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Did you know that Gloria J. Romero is leading a campaign in the California Legislature to remove serpentine as the official state rock because it is a source of cancer-causing asbestos ?
Did you know that four of the five candidates currently running to be leader of the British Labour Party have backed a graduate tax as an alternative to tuition fees?
Did you know that actress and women's suffrage activist Fola La Follette also picketed with and spoke on behalf of striking garment workers?
Did you know that Tranquil Star is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes , now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate ?
Did you know that Zbigniew Babiński , a Polish military and sports aviator who constructed gliders before WWI , was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre ?
Did you know that " Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) ", originally a pop hit for Kris Kristofferson , was also a country music hit for Roger Miller and Tompall & the Glaser Brothers ?
Did you know that Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama ?
Did you know that the geisha would rub nightingale droppings on their faces to help remove their heavy makeup ?
Did you know that there are more than 50 protected natural areas in Colombia , including: Cali , "El mono Hernández" , Estoraques , Hermosas , McBean , Munchique , Nevados , Puracé , Rosario y San Bernardo , Salamanca , Santa Marta , Tamá and Tuparro ?
Did you know that the Byzantine writer and diplomat Leo Choirosphaktes was imprisoned on his first embassy to Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria , but continued negotiations from his cell?
Did you know that the French ironclad Reine Blanche bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax during 5–16 July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines center Alan Bovard coached the Michigan Tech football team to its first undefeated season in 1948?
Did you know that among the orienteering pioneers in IL Heming in the 1930s was Per Bergsland , one of the three men who escaped to freedom in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944?
Did you know that patients of French physician Georges Phillipe Trousseau included a Hawaiian king , a Scottish author , and a Roman Catholic saint ?
Did you know that a door-to-door salesman sold a US$ 1,700 Kirby vacuum cleaner to a woman with Alzheimer's who already owned one and lived alone in a mobile home ?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War 's Battles of Prek Klok I and II , 13 times more Viet Cong were killed than American troops?
Did you know that "Woody" Hastings was one of the founders of circadian biology ( circadian rhythms )?
Did you know that the quantum rotor model can be used to describe superconducting Josephson junction arrays?
Did you know that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is on death row in Iran for the crime of adultery , and was originally to be executed by stoning ?
Did you know that Wolf Point , which was part of the original 58-block 1830 plan of Chicago , was the original social center of the city and is now owned by the Kennedy family ?
Did you know that Bryan Hextall of the New York Rangers scored the Stanley Cup -winning goal in 1940 , their last championship for 54 years?
Did you know that the VW Beetle 's Think Small has been called the best North American advertising campaign of the 20th century?
Did you know that civil engineer George Matthew McNaughton was involved with the construction of Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland ?
Did you know that recent molecular and morphological research has led to the identification of five species within the Malagasy bat species Miniopterus manavi — M. aelleni , M. brachytragos , M. griveaudi , M. mahafaliensis , and M. manavi itself?
Did you know that Admiral Sir John Byng was executed by firing squad on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch ?
Did you know that 350 West Mart Center was owned by the Kennedy family for over 20 years and sits on land that they owned for over 50 years?
Did you know that Ann Waldron initially wrote children's books, then turned to biographies of authors from the Southern United States , and at age 78 began writing murder mysteries set at Princeton University ?
Did you know that Tryon D. Lewis was elected in 2008 to the Texas House of Representatives as an ally of Speaker Tom Craddick , who was then toppled by intraparty rival Joe Straus ?
Did you know that Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years?
Did you know that in 1942 only two men returned from Operation Anglo , the Special Boat Section raid on the island of Rhodes ?
Did you know that in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany , the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931?
Did you know that French ironclad Alma blockaded the Prussian corvettes Hertha and Medusa in the Japanese port of Yokohama during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71?
Did you know that Commelina sphaerorrhizoma , a south-central African dayflower , was first collected in 1906, but not formally described until 2009?
Did you know that a cave in Okinawa is called the Cave of the Negroes because three apparently African American US Marines were killed by villagers and their bodies dumped in the cave?
Did you know that Kapyl , a town in modern Belarus , was listed in the atlas of Ortelius of 1574?
Did you know that the water cricket Velia caprai can travel twice as fast after spitting on the water?
Did you know that Robert S. Lancaster created the website StopSylvia.com because he found Sylvia Browne 's claims of psychic knowledge about missing children to be "incredibly offensive"?
Did you know that "little white", a mushroom in the fungal genus Trogia , has been implicated in the deaths of about 400 people in Yunnan , China?
Did you know that the 2007 Indy Japan 300 , an IndyCar Series at Twin Ring Motegi , was the only race in that series held outside North America ?
Did you know that Swedish physician Nils Rosén von Rosenstein is considered to be the founder of modern pediatrics with his 1764 book The diseases of children, and their remedies ?
Did you know that reporting by Martin Waldron on how construction expenses for the Florida Turnpike quadrupled from original estimates earned the St. Petersburg Times its first Pulitzer Prize ?
Did you know that in the 89-year history of the Royal Australian Air Force , only three officers have been promoted to air chief marshal , the service's highest active rank?
Did you know that in an attempt to "beef him up", Watford manager Graham Taylor placed a then 17-year-old Nigel Gibbs on a steak and Guinness diet?
Did you know that although formally established by U.S. President Bill Clinton , the President’s Management Council has existed in various forms since the Reagan administration ?
Did you know that the 19th-century mime Charles Deburau , son of the illustrious Jean Gaspard , played before adoring audiences in the French provinces—but found little success in Paris?
Did you know that area residents took legal action over the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston 's construction of a large retreat house at the St. Methodios Faith and Heritage Center in Contoocook, New Hampshire ?
Did you know that the Northern Utina tribe took the forefront in the Timucua Rebellion of 1665, a revolt by several Timucua tribes against the colonial government of Spanish Florida ?
Did you know that Alanngorsuaq , a mountain in Greenland , has reservoirs providing 882,000 m 3 of water?
Did you know that Fulham player Maurice Cook scored the first ever goal in the Football League Cup ?
Did you know that Chinese MiG pilot Zhang Jihui was credited for shooting down American Sabre ace George Davis on February 10, 1952, until Russian pilot Mikhail A. Averin disputed the claim 40 years later?
Did you know that before "the mouth that roared" was mayor of Jersey City , he was vice-president of Hudson County Community College ?
Did you know that the Alma -class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the French ironclad Belliqueuse suitable for foreign deployments?
Did you know that the Laurel Run Dam , an earthen embankment dam that failed during the 1977 Johnstown flood , caused a total of US$5.3 million in damages?
Did you know that Garrett Rivas , a placekicker , is the all-time leading scorer in Michigan Wolverines football history?
Did you know that in the history of Gaborone , the city was attacked by South Africa four times, in 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1988, after being accused of harboring African National Congress terrorists?
Did you know that the Hudson Utility Coupe could be used "either as a car or a truck"?
Did you know that Josiah Royce was the first philosopher to address the idea of loyalty , although writers in other fields had previously considered the concept?
Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Cameron Henry in 2010 failed to gain approval of his proposed legislation to abolish his state's office of lieutenant governor ?
Did you know that Military Road in Arlington County, Virginia , was built by U.S. Army troops in just three days?
Did you know that the first diamonds in Namibia were found near the village of Berseba in 1898?
Did you know that the Prix Blumenthal was a prize of 20,000 francs awarded to up-and-coming French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians?
Did you know that the Historic Chapels Trust preserves 18 redundant churches in England?
Did you know that German classical tenor Marcus Ullmann has taken part in the recording of all Lieder of Franz Schubert , more than 700, set to the poetry of over 115 writers?
Did you know that Interurban Press , a former publisher of books about streetcars and railways , also published the railfan -oriented magazines, Pacific RailNews and Passenger Train Journal ?
Did you know that Operation Lam Son II during the Vietnam War was an attempt to combine security sweeps with winning hearts and minds by organizing village fairs?
Did you know that Crime and Punishment is a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky ′s classic novel , performed by just three actors, with each playing multiple roles?
Did you know that in the 1970 presidential election in DR Congo , Joseph Mobuto received more votes than the number of registered voters?
Did you know that Clara Claiborne Park was credited with writing one of the first books to allay the blame that so-called " refrigerator mothers " were made to feel at having caused their child's autism ?
Did you know that the buffalo jump at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana was used for approximately 2000 years by various Native American tribes ?
Did you know that the luxury apartment building 1049 5th Avenue is not actually on Fifth Avenue ?
Did you know that R. V. Truitt , a World War I fighter pilot , studied Chesapeake Bay oysters for 30 years?
Did you know that according to a legend, Bachorza manor is haunted ?
Did you know that during 2002 and 2003, professional wrestler Justin McIsaac would make three-hour drives from New Hampshire to Massachusetts so he could compete in Yankee Pro Wrestling ?
Did you know that the United States men's volleyball team won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics , after not competing at the three previous Games?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Weir was kidnapped as a child, and decades later regularly had to prevent her mother from being kidnapped?
Did you know that the French ironclad Belliqueuse once served as the China Station flagship but was later used for target practise by the French Navy?
Did you know that Sarama is a bitch – in Hindu mythology – who snatches human foetuses from the womb?
Did you know that with 16.33 million American viewers, " Warning, It's Dirty " is the highest-rated episode of Two and a Half Men since "David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie", which had 16.52 million viewers?
Did you know that after the French ironclad Atalante was condemned in Saigon in 1887, she fell into such a state of disrepair that "she foundered one night and gradually sank into the mud"?
Did you know that the States of Maryland and Colorado have laws specifically prohibiting newspaper theft , including the taking of free newspapers, with the intent of preventing another from reading the newspaper?
Did you know that U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Graham Martin held George W. Webber implicitly responsible for a mortar attack that killed 32 South Vietnamese children?
Did you know that, in 2010, American professional wrestler Scott C. Despres twice defeated Antonio Thomas in the space of a month?
Did you know that PWS-3 was the first sports aircraft manufactured by the Polish aerospace industry?
Did you know that after Henry Ciccarone called his 1979 squad "the greatest Johns Hopkins lacrosse team ever", Sports Illustrated wrote, "It might be easier to name the most beautiful Miss America "?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines , hosting the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2003 , set the Big Ten Conference single-game attendance record?
Did you know that Italian priest Pierino Gelmini remained a respected member of the Roman Catholic priesthood between his imprisonment in the 1970s and indictment in 2010?
Did you know that the French ironclad Armide served as the flagship of the French Levant Squadron in 1874–75?
Did you know that Ruby Brooks recorded "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" for Zonophone Records in 1902?
Did you know that by the early 19th century, trett , an allowance of 4 pounds per 104 of commodities imported to Great Britain for dust, sand, and other waste, had fallen into disuse?
Did you know that the newly spreading practice in East Africa of flashblood , injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV "?
Did you know that John Howard explained his failed attempt at establishing a new sport at DePauw University by saying, "Either I'm a lousy teacher or kids in Indiana just didn't like lacrosse "?
Did you know that in 1946 the Red Flag Communist Party initiated a guerrilla insurgency against British rule in Burma ?
Did you know that the work of American artist Sanford Biggers has been characterized by meditation and improvisation?
Did you know that the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool , Lancashire , was built as a thanksgiving for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster being relatively undamaged in the Second World War ?
Did you know that musicologist Olav Gurvin co-edited the first Norwegian music encyclopedia in 1949?
Did you know that in 1958, Army lacrosse coach Jim Adams fielded 33 different players against Duke to prevent running up the score , but his team still won 21–2?
Did you know that on 3 July 1877 the French ironclad Thétis rammed her sister ship Reine Blanche , which had to be run ashore to prevent her from sinking?
Did you know that in 2000, porters at Sotheby's auction disposed of a box in a crushing machine, accidentally destroying a painting worth about US$ 157,000 inside?
Did you know that Al Heagy , National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee and Maryland head coach, also served as a university professor and the mayor of University Park, Maryland , during his coaching tenure?
Did you know that two British monarchs took the crown at Baynard's Castle , a medieval palace in central London?
Did you know that Google Personalized Search , a feature of Google Search , returns search results based on previous search queries made by the same person, and which results they clicked on?
Did you know that Rose Van Thyn , a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck , became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport , Louisiana ?
Did you know that the U.S. Justice Department tried to cite the merger of Detroit-based chains Cunningham Drug and Kinsel Drug as a violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act ?
Did you know that the largest landslide triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake , the Yasman valley flowslide, had a volume of 245 Mm 3 and killed about 4,000 people?
Did you know that between the Reformation , when it became redundant , and the mid-19th century, when it was restored, Longworth Chapel in Herefordshire was used for cider making?
Did you know that the largest social graph , which represents the relationships between online users, is owned by Facebook , the world's largest social networking service ?
Did you know that the Ribbon Creek incident at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island resulted in the relief "without prejudice" of Major General Joseph C. Burger ?
Did you know that after Norwegian soccer club Stord Sunnhordland FK was discontinued, the chairman of the owners called it "a club without soul"?
Did you know that Fort Defiance in Iowa was built to protect a gristmill and sawmill during the Dakota War of 1862 ?
Did you know that although he was expelled by the Jesuit order for supporting the ordination of women , William R. Callahan insisted he was just "following the example of Jesus, who was never willing to shut up"?
Did you know that the Oak Circle Historic District was the first historic district to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmette, Illinois ?
Did you know that Randy Corman said juvenile car thieves "should not look at incarceration like summer camp", after an incident where a juvenile sought arrest hoping to be incarcerated together with his friends?
Did you know that Inderjit Singh , member of the Parliament of Singapore , started six businesses ?
Did you know that a professional wrestler broke his leg at Ring of Honor 's pay-per-view , The Big Bang! , but was still able to win his match?
Did you know that the Landing Ship, Infantry HMS Invicta took part in Operation Jubilee and Operation Overlord ?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team 's many high-achievers include Tyrone Wheatley in 1993 , Mike Hart in 2004 , and records breaker John Navarre of the 2002 team ?
Did you know that " Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari " was the first release by the Japanese J-pop music group Supercell to feature a human singer?
Did you know that Hinduism allows voluntary fasting to death, known as Prayopavesa , for a person who has no desire or ambition left and no responsibilities remaining in life?
Did you know that Maine author C. J. Stevens amazed many of his readers by revealing that gold nuggets can be found by panning certain rivers?
Did you know that Private James Pym won the Medal of Honor for carrying water to wounded soldiers while under heavy fire during the Battle of Little Bighorn ?
Did you know that the earliest settlements of Shiites in the Netherlands date back to the 1960s?
Did you know that Parisian artist Paule Marrot landed a job at Renault developing bright colors for the forthcoming Dauphine after writing the company to say the cars of postwar Paris were uniformly somber?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team won five consecutive Big Ten Conference championships from 1988 to 1992 , with six players of the 1991 team being selected in the 1992 NFL Draft ?
Did you know that the All Burma Trade Union Congress was banned in the wake of the March 1948 crackdown on the Communist Party of Burma ?
Did you know that in 1975 , Julie Ann Brown became the first American woman to win the World Cross Country Championships ?
Did you know that Captain Aub Koch of G-AEUH , a Qantas airliner shot down by Japanese fighter planes in 1942, also survived being shot down again in 1943?
Did you know that footballer Andy Leaning was named man of the match following York City 's 3–1 extra time defeat at Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round in 1986, with his performance being described as "heroic"?
Did you know that Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg contained the graves of mathematician Leonhard Euler and Ukraine 's national poet Taras Shevchenko ?
Did you know that Takayutpi , who reigned from 1526 to 1539, was the last sovereign king of Hanthawaddy Pegu ?
Did you know that Minneapolis ' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
Did you know that Miroslav Tichý is a photographer who took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown in the Czech Republic , using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes and tin cans?
Did you know that Hugh Main , an Australian politician, was a member of the Progressive Party 's rural "True Blues" faction that evolved into the Country Party ?
Did you know that the American Classic Arcade Museum located at Funspot has been called "the Louvre of the ' 8-bit ' world"?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Fame forward George Hay scored the first goal in the history of the Chicago Blackhawks in 1926?
Did you know that Béla Bartók 's Suite, Op. 14 originally featured five movements until Bartók discarded the second planned movement before publication?
Did you know that in the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing , Stephen A. Mikulak sponsored a bill, later signed into law, that would impose the death penalty for terrorists who kill anyone in New Jersey ?
Did you know that Sylvia Salvesen , a member of Oslo 's high society, testified in 1946 about her experiences as a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp ?
Did you know that the 1999 Michigan Wolverines football team , featuring 2007 NFL MVP and Athlete of the Year Tom Brady , holds the all-time NCAA single-season attendance record?
Did you know that prior to releasing her first EP , a song by singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva was featured on the Josh Groban album Awake ?
Did you know that critics found Lula 3D ' s "Bouncin' Boobs Technology" unrealistic?
Did you know that Belarus contains large, but undeveloped reserves of oil shale ?
Did you know that Chet D. Traylor , a former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, has entered the 2010 Republican primary to challenge U.S. Senator David Vitter ?
Did you know that in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. , the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right to boycott peacefully?
Did you know that from the 1880s to the early 1930s there was a significant Chinese immigrant population in Mexico ?
Did you know that Burmese communist leader H. N. Goshal was executed in an inner-party purge in 1967, after having been denounced as "Burma's Liu Shaoqi "?
Did you know that Jerusalem 's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals " and "Street of the Consuls "?
Did you know that in his book The Feather Men , Sir Ranulph Fiennes claimed to have survived a series of assassinations of SAS officers by a hit squad known as "The Clinic"?
Did you know that The Spectator said the 1910 cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School "might be the greatest cricket match of all time"?
Did you know that Sherman White is remembered as the best college basketball player in Long Island University history, though few got to see him play?
Did you know that it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference , held in Calcutta , marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries?
Did you know that Remy Hamilton established the current Big Ten Conference single-season record for successful field goals at 25 during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season ?
Did you know that the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47 ?
Did you know that countertenor Patrick Van Goethem has taken part in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia to record the complete works of Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude ?
Did you know that the first find by amateur metal detectorist Nick Davies was the Shrewsbury Hoard , which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins ?
Did you know that Enrique Pérez Santiago was the first Puerto Rican hematologist ?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War the Swedish FNL movement used to attack U.S. diplomats with eggs, tomatoes and, occasionally, surströmming ?
Did you know that the architectural style of Canadian architect David Webster has been locally referred to as a "castle style"?