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Did you know00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that The Candidate was an 2009 Afghan reality TV show that pitted youth against each other in a mock presidential election ?
Did you know that semi-professional footballer Dean Clark made over one hundred appearances for Northwood F.C. ?
Did you know that the High Court of Andalusia is the highest court of not only Andalusia , but also the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla ?
Did you know that it is uncertain whether the brown and white American star-footed Amanitas are different species?
Did you know that Obie Award -winning actor John Douglas Thompson only took up acting after being laid off from his job as a traveling computer salesman?
Did you know that Mashallah Shamsolvaezin , who founded and edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's independent newspapers, was arrested at his Tehran home in the aftermath of the 2009 Ashura protests ?
Did you know that the episodes of the anime series Baccano! do not tell the events in chronological order?
Did you know that William L. Reilly 's twelve-year tenure as president of Le Moyne College was the longest in the Jesuit school's history?
Did you know that the archaeological finds from Steeple Langford include a Bronze Age palstave and a Romano-British painted pebble ?
Did you know that Clay Buchholz , a first-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox , threw a no-hitter in only his second major league start?
Did you know that the director of the 2009 film The French Kissers chose to use mostly untrained actors because he feared that professional actors would be too egotistical?
Did you know that Barack Obama nominated former United Mine Workers official Joe Main to serve as the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration ?
Did you know that Time magazine described Aake Anker Ording , who initiated the international fundraiser United Nations Appeal for Children , as "Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer"?
Did you know that in 1122 Suero Vermúdez donated his private monastery at Cornellana to the Abbey of Cluny , but in 1128 gave it instead to the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo , sparking a centuries-long dispute?
Did you know that prior to the 10th century in Western art , no attempt was made to portray God the Father in terms of a human form?
Did you know that while Stan Benjamin was a scout , the Houston Astros used his evaluation of Jeff Bagwell as the basis to make a trade for him on August 30, 1990?
Did you know that as a result of the Scarman report into the 1981 Brixton riots , the independent Police Complaints Authority was established in 1985?
Did you know that the Louisiana sheriff Elliot D. Coleman was one of the police bodyguards on duty at the time of the 1935 assassination of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, Jr. ?
Did you know that Royal Marine Francis Harvey , the mortally wounded commander of HMS Lion ' s 'Q' turret, was awarded the Victoria Cross for ordering the magazine flooded, which saved the ship during the Battle of Jutland ?
Did you know that the Goose Creek Oil Field in Galveston Bay had the first offshore oil wells in Texas , U.S. , and the removal of oil led to subsidence of the overlying terrain?
Did you know that in June 2005, Intel threatened photo printing company FotoInsight with legal action over their use of the name "The 'INSIDE' format" saying it infringed their trademark " Intel Inside "?
Did you know that the Norwegian ocean liner SS Bergensfjord was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1940 and used as a troop ship throughout the Second World War ?
Did you know that the oil in the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill , which killed upwards of 10,000 birds and numerous other creatures along the coast of California , U.S. , came from the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field ?
Did you know that Swiss writer Dominique Caillat briefly worked as an international lawyer before turning to literature and the stage, which helped her receive a basic training in acting and directing?
Did you know that Petalura hesperia dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are semi-aquatic?
Did you know that Slade's Case has been called a "watershed" moment in English law?
Did you know that Frederick Brocklander became a Major League Baseball umpire during a 1979 strike and continued umpiring for 12 more years in the National League ?
Did you know that a skimmington , a custom in which victims were mocked and humiliated in a noisy public procession, occurred in England as late as 1917?
Did you know00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that Ya'qub Bilbul , an Iraqi Jew who wrote in Arabic , is considered a pioneer of the Iraqi novel and short story?
Did you know that five Fablok Luxtorpeda trains were constructed under the leadership of Klemens Stefan Sielecki ?
Did you know that the Xian H-6K , which made its first flight in 2007, has been described as " China 's first proper strategic bomber "?
Did you know that French team handball player Mariama Signate was selected into the all-star team at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China?
Did you know that the Kukaniloko Birth Site was speculated to be a Hawaiian Stonehenge ?
Did you know that Loren Singer ' s 1970 book The Parallax View , later made into the 1974 thriller starring Warren Beatty , allowed Singer to leave a job as a printing salesman?
Did you know that the floral clock in Frankfort, Kentucky , has a face that is 34 feet (10 m) in diameter and is composed of more than 10,000 individual flowers?
Did you know that upon the death of Louisiana newspaper publisher Sam Hanna , his state's press association in 2006 renamed its "Best Regular Column" award in his honor?
Did you know that it took six weeks for developer Garry Kitchen to write and complete the iPhone and Nintendo DSi video game Arcade Hoops Basketball ?
Did you know that during the recording process of Stone Sour 's second album Come What(ever) May drummer Joel Ekman decided to leave the band following the diagnosis of his son's brainstem glioma ?
Did you know that Rev. Elias Bond (1813–1896) used proceeds from a Hawaiian sugar plantation to fund his church and a girls' seminary?
Did you know that a previously undescribed species of coral called Pocillopora sp. was found off the coast of Puerto Ángel , Mexico?
Did you know that Harlan Sanborn coached the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team to their lowest offense score ever with the team only scoring eight points during a game?
Did you know that screenwriter Brad Falchuk tried to stand out in high school by wearing a tie every day and declaring himself a Republican ?
Did you know that Norwegian musicologist Christian Leden was the first person to record film in the northern Arctic ?
Did you know that disagreement over the relocation of a nursery during construction of the Washington Metro 's Anacostia station required an Act of Congress to resolve?
Did you know that Sir William Garrow , a barrister from the Regency England period whose work was largely forgotten for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was recently cited in a 2006 Irish Court of Criminal Appeal case?
Did you know that the Comerica Bank New Year's Parade , originally held for the Cotton Bowl Classic , is still held annually in Dallas even though the Cotton Bowl has moved to Arlington, Texas ?
Did you know that Sir Hugh Norman-Walker was forced to decline the appointment of the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in 1973 because his wife would not take up the new post with him?
Did you know that the palm Aiphanes chiribogensis is considered to be vulnerable to extinction because none of the seven known populations lie within Ecuador 's network of protected areas?
Did you know that author and anti-globalization advocate Tim Costello started his writing career in the back of his truck while traveling as a long-haul truck driver?
Did you know that the British monitor Lord Clive was stationed in the Thames Estuary in 1916 to shoot down approaching German Zeppelins with shrapnel shells fired by her 12-inch (305-mm) main guns?
Did you know that Greek professor Albert Pattengill played on Michigan 's 1867 baseball team, nominated "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors, and was one of the founders of the Big Ten Conference ?
Did you know that Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is the most successful detective series produced by the ZDF ?
Did you know that coloratura soprano Alice Verlet gave a 1922 opera and song recital at Carnegie Hall accompanied on violin by a young Xavier Cugat , who later achieved fame as the "rhumba king"?
Did you know that the European Court of Human Rights in Smith and Grady v UK found that the discharge of personnel from the British Army on the basis of sexual orientation was a breach of their right to a private life?
Did you know that Red Tail Reborn , which chronicled the Red Tail Project 's restoration of the P-51 Mustang , won regional Emmy Award recognition?
Did you know that, although champion boxer Jack Dempsey refused a challenge from Billy Sandow to fight professional wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis , the Chicago Tribune predicted that Lewis would win in 38 minutes?
Did you know00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that the underwater volcanoes of the Vance Seamounts are pocketed by multiple calderas , many of which have been almost erased by newer flows?
Did you know that Rebbie Jackson felt that her brother Michael would "spin in his grave" if he thought that his children were going to appear in The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty ?
Did you know that Josef Hora was one of the seven Czech Communist writers who denounced the new Stalinist leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in 1929?
Did you know that the Spanish Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park hosts at least 2170 plant species , 34 of them found nowhere else?
Did you know that actor Leonid Kharitonov's lyrical singing in the war film , The Soldier Ivan Brovkin , made him an all- Soviet heart-throb in 1955?
Did you know that Matford Vic , a two-time winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was purchased at one time for only £2?
Did you know that 1930s NFL fullback "Iron Mike" Mikulak got his nickname because he wore a metal chest protector over his protuding sternum ?
Did you know that between 1926 and 1938, HMS Arpha served as a steam yacht for W E Guinness ?
Did you know that the 1950 Salad Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona , drew nearly 20,000 fans, setting a new statewide attendance record for football ?
Did you know that the Japanese Law for the Conservation of Cultural Properties provides for the existence of Living National Treasures ?
Did you know that Norwegian Christian Aug. Thoring tried several times to become mayor of Rogaland County , but lost out to Beint Bentsen in 1975, John S. Tveit in 1979 and Lars Vaage in 1983?
Did you know that the eight volcanoes of the President Jackson Seamounts are heavily pocketed by 29 calderas and pit craters ?
Did you know that five houses with pilasters are preserved in the Manlius Village Historic District near Syracuse, New York ?
Did you know that ten married couples were candidates in the 2004 Wyre Forest Council election in Worcestershire , England ?
Did you know that two months after the final five Green Line stations on Washington, D.C. 's Metro opened, more than 30,600 riders per day boarded at the stations—three times as many as originally estimated?
Did you know that World War II German fighter ace Heinrich Hoffmann was the first non-commissioned officer and first posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves ?
Did you know that the infant massage of preterm babies has been shown to have many benefits, including the gaining of extra body weight ?
Did you know that although SS Elisabethville was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport during World War II, she did not become an Empire ship until 1947?
Did you know that Kevin Hopps, writer of the Spectacular Spider-Man episode " The Uncertainty Principle ", kept in mind previous battle sequences in the series in order to "up the stakes"?
Did you know that in 792 the Bulgarians captured the tent and treasury of the Byzantine emperor during a battle at the fortress of Markeli near modern Karnobat , Bulgaria ?
Did you know that 2004 Olympic gold medalist Rhi Jeffrey left competitive swimming just four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for Beijing ?
Did you know that during the inter-war period, Helge Krog was known as a member of the "radical triumvirate" in Norway , along with Øverland and Hoel ?
Did you know that Liverpool businessman Sir William Bower Forwood raised money for the building of the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral ?
Did you know that Lincoln Hall at Portland State University was used as classroom space for several years despite being condemned?
Did you know that before making his major league debut, pitcher Alfonso Pulido drew comparisons to Fernando Valenzuela after winning 17 games in the Mexican League in 1983?
Did you know that the body of Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of Ely Abbey while the guards taking it to Ramsey Abbey were drunk?
Did you know that Ukrainian mathematician Samuil Shatunovsky developed axiomatic theory independently from David Hilbert ?
Did you know that the pine trees for which the community of Pine Grove, Oregon , was named were cut down in 1957?
Did you know00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that the British cargo ship Empire Builder was handed over to the Polish Government on completion in January 1942?
Did you know that researchers finally collected a larva and an adult female Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli which match an earlier male specimen?
Did you know that the Battle of Maryang San is regarded as one of the Australian Army 's greatest victories of the Korean War ?
Did you know that the Polish–Czech Friendship Trail was closed to tourists outside the two countries until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993?
Did you know that Temple Israel of Dayton, Ohio , was one of the founding members of the Union for Reform Judaism ?
Did you know that in 2008, Lund 's former mayor Kjell Erfjord lost a vote to become board chairman of the Norwegian Missionary Society ?
Did you know that the Black-fronted Tern of New Zealand is known as the ploughboy or ploughman's friend for its propensity to eat worms and grubs in newly ploughed ground?
Did you know that the existence of Outer Temple , a body that is thought to be one of the ten Inns of Chancery and was disestablished in the 16th century, was only confirmed in 2008? [ dubious – discuss ]
Did you know that the Royal Indian Navy auxiliary patrol vessel Jamnagar was originally built for HH The Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar ?
Did you know that Theobald Burke , son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley , was born at sea in 1567, shortly before his mother's fleet engaged in a battle with Barbary pirates ?
Did you know that from 1999 to 2003 the Cal Golden Bears had five consecutive Pac-10 Conference swimmers of the year; Marylyn Chiang , Haley Cope , and three-time winner Natalie Coughlin ?
Did you know that Woody Freeman , one of the Republicans defeated by Bill Clinton for governor of Arkansas , claimed he began a computer software business in 1985 with $3 in his account?
Did you know that Blanche Cave , in Australia 's Naracoorte Caves National Park , used to exhibit an indigenous man 's mummified remains , which were stolen in 1861 and never returned?
Did you know that the letters "IXL" in the IXL Historical Museum in Hermansville, Michigan , are a derivative of the words "I excel"?
Did you know that as early as 1978 the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas , Lynn Lowe accused Bill Clinton of having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943?
Did you know that former Parliament of Norway member Inger Lise Husøy is currently the manager of the Norwegian Burma Committee ?
Did you know that Bryan Adams sang backing vocals on Glass Tiger 's 1986 hit single " Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) "?
Did you know that Fritz Crisler developed the platoon system of American football in which separate squads play offense and defense and designed the winged football helmet used by the Michigan Wolverines ?
Did you know the H.W. Wilson Company considered Albert Payson Terhune 's 1922 novel Further Adventures of Lad one "of the most useful books covering all classes of literature"?
Did you know that when LeT militants barged into her home in Rajouri , Rukhsana Kausar started a counter-attack wielding an axe, and later drew praise from the President , Prime Minister and Home Minister of India ?
Did you know that the winemaking technique of ripasso involves adding the pomace of leftover grape skins from the fermentation of Amarone to Valpolicella to give the wine more body , color and flavor ?
Did you know that anti-nuclear activist Ole Kopreitan is known for spreading leaflets and selling campaign buttons from a cart in Norway's main street, Karl Johans gate ?
Did you know that while voicing the character of Doctor Octopus in the The Spectacular Spider-Man episode " Reaction ", Peter MacNicol chose to base it on late actor Laird Cregar ?
Did you know that the first child of European descent born along the Hudson River was born on Beeren Island near Albany, New York ?
Did you know that two sections of the British 1973 Sale of Goods Act were completely identical?
Did you know that, according to the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto , Eadred , abbot of Carlisle , tried to take the body of St Cuthbert to Ireland , but was thwarted by the weather?
Did you know that prominent American Jewish leader Alan Solow called President Barack Obama "the first Jewish president"?
Did you know00, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that because of his race, U.S. President Barack Obama has been the subject of multiple assassination threats and alleged plots ?
Did you know that besides mechanical failures, fuel leaks and collisions, the passenger liner SS Iberia also suffered multiple fires and blackouts, and twice grounded in the Suez Canal , before she was finally decommissioned in 1972?
Did you know that Quality Bicycle Products is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry , with revenues of $150 million in 2008?
Did you know that the video game Down in Flames is a simulation of dogfights between World War II fighters and feature such planes as P-47 Thunderbolt , PZL.23 Karaś and five variants of Messerschmitt Bf 109 ?
Did you know that during the Italian occupation Tefik Mborja was, as General Secretary of the Albanian Fascist Party , included in the Albanian cabinet as an ex-officio member?
Did you know that in A Letter to Lord Ellenborough , Percy Bysshe Shelley made an argument for tolerance of all published opinion, even when false?
Did you know that John Cage caused a sensation at the 1963 Music Biennale Zagreb by crawling under the piano during his stage performance, despite promising not to?
Did you know that Guillermo Algaze received the MacArthur "Genius" Award two years in a row?
Did you know that Pro Bowl guard Jahri Evans attended Bloomsburg University not on an athletic scholarship , but rather an academic scholarship ?
Did you know that according to a BBC Radio 2 poll, The Gruffalo , which was adapted into a film in 2009, is the UK's favourite bedtime story?
Did you know that Joseph K. Yamagiwa was a Research Bombing Analyst for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey which took place in Washington D.C. and Tokyo ?
Did you know that the Jewel Box in St. Louis, Missouri , is a greenhouse but doesn't have a glass roof because of frequent hailstorms ?
Did you know that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years?
Did you know that in the 1946 French legislative election the incumbent parliamentarian from French India , Deiva Zivarattinam , received only 18 votes?
Did you know0:00, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that Michigan sprinter Clayton Teetzel coached the BYU basketball team to an 11–1 season and later coached the Utah State football team to an undefeated season outscoring opponents 164 to 0?
Did you know that the music of the Russian band Lesopoval is inspired by the six years its co-founder Mikhail Tanich spent in a Soviet labor camp ?
Did you know that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 has begun core testing even though its only application, the Cessna Citation Columbus , has been canceled?
Did you know that Political Correspondent with The Irish Times Harry McGee described the Irish budget, 2010 as maybe "the most austere Budget in the history of the State"?
Did you know that Lynn A. Davis stopped illegal gambling in Hot Springs in a 128-day career as head of the Arkansas state police?
Did you know that the Persian cat breed has won the CFA International Cat Show's "Best of Show" a record ten times as of 2009?
Did you know that the important Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Montana , in Guatemala , was a colony founded by the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan , in Mexico ?
Did you know that at age 36, Populist Party Chairman Marion Butler of North Carolina obtained his law degree from the University of North Carolina while serving in the U.S. Senate ?
Did you know that Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India , surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining?
Did you know that Riverside Theater in Jacksonville was the first theater in Florida , and the third in the United States , equipped to show sound film ?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov served as the stand-in for the Potemkin during the filming of Sergei Eisenstein 's The Battleship Potemkin ?
Did you know that the South American rice rat Oryzomys gorgasi is threatened by competition with the Black Rat ?
Did you know that only one of the thirty-nine DART Light Rail stations in Greater Dallas , Texas , is located underground?
Did you know that at the 2008 Great Brook Run , English politician David Cameron ran through a muddy stream faster than a man dressed as Spider-Man ?
Did you know00, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that Friedrich Nietzsche suggested the crest on the frontispiece of Richard Wagner 's autobiography , Mein Leben , be composed of a vulture and the constellation The Plough ?
Did you know that in Cross v. United States , the United States Supreme Court established the principle that the Court of Claims could rehear Congressional reference cases ?
Did you know that The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman , the 22nd album by Sparks and their first pop musical , was commissioned by Swedish national radio ?
Did you know that Blumea balsamifera is a flowering plant which belongs to the Asteraceae family and is used in the Philippines as a diuretic and treatment for the common cold ?
Did you know that the Democratic Association of Victoria , the first Australian socialist organisation founded in 1872, lasted only ten months?
Did you know that in January 2009, a lorry burst through the stern doors of the fast ferry Stena Voyager while the ship was at sea?
Did you know that in 1971, Cambodian army officer Um Savuth offered Richard Nixon his pet elephant as a gift?
Did you know that The Irish Filmography is a reference source for nearly 2,000 films made from 1896 to 1996 in Ireland , about either Ireland or the Irish?
Did you know that 1938–39 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team player Bobby Anet broke the NCAA Tournament trophy during the championship game, which Oregon won?
Did you know that at 26 million years, the Taney Seamounts are almost as old as the seafloor they stand on?
Did you know that Peter P. Dubrovsky , Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed libraries during the time of the French Revolution ?
Did you know that as a result of 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision Glidden Co. v. Zdanok , the Court of Claims did not accept new Congressional reference cases until 1966?
Did you know that the neo-romantic Chłopomania movement based in Young Poland 's fascination with folk culture inspired Polish playwright Stanisław Wyspiański to marry a peasant wife in 1900?