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Did you knowthat stewardess Frankie Housley was called "the Bravest Woman In America"?
Did you knowthat Major League Baseball pitcher Stan Baumgartner was named to the All-Big Ten Conference teams for baseball , basketball , and football in 1914?
Did you knowthat the supervisor of a kosher restaurant is required to be a Shomer Shabbat , a Jew who observes the Sabbath?
Did you knowthat the crowd at the 1984 funeral of assassinated Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco was estimated at between fifteen thousand and two hundred thousand people?
Did you knowthat a hyperdeterminant is a generalisation of the determinant in algebra ?
Did you knowthat when the first portion of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad opened in 1856, it led to the incorporation of Kingston , Pennsylvania , and to the establishment of Kingston's first public transit line?
Did you knowthat London printer William Stansby published the landmark first folio collection of the works of Ben Jonson in 1616?
Did you knowthat despite healthcare in Sierra Leone decreasing child mortality from 302 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 282 in 2005 Sierra Leone still has the highest level of child mortality in the world?
Did you knowthat Lucien Lagrange Architects has been involved in attempts to renovate Union Station in Chicago, Illinois , for over twenty years?
Did you knowthat despite German and Soviet attempts to suppress Polish culture during World War II , it was kept alive by underground activities, with the Polish Home Army even creating newsreels ?
Did you knowthat race car journalist and former race car driver Dr. Dick Berggren decided to stop teaching college psychology after he was called into the college president's office because he parked his racecar in the faculty parking lot?
Did you knowthat the upcoming comedy film Hamlet 2 was the top purchase at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival placing it second behind the US$10.5 million record set by Little Miss Sunshine at the festival in 2006?
Did you knowthat Deepak Chougule , a cricketer from the Indian state of Karnataka , created a junior world record for the most runs scored in a single day of a cricket match when he scored 400 runs in a match against Goa ?
Did you knowthat Houhora Mountain was the first part of New Zealand that the early explorer Kupe saw, but he thought it was a whale , according to Māori legend?
Did you knowthat the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender of Timor on 11 September 1945 was held aboard HMAS Moresby ?
Did you knowthat 24-year old Alondra de la Parra was the first Mexican woman to ever conduct a concert in New York City?
Did you knowthat Al Hoisch of UCLA returned a kickoff for 103 yards and a touchdown at the 1947 Rose Bowl , a record that still stands as of the 2008 game?
Did you knowthat William Fawcett , a character actor in B- films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s , held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career?
Did you knowthat the adobe house that is the centerpiece of the Alviso Adobe Community Park in Pleasanton, California , was built in 1854 and continuously in use until 1969?
Did you knowthat the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793?
Did you knowthat Count John A. Creighton was ennobled by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his contributions to Creighton University , the Catholic community in Omaha , and the city of Omaha in general?
Did you knowthat the US Navy 's Haskell class attack transports Montrose , Renville ,  and Okanogan all saw action in three major wars – World War II , the Korean War and the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate ?
Did you knowthat former child actor Richard Eyer , who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler 's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion , is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California ?
Did you knowthat 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
Did you knowthat after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome ?
Did you knowthat former Juneau , Alaska mayor Dennis Egan hosts a program called Problem Corner on local radio station KINY ?
Did you know that at the Battle of Noemfoor in 1944 Commodore John Collins became the first graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College to command a naval squadron in action?
Did you knowthat Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid , using two stovepipes , charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat director Paul Greengrass is filming a fictional thriller with Matt Damon in the lead based on the 2006 nonfiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City about the Green Zone ?
Did you knowthat George Jewett was the first African-American to earn a varsity letter in football at both the University of Michigan and at Northwestern University ?
Did you knowthat the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s ?
Did you knowthat a plane of Royal Canadian Air Force 's No. 426 Squadron made Canada 's first coast-to-coast non-stop flight?
Did you knowthat the work of the Galician poet Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara presents arguments for the superiority of women to men?
Did you knowthat due to its high reactivity , compounds of oxygen can be formed with all known chemical elements , apart from four noble gases ?
Did you knowthat as President of the College of New Jersey , John Maclean, Jr. conveyed a Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat the only Edward Medal awarded in the Kent coalfield was won at Tilmanstone Colliery , one of only four successful pits in Kent out of twelve planned or built?
Did you knowthat in Greek mythology Gorgythion was one of the fifty sons of King Priam of Troy ?
Did you knowthat the Comanche War Chief Santa Anna was the first Comanche or Kiowa Chief to visit Washington D.C. in 1847, and was so overwhelmed with what he saw, he immediately advised his people to seek peace?
Did you knowthat Józef Haller de Hallenburg was one of the key shapers of scouting in Poland ?
Did you knowthat in order to combat the erosion of fan loyalty towards professional teams, the Nashville Predators employ customer relationship management techniques to collect information about the demographics and psychographics of their fans?
Did you knowthat Almaco jack have been known to remove parasites on their skin by rubbing up against scuba divers ?
Did you knowthat footballer John Hewitt scored the fastest recorded goal in Scottish Cup history, timed at 9.6 seconds?
Did you knowthat for establishing the first successful sugar beet processing plant in the United States, E. H. Dyer became known as the father of the American beet sugar industry?
Did you knowthat the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage ?
Did you knowthat Australian Ingo Renner has won the World Gliding Championships four times and set two world gliding records?
Did you knowthat root nodules on the plant Myrica cerifera fix nitrogen faster than some legumes ?
Did you knowthat HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America , but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist ?
Did you knowthat Nazi Germany planned to starve tens of millions of Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens in order to simultaneously eliminate "surplus population" and feed German citizens and their army?
Did you knowthat Opera Jawa is a 2006 Indonesian - Austrian musical film that features traditional Javanese classical music and dance in a setting of opera , inspired by the Ramayana ?
Did you knowthat offensive tackle Rich Strenger told reporters that Michigan Wolverines football coach Bo Schembechler ran a more strenuous training camp at the college level than he experienced in the NFL with the Detroit Lions ?
Did you knowthat Leonard Bernstein created controversy with his remarks about Glenn Gould during a New York Philharmonic concert on April 6, 1962 ?
Did you knowthat Ripley's Believe It or Not! "Wild Goose Chase" feature on J. Dewey Soper ' s six year, 30,000 mile search for the Blue Goose nesting grounds earned him the nickname "Blue Goose Soper"?
Did you knowthat Comanche War Chief Carne Muerte ' s name means "Dead Meat" in Spanish ?
Did you knowthat William B. Hornblower was nominated for a seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1893, but his nomination failed, largely due to a feud with Senator David B. Hill ?
Did you knowthat over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat the poisonous mushroom Russula emetica , commonly known as "the sickener", is hoarded and eaten by the Red Squirrel ?
Did you knowthat preselection is the process by which a candidate is selected, usually by a political party , to contest an election for political office, an example being the United States presidential primary ?
Did you knowthat the Belgian cartoonist Karl Meersman was at first disqualified from a drawing contest at age thirteen, because the jury did not believe his drawing had been created by a child?
Did you knowthat The Drug Years , a documentary chronicling illicit drug use in the United States , features never-before-seen film of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters ' acid -fueled bus trip across America in 1964?
Did you knowthat Ian Browne and Tony Marchant won the tandem track cycling at the 1956 Olympics after being eliminated?
Did you knowthat Mayor Frank E. Rodgers served 48 years as mayor of Harrison, New Jersey , recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving mayor in United States history?
Did you knowthat James A. Forbes planned to build the first flour mill in California , but delays in construction allowed competitors to flourish, driving down prices and forcing him into bankruptcy ?
Did you knowthat for a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics , the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow?
Did you knowthat Jack Brod was the last remaining original tenant of the Empire State Building , New York City , at the time of his death in 2008?
Did you knowthat Earnshaw Cook performed his early baseball statistics calculations with a mechanical calculator and slide rule , the latter of which resides in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
Did you knowthat Helmut Dähne has held the official motorcycle lap record on the 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long Nordschleife track in Germany since 1988?
Did you knowthat the ten Revenue Marine cutters authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1790 – including the Vigilant , Active , General Green , Massachusetts , Scammel , South Carolina and Eagle – comprised the U.S. Federal government's first "armed force afloat"?
Did you knowthat the Latin familia must be translated as " household " rather than as "family", since neither classical Greek or Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day family?
Did you knowthat the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs ?
Did you knowthat when politics threatened funding for the Fuji class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1893, Emperor Meiji offered to pay from the expenses of the Imperial Household himself?
Did you knowthat the first radio network in North America was created by the Canadian National Railway in 1923?
Did you knowthat Entoloma sinuatum was implicated in 10% of mushroom poisonings in Europe in the mid-20th century?
Did you knowthat Walter Bowart was a proponent of the counterculture movement of the 1960s , the writer of a seminal book on mind control , as well as a prolific publisher and editor of both newspapers and magazines?
Did you knowthat in the process of carbonic maceration , which is used to produce Beaujolais wine , fermentation takes place inside the individual grape berry?
Did you knowthat William Larkin was identified as the Jacobean era portraitist formerly known as "The Curtain Master" by art historian Roy Strong ?
Did you knowthat 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan ?
Did you knowthat straight pool champion "Cowboy" Jimmy Moore earned his nickname by appearing at a professional tournament wearing the required tuxedo , but nevertheless sporting cowboy boots and his signature white Stetson hat ?
Did you knowthat construction of Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area was the last project completed by the US Civilian Conservation Corps in the state of Georgia?
Did you knowthat Ruth Maier , an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank "?
Did you knowthat Alice Stebbins Wells was the first female police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department ?
Did you knowthat the film State of Play , which began principal photography on January 11, 2008 with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in the lead roles, was originally set to star Brad Pitt and Edward Norton ?
Did you knowthat Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers, who won a Grammy for writing the crossover song " I Swear ", recorded an album in 1995 as the duo Baker & Myers ?
Did you knowthat the Italian wine Orvieto was historically made with noble rot , but, unlike other botrytized wines such as Sauternes , the fungus was introduced after harvest in humid storage caves?
Did you knowthat Iranian dutar player and vocalist Qorban Soleimani is credited with inventing a new form of the ancient Azeri stringed instrument the gopuz ?
Did you knowthat the Alvin C. York Institute in Tennessee, which opened in 1929, was established as a private agricultural school by World War I hero Alvin York ?
Did you knowthat Scott Shafer , hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator , started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio ?
Did you knowthat London 's Army and Navy Club stands on a site once partly occupied by the house of the actress Moll Davis , a mistress of King Charles II ?
Did you knowthat the Right Revd Graham Charles Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in World War II and was expelled from South Africa for anti-apartheid activism?
Did you knowthat Robert McGill Loughridge co-authored the English and Muskogee Dictionary in 1890, the first English dictionary of the Creek language ?
Did you knowthat Cyclone Elita in January 2004 crossed Madagascar three times, an unusual event but not unprecedented?
Did you knowthat German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
Did you knowthat the SS Tararua sank off the Catlins in 1881, in New Zealand 's worst civilian shipping disaster?
Did you knowthat Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighbourhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata , India ?
Did you knowthat Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida , and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida 's medical benefits?
Did you knowthat the northern half of Oklahoma State Highway 95 was once part of U.S. Route 56 ?
Did you knowthat the director of the 1981 Spanish film Deprisa, Deprisa ( English : Hurry, Hurry! ) was accused of paying his cast in hard drugs ?
Did you knowthat Academy Street was part of Poughkeepsie 's first planned neighborhood?
Did you knowthat Prince Esper Ukhtomsky ' s account of Nicholas II's Eastern tour , Travels in the East of Nicholas II , was written in close consultation with the Tsar himself?
Did you knowthat after his father told him to  "Get out and make a living and don't ask me for a dollar!", James Rand, Jr. founded American Kardex , which purchased his father's company five years later?
Did you knowthat the German Renaissance castle Schloss Brenz now regularly hosts concerts?
Did you knowthat intelligence analyst Richard Barlow was fired for claiming that the Pentagon had falsified information about weapons of mass destruction in 1989?
Did you knowthat the British First World War general Sir William Peyton served as Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the Delhi Durbar of 1911?
Did you knowthat according to market researcher Mintel on green marketing patterns, only 12% of the U.S. population can be identified as True Greens, consumers who seek out and regularly buy so-called green products?
Did you knowthat architect , former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill , and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects , Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout ?
Did you knowthat DBS Building Tower One , the tallest building in Singapore when completed in 1975, is an example of brutalist architecture ?
Did you knowthat a tornado outbreak in 1974 caused Owsley Brown Frazier to start a firearm collection large enough for a museum ?
Did you knowthat rugby union footballer George MacPherson was the captain of the first Scotland team to ever win a Five Nations Grand Slam ?
Did you knowthat in 1792, Deputy Sheriff Isaac Smith of the New York City Sheriff's Office became the first law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Felixstowe Fury was a five-engined triplane flying boat that crashed in 1919, the day before a planned 8,000 mile (12,900 km) flight from England to South Africa ?
Did you knowthat the South Korean film The Host was recognized as Best Picture at the 1st Asian Film Awards , held in 2007?
Did you knowthat Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the dinosaur Coelurus from the same quarry , not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
Did you knowthat the Weekly Arizonian , first published in 1859, was Arizona 's first newspaper?
Did you knowthat annual construction of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in Switzerland takes three weeks, fifteen ice workers, 5,000 m³ of snow, and 4,000 m³ of water?
Did you knowthat members of the Appalachian Volunteers were charged with sedition in 1967 for plotting the violent overthrow of Pike County , after the group's successful efforts led to closure of a Kentucky coal mine?
Did you knowthat American swimmer Nancy Merki began swimming at age 8 after contracting polio , and set three national swimming records at age 13?
Did you knowthat Frank Loughran played for the Socceroos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of Australia ever played in Olympic soccer ?
Did you knowthat in the Polish-Austrian War of 1809, part of the War of the Fifth Coalition , Polish forces under Józef Antoni Poniatowski neutralized an Austrian force twice their size and liberated most of the Austrian-held Polish territory ?
Did you knowthat New York City -born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center?
Did you knowthat pitcher Bill Zuber was the winning pitcher for a game played on September 21, which gave the Boston Red Sox 100 victories for the 1946 season ?
Did you knowthat Edward Kennon replaced John S. Hunt, III, on the Louisiana Public Service Commission in 1972, and that both politicians were nephews of former Louisiana governors?
Did you knowthat the Zarah Leander film La Habanera takes place in 1937 Puerto Rico but was filmed in the Canaries during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you knowthat the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is Canada 's largest wildlife refuge , covering 26,000 square miles (67,000 km²)?
Did you knowthat in the churchyard of Morwenstow Church is the preserved figurehead of the Scottish brig The Caledonia , which was shipwrecked nearby in 1843?
Did you knowthat the effects of head trauma on memory can be seen by the post-operative results of HM , a patient who has been unable to form any new long-term memories since a surgical procedure performed in the 1950s?
Did you knowthat the Rufous-crowned Sparrow , a medium-sized sparrow of the southwestern United States and Mexico , has a subspecies endemic to the Todos Santos Islands that has not been seen since the 1970s?
Did you knowthat the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
Did you knowthat in the 1936 expansion of the Ronaldsway Airport , workers discovered a mass grave believed to hold the remains of soldiers who died during the 1275 Battle of Ronaldsway ?
Did you knowthat in 1924, English light heavyweight boxer Jack Bloomfield fought American Tommy Gibbons in the first ever boxing match to be held at London 's famed Wembley Stadium ?
Did you knowthat although the opposition gained 40% of the vote in the 1990 Mongolian legislative election , it only received 14% of the parliamentary seats?
Did you knowthat Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby ?
Did you knowthat Joan Ingpen and her pet dachshund Williams were the founding partners of the Ingpen & Williams classical music talent agency?
Did you knowthat the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?
Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Sir Adam Butler called in the receivers at the De Lorean Motor Company while serving as minister for economic development in Northern Ireland in 1982?
Did you knowthat Przemysław I Noszak , Duke of Cieszyn unsuccessfully tried to negotiate peace between England and France fighting the Hundred Years' War ?
Did you knowthat City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota , became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7 , 1992 ?
Did you knowthat neurologist Michael Ashby , an expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams , was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?
Did you knowthat Victoriatown , a Canadian village bulldozed by the Montreal government in preparation for Expo 67 , was used as a setting for Ha Jin 's award-winning novel, Waiting: a Novel ?
Did you knowthat, after helping enact abstinence-only sex education as a school board member, Colorado state senator Scott Renfroe attempted to amend statewide comprehensive sex ed standards to exempt schools in his native Weld County ?
Did you knowthat Alyosha Karamazov , the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky 's The Brothers Karamazov , is based on Vladimir Solovyov , a Russian philosopher and poet?
Did you knowthat none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
Did you knowthat the German architect Walter Gropius visited Peru in order to attend a graduation ceremony at the National University of Engineering Faculty of Architecture ?
Did you knowthat in 1824, the Kentucky General Assembly responded to a disfavorable ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals by abolishing the court and replacing it with a new one ?
Did you knowthat James A. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 in 2007?
Did you knowthat preservationists moved the Boscobel mansion 15 miles (24 km) up the Hudson River to save it?
Did you knowthat after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2007, Jason Coday headbutted his own attorney in a Juneau , Alaska , court?
Did you knowthat the Texas AgriLife Extension Service , founded in 1914 as part of the Smith-Lever Act , is the largest Cooperative Extension Service agency in the U.S.?
Did you knowthat the Japanese make-up artist Shu Uemura gained critical acclaim for transforming actress Shirley MacLaine into a Japanese woman?