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Did you know that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état , Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
Did you know that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s?
Did you know that video sculpture is a medium that offers performing artists a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum?
Did you know that Lydia Becker , founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal , was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin ?
Did you know that after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game —one of the greatest upsets in college football history— MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?
Did you know that Art Stewart , who was recently inducted into the Kansas City Royals Baseball Hall of Fame , was responsible for the drafting of 70 people who eventually became Major League Baseball players?
Did you know that the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America ?
Did you know that Michigan 's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?
Did you know that Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964?
Did you know that Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery ?
Did you know that Tim Morehouse , a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
Did you know that the latest opera by composer Andy Vores is a 2008 chamber opera adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre 's No Exit ?
Did you know that the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada 's first interurban multi-use trail system?
Did you know that the Haas Lola Formula One team's cars were not built or designed by Lola Cars International , but were entered as Lolas because Carl Haas was their official importer to the United States?
Did you know that the Unlearned Parliament was so called because lawyers were forbidden to attend as Henry IV felt they were "troublesome"?
Did you know that Pope Pius VI was not elected till the 265th ballot at the papal conclave of 1774–1775 ?
Did you know that two Romanian cathedrals inspired by foreign models include Sibiu's , based on Hagia Sophia , and Iaşi's , which resembles Trinità dei Monti ?
Did you know that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter , a fountain , and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts ?
Did you know that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon , consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?
Did you know that cargo ship El Occidente fought off two German submarines in World War I , only to be sunk by one in World War II ?
Did you know that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople , Sirarpie Der-Nersessian , became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia ?
Did you know that the Terminal Annex Post Office was LA 's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?
Did you know that the television adaptation of Ellis Peters ' novel The Rose Rent , set in 12th-century England , was actually filmed in Hungary ?
Did you know that since hard suction hose is designed for fire engines drafting water , it is the only type of fire hose tested under suction instead of pressure ?
Did you know that in 1929, BSEIU President Jerry Horan offered US$ 125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit ?
Did you know that Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry was founded as Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie by King Ludwig III of Bavaria in 1917?
Did you know that pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries ?
Did you know that a yett is a latticed iron gate used in place of a portcullis in many Scottish castles and tower houses ?
Did you know that Michigan 's Mason County District Library is an umbrella entity that administers two libraries?
Did you know that Anna Borkowska , the mother superior of a Polish convent of Dominican Sisters in World War II , was the first to smuggle in grenades for the Vilnius Jewish ghetto insurgents ?
Did you know that many types of car bomb use a tilt fuse , a tube-like device not dissimilar to a medical pill bottle, to trigger the explosion?
Did you know that " Brilliant Disguise " and " Tunnel of Love " gave Bruce Springsteen two consecutive #1 singles on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from the Tunnel of Love album?
Did you know that according to Le Monde , Central African Republic Lieutenant Colonel and politician Alexandre Banza was killed in circumstances "so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep"?
Did you know that the title roles in the 1974 blaxploitation film The Black Six were played by six then-current National Football League stars?
Did you know that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the Olympic truce , the Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. United States that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity of a misdemeanor crime can still be committed indefinitely to a mental institution ?
Did you know that Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila 's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label ?
Did you know that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
Did you know that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae , a manga about a blind samurai , won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award ?
Did you know that U.S. Navy transport ship USS Henry R. Mallory (ID-1280) successfully avoided a torpedo attack in World War I , only to be sunk by the same method during World War II ?
Did you know that a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house?
Did you know that upcoming film Calvin Marshall 's producers hired a casting director before they had raised enough funding to hire a well-known actor to attract further financiers?
Did you know that Open Access movement , a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access — information sharing for the common good —traces its history to 1960s or earlier?
Did you know that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards , winning twice?
Did you know that the Carey Mission was a headquarters for settlers and a point from which the American frontier was extended?
Did you know that confraternities , a type of Nigerian university student organization started by Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka , are now linked with organized crime ?
Did you know that feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
Did you know that the Phylax Society , the first German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
Did you know that the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York 's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District ?
Did you know that Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii ?
Did you know that plans to build the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball has a 16–0 record at Crisler Arena , its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament ?
Did you know that the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$ 125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala ?
Did you know that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe 's longest-standing national youth orchestra?
Did you know that the Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area is the location of a new type of habitat conservation program focused on restoring the native Olympia oyster ?
Did you know that although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford , he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture ?
Did you know that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill 's body to burial?
Did you know that L'Année philologique ( The Year in Philology ) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?
Did you know that after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home?
Did you know that the Polish Club Class glider SZD-59 "Acro" is competitive in both unlimited aerobatics and cross-country flying ?
Did you know that Edward Harrison was the first person to perform a concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra ?
Did you know that iOffer , an online trading community launched in May 2002, had nearly one million users by February 2008?
Did you know that there are over 3,500 miles of state highways in Utah , with the shortest one being only 0.086 mi (138 m) long?
Did you know that Scottish botanist Robert Kaye Greville has a mountain named after him in Queensland , Australia ?
Did you know that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham - Yorkshire border as he had authority in both?
Did you know that, in Norse mythology , Urðarbrunnr is an important well located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil ?
Did you know that entrepreneur Joe Dudley 's multi-million dollar hair and skin care business began with a mere US$ 10 investment in a sales kit in 1957?
Did you know that the 125th Napier's Rifles of the Indian Army were named after General Napier , who had commanded them at the Battle of Miani in 1843?
Did you know that the Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building was built in 1928 with bricks salvaged from the old Los Angeles city hall?
Did you know that Cortinarius semisanguineus , whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes ?
Did you know that the citizens of Carmel, New York , felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida ?
Did you know that Paul Thomson , co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association , grew the first successful mammee apple crop in the state's history?
Did you know that the Sakuradamon Incident of 1932 was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of Japan by a Korean nationalist ?
Did you know that scapular fracture can be caused by forceful muscle contractions due to a seizure or electrical shock ?
Did you know that The Corporate Center in Danbury , Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
Did you know that So Amazin' , the third studio album by singer Christina Milian , was produced mainly by hip hop producers Cool & Dre ?
Did you know that the pink mushroom Gomphidius roseus appears to be parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus ?
Did you know that six of the seven candidates in the 1999 Algerian presidential election withdrew less than 24 hours before the election?
Did you know that the town of Kent, New York , dealt with an excess Canada goose population around Lake Carmel by rounding them up while they were molting and distributing the meat to the poor?
Did you know that Swedish musician Hans Wärmling , co-writer of " Strange Little Girl ", left The Stranglers while en route to a gig in North London ?
Did you know that despite the company's claims, SummerSlam 1992 has the largest verified attendance of any World Wrestling Entertainment event?
Did you know that although male Kashmir Gray Langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide ?
Did you know that magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ?
Did you know that in 1938, the Raja of Aundh voluntarily handed over rule of his Indian state to the people in what became known as the Aundh Experiment ?
Did you know that American Olympian John Lysak was banned from the gymnasium of the ship that took him to the 1936 Summer Olympics after he destroyed much of its equipment?
Did you know that the Australian vine Hoya australis , a popular garden plant, attracts butterfly species such as the Common Crow ?
Did you know that Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school ?
Did you know that in 1979, the Tobacco Institute disputed claims by the Surgeon General of the United States about the dangers of smoking ?
Did you know that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee ?
Did you know that the U.S. Third Fleet sank all of Japan 's remaining undamaged battleships and heavy cruisers during the bombing of Kure in July 1945?
Did you know that Q-Flex is the world's largest LNG carrier type currently in service?
Did you know that the Plaza Historic District was the historic center of Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican rule?
Did you know that satirist Stephen Colbert has a species of spider called Aptostichus stephencolberti named after him?
Did you know that Skaga stave church was built in the 1130s to Christianise the area , but was demolished in 1826 as a stronghold of remaining Norse paganism ?
Did you know that after winning a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics , German shot putter Stephanie Storp began playing basketball ?
Did you know that Fulton County Route 112, the continuation of New York State Route 309 , was once the site of an old Indian trail in the Adirondacks ?
Did you know that the world's largest LNG carrier Q-Max Mozah was named by and after Mozah Nasser al-Misnad , Sheikha of Qatar ?
Did you know that alternative rock musician Maynard James Keenan owns and operates his own winery , Caduceus Cellars , in rural Arizona ?
Did you know that William C. Grimes , who served as Acting Governor of Oklahoma Territory for ten days, helped to establish Kingfisher College ?
Did you know that the Shiseibyō Confucian temple in Naha, Okinawa contains the first educational institution in Okinawa, which later became the first public school in the prefecture?
Did you know that John Koethe was the first poet laureate for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin ?
Did you know that the 2008 Tanana Valley flood brought the Tanana River in central Alaska to its highest level since August 1967?
Did you know that John Quincy Adams II , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and William Gordon Weld helped form the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ?
Did you know that the "most generous man in Liverpool " was John Cropper ?
Did you know that the Long-legged Bunting , an extinct species of Bunting , was one of the few flightless species in the Passerines order?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, Pittsburgh made the world's first 21-inch caliber gun ?
Did you know that after accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery , Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society ?
Did you know that LA 's Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses?
Did you know that Horand von Grafrath is credited with being the first German Shepherd Dog ?
Did you know that according to his memoir My Grandfather's Son , Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had his credit card cut up by a car rental clerk?
Did you know that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War , Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
Did you know that the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
Did you know that the neighborhood of Elm Park in Winnipeg , Canada , was originally a park created by the Winnipeg Street Railway Company to increase trolley use?
Did you know that although the first type of wind turbine , the panemone , is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?
Did you know that country singer Philip Claypool 's greatest chart success was a cover version of Bad Company 's " Feel Like Makin' Love "?
Did you know that the arcade game Heiankyo Alien was originally designed as a personal computer game by the University of Tokyo 's Theoretical Science Group?
Did you know that as of May 2008, the International Harvester strike of 1979–1980 is the fourth-longest national strike in the history of the UAW and the longest in the history of International Harvester ?
Did you know that the Marshall Islands , Montenegro , and Tuvalu will all be making their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ?
Did you know that the episode of 30 Rock entitled " Sandwich Day " was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode " Tracy Does Conan "?
Did you know that Ivorian politician Jean Konan Banny invented a non-alcoholic drink he described as "a wine [made] from pineapples "?
Did you know that author Michael Connelly got the idea for his novel The Concrete Blonde from an actual case in a professional forensic book?
Did you know that James Carlile introduced an educational system in 1830s Ireland whereby children of different denominations could attend the same school?
Did you know that residential lots in the Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District of Bend , Oregon —with views of the Deschutes River and the Cascades Mountains —originally sold for US$ 100 to US$250?
Did you know that the final twenty minutes of the 1941 documentary film Kukan shows an air attack by Japanese bombers against Chongqing , the World War II capital of China ?
Did you know that in the 2008 baseball season , Randy Ruiz got a hit in 24 consecutive games, the longest hitting streak by a Rochester Red Wing player since 1979?
Did you know that Science, Evolution, and Creationism was published by the National Academy of Sciences to address the creation-evolution controversy ?
Did you know that the Battle of Annaberg in 1921 was the largest battle of the Silesian Uprisings ?
Did you know that Jamie Howarth 's music restoration company, Plangent Process, received a Grammy award for restoration of a 1949 performance by Woody Guthrie ?
Did you know that unions sometimes permit local or regional variations in master contracts in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?
Did you know that the 79th Street Boat Basin , featured in the 1998 film You've Got Mail , is the only marina that allows year-round residency by Manhattan boat owners?
Did you know that Cinimod Studio in London , United Kingdom , designed a virtual sky ceiling for a Snog frozen yogurt outlet with clouds whose speeds and colors depend upon the time of day?
Did you know that novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe , a Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes LGBT literature ?
Did you know that the Corfu Channel Incident , involving the United Kingdom and Albania , is considered one of the early episodes of the Cold War ?
Did you know that Spednic Lake , which forms part of the Canada – United States border , is renowned for its smallmouth bass fishing?
Did you know that William Chaffey , a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 33 years, was also a U.S. Bronze Star recipient?
Did you know the pranksters behind the Martian Monkey hoax were fined US$40?
Did you know that the turnout in the 2002 Algerian legislative election was Algeria 's lowest yet since independence in 1962?
Did you know that jockey Ralph Neves , pronounced dead after a fall in 1936, arrived at the racetrack later the same day demanding to ride?
Did you know that Majdi Halabi , an Israeli Druze soldier from the village of Daliyat el-Karmel , disappeared on duty near Haifa and was formally declared to be missing in action in June 2005?
Did you know that the 2008 Chino Hills Earthquake shook Southern California with a magnitude of 5.4, and was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada ?
Did you know that in 1993, police officer Bob Geary launched a successful ballot initiative in San Francisco, California to allow him to carry a ventriloquist's dummy on patrol?
Did you know that after a collision with the Scottish clipper Loch Earn , the French steamship Ville du Havre sank in only 12 minutes, with the loss of 226 lives?
Did you know that the album title Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?
Did you know that Robert Byington Mitchell , who was Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War , served as Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869?
Did you know that Haruji Matsue was the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan ?
Did you know that the tugboat Tuff-E-Nuff , built in 1895 by Neafie & Levy , was still working commercially in 2007 after 112 years of service?
Did you know that Swazi police told Gabriel Mkhumane 's mother that he would come home "wrapped in a black bag" hours before his death was reported?
Did you know that the mushroom fire-milk Lactarius is so named because of its acrid taste?
Did you know that John Harfield Tredgold who helped slaves in the Cape Colony in the 19th century, was also a chemist ?
Did you know that a German Shepherd named Rajah was the first police dog in New Zealand ?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Marc Wilkins balked on Rob Ryan 's first at bat , on the day of Ryan's major league debut, making the Arizona Diamondbacks score one run ?
Did you know that British athlete Stan Cox was nearly killed after being struck with a javelin while working as a judge for the British Amateur Athletic Association ?
Did you know that the Plan Dog memo , one of the best known documents of World War II , laid the basis for America's Europe First policy?
Did you know that Richard Tapper Cadbury helped his son John start a tea and coffee business that would become Cadbury plc ?
Did you know that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby load-bearing points have separate foundations?
Did you know that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka‎ is the largest meantone organ in the world?
Did you know that Joe Allison is a former American football placekicker who won the inaugural Lou Groza Award , presented to the nation's top kicker ?
Did you know that the Norwegian National Rail Administration owns all 4,114 km (2,556 mi) of railways in Norway , but does not operate any trains?
Did you know that U.S. diplomat Pamela E. Bridgewater was the first African-American woman appointed Consul General in Durban , South Africa ?
Did you know that in Australia many unions and employers are working around the WorkChoices law by using side letters to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?
Did you know that scuba divers concerned about the deterioration of the Samuel P. Ely shipwreck worked underwater to install reinforcing tie rods that would hold the hull together?
Did you know that the upright bugle often interbreeds with its more widespread cousin, the common bugle , producing hybrid offspring ?