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Did you know that Lieutenant General Stanley A. McChrystal commanded the Joint Special Operations Command forces responsible for the death of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ?
Did you know that the Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America ?
Did you know that, in 1935, Jimmie Guthrie set five world speed records on a Norton International at the concrete bowl track in Montlhéry , France?
Did you know that the early Chola naval ships from the 1st century had a rudimentary flame thrower and a catapult-type weapon?
Did you know that Winlock W. Steiwer founded the first bank in Wheeler County, Oregon , after he had pled guilty during the Oregon land fraud scandal ?
Did you know that Emil Løvlien was the last member of the Norwegian Parliament to be elected from the Communist Party ticket?
Did you know that Larry Dierker is the only Houston Astros manager to have had his uniform number retired by the Houston Astros franchise of Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that Super Mario Kart sold eight million copies, making it the third highest-selling Super Nintendo Entertainment System game of all time?
Did you know that William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut , in 1657?
Did you know that Chris Robinson invited Buffalo Killers to open for The Black Crowes on a 2007 tour after hearing their 2006 album Buffalo Killers ?
Did you know that, after returning to his native England , New York composer Manuel Klein suffered a trauma during the Zeppelin attacks in London during WWI that reportedly contributed to his early death?
Did you know that the al-Muallaq Mosque , also known as the Mosque of Dhaher al-Omar in Acre , Israel , is located on the site of the town's ancient synagogue ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yuqing restored the use of drums in palace music, after drums had been abolished in light of rebellions to avoid alarming the populace?
Did you know that the German-language socialist newspaper Volkswille in Katowice , Poland , went from daily to weekly publication after the 1933 Nazi takeover stopped the newspaper's financial subsidies from Germany ?
Did you know that footballer Abe Hartley used to place a rolled-up cigarette behind his ear prior to kick-off and then smoke it in the changing room at half-time ?
Did you know that Owain Gwynedd led Welsh forces to victory against King Henry II of England at the Battle of Crogen in 1165?
Did you know that in 1872, Western University in Kansas , USA , selected Charles Henry Langston , abolitionist , politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes , as principal of its new normal school ?
Did you know that Noel Dossou-Yovo is presently President of the Professors World Peace Academy in the Republic of Benin ?
Did you know that after Nazi Germany 's annexation of Austria in 1938, the parliamentarians of the German Christian Social People's Party in Czechoslovakia joined the Sudeten German Party ?
Did you know that the Liberty ship SS Timothy Bloodworth was the first ship to be hit by a V-2 rocket ?
Did you know that Robert McKechnie was the University of British Columbia 's longest-serving chancellor ?
Did you know that Turkish female aviator Nezihe Viranyalı was educated in civil aviation at the University of Tennessee following an invitation by the renowned American pilot Jacqueline Cochran ?
Did you know that the boga , an improvised plastic cannon used in New Year 's celebrations in the Philippines , has been banned by the government since 2006?
Did you know that Mario Menéndez , who was the governor of the Falkland Islands , surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War ?
Did you know that the history of Switzerland in the Roman era includes about 300 years of peace and prosperity?
Did you know that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England ?
Did you know that kibbutz Re'im has started a project to become the first community in Israel with its domestic power consumption provided entirely by solar energy ?
Did you know that Dave Fanning described 2TV as "not rocket science, it's moron television"?
Did you know that DeShawn Sims is the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to have at least 20 points and 20 rebounds in a single game since Phil Hubbard did so in the 1977 NCAA Tournament ?
Did you know that the engine block of the Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle was painted either green or red for racing or road, respectively?
Did you know that the owner of Fairhope Plantation near Uniontown, Alabama , organized his own artillery unit during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Ernie Toshack , tired of signing autographs , had a friend sign for him, who incorrectly signed Toshak ?
Did you know that the Cobb and Frost -designed Chicago Opera House , built 1884–85, was one of the first buildings constructed using general contracting ?
Did you know that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy , but only ever contained two monumental tombs?
Did you know that Peter Benchley wanted to write about pirates, but editor Thomas Congdon preferred his idea for a novel about sharks that became the bestseller Jaws ?
Did you know that Iolani Luahine , considered the high priestess of the ancient hula , was said to be able to "call up the wind and the rain" and to "make animals do her bidding"?
Did you know that Grower Champagnes have been described as " artisanal winemaking " for their focus on terroir rather than on producing a consistent "house style" that is associated with larger Champagne houses ?
Did you know that Francis S. Hoyt , the first President of Willamette University in Oregon , USA , graduated from Wesleyan University , a school his father helped to found?
Did you know that the Sri Lankan Army 's LRRP , a covert special operations unit, has assassinated several top level Tamil Tigers commanders during the Sri Lankan civil war ?
Did you know that Walter Galbraith selected an Accrington Stanley team of eleven Scots for an English Football League match?
Did you know that at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress , Lutheran Church in America President Robert J. Marshall received a lengthy standing ovation after opening with the two words "Fellow Christians"?
Did you know that the extent of rainbands around a tropical cyclone can be used to determine its intensity?
Did you know that filmmaker Daniel St. Pierre led the team that developed the Deep Canvas system for the animated film Tarzan for enhancing the apparent depth of backgrounds?
Did you know that when Brackley railway station was visited by the Royal Train in 1950, the King and Queen had to step on a box when leaving the train because its door was far above the platform ?
Did you know that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism ?
Did you know that Alfred Stieglitz 's Equivalents series of cloud photographs are regarded as the earliest examples of abstract photographic art ?
Did you know that the Colombo Cricket Club Ground , a small multi-use stadium in Sri Lanka , has hosted three Test matches ?
Did you know that after Lavrentiy Beria was arrested in June 1953, Sergei Kruglov succeeded him as the Soviet Union's Minister of Internal Affairs ?
Did you know that The Beggar's Benison was a Scottish gentlemen's club devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality"?
Did you know that McIDAS software has been used to process meteorological data and images from space probes ?
Did you know that illustrated medieval chronicles are among the first works of Swiss historiography ?
Did you know that a schoolteacher from the U.S. state of Ohio donated the first 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Mary Jane Thurston State Park , named in her honor?
Did you know that the Zarqa River , which is Jordan's third largest, is so polluted that it is considered an "environmental blackspot"?
Did you know that the sarin -filled M125 bomblet was a sub-munition in the M34 cluster bomb and four American missile systems?
Did you know that the Alberta Taciuk Process , an above-ground dry thermal retorting technology, is named after its inventor William Taciuk and the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority ?
Did you know that the isolation of antibodies and flu viruses from birds on Tryon Island , a coral cay off the coast of Queensland , Australia , led to the development of antiviral drugs , such as Tamiflu ?
Did you know that Brett Sutter became the eighth member of the Sutter family to play in the National Hockey League when he made his debut for the Calgary Flames on December 23, 2008?
Did you know that Royal Parker , who played a children's television show character on Baltimore's WBAL-TV , also broadcast the news bulletin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963?
Did you know that today Rare Disease Day , coordinated by the National Organization for Rare Disorders , is being observed in the United States for the first time ever?
Did you know that Walter A. McDougall received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age ?
Did you know that though it never made it on the air, Faze TV was planned as the first television channel in the United Kingdom specifically targeted towards gay men?
Did you know that while a professor at the University of Wisconsin , future I.C.C. commissioner Balthasar H. Meyer taught what was said to be the first course in insurance in the U.S.?
Did you know that Kandurata province cricket team entered the finals of 2007/08 Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial limited over tournament unbeaten, but the game was rained out and they had to share the trophy ?
Did you know that the Yellow-throated Honeyeater is known for collecting  hair from live animals such as horses, dogs and humans for lining its nest?
Did you know that the Arpechim Refinery owned by Petrom produces around sixty percent of all the bitumen used in Romania ?
Did you know that the Massacre of the Latins occurred in Constantinople , the capital of the Byzantine Empire , in 1182?
Did you know that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?
Did you know that the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi , Kenya ?
Did you know that more American astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy than any other institution of higher learning?
Did you know that the winner of the 2005 Djiboutian presidential election , Ismail Omar Guelleh , said that he regretted having no opponent in the election?
Did you know that George Washington gave Martha Parke Custis a miniature of himself as a wedding gift , and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his will ?
Did you know that Polish caricaturist Eryk Lipiński worked for the Polish resistance during World War II , forging documents, and was imprisoned in Auschwitz ?
Did you know that the 1886 Michigan football team had a "goalkeeper" and played games measured in "innings"?
Did you know that Svein Døvle Larssen , a newspaper editor by occupation, also served in three different municipal councils for the Conservative Party of Norway ?
Did you know that Boxhill , a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky , sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor ?
Did you know that Peter Schutz saved the Porsche 911 from extinction when he took over the CEO position at Porsche in 1981?
Did you know that the Middle Colonies were the most ethnically diverse British colonies in North America ?
Did you know that the plot of the " 4-D " episode of The X-Files was inspired by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby , who could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid?
Did you know that NATO pilots flew more than 100,000 sorties over Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight ?
Did you know that Knut Korsæth , former mayor of Lillehammer and County Governor of Oppland , is also an honorary member of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports ?
Did you know that MBM , a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures ?
Did you know that Norwegian speed skater Randi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?
Did you know that the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska ?
Did you know that the Petrobrazi Refinery owned by Petrom is the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4?
Did you know that in February 2008, David Mendell received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Obama: From Promise to Power ?
Did you know that the heads of some East Indian harvesting ant workers are ten times larger than other worker ants of the same species ?
Did you know that an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Li Shidao , hoping to save his ally Wu Yuanji, assassinated the chancellor Wu Yuanheng, who was in charge of the campaign against Wu Yuanji?
Did you know that the open access , peer reviewed journal Trials encourages publication of protocols , which the journal's editor Doug Altman has suggested may reduce data dredging and publication bias ?
Did you know that Edmund Chojecki co-founded Le Temps ,  predecessor to France's most popular modern newspaper, Le Monde ?
Did you know that Hebron , now a ghost town in Utah , was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902?
Did you know that child actor Robbie Kay made his acting debut in the 2006 film The Illusionist , but was eventually cut from the film?
Did you know that when Typhoon Olive struck Wake Island in 1952, World War II bunkers provided shelters for 700 people, resulting in zero fatalities despite the destruction of 85% of the island's structures?
Did you know that Czech – Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter , chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?
Did you know that the Indiana County Courthouse was featured with Indiana, Pennsylvania -native Jimmy Stewart on the cover of LIFE in 1945?
Did you know that a cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir , South Yorkshire , England , after climbing its staircase?
Did you know that Reedville Creek Park had the first skatepark in a Hillsboro, Oregon , park when it opened in 2003?
Did you know that at the Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy , Nazi eugenicist Wilhelm Frick claimed that up to 20% of the German population had genetic disorders ?
Did you know that Confederate forces won the last battle at the end of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey , the founder of Blue Mountain College , died at age 56 while buying a train ticket?
Did you know that archaeologists have discovered in Sagardighi , West Bengal , small Stone Age weapons not normally found in the Gangetic alluvial plains ?
Did you know that Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York 's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Harald Strøm 's speed skating World Record in 5,000 metres set at Oslo 's Frogner Stadion in 1922 lasted seven years?
Did you know that it took 66 years for an arrowhead found near the Boaz mastodon to be positively identified?
Did you know that in spite of years of development no one was able to get a Chromatron color television set to work properly, prompting Sony to develop the famed Trinitron ?
Did you know that publicist Joe Goldstein generated media buzz for the first International Trot harness racing event at Roosevelt Raceway by placing ads that read "French Trotter Needs Artichokes. Can You Help?"
Did you know that Battle of Britain pilot Paul Egger was later awarded the Knight's Cross as a Tiger tank commander in the Waffen-SS ?
Did you know that Cambodia 's Mongkol Borei District was part of Thailand until the French demanded it back in 1907?
Did you know that Paul Kodish , best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum , performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini ?
Did you know that nearly half the area of Estonia 's 342 km 2 (132 sq mi) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone?
Did you know that the John Cassavetes film Husbands , praised by Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael and other prominent critics?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin personally rewrote Falsifiers of History to respond to U.S.-released information about the German–Soviet Axis talks ?
Did you know that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?
Did you know that Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan , Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range , and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
Did you know that there were almost 50,000 women serving in the Australian military in 1944?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Shaoyang often pillaged the tea -growing hills of neighboring Shou Prefecture ?
Did you know that Stanford Financial Group , whose assets were frozen in 2009 due to charges of investment fraud , was the lead financier of the 2007 film The Ultimate Gift ?
Did you know that Althea Byfield played collegiate basketball in the United States, is signed to play semi-professional netball in New Zealand, and has represented Jamaica internationally in both sports?
Did you know that paleolithic implements and a variety of speleothems have been found in the Borra Caves located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh ?
Did you know that Leif Tronstad , who helped establish the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork , organized a sabotage mission against it later?
Did you know that two members of the $100,000 infield have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the tanker ship CHANT 26 ended up discharging her cargo in a French field during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Sir Roger Hetherington was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1944 after the death of the president-elect, the second successive year this had happened?
Did you know that in the 2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum , 97.1% of those who voted approved the constitution of Somaliland ?
Did you know that William Prowse joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman , saw action at the Glorious First of June , Cape St Vincent , Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar , and died a Rear-Admiral ?
Did you know that AAA 's first Triplemanía event in 1993 attracted 48,000 people, setting the all-time attendance record for a Mexican professional wrestling event?
Did you know that Kjell Magne Yri , a linguist at the University of Oslo , began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia ?
Did you know that despite support from Margaret Thatcher , the 1988 National Health Service Lottery was cancelled for contravening gaming regulations?
Did you know that Mel Wakabayashi , born in a wartime Japanese-Canadian internment camp , was called "perhaps the most unlikely star in the long history of Michigan sports, and surely one of the most inspirational"?
Did you know that the skating club Christiania Skøiteklub had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city Christiania had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?
Did you know that Avadhanum Paupiah , Indian dubash of the British East India Company was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?
Did you know that the syndicated TV series Sheriff of Cochise was created by co-star Stan Jones , best known for the Western song " Ghost Riders in the Sky "?
Did you know that Mayotte situated in the Indian Ocean , Kosovo and Montenegro in the Balkans , and Saint Pierre and Miquelon , off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada , have adopted the euro as their national currency?
Did you know that welterweight mixed martial arts fighter Satoru Kitaoka cut down to lightweight in 2008 and captured the Sengoku Lightweight Championship ?
Did you know that the Walter Hand House , in Cornwall, New York , was built in 1870 to serve as both a farmhouse and a tourist boarding house ?
Did you know that the largest shale oil plant in the world uses the Fushun process technology?
Did you know that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War , when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing?
Did you know that Romania 's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
Did you know that John Bell , New Hampshire 's 18th governor , was both the brother of 14th governor Samuel Bell and the father of 46th governor Charles Henry Bell ?
Did you know that the Crusader was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II ?
Did you know that the Bay Area Puma Project is the first major study of mountain lions living in the San Francisco Bay Area ?
Did you know that though trained as a nuclear physicist , Peer Portner created the ventricular assist device , a pump that assists a patient's heart until a heart transplant can be performed?
Did you know that Wales Triple Crown winner Norman Biggs was killed after being struck by a poison arrow while on military duty in Northern Nigeria ?
Did you know that prior to the 1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake , earthquake lights were sighted?
Did you know that Flying Officer (later Air Commodore ) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF when it was formed in 1921?
Did you know that though fruiting as a typical " little brown mushroom ", Inocybe lacera is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive spores ?
Did you know that Hungarian István Major held the high jump record at the European Indoor Championships from 1972 to 1977?
Did you know that five UH-1 Iroquois helicopters of the Experimental Military Unit were shot down by a single Viet Cong soldier armed with an AK-47 rifle?
Did you know that Humphrey Stafford was only Earl of Devon for three months before being killed by a mob?
Did you know that the pre-Columbian Zapotec storm god Cocijo was said to have created the world from his breath?
Did you know that, although it is traditionally classified as a transition metal ,  in forming compounds the element zinc has similarities to the alkaline earth metals ?
Did you know that John Biehl , a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize ?
Did you know that the Grenville Canal on the Ottawa River in Grenville, Quebec , Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that Jens-Anton Poulsson was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his actions in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage ?
Did you know that following a number of recent banking controversies , Irish ruling party Fianna Fáil was overtaken in opinion polls by the country's Labour Party for the first time in history?
Did you know that when Gordon Wilkie and his Michigan Wolverines teammates scored 21 points in a single ice hockey game against Ohio State University , their coach threatened to bench anyone else who scored ?
Did you know that some living people claim to have traced their genealogy back to Adam and Eve ?