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Did you know that Scotsman Adam Menelaws became the de facto leading architect of the Russian Empire when he was around seventy years old?
Did you know that Clärenore Stinnes was the first person to circumnavigate the world by automobile in an Adler Standard 6 ?
Did you know that the California Milk Processor Board spent US$ 1.5 million in 2002 to popularize the Latin American drink licuado as a way to promote milk consumption ?
Did you know that an outer jacket, magoja was introduced to Korea after the king's father, Heungseon Daewongun , returned from Manchuria in 1887?
Did you know that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction?
Did you know that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky 's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant 's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith ?
Did you know that India 's Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar was the first President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council ?
Did you know that the LAPD Air Support Division in Los Angeles is the nation's largest municipal airborne law enforcement organization?
Did you know that after his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , tributes to Allan Rosenfield included a song dedication by Bono at a U2 concert?
Did you know that in his 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows , Junichirō Tanizaki includes monastery toilets in his reflections on Japanese aesthetics ?
Did you know that in 1917, baseball managers John McGraw and Christy Mathewson were arrested after a game for playing on Sunday ?
Did you know that the Egyptian Communist Organisation was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning apricot in Arabic ?
Did you know that the Wishram Indian Village Site is believed to have been occupied for at least 10,000 years?
Did you know that the book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control was runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award?
Did you know that the Observer Group was the first joint- United States Army / Marine unit to be organized and trained specifically for amphibious reconnaissance ?
Did you know that for building a giant reservoir , King Mahasen , who ruled Sri Lanka from AD 275 to 301, was declared a God by his subjects?
Did you know that Paducah, Kentucky 's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander , and was built by an English immigrant from Boston ?
Did you know that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford ?
Did you know that the state of Wisconsin proposed the route of Wisconsin Highway 57 as an Interstate Highway corridor in the 1950s?
Did you know that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue ?
Did you know that James Wandin , the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club , was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people?
Did you know that Symantec was originally founded by Gary Hendrix to focus on AI-related projects such as natural language processing ?
Did you know that the Valencian regional parliament , the Corts Valencianes , has its origins in assemblies established in the thirteenth century by King James I of Aragon ?
Did you know that Byron recorded seeing the " tigers sup" at the Exeter Exchange menagerie in central London owned by Edward Cross ?
Did you know that the Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth , one of the oldest youth film festivals, included over 500 films from 52 countries in 2008?
Did you know that in 2004, The Hershey Company released three flavors of a new product called Snack Barz ?
Did you know that the 1919 Ihlen Declaration , made by Norwegian Foreign Minister Nils Claus Ihlen on the subject of Greenland 's sovereignty, led to an international court case?
Did you know that Estelle Reiner ′s deadpan line —"I'll have what she's having" —after Meg Ryan 's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally , was ranked by the AFI as one of the best ever movie quotes?
Did you know that Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko , the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia , is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag?
Did you know that the 1925 Irish Senate election required a change in the law governing the layout of the ballot , to allow all 76 candidates to be listed?
Did you know that Lt. Henry B. Hidden is believed to be first officer of Union volunteer cavalry killed in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales , was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Xiao Fu refused to placate the chancellor Wang Jin by offering Wang ancestral property that Wang wanted?
Did you know that the entrance to Kaipara Harbour has treacherous sandbars known as "the graveyard", which are responsible for more shipwrecks than any other place in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Terence Fox was made the first Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge despite never having published a research paper?
Did you know that Ōe Taku , after spending 12 years in prison for treason , was elected to the lower house in the Diet of Japan in 1890?
Did you know that the 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is in its first season off of scholarship probation following the University of Michigan basketball scandal ?
Did you know that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive ?
Did you know that in geometric group theory , a Dehn function is an optimal function associated to a finite group presentation which estimates the area of a relation in that group in terms of its length?
Did you know that Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens , the son of novelist Charles Dickens , died in New York in 1912 while on a lecture tour celebrating the centenary of his father's birth?
Did you know that many Norwegian political parties opposed the establishment of a State Secretary , only to expand that institution when in power?
Did you know that until his death in 1927, James C. Donnell was the last man to call John D. Rockefeller simply "John"?
Did you know that the controversial Scout Moor Wind Farm , which opened in September 2008, is presently the largest onshore wind farm in England ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Jiang Gongfu was removed from office when he opposed Emperor Dezong 's wish to build a pagoda in mourning his daughter Princess Tang'an?
Did you know that Camp Beauregard , an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky , was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia ?
Did you know that in 1999, the government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate Madras politician P. Kakkan ?
Did you know that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan , Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome?
Did you know that Richard Petty and his crew chief Dale Inman presented the first artifact to the NASCAR Hall of Fame , the car that Petty drove to a record 27 victories in 1967?
Did you know that the Shinbashi Enbujō in Ginza , Japan , today a major kabuki theatre, was originally built to serve as a venue for geisha dances?
Did you know that the 20 deaths in the Donora Smog of 1948 , called one of the worst air pollution disasters in American history , have been credited with leading to passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1970?
Did you know that the Moon of Baroda , a 24.04- carat diamond , was worn by actress Marilyn Monroe and Empress Marie Therese of Austria ?
Did you know that the Wooldridge Monuments have been dubbed "The Strange Procession Which Never Moves"?
Did you know that Kukkarahalli lake adjoining the University of Mysore , was created in 1864 during Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar 's rule of the Kingdom of Mysore , to provide water for irrigation ?
Did you know that Judith Wachs , who spent 30 years with her Sephardic music group Voice of the Turtle , first turned to music when she filled in for her husband who signed up for recorder lessons but could not attend?
Did you know that Bruce McLaren Motor Racing 's first use of the color now known as "McLaren Orange" was on their McLaren M6As , which won the 1967 Can-Am Challenge Cup ?
Did you know that the hen Matilda lived to age 16 and became the world's oldest chicken in 2004, never laying any eggs?
Did you know that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions ?
Did you know that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes ?
Did you know that no multicellular organisms have ever evolved wheels or similar propulsion methods , although the Pleuroptya ruralis caterpillar can roll and a species of mantis shrimp performs somersaults?
Did you know that the Polish Righteous among the Nations , Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek , rescued families of 18 Jews during the Holocaust on their farm in Ceranów ?
Did you know that Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki attributed his phobia of earthquakes to the collapse of his family house in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake ?
Did you know that Akkamma Cherian , an Indian freedom fighter , was popularly known as the " Jhansi Rani of Travancore ?"
Did you know that redistributive change is a theory of economic justice that promotes the recognition of poverty as a suspect classification under U.S. law ?
Did you know that Cavallo's multiplier was an 18th-century electrostatic influence machine used to amplify electric charge ?
Did you know that Floyd Rayford was the baseball player that Cal Ripken, Jr. replaced in the starting lineup to begin his streak of 2,632 consecutive games played ?
Did you know that the Apostlebird of inland Australia is so named after the Twelve Apostles as it was seen to travel in groups of twelve?
Did you know that " Guan ju ", one of the oldest poems in Chinese literature , was praised by Confucius for its restrained emotions?
Did you know that Mayor of New York City John Lindsay was said to have been so angered by Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times that he broke his telephone after slamming down the receiver?
Did you know that the pilot edition of the BBC Radio 7 comedy A Series of Psychotic Episodes was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award ?
Did you know that at Washington State University from 1948 to 1950, Bob Gambold was the quarterback of the school's football team and the starting forward for its basketball team during all three of those years?
Did you know that after retiring from the stage opera singer Emma Carelli managed the Rome Opera House for almost 15 years?
Did you know that Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period ?
Did you know that the award nominated film Lonesome Jim had a last minute budget cut from US$ 3 million down to US$500,000 and had to be shot in only 17 days?
Did you know that Microsoft made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased digital marketing company aQuantive for over US$6 billion?
Did you know that Minneapolis hip hop duo Ill Chemistry performed live as part of a Minnesota Ballet production?
Did you know that biologist J. B. S. Haldane replied " Precambrian rabbits " when asked what would destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution ?
Did you know that Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon 's 1965 play The Odd Couple ?
Did you know that Fort Pearce , a former defensive facility in Point Nepean , Victoria , Australia , was active during World War I but never fired its guns in anger?
Did you know that S&H Green Stamps , co-founded by Thomas Sperry , produced more trading stamps in some years than stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service ?
Did you know that five of the video games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game are adaptations of animated films?
Did you know that Mark Rubin , a safety for the Penn State Nittany Lions , defeated Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in swimming while in high school?
Did you know that during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project ?
Did you know that Sunday Island in Victoria, Australia is a private game reserve surrounded by a marine park?
Did you know that the Frank Lloyd Wright -inspired Massaro House has an 18-foot (5.5 m)-high living area illuminated by 26 triangular skylights?
Did you know that in 1844 Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent , the first Indian -owned newspaper in Madras Presidency ?
Did you know that Father Nelson Baker , founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York , is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava ?
Did you know that the fishing industry in New Zealand works an exclusive economic zone fourteen times larger than the land area of New Zealand itself?
Did you know that the Black-throated Finch has a black-rumped and a white-rumped subspecies?
Did you know that Larry McCall was released by the Baltimore Orioles and was signed with the New York Yankees as a free agent both on the same day?
Did you know that two white supremacists allegedly plotted to assassinate Senator Barack Obama as part of a supposed plan to murder more than 100 African Americans in Tennessee ?
Did you know that Nike Flywire uses Vectran fibers to reduce the weight of shoes used in athletics , basketball , badminton , and tennis by as much as 50%?
Did you know that Yunus-bek Yevkurov , the current president of Ingushetia , is a recipient of the Hero of Russia award, the country's highest honourary title ?
Did you know that the double balcony of Proctor's Theater in Troy, New York , made it ideal for showing motion pictures when that medium became popular in the 1920s?
Did you know that India 's Mafia Raj , or "mafia regime," first emerged around the state-owned coal mines of Jharkhand ?
Did you know that David W. Mullins Jr. abruptly resigned in 1994 as vice-chairman of the United States Federal Reserve to join a "dream team" of financial engineers at the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management ?
Did you know that in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told , California 's Death Valley was used as the setting of Jesus ' 40-day journey into the wilderness?
Did you know that the Guatemalan Black Howler and Mantled Howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala ?
Did you know that when Adobe Systems acquired the company Scene7 in May 2007, its CEO, Doug Mack, became vice president of the Creative Solutions Services division at Adobe?
Did you know that Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Kirk DeMicco , writer-director of the 2008 animated film Space Chimps , conceived of the film after hearing a line from Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff ?
Did you know that the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3,800-kilometre (2,400 mi) of canals and 2,900-kilometre (1,800 mi) rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe ?
Did you know that soprano Meagan Miller , accustomed to wearing US$10,000 gowns on stage in her opera performances, chose to wear her mother's simple gown for her summer 2008 wedding?
Did you know that three roads in Guide Board Corners, New York were damaged and closed by Hurricane Agnes ?
Did you know that punch bowls were occasionally used as baptismal fonts in dissenting families ?
Did you know that E. Roger Muir , creator and producer of The Howdy Doody Show , suggested that the title puppet run for "President of the Boys and Girls" in the 1948 U.S. presidential election ?
Did you know that the Chengziya Archaeological Site in China is thought to be the largest prehistoric settlement found to date?
Did you know that out of the ten players that attended Morehead State University who eventually played in Major League Baseball , Ron Klimkowski was the only one who attended the college for only one year?
Did you know that two members of the French band Zebda ran for political office in Toulouse during the 2001 municipal elections , and won 12.38 percent of the vote?
Did you know that magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Fairchild Publications for US$ 650 million?
Did you know that computer software company Red Hat made its largest acquisition ever when it acquired free software support company Cygnus Solutions for US$ 674 million?
Did you know that the African and Malagasy Union was a former intergovernmental organization created to promote cooperation among African states, but went defunct in 1985?
Did you know that M-68 was a discontinuous state trunkline highway in Northern Michigan between 1940 and 1946?
Did you know that Jean Robic , winner of the 1947 Tour de France , was so light that at mountain summits he was handed lead and mercury -ballasted drinking bottles for gravity-assisted descents?
Did you know that the connective tissue disorder gerodermia osteodysplastica is also known as "Walt Disney dwarfism" because the first known patients were described as resembling " dwarves from a Walt Disney film "?
Did you know that Milton Hebald 's 1960 sculpture depicted the 12 signs of the zodiac on the Pan Am Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport ?
Did you know that David Wagner was the number-one ranked quadriplegic wheelchair tennis player in both singles and doubles in 2007?
Did you know that technology company Dell made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased EqualLogic , a storage device manufacturer, for US$ 1.4 billion in January 2008?
Did you know that Bob McDonald , a Canadian Football League player who survived polio , was elected to the 25th Canadian Parliament at age 25?
Did you know that the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico , dedicated to the god of pulque , an alcoholic beverage , attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala ?
Did you know that a friction hoist can require up to 30 percent less motor power than a drum hoist for a given application?
Did you know that The Outsiders , a novel written by S.E. Hinton , has sold over 14 million copies since it was published in 1967?
Did you know that when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Yi signed a peace treaty with Tufan , he made an offering of goats instead of the customary cattle and horses because he was embarrassed to be dealing with "barbarians"?
Did you know that basketball player Jojo Duncil was prevented from playing for the UST Growling Tigers in his final year of eligibility when a birth certificate stated that he was overage?
Did you know that the Japanese novel Kanikōsen is one of the best-selling books of 2008, despite being published in 1929?
Did you know that Thomas Gold Appleton , the brother-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as "the Boston wit", is reported to have said as he was dying, "It will be a new experience"?
Did you know that the Export Control Act of 1940 ceased the exportation of military equipment to pre- WWII Japan which pushed the United States and Japan closer to war?
Did you know that On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival , where it was screened in 2004?
Did you know that The Edgewater , an over-water hotel on Seattle 's Central Waterfront , used to advertise that you could "fish from your room"?
Did you know that actress Dina Cocea was known in Romania as the "Queen of the Theater" and received the country's highest civil award, the Order of the Star of Romania ?
Did you know that Bernard Sainz , known as "Dr Mabuse" because of his success in horse racing and cycling , was jailed for three years for administering doping products?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy 's SC-21 program to rethink warship design led to the " tumblehome " hull of the Zumwalt class destroyer ?
Did you know that Wales rugby international and Welsh Rugby Union Secretary Bill Clement was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in World War II ?
Did you know that Hanwei Group is the biggest producer of eggs in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that five individual career records were set during the 2008 season of Canadian university football ?
Did you know that " Milk and Alcohol " ranked on Britain 's top-10 hit singles chart in 1979 and was the biggest hit for the band Dr. Feelgood ?
Did you know that the Saint John River is one of six major rivers in Liberia ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher Phil Niekro had no wins and six losses in eight Opening Day starts for the Atlanta Braves ?
Did you know that at the time he was appointed Governor of Arizona Territory , C. Meyer Zulick was a prisoner in Mexico ?
Did you know that the Welsh village name Ynysddu means "black island", although the village is not located on an island?
Did you know that the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa 's third-largest Chinese population ?
Did you know that while enrollment at U.S. tribal colleges and universities has increased significantly since 1982, California 's only tribal college, D-Q University , had just six students in 2006?
Did you know that HMS Braak was seized and brought into the Royal Navy when the former Dutch ship anchored in Falmouth , unaware that the Dutch had gone to war with Britain ?
Did you know that the 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery was a "publishing phenomenon" in Europe ?
Did you know that Hall of Famer Mel Ott made his final appearance as a Major League Baseball player pinch hitting for Ken Trinkle ?
Did you know that five historic districts in downtown Troy, New York were merged in 1986 to create the Central Troy Historic District ?
Did you know that Wales rugby international Harry Payne finished his playing career after breaking his ankle in a match, at the age of 84?
Did you know that the musical Conversation Piece by Noel Coward starred a French actress, Yvonne Printemps , who spoke no English?
Did you know that former child actor Roger Mobley served as a Green Beret in the Vietnam War and is now a Christian pastor in Texas ?
Did you know that Tiger's Whip , a piece of installation art by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu , highlights how the tiger is being hunted for its penis?
Did you know that Norwegian industrial company Denofa used whale oil as a basis for refinement before the use of soy became common?
Did you know that the Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument , which honors Smith and the 10th Mississippi Infantry , is believed to be the second-biggest single-stone monument in the United States ?
Did you know that IMS Associates, Inc. became one of the earliest successful personal computing companies, before going bankrupt in 1979 after just six years?
Did you know that the recent persecution of albinos in Tanzania and Burundi is based on the belief that their body parts have magical power and impart prosperity ?
Did you know that for a short time in the late 1940s, it was planned that USS Hawaii (CB-3) would be the U.S. Navy 's first guided missile cruiser ?
Did you know that Polish composer Rafał Augustyn ′s Symphony of Hymns took twenty years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes and requires an orchestra of over 170 players?
Did you know that the Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan 's diamond district , with its iconic Wise Men Fish Here sign, was frequented by distinguished authors such as Henry Miller and Allen Ginsberg ?
Did you know that Italian tennis player Federico Luzzi was prohibited from wearing a shirt with a Playboy bunny logo while competing at the 2007 U.S. Open tournament?