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Did you know that of the three semi-deck lenticular truss bridges known to have been made, the Hadley, New York , Bow Bridge is the only one that still exists?
Did you know that forty-eight U.S. states , the District of Columbia , and Puerto Rico allow the courts of other jurisdictions to ask for answers to certified questions of unsettled law?
Did you know that Konawaena High School 's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun ?
Did you know that the Accurate News and Information Act , passed in 1937 by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta , gave a committee of legislators the authority to compel a newspaper to reveal its sources?
Did you know that Alfred Newman Gilbey arranged that Fisher House, Cambridge would only be demolished, quite literally, over his dead body ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velásquez won the Young America Stakes four times; in 1978 with Spectacular Bid , in 1979 with Koluctoo Bay, in 1980 with Lord Avie and in 1987 aboard Firery [ sic ] Ensign?
Did you know that family members living overseas with members of the British Armed Forces can be tried in the military courts ?
Did you know that after two consecutive games in which Florida Panthers centre Nathan Horton scored goals in overtime, the Miami Herald called him the "King of Overtime"?
Did you know that the Commissioner's House of the Bermuda Maritime Museum is the world's first residence that was constructed with prefabricated cast-iron structural supports?
Did you know that Oakwood Cemetery in Troy , New York , is the resting place of the progenitor of Uncle Sam , Samuel Wilson , financier Russell Sage , and educators Emma Willard and Amos Eaton ?
Did you know that the 7th Earl of Pembroke was convicted of murder but pardoned by King Charles II ?
Did you know that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?
Did you know that  that SS Empire Bay was sunk by bombs dropped from a Dornier Do 217 of 8 Staffeln, Kampfgeschwader 2 in 1942?
Did you know that the Houston businessman , philanthropist , and politician George Strake, Jr. , was among the benefactors in the restoration of the World War II vessel, USS Cavalla (SS-244) ?
Did you know that the sinking of the Romanian -flagged crude oil carrier MT Unirea was classified by Lloyd's List as the world's largest ship accident of 1982?
Did you know that sailor Thomas Bourne won the Medal of Honor for actions during the 1862 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip in which he "remained steadfast at his gun" despite heavy fire his ship was taking?
Did you know that some copies of Greek singer Chrispa 's new album Mehri Edo accidentally contained church hymns instead of her songs?
Did you know that in his response brief in Beck v. Eiland-Hall , attorney Marc Randazza cited the U.S. Supreme Court case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell ?
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Did you know that Judge George C. Pratt blamed Angelo Errichetti for luring U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams to accept Abscam bribes, with Pratt describing Errichetti as "the center of a cesspool of corruption"?
Did you know that the British passenger liner RMS Persia was the largest ship in the world at the time of her launch in 1855?
Did you know that under British law , credit brokers include not only loan and mortgage brokers , but also solicitors , car dealers and retail shops?
Did you know that homosexual novelist Myron Brinig wrote several novels about homosexuality, yet he was closeted all his life?
Did you know that the song " Full Circle ", from The Byrds ' 1973 reunion album, was not released as a single in the United Kingdom until August 1975, more than two years after The Byrds' reunion had come to an end?
Did you know that The British Museum Friends recently provided funding to help the British Museum acquire twelve Greek papyri from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ?
Did you know that Nikolai Menshutkin discovered in 1890 a chemical reaction which is still used to study the effect of solvent on reaction rate ?
Did you know that consumption of the psychoactive mushroom Psilocybe argentipes by mice who compulsively bury marbles significantly inhibits this behaviour?
Did you know that Dar Lyon was the only English cricketer involved in the 1924 Test Trial match not to go on to represent England at Test cricket ?
Did you know that Lionel Copley was appointed the first royal governor of the colony of Maryland after a Protestant rebellion, but died after only a year in office?
Did you know that in 1924 the Texas historian Rupert N. Richardson became one of the founders of the West Texas Historical Association ?
Did you know that the jail wing at the old Warren County courthouse in Lake George, New York , has an unusual structural system in which the second floor is supported by steel rods suspended from the roof trusses ?
Did you know that Kerala 's Angadipuram Laterite is formed from the weathering of many rock types , including charnockite , anorthosite and gabbro ?
Did you know that the Little Green House on K Street in Washington, D.C. was where the Ohio Gang hatched such schemes as the Teapot Dome scandal ?
Did you know that the Continuity of Government Commission in 2003 recommended a constitutional amendment to ensure that vacancies in the U.S. House were filled quickly in the event of a massive attack?
Did you know that Puerto Rican boxer José Ruíz Matos was the World Boxing Organization 's first super flyweight champion?
Did you know that Irish politician John O'Donoghue resigned as Ceann Comhairle over various expense claims , including a £1 charity donation to UNICEF ?
Did you know that the Liberty Colored High School , built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina , is now the Rosenwood community center ?
Did you know that the genus name of the commonly grown Australian garden plants Dianella caerulea and D. tasmanica is derived from the goddess Diana ?
Did you know that Paul Miller , who later headed Gannett Company and the Associated Press , was the city editor of a Pawhuska, Oklahoma , newspaper before he started college?
Did you know that the Japanese Manga de Dokuha series published a controversial manga version of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler ?
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Did you know that the yacht Adele served with the Royal Australian Navy in both world wars—as HMAS Franklin in the first and HMAS Adele in the second ?
Did you know that Gilberto Zaldívar ' s New York City -based Repertorio Español , called "a national treasure ... unmatched by any other Spanish-language theater company", has staged over 250 productions in 40 years?
Did you know that in the last hundred years some of the commercially fished Hawaiian stocks have decreased by 80–85%?
Did you know that Leonie Pray House hosted recitals by Liberace and Risë Stevens and served as the home of Patrick Swayze 's character in Donnie Darko ?
Did you know that Le Vélo 's impassioned reporting of the Dreyfus affair led indirectly to the creation of the Tour de France ?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Chayanne received a Grammy Award nomination for his self-titled 1988 album ?
Did you know that Robert Walpole , father of England's first Prime Minister , holds the record for the longest overdue library book at 288 years?
Did you know that The Heartland Series , produced by a Knoxville, Tennessee, TV station , has been called "the nation's longest-running sociological video repository"?
Did you know that the majority of the traditional dishes of the cuisine of Dorset originated in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Did you know that Canadian editorial cartoonist Stewart Cameron so alienated followers of the Alberta Social Credit League that his house was once bombed?
Did you know that the mushroom Entoloma austroprunicolor of Tasmania 's wet forests changes from bluish-purple, to reddish purple, to purplish grey as it ages?
Did you know that Prirazlomnaya oil platform on the Prirazlomnoye field is equipped with the topsides of the former Hutton oilfield 's platform Hutton TLP, which was the first Tension Leg Platform ever built?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football player Obi Ezeh was invited to try out for the United States national rugby union team ?
Did you know that the 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt was resolved by a government bill for which all members of government disavowed any responsibility?
Did you know that in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba ?
Did you know that the Mussabini Medal sought to celebrate the coaches of British sportspeople who had achieved outstanding success on the world stage?
Did you know that Josh Turner was "elated to discover that he wouldn't have to do any acting" in the music video for his single " Why Don't We Just Dance " ?
Did you know that the bark of the Caribbean tree Canella winterana can be used as a spice similar to cinnamon ?
Did you know that local exchange carriers in the rural USA have partnered with phone sex providers in traffic pumping arrangements that earn them millions of dollars in phone connection fees?
Did you know that one of Sydney 's most expensive houses, Boomerang , includes a private cinema that at one time could seat 200 people?
Did you know that the Treaty of Grimnitz allowed Brandenburgian prince-electors to touch Pomeranian flags?
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Did you know that since 2007, Alien Resident Certificates issued to foreign residents in Taiwan have included an integrated circuit containing personal information?
Did you know that Sydney Rippon , father of a UK Cabinet minister, played in a first-class cricket match under an assumed name so that his employer, the Inland Revenue , would not find out?
Did you know that 300 civilians living in Ostrach survived in their cellars while 70,000 Austrians and French battled overhead in March 1799?
Did you know that the 2.44-mile (3.93 km) long Iowa Highway 107 consists of two segments wholly within Meservey and Thornton, Iowa ?
Did you know that a recently rediscovered Union Jack presented to James Clephan after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is the only surviving flag from the battle?
Did you know that the creation of the German parliamentary electoral district of Berlin Lichtenberg proved controversial, being perceived as disadvantageous to the Party of Democratic Socialism ?
Did you know that during a scripted rivalry , professional wrestler Rhett Titus had the face of female professional wrestler Daizee Haze airbrushed onto his ring gear?
Did you know that during Operation Doomsday , the British 1st Airborne Division suffered 34 casualties, despite the Second World War having ended several days previously ?
Did you know that a benefit concert taking place in Dublin tonight will be broadcast live to an audience in Gaza City ?
Did you know that the Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial ?
Did you know that after Larry Niven 's first attempt at writing a Star Trek: The Animated Series screenplay was rejected, Gene Roddenberry suggested he adapt one of his short stories which became " The Slaver Weapon "?
Did you know that the yellow-green mushroom Entoloma rodwayi of wet forests in Tasmania turns a vivid blue-green upon drying?
Did you know that Victor G. Carrillo , chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission , completed law school at night while he worked as a geophysicist for Amoco Oil Company?
Did you know that Irene Vilar's memoir Impossible Motherhood was rejected 51 times before it was successfully published?
Did you know that Edmund Dummer , Surveyor of the Navy , founded Britain's Royal Navy dockyard at Devonport in the 1690s, but died bankrupt in the Fleet debtors' prison ?
Did you know that although the teeth of the extinct rodent Holochilus primigenus are almost identical to those of Lund's Amphibious Rat , it is probably more closely related to marsh rats ?
Did you know that the Holding Institute , now a community center in Laredo , Texas , was formerly a boarding school destroyed in 1954 by Rio Grande floods , relocated, and thereafter closed for financial reasons?
Did you know that in 1913 Gravel Island National Wildlife Refuge became the twenty-ninth wildlife refuge in the U.S. and third in the Great Lakes region ?
Did you know that the Franklin Borough School District in rural New Jersey had a baseball field said to have been designed by Babe Ruth and local engineers to match the dimensions of the original Yankee Stadium ?
Did you know that lawyer Raymond A. Brown 's clients included boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter , Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard and "Dr. X" physician Mario Jascalevich ?
Did you know that Alexander the Great was one of the greatest supporters of Homonoia ?
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Did you know that the distribution of galaxy types found within the Eridanus Group provides evidence for the theory of cold dark matter ?
Did you know that Englishman Bob Bootland , who was the first foreigner to coach a football club in India, arrived in the country on holiday and never left?
Did you know that Kordian , a romantic drama by one of Poland's Three Bards , Juliusz Słowacki , is a polemic with Dziady , an earlier work by another of the Three Bards, Adam Mickiewicz ?
Did you know that Dallata was one of the villages that locals of Fir'im , Mughr al-Khayt and Qabba'a fled to in the first days of May 1948, when they were attacked during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ?
Did you know that the September 1988 unemployment statistics for the United Kingdom were briefly over-recorded due to the 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike ?
Did you know that the Van Buren Street Bridge in Oregon is the last movable-span truss bridge constructed by the pin connection method located on the West Coast ?
Did you know that Blackpool ' s director, Julie Anne Robinson , and writer, Peter Bowker , wanted to co-create a television serial set in Funny Girls , a British cabaret featuring male dancers in drag ?
Did you know that in 1882, almost a century after the final partition of Poland , Polish explorer Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński tried to found a Polish colony in Cameroon ?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias , who had been deputy chief of Navy intelligence in World War II , later narrated the NBC Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors , titled after one of his own books?
Did you know that the Korean Painting of the Eastern Palace , is actually of two royal palaces to the east of Gyeongbokgung palace?
Did you know that an annual award for "outstanding state legislators" presented by the National Bar Association is named for Louisiana State Representative Pinkie C. Wilkerson ?
Did you know that from 1946 to 1991, Ordnance Survey International provided a central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates ?
Did you know that the destruction of Ayn Ghazal by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was condemned by Count Bernadotte ?
Did you know that in the case Coleman v. Schwarzenegger a three-judge panel gave the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation two years to cut prison populations to 137.5% of capacity?
Did you know that in 1906 Ernest Archdeacon commissioned an Aéromotocyclette (propeller driven motorcycle) which achieved 79.5 kph?
Did you know that the Microsoft data loss of 2009 has been described as the biggest disaster to affect the concept of cloud computing ?
Did you know that Kenny Chesney has won four consecutive Billboard Touring Awards for Top Package Tour?
Did you know that Judge Theodore Trautwein jailed a New York Times reporter for 40 days for refusing to turn over notes in a murder trial, saying that the reporter put his own rights above those of the defendant ?
Did you know that the Seven Sisters women's magazines include five of the ten largest circulation magazines in the United States?
Did you know that Tom Frost participated in the first ascent of the Salathé Wall in Yosemite Valley in 1961?
Did you know that the song created for The Coca-Cola Company 's marketing campaign Open Happiness peaked at the number one spot on record charts in China ?
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Did you know that Hugo Raudsepp , one of Estonia 's greatest comedic playwrights, became a " non-person "?
Did you know that the French School at Athens , which provides archaeological discoveries for the Delos Archaeological Museum ,  began excavating at Delos in 1872 and is still excavating the area today?
Did you know that Porgy and Bess earned a "landmark place in theater history" when Douglas Watt encouraged producer Cheryl Crawford to create a second run on Broadway after a disappointing 1935 debut?
Did you know that thoroughbred horse Lord Avie , bought for $37,000 in 1980, was put to stud after retiring in 1981 and by 2002 had sired 578 starters, including 429 individual winners with total earnings of $35 million?
Did you know that several coalition governments in Norway have operated with suicide paragraphs , meaning that the coalition will disintegrate if the question of Norway and the European Union is put on the agenda?
Did you know that after footballer Barrie Thomas transferred from Scunthorpe United to Newcastle United in January 1962, attendances at Scunthorpe's home games dropped by 20%?
Did you know that one scene of the Cold Feet television episode " Going to Australia " was filmed on a set that was physically falling apart as the camera was rolling?
Did you know that in the Polish–Muscovite War of 1577–1582 , Muscovy failed in its attempt to gain access to the Baltic Sea ?
Did you know that Peg Mullen ' s change into an antiwar activist after her son's death in Vietnam by shrapnel fired from U.S. artillery, became the Emmy Award -winning 1979 film Friendly Fire starring Carol Burnett ?
Did you know that a trirated cable is an electrical cable that meets the safety and performance requirements of three different international standards set by the Americans , the British and the Canadians ?
Did you know that the socialist Romanian General Jewish Labour Bund had a strong presence in kehilla elections in Chişinău during the interbellum but largely lacked representation outside Bessarabia ?
Did you know that American economic historian John Ulric Nef was the co-founder of the University of Chicago 's Committee on Social Thought ?
Did you know that Baseball Rubbing Mud , used by every team in Major League Baseball to give baseballs a rougher texture, originates from a secret location on the Delaware River ?
Did you know that winemaker David Lake made Washington State 's first Syrah and pioneered the use of single vineyard labeling in the state?
Did you know that in his account of "Christian expeditions" into China (first published in 1615), Matteo Ricci strongly criticized feng shui practices?
Did you know that the Bosworth fracture is named after the first non-Japanese to be awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure , American David M. Bosworth ?
Did you know that Takthok Monastery is the only monastery of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh ?
Did you know that Roman Catholic missionary Aengus Finucane often flew with Mother Teresa while delivering food supplies to Bangladesh ?
Did you know that the Hiram Charles Todd House was the very first property in Saratoga Springs, New York , to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that a Polish railway worker, Wojciech Najsarek , was one of the first victims of World War II ?
Did you know that Howell Peacock , while a medical student , coached the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team as well as future Governor of North Carolina Luther H. Hodges ?
Did you know that the Anatolic , Armeniac , Opsician , and Thracesian themes, the first four Byzantine themes to be established, descended from the field armies of the East Roman army ?
Did you know that naval architect and author W.I.B. Crealock designed a yacht that was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the new Utah towns of Bryce Canyon City , Hideout , and Independence were incorporated under a controversial, short-lived state law?
Did you know that Sir George Power, 7th Baronet of Kilfane created the role of Ralph Rackstraw in Gilbert and Sullivan 's HMS Pinafore in 1878?
Did you know that Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve is an important and isolated cloud forest , however its small size and isolation is jeopardizing its long term survival ?
Did you know that during World War II , James Hill captured two Italian tanks using only his revolver but was wounded while attempting to capture a third?
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Did you know that Leigh Hunt 's works involve: a juvenile poem about the pleasure palace , Hero's suicide , the jilted Ariadne , a diary with a calendar , poetic feasts , a masque , nymphs , and a deadly love affair ?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed many viola parts for Cecil Aronowitz , a co-founder of the Melos Ensemble ?
Did you know that France–Asia relations span more than two millennia, and have involved numerous alliances between France and Asian countries?
Did you know that in 1961, a year before he died, turn-of-the-century racecar driver Gus Monckmeier recreated his 1911 1,000-mile run around Lake Michigan?
Did you know that the people of Pachuca call the city the "Cradle of Mexican Soccer"?
Did you know that some historians believe that Edith Rogers was left out of the Alberta cabinet in 1935 because she was a woman?
Did you know that the United States Army 's Camp Warner in south central Oregon was so cold that on several occasions the camp's entire detachment of soldiers had to walk in circles all night to keep from freezing?
Did you know that his fine bass voice turned Leonid Kharitonov from a poor villager in Siberia into a renowned singer performing all around the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Voina is a Russian art collective whose provocative works have included public group sex and staged hangings ?
Did you know that Judge Peter T. Farrell presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton , who claimed to have stolen  millions from banks in his career, and sentenced him to 30–120 years in Attica State Prison ?
Did you know that the Polish town of Polanów was completely destroyed during the Second World War ?
Did you know that in 1989, Carlos D. Ramirez led a group that purchased El Diario La Prensa , the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States?
Did you know that director Asit Sen received his first and only Filmfare Best Director Award for his 1970 film Safar ?
Did you know that Lithuanian Chief of Defence Arvydas Pocius was freestyle wrestling champion of Lithuania in junior, youth and adult groups?
Did you know that Jeannette Kagame , the current First Lady of Rwanda , works to help victims of the Rwandan Genocide and HIV / AIDS ?
Did you know that Al-Ard ("The Land") was a Palestinian nationalist movement made up of Arab citizens of Israel ?
Did you know that the late Louisiana State Senator Bryan A. Poston was an aerial engineer gunner sergeant on a B-17 bomber ?
Did you know that by 1984, less than 40 years after his death, Mori Koben had more than 2,000 descendants, who were Micronesians of Japanese descent ?
Did you know that GM executive Harlow Curtice turned down a generalship during World War II, and was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1955?
Did you know that Anders Haugen , one of the 104 medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics , was awarded his bronze medal in ski jumping fifty years after the games ended?
Did you know that British explorer Christina Dodwell was initiated into manhood by the crocodile people of the New Guinea lowlands?
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Did you know that French indie rock band Stuck in the Sound got their name from the fact that when the group formed, the four band members locked themselves in a basement with their music?
Did you know that the Meadowlands Rail Line can transport 10,000 fans per hour to and from events at Giants Stadium and other venues in the Meadowlands Sports Complex ?