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Did you know that The Back Porch Majority was chosen by Life magazine to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965?
Did you know that the Women's Professional Basketball League , which played its first game in 1978 in Milwaukee in front of 7,800 fans, collapsed after three seasons and an estimated US$ 14 million in total losses?
Did you know that tree-ring dating shows that the wood for the rood screen in St Brothen's Church, Llanfrothen , Gwynedd , Wales, came from trees felled between 1496 and 1506?
Did you know that scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station ?
Did you know that ordering "half and half" at Big Spring Cafe in Huntsville, Alabama , gets you a bowl with equal portions of chili con carne and Brunswick stew ?
Did you know that the location of the Silver King Mine was first discovered by a soldier building a road during the Apache Wars , who found black rocks that flattened when struck?
Did you know that socialite Judith Peabody was known for clothes she wore from Bill Blass and Donald Brooks , as well as for legal aid to Lenny Bruce and her efforts at Gay Men's Health Crisis for people with AIDS ?
Did you know that Cardiff School of Art & Design , established in 1865, is the oldest constituent part of University of Wales Institute, Cardiff ?
Did you know that Nathan Quinones felt so relieved after leaving his position as New York City School Chancellor , that he said he "felt like a little bird", singing to himself as he walked down the street?
Did you know that in 2009, the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration began planning for a Chinese-built icebreaker due to its expanding polar exploration activities?
Did you know that the Canadian television series Tabloid (1953–1960) regularly featured weatherman Percy Saltzman 's flipping of a chalk ?
Did you know that the Hovis advertisement Go On Lad compresses 122 years of British history into 122 seconds?
Did you know that the jury at the 2003 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival took longer to award the Grand Prix to Lamp than any other commercial in the festival's history?
Did you know that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang in the Bach cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102 for the tenth Sunday after Trinity , with conductor Benjamin Britten ?
Did you know that the Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean"?
Did you know that architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno designed all stations on Norway's first railway line, the Hoved Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll ?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's song " Nebraska " was inspired by Springsteen seeing Terrence Malick 's film Badlands on television?
Did you know that the Thrangu Monastery , the first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada, with a 4 metre golden Buddha, was officially opened in Richmond, British Columbia , on 25 July 2010?
Did you know that the Devil's Jumps , on the South Downs of West Sussex in southern England , are considered to be the best preserved Bronze Age barrow group in Sussex ?
Did you know that Duane Earl Pope‎ turned himself in to law enforcement the day he first appeared on the FBI's 10 most wanted list ?
Did you know that Huntersville is unique amongst Norfolk's 19th-century neighborhoods, in that it was unplanned and developed over time?
Did you know that the Comet Hale-Bopp inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Hale Bopp for string orchestra , which ends with a boy soprano singing How Brightly Shines the Morning Star ?
Did you know that Operation Grand Slam in 1952 was a major naval exercise of the newly formed NATO alliance, with over 200 warships?
Did you know that Michigan halfback Ted Kress set a Big Ten single-game rushing record with 218 yards in his second conference game?
Did you know that for the What's it going to take? advertising campaign , celebrities such as Anna Friel and Fern Britton were made up to appear to have been the victims of domestic abuse ?
Did you know that research by Gerson Goldhaber on supernovae provided evidence that the rate of the expansion of the universe was increasing due to what was termed " dark energy "?
Did you know that Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (of Hollywood film score fame) composed his first opera, Der Ring des Polykrates , when he was only seventeen years old?
Did you know that modern humans have been found to inhabit various countries for periods ranging from almost 200,000 years to less than 800 years?
Did you know that artist Walter Tyndale painted landscapes and buildings in England that inspired Thomas Hardy 's famous " Wessex " novels?
Did you know that the world's Christian population is growing slightly faster than the world's population ?
Did you know that the annual Pflasterspektakel ('pavement spectacle') in Linz , Austria , features over 400 international street artists and attracts some 200,000 visitors each year?
Did you know that by the early 1900s, famine , civil war and sleeping sickness had reduced the population of the Baganda people to around a third of its size in the prior century?
Did you know that when the three Monarch -class battleships were commissioned, they were only half the size of other battleships in foreign navies?
Did you know that Harrison Howell Dodge , who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon , often slept in the house as a night guard?
Did you know that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County , Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?
Did you know that Polly Morgan is a London based British artist who uses taxidermy to create works of art ?
Did you know that the first episode of The Force , a 2009 documentary series, followed a murder investigation after the burnt corpse of a woman was found in a suitcase?
Did you know that Tirana Park on the Artificial Lake once contained a memorial to Sadijé Toptani , the mother of King Zog I of Albania , but it was destroyed by the Communist regime ?
Did you know that the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions?
Did you know that the Little Pamir valley in Afghanistan supports populations of Marco Polo sheep , ibex , and other wild animals?
Did you know that in 2010, the Cotswold Air Show commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain , featuring aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane ?
Did you know that the new Gaza Mall aims to "develop a marketing and leisure culture" in Gaza ?
Did you know that Samuel Gurney Cresswell was the first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage ?
Did you know that 900 volunteers completed the initial work on Camano Island State Park in Washington in a single day?
Did you know that the fossil mammalian tooth LACM 149371 shows resemblances with some ungulates , rodents , and multituberculates , but most likely belongs to the extinct Gondwanatheria ?
Did you know that Space Chair holds the world record for the highest, high-definition TV commercial ?
Did you know that the 1949–50 City College of New York men's college basketball team is the only one to win the NCAA Tournament and National Invitation Tournament in the same season?
Did you know that the redundant church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu in Powys , Wales, is a venue for the annual Talgarth Festival ?
Did you know that when Lemrick Nelson was tried in 1992 for the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum , a few of the largely African-American jury that acquitted him later attended a party that honored him as a "hero"?
Did you know that Sportsklubben av 1909 was the first sports club in Norway explicitly for workers ?
Did you know that Dale Webster set the Guinness World Record for "the most consecutive days spent surfing", at 10,407?
Did you know that Wyandot chief Roundhead had his own brother executed for siding with the United States prior to the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad ?
Did you know that despite being shown only three times in its entirety, the TV ad Old Lions is credited with increasing sales of Carlsberg lager in the UK by over four hundred percent?
Did you know that Motiejus Šumauskas , chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1967–1975, was a partisan fighter during World War II ?
Did you know that the National Academy of Mime and Acting , an old Swedish school, will merge with the university college Dramatiska Institutet in 2011?
Did you know that in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia , the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors?
Did you know that the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels?
Did you know that the Chicago Half Marathon begins and ends near the Museum of Science and Industry ?
Did you know that in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives ?
Did you know that the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty 's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state?
Did you know that finds from the Broighter Gold hoard have featured on one pound coins from two different countries?
Did you know that many crew members began to cry while filming hospital scenes for the Swedish film Glowing Stars , because they thought the scenes were emotional?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Derwen , Denbighshire , Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character?
Did you know that Władysław Wawrzyniak , one of the founders of the Republic of Ostrów , was among the victims of the Katyn massacre ?
Did you know that the inaugural Paris Marathon in 1896 was won by Len Hurst , an English brick-maker?
Did you know that between 1560 and 1640, the business of the English Court of King's Bench rose tenfold?
Did you know that, unlike many other monasteries and churches of the time, Marko's Monastery experienced almost no damage after Skopje fell under Ottoman rule?
Did you know that during The Trillion Dollar Campaign , The Zimbabwean newspaper put up billboards printed on genuine Zimbabwean banknotes ?
Did you know that almost none of Robert Streater 's 17th-century architectural painting survives except the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford , which was restored in 2008?
Did you know that Eric Liu 's 1998 book, The Accidental Asian , was praised by Time magazine for its balanced approach toward racial topics?
Did you know that the Republic of Ostrów was a short-lived autonomous republic created in the aftermath of World War I ?
Did you know that Dennis Fitzgerald won a gold medal in wrestling at the 1963 Pan American Games , and set the Michigan Wolverines football record with a 99-yard kickoff return ?
Did you know that the solar panels on the Georgetown Intercultural Center were designed with rough glass to prevent interference with planes at Reagan National Airport ?
Did you know that the Sajur is the only river in Syria that joins the Euphrates on its right bank?
Did you know that Gerald Garson , a New York Supreme Court Justice who was later convicted of accepting bribes, assured the lawyer bribing him: “Justice is being done”?
Did you know that the Old Church of St Nicholas in Uphill , Somerset , England, which was built around 1080, is still used for services even though the nave has no roof?
Did you know that the web content lifecycle can be so complex that most experts do not agree on descriptions of the number, name, or type of stages to include in the process ?
Did you know that Father Charles Beirne , S.J. , advised the United States on Latin American affairs while serving as vice president of Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador ?
Did you know that a Soviet and former Russian Imperial and Azerbaijani military commander, combrig Jamshid Nakhichevanski , became a victim of the Great Purge and was executed in 1938 after his third arrest by NKVD ?
Did you know that Bill Gray appeared at every baseball position except pitcher during his professional career, including playing seven different positions during his debut season with the Philadelphia Phillies ?
Did you know that the Bolivian Socialist Republican Party supported the military governments that ruled the country in 1935–1937, 1939–1940 and 1940–1943?
Did you know that the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York , and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?
Did you know that although the Albion, New York , post office is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), it is not old enough to be a contributing property to the NRHP's Orleans County Courthouse Historic District ?
Did you know that the Japanese battleship Kirishima was sunk in the middle of the night by an unseen ship ?
Did you know that art historian Eugene Goossen saw abstract paintings by Doug Ohlson as depicting "yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red-orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black"?
Did you know that the Special Air Service used LVT Buffalos to cross the Rhine river during Operation Archway ?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Phat Wilson was a member of three Allan Cup winning teams in the 1920s as Canada's senior champions?
Did you know that Bailey's Dam saved part of the Union Navy 's Mississippi River Squadron during the Civil War ?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Opos led the regiment of the Exkoubitoi , established in the 5th century, in its last battle at Dyrrhachium in 1081?
Did you know that Swedish director Lisa Siwe 's feature-length film debut, Glowing Stars , earned her the Guldbagge Award for "Best Director"?
Did you know that anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower fought for the British Army as a guerrilla with the Naga people during World War II ?
Did you know that the Norwegian multi-sports club Ski does not offer the sport of skiing ?
Did you know that, on 6 June 1944 , half the 12th SS Panzer Division were sent to deal with dummy parachutists from Operation Titanic ?
Did you know that, in 2009, African Barrick Gold produced 716,000 ounces of gold from the Tulawaka , Bulyanhulu , Buzwagi , and North Mara Gold Mines ?
Did you know that the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan ?
Did you know that the German Catholic magazine Hochland , founded by Carl Muth in 1903, published regular contributions by historians Theodor Schieffer and Heinrich Lützeler , and philosopher Peter Wust ?
Did you know that, in Andy Beene 's first season playing with the Milwaukee Brewers , he only played in one game?
Did you know that Public Employees Federation president Kenneth Brynien was elected in 2006 by a margin of 850 votes out of 14,898 cast, but was unopposed for reelection in 2009?
Did you know that Julie von Massow , a Prussian noblewoman, started a prayer movement in 1862 to reunite Lutheranism and Catholicism ?
Did you know that the earliest known Chairman Mao badges were made from used toothpaste tubes?
Did you know that the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish , Louisiana , ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell ?
Did you know that the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero ') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula ?
Did you know that people tend to see the world as a grey gloom when they are depressed ?
Did you know that as superintendent of Mount Vernon starting in 1937, Charles Wall would ride on horseback to inspect the grounds, which he saw restored to the way they were in the days of George Washington ?
Did you know that the Cretaceous mammal Argentodites is known only from a blade-like tooth with eight cusps arranged in a row?
Did you know that the historian Mark T. Carleton penned a 1971 study entitled "Politics and Punishment" which described a sudden change in racial demographics in the Louisiana penal system?
Did you know that Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point ?
Did you know that the Aberdeen Student Show has happened every single year since 1921, and has featured Flying Pigs ?
Did you know that Jim Neu 's first dance theater production, Aerobia , told the story of six characters at a health club of the future where people come to exercise their "sociomuscularity"?
Did you know that the BMW Mega City Vehicle is expected to be the first mass production urban electric car featuring a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic body?
Did you know that Claude Aveline met Jean Vigo in a health clinic and 28 years later founded an award in his honor ?
Did you know that the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina held a mass anti-imperialist rally on May 1, 1903, the first May Day rally in the Philippines , in spite of being denied permits by the United States' Taft administration?
Did you know that a co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America , Stuart F. Feldman , "single-handedly ... won billions of dollars for veterans programs" through his lobbying efforts?
Did you know that Spain 's Aldeadávila Dam , completed in 1962, was featured in the 1965 David Lean film Doctor Zhivago ?
Did you know that Chris Coghlan , a first-round draft pick of the Florida Marlins in 2006, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2009?
Did you know that bear's ears grow on the ground in New South Wales ?
Did you know that the Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company has been champion of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival six times?
Did you know that Johannes Kringlebotn , who edited the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad after the Nazis usurped it, had been among Norway's top-ten middle distance runners ?
Did you know that the Philadelphia transit strike of 1944 started when black transit workers were allowed to hold jobs previously reserved for whites?
Did you know that Willie Irvine was the English Football League First Division 's top goalscorer in the 1965–66 season ?
Did you know that modern Pentecostalism and its offshoots developed from events in North Carolina and Tennessee during the late 19th century known as the Latter Rain Movement ?
Did you know that a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark 's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt ?
Did you know that the four-volume work on press media history in Norway, Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 starts off 103 years before the first Norwegian newspaper?
Did you know that Firo Prochainezo, a character of the Baccano! light novel and anime series, wears glasses in an attempt to look smarter?
Did you know that The Ecumenical Council is Salvador Dalí 's vision of the meeting of heaven and earth, inspired by the first communication between the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 426 years?
Did you know that after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold ?
Did you know that the GO-Urban project in Ontario, Canada , planned to install maglev automated guideway transit systems in Toronto , Hamilton and Ottawa , but was cancelled when the technology proved too expensive?
Did you know that Odd Erling Melsom edited Nazi-affiliated newspapers both during and after WWII; Fritt Folk and Folk og Land ?
Did you know that the World Chess Hall of Fame originally used cardboard plaques to honor past grandmasters , and was located in the basement of a New Windsor, New York , building?
Did you know that the ethnographic collection of Swedish missionary Karl Edvard Laman and his wife included 12 human skulls?
Did you know that the fragmentary fossil jaw TNM 02067 may represent the only known mainland African member of the enigmatic Gondwanatheria ?
Did you know that after 33 years in jail as the "Elevator Bandit", 63-year-old Arthur Williams went on a final crime spree with a gun in one hand, a cane in the other and an oxygen tank hooked up to his nose?
Did you know that the leftist Collective Labor Movement was the largest trade union centre in the Philippines in the years just before World War II ?
Did you know that Olaf Gjerløw , grandfather of Socialist politician Tora Aasland , was a conservative editor of Morgenbladet ?
Did you know that Frankie Laine 's song, " I Believe ", spent eighteen weeks as a UK number-one single in the 1950s ?
Did you know that Kåre Langvik-Johannessen and Albert L. Fliflet both worked with texts by Grillparzer and Vondel , but won prizes for translating other, different works?
Did you know that Tuxlith Chapel , a redundant church in Milland , West Sussex , was one of the first churches to be owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches ?
Did you know that the historian and educator John Ardis Cawthon wrote about poor white settlers in the Louisiana hills, lonely cemeteries , ghost towns , and even his own ancestors?
Did you know that Chief Justice of California nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye worked as a blackjack dealer in Reno, Nevada , after graduating from UC Davis School of Law ?
Did you know that the Lead Mosque of Shkodër , Albania , received its name from once having cupolas covered in lead ?
Did you know that the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was first presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, but eliminated by 1981?
Did you know that in 1958, Trudy Späth-Schweizer became the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland ?
Did you know that sports writer Vic Ziegel co-wrote The Non-Runner's Book , which satirized the sport of marathon running ?
Did you know that Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is to trial two fire bikes fitted with water and foam tanks and a 30-metre hose rig capable of fighting a fire for two minutes?
Did you know that Gofraid Donn was blinded and castrated by a follower of his uncle , and later jointly ruled the Kingdom of Man and the Isles with his uncle?
Did you know that art collector Rolf Stenersen donated his home, the functionalist Villa Stenersen designed by Arne Korsmo , to the State of Norway as a home for the Prime Minister ?
Did you know that Mount Albion Cemetery in Albion, New York , has one of the rare butternut trees in the region?
Did you know that Antonello da Messina 's altarpiece for San Cassiano in Venice disappeared from the church during the 17th century, only to be found later in the private collection of Archduke Leopold William ?
Did you know that World War II flying ace Hiromichi Shinohara once scored as many as 11 victories on a single day, setting a record in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ?
Did you know that it was feared that the Hindiya Barrage on the Euphrates could not fulfill its function?
Did you know that studio executive Simon Kornblit , who oversaw the release of Jurassic Park for Universal Pictures , became an actor after his retirement ?
Did you know that a surgeon carried out an endoscopy on the CryoSat-2 satellite after a problem was found during final preparations for launch?
Did you know that the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party -led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist -led ' Red Sports ' has been described as an early example of the popular front line?
Did you know that Adolfo Kaminsky made forged IDs for Jewish refugees, South American leftists and North American draft dodgers ?
Did you know that Minuscule 759 contains only the beginning of the Pericope Adulterae ( John 7:53–8:2) and lacks the major part of it?
Did you know that the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota ?