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Did you know that Australia 's second largest gold mine is located in Telfer, Western Australia ?
Did you know that Gilbert of Preston , despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?
Did you know that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall , making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?
Did you know that when one of the rare recordings of " Stormy Weather " by The Five Sharps , a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
Did you know that the new antiretroviral drug apricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer , which was bought by the British company Shire plc , who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?
Did you know that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause ?
Did you know that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore , with Dante da Maiano ?
Did you know that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao , prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
Did you know that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history ?
Did you know that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland , the Mongols did not occupy the country?
Did you know that Google Chrome , a new web browser developed by Google , was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud ?
Did you know that the episodes of the BBC 7 sitcom Knocker have titles such as "Privinvasionacy", "Obselejectivitysence" and "Confidentialitydence"?
Did you know that Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet , but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
Did you know that worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s?
Did you know that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant ?
Did you know that in Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna , the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause ?
Did you know that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg ?
Did you know that the Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Ossie Brown , a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge , composed his high school alma mater ?
Did you know that Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
Did you know that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , an architect from Shrewsbury , England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
Did you know that Rich Schroeppel , the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher , offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
Did you know that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969 ?
Did you know that Les Whitt , director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana , won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo ?
Did you know that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center , commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?
Did you know that Martin of Pattishall , Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
Did you know that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses , the Children's Aid Society , and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons ?
Did you know that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
Did you know that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia ?
Did you know that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation ?
Did you know that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?
Did you know that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean ?
Did you know that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?
Did you know that the Pomona City Stables , which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California ?
Did you know that medievalist Aron Gurevich was the first in Soviet Union to defend a doctoral thesis on Viking history?
Did you know that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania ?
Did you know that I. M. Pei 's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture ?
Did you know that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia , accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
Did you know that Charles William Bardeen , who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association , was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize -winning physicist John Bardeen ?
Did you know that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell 's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland ?
Did you know that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan ?
Did you know that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths ?
Did you know that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette , Louisiana , were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee ?
Did you know that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria ?
Did you know that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles , but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack ?
Did you know that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II ?
Did you know that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament ?
Did you know that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling , Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
Did you know that the larger and more distinctively coloured female Black-breasted Buttonquail mates with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?
Did you know that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar , King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that the Angle, Pembrokeshire lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the whisky laden Loch Shiel sinking off Thorn Island ?
Did you know that the Peshekee River Bridge was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?
Did you know that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ?
Did you know that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision ?
Did you know that William A. Eddy , president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?
Did you know that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland ?
Did you know that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?
Did you know that the Phillips Mansion , described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
Did you know that the Lester Apartments in Seattle , originally intended to be the world's largest brothel , were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
Did you know that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem ?
Did you know that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel , an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
Did you know that U.S. Route 41 in Michigan including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was the state's first Michigan Heritage Route in 1995?
Did you know that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver ?
Did you know that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi ?
Did you know that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods— try , conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
Did you know that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
Did you know that Cyril Tenison White , who authored a 42-part series on weeds , was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science ?
Did you know that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University ?
Did you know that Frederick Mann was the first Australian -born Chief Justice of Victoria ?
Did you know that the International Francophone Press Union , the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
Did you know that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School ?
Did you know that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha , despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment ?
Did you know that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
Did you know that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?
Did you know that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater ?
Did you know that French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts ?
Did you know that while chartered to the United States Army during World War I , SS Kentuckian 's Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo headed for another ship?
Did you know that the Aegean pottery known as Minyan ware was also referred to as "Orchomenos Ware" by contemporaries of Heinrich Schliemann ?
Did you know that the Mount Rennie rape case in the 1880s in Sydney , Australia was likened by one newspaper to the British oppression of the Irish?
Did you know that Franciscan friar Matfre Ermengau (d. 1322) was also a troubadour , encyclopaedist , and master of laws ?
Did you know that the only salut à refrains composed by a named trouvère was by Philippe de Rémi (died 1265) ?
Did you know that Fred L. Schiele , who managed Edwin Edwards ' Concordia Parish gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross ?
Did you know that historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Antonio Pugliese was a fan of opera music and would sing opera before his matches?
Did you know that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz , former SS - Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war ?
Did you know that the Drummond Nature Reserve named after botanist James Drummond has 439 species of vascular plants ?
Did you know that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal , Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships ?
Did you know that Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin ?
Did you know that, besides books, in 1950 the Seattle Public Library had over 27,000 pictures and 3,500 phonograph records in its circulating collection?
Did you know that Alaska 's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times?
Did you know that it is accepted that Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome , after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime ?
Did you know that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park ?
Did you know that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?
Did you know that tennis player Julie Coin , ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open ?
Did you know that the Palomares Adobe , Casa Alvarado and Casa Primera , built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre Rancho San Jose in Los Angeles County ?
Did you know that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the 100 metres , Ronald Pognon failed to reach the semifinals in his event at the 2008 Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon , is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County ?
Did you know that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia , an opera by Gaetano Donizetti ,  because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
Did you know that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago 's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater ?
Did you know that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner 's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?
Did you know that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes ′s soap factory in Buenos Aires ?
Did you know that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman ( Azalais d'Altier ) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza ?
Did you know that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work " Engineer Rerberg"?
Did you know that the periodical Owl and Weasel played a key role in the development of the roleplaying and wargaming hobby industries in the UK ?
Did you know that the cancellation of the Skybolt missile in 1962 led to a major crisis in US-UK relations, which was solved by personal meetings and the signing of what is today known as the Nassau agreement ?
Did you know that Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia ?
Did you know that the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering , murder and drug trafficking , both in Israel and the United States ?
Did you know that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks , no hit by pitches and one caught stealing ?
Did you know that the state of Yan ended when its general Li Huaixian turned against its emperor Shi Chaoyi and forced him to commit suicide?
Did you know that Paulo Zucula headed the National Disasters Management Institute before he replaced Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique 's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies prospect Andrew Carpenter pitched a perfect game against the Fort Myers Miracle in 2007 ?
Did you know that the book Help at Any Cost triggered hearings by the United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love teen industry?
Did you know that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, Lexie Fyfe became a professional wrestler at the invitation of a co-worker?
Did you know that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval , as punishment for an affair?
Did you know that Charles Van Riper , a severe stutterer , was a pioneer in the development of speech pathology ?
Did you know that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti 's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California ?
Did you know that Czesława Kwoka , a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust , was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
Did you know that Rob Johnson was one of four of The Star-Ledger's top 10 prep soccer players of the 1990s to play pro for the hometown MetroStars / Red Bulls ?
Did you know that Springfield Park was created in 1905 from the grounds of three London houses, one of which is now a cafe?
Did you know that the forking lemma is a lemma in cryptography first used to prove the security of a digital signature scheme in the random oracle model?
Did you know that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian – Bulgarian border since 1919?
Did you know that Charles Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War ?
Did you know that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan ?
Did you know that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K ?
Did you know that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia ?
Did you know that Selmo Cikotić was recently appointed Defence Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you know that Florida 's City College paid US $11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
Did you know that after six terms in the Norwegian Parliament , Olav Akselsen will take over as director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate from October 2009?
Did you know that the town of Bezdonys was the site of one of the most daring and successful train robberies in history?
Did you know that although fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen 's " 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) ", she was never arrested in real life?
Did you know that Charles Ndaxu Namoloh , now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia , used the nom de guerre of " Ho Chi Minh " during the Namibian War of Independence ?
Did you know that the Mangrove monitor possesses salt-excreting nasal glands , which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?
Did you know that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C. , he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
Did you know that Rob Stewart made the 2007 documentary film Sharkwater after learning that longline fishing in the Galapagos Islands was killing the sharks?
Did you know that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham 's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?
Did you know that Hall of Fame bowler Patty Costello did not begin bowling until she was sixteen?
Did you know that the Focometer was created in order to provide rural or economically disadvantaged populations the ability to measure spherical refractive errors ?
Did you know that the Rose Museum 's collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall ?
Did you know that Yang Jia , a Chinese man sentenced to death for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?
Did you know that Malcolm Fraser , a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment ?
Did you know that The17 , a choir founded by former pop star Bill Drummond , never records its music, or performs for audiences?
Did you know that Lonnie Wright played football for two seasons for the Denver Broncos and switched to playing basketball for the Denver Rockets just weeks after the 1967 football season ended?
Did you know that California Gold Rush -era bandit and highwayman Jack Powers , after being run out of several cities by vigilantes , was murdered in Mexico and his body fed to hogs?
Did you know that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow , a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?
Did you know that members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance , interrogation , and harassment by the FBI ?
Did you know that major crimes in the United Arab Emirates include trafficking of young boys who are used as camel jockeys ?
Did you know that the first passenger elevator in an American hotel was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel facing Madison Square , New York City in 1859?
Did you know that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering , others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?
Did you know that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky 's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg ?
Did you know that Alice Arden and her son Russ Hodge are the only mother–son Olympians in American history?
Did you know that a play by Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam using animal characters to criticize the Ethiopian court prompted Empress Zewditu to ban all theatre in the country?
Did you know that according to People v. Beardsley , it is not against the U.S. law for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?
Did you know that the first woman to be executed in Western Australia murdered John Hurford ?
Did you know that the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site contained over 55,000 artifacts from a Makah village inundated by a mudslide ?
Did you know that American lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus ?
Did you know that the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?
Did you know that the only season that Eldridge Recasner ranked in the top ten in the NBA for three point shot field goal percentage was not his best season?