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Did you know that, in the 1924 Egyptian parliamentary election , members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority received 10% of the seats, even though the Copts made up 6% of Egypt's population ?
Did you know that George Veenker has the highest winning percentage of any basketball coach in Michigan history and served on the NCAA Football Rules Committee from 1938 to 1945?
Did you know that courts in California, Maryland, and Wisconsin held that ladies' night discounts are unlawful gender discrimination under state or local statutes?
Did you know that in 1893 Jefferson Davis lay in state at the Louisiana Historical Association ' s Memorial Hall in New Orleans prior to being re-interred in Richmond , Virginia ?
Did you know that Black Issues Book Review was named one of the ten best new magazines of 1998 by Library Journal ?
Did you know that Ireland recently experienced its highest number of fatalities in a single traffic collision ?
Did you know that The New Christy Minstrels ' 1962 debut album won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years?
Did you know that Shkodër Cathedral suffered damage during the Siege of Shkodër by the Montenegrin army in 1912–13?
Did you know that the American Quarter Horse stallion Zan Parr Bar was a three-time World Champion in halter as well as excelling at steer roping ?
Did you know that the town of Marche , Arkansas , was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America ?
Did you know that, although the 1481 Rhodes earthquake caused only a minor tsunami , it matches the age of a tsunami deposit found near Dalaman on the Turkish coast?
Did you know that thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China ?
Did you know that the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw , Poland , preserves cells in which Nazis tortured and killed Polish resistance fighters?
Did you know that, while Ryan Murdough is attempting to run for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Republican , the chairman of the state Republican Party refused to support him?
Did you know that Rensselaer Lake , created in 1851, was Albany, New York 's first municipal water supply?
Did you know that the Deer Rock , a heritage monument of the Tlingits in Haines Borough, Alaska , US , was witness to a peaceful settlement of conflicts between Chilkoot and Chilkat clans?
Did you know that the owner of the American Quarter Horse stallion Poco Pine once bet against his horse winning a Grand Championship, and lost the bet?
Did you know that Rasta Thomas , at 16 became the youngest dancer ever to win the USA International Ballet Competition in the senior division?
Did you know that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia ?
Did you know that Skulptur , a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov , was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish ?
Did you know that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli , a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia ?
Did you know that archaeologists have detected what they believe is a wooden henge underground near to Stonehenge ?
Did you know that Maureen Ogden of New Jersey 's 22nd Legislative District sponsored a bill making original birth certificates available to adoptees, saying "basic rights of the little babies were not being considered"?
Did you know that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London , British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens ?
Did you know that the two tracts of Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in New Mexico preserve archeological sites associated with Native Americans and a late 19th-century ranch?
Did you know that three basketball officials were suspended due to unspecified "bad calls" during a 2010 UAAP college basketball game?
Did you know that a 1960s-era church in Brighton , England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement ?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia ?
Did you know that Searsville Dam , built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water , flood control , nor hydropower , but rather it irrigates Stanford University 's golf course?
Did you know that Ray Courtright , once considered Oklahoma 's greatest halfback , pitched a no-hitter for the Sooners and coached the Nevada basketball and Michigan golf and wrestling teams to championships?
Did you know that some house concerts in 1930s Harlem were used as covers for illicit sex?
Did you know that the most distant planet known in 2002 was discovered by Dimitar Sasselov 's team?
Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner stated that the crocketed and canopied stoup in the porch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote , Hertfordshire , is unique?
Did you know that Koji Gyotoku is the coach of the Bhutan national football team ?
Did you know that CenSeam is an initiative to biologically sample seamounts ( underwater volcanoes ), of which about 100,000 exist and only 350 have received attention?
Did you know that José de la Borda went from being the richest man of Taxco to near-bankruptcy to being the richest man in Zacatecas ?
Did you know that The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?
Did you know that David Warren , creator of the first flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder , was buried in a casket bearing the label "Flight Recorder Inventor; Do Not Open"?
Did you know that former Miami University head football coach Arthur H. Parmelee later studied pediatric medicine with Dr. Clemens von Pirquet in Vienna, Austria ?
Did you know that Bryan Jurewicz deflected nine passes as a University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive lineman in 1996, setting a school record?
Did you know that "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore was transferred to the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac aboard the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System , also known as Con Air ?
Did you know that the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum represented a fortification system within the late Roman Empire to help secure internal stability?
Did you know that Denise Jefferson started learning to dance when she was eight, but didn't pursue a career in ballet because she "had never seen anyone who wasn't white in a ballet company"?
Did you know that four players from the 1976 NBA Draft , Adrian Dantley , Robert Parish , Alex English and Dennis Johnson , have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that when Albanian scholar Hasan Tahsini taught his students about vacuum by killing a pigeon in a bell jar , he was accused of witchcraft ?
Did you know that Vietnamese General Duong Van Minh had been captured by the Kempeitai during World War II and had all but one of his teeth knocked out during torture?
Did you know that the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth?
Did you know that St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes , Cambridgeshire , is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones , forming a chequerboard pattern?
Did you know that Tomm Murstad , who featured in show performances on skis and started a summer camp for youths, used the moniker "Onkel Tomm" ( Uncle Tom ) on himself?
Did you know that Peltandra primaeva was the first fossil record for the genus Peltandra when described in 1977?
Did you know that the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural form based on the Maya creation myth ?
Did you know that as the first American to play Henry Higgins on Broadway in My Fair Lady , Larry Keith said he doubted if he could get away with his English accent in England, "but I think I can in New York"?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Ingram became the most extensive estate owner in Yorkshire ?
Did you know that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok 's Viola Concerto and Mahler 's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford ?
Did you know that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193 ?
Did you know that after helping Nguyen Khanh to seize power in January 1964 Tran Thien Khiem was exiled for trying to overthrow him nine months later, and finally succeeded from overseas five months later?
Did you know that the nave of St Mary's Church, Mundon , Essex , is constructed in stone, the chancel in brick, the aisle is timber-framed , the belfry is weatherboarded , and the roofs are tiled?
Did you know that Marie-Josephte Corriveau , whose story inspired many books, songs, plays and even ballet over the centuries since her execution in Quebec , was gibbeted for mariticide in 1763?
Did you know that, at English fairs , women enjoyed sticking pins into Silly Billy 's legs?
Did you know that the exile of the popular General Nguyen Chanh Thi by junta head Nguyen Cao Ky under false pretense of an overseas surgery trip sparked the Buddhist Uprising in South Vietnam ?
Did you know that Bach had an excellent flauto traverso player at hand for Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94 , the cantata for the ninth Sunday after Trinity of 1724?
Did you know that Bill Borgman was a lineman for the undefeated national champion 1932 and 1933 Michigan football teams and a line-mate of Gerald R. Ford on the 1934 team ?
Did you know that the Italian Etna -class protected cruisers had a belt of cork at their waterline , which was intended to seal holes by swelling through water absorption after being hit?
Did you know that before being elected Abbot of Farfa in 761 AD, Alan of Farfa was a hermit who penned what would become one of the most successful homiliaries of the late 8th and 9th centuries?
Did you know that retigabine is the first anticonvulsant to work by activating the K v 7 family of voltage-gated potassium channels ?
Did you know that, in 1885, Augustus Voelcker calculated that the annual value of excrement per adult was nine shillings (worth £ 36 in 2010)?
Did you know that the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant , founded 1758, is the third-oldest Dutch newspaper still being published?
Did you know that, angry with being demoted by junta leader Nguyen Khanh , Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc launched a failed coup, only to have Khanh acquit them in his military court?
Did you know that, on the morning of the Battle of Trafalgar , Horatio Nelson recalled the anniversary of the Battle of Cap-Français , which his uncle had fought on the same day, 48 years previously?
Did you know that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senator George Runner 's Ronald Reagan Day bill and the state will begin celebrating it on Reagan's 100th birthday?
Did you know that Justin Godart was one of only 80 French parliamentarians who voted against dissolving the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France in July 1940?
Did you know that the "Mad Raft Race" is an event held on the Chilkoot River as part of Fourth of July festivities observed in Haines, Alaska ?
Did you know that, as a young priest, Alexandre Le Roy accompanied an 1881 expedition to Bagamoyo , Tanzania , during which he wrote articles for European magazines?
Did you know that the Old Whaler's Church in Sag Harbor, New York , is used by Jews on Saturday and Christians on Sunday?
Did you know that in 2010 Irish Quebecer historian Marianna O'Gallagher was Grand Marshal of the first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in Quebec City for over 80 years?
Did you know that The Undertaker , a professional wrestler , was momentarily engulfed in flames due to a pyrotechnics accident at WWE Elimination Chamber ?
Did you know that The Hepworth Wakefield , a new art gallery opening in 2011 by the River Calder , takes its name from Wakefield -born artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth ?
Did you know that Daniel I. Arnon was the first to demonstrate the chemical function of photosynthesis outside of a plant cell, creating sugar and starch from carbon dioxide and water?
Did you know that ships from the Royal Navy , the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Polish Navy participated in the British Commando raid Operation Anklet ?
Did you know that South Vietnamese General Nguyen Huu Co was exiled by military Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky after being sent overseas on a diplomatic trip and then being locked out of the country?
Did you know that in 1950 , L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries , with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?
Did you know that while the Sadd-el-Kafara Dam was under construction in the 3rd century BC to control floods , it was destroyed by one?
Did you know that the main town and mission of the Ibi , a Timucua tribe, were evidently destroyed by the government of Spanish Florida as a result of the Timucua Rebellion of 1656?
Did you know that the Wickham Market Hoard of Iron age coins was not the first hoard found near the village of Wickham Market ?
Did you know that Emil Spjøtvoll was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , whose creation he originally opposed?
Did you know that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar ?
Did you know that Deb Margolin removed Elie Wiesel as a character in her play Imagining Madoff after the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor called the play "obscene" and "defamatory", and threatened legal action?
Did you know that Olga Lepeshinskaya 's theories on the origins of cells won her a Stalin prize , but were dismissed by her husband as " rubbish "?
Did you know that shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York ?
Did you know that Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky stopped appearing at presidential election rallies during their successfully rigged 1967 campaign after the latter was heavily heckled at their only event?
Did you know that actor Zac Efron is set to star in and produce the American remake of the successful Swedish thriller film Snabba Cash ?
Did you know that Stanley Fay , captain and quarterback of the undefeated national champion 1933 Michigan football team , later became Ford Motor Company 's personnel director?
Did you know that, before becoming a Louisiana legislator , Virgil Orr once published a paper called "Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane– n -Propyl Alcohol System"?
Did you know that the Soulé Live Steam Festival is held annually in downtown Meridian, Mississippi , at the Soulé Steam Feed Works complex, a former steam engine factory incorporated in 1893?
Did you know that the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc , Romania , once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?
Did you know that the roofline of the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is decorated with blubber spades and flensing knives?
Did you know that during the "Southbelt Shuffle" event on M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan , horses were ridden on the partially completed freeway?
Did you know that Hong Kong -born Rebecca Nolin plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat and helps coach the Kennesaw State Owls ?
Did you know that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important Greek educational institution in İzmir , Turkey , possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
Did you know that Jonas Mouton was nationally ranked as a safety in high school football but has started for three seasons at weakside linebacker for the Michigan Wolverines ?
Did you know that " Peligroso Amor " was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández ' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
Did you know that seven carpenters were required to build the Mt. Pleasant farmhouse near Indian Falls, New York ?
Did you know that despite a warning by Field Marshal Michael von Melas that the man had "a soul as black as his countenance", Heinrich von Bellegarde retained Anton von Zach as Chief of Staff?
Did you know that before the construction of North Main Street School , schoolchildren in Spring Valley, New York , were attending classes in the local fire station ?
Did you know that the Feathered Helmet that was included in the painting of Captain James Cook's death is said to be the helmet given to Cook when he first landed in Hawaii ?
Did you know that members of the public are encouraged to climb and rearrange pieces of the Family sculpture in front of the Federal Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ?
Did you know that the Special Survey system allowed people to purchase areas of the Port Phillip District in New South Wales for as little as £ 1 per acre ?
Did you know that the Sopwith Cobham triplane bomber was the only twin-engine aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company ?
Did you know that George W. Rice was the only Canadian in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Canadian Arctic ?
Did you know that the two finishes by a Toyota Celica LB Turbo (4th and 8th) in German championship auto racing marked the best results for a racecar that was not a Porsche 935 ?
Did you know that the Islamization of the Gaza Strip includes government campaigns against playing cards and dating?
Did you know that to maintain a low profile for their appearances at the Hampton Coliseum , the rock band Grateful Dead asked to appear on the billing as Formerly the Warlocks ?
Did you know that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C. ?
Did you know that there is only a single extant example of the K-5 Air Coach aircraft?
Did you know that the 19th-century Russian tenor Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky retired to the Italian town of Sanremo and died there while tending his roses?
Did you know that during a 2010 game , University of the Philippines basketball coach Boyet Fernandez told a player to deliberately cross the shaded lane while a free-throw was being attempted to force a jump ball ?
Did you know that Zhuge Shuang rose from a street beggar to a military governor of the Tang China ?
Did you know that as a leader of the anti- Internet pornography organization Enough Is Enough , a former political sex scandal " other woman " became an influential Washington, D.C. lobbyist?
Did you know that artist and sculptor Samuel Rabin was also a professional wrestler and opera singer who appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel and won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the Golden Submarine could travel at over 100 mph (160 km/h)?
Did you know that according to Greek mythology , the Thriasian Plain was flooded by Poseidon after he lost control of Attica to Athena ?
Did you know that the Tamaulipas massacre that occurred on 24 August 2010 has been described as "the worst known atrocity" of the Mexican Drug War ?
Did you know that the 1493 Sejm held at the Piotrków Trybunalski Castle was the first two-chamber parliament in Poland ?
Did you know that Bill Erickson started the Rockford College men's basketball program and was its first head coach?
Did you know that the Philippine hornet Vespa luctuosa has the most lethal venom by weight of any known wasp species?
Did you know that Fô Kankam, the founder of Batoufam , Cameroon , was a Tikar ?
Did you know that Alfred Marshall Bailey was Director of the Denver Museum of Natural History from 1936 to 1969?
Did you know that psychologists have theorised that people interpret sensory information that their brains can easily process as beautiful ?
Did you know that American nuclear physicist Leonardo Mascheroni has attempted to lobby U.S. Congress to fund his idea of using hydrogen fluoride lasers to generate nuclear fusion ?
Did you know that it took over 26 years to plan and construct the Orangeville Bypass of Ontario Highway 9 ?
Did you know that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner , the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd , "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
Did you know that Gonggar County of Shannan Prefecture in Tibet contains the Gonggar Choide Monastery , a dzong , and a regional airport which serves Lhasa , despite being located about 62 kilometres (39 mi) from it?
Did you know that Hodo Sokoli , a 19th-century Albanian leader, publicly removed his Ottoman insignia and uniform and put on an Albanian national costume?
Did you know that Pope John Paul II 's 1982 visit to the United Kingdom was the first made to that country by a reigning Pope ?
Did you know that Rodolph Crandall replaced his brother-in-law as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon ?
Did you know that a French expedition to Hudson Bay in 1686 found Fort Albany only because its English occupants fired a cannon at sunset?
Did you know that the Andrew Jackson was one of only two square-rigged ships to sail from New York City to San Francisco in under ninety days?
Did you know that amber fossils of ants carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus represent the oldest record of symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga ants?
Did you know that Bud Ogden played for the Philadelphia 76ers , his younger brother played for the San Francisco Warriors and their father was a Medal of Honor recipient?
Did you know that the Ian Tyson song " Someday Soon " has been a charted single for Judy Collins , Moe Bandy and Suzy Bogguss ?
Did you know that journalist Amir Mir declined an award from former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf , criticizing him as a dictator who violated the Constitution of Pakistan ?
Did you know that the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war was an attempt by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to stop the expansion of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century?
Did you know that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian , Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk ?
Did you know that UBS Warburg had an email disclaimer of more than 1,000 words?
Did you know that, by the end of the 20th century , the Peachtree Presbyterian megachurch had the largest Presbyterian congregation of any church in the United States ?
Did you know that Flight from Folly is one of the British Film Institute 's " 75 Most-Wanted Films "?
Did you know that proteins from pokeweed have shown antiviral properties ?
Did you know that the Edumanom Forest Reserve is the last known chimpanzee habitat in the Niger Delta ?
Did you know that the first salvage license granted by South Carolina was for the wreckage of the SS Georgiana ?
Did you know that the parakoimomenos Joseph Bringas opposed the rise of the general Nikephoros Phokas to the Byzantine throne, but was defeated after three days of street clashes in Constantinople ?
Did you know that the first proper society page in the United States was the invention of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. for the New York Herald ?
Did you know that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of Nigeria 's Rivers State , the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
Did you know that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode " Grilled Cheesus " will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
Did you know that Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas in the Central African Republic form the Sangha Tri National Landscape with Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo and Lobéké National Park in Cameroon ?
Did you know that in The Color of Crime , Katheryn Russell-Brown writes that crime and young black men have become synonymous in the American mind, giving rise to the " criminalblackman " stereotype?
Did you know that after the Battle of Landriano , the French monarch Francis I was forced to concede defeat in the War of the League of Cognac ?
Did you know that John Logan served as the first treasurer of the U.S. state of Kentucky and held the office for 15 years thereafter?