain and the Philippines ) by Juan Luna is a painted depiction of two women on the stairway to progress ?
Did you know that Florence Luscomb , one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT , later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
Did you know that the video for OK Go 's single " This Too Shall Pass " features a giant Rube Goldberg machine and took 60 takes to complete?
Did you know that fiction writer Cathy Kelly has sold over 1 million books in the UK , at one time displacing both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling from the top of the country's bestseller list?
Did you know that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru , described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack "?
Did you know that a recipe for Calf's Liver and Bacon is found in the White House Cookbook ?
Did you know that Tenley Albright won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious leg injury two weeks before the Olympics?
Did you know that the zoste patrikia was the only Byzantine title reserved specifically for women, and ranked as one of the highest court dignities?
Did you know that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally ?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin ’s historical novel , The Woman Who Had Two Navels , is about a hallucinating Filipina who believed she had two belly buttons ?
Did you know that the prominent Hindu Ganesha cave temple at Lenyadri is located in the vicinity of about 30 Buddhist caves?
Did you know that Evelina Haverfield , a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver " next time?
Did you know that the extinct sweat bee genus Nesagapostemon is known from a single 9.9-millimetre (0.39 in) female specimen ?
Did you know that the Bulgarian female runners Zlateva , Yordanova , Pekhlivanova , Shtereva , Tomova and Petrova all won medals in 800 metres at the European Indoor Championships in the 1970s?
Did you know that with most of the British fleet immobilised by the mutiny at the Nore , HMS Adamant was one of only two two-decker warships available to blockade the Dutch fleet in 1798?
Did you know that Spanish politician and feminist Clara Campoamor was one of three women elected to Spain's 1931 Constituent Assembly even though women were not allowed to vote in the election?
Did you know that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands , perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
Did you know that Ann Baumgartner was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War Two ?
Did you know that by using a shower curtain and sewing machine, Marion Donovan developed what was to become the first waterproof disposable diaper ?
Did you know that Strobilanthes callosus , a shrub found in the hill forests of India used in folk medicines, flowers only once in eight years before dying off, exhibiting a once in a lifetime mass flowering and mass seeding life cycle?
Did you know that three-time Olympian Albertina Dias was the first Portuguese woman to win at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships ?
Did you know that Girdap , established in Ruse in 1881, was the first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria ?
Did you know that the word bluestocking meaning learned woman is said to have derived from a reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet ?
Did you know that Ragna Nielsen was the first woman to headmaster a secondary school in Norway?
Did you know that the ancient Romans sacrificed pregnant cows to celebrate Fordicidia , the festival of fertility ?
Did you know that in 1928, Viola Gentry flew 8 hours, 6 six minutes and 37 seconds straight which set the first non-refueling endurance record for women ?
Did you know that the Bacon Deluxe sandwich from Wendy's topped a list of the five most unhealthful gourmet burgers sold by national fast food restaurant chains in the United States?
Did you know that Lieben Prize laureates included chemists Carl von Than (1868), Josef Maria Eder (1895) and Paul Friedländer (1908)?
Did you know that video game music composer Garry Schyman prefers the video game industry to television and film in part because the people in it are "nice people whose egos were in check"?
Did you know that Masako Katsura 's participation in the World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament of 1952 was the first time any woman ever competed in any billiards tournament for a world crown?
Did you know that because the Sassanid commander Kardarigan ordered his army's water supplies destroyed prior to the Battle of Solachon , many of his men died of thirst and water poisoning after the battle?
Did you know that Black Chicks Talking is a book, film, play and art exhibition that explores issues related to Indigenous Australian women?
Did you know that Reedy Lake was drained to kill off its carp ?
Did you know that a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon ?
Did you know that John Brennan , a 201-pound football player, was voted "queen" of the University of Michigan ice carnival after challenging the pulchritude of the school's co-eds ?