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Did you know that kabbalists believed that those who think of themselves as Ayin , a mystical symbol of Kabbalah , will ascend to a spiritual world where everything, including life and death, is equal?
Did you know that French engineer Achille Collas invented a working machine to make engravings from medals, coins and other bas-reliefs , and another to copy sculptures at a reduced scale?
Did you know that the city of Chicago has warming centers open from December 1 to March 1 each year?
Did you know that the Centipede–Lake Way project, located at Lake Way , is scheduled to become Western Australia 's second uranium mine by 2013?
Did you know that Soul Surfer is an upcoming film about Bethany Hamilton , who lost her left arm in a shark attack while surfing?
Did you know that Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury was the first tribal Nonintercourse Act lawsuit to go to a jury?
Did you know that Andy Lally and Brian Keselowski are competing for Rookie of the Year in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ?
Did you know that in ecologically diverse Poinsett State Park in South Carolina one can see mountain laurels draped with Spanish moss ?
Did you know that the Westungarische Volksstimme editor Paul Wittich was the first social democrat elected to the town council of Pressburg (today known as Bratislava)?
Did you know that between 1969 and 1984, the Charlie Conacher Humanitarian Award was presented to a National Hockey League player who made outstanding community service contributions?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Hubert , a weak tropical cyclone , killed 85 people and left 35 more missing throughout Madagascar in March 2010 ?
Did you know that the Florida perforate cladonia was the first lichen to be added to the United States' endangered species list?
Did you know that mountain coatis , a genus of small carnivorans from the Andes, were considered to represent a single species , until a second species was recognized in 2009?
Did you know that Cedric Wright accompanied his best friend Ansel Adams when three of Adams' most famous photographs were taken?
Did you know that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600 , its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities ?
Did you know that former Syrian chief of staff Ali Aslan was considered the "operational brain" of the Syrian Army during the 1990s?
Did you know that Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth was knighted in King George VI 's bedroom after performing nerve surgery for his vascular disease?
Did you know that a Pacific tropical storm and a Gulf of Mexico hurricane contributed to flash flooding in Minnesota and Wisconsin in September 2010 ?
Did you know that Stephen Herbits spent three years as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress ?
Did you know that the dog breed the Tesem appears on monuments and in wall paintings of the Ancient Egyptians ?
Did you know that the month after the Montreal Canadiens lost to their provincial rivals , the Quebec Nordiques , in the 1982 NHL playoffs , Quebec 's beer consumption fell by 9.5 percent?
Did you know that Mary Frances Winston Newson was the first American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics from a European university?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage described his 1959 film Cat's Cradle as "sexual witchcraft involving two couples and a 'medium' cat"?
Did you know that British botanist Charles Edward Hubbard was "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses "?
Did you know that Doomsday Gun ( HBO , 2004) was the first television drama to deal with U.S. and British covert involvement with Saddam Hussein preceding the Gulf War ?
Did you know that the two leading sopranos in the 1711 world premiere of Handel 's Rinaldo , Isabella Girardeau and Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti , were bitter rivals?
Did you know that Hemioniscus balani is called a " parasitic castrator " although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?
Did you know that when wine importer Kermit Lynch tried to contact Domaine Raveneau to import their wine to the United States, they hung up on him?
Did you know that the SSM-A-3 Snark and SSM-A-5 Boojum cruise missiles were named after beasts from Lewis Carroll 's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark ?
Did you know that in July 2003, amidst improving ties, Muhammad Mustafa Mero became the first Syrian prime minister to visit neighboring Turkey in 17 years?
Did you know that " New Allegiances ", the series seven premiere of the British television series Spooks , was partially filmed on location in Moscow , Russia , the first time in series history where filming took place outside the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Master of the Blankney Hunt , Edgar Lubbock played in four FA Cup Finals , twice on the winning side?
Did you know that the Marshall JCM800 series of amplifiers, used by many hard rock and heavy metal bands of the 1980s, owes its name to the owner's initials and his car number plate ?
Did you know that every no-hitter in franchise history for the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball club was thrown by a pitcher wearing an Expos uniform back when the team was based in Montreal , Canada ?
Did you know that from a standing start, Wales rugby union international Roy John could jump up and reach the crossbar set at 3.2 metres (10 ft 6 in) above the ground?
Did you know that the bat Myotis escalerai was first recorded in France in 2009?
Did you know that Michigan 's 1915 quarterback Lawrence Roehm was called the "thinking type", "160 pounds of undaunted courage", and a "peppery" player who imbued his team with "do-or-die spirit"?
Did you know that legal action following the burial of a two-year old child in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Akenham , Suffolk , led to a change in the law in 1880?
Did you know that Alan B. Slifka , who created the Abraham Fund Initiatives to promote coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel, was also the first chairman of the Big Apple Circus ?
Did you know that in 2004, the measurement of the size of a ski jumping hill was changed from the construction point to the hill size ?
Did you know that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi , who leads Egypt 's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , was formerly defence minister under President Hosni Mubarak ?
Did you know that in 1881, a tunnel was dug under St. Petersburg 's shortest street, Malaya Sadovaya Street , as part of a Narodnik plot to assassinate Czar Alexander II ?
Did you know that while Nielluccio is sometimes described as indigenous to Corsica , the grape may actually have come to the island from Genoa and could really just be a clone of Sangiovese ?
Did you know that Vidyasagar Setu , the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was built over the course of 20 years?
Did you know that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia , taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women?
Did you know that the beautiful purple-tinged flowering Castilleja septentrionalis (pale painted cup) is a parasite on the roots of other plants?
Did you know that British appeal court judge James Stirling was a Wrangler , a Devil , and an amateur bryologist ?
Did you know that a Norwegian song from 1950 with lyrics by politician and poet Arne Paasche Aasen sold 100,000 records?
Did you know that Leonard Nimoy says that his work on Fringe , which began with the episode " There's More Than One of Everything ", will be his last acting project?
Did you know that the 13th-century New Testament manuscript known as Minuscule 827 does not include John 's account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery ?
Did you know that a woman immigrant from Frankfurt , the Countess Leon , founded the communal Germantown Colony established in 1835 in Webster Parish , Louisiana ?
Did you know that Home and Away actor Charles Cottier is embarrassed in real life because his character Dexter Walker falls in love with an older woman?
Did you know that during the 1950s, the United States Navy intended to use Gorgons to deliver chemical weapons ?
Did you know that Romanian novelist Sergiu Dan survived deportation to Transnistria , spoke of it in one of the few local contributions to Holocaust literature , and was later imprisoned by the communist regime ?
Did you know that Oliver Lewis , founding member of the electronic music group Deviations Project , is considered to be the "world's fastest violinist"?
Did you know that in the 1990s Luobi Cave near Sanya , Hainan , China, yielded the oldest evidence of human settlement in Hainan, as well as China's most southern occurrence of Upper Paleolithic era stone tools?
Did you know that Justice , a 1954 NBC TV legal drama , was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York ?
Did you know that Nobel Prize -winning physicist Richard Feynman began the last of three lectures collected in The Meaning of It All by saying, "I have completely run out of organized ideas"?
Did you know that while Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was ill in 1983, Hikmat al-Shihabi , chief of staff of the Syrian Army , and Ali Duba , head of the Military Intelligence , were part of an interim ruling committee?
Did you know that the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland had planned to be aboard Manx2 Flight 7100 , which crashed on landing in February 2011 ?
Did you know that Gabe Carimi , who is expected to be picked in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft , fasted for Yom Kippur until an hour before game-time in his freshman year of college?
Did you know that the Iron Age Meare Lake Village was built on a peat bog on the Somerset Levels ?
Did you know that Brother Cajetan J. B. Baumann (1899–1969) was the first member of a religious order to ever be named to the American Institute of Architects ?
Did you know that Scrivener said that few Greek New Testament manuscripts from the 12th century were equal to Codex Ephesinus in "weight and importance"?
Did you know that Adalbert Schneider was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the Denmark Strait ?
Did you know that comedian Nick Offerman said of filming the Parks and Recreation episode " Ron & Tammy: Part Two ": "I remember there was lots of howling, and I came away very sore and scarred?"
Did you know that Michigan quarterback Ted Bank wore a specially constructed knee brace to allow him to play football after suffering a shrapnel injury in World War I ?
Did you know that the SHARP aircraft was a sort of low-altitude communications satellite in the form of an electrically powered airplane?
Did you know that the Salaulim Dam in Goa , India , has a unique duckbill type of spillway located in the gorge section?
Did you know that Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki is one of the Three Bards of Polish literature ?
Did you know that the ice hockey team Spektrum Flyers was disbanded after two years because its management moved it from Oslo to Bergen ?
Did you know that the UK singer Don Charles , who had one top forty hit, later bought a Maltese night club with Rolf Harris ?
Did you know that Dutch Major Lodewijk Thomson , second-in-command of the International Gendarmerie in Albania , was probably killed by an Italian sniper on 15 June 1914, in a peasant rebel attack on Durrës ?
Did you know that Czech film director Jan Sviták was killed shortly after the liberation of Prague in 1945?
Did you know that artist John DeStefano spent sixty years creating mannequins after deciding that he could not support his family with his art?
Did you know that although the Jura wine grape Poulsard is dark-skinned, the amount of color pigment in its skin is so low that it can be used to make white wine ?
Did you know that legend says that Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam was so beloved that when she died 3000 knights, nobles and weeping peasants followed her body to its burial place ?
Did you know that all of the federal judges in South Carolina recused themselves from South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe ?
Did you know that the prehistoric archaeologist Johanna Mestorf was the first female museum director in Germany , and at 71 became the first or second female professor?
Did you know that a one-minute kiss scene involving Home and Away character Steven Matheson took hours to film because of the actors' nerves?
Did you know that the Sigur Plateau is a wildlife corridor which is important for maintaining the genetic diversity of elephants and general biodiversity in South India ?
Did you know that Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist whose equations use seismic waves to map underground features?
Did you know that the United States Air Force 's 14th Test Squadron was originally activated during the Cold War as the 14th Missile Warning Squadron and assigned to operate radar sites around the United States ?
Did you know that a brass in All Saints Church, Little Wenham is said to be one of the best pre- Reformation brasses in Suffolk ?
Did you know that the lawyer who argued Connick v. Myers before the U.S. Supreme Court for Harry Connick, Sr. , had interviewed Sheila Myers, the appellee, when she had applied to work for Connick?
Did you know that the Barnesville Petroglyph is unusual because its human faces have noses?
Did you know that the Thing Moot in Little Langdale was used as an open-air meeting place by Viking settlers?
Did you know that Pinocchio 's sentence " My nose grows now " could be neither true nor false, which means his nose grows if, and only if, it does not grow?
Did you know that the neighborhoods of the city of Cholula, Puebla , in Mexico have a complicated system for sponsoring its many religious festivals?
Did you know that while it took Wire three months to come up with a title for their last album, Object 47 , the band immediately agreed on naming their current record Red Barked Tree ?
Did you know that 24 non-fatal accidents at No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF in 1926 prompted its commander to remark that the cadets must have learned how to crash "moderately safely"?
Did you know that Fringe actress Anna Torv considers " August " one of her favorite episodes?
Did you know that in 1972, Republican Robert L. Frye claimed that his Democratic opponent offered him a job to entice Frye to leave the race for Louisiana education superintendent?
Did you know that Canadian rock band Bleeker Ridge formed in 2003, when the youngest members were 12 years old?
Did you know that the only high-ranking Byzantine official to die in the 557 Constantinople earthquake was a curator and honorary consul killed by a piece of decorative marble ?
Did you know that for the 2009 independent feature film Jordon Saffron Taste This! , director Sergio Myers created a filmmaking style he calls "Free Flow Filmmaking"?
Did you know that Olav Braarud remained the managing director of the Oslo light rail company Holmenkolbanen while it was controlled by the fascist Nasjonal Samling and the Nazi military during World War II ?
Did you know that after the failed Siege of Phasis during the Lazic War against the Byzantines , the Sassanid Persian shah became so upset with his losing general that he had him flayed alive ?
Did you know that the Moyes Dragonfly ultralight aircraft was designed for the specialised role of towing hang gliders , but is also used for herding livestock ?
Did you know that during the Boer War General Henry Hildyard told Winston Churchill that his Brigade was in " formation for taking advantage of ant-heaps "?
Did you know that Julianna Margulies appeared in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Black and Blue " as a romantic interest to the much-older Ned Beatty ?
Did you know that the Quicksilver GT500 is the first aircraft certified under Part 21.24 of the Federal Aviation Regulations ?
Did you know that courts have held that a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo implementation statute extinguished all tribal aboriginal title in California ?
Did you know that Typhoon Rananim was the strongest typhoon to strike the Chinese province of Zhejiang since 1956?
Did you know that indigenous customary law, known as usos y costumbres , is used for local elections in Mexico and Bolivia ?
Did you know that Charles Blackader survived three years on the Western Front in the First World War , only to be invalided home after being licked by a rabid dog?
Did you know that, in the Rule 90 cellular automaton , any finite pattern eventually fills the whole array of cells with copies of itself?
Did you know that James Troy served as the light keeper of Cleveland Point Light for 50 years, the longest serving light keeper at one lighthouse in Australia ?
Did you know that Richard Smith directed the Marx Brothers in their first film, Humor Risk ?
Did you know that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 , whistleblowers in Great Britain are protected from dismissal, but not from libel lawsuits if their allegations turn out to be false?
Did you know that the New Zealand mushrooms Amanita australis , A. nothofagi , Entoloma haastii , Mycena cystidiosa , M. minirubra , and Oudemansiella australis were all described by Greta Stevenson as new to science?
Did you know that British soap opera Hollyoaks introduced fictional killer Silas Blissett to raise awareness of Internet safety ?
Did you know that the main protagonist from the manga series Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle , Syaoran , ends up becoming one of the series' main antagonists?
Did you know that the east end of Nevada State Route 230 is known as the Welcome Interchange?
Did you know that in 1950, Arnold Cook was the first person to bring a guide dog to Australia ?
Did you know that Ṭūsī was the first one to recognize that, if a declarative sentence that declares itself being false, is false, this does not necessitate it being true?
Did you know that Sunny South , a clipper ship captured in 1860 with a cargo of over 800 slaves, was built by a racing yacht designer , and outran the steam-powered HMS Brisk for four hours?
Did you know that Colonel Joachim Meichssner refused to kill Hitler in a suicide attack because he could not bear the stress of waiting?
Did you know that former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a parishioner at St. Raphael's Church in New York City?
Did you know that the 1952 Cairo Fire is the focus of numerous conspiracy theories because those responsible for it have never been identified?
Did you know that French author Jeanne Galzy , largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire ?
Did you know that St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe , in Lincolnshire contains one of the earliest military brasses in England?
Did you know that Saturday Night Live comedian Will Forte played a man obsessed with the Twilight series in " Time Capsule ", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation ?
Did you know that in the Caribbean , off Anguilla , the Flirt Rocks are north of the Prickly Pear Cays , while a channel separates the cays from Dog Island ?
Did you know that the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley gave a guitar to Jane Williams and commemorated the gift in the poem "With a Guitar, to Jane"?
Did you know that Ch. Obo II is considered to be the father of the modern American Cocker Spaniel ?
Did you know that the Socialite application of the NECA Project allowed "face to face", emotion-based interactions between animated agents on the internet?
Did you know that the French socialist parliamentarian Ernest Lafont was expelled from Soviet Russia on the orders of Leon Trotsky ?
Did you know that crime writer Dick Francis was a notable figure in Welsh horse racing , becoming British Champion Jockey in 1954?
Did you know that Winston Churchill , after being driven down the Niagara Parkway , described it as "the prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world"?
Did you know that Romy Rosemont , known for her portrayal of Carole Hudson in Glee , was due to appear alongside her husband, Stephen Root , in Red State , but had to withdraw due to scheduling difficulties?
Did you know that Ham Hill Hillfort is one of the largest hillforts in Britain, and is the only one with a pub in its interior?
Did you know that Hermann Maaß refused a teaching position at Harvard University to continue his fight against National Socialism from within Germany?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " See No Evil " features a suspected police shooting, which was based on a real-life investigation from a book by David Simon ?
Did you know that despite being of Kurdish origins , Syrian writer Salim Barakat is considered one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in the Arabic language ?
Did you know it is believed that Minuscule 826 is the archetype of the textual family 13 ?
Did you know that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts ?
Did you know that Krishan Kumar 's 2003 book, The Making of English National Identity , was described by Bernard Crick as "the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian "?
Did you know that the Bakossi people of the Mungo River in Cameroon have a legend that their ancestor Ngoe built an ark to save his family and many animals from a great flood ?
Did you know that Aslie Pitter , founder of Stonewall F.C. , Britain's first and most successful gay football club, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work fighting homophobia in London ?
Did you know that the single horn of the mythical rhinoceros-like Karkadann was said to cure epilepsy and open the bowels, while its tears were claimed to solidify into prayer beads that are still used in Iraq ?
Did you know that Tom Horabin MP survived the January 1947 crash of a BOAC Dakota airliner?
Did you know that Dani Siciliano wanted her cover of Nirvana 's " Come as You Are ", from her album Likes... , to have the feel of a jazz standard ?
Did you know that more than 100,000 spectators saw Norway lose the men's 4 x 10 km cross-country relay by 0.4 seconds to Italy at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium during the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the canine actor Sykes starred in the award winning television advertisement "Every Home Needs a Harvey", viewed over a million times on YouTube ?
Did you know that in Michael Carr 's successful by-election campaign, he issued a leaflet mentioning 26 times that he was local to the constituency ?
Did you know that the result of the Congress of Gela , a peace conference in Sicily in 424 BC , has been compared to the Monroe Doctrine ?
Did you know that the Holtsmark distribution was proposed in 1919 as a model for the gravitational field of stars?
Did you know that the private Miraflores Museum in Guatemala City has three mounds from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu in its grounds?
Did you know that British-born architect Patrick Horsbrugh was active in the British Army , Royal Air Force , and the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II ?
Did you know that Bill Bowerman , a coach for the Oregon Ducks track and field team, created the first Nike prototype shoe by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron ?
Did you know that singer Cee Lo Green appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform " Bright Lights, Bigger City ", the third single from his album The Lady Killer , backed by an all-female band?
Did you know that The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is the 2011 winner of the Mathematical Association of America 's Euler Book Prize ?
Did you know that the British Army used sugar houses in New York City to hold prisoners during the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that the non-profit group A Human Right is raising money to purchase a satellite to provide free basic internet access to developing countries?
Did you know that when confused with Mathew Montagu , the taller Montague Mathew claimed "there was as great a difference between them as between a horse chesnut [ sic ] and a chesnut horse "?
Did you know that the PAD emotional state model uses three numerical dimensions to represent all emotions ?
Did you know that basketball players Grady Livingston of Howard and Anwar Ferguson of Houston were each NCAA Division I season blocks leaders during their careers?