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Did you know that Zamosc Fortress , one of the biggest fortresses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , was besieged six times by various armies?
Did you know that in July 1530, Clan Forbes attacked Aberdeen ?
Did you know the Cape Spinytail iguana coexists with the giant San Esteban Chuckwalla on San Esteban Island contrary to predictions of ecological niche theory?
Did you know that Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old Encino Oak Tree , a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an El Niño storm in 1998?
Did you know that there are currently over 1,000 more international chess tournaments per year than there were in 1951?
Did you know that " Back 2 You / Still Grey " was simultaneously the first single by drum and bass band Pendulum to feature either a guest vocalist , or a guest instrumentalist ?
Did you know that in addition to being a government aide during the Vietnam Conflict , Michael Forrestal was also a mediator in international disputes between the USSR and the US?
Did you know that the album title Ordinary Dreamers is about doing extraordinary things with a "dreamer mentality" as an ordinary person?
Did you know that two summits of Potter Fell in the Lake District are mentioned in Alfred Wainwright 's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland ?
Did you know that musician Bruce Conforth was the first curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio ?
Did you know that the Church of Our Lady of Light in Chennai , India was built in 1516 by Portuguese missionaries?
Did you know that Dutch Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize -winning physicist?
Did you know that Bangladesh Police plan to recruit 3,000 women to expand the newly-created Special Women Police Contingent across Bangladesh ?
Did you know that as a result of Janina San Miguel 's response to a question in the 2008 Binibining Pilipinas World pageant, the Philippine government proposed English courses for beauty pageant contestants?
Did you know that the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment , later celebrated for showing that DNA is the genetic material , challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of protein ?
Did you know that in 1992, when Oddny Aleksandersen was appointed Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour , no male had yet held this position?
Did you know that the recent series of " I'm a PC " advertisements for Microsoft 's Windows Vista operating system were created using Apple Macintosh computers?
Did you know that Steve Souchock was possibly going to be first baseman for the New York Yankees , but instead served military service during World War II , eventually earning five battle stars and one Bronze Star ?
Did you know that the opera Les vêpres siciliennes (1885) by Giuseppe Verdi was based in part on the medieval Sicilian tract Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia (1290)?
Did you know that American Australian astronomer Penny Sackett has been appointed as the next Chief Scientist of Australia and will commence her duties in November 2008?
Did you know that the press box at the University of Wyoming is named for Larry Birleffi , who announced all Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball games from 1947–1986?
Did you know that former Chief Justice of Queensland Neal Macrossan 's brother and nephew were also Chief Justice as well?
Did you know that The Independent Journal , a New York newspaper and journal edited and published by John McLean , was the first newspaper to publish the first of the eighty-five Federalist Papers ?
Did you know that Roger Vanderfield , an Australian doctor, rugby union referee and administrator, was instrumental in establishing the first Rugby World Cup ?
Did you know that after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War , English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom?
Did you know that, during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike , umpire Larry Young refereed a match at WrestleMania XI ?
Did you know that San Marino debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with " Complice ", a song performed by Miodio ?
Did you know that Swedish-American ornithologist Thure Kumlien was probably poisoned by preservatives used on bird specimens sent to him?
Did you know that publisher Irvin J. Borowsky created TV Digest , America's first television program listing, which was sold to Walter Annenberg and became part of TV Guide ?
Did you know that the HMS Inconstant , a Royal Navy frigate , captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars ?
Did you know that Bob Miller lost his first 12 games with the 1962 New York Mets and played for 10 different teams in his Major League Baseball career, tying modern-day records for both that have since been broken?
Did you know that painter Karp Zolotaryov created a handmade Zodiac calendar for teaching then-seven-year-old Peter I of Russia ?
Did you know that Christopher Munch had to shoot his film The Sleepy Time Gal over an extended two-and-a-half year period due to a lack of finances?
Did you know that Nils Claus Ihlen served as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs for seven years, but as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for only seven days?
Did you know that the Bangladesh Police inherits much of its structure from the police of British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions ?
Did you know that the Umikaze class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the first large destroyers designed for open ocean service to be built in Japan ?
Did you know that John T. David , a small-town Louisiana mayor , was elected to his parish governing council in 1956, less than a year after resigning as mayor because of two bootlegging convictions?
Did you know that William T. Kane , a physicist with Corning Incorporated , held three patents in crystallography important to the development of fiber optics ?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of Cocos (Keeling) Island once administered laws described as "Byzantine" in complexity?
Did you know that Artus de Lionne , who went to China for missionary work in 1689, played a role against Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy ?
Did you know that the ballad Mulga Bill's Bicycle by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson was inspired by an outback worker who purchased a bicycle when drought meant there was no feed for horses?
Did you know that Don Ultang co-won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for images of the Johnny Bright Incident , showing a violent hit by an Oklahoma A&M player on Drake University 's Johnny Bright that broke Bright's jaw?
Did you know that Dravidian parties rose to power in Tamil Nadu after the 1967 general election in India , in which they won all the seats they competed for?
Did you know that the Stockbridge Militia was the first Native American unit in the Continental Army ?
Did you know that an island purchased by Lloyd Mathews for use as a prison is now a conservation area for giant tortoises ?
Did you know that the television broadcast of the 2000 Sugar Bowl was watched by an estimated 18.4 million people?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Zhongchen , whose emperor-bestowed name meant "faithful subject," later betrayed Emperor Dezong of Tang and served the rebel Zhu Ci ?
Did you know that the gilt-copper Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai is considered the most sumptuous surviving mid-13th century reliquary ?
Did you know that The New York Times published an article mentioning that MLB player Jeff Johnson had been bothered because of rumors he had heard about the New York Yankees pursuing different pitchers ?
Did you know that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center in Los Angeles incorporates swastikas in its architecture?
Did you know that the trouvère Andrieu Contredit d'Arras joined a Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel ?
Did you know that the BTR-90 , an armoured personnel carrier in service with Russian Internal Troops , is fitted with a gun turret identical to the one used on the BMP-2 ?
Did you know that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen ?
Did you know that the Niue Star , founded in 1993, is Niue 's only printed newspaper ?
Did you know that the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series in just their fourth season of Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that MS European Stars , built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?
Did you know that Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. was one of the foremost authorities in early telephone engineering , and received the IEEE Edison Medal for his work on electrical communication?
Did you know that during World War II , the SS -run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the " Bastille of Greece "?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Tian Yue was, along with his mother, wife, and children, killed by his cousin Tian Xu, who then took over the circuit that he governed?
Did you know that the original of the 1812 painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin was only recently discovered in Sweden and acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1983?
Did you know that Henry Jolles , who had played Schubert 's complete piano music in Heidelberg in 1928, escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by fleeing from France to Brazil with the assistance of American Varian Fry ?
Did you know that the construction of the Storm King Highway took 22 miles (35 km) off the drive between Newburgh and West Point, New York , two cities only 10 miles (16 km) apart?
Did you know that Imperial Japanese Army general Takaji Wachi attempted to create a collaborationist state in Guangxi , China in the mid 1930s?
Did you know that the book Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers was written by a former commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis Police Department ?
Did you know that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in Vienna , organized by the Socialist Workers' Sport International , was larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in number of participants and spectators?
Did you know that while growing up in Kentucky , aerobatics pilot Gene Soucy would wash and refuel airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time?
Did you know that Mary Shelley 's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley 's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley , refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
Did you know that Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo 's plays have been produced over 2,000 times?
Did you know that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower 's confrontations with his ideological enemies?
Did you know that boy soprano Andrew Johnston 's debut album, One Voice , features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith ?
Did you know that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California 's 12th district , but died suddenly during the campaign?
Did you know that former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives ?
Did you know that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor ?
Did you know that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company ?
Did you know that the ruined Saxon St Peter's Church, West Blatchington was used as a henhouse for many years before being restored in the 19th century?
Did you know that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude 's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
Did you know that canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley , the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution ?
Did you know that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona ?
Did you know that deadpan comedian Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube 's all time most subscribed in 2008?
Did you know that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland ?
Did you know that art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art ?
Did you know that Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School provided one of the two opening theme tunes for the first season of the D.Gray-man anime ?
Did you know that Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died?
Did you know the loading coil saved AT&T an estimated US$100 million in the first quarter of the 20th century but Oliver Heaviside was paid nothing for the idea?
Did you know that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic , Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug ?
Did you know that British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament , but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
Did you know that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg ?
Did you know that " The Nose " is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
Did you know that Eero Saarinen 's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?
Did you know that Jacopo I da Carrara , signore of Padua , Italy , voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala ?
Did you know that ticket scalpers were arrested prior to the 2008 UAAP men's basketball finals for reselling tickets at exorbitant prices?
Did you know that the Bandra Fair in Mumbai , India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea ?
Did you know that American film producer Sandy Stern 's producing partner is R.E.M. 's lead singer Michael Stipe ?
Did you know that Loughborough University 's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?
Did you know that the 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender?
Did you know that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss , a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics , helped to popularize the term " genetic engineering "?
Did you know that the September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus ?
Did you know that Henry Bohlen , an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?
Did you know that the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada " by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ?
Did you know that Sadamu Shimomura , the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army , was appointed after the surrender of Japan ?
Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team holds NCAA records for both bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively?
Did you know that although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems?
Did you know that computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets ?
Did you know that conductor gallop , the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines , is also known as "dancing"?
Did you know that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
Did you know that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?
Did you know that Sir Michael Seymour was appointed to command HMS Niemen in September 1809, a ship he had captured from the French that April?
Did you know that at the funeral of Sir Anthony Browne , friends were given mourning rings engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?
Did you know that M3 Amphibious Rig , a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?
Did you know that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley , cousin of Stephen F. Austin ?
Did you know the San Esteban Chuckwalla can exceed two feet (61 cm) in length, making it the largest member of its genus, and a textbook example of insular gigantism ?
Did you know that Warren A. Morton , a Speaker of the Wyoming House , was the father of a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the son-in-law of a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven , an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord ?
Did you know that Charlie Hillard was the first American to win the World Aerobatics Championship?
Did you know that Springfield Armory, Inc. assisted Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in making the United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle by supplying the needed machinery to make it?
Did you know that according to Hansard , Northern Irish boxer Paddy Maguire once sparred with Conservative politician Colin Moynihan in a London pub?
Did you know that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia ?
Did you know that Slovenian biologist Ivan Regen is considered the founder of modern bioacoustics due to his work on cricket and katydid acoustic communication?
Did you know that in Mexico City 's Zócalo , 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick ?
Did you know that many of the pieces of the anthology Suspiria de Profundis were lost before publication, as its author Thomas de Quincey may have accidentally set them on fire?
Did you know that after living in the U.S. for 50 years, painter Kazys Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 at the age of 81?
Did you know that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog ?
Did you know that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains ?
Did you know that Gliricidia sepium is used as firewood , live fencing , fodder , coffee shade, green manure and rat poison ?
Did you know that Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins?
Did you know that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel ?
Did you know that A.U. Fuimaono was the first Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paolo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
Did you know that in August 1936, the Matson Navigation Company cargo ship SS Mauna Loa came to the aid of a windjammer that was crewed by Sea Scouts and had been missing for two weeks?
Did you know that Nora Kimball co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon 's Made in U.S.A. ?
Did you know that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?
Did you know that the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law was named after its founder Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and his father Sir Hersch Lauterpacht ?
Did you know that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath 's album What If We ?
Did you know that following the purchase of British Energy by Electricité de France , plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
Did you know that on April 17, 1964 , Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Met player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium ?
Did you know that the Oxford Music Hall , opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?
Did you know that Prussian -born American surveyor and city planner Julius Pitzman was directly responsible for the development of the private place in St. Louis, Missouri around the turn of the 20th century?
Did you know that Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption in the government?
Did you know that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi ?
Did you know that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game ?
Did you know that the song " Another Planet " by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne 's musical version of The War of the Worlds ?
Did you know that, after the rebellious Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen , he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?
Did you know that Betty Furness , a Hollywood film actress turned consumer advocate , was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board ?
Did you know that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George , but this was stolen the following year?
Did you know that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine , the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel , were known as mopsim ?
Did you know that Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote ?
Did you know that Olympic distance runner Matt Centrowitz was the number one high school mile runner in America in 1973?
Did you know that Dustin the Turkey , a puppet , represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 ?
Did you know that Gary D. McCaleb , a former mayor of Abilene , once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?
Did you know that Supreme National Tribunal , a war crime tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948, presided over seven high-profile cases, including the First Auschwitz Trial ?
Did you know that Morris Sullivan 's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland , to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?
Did you know that the Red-backed Kingfisher nests in burrows in riverbanks but not near water?
Did you know that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?
Did you know that Richard Kessel , a consumer advocate who opposed the US$ 5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant , purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority ?
Did you know that Ayrlies Garden has been described as the "quintessential New Zealand garden"?
Did you know that in 2004 , Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?
Did you know that Dave Needham is only one of a few British boxers to have been both a BBBC bantamweight and featherweight champion?
Did you know that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth ?