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Did you know that in the Welsh folk tale of Y Ladi Wen , the "white lady" ghost purportedly guarded the treasure of Ogmore Castle ?
Did you know that Pornographic Apathetic by film director T. Arthur Cottam was featured at film festivals in South Korea and France , and at an art exhibit in Vienna ?
Did you know that the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resulted from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ?
Did you know that William Wadé Harris baptized over 100,000 converts in an eighteen-month period in West Africa ?
Did you know that the Pterodactyl I unmanned aerial vehicle can use synthetic aperture radar to conduct reconnaissance missions?
Did you know that Charles Lever wrote of the demise of Daly's Club , Dublin : "nothing in history equals it – except, perhaps, the entrance of the French army into Moscow "?
Did you know that when Amraal Lambert , Captain of the Kaiǀkhauan in South-West Africa , moved from Leonardville to ǂKoabes, he could not pronounce the Nama name of the settlement and changed it to Gobabis ?
Did you know that the first Native American land claim lawsuit to be filed federally and the first one to be successful arose from aboriginal title in New York ?
Did you know that to keep the French wine grape Len de l'El from fading into obscurity, Gaillac wine growers used wine laws to dictate a minimum usage of the grape for all white Gaillac blends?
Did you know that Louis Leithold , an AP calculus "legend", came out of retirement at age 72 to "relentlessly" drill high school students in calculus ?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Dalassenos came twice close to ascending the throne and marrying the porphyrogenita Zoe , but was rejected in favour of less independent-minded candidates?
Did you know that Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket ?
Did you know that A Teaspoon Every Four Hours , a play co-written by Jackie Mason , set a Broadway theatre record which may be broken next month by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ?
Did you know that Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , in his history of the church published in 1762–1785, claimed there is a place in the church for heretics?
Did you know that local opposition to Fred Wilson 's public artwork E Pluribus Unum may cause sponsors to cancel its installation in Indianapolis ?
Did you know that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with The Cars , singer Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This , the band's first studio album in 23 years?
Did you know that flying ace William Stanley Jenkins scored his first two confirmed aerial victories while still admitted to a hospital?
Did you know that the St Albans by-election in 1904 was triggered by the sale to the Admiralty of two battleships which had been built for the Chilean Navy ?
Did you know that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia , Guatemala , was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations ?
Did you know that it has been estimated that 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes as a result of the air raids on Japan during World War II ?
Did you know that Alpha Road in Dallas is named for the former freedmen's town of Alpha, Texas ?
Did you know that in the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Buckenham , Norfolk , is a dovecote lined with brick nesting boxes?
Did you know that MacHomer , a one-person play blending William Shakespeare 's Macbeth with The Simpsons , was conceived by Rick Miller in 1994 while he was playing the minor role of Murderer No. 2 in a production of MacBeth ?
Did you know that, in United States space policy , President Eisenhower sought to avoid a space race due to his belief in small government , but Congress created a NASA much stronger than he had sought?
Did you know that until the late 1970s, the hybrid grape Baco Blanc was the primary grape behind the French brandy of Armagnac ?
Did you know that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio , there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
Did you know that Vikingskipet sports venue, built for the 1994 Winter Olympics , has hosted world championships in speed skating , bandy , speedway and track cycling ?
Did you know that John F. Kennedy 's early-morning speech from the balcony of the Elton Hotel in Waterbury, Connecticut , was credited with helping him win the state in 1960 ?
Did you know that there have been reports of ghosts, and of activity by satanists , in St Botolph's Church, Skidbrooke , Lincolnshire ?
Did you know that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering , at the 2011 Asian Winter Games ?
Did you know that the 2007 independent feature film Dreamscape was expanded from 63 minutes to 86 minutes based upon a suggestion from reviewer M. J. Simpson ?
Did you know that the report of an investigation of delays in completing the Idamalayar Dam project in Kerala stated it was a "victim of recurring and long inertial periods of labour unrest"?
Did you know that the grant allowing the Potomac Curling Club to open its home in 2002 became the subject of an attack ad in Maryland ?
Did you know that Techno Viking has received more than 20 million clicks on YouTube and given rise to more than 700 responses and remixed versions?
Did you know that an aborted family picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in Oregon instead of California ?
Did you know that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn ?
Did you know that Cherokees were recruited into Thomas' Legion to fight for the South in the American Civil War by William Holland Thomas , the only white chief of the Cherokees?
Did you know that a mural outside Mama Ayesha's Restaurant , featuring 11 U.S. Presidents , was chosen by Washington City Paper as the second-best mural in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that the Irk Bitig ( Book of Omens ) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script ?
Did you know that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals , including early humans?
Did you know that the anonymous Greek author of Hellenic Nomarchy , written in 1806, dedicates his work to the activist Rigas Feraios ?
Did you know that pioneer aviator Léon Lemartin set a world record when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII Aerobus ?
Did you know that both Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 in West Virginia roughly follow the Warrior Path, an old Indian trail through the Eastern Panhandle region ?
Did you know that the Reverend Richard Boys was responsible for the moral upkeep of Hudson Lowe and his men who guarded Napoleon I during the exile on Saint Helena ?
Did you know that since the 1990s, the Cross de San Sebastián has been dominated by runners of East African origin?
Did you know that Fringe ' s executive producers compared the episode " Marionette " to a Rip Van Winkle experience?
Did you know that the Sewell Ministry , led by Henry Sewell , was the first responsible government of New Zealand ?
Did you know that the song "Mr. Malcontent" on the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Mainstream is based on the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette ?
Did you know that Pontyclun railway station , previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one?
Did you know that French singer Amaury Vassili is currently the youngest professional tenor in the world?
Did you know that Leonid Brezhnev 's legacy was described by Mikhail Gorbachev as "an Era of Stagnation "?
Did you know that much of the demolition of Sugar House Prison in Utah had to be carried out stone by stone, because dynamite had little effect on its heavy walls?
Did you know that the MXR Dyna Comp , a guitar effect , is favored especially by Nashville guitar players and other chicken pickers ?
Did you know that Guatemalan Roberto González Goyri , who was awarded the Order of the Quetzal , illustrated a children's book in Cubist style?
Did you know that in addition to being named an All-American in both football and basketball at the University of Oklahoma , Tom Churchill finished fifth in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Algernon Sidney Badger , a public official in New Orleans during and after Reconstruction , was named a Union Army colonel for "meritorious service" at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay ?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez 's 2011 comeback, " On the Floor ", samples Kaoma 's 1989 hit single " Lambada " but fellow latin artist Kat DeLuna felt it was similar to her own 2010 single "Party O'Clock"?
Did you know that the old Bridge Tender's House on the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., is now a giant kaleidoscope?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón received a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for her album Sobrevivir ?
Did you know that New Georgia, Liberia , was established by Africans "recaptured" from a slave ship and held for seven years in Georgia waiting for courts to decide their fate?
Did you know that while performing in Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Me and Juliet , actress Joan McCracken got pregnant, lost her child to a miscarriage, and lost her husband, Bob Fosse , to another woman?
Did you know that Lysgårdsbakken , the ski jumping hill for the 1994 Winter Olympics , has become the 11th-most visited tourist attraction in Norway?
Did you know that the early efforts of the precursor to the Pacific Salmon Commission included dynamiting dams?
Did you know that Anatolius , a 6th-century Byzantine official accused of being a crypto-pagan , was tortured, thrown to the "wild beasts" of the Hippodrome of Constantinople , and then crucified ?
Did you know that the octagonal Sodom Schoolhouse shared its premises with a Methodist church?
Did you know that Elizabeth W. Champney , author of the "Three Vassar Girls" series, married her former drawing instructor when he happened to pass through her hometown ?
Did you know that because the rodent Akodon spegazzinii is so variable, several populations have been named as separate species?
Did you know that Christine Weidinger returned to the Metropolitan Opera after 16 years to appear as Semiramis , the title role of Rossini 's Semiramide ?
Did you know that LifeSpring Hospitals , an Indian hospital chain that provides care to low income patients in Hyderabad , was the first health care company to join the UN 's Business Call to Action?
Did you know that England international footballer and twice FA Cup winner Harry Goodhart became Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that the city of Huejotzingo , Mexico , celebrates Carnival with four battalions of residents firing wooden muskets at each other?
Did you know that humanist minuscule handwriting , invented in the fifteenth century in Italy , was based on Carolingian minuscule , which Renaissance humanists took to be ancient Roman ?
Did you know that the Fringe episode title " Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? " refers to a novel that was later adapted into the film Blade Runner ?
Did you know that the Cameroon line of volcanoes is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, and includes Mount Oku , the second highest mountain in Cameroon ?
Did you know that children's writer Will Scott , author of The Cherrys series, wrote 2,000 short stories for adults?
Did you know that Bohuslav Martinů 's Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra was first performed in the United Kingdom by oboist Evelyn Rothwell at The Proms ?
Did you know that Gary Fanelli , who represented American Samoa in the marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics , has competed in various costumes including Elwood Blues , a Ghostbusters ghost , and Michael Jackson ?
Did you know that the Government of Hong Kong invoked the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance for the fourth time in history to protect Ho Tung Gardens ?
Did you know that The Wall Street Journal calculated that Michigan Wolverines point guard Darius Morris is the most valuable college basketball player in any major college program?
Did you know that unlike most other churches in the Welsh county of Anglesey , St Ffinan's Church was built in Romanesque revival style?
Did you know that in 1967 Arkansas Republican chairman Odell Pollard reported that his state ranked second highest nationally in the percent of African Americans serving on draft boards ?
Did you know that the sacred wild-olive Olea oleaster of Olympia , not the cultivated olive , was used for the olive wreaths that crowned ancient Olympic winners ?
Did you know that Cuban songwriter Emilio Estefan earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year the same year he was named Person of the Year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences ?
Did you know that the Rich Representation Language includes commands for displaying a wide range of emotions in the faces of animated characters ?
Did you know that Acromis spinifex is one of the few tortoise beetles that shows maternal care of its young?
Did you know that Zamfir Arbore went from being a figure in Russian anarchism and a close associate of Mikhail Bakunin to serving two terms in the Senate of Romania ?
Did you know that with the use of the captured merchant vessels MV Izumi and MV York as motherships , Somali pirates introduced a new strategy that has been said to be "game-changing"?
Did you know that although Arley Hall , Cheshire , was in Jacobean style, its owner decided that its chapel should be in Gothic style?
Did you know that after suffering the loss of the use of an arm, Augustus Wade Dwight returned to lead his regiment , only to die in the Battle of Fort Stedman ?
Did you know that the monster costume in the Roger Corman -produced horror film Night of the Blood Beast is the same one used in the film Teenage Cave Man ?
Did you know that merchant Lester S. Willson and his wife entertained members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition in their home on the evening before the expedition left to explore Yellowstone ?
Did you know that in Australia , the only initiative to introduce community forestry , within the internationally understood context, is in the Wombat State Forest ?
Did you know that American rapper Jay-Z has won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration four times since its conception in 2002?
Did you know that the center section of the Consolidated XB2Y dive bomber was cut from a solid steel block?
Did you know that according to Roman law , counterfeiters were to be thrown to wild beasts ?
Did you know that in 1887, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume outsold Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet worldwide?
Did you know that father and son producers Thomas and David Frost have both been presented Grammy Awards for Classical Producer of the Year ?
Did you know that British organometallic chemist Peter Maitlis coined the term metallomesogens for " metal complexes of organic ligands which exhibit liquid crystalline (mesomorphic) character"?
Did you know that Ballard Bunder Gatehouse in Mumbai was obscured from view for more than 50 years until it was restored by the Indian Navy and made a maritime museum ?
Did you know that nearly half a century after the assassination of Huey Long , the Louisiana physician Edgar Hull disputed a longstanding claim that Long had received inferior medical treatment following the fatal shooting?
Did you know that the pilot of Lufthansa Flight 592 persuaded solo hijacker Nebiu Zewolde Demeke to trade his pistol for the pilot's sunglasses?
Did you know that Sussex cricket captain Herbert Whitfield also played international football for England ?
Did you know that museum theatre encompasses not only first and second person interpretation, but also demonstration, storytelling, and performances?
Did you know that Petra , a sculpture of a urinating policewoman, received a German art award in 2011?
Did you know that St Michael the Archangel's Church , located near Booton in Norfolk , is often known as the "Cathedral of the Fields"?
Did you know that Jerry Nemer was the first Jew to captain a major athletic team at the University of Southern California ?
Did you know that John H. Eastman , the mayor of Shreveport , Louisiana , from 1910 to 1914, made his living as a tinsmith ?
Did you know that French winegrower Domaine Coche-Dury suffered damage to its Corton-Charlemagne vines after a helicopter crashed into them?
Did you know that block cellular automata , invented by Norman Margolus , can be used to simulate lattice gases , sand piles, and billiard-ball computers ?
Did you know that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog , Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time?
Did you know that the Groundhog Day blizzard and ice storm of 2011 produced storm surges near Chicago and forced the first school cancellations in both Chicago and Toronto since 1999?
Did you know that the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén in Guatemala was built to offset damage from a highway construction project?
Did you know that the GT-1 could deliver a torpedo up to 25 miles (40 km) from its launching aircraft?
Did you know that the Friends of Five Creeks helps restore creeks in the San Francisco Bay Area 's East Bay including daylighting Marin Creek ?
Did you know that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum ?
Did you know that Henry Fonda took singing lessons to prepare to be the male lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Pipe Dream , but said that even so, he "couldn't sing for shit"?
Did you know that, in 1984, John Butt became the first – and only – Westerner to graduate from the noted Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic Madrasah since its foundation in 1866?
Did you know that heavy fog meant that helicopters were unable to participate in rescue operations after a recent train wreck in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany?
Did you know that Tu Holloway, while playing for the 2010–11 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team , recorded the first triple-double by a Xavier player since 2001?
Did you know that Bruce Jackson , who mixed concert sound for Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen , was described by Barbra Streisand as "the best sound engineer in the world"?
Did you know that St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo , Wales, commemorates St Caffo who was martyred in the area in the 6th century?
Did you know that Fringe episode " Amber 31422 " was the first project identical twin brothers Shawn and Aaron Ashmore had worked on together in fifteen years?
Did you know that 2,000 people in medieval garb re-enacted the Battle of Tewkesbury at the 2003 Tewkesbury Medieval Festival , one of the "ten most bizarre festivals" in England?
Did you know that space policy concerns not only a country's civilian space program , but also its policy on both military use and commercial use of outer space?
Did you know that " Here I Stand ", a song by Usher , was compared to the work of Stevie Wonder , and was nominated for a Grammy Award ?
Did you know that the AGR-14 ZAP rocket would have used flechettes to destroy anti-aircraft guns ?
Did you know that Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in honor of Mary Jobe Akeley to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains ?
Did you know that United States Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Cavanagh is the Beanpot ice hockey tournament's all-time leading scorer?
Did you know that Comedy Central 's South Park was the "number one influence" for the humor in the adult video game Bonetown , a game which encourages the player to have sex with as many women in-game as possible?
Did you know that three decades before he served in the State Senate , W. Scott Heywood drilled the first oil well in the state of Louisiana ?
Did you know that, before the 1907 Philippine Assembly elections , the nominating convention of the Nacionalista Party ended in disarray while the Progresista Party 's candidates were heckled "Hang them, kill them" at their rallies?
Did you know that the radio station WGRQ began broadcasting in May 1986 but did not receive its broadcast license until November 1987 ?
Did you know that the exotica album Orienta by Star Trek composer Gerald Fried was said to resemble the dreams of a person who has fallen asleep during a Fu Manchu movie on television?
Did you know that, in 1973, a Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport after striking birds which likely came from a landfill site adjacent to the runway?
Did you know that ancient Egyptian temples contain architectural elements that symbolize houses, hills, tombs, marshes, and guard towers?
Did you know that the fictional character Bobby Simpson from the soap opera Home and Away was only allowed to marry after a real life shopping center filled with people approved?
Did you know that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos , although it lives exclusively on palms ?
Did you know that John David Duty is the first person to be executed in the United States with pentobarbital , which is commonly used for animal euthanasia ?
Did you know that the Tietê Bus Terminal in São Paulo , Brazil , is the largest bus terminal in Latin America and the second largest in the world?
Did you know that the chemistry of the plutonyl ion resembles the chemistry of the uranyl ion very closely?
Did you know that Bill Harman , the tallest catcher in Major League Baseball when he was signed, played in 15 games for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1941 and they lost every one of those 15 games?
Did you know that the Pratt-Read LBE glider bomb was intended to be guided by television signals and radio control ?
Did you know that Christopher Nolan has said that he plans to direct a final installment of his Batman trilogy titled The Dark Knight Rises for release in 2012?
Did you know that Carex lutea , an endangered species of sedge that is endemic to North Carolina , is threatened by fire suppression efforts?
Did you know that Brooke Fraser 's song " Betty " is about a girl who hides behind her scars and birthmarks?
Did you know that Benjamin Morgan Harrod , the civil engineer who designed the New Orleans water and sewerage systems, had been a Union captive of the Battle of Vicksburg ?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 29 Squadron is headquartered in Hobart , Tasmania , despite the absence of RAAF bases or aircraft in the state?
Did you know that the UK's oldest working oil pump can be found at Kimmeridge Oil Field in Dorset ?
Did you know that Otto Redlich published the Redlich–Kwong equation of state in 1949?
Did you know that Peter M. Rhee , one of the first American battlefield surgeons in Afghanistan , was the attending physician of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords after the shooting in Tucson ?
Did you know that the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 require that all maintenance workers in the United Kingdom who may come into contact with asbestos must be given special training?
Did you know that after Rolling Stone published photos and addresses of 100 gays and lesbians under the headline "Hang Them", Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was awarded USh 1.5 million in damages?
Did you know that Methodists worshipped at the Samuel Danford Farm near Summerfield, Ohio , for more than fifty years before erecting a church building there?
Did you know that a South Korean naval unit defended a North Korean ship against Somali pirates ?
Did you know that the controversial Malay novel Interlok will be amended before being included in the syllabus for the subject of Malay literature in Malaysian schools ?
Did you know that the habitat of the rare Navajo sedge is limited to the shady side of steep, often vertical, cliffs of red Navajo Sandstone of the Colorado Plateau at elevations between 5700 and 6000 feet?
Did you know that Jocotitlán , Mexico , sits at the foot of a small dormant volcano, which could become active again?
Did you know that the man arrested in the parking lot of an American mosque with explosives in his car was a former commercial bush pilot in Indonesia ?