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Did you know that the song " Qué Te Pasa ", performed by Mexican singer Yuri , became the longest running number-one single of the 1980s in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks ?
Did you know that due to rapids on the Rogue River , mules had to be used to transport mail to the post office at Illahe, Oregon ?
Did you know that Czech actress Olga Scheinpflugová suffered a heart attack directly on the stage, during her performance in the play Mother , written by her husband Karel Čapek ?
Did you know that Hughie Lehman , the Blackhawks third head coach , was hired after yelling at the first Chicago Blackhawks owner Frederic McLaughlin ?
Did you know that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media ' s films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards ?
Did you know that Zalman Shapiro , who received a 2009 patent for a method of diamond synthesis at age 89, was instrumental in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine , the Nautilus , launched in 1954?
Did you know that the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick , New York , served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952?
Did you know that the Tonkin commemorative medal was awarded to the French soldiers and sailors who participated in the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War , between 1883 and 1885?
Did you know that despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by Baseball America , American baseball pitcher Nick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses?
Did you know that the protagonist of the Japanese PlayStation 2 RPG Venus & Braves is a 345-year-old with the appearance of a teen
Did you know that Charles Perrault 's The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots existed in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript a full two years before its publication in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697?
Did you know that Canadian security guard Claude Brunelle, who was killed during the 1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa , was awarded the Star of Courage ?
Did you know that limbic resonance is a process of "internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other's inner states"?
Did you know that historian Philip D. Curtin challenged widely-used estimates that 20 million African slaves had crossed the Atlantic , estimating that 9.5 million had arrived in the Americas by 1870?
Did you know that the New York Yankees refused to allow its logo to appear in the Homicide: Life on the Street three-part episode " Blood Ties ", which featured a subplot involving a murderous Yankees fan?
Did you know that the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens took place in Scotland , the birthplace of the rugby sevens variant of rugby union ?
Did you know that Indian labour leader J. Hemachandran called for a ban on sales of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state of Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that Mincarlo is the last surviving sidewinder fishing trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet?
Did you know that Freeman Fitzgerald played football with Knute Rockne and once struck out 19 batters in a baseball game?
Did you know that the taillight shark has a gland on its belly that releases clouds of luminescent blue fluid?
Did you know that British civil engineer Thomas Page , who designed Westminster Bridge , suggested placing a submerged tube between England and France to be used as a tunnel?
Did you know that while in Boston in 1768, sailors and marines from HMS Romney tried to confiscate a merchant vessel belonging to John Hancock ?
Did you know that in the Scottish village of Badbea , livestock and children were tethered to prevent them being blown over the cliffs?
Did you know that when former New Jersey Senate President George H. Large died in 1939, he was the last surviving participant in the first college football game ever played ?
Did you know that the Norwegian band Superfamily consists of several academics, including lead singer Steven Wilson who holds a Ph.D in chemistry?
Did you know that in tropical cyclone naming , the name "Hazel" is the only name to be retired in both the Atlantic and in the East Pacific ?
Did you know that 51 composers wrote a total of 83 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli , which were published in 1823–24 as Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and included Beethoven's 33 Diabelli Variations ?
Did you know that the 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. dealt with the legal issues of broadcasting a human cannonball act without consent?
Did you know that the Feminist Improvising Group challenged the male-dominated musical improvisation scene in the late 1970s?
Did you know that Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that 461 Fifth Avenue is a post-modern skyscraper noted for its use of a pre-cast concrete finish to mimic the appearance of limestone ?
Did you know that baseball player Don Kelly was drafted by the Detroit Tigers , made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates , and later played his first game as a Tiger against the Pirates?
Did you know that Tamazight language cannot grammatically express an equivalent to the English phrase "who saw what?"
Did you know that Dan Povenmire was at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California , when he first drew the character Phineas Flynn ?
Did you know that the new Puzhal Central Prison is the largest prison in India and provides relatively more facilities to inmates?
Did you know that the 1963 Leopold Report was written in response to the controversial killing of an estimated 4,309 elk in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. National Park Service ?
Did you know that Wade Walker helped smuggle the 1963 Mississippi State basketball team out of the state to play a racially integrated opponent in violation of a court order ?
Did you know that Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work?
Did you know that John Houghtaling created the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, which reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s, earning US$ 2 million in gross revenue each month, 25 cents at a time?
Did you know that Leucopaxillus albissimus , one of the larger mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area , has a fruiting body unusually resistant to decay?
Did you know that Robert Despenser , a royal steward under King William II of England , derived his surname from his office which was also known as dispenser ?
Did you know that St. Paul's (Zion's) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Red Hook, New York , converted to Lutheranism from the German Reformed Church when they could not find a new pastor ?
Did you know that Polish philosopher Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski began as an advocate for restoring Poland's independence but ended as a high government official in Russian Poland —and an enemy of philosophy?
Did you know that Virginia Cavaliers halfback Eugene "Buck" Mayer became the first consensus first-team All-American from a Southern school in 1915?
Did you know that it has been argued that privity in English law is simply an element of consideration ?
Did you know that Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon ' s land claim was logged for firewood to be used in a foundry by the Oregon Iron Company , but is now the Tryon Creek State Natural Area ?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , the Third Tennessee regiment was sent to Camp Trousdale to help relieve disease, but its soldiers still suffered from epidemics?
Did you know that of the 68 track sprinters who have broken the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres , only Patrick Johnson is not of West African descent?
Did you know that following the 1995 Dayton Accords , it was suggested that Bosnian mujahideen commander Abdelkader Mokhtari had secured a cache of SA-7 missiles through his influence with the President?
Did you know that the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley was mined so intensely in the early 1900s that it has begun to collapse?
Did you know that Villy Christensen is a core developer of the ecosystem modelling software system Ecopath , which NOAA named as one of the ten biggest scientific breakthroughs in its history?
Did you know that according to rumour, an Englishman was murdered and a fire ruined Metcalfe 's testimonials during a Christmas Eve party in 1895 at the Metcalfe House in Delhi , India ?
Did you know that the developers of the simulation game PHM Pegasus consulted with the hydrofoil manufacturer Boeing Marine Systems to increase the realism of hydrofoils in their game?
Did you know that Dick King , who played in the early days of the NFL , was called "one of the greatest backs who ever wore moleskins"?
Did you know that Sir Frank Newsam took charge of the British recovery efforts after the North Sea flood of 1953 and "secured achievements that would have surprised Canute "?
Did you know that Ken Boyer and Clete Boyer are the only brothers both to have won Gold Glove Awards at third base ?
Did you know that Alphonso Boone , grandson of Daniel Boone , started a ferry in Oregon that ran from 1847 until 1954?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Peter's Church , Ardingly , West Sussex , one gravestone depicts angels watching a skeleton stabbing a woman with a lance ?
Did you know that while Justice Minister, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim lobbied for decriminalization of the use of marijuana ?
Did you know that Prince Carl Philip of Sweden is a licensed race driver currently driving for Flash Engineering in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia ?
Did you know that "The Great Gilroy" , the leading scorer in college football in 1916, was charged in 1940 with stealing 35 shoe stitching machines from a Massachusetts factory?
Did you know that a neutron monitor can only directly detect neutrons , but is used to indirectly detect cosmic rays , high-energy charged subatomic particles impacting the Earth's atmosphere from outer space ?
Did you know that Aine Lawlor presents Morning Ireland , Ireland 's most listened to radio programme ?
Did you know that John Watts de Peyster prevented the Tivoli, New York , village board from meeting in the firehouse he had built for them, because of a tax dispute?
Did you know that as a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films ?
Did you know that there are six nature reserves in Jordan ?
Did you know that after writing songs for Garth Brooks , Stephanie Davis joined Brooks' road band and recorded an album for Asylum Records ?
Did you know that the Cemetery of the Holy Rood has a privately funded area set aside for the burial of abandoned children?
Did you know that American business historian Thomas K. McCraw won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation ?
Did you know that country music singer-songwriter Roger Miller 's third studio album, The 3rd Time Around , was the only record of his career to top the Country Album charts ?
Did you know that Michael Annals designed the sets for productions of Macbeth in the Soviet Union and in Portugal ?
Did you know that the South Woods at Montgomery Place near Annandale-on-Hudson, New York , are the oldest oak forest in the Hudson Valley ?
Did you know that, because of a bout with mononucleosis , Dale Castro became a record-setting college football placekicker and consensus All-American ?
Did you know that before St Wilfrid's Church was built, Anglicans in Haywards Heath , West Sussex , had to worship in the loft of a carpenter's workshop?
Did you know that masked wrestler Ephesto is named after the Greek god Hephaestus ?
Did you know that Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini , whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues?
Did you know that an estimated 75% of examples of American cobblestone architecture can be found within 75 miles (121 km) of Rochester, New York ?
Did you know that the Pâquet family, which owned much of what is now Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site for over 150 years, has included local, provincial and federal politicians?
Did you know that the Yaocomico Native Americans traded the land that became St. Mary's City, Maryland to English settlers for tools and cloth?
Did you know that Albert Adu Boahen , an academic at the University of Ghana , challenged former head of state of Ghana Jerry Rawlings in the presidential election of 1992 ?
Did you know that the Lee Child novel The Visitor was published as Running Blind in the United States because the American publisher thought the original title sounded too much like a science-fiction novel?
Did you know that John Murray , presenter of Ireland 's most popular radio show , once worked as a deputy press secretary for the Irish government ?
Did you know that in 2009, the newly discovered ultramicrobacterial species Herminiimonas glaciei was isolated from 120,000-year-old glacial ice, 3,042 metres (1.89 mi) deep?
Did you know that Rommie Loudd was the first African American majority owner of a major league sports team?
Did you know that the 1923 Kraków riot resulted in over 30 fatalities and helped in the fall of the Chjeno-Piast government of Wincenty Witos ?
Did you know that U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy 's 1968 presidential campaign won the most Democratic primary votes but was denied the nomination at the party's 1968 National Convention ?
Did you know that Christian Rynning-Tønnesen accepted a CEO job offer of Agder Energi in 2006, but changed his mind shortly after when offered the same position in Norske Skog ?
Did you know that George Harrison included two versions of the song " Isn't It a Pity " on his All Things Must Pass album?
Did you know that the Village Diner in Red Hook was the first diner in New York to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Ole Mørk Sandvik was a founder and first president of the Norwegian Folk Music Research Association ?
Did you know that there are ninety-four federal district and territorial courts in the United States ?
Did you know that Irish journalist Mary Wilson received three out of five stars for her meal on reality television show The Restaurant ?
Did you know that Indonesia and Papua New Guinea share a 760-kilometre (470 mi) border that has raised tensions and ongoing diplomatic issues over many decades?
Did you know that Norwegian Liberal MP Hans Larsen Saakvitne was among the "Pure Liberals" who turned against the Liberal Prime Minister in 1888?
Did you know that Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was inspired by a 1980s cartoon which followed the attempts of Mr. T to coach an Olympic gymnastics youth team?
Did you know that Coronation Park was the site of the 1911 Delhi Durbar that marked the shifting of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi ?
Did you know that Jan and Anna Puchalski , Polish Righteous among the Nations , harbored six Jewish fugitives from the ghetto in Grodno , under their bedroom floor during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
Did you know that Ricardo Rangel co-founded Mozambique 's first full color magazine Tempo , as a voice of opposition to Portuguese colonial rule ?
Did you know that Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island 's nine salt ponds that receives significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
Did you know that the swellshark bends its body in a U-shape and sucks in water to double in size and avoid attacks from predators?
Did you know that while their old band was named after a Jack Kerouac novel , Harrys Gym took their name from an abandoned fitness center ?
Did you know that Pauline Rita played three roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Richard D'Oyly Carte , but left his company in 1878 never to return?
Did you know that Nobel Prize Economist Robert Lucas estimated that the welfare costs of the business cycle in terms of social welfare are negligible?
Did you know that Storebrand executive Gustav Aarestrup marked himself as an opponent of the Festning Tunnel and Fjellinjen ?
Did you know that Valley Entertainment acquired in 2001 the prestigious back catalogue of ambient music from Hearts of Space ?
Did you know that Marion West Higgins , the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly , was the daughter of Dr. James E. West , the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America ?
Did you know that the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame is home to the world's largest muskie sculpture?
Did you know that the FBI issued a 2002 terrorism alert after Michael John Hamdani invented a story about terrorists entering the United States as part of a plea bargain ?
Did you know that Realph Norland , father of Verdens Gang and Aftenposten chief editor Andreas Norland , was himself a newspaper editor for Tønsbergs Blad ?
Did you know that Gao Ling is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in badminton ?
Did you know that during the 2008 fall migration , over 10,000 hawks passed the observation point at Washington Valley Park , New Jersey ?
Did you know that the cardinals were not allowed to serve simultaneously as residential bishops until the pontificate of Alexander III ?
Did you know that Cathal Mac Coille ate breakfast with CNN broadcaster Larry King on Super Tuesday of 2008 ?
Did you know that in the 1625 Battle of Blavet , a French Huguenot fleet under Soubise captured a Royal fleet belonging to Louis XIII , triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion ?
Did you know that Bronisław Malinowski 's ethnography Coral Gardens and their Magic describes magic spells used in Trobriand agriculture as a pragmatic component of human behaviour?
Did you know that William F. Hyland , while serving as Attorney General of New Jersey , performed as a clarinetist with Benny Goodman and later became executor of his estate?
Did you know that Debo Hacerlo was the last album released by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel until 1994, due to a dispute with BMG over copyrights of his songs?
Did you know that Yale All-American Paul Veeder has been credited with throwing the "first forward pass in a major game"?
Did you know that the 1988 Polish strikes shook the country's Communist regime to such an extent that it was forced to begin considering recognition of Solidarity ?
Did you know that Norwegian philologist Konrad Nielsen , known for work on the Sami languages , was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ?
Did you know that the Capitulations of Santa Fe granted Christopher Columbus the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea , the Viceroy , the Governor-General and honorific Don ?
Did you know that Washington State Route 106 has been renumbered four times over a 49-year period from 1915 until 1964?
Did you know that both of the Kaiserliche Marine 's Odin -class coast defense ships were rebuilt as freighters after the end of World War I ?
Did you know that in 1947, University of Michigan basketball player Mack "Soup" Supronowicz was hailed as "the greatest cage prospect in college history"?
Did you know that Japanese pop rock singer Yui 's " Again " has the highest opening week sales for a female act in 2009?
Did you know that the Heinz Award , named in honor of the late United States Senator John Heinz , is worth $ 250,000?
Did you know that The Meaning of Life series featured filmmaker Neil Jordan 's account of having met his dead father on an aeroplane?
Did you know that at the age of seven, Zach Bonner founded the Little Red Wagon Foundation to aid the 1.3 million homeless children in the United States ?
Did you know that Plácido Polanco became the first Gold Glove winner at second base to post an errorless season in 2007 ?
Did you know that Thomas Bertie was one of three future admirals who served together on HMS Seahorse in 1773, the others being Horatio Nelson and Thomas Troubridge ?
Did you know that Cyclone Nancy of the 2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season was one of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands during the span of a month?
Did you know that journalist and novelist Gerd Grønvold Saue is also a former board member of the International Peace Bureau ?
Did you know that a critical bug in the PSP game Class of Heroes was found only days before manufacturing began?
Did you know that 77-year-old U.S. Representative Claude Pepper used his chairing of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Aging to highlight the falsehoods of age stereotyping ?
Did you know that Ho Chi Minh 's marriage to Tang Tuyet Minh has never been acknowledged by the government of Vietnam ?
Did you know that although the Siegfried -class coast defense ships were rendered obsolete by the 2nd Naval Law in 1908, they continued to serve in their intended roles until 1915?
Did you know that theoretical biologist Mary Jane West-Eberhard says that she learnt more about science at high school from her English course on critical reading and writing than from her biology class?
Did you know that Fun Little Movies is the first United States company to produce comedy films to play on mobile phones worldwide?
Did you know that John W. Wescott initially opposed Woodrow Wilson 's candidacy for Governor of New Jersey but later gave the nominating speech for Wilson at both the 1912 and 1916 Democratic National Conventions ?
Did you know that Constance Demby 's 1986 album Novus Magnificat helped build the reputation of Stephen Hill 's Hearts of Space Records ?
Did you know that when Indigenous Australian artist Makinti Napanangka won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008, her age and family circumstances prevented her from attending the ceremony?
Did you know that August Lange , Carl Jakhelln and Olav Larssen co-wrote a book about their experiences from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II ?
Did you know that a reconstruction of Verrazzano 's flagship La Dauphine is planned to arrive in New York Harbor for the 500th anniversary of Verrazzano's arrival in 2024?
Did you know that former Prime Minister of Tonga Baron Vaea piloted PBY Catalina flying boats for the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II ?
Did you know that Fluxus 1 , an artists' book produced by the Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas , was assembled over a period of 13 years?
Did you know that Rachael English , presenter of the Irish radio news programme Five Seven Live , was joined on the show by her father, who provided Cheltenham horse racing tips for her listeners?
Did you know that through extensive studying of the pathophysiology of hypertension , it was discovered that hypertension can be caused by genetic inheritance ?
Did you know that Damian Sims and Fred Reid spent a year out of football before being recommended to their current CFL teams?
Did you know that according to legend, Fabian was selected as pope because a dove landed on him?
Did you know that actress Nancy Andrews won a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut performance in 1949?
Did you know that Honewort , growing in the Avon Gorge near Bristol, was one of the first rare plants to be documented in Britain, by William Turner in 1562?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Williamson underwent two Tommy John surgeries ?
Did you know that the custom of collecting a feudal aid from a vassal originated in the 11th-century France, in the County of Anjou ?
Did you know that Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana ?
Did you know that the Californian plant Eryngium racemosum has become extirpated due to the non-occurrence of natural flooding?
Did you know that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee ?
Did you know that after a 1981 robbery , lawyers for Dr. Alan Berkman claimed that he was the first U.S. doctor charged for treating a fugitive since Dr. Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes Booth in 1865?
Did you know that the Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario supports a population of the nationally endangered Butternut ?
Did you know that Bob Haymes played a song publisher in the sitcom It's a Business and actually co-wrote the song " That's All "?