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Did you know that G. L. Pridgen , a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives , supports a bill requiring a referendum on English being his state’s official language?
Did you know that the Jacksonville Aviation Authority owns and operates four airports on a budget of US$ 63.8 million in Jacksonville, Florida , but costs taxpayers nothing?
Did you know that Sudanese human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been imprisoned four times for his work in Darfur ?
Did you know that in Coffee: A Dark History , Antony Wild claims that coffee helped cause the Age of Enlightenment ?
Did you know that before they owned large ranches in Texas , John Wesley Snyder and his brother operated an apple orchard and horse-trading business in Williamson County near Austin ?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Hartley Wintney , Hampshire , are the graves of the notable military figures Henry "Hangman" Hawley and Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke ?
Did you know that bone marrow drives hosted by Yale University in honor of ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz netted more than 2,400 donors and resulted in six matches for those awaiting transplants?
Did you know that bandleader Ivy Benson and her all-female band were the first entertainers invited to perform at the VE Day celebrations in Berlin at the request of Field Marshal Montgomery ?
Did you know that British Paralympic rowing gold medallist Tom Aggar was once part of the Saracens F.C. youth development squad?
Did you know that the Silent Way is a language teaching method in which students do 90 percent or more of the talking?
Did you know that Nathan "Ned" Miller had two hit songs in the 1920s at the age of 22?
Did you know that there is a tri-state water dispute between Georgia , Alabama , and Florida over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin?
Did you know that when Nikita Khrushchev gave the go-ahead to build the Berlin Wall , Mikhail Pervukhin was the first to know?
Did you know that TV quiz show Don't Scare the Hare has been described as "fantasy based toddler telly with an adult twist"?
Did you know that Burmese democracy activist Aye Aung is serving a 59-year prison sentence for distributing leaflets and organizing protests in Yangon ?
Did you know that the characters of " The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World " are only allowed to experience one day a week?
Did you know that the main target of the 1945 attack on Yokosuka was the battleship Nagato , the flagship of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941?
Did you know that Alfred E. Goodey collected and commissioned paintings to record the history of Derby ?
Did you know that Mochtar Lubis 's novel Salah Asuhan had to avoid themes of rebellion and portray the European characters in a positive light in order to be published?
Did you know that Dragan Velić is the current President of the Union of Serbian Districts and District Units of Kosovo and Metohija of North Kosovo ?
Did you know that workers at the Bata shoe factory in East Tilbury , England , lived in "Bata-ville", a company town complete with houses, schools, shops, sports facilities, a theatre, a post office, and its own newspaper?
Did you know that Amie MacRuari was divorced by the first Lord of the Isles despite giving him no grounds for doing so?
Did you know that the OS Museum in Post , Texas , contains a hybrid of exhibits on both the American West and Asia , which are changed three times per year?
Did you know that at the 2008 Games , Helene Raynsford became the Paralympic 's first ever rowing gold medallist?
Did you know that Homeland Security is recruiting every local jail in the U.S. to become a deportation office through a new program called Secure Communities ?
Did you know that the original Shaare Zedek Synagogue was the oldest synagogue in Winnipeg ?
Did you know that poet, historian and radical William Jones was described by a contemporary as "the hottest arsed" Welshman he had ever known?
Did you know that during Operation Rhodes of January 1970 , Israeli paratroops held the Egyptian island of Shadwan for over a day before leaving with 62 prisoners of war?
Did you know that Milton Olander , who led the Western Michigan football team to an unbeaten and unscored upon record in 1922, was later offered a position as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor ?
Did you know that Hillingdon House once housed the Royal Flying Corps Armament School, which established a firing range in the grounds?
Did you know that Ron Hextall was the first ice hockey goaltender to shoot and score a goal in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that the Rhine Terrace restaurant in Berlin 's Haus Vaterland featured hourly fake thunderstorms ?
Did you know that Salilyn's Condor and Salilyn 'N Erin's Shameless are the only father and daughter to have both won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
Did you know that the widest path problem forms the algorithmic basis of the Schulze method used by Wikimedia to decide the winners of multiway elections ?
Did you know that Italian runner Silvana Cruciata ran over 18 km (11.2 miles) in one hour —a world record which went unbeaten for 17 years?
Did you know that the first transcontinental trip by a solar-powered vehicle was completed in 1983?
Did you know that, despite being a monastery of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church , Gunda Gunde provided many converts to the Roman Catholic faith for missionary (later saint) Justin de Jacobis ?
Did you know that Jay Houghton , a member of the Missouri House of Representatives , had an uncle, two great-uncles, and a great-great-grandfather who also served as representatives?
Did you know that Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is the result of continued commercial success of Olympic video games starring Nintendo 's and Sega 's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog ?
Did you know that Gwangju Prize for Human Rights winner Angkhana Neelaphaijit has been investigating the forced disappearance of her husband for more than seven years?
Did you know that the American Civil War delayed the construction of the George Stumpf House in Indianapolis by nearly 10 years?
Did you know that the concept for the Euthanasia Coaster , a roller coaster designed to kill its riders, caused concern among anti- euthanasia groups when it went on display?
Did you know that apartheid in South Africa and the Mozambican Civil War caused an increase in the number of tourists visiting Swaziland ?
Did you know that author Ephraim Emerton taught medieval ecclesiastical history at Harvard Divinity School for over 40 years?
Did you know that the wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer became one of the most famous outfits in the world and featured a 25-foot (7.6 m) train?
Did you know that among the all-time list of AAU Men's Basketball All-Americans , 33 have competed in the Olympic Games while nine have been enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that in Luoji Township in Yunnan , there are laws against the picking of young matsutake mushrooms smaller than 6 cm (2.4 in) in diameter?
Did you know that American sailor Ed Baird has won the America's Cup with syndicates from New Zealand and Switzerland , but failed at two attempts to win it with teams from his native country?
Did you know that " What's Your Name ", a 2008 electro single by Usher and will.i.am , was noted by some critics as one of the best tracks on Here I Stand , while others described it as "downright awful"?
Did you know that the maiden voyage of Empire Cowdray was delayed because most of her crew were drunk ?
Did you know that the UK House of Commons Treasury Committee challenged the Payments Council 's plan to abolish cheques by 2018?
Did you know that Morića Han is the only surviving han in Sarajevo ?
Did you know that RNA thermometers are found in human cells and help protect them from overheating?
Did you know that Clement W. Payton won a British Distinguished Flying Cross and a Belgian Croix de guerre ?
Did you know that on Mt. Murchison in New Zealand's Braeburn Range , a small population of large carnivorous snails, Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes" , is only found above the bush line ?
Did you know that the M2 gas mask protected the wearer for at least five hours against the common World War I chemical weapon phosgene ?
Did you know that during the 2010–11 NBA Development League season , 20 players were called-up to the NBA , while 39 NBA players were assigned to the D-League ?
Did you know that during the 2010 Australian federal elections Bruce Hawker helped the incumbent Labor Party form a minority government after negotiations with the independents?
Did you know that South Africa 's winning of the 1997 Wills Golden Jubilee Tournament marked its first cricket tournament victory in the Indian subcontinent and in their seventh attempt?
Did you know that Bertrand Teyou is serving two years in jail for attempting to read publicly from his book about Chantal Biya , the first lady of Cameroon ?
Did you know that while playing cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club , E. W. Bastard once dismissed Australian cricket captain Billy Murdoch ?
Did you know the government of the Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic was headed by Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov , Vladimir Lenin 's brother?
Did you know that democracy activist Htay Kywe was described as Burma 's "most-wanted man" following his leadership role in the 2007 anti-government protests ?
Did you know that Heart Peaks in northern British Columbia , Canada , is the third largest volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province ?
Did you know that 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winner Paige St. John is married to John Wark, a former Pulitzer Prize finalist?
Did you know that the past captains of the Indian cricket team were honoured during the 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup , which was organised to celebrate India 's 50th anniversary of independence?
Did you know that size matters when the jumping spider Phidippus clarus selects mates?
Did you know that British physicist Alexander Rankine gave the 1932 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture and worked on fog dispersal systems during World War II?
Did you know that Chinese explorer Jin Feibao has completed the Explorers Grand Slam in only 18 months and 24 days, the fastest recorded time?
Did you know that Penny White lost her seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court because of her vote in a single court decision?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times calls Love, Loss, and What I Wore a The Vagina Monologues - What Not to Wear mix, and The New York Times calls it a "show about matters of the heart and matters of the closet"?
Did you know that during World War II , men of the American 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion were awarded nine Silver Stars and seventy-two Bronze Stars ?
Did you know that the Sunmobile , world's first solar-powered automobile, was demonstrated in a 1955 General Motors car show?
Did you know that the upscale boutiques and exclusive nightclub that Aspen, Colorado , developer Harley Baldwin put in the Brand Building and Collins Block earned them the nickname "Glitter Gulch"?
Did you know that Albanian leader Skanderbeg ambushed his would-be ambusher at the Battle of Meçad ?
Did you know that the Emissions Control Technology Association (ECTA) claims that more than $ 20 in healthcare savings is generated for every dollar spent on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act ?
Did you know that Admiral Samuel Goodall fought in three wars, seeing action at Ushant , the Saintes , Genoa and the Hyères Islands ?
Did you know that Arroyo Seco, Querétaro , Mexico , is home to the Sótano del Barro, a pit cave which is one of the largest cavities of the world by volume?
Did you know that a proposal by Republican Charles Austin Tweed allowing California to hire women at the same rate of pay offered to men was defeated by the California State Senate ?
Did you know that the former station house at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot in Galesburg, Illinois , had two waiting rooms, one for men and one for women?
Did you know that journalist Iryna Khalip is under incommunicado house arrest following a protest of the 2010 Belarusian presidential election , in which her husband was also a candidate?
Did you know that Sophie Christiansen , the youngest athlete for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Paralympics , won a bronze medal in dressage ?
Did you know that despite intending to cast a 40–50 year old Japanese actor in the upcoming Fringe episode " The Day We Died ", American actor Brad Dourif was chosen instead?
Did you know that the Cloth of St Gereon is the oldest known European tapestry still existing?
Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 's state funeral took place twice, once immediately after his death in 1938 and then again in 1953?
Did you know that Buddhist monk U Gambira was sentenced to sixty-three years in prison for his leadership role in Burma 's Saffron Revolution ?
Did you know that the Plain of Torvioll saw the first battle of Skanderbeg 's war against the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Ghada Amer created the Encyclopedia of Pleasure sculpture in 2001 to illustrate parts of the eponymous Islamic Golden Age encyclopedia that discusses female sexual pleasure ?
Did you know that Adrian Lombard , who had no formal training in aerodynamics , became one of the world's foremost designers of jet engines ?
Did you know that professional wrestling events have been held to honor Sherri Martel , Shinya Hashimoto (also known as Hustle King ), and Fred Ward ?
Did you know that on the north wall of St Nicholas' Church in Freefolk , Hampshire , are three layers of wall paintings?
Did you know that the FCC 's attempts to modify media ownership laws in 2003 was stayed until 2010 by Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC until the FCC explained and justified each change?
Did you know that at the 2010 Games , skier Kelly Gallagher became the first-ever Winter Paralympian from Northern Ireland ?
Did you know that Beyoncé Knowles hired 200 native African dancers to appear in her music video for " Run the World (Girls) "?
Did you know that born-again Christian political activist David Lane , who works to support right-wing politics in the US, was called the "stealth weapon for the right"?
Did you know that Miami Vice producer Michael Mann originally conceived the character of Ricardo Tubbs as "nobody's Tonto "?
Did you know that Edward John Trelawny married the sister of a Greek warlord and then lived with her in a mountain cave?
Did you know that Italian leftist politician Emanuele Fiano was a Jewish youth leader in the Hashomer Hatzair Socialist–Zionist youth movement in Milan ?
Did you know that mad prophet William Hacket was executed in London in 1591, after denouncing Queen Elizabeth I and defacing her image with a bodkin ?
Did you know that the Tajikistan Aluminum Company (TALCO) runs one of the largest aluminum manufacturing plants in the world?
Did you know that Salusbury Pryce Humphreys commanded HMS Leopard during the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair in 1807?
Did you know that in 1937, the slopes of Joppenbergh Mountain were coated with borax for a summer ski jumping competition?
Did you know that the 14th-century All Saints Church in Maidstone, England, is described as the grandest Perpendicular style church in Kent?
Did you know that two of the ETA members convicted of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing were each sentenced to 2,354 years in prison?
Did you know that the Windawski Canal in northern Lithuania was built as an extension of the Augustów Canal to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
Did you know that Shaun Deeb has two World Championship of Online Poker wins and 16 World Series of Poker in the money finishes?
Did you know that in the French India municipal election, 1946 , the National Democratic Front won control over all 22 municipalities?
Did you know that the Concilium Germanicum , a Frankish synod held in 742/3 to reform the Austrasian church, has been described as the acme of Saint Boniface 's career?
Did you know that the Baku Museum of Modern Art was designed by Jean Nouvel as part of a projected "eco-cultural zone" on the waterfront in Baku , Azerbaijan?
Did you know that Hailee Steinfeld , who starred in the 2010 version of True Grit , is the 73rd performer nominated for an Academy Award in a screen debut?
Did you know that Tuckerbil is an important site for flocking Brolgas ?
Did you know that Mexican pointy boots , made by elongating the toes of normal boots by as much as 5 feet (1.5 m), are popular among Mexican men in parts of Mexico and the U.S.?
Did you know that the 50 poems in I Hope Like Heck were created from excerpts of emails written by Sarah Palin during her time as Governor of Alaska ?
Did you know that Maurice Fargues was the first diver to die while using an aqua-lung ?
Did you know that the Moran Dam , one of the largest proposed hydroelectric projects in North America, was defeated by environmentalists well before the time of anti-dam environmentalism?
Did you know that between 1932 and 1962, Iowa Republican Governor and U.S. Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper won 17 of 19 elections in which he was a candidate?
Did you know that the polychaete worm Chaetopterus variopedatus can regenerate its whole body from a single segment ?
Did you know that the defence counsel in The Case of the Dean of St Asaph was given the Freedom of the City of Gloucester , even though the defendant was found guilty?
Did you know that the competition to build the fastest production motorcycle raged for over a century, and then ended in a truce?
Did you know that Indian communist leader V. Subbiah was elected to the Senate of France in 1947?
Did you know that Judge Hugo Friend , who presided over the 1921 Black Sox trial , smiled as the defendants were acquitted and died in 1966 while listening by radio to a White Sox game?
Did you know that a proud Massachusetts father commissioned award-winning composer Peter Child to compose a string quartet in honor of his son's birth?
Did you know that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a " zombie bodyguard"?
Did you know that the 1952 NATO exercise Operation Longstep featured a large-scale amphibious assault along the western coast of Turkey?
Did you know that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election?
Did you know that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly £13.5 million , and had only been on public display once?
Did you know that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17?
Did you know that an unsuccessful month-long siege in Yemen during the expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah was broken when Abdullah trapped the enemy by pretending to withdraw from the area into the hills?
Did you know that the current CEO of the South African National Blood Service was once rejected as a blood donor because she is black?
Did you know that St Botolph's Church , in the town of Hardham, has the earliest known representation of St. George in England?
Did you know that despite using designs centuries old, much of the art of the Huichol indigenous people in western Mexico is made with commercially produced beads and yarn?
Did you know that Polish architect Stefan Kuryłowicz is credited with modernizing the architecture of Warsaw in the decades following the collapse of Communism ?
Did you know that the 1957 NATO exercise Operation Deep Water involved the first use of helicopter-borne amphibious assault by the United States Marine Corps during an overseas deployment?
Did you know that in August 1947 French authorities banned a pro-independence mass rally of the French India Students Congress , but were forced to withdraw the ban after spontaneous protests?
Did you know that King George VI owned Royal Blue , a messenger pigeon that went on to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery during the Second World War?
Did you know that Beijing police dedicate 4,500 officers to preventing the Shouwang Church from holding Sunday prayer meetings?
Did you know that efforts made by television journalist Alan Sepinwall partially inspired NBC officials to renew the television series Chuck ?
Did you know that The Guardian called Thomas Glavinic 's debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw "one of chess's finest novels"?
Did you know that Franz Xaver Dorsch , the builder of Hitler 's Atlantic Wall and Siegfried Line , founded Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company after the war?
Did you know that abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq threatened to affect the accuracy of the Census of Ireland 2011 ?
Did you know that the f-word did not begin as an acronym , as is commonly claimed, but is of much older Proto-Germanic origin?
Did you know that while at the New York Cosmos , association footballer Keith Eddy captained a team which included Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer ?
Did you know that Tikal Temple IV , a Maya pyramid in Guatemala, was one of the tallest structures in the pre-Columbian New World?
Did you know that Cal Lampley formed the first all-black, 45-piece band, the US Navy B-1 Band, in the then white-only US Navy?
Did you know that each of the Five Discourses of Matthew has a shorter parallel in the Gospel of Mark or the Gospel of Luke ?
Did you know that the moose botfly Cephenemyia ulrichii shoots its larvae into people's eyes, perhaps because human eyes and moose nostrils both face forward?
Did you know that University of California, Berkeley math professor Ian Agol has a twin brother who is a University of Washington astronomy professor?
Did you know that at the Saltpond Oil Field in Ghana, Mr. Louie handles production of over 550 barrels of oil per day?
Did you know that Harlan Crow 's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro , Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong ?
Did you know that Muhammad ordered the demolition of Masjid al-Dirar because he believed this mosque was built to create disunity among Muslims by drawing people away from another mosque?
Did you know that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects ?
Did you know that the US fought Polynesian warriors in the South Pacific Nuku Hiva Campaign during the War of 1812 , even though that war was against the British?
Did you know that the Bengali poem Annada Mangal eulogizes the Hindu goddess Annapurna ?
Did you know that bas reliefs being made by the sculptor Henryk Kuna for a public monument in Vilnius were used as cemetery pavers during the Nazi occupation of the city?
Did you know that brain–computer interface chips, like those that connect a scientist's brain with test subjects in the Fringe episode " Dream Logic " , have long been used in real life?
Did you know that Muslim Indian South African and communist anti-Apartheid activist Yusuf Dadoo was buried in Highgate Cemetery near Karl Marx 's grave?
Did you know that the novel Madaling Araw ("Dawn") features a blend of clashing characters, such as advocates of anarchy against the subjugators of the Filipino lower class?
Did you know that the penalty for a stalker violating a Civil Harassment Restraining Order in California is a sentence of two to four years in prison?
Did you know that a secret clause in the 1463 Peace Treaty of Wiener Neustadt allowed King Matthias I of Hungary to hire John Jiskra and his Hussite mercenaries, who would later form the core of the Black Army ?
Did you know that heraldic artist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was a friend of historian George Santayana ?
Did you know that, in February 1942, a lone German Heinkel He 111 from the Sonderkommando Blaich successfully attacked Free French Forces at Fort Lamy , Chad, but ran out of fuel on the return flight?
Did you know that Seattle's Hillman City neighborhood was named after a real estate developer whose fraudulent practices eventually landed him in a federal penitentiary ?
Did you know that, because of its popularity, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating was called the " Ulysses of the whole Slow Food movement" and a "cult cookbook"?
Did you know that rates of syphilis have increased in the United States, Australia, and Europe since the year 2000?