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Did you know that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers originally proposed a large reservoir by damming the Anacostia River at Massachusetts Avenue SE , but built the much smaller Kingman Lake in 1920 instead?
Did you know that Australian Edward Both invented the Both Respirator , an iron lung made from plywood , to fight a polio epidemic in 1937?
Did you know that " Tuesday's Child ", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City , was filmed entirely on location in Ghana ?
Did you know that although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona ?
Did you know that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club broke their transfer record, paying £5,000 to sign Johnny McNichol , who at the time had not played a single game in the Football League ?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Wien was the only ship from the Monarch -class to be sunk during World War I?
Did you know that songwriter and producer Popcorn Wylie allowed his children to play frisbee with old singles he had worked on, before he became aware of their value to collectors of Northern soul records?
Did you know that Dennis Brown broke the Big Ten single game total offense record in his first start and set the Michigan football record for career passing yards?
Did you know that the Palazzo Chupi is named after a lollipop ?
Did you know that the Mana by-election, 2010 was caused by the resignation of Winnie Laban , who has been appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington ?
Did you know that Gaza 's "swish, stylish" Al Deira Hotel is built of mudbricks ?
Did you know that the top three finishers in 1962 MVP award voting – Maury Wills , Willie Mays , and Tommy Davis – all played in the 1962 National League tie-breaker series ?
Did you know that the Palacio de la Autonomía in Mexico City is where the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México gained autonomy from direct government control?
Did you know that the Star Carr house in North Yorkshire , England , was built by Stone Age hunters 10,500 years ago and is the oldest dwelling ever found in Britain ?
Did you know that Dr. Albert Sabin , developer of the oral polio vaccine , called Dr. Robert M. Chanock his "star scientific son"?
Did you know that, decades before he became Mayor of Portland, Maine , William MacVane practiced military medicine and received a Bronze Star for performing surgery "under adverse conditions" during World War II?
Did you know that as a child French executive pastry chef Florian Bellanger was allergic to chocolate , but now claims it is his favorite ingredient?
Did you know that the English lace manufacturer and Liberal Party politician Sir Arthur Black donated two homes in Nottingham to the National Children's Home ?
Did you know that during the 1980s more than half of the personnel of the Soviet embassy in Zambia were KGB and GRU agents?
Did you know that after being fined due to an incident, professional baseball player Tal Abernathy promised his teammates that if he was ever fined again he would buy them all a steak ?
Did you know that the Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane is a boutique hotel , housed in a renovated French Indonese colonial building?
Did you know that British Labour Party Member of Parliament J. H. Hall worked in the trade union movement for over 40 years?
Did you know that prior to 1964, some cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard such as USCGC Point Marone and USCGC Point Young were commissioned without a name because they were too short?
Did you know that Waldemar Stoud Platou founded Hansa Brewery ?
Did you know that in Colombia there were 2,832 murders of trade unionists between 1 January 1986 and 30 April 2010, making it the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist ?
Did you know that pastry chef Candace Nelson opened the world's first cupcake -only bakery?
Did you know that it is customary at Chimi Lhakhang to strike female pilgrims on the head with a 10-inch (25 cm) wooden phallus and that the monastery features phallic paintings on its walls?
Did you know that Harry George Woolley , who holds a club record for the most penalty minutes spent off the field, also donated the Most Sportsmanlike trophy to his lacrosse league?
Did you know that the River Tern passes to the north of the Buntingsdale Hall in Shropshire ?
Did you know that after losing his seat in the House of Commons in January 1910 , the British politician and pastor George Nicholls stood again eight times over the next 19 years, without success?
Did you know that New Zealand cricketer Ted Badcock is the only player to be out first ball in both innings on his Test debut?
Did you know that the 59-year-old President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis was arrested with 21 other rabbis for taking part in a sit-in opposite the United Nations HQ in 2007?
Did you know that Milan Paumer was a member of a Czechoslovak anticommunist resistance group that fought its way across East Germany to West Berlin in 1953, evading a manhunt involving 25,000 people?
Did you know that Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was a law professor for five years after becoming blind ?
Did you know that the walls of the oldest part of the Uinta County Courthouse were stained with a mixture said to contain slaughterhouse blood and stale beer?
Did you know that Michigan fullback Mel Anthony set a Rose Bowl record with an 84-yard touchdown run in 1965 ?
Did you know that Lectionary 269 represents the Byzantine text-type in its early stage?
Did you know that Lena Horne and Shirley Chisolm attended the same racially integrated Girls High School ?
Did you know that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
Did you know that Bach scored a tenor aria for oboe da caccia , recorder and bassoon in his cantata Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a , for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity ?
Did you know that at the Palace of Westminster in May 1945, the 73-year-old British Conservative Member of Parliament Harry Selley built a 200-brick wall in 58 minutes whilst wearing a bowler hat ?
Did you know that Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen established Interns for Peace to foster personal connections between Arabs and Jews, saying "every time you create contact it's successful because it breaks stereotypes"?
Did you know that Captain Anthony Molloy 's court martial and disgrace following the Glorious First of June was attributed by some to a curse from a woman he had dishonored?
Did you know that the British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Keatinge was born in Bombay (now Mumbai ), India?
Did you know that Ida Siekmann , the first casualty at the Berlin wall , died after she jumped out of her third floor apartment at Bernauer Strasse ?
Did you know that the 1991 Racha earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus ?
Did you know that in 2005, Raheel Raza became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada ?
Did you know that the cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for The Simpsons Cartoon Studio , a computer program released in 1996 that lets users create their own Simpsons cartoons?
Did you know that the former featherweight world boxing champion Andre Routis spent two years in Morocco as a mechanic for the French Colonial Army ?
Did you know that research by Dr. Harold Ginsberg on adenoviruses led to the development of gene therapy , in which modified versions of viruses can be used to implant healthy versions of genes to treat disease?
Did you know that Ragnvald Gjerløw played a main role in re-establishing the Diocese of Stavanger ?
Did you know that an unwanted guest may have been served a " cold shoulder " of mutton ?
Did you know that John Idzik , University of Detroit head coach until it discontinued its football program, was fired by the Baltimore Colts , along with the entire coaching staff, on two separate occasions?
Did you know that in a letter of 22 April 772 to Probatus , who later served as his ambassador, Pope Adrian I claimed to rule a "republic of the Romans"?
Did you know that Olav Hoprekstad had eight of his plays staged at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo from 1913 to 1940?
Did you know that Norman Mailer and Isaac Asimov attended the same Boys High School ?
Did you know that former Michigan running back Chuck Heater coached national championship football teams at Notre Dame and Florida ?
Did you know that there is a legend that the body of Saint Oswald , king of Northumbria , rested on the present site of St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall , South Yorkshire , after his death in 642?
Did you know that the Phoenix Suns were featured in all of the National Basketball Association 's outdoor games ?
Did you know that despite their names, Little Bolton had a larger acreage than Great Bolton ?
Did you know that Nikephoros Palaiologos and his son George twice found themselves on opposite sides during rebellions aimed at the Byzantine throne?
Did you know that the 2008 historical drama/ black comedy film Time of the Comet set a new box office record in Albanian cinemas?
Did you know that American football player DeWayne Patmon appeared in a few movies after his National Football League career ended?
Did you know that the tower of St Andrew's Church, Bywell , Northumberland , was built in about 850 as a defensive structure?
Did you know that as son of a Lebanese Arab father who was raised by Jewish stepfathers after his father's death, Bradley M. Campbell quipped that his "aspiration is to become ambassador-at-large in the Middle East "?
Did you know that the design of the Medina, New York , post office , has only been reused in Salem, Indiana ?
Did you know that Nick Pace , a mixed martial artist, won the inaugural Ring of Combat Bantamweight title by defeating his opponent via d'arce choke in the first round?
Did you know that the rock gong was a neolithic musical instrument made out of dolerite that would resonate with a metallic tone when struck with a small igneous stone?
Did you know that, while Archbishop of Adelaide , the Dominican Robert Spence wore the simple clothes of his order instead of the purple soutane of an archbishop?
Did you know that Cheshunt Great House , once owned by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from 1519 until 1529, was burned down in 1965?
Did you know that Amelia Gade Corson 's successful swim across the English Channel was paid for by L. Walter Lissberger, who covered the US$ 3,000 cost and then collected US$100,000 from Lloyd's of London at 20–1 odds?
Did you know that Oregon -based Electro Scientific Industries worked with Nike, Inc. to get a law passed that effectively prevents the neighboring city of Beaverton from annexing either company's property?
Did you know that Johann Ewald , a Hessian mercenary during the American Revolutionary War , was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his performance as a Danish Army general in the 1809 Battle of Stralsund ?
Did you know that players from the FK Sørøy Glimt football team were caught in a doping case, a rare occurrence in Northern Norwegian football?
Did you know that Bryan Hall served as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Edmonton Eskimos for 44 years?
Did you know that the 3D Express Coach allows cars under two meters high to drive under it since the passengers are in an upper level of the bus elevated four meters above the ground?
Did you know that Charlie Abbey became the first person from Nebraska to play in Major League Baseball after making his debut in 1893?
Did you know that Exercise Verity , a 1949 multilateral exercise involving over 60 warships, was described by a British newsreel as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland ?"
Did you know that Hugh Candidus (c.1095 – c.1160), a Benedictine monk, wrote a history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation as Medeshamstede in the mid 7th century up to the 12th century?
Did you know that the post office in Middleport, New York , is one of only three in the state using the same Colonial Revival - modernist design?
Did you know that the earliest known account of Lebanese fossils is attributed to Herodotus ?
Did you know that the Fandango Pass in the Warner Mountains is located at the convergence of two trails, the Applegate and the Lassen , that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850?
Did you know that a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company?
Did you know that Fritz Teufel was known as one of the " Spaßguerilla " (fun guerilla) who carried out the 1967 "Pudding Assassination" of U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during a state visit to West Berlin ?
Did you know that the plot of the platform video game The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk mimics that of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk ?
Did you know that during English footballer Freddie Bunce 's only season with Highlands Park FC , they won South Africa's 1964 National Football League ?
Did you know that the Jewish community of Danzig sold their historic synagogue to finance their emigration in 1939?
Did you know that the leaders of the September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt vowed to base their rule on that of slain President Ngo Dinh Diem ?
Did you know that logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk?
Did you know that the northern white beech is actually a member of the mint family ?
Did you know that a purchase of 80 paintings by Phoebe Hearst enabled artist Joseph Henry Sharp to devote himself to painting full-time in a log cabin at Little Big Horn ?
Did you know that the overhead awning for the Colosseum was saturated with scented water which dripped on spectators' heads to cool them?
Did you know that 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen —accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club ?
Did you know that Cornbread Harris , who performed on Minnesota 's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam ?
Did you know that local tradition in Lyndonville, New York , holds that Jackson Blood's family hauled all the cobblestones for their house down from Lake Ontario themselves?
Did you know that in 1923, Henry Sullivan became the third person, and the first American, to swim across the English Channel , finishing the crossing from Dover to Calais in 27 hours and 25 minutes?
Did you know that the Singapore case Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs , which held that courts could assess the lawfulness of orders made under the Internal Security Act , was overridden by statute in 1989?
Did you know that the Giro di Castelbuono is one of Europe 's oldest road running competitions, having been first held in Castelbuono , Sicily , in 1912?
Did you know that despite being offered a scholarship by college basketball powerhouse Indiana , Ryan Wittman chose to walk on to the Cornell basketball team ?
Did you know that Alan Blinder has described Fedspeak as a turgid dialect of English used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements?
Did you know that Dr. Thomas C. Peebles , who went on to isolate the measles virus strain used in the measles vaccine , was initially rejected by Harvard Medical School because he had gotten a D in college biology?
Did you know that the historic P Ranch in Oregon , owned by cattle baron Peter French , covered 140,000 acres (570 km 2 ) and required 500 miles of barbed wire fence for protection?
Did you know that former professional wrestler Steve Rickard was once stranded in Greece after airports in the country were closed due to trouble with Turkey ?
Did you know that the duties of the Egyptian Labour Corps during World War I included forming an anti- mosquito squad?
Did you know that 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run , having broken Simon Doyle 's old mark from 1991?
Did you know that Cinema City Nablus in the West Bank , built in 2009, is the city's first cinema in over 20 years?
Did you know that English scholar Ichabod Charles Wright (born in Mapperley Hall ) translated the three instalments of Dante 's Divina commedia ; Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso ?
Did you know that the Dechencholing Palace has its own helipad despite no airport being in nearby Thimphu ?
Did you know that government by itineration was a key mechanism of government in the Middle Ages in northern and eastern Europe ?
Did you know that former Jackson, Michigan , mayor Fred Janke was the captain of Fritz Crisler 's first Michigan Wolverines football team?
Did you know that the UPRM Planetarium is the only planetarium in Puerto Rico ?
Did you know that the largest fireworks display ever performed on a military base took place at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Virginia ?
Did you know that residents of the Kingman Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C. , successfully lobbied the Washington Metro in 1977 to cancel the proposed Oklahoma Avenue Station on the Orange and Blue lines ?
Did you know that troops of both the 28th Infantry Division and 75th Infantry Division were stationed at Seabank Hotel in Porthcawl , Wales , during World War II ?
Did you know that Captan Jack Wyly was a Democratic Party power broker in Lake Providence , Louisiana , which was labeled by Time magazine in 1997 as the poorest city in the United States ?
Did you know that according to legend , a Jewish boy named Elhanan who was stolen from his parents later became the Jewish pope Andreas ?
Did you know that one of the windowpanes in the John H. Nichols House in Wapakoneta, Ohio , bears the incised names of several of Nichols' children?
Did you know that the extinct rove beetle genus Ektatotricha is known from 15 beetles trapped in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar ?
Did you know that the Fraser Mansion in Washington, D.C. , was the subject of a zoning battle before purchase at foreclosure auction by the Church of Scientology ?
Did you know that the fruit of the Blush Condoo are eaten by the Wompoo Fruit Dove and the Topknot Pigeon ?
Did you know that the Museum of Apollonia , near Fier , Albania , is currently closed to the public after being looted in 1991?
Did you know that Eugene Michael Hyman is the first American to receive the United Nations Public Service Award?
Did you know that the Hyderabad State Congress led a non-violent civil disobedience campaign for the union of Hyderabad State with India , declaring August 7, 1947, as "Join Indian Union Day"?
Did you know that the British Labour Party politician and trade unionist Richard Kelley opposed allowing coal miners to leave work early if they had finished their day's tasks?
Did you know that The Lame Devil , Sacha Guitry 's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?
Did you know that Atlantic Coast High School is Jacksonville, Florida 's first public high school opened since 1990?
Did you know that the flower Campanula zoysii is considered a symbol of the Slovenian Alps ?
Did you know that the long hidden ceilings of the Monheim Town Hall in Bavaria , a Jewish residence until 1741, depict scenes of the Tanakh that were only restored in 1978?
Did you know that the Durrës Archaeological Museum contains a collection of miniature busts of Venus , a testament to the time when the area was a centre of worship of the goddess?
Did you know that 1954 Michigan football MVP Fred Baer and 1953 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lattner played in the same backfield for Fenwick High School in the Chicago Catholic League in 1949?
Did you know that the Sinan Pasha Mosque of Prizren was built in 1615, but still conserves its original stone flooring and carpentry?
Did you know that Enrique Tirabocchi had to appeal to Benito Mussolini to retrieve a trophy he received for swimming the English Channel , as it had been confiscated by customs officials when he reentered Italy ?
Did you know that the katarista movement leader Víctor Hugo Cárdenas was elected Vice President of Bolivia in 1993?
Did you know that " Please Please Me " is, arguably, The Beatles ' first number-one single ?
Did you know that from 2010, reserve teams in Norwegian association football were barred from using more than three players aged over 21?
Did you know that the Ukrainian priest Ivan Ziatyk was persecuted by the Soviet government for "spreading the Catholic Faith"?
Did you know that the 2001 book Madonna: An Intimate Biography , by J. Randy Taraborrelli , debuted and stayed on top of The New York Times Best Seller list for three months?
Did you know that while time, war, and hazardous emissions continually wrecked the tomb of Nizami , a 12th-century epic poet , the tomb was finally rebuilt in solid granite in 1991 in Ganja , Azerbaijan ?
Did you know that the 1993 Grand National horse race was declared void after 30 of the 39 riders failed to realise a false start had been called, leading it to be called "the race that never was"?
Did you know that northwestern Ohio 's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp ?
Did you know that the Navachab Gold Mine is the only gold mine in Namibia ?
Did you know that in 1898, Pop Williams became the first attendee of Bowdoin College to play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that renowned restaurateur and celebrity chef Marc Murphy cannot bring himself to like coffee ?
Did you know that Mortal Kombat has won multiple best fighting game awards at E3 2010 and is already being considered as the most violent video game ever?
Did you know that Prince Michael of Yugoslavia , a Bernard Madoff feeder fund executive , allegedly approached Charles, Prince of Wales about becoming a potential investor at a polo tournament in 2002?
Did you know that under the Poughkeepsie plan , Catholic children attended public schools taught by nuns wearing religious habits ?
Did you know that a 1967 image by photojournalist Lee Lockwood of American prisoner of war Richard A. Stratton bowing to his North Vietnamese captors brought charges from the U.S. that POWs were being brainwashed?
Did you know that the Agrarian Socialist League , a Russian revolutionary émigré organization, was founded at the funeral of Pyotr Lavrov in 1900?
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the chess pieces for The Boredom Dodger ?
Did you know that Peter Stephens died in November 1757, 10 months before the town he founded was chartered in September 1758?
Did you know that the Combe Haven Viaduct , on the Bexhill West Branch Line , contained over 9,000,000 bricks ?
Did you know that in 1879, the first Pelton wheel was manufactured at what would become known as the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California ?
Did you know that Konocti Harbor , a now-closed resort and music venue in Lake County, California , was originally founded in 1959 as low-cost vacation housing for members of a plumbers union ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game on Mother's Day with his grandmother in attendance?
Did you know that in May 1982, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Welsh was one of 69 MPs who called for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Falklands War ?
Did you know that world-renowned restaurateur and classically trained chef Geoffrey Zakarian was defeated by Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto on an episode of Iron Chef America by a 14-point margin?
Did you know that voice actress Maggie Roswell left The Simpsons in 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company , but returned in 2002?
Did you know that The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards US$ 100,000 every year for solutions to solve pressing complex global problems?
Did you know that Dan Kiesel was hired as physiotherapist for the Sri Lankan cricket team upon the recommendation of Australian fast-bowler Dennis Lillee ?