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Did you know that while passing through the Parliament of the United Kingdom , the Defective Premises Act 1972 was not at all debated in the House of Commons ?
Did you know that Monk McDonald played on the 1923–24 championship North Carolina basketball team , and then graduated and coached the team the next year?
Did you know that the only known source of the mineral Macaulayite in the world is in a quarry at the foot of Bennachie , Aberdeenshire – but it may also be present on Mars ?
Did you know that, during the territorial era of Minnesota in the U.S., Native Americans -- who were otherwise disenfranchised -- were often allowed to vote if they had worn trousers to the polling station?
Did you know that the Ross Casino in Pichilemu was the first casino in Chile ?
Did you know that the gay pornography film studio Corbin Fisher offers contracted actors health benefits and a 401(k) plan?
Did you know that Gordon Bastian , the Second Engineer of the Empire Bowman , was awarded an Albert Medal for rescuing two stokers after the ship was torpedoed by U-404 ?
Did you know that opera singer Zélie de Lussan sang 2,000 performances in the title role of Carmen ?
Did you know that the oblique cord is a 3.4 cm long ligament in the forearm near the elbow , between the ulnar and radius bones, which has no known function and may be vestigial ?
Did you know that Robert Sumrall survived being lost in the Gila National Forest for seven days in winter without food, water, or camping gear?
Did you know that in Teotitlán del Valle , it is possible to "steal" a bride?
Did you know that golf was introduced to Singapore by Sir John Tankerville Goldney in 1891 while he was Chief Justice for the Straits Settlements ?
Did you know that two of the residents of the Richard Upjohn -designed James and Mary Forsyth House in Kingston, New York , left it after being accused of financial wrongdoing?
Did you know that Jean Nouguès is believed to have written the first opera specifically composed for gramophone recording?
Did you know that in the 1508 Battle of Chaul in India , a Mamluk - Gujarati fleet defeated a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida ?
Did you know that from 1765 to 1780 Meshullam Solomon and Tevele Schiff both claimed to be the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Davidson Seamount , off the coast of California , is one of the largest seamounts in the world?
Did you know that chef Michael Carlson abruptly closed his restaurant the day after successfully entertaining a gathering of world-famous chefs?
Did you know that horn player Neill Sanders commuted from Kalamazoo, Michigan , to London , where he played in the Melos Ensemble ?
Did you know that climate change and rising ocean acidity are affecting fisheries and modifying fish distributions ?
Did you know that despite most of its interments later being moved to larger rural cemeteries , Sharp Burial Ground in Kingston, New York , still has the graves of two former U.S. Congressmen ?
Did you know that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?
Did you know that NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans relies on help from inmates from 15 New England correctional facilities to train many of its assistance dogs ?
Did you know that James Jones , a pitcher in college, entered the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and was selected in the fourth round as an outfielder by the Seattle Mariners ?
Did you know that in 1641, Bristol Corporation concluded a perambulation of the city boundaries with a duck hunt at Treen Mills on the River Malago ?
Did you know that the Naval Training Center San Diego was the home of a commissioned "non-ship" of the U.S. Navy , the USS Recruit , a concrete model of a warship built right into the ground and nicknamed the "USS Neversail "?
Did you know that during his career, comic actor Willie Edouin was said to have portrayed as many as 500 characters?
Did you know that the Thikse Monastery in India is called Mini-Potala because of its structural similarity to the former residence of the Dalai Lama , the Potala Palace in Tibet ?
Did you know that Berbak National Park in Sumatra , Indonesia , forms part of the largest undisturbed swamp forest in southeastern Asia , and the peat swamp forest with the greatest number of palm species ?
Did you know that unlike her predecessors, the Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng was not worshipped in Lý Bát Đế Shrine because of her responsibility in the collapse of Lý Dynasty ?
Did you know that Marvin Minoff , executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost , began his career as a talent agent ?
Did you know that the shell of the snail Paryphanta busbyi may explode when dried?
Did you know that Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels ?
Did you know that in 1999, Robyn Regehr made his National Hockey League debut with the Calgary Flames less than four months after breaking both legs in a car accident that doctors feared would end his career?
Did you know that the missing terminal of the golden Sedgeford Torc was found thirty-nine years after the original discovery of the artifact ?
Did you know that the Tobias Van Steenburgh House was one of the few buildings in Kingston, New York , not burned by British troops in 1777?
Did you know that All in the Mind , the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell , drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism ?
Did you know that in 2009, German actress Stephanie Stumph proposed to her idol, IBF middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham but he declined because he was "too young"?
Did you know that the name of the Chili Line has been attributed to its freight and the gastronomy of its patrons?
Did you know that the first single from In the Room Up There , Australian band Elora Danan 's debut album , was entitled "Door, Up, Elevator" and "inspired by elevator music, and the etiquette that goes on in elevators"?
Did you know that former Baton Rouge Mayor -President Bobby Simpson worked to end chronic homelessness in his city?
Did you know that crystals of campigliaite , first discovered in Tuscany , are transparent with a light or pale blue vitreous luster ?
Did you know that actress Jessalyn Gilsig hoped viewers would warm to her Glee character Terri Schuester after the episode " Mattress " , having previously experienced a fan backlash?
Did you know that Benny Benson created the Alaskan flag while living at the Jesse Lee Home for Children , an orphanage in Seward, Alaska ?
Did you know that it was feared Seattle 's Art Deco -styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant ?
Did you know that William Edward White may have been the first African-American to play Major League Baseball when he appeared in one game for the 1879 Providence Grays ?
Did you know that playwright Marisa Wegrzyn dealt with poor reviews by "being sulky and brooding and riding the subway a lot"?
Did you know that the Swiss Alpine Museum has the world's largest collection of raised-relief maps ?
Did you know that the Koshare Indian Dancers are a Boy Scouts of America Scout troop that travels the United States promoting the appreciation of American Indian culture through Indian dances ?
Did you know that in the capture of Ormuz (1507) , Afonso de Albuquerque subdued Hormuz Island and established a fort ?
Did you know that a new Chard Junction signal box was built in 1982 despite the station and junction being closed in the 1960s?
Did you know that in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy ?
Did you know that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea , which is specialized to live in the water , differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms ?
Did you know that three U.S. states do not accept the guilty plea known as the Alford plea ?
Did you know that rather than follow the usual practice of lip synching to prerecorded vocals, Bette Midler sang most of her songs live in the 1993 television movie Gypsy ?
Did you know that tabletop Role-playing game pioneer Paul Jaquays was also a designer for the Quake series of video games and co-founder of The Guildhall at SMU video game university?
Did you know that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling ?
Did you know that Tsegaye Kebede , an Olympic and World Championship medalist in the marathon , worked as a child for 30 US cents a day so he could afford a daily meal and an education?
Did you know that tail length is not a reliable way to identify the longtail stingray , because its tail is often damaged?
Did you know that in 1854 the southern coast of Honshū , Japan , was hit by tsunamis caused by two great megathrust earthquakes on December 24 and 25 ?
Did you know that Anthony Morabito was the first of thirteen West Australians drafted in the 2009 AFL Draft , when the Fremantle Football Club selected him with their first-round pick?
Did you know that the mineral athabascaite was discovered in 1949 during a research study of radioactive materials collected from Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan , Canada ?
Did you know that Christian music artist Miss Angie began her solo career doing praise and worship sets after Johnny Q. Public concerts?
Did you know that the current Chairman of the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust is John Kidson, former Isle of Man TT Formula 3 World Champion?
Did you know that the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race is known as "the world's richest mountain race " because of the large amounts of prize money on offer?
Did you know that Shraddha Jadhav , who was recently elected as the Mayor of Mumbai and chief of India's richest municipal body, is known for her "elegant dressing"?
Did you know that Schwa , an upscale restaurant in Chicago , employs no receptionist, waiters, or other support staff?
Did you know that according to legend, Dunan Aula was the burial site of the Viking warrior 'Olaf, son of the King of Denmark '; after he was slain in combat against local Scots ?
Did you know that Sathyavani Muthu was one of the first two non- Congress members from Tamil Nadu to serve as a Union Minister in India ?
Did you know that the Atlantic torpedo can produce an electric shock of up to 220 volts , and was the namesake of the naval weapon ?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Bill Keith authored a creation science law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard ?
Did you know that the development of the Oseberg oil field is one of the significant milestones in the creation of Norway 's oil and gas industry ?
Did you know that Slaughter County, Iowa, named after William B. Slaughter , was renamed because its citizens were dissatisfied with the name?
Did you know that the last empress of the Lý Dynasty , Trần Thị Dung , married her cousin, grand chancellor Trần Thủ Độ , who was responsible for the death of her first husband Lý Huệ Tông ?
Did you know that there is an oil field underneath Los Angeles, California , called the Salt Lake Oil Field ?
Did you know that Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski , best man to national poet Hristo Botev , was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria ?
Did you know that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis ?
Did you know that Philippine real estate company Megaworld Corporation renamed a condominum project from "The Trumps" to "One Central" after threats of legal action from Donald Trump ?
Did you know that the music video for alternative rock band Soul Asylum 's 1995 song " Just Like Anyone " features actress Claire Danes ?
Did you know that an attempted Russian conquest of Hawaii in 1815–1817 was led by a German physician ?
Did you know that Franz Baermann Steiner , whose parents were murdered in Treblinka and who later died of a heart attack in 1952 in Oxford , was called "one of Hitler's victims" by Iris Murdoch ?
Did you know that motor coordination enables our movements to be done smoothly but rarely allows the same movement to be done in exactly the same way?
Did you know that Bruce's Beach , which opened in the early 1910s in Manhattan Beach, California , was an African-American resort in an "otherwise lily-white community"?
Did you know that Poland–Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire signed a "perpetual" peace in 1533?
Did you know that although he was the first prince of Trần emperor Trần Thái Tông , Trần Quốc Khang was actually a son of the emperor's elder brother Trần Liễu ?
Did you know that Tord Asle Gjerdalen twice rejected offers for a spot on the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team, due to time-consuming medicine studies?
Did you know that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in the town , including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"?
Did you know that Lee Boyd Malvo entered an Alford plea in 2004 for his role in the Beltway sniper attacks , as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty ?
Did you know that Paul Eggers , the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush , by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats ?
Did you know that the Gorgas-Manly Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama , contains two of only seven buildings to survive the burning of the University of Alabama by the Union Army on April 4, 1865?
Did you know that because of the Bambi effect , some people will not eat a whole fish?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Biver has been credited with "saving the mechanical watch industry from the quartz movement "?
Did you know that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners ?
Did you know that the large weight (55 tons) of the main cannon at the Bijapur Fort discouraged the British from carrying it as a trophy to England ?
Did you know that the fourth floor of Havnelageret in Oslo was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Louis Lesser developed Barrington Plaza , the largest urban renewal project in the western United States under President John F. Kennedy , as well as many of Howard Hughes ' properties?
Did you know that according to a mediaeval Icelandic saga , Jarl Gilli dreamt of the violent death of Irish king , Brian Boru ?
Did you know that the Peirce Geodetic Monument serves as a geodetic marker which indicates the exact latitude, longitude, and altitude of its location?
Did you know that New Jersey Attorney General George F. Kugler, Jr. was the father of Pete Kugler who played in three Super Bowls for the San Francisco 49ers ?
Did you know that the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 covers not only land, but also aircraft and ships?
Did you know that Rizong Monastery in Ladakh , Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?
Did you know that footballer Roger Helland in 2004 scored Fredrikstad 's first goal in the Norwegian Premier League in 20 years?
Did you know that the Gasmouloi were the descendants of mixed Byzantine Greek and Latin unions, and were employed as marines in the Byzantine navy ?
Did you know that "Lucky Man" , a 1970 song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer , was written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old?
Did you know that Sara Stockfleth Christie was the second female deputy member in the history of the Parliament of Norway ?
Did you know that in 1298, three brothers established the Myinsaing Kingdom after inviting King Kyawswa of Pagan to lead the dedication of a monastery , only to dethrone him and force him to become a monk?
Did you know that Navy Midshipmen 's quarterback Ricky Dobbs runs a triple option offense and shares Tim Tebow 's record for most rushing touchdowns for a college quarterback in a single season?
Did you know that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England 's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid?
Did you know that the Baylor University began its organized football team in 1899, but adopted a mascot only after the completion of the 1914 season?
Did you know that Sword of Aragon , a video game published in 1989, frustrated players with its copy protection that prompted them with inaccurate information?
Did you know that prior to being hired as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune , Katherine Kersten worked as a lawyer and banker?
Did you know that an example of the extinct Toy Trawler Spaniel , bred by Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth , is preserved at the Natural History Museum at Tring ?
Did you know that in an Alford plea a defendant in U.S. criminal court admits there is evidence to support a conviction and enters a guilty plea , while asserting innocence ?
Did you know that Arvid Johanson took over as Norway 's second Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1980, when Bjartmar Gjerde resigned due to high job pressure?
Did you know that the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest invites entrants to compose the opening sentence for "the worst of all possible novels"?
Did you know that Freddie Barnes , a wide receiver at Bowling Green , is one of three finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff Award ?
Did you know that the day after a UCLA art student set the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church afire, the pastor of the church prayed for forgiveness for the arsonist?
Did you know that former Broadway actor Paul Ballantyne was born in a town that today has only about 200 residents?
Did you know that Beau's All Natural Brewing Company of Vankleek Hill distributes its Lug Tread lagered ale to LCBOs throughout Eastern Ontario in German-made ceramic jugs?
Did you know that Harry Hurt created the Hurt Report , described as "the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century"?
Did you know that although in theory a common mineral below the earth's surface, coyoteite has been found at the surface only in one volcanic pipe ?
Did you know that Daithí Ó Drónaí and his electronic synthesised fiddle progressed to the final of the first series of The All Ireland Talent Show ?
Did you know that the Irish Grand National steeplechase is hosted at the Fairyhouse Racecourse ?
Did you know that ZumoDrive is a HybridCloud system that allows for an iPhone to act as if it could store gigabytes more data than it actually can?
Did you know that brothers Johan and Werner Christie both obtained the rank of Major General in the Royal Norwegian Air Force ?
Did you know that the size of Fish Lake in Oregon , USA , taking water over the Cascade Divide via the Cascade Canal from nearby Fourmile Lake , is now three times larger than it was before 1902?
Did you know that the Himariote Greek dialect retains several archaic features no longer found in standard modern Greek ?
Did you know that the world's first offshore oil wells began operations in as early as 1896 when oil was drilled from piers along the coast of Summerland , California , USA ?
Did you know that the name of Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Quebec is said to refer to the exuberance of an early settler's wife?
Did you know that Canadian police were called to a riot when " County Leitrim 's favourite son" Pat Quinn brought The Rolling Stones to North America in 1965?
Did you know that the floating barnacle Dosima fascicularis sometimes grows on turtles and even sea snakes ?
Did you know that Moghul Emperor Akbar became vegetarian, banned slaughter of animals, and gave up fishing and hunting after being influenced by Jain monk, Hiravijaya who preached non-violence ?
Did you know that Penzance A.F.C. competed in ten of the first sixteen finals of the Cornwall Senior Cup , winning six of them?
Did you know that when actress Vanessa Marshall learned that she would be playing the character Mary-Jane Watson in the Spectacular Spider-Man episode " Catalysts " , she dropped to her knees and began hyperventilating ?
Did you know that in 1909, the Thamshavn Line became the first electrified railway in Norway ?
Did you know that trash cans in France are known as poubelles because Eugène Poubelle first imposed them on Paris ?
Did you know that the Royal National College for the Blind was the subject of the 2007 Cutting Edge documentary Blind Young Things ?
Did you know that St. Timothy Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California , has an antique gold leaf altarpiece believed to have been made in Spain in the 1600s?
Did you know that Vietnamese scholar Đào Duy Từ was forbidden from taking Le Dynasty 's court examination because his father was a folk singer?
Did you know that a 1999 fire in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church caused an estimated $1.2 million in damage?
Did you know that the music on Slut 's album StillNo1 has been compared to a variety of different artists, amongst them Radiohead , Depeche Mode , The Divine Comedy , Sigur Rós and The Beatles ?
Did you know that David Morehouse , president of the Pittsburgh Penguins , served on the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton , Al Gore , and John Kerry ?
Did you know that the Redmond Caves in Oregon were considered for potato storage as early as the 1910s?
Did you know that Pete Heine participated in the Berlin Airlift , then became the crew chief on an F-86 Sabre jet, and was later mayor of Baker , Louisiana ?
Did you know that initial deliveries of the Polikarpov I-3 in 1929 were to units in the Belorussian Military District , where they replaced the Grigorovich I-2 ?
Did you know that Jan Leighton played over 1,200 famous persons in television and print advertisements, and 1,800 more on radio?
Did you know that John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun , tried to blame the British loss in the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego on William Shirley ?
Did you know that Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?
Did you know that the medieval English judge Ralph Basset earned a mention in the 1124 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for hanging 44 thieves?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb character Perry the Platypus was made a platypus because of the animal's striking appearance?
Did you know that Akira Iwasaki was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police in wartime Japan ?
Did you know that a noted 20th century antiquary considered the four most interesting ruinous fortifications on Coll to be Dùn an Achaidh , Dùn Anlaimh , Dùn Dubh , and Dùn Morbhaidh ?
Did you know that Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner told readers he was a transsexual in a 2007 essay entitled "Old Mike, new Christine"?
Did you know that reform of trusts law eventually contained in the United Kingdom 's Trustee Act 2000 had been requested since 1982?
Did you know that Émilien Amaury left school at 12 to ride a delivery bicycle, became head of propaganda in the government of Vichy France aged 30, and then founded the Amaury publishing empire?
Did you know that the highest-ranked British casualty in the 1878 Battle of Ali Masjid suffered a gunshot wound that drove a metal locket with his wife's photograph through his heart?
Did you know that ESPN The Magazine ' s October 9, 2009, Body Issue sold more issues at the news stand than any other issue of the magazine in the prior two years?
Did you know that after performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for three decades, Anna Bethell became its Stage Director in 1947?
Did you know that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath , who inspired his play Zoot Suit , "one of the heroines of the 20th century"?
Did you know that the Embassy of Poland in London on Portland Place didn't open until ten years after the country became independent?
Did you know that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots , a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row?
Did you know that the Red Dragon was the flagship of the first voyage of the East India Company ?
Did you know that retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican -leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat?