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Did you know that Vivienne Osborne was offered a role in Douglas Fairbanks 's last silent film, the Musketeer film sequel The Iron Mask , following her earlier role in the Flo Ziegfeld musical The Three Musketeers ?
Did you know that the libretto for Phyllis Tate 's opera The Lodger was written by singer and broadcaster David Franklin ?
Did you know that award-winning journalist Paul Kamara has also been a priest , a cabinet minister , and the manager of Sierra Leone 's national football team ?
Did you know that after being named the UCLA Bruins MVP in 2006 and 2007, San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Crawford hit a grand slam in his first Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire caused the evacuation of all 7,000 of Slave Lake 's residents?
Did you know that at the 1964 Summer Paralympics , Argentina won 37 medals, including 6 golds?
Did you know that Norwegian botanist and politician Olaf Alfred Hoffstad taught at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School for almost 43 years?
Did you know that Volkswagen's new Chattanooga Assembly Plant is built near the remaining storage bunker of a plant that manufactured up to 30 million pounds of TNT per month for the Second World , Korean and Vietnam Wars ?
Did you know that Will June , grandfather of a National Football League Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion linebacker , is the oldest player to officially bowl consecutive 300-games ?
Did you know that phonon noise is a major source of noise in cryogenically cooled superconducting transition edge sensors ?
Did you know that Tambora , a Papuan language , was once spoken in the middle of Indonesia near Bali , far to the west of Papua , until the trading state that used it was wiped out by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815?
Did you know that the indie video game Digital: A Love Story is set "five minutes into the future of 1988"?
Did you know that Arab prince Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun refused to take the throne even though he was the only son of the previous caliph and had the support of the army?
Did you know that Nazi scientists claimed to have trained a dog to call " Adolf Hitler " as "Mein Führer "?
Did you know that on Anzac Day 1923, Lord Jellicoe laid the cornerstone for the Bridge of Remembrance and an invocation was made by Archbishop Churchill Julius ?
Did you know that Jones's Wood , a wooded estate on the island of Manhattan overlooking the East River , was touted as a site for what became Central Park ?
Did you know that Source London , a newly launched network of electric vehicle charging points , is the first to operate city-wide?
Did you know that the Sturgeon House in Fairview is a rare example of a saltbox house in northwestern Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Dandeniya Gamage Jayanthi founded the group "Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared " following the abduction, shooting, and burning of her fiancé?
Did you know that Mel Mazzera 's performance for the minor league San Diego Padres led to the observance of a "Mel Mazzera Day" on August 30 , 1942?
Did you know that some of the earliest activities of the Canadian intelligence system involved guarding the Canada-United States border , and preventing U.S. infringement on Canadian neutrality during the U.S. Civil War ?
Did you know that a committee in the 1920s raised the funds to turn a collection of tracks into Anzac Avenue , the longest World War I memorial road in Queensland ?
Did you know that Norwegian Jens Bache-Wiig , a former professor of engineering, resigned from his position at IT&T in 1935 in protest against New York head office intervention in his area of responsibility?
Did you know that the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas is the largest organization of Filipino writers ?
Did you know that all five of the medalists for Argentina at the inaugural Paralympic Games were swimmers ?
Did you know that the Confucian teaching hara hachi bu instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full?
Did you know that as a reward for good support the previous year, Kent gave the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week two Twenty20 fixtures in 2011 rather than one?
Did you know that Lola Sanchez was a spy during the American Civil War who provided information to the Confederate Army , which led them to a victory over the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing"?
Did you know that Joachim von Ribbentrop suggested the Non-Intervention Committee might as well have been called the "Intervention Committee"?
Did you know that Christoph Wolff termed the two oboe da caccia and two oboe d'amore in recitatives of Bach 's cantata for Exaudi, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 , "opulent oboe scoring"?
Did you know that marine technology involves other technologies that may either safeguard or exploit the marine environment ?
Did you know that Tennessee governor Newton Cannon 's animosity toward fellow Tennessean Andrew Jackson , who was U.S. president during his governorship, may have started with gambling losses at Jackson's racetrack?
Did you know that the First Battle of Newbury has been described as "both the longest battle of the English Civil War and the one that historians have found the greatest difficulty in describing"?
Did you know that the fossil sawfly species Eriocampa tulameenensis was found along the Canadian Pacific rail line near Princeton, British Columbia ?
Did you know that Marga T 's novel Badai Pasti Berlalu sold roughly 24,000 copies—remarkable for an Indonesian novel in the 1970s—and spawned a critically acclaimed film , album and song ?
Did you know that professional cricketer George Nash was once dropped off every ball of an over bowled by the amateur Robert Ramsay ?
Did you know that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah ?
Did you know that the State Policy Network of conservative " free market " political think tanks in every U.S. state has been likened to a franchising arrangement?
Did you know that the oldest pre-Hispanic tomb in the Americas has been found in Chiapa de Corzo , Chiapas , Mexico ?
Did you know that the Linux distribution Nova is central to the Cuban government's desire to replace Microsoft Windows ?
Did you know that the future British prime minister Winston Churchill stayed at Highgrove House in Eastcote for his honeymoon?
Did you know that when Dan Savage 's book Savage Love was published, his advice column of the same name had 4 million readers?
Did you know that police officer and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Philip Primrose was a distant cousin to the Earls of Rosebery ?
Did you know that giggle incontinence , the involuntary release of urine in response to giggling or laughter, may be related to cataplexy , a sudden transient episode of loss of muscle tone often triggered by strong emotions?
Did you know that the 2011–12 season 's television adaptation of The Firm is a sequel to a 1991 novel that sold 7 million copies and a 1993 film that grossed $270 million worldwide?
Did you know that the phenomenon of feudal fragmentation has had a significant impact on European history , particularly during the Middle Ages ?
Did you know that the Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts , was built in a style that reminded homesick immigrants of homes in England?
Did you know that Bolo Pasha , a Frenchman with an Egyptian title, was convicted and executed in France in 1918 for being a German spy using evidence collected by the New York Attorney General ?
Did you know that Tadeusz Vetulani was a pioneer of biodiversity research in Poland and conducted notable research into forest tarpan and the Polish koniks , launching restoration and breeding schemes?
Did you know that Orgasm is a fake live album John's Children recorded in the studio with overdubbed screams taken from The Beatles 's Hard Day's Night soundtrack?
Did you know that Mitch Skandalakis attracted national attention when he upset Martin Luther King III in a 1993 special election for Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County , Georgia ?
Did you know that members of the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad are elected by constituents in electoral districts located across the globe?
Did you know that the Polish faculty expelled by the Nazis from Poznań University during World War II formed the underground University of the Western Lands ?
Did you know that the Green Men wear green spandex suits while annoying the player(s) who sit inside the opposing team's penalty box during Vancouver Canucks games?
Did you know that the number-one song " Fruta Fresca " by Carlos Vives was named a "bridge" between tropical and pop music ?
Did you know that Daddles the duck would "accompany" batsmen who were on their way to the pavilion after being dismissed for a duck ?
Did you know that the Shannon Irish pub in Montevideo often features performances by the Celtic band Grianan, which is led by Conrad O'Neill, a fourth-generation Irish Uruguayan ?
Did you know that the killing of four students at Trisakti University eventually led to the resignation of Indonesian President Suharto ?
Did you know that while writing " Li'l Sebastian ", the third season finale of Parks and Recreation , the staff decided to write the "juiciest, most exciting cliffhanger-y possible scenario"?
Did you know that the annual winner of the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History may receive as much as US$ 100,000?
Did you know that professional footballer Bill Yates also played Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire ?
Did you know that in 1212 Thomas of Galloway , brother of the Lord of Galloway , sacked and looted the Irish city of Derry in a raid of 76 ships, and returned in 1214 to devastate the city again?
Did you know that Philippine writer Soledad Reyes won a Philippine National Book Award for her anthology of Tagalog language novels Nobelang Tagalog 1905–1975: Tradisyon at Modernismo in 1982?
Did you know that the lakes of Thirlmere Lakes National Park contain a bright green freshwater sponge, Radiospongilla sceptroides ?
Did you know that over 90% of Ghana 's international trade depends on the country's sea ports ?
Did you know that Jack Weisenburger was the "spinning fullback" for the undefeated Michigan football team that became known as the "Mad Magicians"?
Did you know that Lake Assal in Djibouti is the lowest point in Africa ?
Did you know that after visiting Miami County Jail for his documentary Miami Mega Jail , Louis Theroux told The Sun newspaper that "it's a bit like walking through a zoo"?
Did you know that Alfredo Alcala 's Voltar was described as one of the earliest epic comic book series to result from a single creator's vision?
Did you know that Tendai Mzungu made his Australian Football League debut in Round 9 of the 2011 AFL season , despite missing the previous ten weeks of football due to a knee injury?
Did you know that the video game Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure was created by designer Ryan Creighton and his five-year old daughter Cassie, who created the illustrations and dialogue?
Did you know that Sabitri Mitra and Mamata Banerjee are the only women in the 38-member Cabinet of West Bengal ?
Did you know that because of its elongated orbit, the maximum surface temperature of the extrasolar planet HD 205739 b is thought to vary by about 100 °C?
Did you know that Florida's longest-serving state legislator, W. D. Childers , earned the nickname "Banty Rooster" for his eccentric mannerisms and colorful, folksy expressions?
Did you know that Bach chose an unusually complex instrumentation in his cantata for the feast of Ascension , Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 , "two horns, oboes of every kind, strings and continuo and latterly one trumpet"?
Did you know that Jetsun Pema is going to marry Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck , the King of Bhutan , in October 2011?
Did you know that one proposed reason for constructing the Takoradi Harbour in Ghana was for it to serve as a naval port for the British empire in times of war?
Did you know that gold medal-winning Paralympian Ron Stein trained with the Chicago White Sox before falling ill with polio ?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif was arrested after a video of her driving a car was posted on YouTube and Facebook ?
Did you know that revenues from Tennessee ' s Hall income tax vary by as much as 26 percent from one year to the next, due to the "roller-coaster behavior" of capital gains from investments?
Did you know that Filipino comics illustrator Harold "Hal" Santiago took his pen name from his American idol Hal Foster , the creator of Prince Valiant ?
Did you know that the productions of American stage director Nathaniel Merrill at the Metropolitan Opera , "such as Dulcamara's arrival via hot-air balloon in Elisir , kept Met audiences diverted and amused for a generation"?
Did you know that the collapse of Teton Dam in 1976 was foreshadowed by a similar near-disastrous failure at Fontenelle Dam in 1965?
Did you know that the "Harvey" mannequin is a patient simulator created in 1968 to teach cardiopulmonary medicine?
Did you know that the depictions of the Ascension of Jesus in Christian art are often divided into an upper (heavenly) and lower (earthly) part?
Did you know that provincial judge and future Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William L. Walsh sentenced 18 convicted criminals to hang, earning him the nickname "the Hanging Judge"?
Did you know that during his senior season at St. John's , basketball player Boo Harvey hit three buzzer-beating , game-winning shots?
Did you know that according to the Interaction Hypothesis , the efficiency of second language acquisition is greatly increased when there is a breakdown in communication?
Did you know that theologian David F. Ford of the University of Cambridge once applied for jobs at British Steel and Rolls-Royce ?
Did you know that every two years, an award named after German civil engineer Erich Lackner is presented to young engineers for their "outstanding contributions in scientific and technical work"?
Did you know that Eugene Linden hitchhiked from Portland, Oregon , to Tacoma, Washington , at age 21 to establish the Tacoma Philharmonic?
Did you know that the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization described Filipino seamen as "the unsung heroes of an unsung industry "?
Did you know that Al Green earned the only Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female in 1990 for the song "As Long as We're Together"?
Did you know that the direct-to-video 1999 family comedy The Prince and the Surfer (with Linda Cardellini ) was the directorial debut of stage and film actor Arye Gross ?
Did you know that the England cricketer Ken Barrington died in Bridgetown, Barbados , where he had made his first Test century 21 years before?
Did you know that the 5th Parachute Battalion wore a Hunting Stewart tartan patch behind their cap badges ?
Did you know that in 1893, stockbroker and Knight Templar Charles Edward Keyser bought Aldermaston Court – a mansion built by a student of his grandfather ?
Did you know that James F. Sundah 's 1977 song " Lilin-Lilin Kecil ", as performed by Chrisye , originally placed fifth in a teenage songwriting competition, but is now considered among the best Indonesian songs of all time?
Did you know that New Zealand -born World War II pilots Roy Calvert , Fraser Barron , Gordon Cochrane , Bob Yule , and Reg Grant were between them awarded 4 DSOs , 11 DFCs , and 2 DFMs , while Frank Watkins was recommended for the Victoria Cross ?
Did you know that the scarlet honey myrtle , an ornamental garden shrub, is from the same genus as the punk tree ?
Did you know that Daniel and Anne-Margaretta Burr 's eldest son, Higford, took an ancestor's surname – and was known as Higford Higford?
Did you know that during the Ottoman wars in Europe , the Croat feudal lord Petar Kružić defended the Klis Fortress against Ottoman invasion for more than two decades until the final Siege of Klis ?
Did you know that Paula Barbieri was reportedly the last girlfriend of O. J. Simpson before the murder of Nicole Simpson and stuck with him during his trial ?
Did you know that the extinct Miocene hickory Carya washingtonensis is known from over 50 nuts found as a rodent cache within a petrified stump?
Did you know that the Tobermory whisky distillery is located in the village made famous by the children's television show Balamory ?
Did you know that Jigme Gyatso was re-arrested after his allegations of torture by Chinese security forces were re-played on Voice of America ?
Did you know that DVD Verdict refers to a child's performance in the 1952 film Actor's and Sin as " fingernails-on-a-blackboard grating"?
Did you know that the rare Louisiana pancake batfish only lives in the area affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ?
Did you know that imprisoned IRA member Larry Marley helped mastermind the Maze Prison escape in 1985, but did not take part in it?
Did you know that the Silver Spurs Rodeo , billed as the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi River , was originally organized to encourage the purchase of war bonds ?
Did you know that the Christian Council of Ghana , an umbrella group that unites 15 churches, was formed in 1929?
Did you know that the discography of Case Closed contains 77 singles and 19 soundtrack albums during the anime 's 15 year run?
Did you know that Áed in Macáem Tóinlesc ("the lazy-rumped lad"), sometime king of Tír Eogain , got his nickname by refusing to stand for the High King of Ireland Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn ?
Did you know that before Shackleford won the 2011 Preakness Stakes , his owners had tried to sell him, but no one wanted to meet their reserve price?
Did you know that Victoria Lockwood had known Charles Spencer for only six weeks prior to their engagement?
Did you know that in the strategy video game Armada 2526 , players can develop bio-engineered squid hyperdrive ships?
Did you know that the American Repertory Theater and System of a Down 's Serj Tankian dedicated their 2011 Prometheus Bound to jailed Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen ?
Did you know that José de San Martín and Carlos María de Alvear helped depose Argentina's First Triumvirate ?
Did you know that the Swiss team at the 1960 Summer Paralympics included two athletes, but won four medals?
Did you know that the United Kingdom Supreme Court recently ruled that current police practices regarding the retention of biometric data are unlawful?
Did you know that the 1994–95 South Pacific cyclone season was one of the quietest cyclone seasons on record, with only three tropical cyclones recorded within the South Pacific Ocean basin ?
Did you know that the endangered rough-leaved loosestrife of the Carolinas is threatened by the U.S. military ?
Did you know that Czerwono-Czarni was the first Polish rock band to cut a record?
Did you know that when Sonny with a Chance actor Demi Lovato bowed out of season three, show-within-a-show So Random! was spun-off into its own sketch comedy series?
Did you know that the towers of architect Terunobu Fujimori 's Lamune Onsen have pine trees planted on the apex of their roofs?
Did you know that Dorothy Reitman was the first woman president of the Canadian Jewish Congress ?
Did you know that olaflur , a toothpaste ingredient for the prevention of caries , is synthesized from cattle's tallow ?
Did you know that Al Lerner , 1940s pianist in the Harry James band, wrote the music for "So Until I See You", the closing theme for Tonight Starring Jack Paar in the early 1960s?
Did you know that in Bach 's late chorale cantata Es ist das Heil uns kommen her , BWV 9 , three bass recitatives deliver a Lutheran sermon on salvation , based on twelve stanzas of the chorale ?
Did you know that Gustaf Aspelin was the first Swedish consul in Kristiania ?
Did you know that though it was decided as early as 1882 to install a lighthouse at Contendas Point on Terceira Island , the Ponta das Contendas Lighthouse was not built and inaugurated till almost 52 years afterwards?
Did you know that  "seizing", "whipping", and "lashing" are all part of knot terminology ?
Did you know that although the 1928 Wittorf affair was a German scandal, Joseph Stalin played a key role?
Did you know that same-sex couples in South Africa gained the right to adopt children jointly in 2002, four years before they gained the right to marry ?
Did you know that " Box Cutter ", the fourth season premiere of the television series Breaking Bad , had a scene so bloody, it made actor Bryan Cranston 's daughter faint?
Did you know that the Furiiru people are interlacustrine, living between the African Great Lakes ?
Did you know that Blanfordia have colonized land in Japan in an area with heavy snowfall?
Did you know that a plan to use HMS Endymion as a flagship at Harwich was abandoned due to the loss of HMS Vanguard ?
Did you know that composer Danny Elfman agreed to score Sam Raimi 's new film, Oz: The Great and Powerful , despite declaring he would never work with him again?
Did you know that the Wigman House , which has been named a City of Pittsburgh Designated Historic Structure , is the last remaining mansion from Carrick 's "Millionaire's Row"?
Did you know that the fontanellar gun is a type of specialized weapon used by the North American termite to ward off enemy insects?
Did you know that following an electoral victory , Ollanta Humala visited Bolivia and called for the resurrection of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation ?
Did you know that pornographic actress Saori Hara was cast in the Japanese parody film Horny House of Horror ?
Did you know that Lille Graah was in charge of the most popular radio program in Norway in the 1950s?
Did you know that the 7 CSSB of the Australian Army supports the 7th Brigade and participated in Operation Slipper ?
Did you know that quasi-opportunistic supercomputing aims for better performance than volunteer resource sharing ?
Did you know that the worldview of Conan the Barbarian has been described as existentialist ?
Did you know that Burrough Hill , an Iron Age hillfort in England, contains over 400 maculae ?
Did you know that Handel's Messiah , Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised ?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin deported the Balkar people from the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on suspicions that they collaborated with Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Jim Brieske , who set multiple placekicking records, had his kicking foot amputated in 1967?
Did you know that Grevillea cyranostigma from Carnarvon National Park in Queensland was named for Cyrano de Bergerac ?
Did you know that Patriarch Joasaph I of Constantinople attempted suicide and was deposed because he opposed the second marriage of George Amiroutzes ?
Did you know that Eros Djarot formed Indonesia 's Freedom Bull National Party after a disagreement with later-president Megawati Sukarnoputri ?
Did you know that Lady Godiva 's cross stands in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church, Penn , in the West Midlands of England?
Did you know that the Saudi royal family and the Al ash-Sheikh family provide mutual support under a pact dating from 1744?
Did you know that George Binney pioneered the use of seaplanes for arctic exploration , wrote The Eskimo Book of Knowledge , and organised blockade running in WWII?
Did you know that the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences is breeding Chinese sturgeon in captivity to restore river populations before the species disappears?
Did you know that Michelle Obama performed the Dougie dance to promote her " Let's Move! " campaign?
Did you know that the Fali people of Nigeria and Cameroon wash their dead in a decoction of the plant Cissus quadrangularis ?
Did you know that English artist William Lakin Turner is not related to the famous artist, Turner , but he is a close relative of " Derbyshire's John Constable "?
Did you know that the scientist Rainer Froese is the coauthor and coordinator of FishBase , an extensive online information system on fish?
Did you know that the Middle Georgia Raceway , featured on a 2011 Dodge Durango commercial, was the location of a 300,000-person concert in which artists including Jimi Hendrix performed?