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Did you know that United States Senator Jim Bunning threw the only perfect game out of the nine no-hitters in Philadelphia Phillies history ?
Did you know that Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica 's four native monkey species can be found?
Did you know that Kenelm Hubert Digby was the proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union ?
Did you know that the pilot of Showtime's Dexter was filmed through three hurricanes in 2005 ?
Did you know that writer Paul Georgescu helped enforce Socialist Realism in Communist Romania while concealing his sympathy for Trotskyism ?
Did you know that an oleum leak at Chevron Richmond Refinery sent 25,000 people to the hospital in 1993?
Did you know that Kenyan long distance athlete Evans Cheruiyot and his teammates were stranded in France by their manager without food, money, or shelter?
Did you know that Gospel music station WNUZ in Talladega, Alabama , has been off-the-air since its transmitter was destroyed by lightning ?
Did you know that the Heard Shag is a bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles and blue eye-rings?
Did you know that Hugh Foliot took custody of Hereford Castle in 1223 as part of Hubert de Burgh 's takeover of power from Peter des Roches ?
Did you know that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal , gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement ?
Did you know that Yehoshua Cohen , the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte , later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion ?
Did you know that John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was set for demolition until its listing on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that five members of the Philadelphia Phillies ' 2008 world championship team , including Pat Burrell , were also first-round draft picks of the franchise ?
Did you know that Margo Sappington received a Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet ?
Did you know that the Equus Survival Trust is the only conservation organization in the world that specializes in equines ?
Did you know that the Trondheim newspaper Ny Tid switched allegiance from Labour to Communist when Knut Olai Thornæs was its editor?
Did you know that the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi ) highway route through northern Canada , from Dawson Creek, British Columbia , to Winnipeg, Manitoba ?
Did you know that Ralph Carpenter ' s restoration of Hunter House , a historic building in Newport, Rhode Island that had been scheduled for demolition , was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?
Did you know that Norman Marjoribanks , later acting Governor of Madras , headed a commission to investigate the plight of indentured Tamil labourers on plantations in Ceylon ?
Did you know that the title of the 1960–61 TV series COronado 9 refers to the telephone exchange for the home town of fictional detective Dan Adams?
Did you know that the first discovery of the remains of Dorset culture , Paleo-Eskimo people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on Dorset Island in Nunavut , Canada?
Did you know that Moorhuhn , a series of German computer games that has spawned much merchandise , a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement ?
Did you know that a song about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo was sent into space in 1977 as part of the Voyager Golden Record ?
Did you know that in 1971, half the houses in Noel Park , London , were still lacking basic facilities such as baths , internal toilets and hot water ?
Did you know that Italian architect Ercole Manfredi took up Thai citizenship to overcome nationalist policies pursued by the Thai government?
Did you know that The French Democracy is an ironically titled political film about the 2005 civil unrest in France ?
Did you know that during the Korean Joseon period, royal physicians squeezed milk from cows to make tarakjuk , a milk porridge , which was served only for the king and royalty?
Did you know that 18th-century bookseller Thomas Cadell refused to publish Charlotte Turner Smith 's novel Desmond because it was too radical ?
Did you know that the 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth , Western Australia , was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
Did you know that suffragette Norah Elam campaigned in 1918 for the internment of enemy aliens but in 1940 was interned herself as an 18B detainee due to her membership in the British Union of Fascists ?
Did you know that Jennifer Granholm became the first female governor of Michigan after winning the 2002 Michigan gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that, with an oil-processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year, the Petromidia Constanţa Refinery is the largest Romanian refinery ?
Did you know that it took William Edwards four attempts to build the Old Bridge at Pontypridd in Wales ?
Did you know that Quake III Arena's fast inverse square root code uses a "magic number" to generate a quick first approximation to Newton's method of computing roots ?
Did you know that the 1955–56 NBC series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television , preceded by Death Valley Days ?
Did you know that tree-ring dating has linked the building of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford to 1179, during the episcopate of Robert Foliot ?
Did you know that the Hare Indian dog , now extinct , was not known to bark , but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe ?
Did you know that LaVelle Smith Jnr has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography five times, including one for Michael and Janet Jackson 's " Scream "?
Did you know that Rod Cameron 's syndicated crime drama City Detective was sold in 1955 for distribution to a then record 171 television stations?
Did you know that former Rwandan Interior Minister and political dissident Seth Sendashonga recognized one of his assailants in a failed assassination attempt as his old government bodyguard?
Did you know that the hexagonal-pored polypore mushroom produces the antifungal polypeptide alveolarin?
Did you know that dental student Robert Kavanaugh was awarded the Albert Medal following his rescue of a fourteen-year-old boy during a shark attack?
Did you know that as part of the Canterbury-York dispute in medieval England , Gerard , an Archbishop of York , once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's?
Did you know that the career of association football player Mark Maley was ended after he was accidentally shot in the eye by teammate John Oster with an air gun ?
Did you know that 18th-century English historian William Rider ' s 50-volume A New History of England was later described by William Thomas Lowndes as one of the vilest Grub Street compilations ever published?
Did you know that the death of Libby Zion resulted in an eponymous law that regulates working hours during medical residency in New York State ?
Did you know that at an expected cost of US$1 billion, a 3.15-kilometre (1.96 mi) long suspension bridge linking Vladivostok with Russky Island is due to be built in time for APEC Russia 2012 ?
Did you know that from 14th to 17th century, the Tęczyński family from Lesser Poland had a major influence in the Kingdom of Poland ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Wang Chengzong , fearing reprisals after the defeat of his ally Wu Yuanji, offered his sons as hostages and two of his six prefectures to Emperor Xianzong ?
Did you know that the Florida State Fair , which includes the Cracker Country living history museum, offers food oddities like chocolate covered bacon ?
Did you know that the Tilted Kilt is a bar and restaurant chain in the United States described as " Hooters with a Scottish twist"?
Did you know that Erna Hanfstaengl was claimed both to be romantically involved with Hitler and involved in a plot to overthrow him?
Did you know that Willow Prairie Cabin in Oregon 's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest , built by a Forest Service crew in 1924, is a popular horse camp?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Navy 's Haruna was one of the first vessels in the world to be equipped with 14-inch naval guns?
Did you know that the Leges Henrici Primi (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?
Did you know that besides delivering electric shocks , the characteristic defensive behaviour of a giant electric ray when threatened by a predator includes performing a " somersault " in the water?
Did you know that Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is a live album recorded from Rufus Wainwright 's June 2006 tribute concerts to legendary singer Judy Garland ?
Did you know that India's government launched a programme in 2001 to provide employment for poor people living in rural areas?
Did you know that John Windet published composer Tobias Hume 's First Part of Ayres , which contains what may be the earliest examples of pizzicato and col legno ?
Did you know that the Emu Brewery in Perth , Western Australia , traced its history to the town's first standalone brewery , which was founded less than a decade after settlement ?
Did you know that, although she was born in South Africa , Kate Dennison now holds the indoor British record for the pole vault ?
Did you know that Babe Ruth reportedly signed one of his most lucrative New York Yankees ' contracts at Jacob Ruppert 's Eagles' Rest estate in Garrison, New York , now Saint Basil Academy ?
Did you know that taxidermist Walter Potter 's diorama , "The Death and Burial of Cock Robin ", created when he was 19, features 98 stuffed British birds?
Did you know that when the Tang Dynasty general Tian Hongzheng was young, his brother Tian Rong battered him after he won an archery contest, believing that he was drawing unnecessary attention to himself?
Did you know that the Versailles Cuban restaurant is part of actress Helen Mirren 's ideal weekend in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that despite claims that Pakistan made the Anza locally, it is believed the MANPAD was created with Chinese assistance via technology transfers ?
Did you know that University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Dave Debol , known in the 1970s as "the Guy LaFleur of college hockey", set an NCAA record by scoring three goals in less than one minute?
Did you know that the fine rolls record offers of money to the Kings of England for concessions and favours?
Did you know that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the second video game based on the Olympics to star Nintendo 's and Sega 's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog ?
Did you know that although Robert of Melun disagreed with some of Peter Abelard 's teachings, he still defended Abelard against heresy charges?
Did you know that the woodlouse Trichoniscus pusillus has some populations that reproduce sexually and others that reproduce clonally ?
Did you know that internet hunting is the practice of hunting via remotely controlled firearms that can be aimed and shot using online webcams ?
Did you know that Cambodia 's " Romeo and Juliet " story, Tum Teav , is set in Tbong Khmom District ?
Did you know that Martin Kolberg will retire as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party to run in the 2009 parliamentary elections ?
Did you know that Josh Gibson Field in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , is named for Negro League star Josh Gibson , who has been called the "black Babe Ruth ?"
Did you know that Clothes-Line , aired in 1937, was the first television programme on fashion history and also probably the first to feature a heavily pregnant female presenter ?
Did you know that the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway linking Plymouth and Princetown was almost twice as long as the distance between the two cities?
Did you know that the Democratic Movement for National Liberation was the sole communist faction in Egypt that supported the 1952 Revolution ?
Did you know that the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare can reach population densities of 10,000 per square metre?
Did you know that Ed Schock earned an annual salary of just $7,000 as mayor of Elgin, Illinois ?
Did you know that the Church of the Assumption in Uzundzhovo , Bulgaria , was initially built as a mosque and was probably commissioned to famous architect Sinan ?
Did you know that Anders Buen was removed as editor of the Norwegian Labour Party organ Social-Demokraten in 1903, but continued as a prominent party member until 1921?
Did you know that the Family Guy episode " Ocean's Three and a Half " includes the actual audio  of Christian Bale 's outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation , making it appear to be directed at Peter Griffin ?
Did you know that tornadoes have passed through Washington, D.C. , on at least seven occasions , and have damaged such landmarks as the United States Botanic Garden , the Smithsonian Institution , and the National Arboretum ?
Did you know that the Luxembourg Palace , the meeting place of the French Senate , used to be the residence of Princess Élisabeth Marguerite of Orléans , who gave it to the King of France in 1694?
Did you know that after ceasing operations in New Jersey , the West Jersey Railroad operated in Michigan for several months before being renamed West Michigan Railroad ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Liu Pi , who rebelled against the authority of Emperor Xianzong , was described by the chancellor Du Huangshang as an "insane civilian" as Du urged military action?
Did you know that some of the 12"/45 caliber Mark 5 naval guns , which were first deployed on the 1906 pre-dreadnought USS Connecticut , may still be in service in Brazil today?
Did you know that Hugh de Mapenor was elected Bishop of Hereford in 1216 even though he was not on King John of England 's list of candidates?
Did you know that the Holiday Bowl in Los Angeles was a popular gathering place for the Nikkei community and African Americans , with the coffee shop serving grits , udon , chow mein , and hamburgers ?
Did you know that after long-standing racketeering allegations, the FBI raided Chicago 's Pui Tak Center , then known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, in 1988?
Did you know that Sir Charles Knowles successfully sued Tobias Smollett for libelling him in Smollett's magazine The Critical Review ?
Did you know that the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania , trained four Olympic swimmers and sponsored both one of the 1890s' best football clubs and a baseball team with Hall of Famer Rube Waddell ?
Did you know that French Roman Catholic archbishop Marcel Lefebvre 's father René Lefebvre died in a Nazi concentration camp ?
Did you know that Armet & Davis was an architectural firm in California that designed buildings in the so-called Googie architecture style popular during the 1950s?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty eunuch Tutu Chengcui was killed after Emperor Xianzong 's death over his refusal to support the crown prince Li Heng as the emperor's successor?
Did you know that Prairie Bluff, Alabama , is a ghost town whose only remaining physical feature is a cemetery with marked graves dating from the 1830s to the 1860s?
Did you know that when Henry McCardie was a barrister , he often worked so late that his chambers were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?
Did you know that the Elm City Resident Card was the first municipal identification card in the United States ?
Did you know that the population of Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates declined by 20% in 2008?
Did you know that the largest Hindu temple in South East England is being built in Crawley , where 3.4% of residents are Hindu compared to 1.1% in England as a whole?
Did you know that the 1881 Michigan Wolverines football team is credited with playing the first intersectional football games against Harvard , Yale and Princeton ?
Did you know that Salvia pentstemonoides ("Big red sage") was thought to be extinct until a botanist rediscovered it while taking photos for a book on Texas wildflowers?
Did you know that Jaime Fonalledas is the President and CEO of Empresas Fonalledas, which owns the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean ?
Did you know that heavy metal band Lamb of God was banned from performing in Los Angeles , for The Subliminal Verses World Tour because their former name was Burn the Priest?
Did you know that the Orange Mycena mushroom is bioluminescent ?
Did you know that the World Netball Series is a new international netball competition, with modified rules inspired from Twenty20 cricket designed to make matches faster and more television-friendly?
Did you know that Humphrey Toy financed the publication of the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer ?
Did you know that in 1863, the U.S. gave Russia plans to build ten Passaic class monitors , partly because of the fear that the American Civil War would escalate into war between Britain and Russia?
Did you know that Australian Stanley Frederick Gibbs was awarded the Albert Medal in 1927 for his rescue of a boy during a shark attack , during which he punched and kicked the shark until it released the youth?
Did you know that Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar in San Diego , California , made famous after scenes in Top Gun were filmed there?
Did you know that Wendy Henry , one of the first female newspaper editors on Fleet Street , later became a full-time dog re-socialiser for the Battersea Dogs' Home ?
Did you know that Henry Weinhard , a brewer in Portland, Oregon , offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain when it was dedicated?
Did you know that six World War I German Type UB II U-boats — UB-42 , UB-43 , UB-44 , UB-45 , UB-46 , and UB-47 —were built in Bremen but cut apart and shipped by rail for reassembly at the Austro-Hungarian port of Pola ?
Did you know that the dedication of St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer , England—commemorating twin Christian martyrs from Syria —occurs on only two other extant churches in England?
Did you know that Sam the koala rose to fame when a video of her rescue from the 2009 Victorian bushfires was distributed across the internet?
Did you know that members of metal band Slipknot found the masks that they wear on stage to be particularly uncomfortable during their Tattoo the Earth concert tour ?
Did you know that Kenneth Gandar-Dower introduced cheetah racing to England ?
Did you know that the Super Mario Bros. theme has been listed as one of the top ten most downloaded ringtones in the United States for 226 consecutive weeks?
Did you know that the Sideling Hill Tunnel is one of the two tunnels that make up the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike ?
Did you know that Norwegian long jumper Nils Uhlin Hansen was killed as a saboteur in World War II ?
Did you know that the Morison equation , an equation in fluid dynamics introduced in 1950, is used in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures ?
Did you know that Marshall Loeb , managing editor of Fortune , called his colleague Daniel Seligman , author of 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness"?
Did you know that children's novel Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter , set in Nordy Bank on Brown Clee Hill , Shropshire , was awarded the 1964 Carnegie Medal in Literature ?
Did you know that in 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the Republic of Pisa launched a crusade against the Muslim Balearic Islands ?
Did you know that Mark Shepherd , who served as CEO of Texas Instruments where he spearheaded development of the firms' integrated circuits , constructed a vacuum tube at the age of six and a radio a year later?
Did you know that when Elton Wieman moved east to play football for the University of Michigan in 1915, the Los Angeles Times called it "a calamity of almost national importance"?
Did you know that Lactarius pallidus is typically found half-buried in leaf litter at the base of beech or birch trees?
Did you know that the National Review called David Mendell 's biography Obama: From Promise to Power "the single best source of background information on our new president"?
Did you know that the original mission of the Cini Foundation included the rehabilitation of its homebase, the island of San Giorgio Maggiore of Venice ?
Did you know that José Francisco de Peralta was elected to represent Costa Rica to the Constituent Congress of the Mexican Empire , but it was dissolved before he was able to participate?
Did you know that the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich ?
Did you know that matador Diego Mazquiarán once used his overcoat as a cape to fight a bull that was running wild on the Gran Via of Madrid ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Tian Huaijian was, at age 10, briefly the ruler of Weibo Circuit before he was overthrown?
Did you know that the uncommon benign lesion verruciform xanthoma is usually found on the oral mucosa of middle-aged people, but has also been reported on the external genitalia in some recent cases?
Did you know that Albert Bassermann , bearer of the Iffland-Ring , considered the ring cursed after all three of the successors he named died shortly after he named them?
Did you know that the comedy film Skills Like This , created by a first-time director, won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 South by Southwest film festival?
Did you know that Fennemore Craig , founded in 1885, is the oldest law firm in Arizona ?
Did you know that the Rylands Papyri held by Manchester University in the UK contain P52 , believed by many scholars to be the oldest extant fragment from the Gospel of John ?
Did you know that Christian Holtermann Knudsen was a founder of the Norwegian Labour Party and the newspaper Dagsavisen ?
Did you know that William Sudell coined the name " Football League "?
Did you know that while serving as Governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844, Henry Hubbard argued for reduced taxes for female property owners?
Did you know that thousands of grooves have been found carved into rock in Northern Europe , but no one knows how or why they were made?
Did you know that attorney Bill MacFarland had a dislocated knee and six broken teeth after playing 11 seasons of professional ice hockey ?
Did you know that the never-completed Design 1047 battlecruisers were intended to be the first line of defense for the Dutch East Indies ?
Did you know that economist Charles Hall claimed that the poor retained less than one-eighth of what they produced due to capitalist exploitation?
Did you know that Pinkie Road , a part of the Global Transportation Hub intermodal port authority facility, will link the Trans Canada Highway 1 and Highway 11 as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative ?
Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Joe Hewitt began his military career as a thirteen-year-old cadet in the Royal Australian Navy ?
Did you know that so far there have been more than 20 arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area since January 1, 2009, and 15 reported arsons there in 2008?
Did you know that Histria Perla was the 500th ship to receive Emergency Response Service classification from the German company Germanischer Lloyd ?
Did you know that Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee , a Sussex Spaniel also known as "Stump", is the oldest dog to win Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show ?
Did you know that the Red Bull RB5 is among the first generation of Formula One cars to feature a Kinetic Energy Recovery System , which traps energy expelled while braking for later use?
Did you know that French botanist Jacques Labillardière 's Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen , published in 1804–1806, was the first major scientific study of Australia flora?
Did you know that under Pigford v. Glickman , the United States government paid nearly US$1 billion to African American farmers to compensate for 1980s and 1990s racial discrimination ?
Did you know that 2009 Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Mindy Gehrs was called "the best swimmer to ever part the waters of the Atomic City"?