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Did you know that in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange , Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany , New York ?
Did you know that IGN 's Craig Harris stated that Urban Yeti! felt like it was produced by "a few guys down in someone's basement"?
Did you know that Jean Leon Gerome Ferris ' s series The Pageant of a Nation is the largest intact series of American historical paintings by a single artist?
Did you know that Central Highlands of Sri Lanka is the first World Heritage site in the country to be designated in 22 years?
Did you know that St Mark's Church, Brithdir has been described as one of the few full blooded Arts and Crafts churches in Wales?
Did you know that the Plaza Mayor , a public square in Salamanca, Spain , was originally built as a bullfighting arena?
Did you know that long-haired males were persecuted by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1960s and '70s?
Did you know that Trapalcotherium matuastensis is one of five species of mammals recognized among seven fossil teeth from the Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina?
Did you know that Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness was the last Simpsons video game to be published by Acclaim ?
Did you know that Maxwell's thermodynamic surface was sculpted in 1874 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell to visualise the ideas of American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs ?
Did you know that neither the Arizona Diamondbacks nor Colorado Rockies have selected a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft ?
Did you know that the voyages of the Otter crossing the Pacific Ocean from Australia and becoming the first vessel of the United States to enter a Californian port in 1796 were chronicled by French traveler Pierre François Péron ?
Did you know that the 1881 Chios earthquake was the last of the three "catastrophes" that affected the island of Chios in the 19th century?
Did you know that the Jhapan festival, dedicated to the goddess Manasa , is of particular significance to snake charmers in the Bankura district ?
Did you know that Michael Batterberry started his first magazine with startup funding from Hugh Hefner and a prototype issue printed in Playboy magazine?
Did you know that among the central leaders of the Norwegian temperance movement were founder Asbjørn Kloster and politician Sven Aarrestad ?
Did you know that concerned citizens of Johnston, Rhode Island , were able to prevent the construction of a waterpark at Snake Den State Park in 2005?
Did you know that Tony Rio , placed on probation in 1958 for being part of a football gambling ring, went on to become the MVP of the 1959 Michigan football team ?
Did you know that the 1992 Simpsons video game Bart's House of Weirdness is mostly unknown today because it was only released for DOS , and therefore has almost no fan base?
Did you know that Hans Freeman introduced protein crystallography to Australia and determined the structure of plastocyanin , the first protein to be structurally characterised in the southern hemisphere ?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed taking up the case of Virginia v. West Virginia for three years because it was deadlocked over whether it had jurisdiction over the issue?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame forward Sweeney Schriner was the first Russian-born player in National Hockey League history?
Did you know that in June 1944, during the invasion of Elba the Free French assault division included 200 mules ?
Did you know that in the New Jersey Senate , John H. Dorsey invoked " senatorial courtesy ", an unwritten rule whereby a senator can block consideration of a gubernatorial appointee from the senator's home county?
Did you know that before it was dismantled, the Mariposa botnet was estimated to consist of 8 to 12 million zombie computers , making it one of the largest botnets in history?
Did you know that Israeli Dudu Yifrah raised sewn-together Israeli - Palestinian flags on the summit of Mount Everest , and dedicated his climb to his Palestinian colleague Ali Bushnaq?
Did you know that the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746?
Did you know that Wayne Wang handpicked a song for his movie Chinese Box that a group of teenagers from Sarawak , Malaysia , made their professional debut on Boys & Girls 1+1=3 with?
Did you know that in 2007, Emeel Salem won the inaugural college baseball Lowe's Senior CLASS Award after earning a 3.85 grade point average at the University of Alabama ?
Did you know that the Colonial Revival facade of Achavath Achim Synagogue in Bridgeport, Connecticut , includes a portico with fluted columns and stained-glass windows?
Did you know that Chung, the Wolf of Kabul 's sidekick in British story papers and comics , cracked heads with a cricket bat which he called "clicky-ba"?
Did you know that the literary début of Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fønhus was a novel about an outlaw ?
Did you know that the 1899 U.S. Supreme Court case Morris v. United States decided who owned the water rights associated with land possessed by the heirs of the late Chief Justice John Marshall ?
Did you know that English merchant William Lowthian Green published his theory of Earth's formation while serving in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
Did you know that metadynamics has been used to study, among other things, protein folding , chemical reactions , molecular docking and phase transitions ?
Did you know that St David's Church, Llangeview , Monmouthshire, is listed Grade I because of its exceptional interior including a 15th-century rood-loft and rare pre- Victorian box pews ?
Did you know that Henry Hill attended the University of Michigan on an academic scholarship and became the MVP of the 1970 football team as a walk-on ?
Did you know that one of the effects of the 1222 Cyprus earthquake was to render the harbour at Paphos unusable?
Did you know that the Bengal chess player Moheschunder Bannerjee in 1855 introduced the body of openings now known as Indian defence ?
Did you know that the organs of a Jewish teen and a Palestinian boy , who were killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , were donated to children from the opposite sides of the conflict?
Did you know that the Oklahoma Thunder of the World Football League won the World Bowl in 2008, 2009, and 2010?
Did you know that of over 200 artworks known to have been created by Belgian painter Virginie Bovie , only 7 have been located?
Did you know that the family of Sogen Kato now face an investigation into allegations they claimed 9.5 million yen in pension money when they kept Kato's death a secret for thirty years?
Did you know that Archibald Church , a veteran of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War and a Labour MP , introduced a eugenics bill to the House of Commons in 1931?
Did you know that flooding from the Yangtze River destroyed part of the city of Haimen before the river changed course in 1701 and created new land for the city?
Did you know that Operation Diamond , mounted by the Mossad in 1966, resulted in an Iraqi pilot landing a Soviet -built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 in Israel ?
Did you know that during Henry VIII 's reign, Lancelot Ridley , one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral , took part in the disputation Thomas Cranmer set up on Trinity Sunday 1542, in Croydon ?
Did you know that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state ?
Did you know that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?
Did you know that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?
Did you know that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva 's album Beautiful Heartache ?
Did you know that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after he returned to the throne in 1950?
Did you know that after a fire destroyed US$ 500,000 worth of master recordings , singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brown said "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?
Did you know that the invasive crayfish Orconectes immunis can outcompete the earlier invader O. limosus ?
Did you know that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be travelling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?
Did you know that to celebrate the opening of the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk , reality TV show Cake Boss produced a 10-foot (3.0 m) 1,200-pound (540 kg) cake in the shape of a flip-flop?
Did you know that Milsons Point , a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney , Australia , was named in honour of James Milson ?
Did you know that one day after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill went ashore, Richard Nixon called for a complete cessation of local drilling except for a relief well ?
Did you know that 1974 Michigan football MVP Steve Strinko suffered a degenerative knee injury and later formed an organization to provide medical assistance to others injured in college athletics?
Did you know that Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut , has a history of hosting music, from Sunday concerts championed by P.T. Barnum in 1890 to the Gathering of the Vibes music festival in summer 2010?
Did you know that St Baglan's Church , a medieval church in Llanfaglan , Gwynedd , Wales, is listed Grade I because it is unrestored, and has an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings?
Did you know that downtown Albion, New York , is one of the best- preserved commercial areas along the route of the Erie Canal ?
Did you know that inmates of Nantwich Workhouse could be confined in a dungeon for drinking tea ?
Did you know that Diogo Fernandes Pereira discovered the Mascarenes archipelago ( Réunion , Mauritius , and Rodrigues ) in 1507?
Did you know that Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton ?
Did you know that Stephen B. Wiley of the 23rd Legislative District was nominated to the New Jersey Supreme Court , but his nomination was denied because he had voted for a pay raise for justices as State Senator ?
Did you know that the West Argyle Street Historic District in Chicago , Illinois, developed from a village named Argyle Park after the Dukes of Argyll in Scotland ?
Did you know that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?
Did you know that only 7 km (4.3 mi) of Vietnam 's 84 km (52 mi)-long Da Lat–Thap Cham rack railway remains in service today, operated as a tourist attraction based at the Art Deco -influenced Da Lat Railway Station ?
Did you know that the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield on the medieval bridge over the River Calder is the oldest and most ornate of the surviving bridge chapels in England?
Did you know that parties that have been established less than a year before the Ukraine local elections, 2010 are not permitted to compete in these elections?
Did you know that the merchant ship Empire Celia was still armed with a 4- inch gun over three years after the end of the Second World War ?
Did you know that Marcus Ray was an All-American member of the record-setting 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team 's defense?
Did you know that drummer Ben Koller is rumored to be a member of the band United Nations , but due to contractual obligations, the members are bound to remain anonymous?
Did you know that Franklin W. Smith helped establish the YMCA in Boston , the first chapter of the organization in the United States?
Did you know that because of a bug in the video game Space Hawk , the developers added black holes to explain why the player would sometimes jump to hyperspace at random?
Did you know that Kettler Capitals Iceplex , the practice arena of the Washington Capitals , is the highest ice rink off street-level in the United States?
Did you know that Marcus Harvey 's painting Myra was vandalised twice, by two different artists, on the opening day of the Sensation exhibition in 1997?
Did you know that the New York Stars were the champions of the Women's Professional Basketball League in its second year, but never played another game as the team disbanded after the 1979–80 season?
Did you know that during the early 1190s, the medieval English royal justice and administrator Roger fitzReinfrid had custody of both Windsor Castle and the Tower of London ?
Did you know that the July 2010 Bronx tornado was only the second known tornado to touch down in the Bronx and seventh to impact New York City since records began in 1950?
Did you know that the 1989 wedding of Princess Marie Isabelle was denounced by her own grandfather as "treason"?
Did you know that GRB 070714B was the most distant short-duration gamma-ray burst ever detected?
Did you know that an investigation of climatologist Michael E. Mann by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been criticized by scientists as "echo[ing] some of the worst offenses of the McCarthy era "?
Did you know that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Alaska ?
Did you know that Colonia Algarín in Mexico City has restaurants which are recommended for their pozole ?
Did you know that School Chancellor Irving Anker resisted demands to cut the school budget in 1974, saying "we cannot write off the children of New York City without calling into question every value we live by"?
Did you know that by the late 1910s, the population of the Kenai Peninsula Wolf had been almost completely eradicated through hunting and application of strychnine ?
Did you know that J. G. M. Ramsey 's funeral procession in 1884 was the largest ever witnessed in Knoxville, Tennessee , until that time?
Did you know that No. 140 Squadron of the Royal Air Force had the help of Mosquitos to take pictures of France during World War II ?
Did you know that the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1450 marked the first time that Israeli losses were mentioned or condemned in a United Nations resolution ?
Did you know that although Mersey Beat and Top of the Pops placed The Rolling Stones ' " 19th Nervous Breakdown " at the top of their charts, it is not officially recognised as a number one hit in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Japanese minelayer Sarushima was attacked three times by the United States Navy during World War II before being removed from the Navy List on September 10, 1944?
Did you know that shooting an apple off one's child's head is not a feat unique to William Tell , but was reportedly ascribed to Danish hero Palnatoki in the 12th century?
Did you know that As-Sadaka Gaza Olympic Swimming Pool is the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Gaza ?
Did you know that Manuel Belgrano , José de San Martín and Martín Miguel de Güemes proposed that Argentina be a constitutional monarchy ruled by an Inca ?
Did you know that Zariphios School , founded at 1875 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria , was one of the most significant Greek educational institutions in the region, attracting teachers from Greece and Western Europe ?
Did you know that the metal detectorists who found the Milton Keynes Hoard were granted a larger share of the reward than usual, because the landowners falsely claimed that they had searched without permission?
Did you know that the largest ever dam raise in the United States is occurring at the San Vicente Dam in California , which will increase its height by 117 feet (36 m) and more than double its reservoir size?
Did you know that among the works of architect Paul Due is the design of Hamar Railway Station from 1896?
Did you know that, although the nearby River Teifi no longer floods, the tradition of keeping a coracle in the porch of Manordeifi Old Church continues?
Did you know that the US entered the precursor to the International Coffee Agreement because they feared that the declining price of coffee could drive Latin American countries towards Nazi or Communist sympathies?
Did you know that of the 658 Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election in December 1832 , 189 were returned without any vote being held?
Did you know that the beating of a child in a Boston public school sparked the Eliot School rebellion and motivated the creation of a nationwide system of parochial schools ?
Did you know that the outcome of reforming actions such as the Bill of Middlesex , initially intended to increase the business of the English Court of King's Bench , was its dissolution?
Did you know that the first issue of The Hotspur in 1933 contained an offer for an electric shock machine?
Did you know that the Welsh League , consisting of Aberdare , Barry , Ebbw Vale , Merthyr Tydfil , Mid-Rhondda and Treherbert , was the first professional rugby league competition in Wales?
Did you know that affilins are proteins that can bind antigens just like antibodies , despite having quite a different structure?
Did you know that the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio ?
Did you know that one restaurant reviewer expects the "upscale" Roots Club to bring "a new era of ... dining experience" to Gaza ?
Did you know that Jean Sagbo , a real estate agent from Benin , is the first Black politician elected in Russia and has been called "Russia's Obama"?
Did you know that " El Cariño Es Como Una Flor ", performed by Venezuelan singer-songwriter Rudy La Scala , became his first best performing Latin single in 1990 ?
Did you know that although the fossil mammal Veratalpa ( astragalus ) was described as a mole , it may instead be a rodent ?
Did you know that the 19th-century restoration of Hodgeston Parish Church in Pembrokeshire , Wales, was intended to be a model for future church restorations?
Did you know that in 2008 Naji Hakim composed variations for oboe and organ on Philipp Nicolai 's chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , published in 1599?
Did you know that South Chamorro Seamount , a submarine mud volcano near the Mariana Trench , is only the second such structure in the world to be sampled ?
Did you know that under the Spanish National Health System foreign minors in Spain have the same rights to health care as Spanish nationals?
Did you know that the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League had an all-male cheerleading squad, which the team's owner promised wouldn't be a "sex show – this is high class"?
Did you know that Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker , who designed the Villa Isola , was assisted by former first President of Indonesia Sukarno during the renovation of the Hotel Preanger?
Did you know that the planned 2012 Marvel Studios film The Avengers , to be directed by Joss Whedon , was first announced in 2005?
Did you know that in 1856 William Carpenter painted the last King of Delhi 's eldest son, Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, five months before the Prince died?
Did you know that Minnesota's highest lake, Lake Abita , is only 12 miles away from its lowest lake, Lake Superior ?
Did you know that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana 's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie ?
Did you know that the President of Singapore can only refer questions regarding the Constitution to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal on the Cabinet 's advice?
Did you know that Ludovica Levy chaired the theatre Secondteatret in Kristiania from 1899 to 1901, along with her husband Dore Lavik ?
Did you know that Portal ' s music "has been compared to, among other things, a leaf blower , a vacuum cleaner and an aeronautics tunnel "?
Did you know that senior Singaporean legal officer Sivakant Tiwari was lead counsel in inquiries into the Spyros disaster (1978), the Singapore Cable Car disaster (1984), and the Hotel New World disaster (1988)?
Did you know that Armajaro 's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading ?
Did you know that professional baseball player J. T. Wise is the great-nephew of 1960 World Series MVP Bobby Richardson ?
Did you know that women are now allowed to smoke hookahs at the Crazy Water Park in Gaza ?
Did you know that observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes ?
Did you know that the Michigan Department of Transportation has erroneously marked Forest Highway 16 as "County Road H-16" on their maps since 1992?
Did you know that unlike other proletarian parties at the time, such as the Japan Labour-Farmer Party , the Labour-Farmer Party and the Social Democratic Party , the Japan Farmers Party based itself solely amongst the peasantry instead of a worker–peasant class alliance?
Did you know that any act or statement which alleges bias, impropriety or any wrongdoing concerning a judge in the exercise of his judicial function falls within the offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore ?
Did you know that nominations for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup , awarded annually to the worst new building in the UK , include the Strata tower block in London, and the redeveloped Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock ?
Did you know that Anthony J. Alvarado was named New York City School Chancellor in 1983, the school system's first Hispanic in that post, but was forced to resign in 1984 amid charges of financial improprieties?
Did you know that radio DJ and blues expert Mike Raven also worked at various times as an actor in horror films , a sculptor , a sheep farmer , a presenter of religious TV programmes, and a ballet dancer ?
Did you know that a large number of gastropods remain to be discovered in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that the last goal at the Stade Grimonprez-Jooris in Lille was scored in May 2004 by Matt Moussilou , before the stadium closed after serving as Lille OSC 's home for almost 30 years?
Did you know that Taichiro Morinaga was the first person to manufacture chocolates in Japan which he learned after working as a janitor in an American candy factory?
Did you know that the tablemount structure of Sedlo Seamount , a seamount ( underwater volcano ), indicates that it used to be above the water?
Did you know that the Nanyang Style was a regional art movement practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore in the 1950s?
Did you know that the Groruddalen BK football team finished third in their league in 2007 and had the league top scorer , but lost their coach and all players save two, facing relegation and liquidation in 2008?
Did you know that despite criticism in Channel 4 's Dispatches for his work at UK firm Leonard Curtis , Keith Goodman went on to become President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association ?
Did you know that The Heart of a Woman , the fourth installment of Maya Angelou 's six autobiographies , has been called her "most introspective"?
Did you know that Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island enabled the first radio link to Antarctica ?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth 's Swan Brewery ?
Did you know that the building that houses the Library of the Congress of Mexico was a cantina at the beginning of the 20th century?
Did you know that the anime Black Rock Shooter was based on the song of the same name by Huke and Ryo of the Japanese music group Supercell ?
Did you know that Storyville , a nightclub housed in Boston Hotel Buckminster , hosted recording sessions by Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker ?
Did you know that the Danish ethnologist Gudmund Hatt systematically inventoried cultural similarities and differences amongst northern peoples?
Did you know that St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet , in Monmouthshire , Wales, is approached through a working farm?
Did you know that the Graveyard Seamounts are all named morbidly, with names such as Pyre Seamount, Morgue Seamount, and Zombie Seamount?