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Did you know that Lou Dorfsman considered the Gastrotypographicalassemblage he created for the CBS Building 's cafeteria to be his magnum opus ?
Did you know that the first military aerodrome in Britain was at Larkhill , and the first squadron to use aeroplanes was formed there?
Did you know that the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics is the Colombian government agency in charge of managing the airspace , civil aviation , and the aviation industry in Colombia ?
Did you know that the Victorian Wader Study Group catches and releases, on average, more than 7000 birds a year?
Did you know that Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt , the Auditor General of Norway from 1898 to 1923, was also a judge and a member of the Norwegian Parliament ?
Did you know that operatic soprano Gail Robinson won the Metropolitan Opera auditions at the young age of 19?
Did you know that Tang Chinese General Guo Ziyi would not let the women in his household meet government official Lu Qi when he visited the Guos' mansion because he considered Lu too ugly and treacherous?
Did you know that Expedia, Inc. made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Travelscape for over US$ 89 million?
Did you know that Jens Jensen initiated the establishment in 1901  of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres ?
Did you know that there are 30 million smokers in Japan , making the country one of the largest tobacco markets in the world?
Did you know that the liberal film company Brave New Films has produced full-length videos and paper advertisements in addition to the viral videos for which it is known?
Did you know that Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg ?
Did you know that the Workers Committee for National Liberation , a communist labour group , was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946?
Did you know that after retiring from the entertainment industry, actress/singer Francine Everett took a clerical job at Harlem Hospital in New York City ?
Did you know that Estonia generates 90 percent of its power from oil shale ?
Did you know that Henri Pépin extended the notion of riding the Tour de France to stopping in good restaurants and sometimes finishing 12 hours behind the leaders?
Did you know that German geologist Heinrich Edmund Naumann discovered a new species of fossil elephant in Japan?
Did you know that Grigory Orlov is credited with subduing the Russian plague of 1770-1772 ?
Did you know that the cruise ship Costa Allegra was originally built as the container ship Annie Johnson ?
Did you know that the Gashash HaHiver trio, which included Shaike Levi , was awarded the Israel Prize in 2000 for lifetime achievement and contribution to Israeli entertainment and society?
Did you know that the Troy, New York post office has been in ten different places since it was first established in 1796?
Did you know that Dr. T. M. Nair founded India 's Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty ?
Did you know that Actionable Offenses is a CD compilation of profane and sexually explicit phonograph recordings from the 1890s, which Anthony Comstock ’s Society for the Suppression of Vice managed to get banned?
Did you know that The Mass Psychology of Fascism , a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism ?
Did you know that the oceanic dolphin Costero is officially the same species as the river dolphin Tucuxi , even though they have been unambiguously demonstrated to be genetically different?
Did you know that the 2007 Bengali film Kaal , based on the lives of four women trapped in the world of human trafficking , is in trouble with the Bengali regional censor board over some scenes considered too graphic?
Did you know that after failed attempts for 1964, 1968 and 1972, the Calgary Olympic Development Association successfully brought the Winter Olympics to Calgary , Canada in 1988 ?
Did you know that Japanese admiral Misu Sotarō lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War ?
Did you know that during Mexico City's colonial period , so many grand mansions were built that the city gained the nickname of the "City of Palaces"?
Did you know that the inshore marine fish bumpnose trevally and longfin trevally are similarly shaped and thus often misidentified, reportedly even in some museum collections?
Did you know that despite pioneer Japanese journalist Kuga Katsunan 's advocacy of Japanese nationalism , government censors shut his newspaper down 30 times between 1889 and 1896?
Did you know that the acceptance of a Cannes Gold Lion by the art director for Nike 's Pretty television ad marked the first time the award was given to a Lebanese person ?
Did you know that King Dhatusena , who ruled Sri Lanka from 455 to 473, constructed 18 irrigation tanks , an irrigation canal , and the Avukana Buddha Statue ?
Did you know that the gate piers of Ferne Park , a country house built in 2001 in Wiltshire , England , are Grade II listed structures ?
Did you know that an opponent of Australian politician Ian West suggested he was better known by "seagulls" than by the constituents of Manly ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan had three wins and no losses as the California Angels ' Opening Day starting pitcher ?
Did you know that angry St Ives, New South Wales residents threatened to disrupt upcoming film Accidents Happen by playing the bagpipes during filming?
Did you know that the Ediacaran organism Eoandromeda may represent the earliest animal fossil unless it turns out to be an alga ?
Did you know that Naganandini is the 30th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music ?
Did you know that during the mid-20th century, cemesto panels were used in both prefabricated housing and houses designed by prominent architects ?
Did you know that New York noise-rock band Flux Information Sciences 's 2001 album Private/Public was recorded before an invited audience of 50 friends who stood around the studio naked and blindfolded?
Did you know that Australian politician Christine Robertson once addressed a " Dorothy Dixer " question to the wrong Minister in Parliament?
Did you know that St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam in County Galway , Ireland , contains a 12th-century arch which has been called "the finest example of Hiberno- Romanesque architecture "?
Did you know that Daryl Veltman was the first overall selection in the 2008 Entry Draft by the Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League ?
Did you know that in order to get her first and only film role , actress Phyllis Welch MacDonald had to sign a contract pledging not to marry or become engaged for six months?
Did you know that in 1929, Western Australia celebrated its Centenary of foundation , which included dances, race meetings, an air race and other sporting events?
Did you know that the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle established the internationally accepted definition of the precautionary principle ?
Did you know that the blue trevally , a popular gamefish in South Africa , was first described in 1775 based on a specimen taken from the Red Sea ?
Did you know that pitcher Jackson Todd threw 13 complete games during the 1973 college baseball season, a University of Oklahoma record which still stands?
Did you know that in Hopi mythology , the Kachina Nataska enforces good behavior among children?
Did you know that Australian politician Lynda Voltz 's step-father and grand step-father were also politicians?
Did you know that the 1996 Opening Day game for the Oakland A's at Cashman Field in Las Vegas marked the first time in 39 years that a regular season major league game was played in a minor league stadium?
Did you know that four questions about how to assess the patentability of software-related inventions have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office ?
Did you know that the Henry DeLand House has served as a private house, an inn, a speakeasy , a bar, a restaurant and most recently, a catering hall?
Did you know that gemstones and heroin are traded from Burma to China for motorcycles and household goods across the Shweli River , which forms part of the boundary between the two countries?
Did you know that Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America ?
Did you know that an enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human ?
Did you know that Abram S. Piatt was an American Zouave colonel and Civil War general who later built a castle in Logan County, Ohio ?
Did you know that the call made by Limnodynastes dorsalis , a frog species in Western Australia , is similar to the sound of a plucked banjo string?
Did you know that William Headline , who spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN , was described by Wolf Blitzer as having "the best name in news"?
Did you know that purity of the Sasthamkotta Lake water for drinking use is attributed to presence of a large number of larvae called cavaborus , which consume much of the lake's bacteria ?
Did you know that former Norwegian government minister Johan Henrik Rye Holmboe was subject to an impeachment case in 1926–27, but found not guilty?
Did you know that actor Spencer Williams played a female fortune teller in his 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. ?
Did you know that the Yellowspotted trevally is a species of inshore marine fish of the family Carangidae found in the Indo-Pacific region?
Did you know that writers associated with the modernist literary magazine Profil included Køltzov , Lunden , Obrestad , Haavardsholm and Vold ?
Did you know that the William Forst House was the site where the Confederate government of Kentucky was founded, commemorated nearby with the Confederate Monument in Russellville ?
Did you know that cargo ship USS West Ekonk was laid down , launched , and completed in 73 working days in 1918, becoming the ninth-fastest- constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
Did you know that P. T. Rajan , the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from April 1936 to August 1936, was a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitchers Jesse and Virgil Barnes , who each made two Opening Day starts for the New York Giants , were brothers?
Did you know that Australian -born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England ?
Did you know that the teenage couple in Nicholas Sparks ' 1999 novel A Walk to Remember refrain from sex, due partly to the author's concern that such a plot twist might offend his readership?
Did you know that children have trouble attributing implicit meaning to aspect verbs implicating non-completion such as start , but find implicit meaning in degree modifiers such as half , as in half-finished ?
Did you know that African-American actor Gaius Charles is named as an homage to Gaius Julius Caesar ?
Did you know that guest stars on The Greatest Show on Earth , an ABC circus drama in 1963–1964, included Lucille Ball , James Coburn and Edgar Bergen ?
Did you know that after suffering from serious design problems, the Norwegian Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.9 fighter aircraft was retired in 1932 on the orders of defence minister Vidkun Quisling ?
Did you know that Manchester United gave Stockport County a freezer full of ice cream in exchange for the transfer of footballer Hugh McLenahan in May 1927?
Did you know that Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint between the Austrian Empire , German Empire and the Russian Empire , created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland ?
Did you know that Manor Community College , a Cambridge school, has a headteacher who used to present a BBC childen's programme ?
Did you know that Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe ?
Did you know that the roof of the 12th-century St Nicolas Church, Portslade had to be jacked back into place over several months in 1959, having moved a foot (30 cm) out of alignment over the centuries?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the Kościuszko Uprising occurred in 1794?
Did you know that a tour guide at Fond du Lac 's Octagon House claims that visitors hear the ghosts of an earlier owner's small children laughing and playing?
Did you know that lawyer Hal Kant spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead , exercising so much influence with the band that his business cards identified his role as "Czar"?
Did you know that sightings of a ghostly figure in the Culbertson Mansion is one of Indiana's many ghost legends ?
Did you know that Western Local Escort Force was organized by the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1942 as a response to German U-boat raids known as the Second Happy Time ?
Did you know that when New Paltz 's Elting Memorial Library caught a possible ghost on its security camera, the YouTube video received more views than the village has residents?
Did you know that the future King George V was among 13 people aboard HMS Bacchante who saw the infamous ghost ship Flying Dutchman off South Africa in 1881?
Did you know that the theme of poison dress can be found in Greek mythology , Mughal Indian folklore, and American urban legends ?
Did you know that the Halloween Pennant is a North American species of dragonfly ?
Did you know that when Cornelius Holmboe was appointed Norwegian Minister of Justice in 1928, the cabinet lasted only for 18 days?
Did you know that Hawgsmoke is a biennial United States Air Force bombing, missile, and tactical gunnery competition for A-10 Thunderbolt II units?
Did you know that the Windsor Pumpkin Regatta is a race featuring large hollowed-out pumpkins in which contestants paddle a half-mile course across a lake?
Did you know that among the ghost sightings involving the American Civil War are a ghost reenacting one of his defeats in a battle that took place 415 miles (668 km) away?
Did you know that Chronotron , the only flash -based video game out of ten games nominated for the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo 's prestigious "PAX 10," was developed by only one person?
Did you know that the 1811 comet vintage of Veuve Clicquot has been described as one of the first modern Champagnes made according to the méthode champenoise ?
Did you know that in February 1962, Motor Cycling magazine achieved a best one-way speed for the Norton 650SS of 119.5 mph—more than 10 mph faster than the rival Triumph Bonneville ?
Did you know that Japan 's entomological warfare program in China during World War II used plague -infected fleas and cholera -coated flies to kill nearly 500,000 people?
Did you know that American Idol host Simon Cowell felt it was a mistake that Josiah Leming did not advance to the semifinals of the program's seventh season?
Did you know that the inspiration for the character Judy Ann Santos played in the film Ploning was based on a Cuyonon folk song from the Palawan town of Cuyo ?
Did you know that East German politician Erich Mückenberger led four district organizations of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany during his political career?
Did you know that A&M Records released three versions of Phil Ochs ' " Outside of a Small Circle of Friends " because of the song's reference to marijuana ?
Did you know that Canadian martial artist Tomasz Kucharzewski , who fought in an estimated 300 fights, was described as "happy-go-lucky" by his trainer due to his friendly demeanor?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, growers in the Champagne region rioted and burned down the city of Aÿ over producers using grapes from the Loire Valley , Germany and Spain to make champagne ?
Did you know that South African ANC activist Kate Molale organised a pioneer movement in the struggle against the 1953 Bantu Education Act ?
Did you know that William Cowper Alexander lost the 1856 election for the Governor of New Jersey by less than 3,000 votes?
Did you know that the Gray-handed Night Monkey is nocturnal and monogamous ?
Did you know that Sports Illustrated described high school player Kevin Laue as "the most exciting player in basketball " because of his playing skill with only one hand?
Did you know that Robert Brandon , goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London , was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony ?
Did you know that James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway built the Great Northern Depot in Wayzata, Minnesota , in 1906 after moving the former stop a mile east of town 12 years earlier in a dispute with town residents?
Did you know that Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War ?
Did you know that unlike Bordeaux and Burgundy , vineyards in Champagne are classified according to what village they are in?
Did you know that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts , Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?
Did you know that the 1989 Valvettiturai massacre was called "India's My Lai " by the Indian politician George Fernandes ?
Did you know that Patriarch Gregory II Youssef of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church spoke against the proposed doctrine of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council ?
Did you know that unlike its modern-day relative the gharial , the extinct crocodilian Aktiogavialis lived in saltwater?
Did you know that the 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto , Samuel Beatty , was the first person to receive a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university?
Did you know that the freshwater turbellarian Microstomum caudatum can swallow prey about as large as itself?
Did you know that African American singer Cora Green performed the Yiddish tune Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen in the 1938 race film Swing! ?
Did you know that devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church , Mumbai , as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
Did you know that World War I flying ace Frank Linke-Crawford completed a reconnaissance mission in 1917, despite having his Hansa-Brandenburg C.I biplane riddled with 68 bullet holes?
Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded " Bwatue " with African musicians more than ten years before Paul Simon famously did the same thing for his Graceland album?
Did you know that the scientific-technical journal Oil Shale is the only journal in the world that focuses on oil shale as a main subject?
Did you know that Oregon banned alcohol twice before the rest of America: once prior to statehood (from 1844 to 1845) and then again in 1915, four years before passage of the 18th Amendment ?
Did you know that J-pop band Round Table provided the song "Nagareboshi" as the closing theme of the episodes of the Yozakura Quartet anime?
Did you know that the extinct arachnid Attercopus was once considered as the world's oldest spider ?
Did you know that Mayor of New York City Ed Koch was sworn into office on New Year's Eve 1977 in the Manhattan home of David Margolis , president of Colt Industries, a firm founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt ?
Did you know that as little as five milligrams of the chemical agent phenyldichloroarsine can induce severe vomiting ?
Did you know that Sir Douglas Fox was, with James Greathead , joint engineer of the Liverpool Overhead Railway – the first electric elevated city railway in the world?
Did you know that although the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party belong to opposing alliances in national Indian politics, they are both partners in the governing coalition in Meghalaya ?
Did you know that payments made by Lockheed president Carl Kotchian to encourage purchases of his company's L-1011 aircraft led to the arrest and conviction of Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka ?
Did you know that two of the 48 episodes of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse served as pilots for the 1960s television shows The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables ?
Did you know that the Israeli Air Force 's first heavy bombers were three B-17 Flying Fortresses smuggled to Israel in the late 1940s by Charles Winters and his associates?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler lived in a public dormitory in Vienna from 1910 to 1913?
Did you know that blind blues musician Cortelia Clark won a Grammy for his 1966 album recorded live on a sidewalk in Nashville , Tennessee ?
Did you know that Bartlett's bisection theorem can be used in the design of quartz crystal filter circuits to overcome drawbacks of traditional ladder topology ?
Did you know that eunuch admiral Yishiha is credited with constructing the only two Ming Buddhist temples ever built in modern-day Russia ?
Did you know that the laboratory of Dr. Wade Regehr conducts research on axon terminals in the brain to further understanding of disorders such as epilepsy , schizophrenia , and clinical depression ?
Did you know that a controversy over hidden loans led to the resignation of three executives from Anglo Irish Bank within twenty-four hours in December 2008?
Did you know that Bless You Boys is Sparky Anderson 's diary as manager of the first American League baseball team since the 1927 Yankees to "lead the race from wire-to-wire" and win the World Series ?
Did you know that bananas grown in Brazil account for approximately ten percent of the entire world's banana production?
Did you know that Archbishop Robert Knox , father of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Edmond Knox , founded the Belfast Church Extension Society?
Did you know that the U.S. Army continued production of staphylococcus enterotoxin type B for several months after a 1969 policy statement ended the biological warfare program ?
Did you know that Russian cellist Valentin Berlinsky played for the Borodin Quartet for 60 years, the longest-serving member of what was described as "the longest continuously playing" string quartet in the world?
Did you know that Temple House of Israel in Staunton, Virginia , was founded in 1876 by Alexander Hart , a former major in the Confederate States Army ?
Did you know that a bootstrapping node is a node in an overlay network that provides initial configuration information to newly joining computer nodes so that they may successfully join the overlay network?
Did you know that Wu Cheng'en is thought to have written the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West anonymously, because writing in the vernacular language was considered vulgar?
Did you know that Burnt Hair Records was part of Michigan 's space rock music scene in the 1990s?
Did you know that a design competition for a New Routemaster bus received 225 entries in the "Design" category and 475 entries in the "Imagine" category?
Did you know that in 2005, the fishing industry in China reported 32.4 million tons of fish from aquacultures , more than 10 times that of the second-ranked country, India ?
Did you know that when Frank Fitzsimmons was named acting president of the Teamsters in 1967, a union insider said, "He's just a peanut butter sandwich; he'll melt in no time"?
Did you know that the Japanese Army used 320 mm mortars to frighten American Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima ?
Did you know that Mech Platoon was the first real-time strategy video game released for the Game Boy Advance ?
Did you know that the 1921 Oscar Micheaux -directed race film The Gunsaulus Mystery was inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan ?
Did you know that it took 59 years and a legal battle through the High Court of Australia for the Warumungu , a group of Indigenous Australians , to regain their land claim ?
Did you know that Alliance for Labor Action launched a $ 4 million organizing drive targeting African American workers in Atlanta, Georgia , in the fall of 1969?
Did you know that the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1920 prevented the Polish–Georgian alliance from being fully implemented?
Did you know that when the Wildwood was commissioned she was named USS PC-1181 , and was only renamed the Wildwood after she was decommissioned ?