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Did you know that St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Carson City is the oldest building still in use by the Episcopal Church in the state of Nevada ?
Did you know that the Ashuapmushuan River in Quebec , Canada , is named for an Innu word meaning "place where one lies in wait for moose "?
Did you know that after a period of retirement which included a stint as a beer delivery man, Alberto Davila returned to boxing and won the World Boxing Council bantamweight title in 1983?
Did you know that the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum in Mexico City was the world's first museum dedicated to watercolor painting ?
Did you know that Chris Brown 's song " Sing Like Me " is a slow jam R&B and pop ballad , featuring 808 drum beats and Asian-influenced strings ?
Did you know that the Florida Reef is the third largest coral barrier reef in the world, and that in the middle of the 19th century there were close to 50 shipwrecks a year on the reef?
Did you know that Johann Wilhelm Schwedler preferred other engineering solutions over his own invention, the Schwedler truss , on aesthetic grounds?
Did you know that Kristubhagavatam: A mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ , a Sanskrit epic poem in 33 cantos and 1600 verses, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1980?
Did you know that the Childress County Heritage Museum contains an exhibit on World War II bombardier training held near Childress , Texas ?
Did you know that Tell Shemshara in Iraq was once the capital of the "land of the gatekeeper"?
Did you know that American yachtswoman J. J. Isler , who competed in both the Olympics and the America’s Cup races, was the first woman named to the Sailing World Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Brad Paisley released " This Is Country Music " as a single long before the album was to come out, even though it was "bad timing for his label"?
Did you know that Walter Keane , known for paintings of "big-eyed waifs," claimed a sore shoulder and declined a 1986 court-ordered paint-off with his ex-wife , resulting in a US$4 million judgment against him?
Did you know that jars uncovered at Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Zagros Mountains contained wine and resin residue which suggested that the inhabitants were making a wine similar to Retsina over 7 millennia ago?
Did you know that The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant in the Cotswolds is reputed to be the oldest existing hotel in England, dated to 1220 ?
Did you know that Erik Røring Møinichen was a Norwegian Minister of Finance five times?
Did you know that when it was built in 1795, Fort Carondelet was the farthest western outpost of the Chouteau fur trading operation in the Spanish Louisiana Territory ?
Did you know that communist politician Salawati Daud was the first female mayor in Indonesia ?
Did you know that Little Sea Hill Light was the first of a group of eight lighthouses in Queensland made of a hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron ?
Did you know that the marine worm , Parborlasia corrugatus , fires an adhesive, barbed proboscis as a means of defense, and to capture prey?
Did you know that screenwriter and film director Norman Thaddeus Vane referenced the 1931 movie Dracula in his work Shadow of the Hawk ?
Did you know that xiaochi , or Chinese and Taiwanese "small eats", can include such ingredients as stinky tofu , sheep head, grass jelly or pork intestines?
Did you know that Not Worse Than Thomon , edited by Sergei Olegovich Kuznetsov , was described by Vremya Novostei as one of the best Russian books in the field of art in 2007?
Did you know that Nerstrand City Hall was built at the center of a close-knit community of Norwegian American pioneers including the Osmundson , Bonde and Veblen families ?
Did you know that an obituary for Hughie Hearne stated that he was a "well known baseball star" and "one of the game's best catchers ," although he never played a full major league season?
Did you know the Hydnaceae family contains mushrooms with "teeth"?
Did you know that Olympia Bucureşti was the winner of the inaugural Romanian football championship held between 1909 and 1910 ?
Did you know that St Mary's Church in North Cockerington , Lincolnshire , England , stands a mile away from the village it served, sharing the churchyard of the adjoining parish church ?
Did you know that the A535 road in Cheshire is the main road that gives access to the Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Quinta Garden, both founded by Sir Bernard Lovell ?
Did you know that California Court of Appeal Associate Justice James A. McIntyre was previously a Little League Baseball manager ?
Did you know that the Trudenstein rocks in the Harz Mountains are so-named because they supposedly resemble a drude , a German witch-like figure associated with dreams?
Did you know that the Westerman Lumber Office and House is now home to Big Honza, who is "bigger, smarter and wiser" than Paul Bunyan ?
Did you know that the manuscripts of Thomas Kantzow 's 16th-century chronicles were rediscovered in 1729, 1832 and 1973?
Did you know that on October 21, 1915, a band of Mexicans invaded the United States and conducted a raid on Ojo de Agua in Texas as part of the Plan de San Diego ?
Did you know that The Skywalk Is Gone was the first short film to ever get a theatrical commercial run in Taiwan ?
Did you know that the American historian Gerald W. Wolff collaborated on studies of six Indian tribes, the Arikara , Hidatsa , Mandan , Ponca , Ottawa , and Comanche ?
Did you know that Chapultepec Park is the largest urban park in Latin America ?
Did you know that Italian model and skydiver Roberta Mancino has performed several thousand skydives , including four while completely naked?
Did you know that Triple H won his match at the World Wrestling Federation 's Armageddon (1999) event after hitting Vince McMahon , his father-in-law and boss, with a sledgehammer?
Did you know that German epigrapher Nikolai Grube co-presented workshops teaching Maya hieroglyphs to native Maya in Mexico and Guatemala ?
Did you know that in 1922–23, journalist Elmo Scott Watson wrote Stories of Great Indians, an attempt to refute the noble savage concept then popular among writers about the Native American tribes?
Did you know that Slovenia's Velenje Castle , along with two castles in Šalek and Ekenštajn, played a key role in defending the routes from the Celje Basin to Carinthia ?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , based Acumed , a medical device company, once built a motorcycle that included titanium body parts?
Did you know that the Time pyramid , a public work of art begun in 1993, is scheduled for completion in the year 3183?
Did you know that in a plasma antenna , plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional radio antenna ?
Did you know that Clancy Carlile wrote the novel and the screenplay for Honkytonk Man that starred Clint Eastwood ?
Did you know that according to legend, Wormy hillock henge is the burial site of a dragon?
Did you know that the surprise about the WikiLeaks revelations of spying on UN leaders by US diplomats was not that it was done, but rather who would be doing it, and what information would be required?
Did you know that the church St. Bonifatius was built in Wiesbaden in Gothic Revival style , after a first building had collapsed?
Did you know that John Tyner and Charles Krauthammer don't want you touching their junk , but Michael Kinsley wants you to go ahead and touch his, and Wendy Kaminer thinks Krauthammer just wants you to touch someone else's?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander II regarded his morganatic son Prince George Alexandrovich Yurievsky as a "true Russian ", causing rumors that he was considering giving him dynastic rights?
Did you know that Bullacta exarata is a commercially important sea snail in eastern China?
Did you know that the Magni M-16 Tandem Trainer autogyro is used by traffic reporters and farmers as well as sport pilots ?
Did you know that visitors to the Wank mountain in Germany can use a Wankpass to ride the Wankbahn up to the Wank-Haus at the summit?
Did you know that the NFL's first championship game was won by Chicago over New York via a successful hook and ladder play run by the Bears with less than two minutes remaining?
Did you know that of roughly 200 magic spells in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead , five are intended to protect the dead from snakes in the afterlife?
Did you know that the Airedale Terrier Paddy the Wanderer was a famous stowaway and traveler who had Wellington harbour as his base?
Did you know that Marie Kudeříková wrote her literary legacy while waiting for her execution in Breslau ?
Did you know that style of handwriting of lectionaries ℓ 296 and ℓ 1599 have resemblance to Codex Cyprius ?
Did you know that IGN 's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?
Did you know that John Hartwell Cocke , who helped Thomas Jefferson build the University of Virginia , has been cited by historians for his knowledge of Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings ?
Did you know that the rainforests of eastern Australia harbour such trees as the yellow satinheart , five-leaf bonewood , northern yellow boxwood , shiny-leaved condoo , yellow bulletwood and veiny lace-flower ?
Did you know that after acquiring the script for Santa Santita , the director did not start production for five years due to the lack of an appropriate lead actress?
Did you know that nearly 10,000 quartz artifacts were found at a Neolithic site known as the Scord of Brouster ?
Did you know that Anne Rouse 's poetry often draws upon her experiences as a mental health worker, such as the preoccupations of patients on a dementia ward?
Did you know that San Francisco City Clinic is a specialty municipal sexual health center that opened in 1933 and serves people over the age of 12?
Did you know that Sir William Blackstone 's A Discourse on the Study of the Law was his only work to survive its various editions without alterations by the author?
Did you know that Heaven 17 's 1981 song " (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang " was banned by the BBC over fears it libeled Ronald Reagan ?
Did you know that La Stazione , a restaurant and former train station in New Paltz , New York , burned down in 1907, killing the station agent 's dog?
Did you know that the Pluton -class minelayers , built just before World War I , were the first purpose-built minelayers in the French Navy?
Did you know that The River was called a " porn movie " by the lead actor's father?
Did you know that college football coach Harry Baum helped build the Broadmoor Hotel and three state capitol buildings?
Did you know that after the Woodlawn subway station was opened in The Bronx in 1917, nearby Woodlawn Cemetery built a new sales office to meet demand?
Did you know that the phrase "more bang for the buck " was used to describe the United States' New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons , rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check?
Did you know that LZ7 's 2010 single " This Little Light " is based around the 20th century gospel song " This Little Light of Mine "?
Did you know that the science fiction film Laserblast consistently ranks among the Internet Movie Database 's bottom 100 films list, and was featured in the last episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 broadcast on Comedy Central ?
Did you know that in August each year, City of London Councillor Sir Alpheus Morton used to present the Lord Mayor with a basket of mulberries from the garden at Finsbury Circus ?
Did you know that the 1896 South Australian referendum was the first referendum to be held in Australia ?
Did you know that although Owen Bieber intended to be an auto parts worker only for a single summer, he stayed on the job and later became president of the United Auto Workers ?
Did you know that while most of Austria labels their wine similar to Germany , with names such as Spätlese and Auslese , producers in Wachau label their wines after feather grass , falconry and a green lizard ?
Did you know that both bombings, in May 2008 , by Spain's ETA in Legutiano and Getxo involved Citroën Berlingos ?
Did you know that sprinter Seun Ogunkoya broke the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres before turning 20 years old?
Did you know that underwater welding was invented by Konstantin Khrenov in 1932?
Did you know that under football coach J. White Guyn , the cash-strapped Kentucky program arranged to play Michigan to generate revenue, but travel costs limited its income and the team lost, 62–0?
Did you know that after losing the Second 2010–11 Ashes Test to England , the selectors for the Australian cricket team thought that Beer could help them in the Third Test ?
Did you know that John Francis Wheaton was the first African American elected to the Minnesota State Legislature ?
Did you know that e-Government and controlled thermonuclear fusion are among the long-term goals of the Medvedev modernisation programme in Russia ?
Did you know that the 1958–59 ABC reality show Confession , hosted by Jack Wyatt , featured criminals discussing the circumstances which propelled them into a life of lawlessness?
Did you know that Michigan footballer and Rhodes Scholar James K. Watkins became Detroit Police Commissioner and formed a group in 1936 "to save their country from a perpetuation of the New Deal "?
Did you know that the California towns of La Placita and Agua Mansa , located across from each other on the Santa Ana River , were the largest settlements between New Mexico and Los Angeles in the 1840s?
Did you know that during the 1892–1894 war in the Eastern Congo , Baron Dhanis allowed his men to bring their wives, slaves and servants along with his army?
Did you know that Chris Strachwitz , German -born founder of blues and Cajun music specialist Arhoolie Records , accumulated the largest private collection of Mexican and Mexican-American music in the world?
Did you know that Bremo Slave Chapel is the only place of worship known to have been built for slaves in the Commonwealth of Virginia ?
Did you know that Giovanni Orsini was the nephew of Pope Nicholas III , a legate for Pope John XXII , helped to drive Antipope Nicholas V from Rome , and took part in the election of Pope Benedict XII ?
Did you know that the Bristol Festival of Ideas , set up in 2005 as part of the city 's bid to become European Capital of Culture , now awards one of the most valuable annual book prizes in the UK ?
Did you know that in 1899, Major League Baseball rookie Jimmy Williams set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record with his 27-game hitting streak ?
Did you know that New Zealand Army officer Rhys Jones , the next Chief of Defence Force , was told in 2000 that he would receive no further promotions?
Did you know that Knute Rockne called Thomas A. Barry "the man who laid the football foundation at Notre Dame "?
Did you know that the Gruta das Torres is a three-dimensional braided lava tube system, the longest in the Azores ?
Did you know that film director Tracie Laymon won the 2009 award for Best Short Film from the Women's Image Network for her work directing the short film Inside ?
Did you know that although it was originally designed as a test machine, Sceptre was turned into a fusion reactor when ZETA apparently produced fusion?
Did you know that Rev. Shubael Dummer was killed at York, Maine , by the Abenaki in the Candlemas Massacre of January 1692 ?
Did you know that the French armored cruiser Sully struck a rock in Halong Bay , French Indochina , in 1905, only eight months after she was completed, and was a total loss?
Did you know that the Viveros de Coyoacán was the first tree nursery in Mexico and the first large scale tree nursery in Latin America ?
Did you know that the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is the predominant U.S. federal government sponsor for research in the physical sciences and initiated the Human Genome Project ?
Did you know that former CANOE Live host Janette Luu was the first ever Vietnamese TV anchor in Toronto, Canada ?
Did you know that in St Peter's Church, Kingerby , Lincolnshire , is a slab carved with the effigy of a knight whose lower body and legs have been replaced by a cross?
Did you know that basketball player Charlie T. Black won two national championships and was named the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year while at Kansas ?
Did you know that Grover, Utah used to be named "Carcass Creek"?
Did you know that one of the educational goals of the children's television show Sesame Street was to prepare young children for school?
Did you know that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent ever?
Did you know that within a year after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , one venue was converted into a baseball stadium while two others were imploded?
Did you know that No. 61 Wing RAAF built a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway at Darwin, Northern Territory , in 1944 to accommodate a proposed deployment of 100 USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers that never eventuated?
Did you know that, after giving up five runs in his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds , pitcher Martin Glendon quit the team and moved to San Francisco ?
Did you know that the fungus Entomophthora muscae makes flies climb upwards before killing them, so they are better able to release a shower of spores for the next cycle of infection?
Did you know that Bruce DuMont , investigative reporter and host of Beyond the Beltway , is the nephew of the inventor of the first commercially viable television ?
Did you know that the namesake of the Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke , Virginia , is the American Founding Father Patrick Henry ?
Did you know that Jason Ratcliff was the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion crew chief?
Did you know that with the foundation of the Athonite Academy , near Vatopedi monastery , the monastic community of Mount Athos took a leading role in the 18th century modern Greek Enlightenment ?
Did you know that an oxaziridine rearrangement reaction is the key step in the synthesis of erectile dysfunction medication yohimbine ?
Did you know that the location of one of the venues of the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer was moved because the original site was too close to a bird sanctuary ?
Did you know that over 30,000 eggs were used to prepare the paint and glaze that went into the elaborate decorations of the Šarena Džamija of Tetovo ?
Did you know that former Florida State Seminoles player Ryan Reid had more wins than any other player in the school's college basketball history?
Did you know that there were only two successful prison breaks in the history of Chi Hoa Prison ?
Did you know that Old Caloundra Light , a lighthouse inactive since 1968, was relocated twice, in 1970 and back in 1999, and was damaged on the second relocation attempt?
Did you know that Harry W. Child received a knighthood from the King of Sweden after giving the king a guided tour of Yellowstone National Park ?
Did you know that in its early years, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra featured a solo performance by Isaac Stern and the premiere of a musical composition about a nuclear reactor ?
Did you know that before he co-founded Soundcraft , Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 ?
Did you know that all 16 episodes from the third season of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation will be filmed before the first one is aired?
Did you know that George Leslie Hunter 's early work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Markgraf is a popular diving site in Scapa Flow , where it was scuttled in 1919 ?
Did you know that Sri Lankan politician A. M. M. Naushad , as Deputy Secretary of the UNP , created a problem for his party leader by advocating his view that "his community came first and the party next"?
Did you know that the Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs annual concerts in honor of the birthday of Elvis Presley ?
Did you know that Jeremiah Dummer (1643–1718) was the first American-born silversmith ?
Did you know that the new Royal Enfield Fury 500cc single is the first Royal Enfield motorcycle in 40 years with twin exhaust pipes?
Did you know that it was not until the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that housing discrimination in the United States became illegal?
Did you know that according to a study by the International Committee of the Red Cross , the civilian casualty ratio in wars fought since the mid-20th century has been 10 civilian deaths for every soldier death?
Did you know that the home of Danish sea captain Cornelius Jensen on the Jensen Alvarado Ranch is the oldest non- adobe structure in California 's Inland Empire ?
Did you know that both Joe Matthews and his father were charged with and acquitted of treason in 1956?
Did you know that there were numerous complaints from the contestants over dead rats and appliances floating at the venue for the sailing competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona ?
Did you know that Seattle 's historic counterculture coffeehouse, the Last Exit on Brooklyn , was a noted chess venue frequented by grandmasters Peter Biyiasas and Yasser Seirawan ?
Did you know that the Lympha is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water ?
Did you know that Bill Mizeur never batted under .300 until his 14th season in professional baseball ?
Did you know that one design for a flight deck cruiser was described as a cross between a Brooklyn -class light cruiser and the aircraft carrier USS Wasp ?
Did you know that the Rosendale trestle , once the highest span bridge in the United States , was sold in 1986 for one dollar ?
Did you know that between 90% and 98% of all amputees report retaining all or part of the missing limb in their body schema ?
Did you know that snowy plovers nest in former salt evaporation ponds in the Moss Landing Wildlife Area ?
Did you know that the match for the WWE Championship at Royal Rumble (2004) was booked after Brock Lesnar legitimately broke his opponent's neck?
Did you know that Frank "Piano Mover" Smith was the first Chicago White Sox baseball pitcher to throw two no-hitters ?
Did you know that the Tiger of Pilibhit was responsible for killing and partially eating eight people before being captured?
Did you know that the boathouse for the Burnham Area Rescue Boat was built in just three days as part of the Challenge Anneka television series?
Did you know that the Mount Baker waxy cap was named after the volcano on which it was first collected?
Did you know that as Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge for over 40 years, Christopher Green did "little if any teaching"?
Did you know that the Russian monitor Smerch was constructed at the Charles Mitchell shipyard in England, broken down, and shipped to Saint Petersburg for reassembly?
Did you know that Helena Bliss married her co-star from the original Broadway production of Gypsy Lady ?
Did you know that The Big Tree Plant is a new Government-sponsored campaign in England to promote the planting of one million trees in neighbourhoods?
Did you know that in 1857, Peter White was a storekeeper, lawyer, county clerk , registrar of deeds , school board treasurer, postmaster , customs collector , state representative , and a newlywed?
Did you know that after the Russian Revolution and Civil War , Princess Catherine Yurievskaya , a daughter of Czar Alexander II , became a professional singer ?
Did you know that in 2010, Gus and Tavo Vildósola of the Vildosola Racing team became the first Mexican competitors to win the Baja 1000 , an annual off-road race held in Mexico?
Did you know that Brett Domino 's song about Gillian McKeith was inspired by McKeith's exploits on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! ?
Did you know that German metallurgist Curt Netto was honored by the Japanese Emperor with the Order of the Rising Sun in 1885?
Did you know that the speed skating venue for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was the last outdoor rink to hold Olympic speed skating competitions ?
Did you know that Constance Ortmayer designed a commemorative coin for the anniversary of an event that never happened?
Did you know that Michael Rimington raised an irregular cavalry force in the Boer War , known as Rimington's Tigers ?