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Did you know that before its scientific description in 2004, the groovebelly stingray had been misidentified as either the bluntnose stingray or the common stingray ?
Did you know that the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Dutch Republic compelled the Dutch to fight against their French Protestant coreligionists at the Capture of Ré island in 1625?
Did you know that cheerleader Desiree Jennings says she developed dystonia from a flu shot ?
Did you know that Tepito in Mexico City is nicknamed barrio bravo ("fierce neighbourhood") due to crime and its production of pro boxers?
Did you know that Young-Chang Cho was still in his twenties when appointed professor for violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule ?
Did you know that the Netherlands ' proposal in 1913 for nine dreadnoughts was part of a ƒ 595,000,000 rearmament plan?
Did you know that John Ingram was so afraid of being bugged as North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance that he held meetings in parking garages ?
Did you know that the Monsoon Palace in Udaipur , Rajasthan , was used as a major location for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy ?
Did you know that the Russian Spaniel is the youngest breed of Russian gundog and was first standardised in 1951?
Did you know that a propeller operated at such a high rpm that it cuts more than it pushes, is sometimes known as a blade grinder ?
Did you know that the Fort Washington Avenue Armory in Manhattan was used as a homeless shelter before becoming the permanent home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Greek singer Kostas Martakis ' second album Pio Konta was partly recorded and produced in Sweden by the duo Holter/Erixson?
Did you know that microminiature sculptor Hagop Sandaldjian carved Mount Ararat on a grain of rice, and made a crucifix out of a bisected strand of his own hair?
Did you know56, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart was the first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ?
Did you know that the first railway in Estonia , connecting the cities Paldiski , Tallinn and Narva with Gatchina , Russia , opened in 1870?
Did you know that despite being running mates in Manila 's upcoming local elections , Alfredo Lim and Isko Moreno support different candidates in the presidential election ?
Did you know that Grammy -winning musician Fred "Too Slim" LaBour's 1969 satiric review of Abbey Road in the Michigan Daily is regarded as the single most important factor in the spread of the " Paul is dead " rumor?
Did you know that engineer T.J. O'Malley pushed the button that launched American astronaut John Glenn into orbit on  February 20, 1962?
Did you know that the Polikarpov VIT-1 prototype was the first Soviet aircraft with metal-skinned control surfaces ?
Did you know that "Big Joe" Curtis was the starting left tackle for Michigan Wolverines football teams that outscored opponents by a combined total of 1,627 to 30 from 1903 to 1905?
Did you know that the six U-Boats of the German 30. Unterseebootsflottille reached the Black Sea after transport over land and canals in 1942?
Did you know that Roger Villere , chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party since 2004, was among the candidates who lost a state House race in 1989 to David Duke ?
Did you know that China commemorates the Battle of Onjong by marking October 25 as the War to Resist America and Aid Korea Memorial Day?
Did you know that the Monro Muffler and Brake franchise was founded by a former Midas Muffler franchisee , Charles August ?
Did you know that John S. Treen , the choice of the Republican leadership, lost the 1989 special election which sent David Duke to the Louisiana House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the video game Metal Walker combines elements of the Pokémon series with billiards ?
Did you know that Max Beerbohm 's 1894 satire on Oscar Wilde A Peep into the Past was not published until 1923?
Did you know49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that English jazz musician Eddie Freeman 's custom four-string guitar was adopted for manufacture by Selmer ?
Did you know that in 1649, Thomas Andrewes attended the execution of King Charles I , was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the English monarchy , and was appointed to be the Lord Mayor of London ?
Did you know that after being told he was too small for professional wrestling , Sam DeCero increased his weight from 75 to 90 kg (165 to 200 lbs) within three months?
Did you know that Hannah Böge was the first German merchant ship captured at sea by Britain in the Second World War ?
Did you know that François Martin de Vitré was the first Frenchman to publish an account of his travels to the Far East ?
Did you know that the Gullfisk trams were so named because they had tails that made them look like goldfish ?
Did you know that mifamurtide is a drug used against osteosarcoma , a kind of bone cancer diagnosed in only 1,000 persons per year in Europe and the US?
Did you know that the assumption of modern historians that Elisabeth of Greater Poland is a daughter of Elisabeth of Hungary is based on them sharing the same name and coming from Hungary ?
Did you know that London -born actress Sarah Badel made her acting debut in India ?
Did you know that Fort Harney , a United States Army outpost in eastern Oregon , was officially designated as a fort in 1879 and then abandoned in 1880?
Did you know that Meryl Dorey, president of the Australian Vaccination Network , has said that the Australian government is spending too much money on swine flu vaccination efforts?
Did you know that the Røa Line has been extended eight times, more than any other line of the Oslo Metro ?
Did you know that Michael Jackson blamed his record label, Sony Music , for the failed release of his charity song " What More Can I Give ", and branded the label's CEO "racist" and "very, very, very devilish"?
Did you know49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the aftershocks of the 1868 Hawaii earthquake , the largest in the island 's history, continue to the present day?
Did you know that the grave of war hero and victim of political repression in communist Czechoslovakia Josef Bryks was discovered 52 years after his death?
Did you know that the motorized recliner a man was caught driving while under the influence was not, as widely reported, a La-Z-Boy ?
Did you know that the Japanese documentary filmmaker Fumio Kamei had films banned by both Japan 's militarist wartime government and the democratizing Allied Occupation ?
Did you know that one purpose of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review is to correct the U.S. State Department 's problem of not knowing whether it has enough resources?
Did you know that the Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time that two British-born boxers had fought for the world heavyweight title ?
Did you know that St Thomas Church , located at Palayoor , Kerala , was established in 52 AD by St. Thomas , one of the twelve close disciples of Jesus Christ ?
Did you know that John Messmer was captain of the University of Wisconsin 's football and swim teams, set a U.S. high school record in the discus and was the first Badger to win nine varsity letters in major sports?
Did you know that the archaeologists that named Howieson’s Poort Shelter , the site that gave its name to the Howiesons Poort period in the Middle Stone Age , did so by misspelling "Howison"?
Did you know that the Texas Engineering Extension Service operates the largest firefighter and emergency responder training facility in the United States, which includes a 52-acre replica city for use in training simulations?
Did you know that the opposition against the use of censorship to fight child pornography on the internet by MOGIS helped strengthen the credibility of the movement against such measures?
Did you know that Richard R. Burt , who was the chief American negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty , was a correspondent for The New York Times in the late 1970s?
Did you know that Mountain , a 2003 advertisement for the PlayStation 2 video game console , was nominated for more than 40 awards?
Did you know that the Star Stories parody Being Tom Cruise spoofs the actor's association with Scientology ?
Did you know that the discovery of ethyl acetoacetate in 1863 by Anton Geuther stimulated studies on tautomerism in chemical molecules?
Did you know that Cliff Sparks , hailed in 1916 as "eel-like," a "whirlwind" and "the greatest quarterback Michigan ever has had," punted by forcefully throwing the ball at his uprising foot?
Did you know that Władysław Oporowski , archbishop and primate of Poland , was a chief political rival of cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki ?
Did you know that Bokken Lasson established the cabaret Chat Noir in Oslo, Norway, in 1912?
Did you know that the first legitimate flea market in downtown Moscow was held in Shkolnaya Street in 2007?
Did you know that Earache Records released Gama Bomb 's third studio album Tales from the Grave in Space via free RapidShare downloads?
Did you know that J. A. Adande called a joke from the episode " The Problem Solvers " his "favorite 30 Rock gag"?
Did you know that the Chiflik system of land management under the Ottoman Empire was one of the reasons the Greek peasants supported the Greek War of Independence ?
Did you know that the Niger stingray and the pincushion ray are the only two freshwater stingrays found in Africa ?
Did you know that Lutheran priest Henrik Lund wrote Greenland 's nation anthem, Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit , in the indigenous Greenlandic language ?
Did you know that Sherza Darwaza in Bidar Fort , India, depicts two images of tigers carved on its fascia, which according to Shia belief, denotes Ali 's assured protection of the fort from enemy attack?
Did you know that " Blood and the Moon " is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1928 in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins , the Vice President of the Executive Council of the Free State ?
Did you know that the 2009 album Ultimate Diamond by J-pop singer Nana Mizuki became the first album released by a Japanese voice actress to top the Japanese weekly Oricon albums chart?
Did you know that American geriatric psychiatrist Gene D. Cohen appeared with comedian George Burns in public service announcements about aging and mental health?
Did you know49, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Oconee County Cage was a "jail on wheels" for the Oconee County, South Carolina chain gang in the early 20th century?
Did you know that although the Kongsvegen glacier has been retreating in length since 1948, its ice mass has been increasing consistently for the past 22 years?
Did you know that Charles Connick was described by The New York Times as "the world’s greatest artisan on stained windows"?
Did you know that Italian Camorrista Giuseppe Setola escaped a police raid on his hideout by slipping into secret trap door that led to the sewers?
Did you know that due to his home country's proximity to Ireland, the music of Davy Knowles – a Manx blues guitarist – is influenced by the Celtic genre?
Did you know that the farmhouse at Big Bottom Farm in rural Allegany County, Maryland , is recognized for its architecture inspired by the Greek revival style?
Did you know that before becoming a full-time Kabarett artist, Georg Schramm was a soldier with the Bundeswehr and then a psychologist in a rehab clinic?
Did you know that Maesyronnen Chapel in Powys , Wales , was one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in the country, and that it is still in use as a chapel?
Did you know that the single known specimen of the Irrawaddy river shark was generally dismissed as an abnormal bull shark until 2005?
Did you know that Americana group Or, The Whale formed through the website Craigslist , where the two founding members of the group posted an advertisement titled "Wanna Form a Sweet Country Rock Band"?
Did you know that eight Canadian soldiers were tried for manslaughter in Britain after the Epsom Riot of 1919?
Did you know that Stenkjær og Namsos Automobilselskap started Norway 's first post-carrying bus route in 1908?
Did you know that Pat Brister , first woman state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party , was ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2008?
Did you know that Richard Rogler became the only German professor for Kabarett in 1999?
Did you know that a Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense Canadair CL-44 crashed in the Soviet Union in 1981, after smuggling arms from Israel to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair ?
Did you know that before he was a Louisiana state senator from Slidell , Gerry E. Hinton worked to obtain licensing of chiropractors in his state, the last to recognize the profession?
Did you know that the unsuccessful siege of Hlukhiv and the following retreat of the Polish army became the worst defeats in the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667 ?
Did you know that the land gastropod Schizoglossa novoseelandica is predatory and also cannibalistic ?
Did you know that distributed element filters can use a wide and varied library of printed elements including butterfly and clover stubs?
Did you know that the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail was the first (and still the largest) state bird-watching trail system in the U.S.?
Did you know that before he died in battle, John Baskeyfield VC had trained as a butcher ?
Did you know21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that sea lice flourishing on salmon farms can spread to nearby wild salmon and devastate their stocks ?
Did you know that Polish media mogul Jan Wejchert , founder of the TVN television network , also converted a ruined papermill into a shopping center ?
Did you know that the Archaeological Museum of Eretria in Greece contains a 10th century B.C. terracotta centaur from Lefkandi which was discovered broken in two parts, each placed in a different grave?
Did you know that the Clay Island Light at the mouth of the Nanticoke River on the Chesapeake Bay collapsed only two years after being decommissioned?
Did you know that the entire rear fuselage and tail of the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1000 aircraft was removable to allow access to the engine?
Did you know that P.J. Mills , a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives , is a descendant of Robert Mills , the architect who designed the Washington Monument ?
Did you know that Sosnowiec Ghetto was the setting of the Maus comic book?
Did you know that although Kristijonas Donelaitis wrote the poem The Seasons in Lithuanian , it was first published in its German translation in 1818?
Did you know that Spanish airline Spantax was the world's largest operator of Convair 990 planes , one of which was involved in a mid-air collision?
Did you know that in 1883, Ludwig Knorr discovered the first commercially successful synthetic painkiller Phenazone ?
Did you know that the Suicide Tree flowers only once before dying and falling over, creating a small gap for its seedlings to grow in?
Did you know that the books produced by the Dun Emer Press were written or selected by W. B. Yeats ?
Did you know that for scenes in the Phineas and Ferb episode " Jerk De Soleil " where the character Candace had a deep voice, co-creator Dan Povenmire had to step in for the normal voice actress?
Did you know26, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Ascension Island was annexed in 1815 by the British crew of HMS Peruvian and HMS Zenobia so as to deny the French from using it as a base to rescue Napoleon from Saint Helena ?
Did you know that as a Louisiana state senator , Tom Schedler teamed with later U.S. Senator David Vitter to repeal the Louisiana inheritance tax , effective in 2004?
Did you know that because of the Albanian Muslim concept of Besa , Albanians saved about 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during World War II ?
Did you know that Iolas Melitus Huffman reportedly played in every quarter of every Ohio State football game except one from 1918 to 1921 and later played for the Cleveland Indians of the NFL ?
Did you know that the Swedish fried-dough pastry klenät is traditionally eaten around Christmas in southern Sweden?
Did you know that PS Monarch , currently operating cruises along River Medina on the Isle of Wight , is the world's smallest commercially operated paddle steamer ?
Did you know that after adding thallium formate and thallium malonate to water, diamonds can float in it?
Did you know that cricketer Audrey Jackson was only able to play in the fourth women's Test for South Africa after securing travel to the game with the opposition England side?
Did you know that the medieval town walls of Edinburgh served better throughout their history as a trade barrier than as a defensive one?
Did you know that Sverre Krogh was replaced as chair of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities after his political party 's coalition partners supported another candidate, Jakob Eng ?
Did you know that Kaiser Permanente sold some land it owned in Hillsboro, Oregon after deciding not to build a hospital there, only to later begin building their Westside Medical Center at that same location?
Did you know that bandmates of Beverley O'Sullivan , recently killed in India , found out the true extent of her hearing difficulties when she developed a sore ear during a Westlife performance?
Did you know that Jerry Toppazzini is the final position player in National Hockey League history to substitute as a goaltender during a game?
Did you know that tungsten hexafluoride is a colorless gas that is over ten times heavier than air?
Did you know21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that on November 15, 1992, members of the Colombian National Police gunned down nine members of a church youth group in Medellín ?
Did you know that the 1911 United Kingdom heat wave set a July temperature record of 36 °C (97 °F) that was not broken until 79 years later ?
Did you know that early Christian writers Jerome and Orosius believed that Philip the Arab , not Constantine the Great , was the first Christian Roman emperor?
Did you know that Léon Levavasseur invented the V8 engine ?
Did you know that the style of Ancient Greek black-figure pottery had its origins in Corinth, Greece ?
Did you know that State Representative Jim Fannin wrote the Louisiana "career diploma" law, designed to reduce the dropout rate by allowing high schoolers to pursue less rigorous studies?
Did you know that the bolete eater which attacks boletes is actually another type of fungus?
Did you know that when the six separate British colonies in Australia federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, they all had their own armies fighting in the Second Boer War ?
Did you know that the Colombian actress and beauty queen Liliana Lozano was shot to death two days after the murder of her boyfriend, the drug lord Leonidas Vargas ?
Did you know that in late 1921 a series of arrests of its activists led to the break-up of the Japanese Enlightened People's Communist Party ?
Did you know that Russian -born Joe Magidsohn was the first Jew to win a varsity "M" at the University of Michigan and the first athlete known to have refused to compete on the High Holy Days ?
Did you know that romidepsin , a new treatment for T-cell lymphomas , was discovered in a culture of bacteria obtained from a soil sample collected in Yamagata Prefecture ?
Did you know that potato doughnuts are made with either mashed potatoes or potato starch ?
Did you know that Makerita Urale , a leading figure in contemporary Polynesian theatre, directed the play Frangipani Perfume , the first Pacific play written by a woman for an all-female cast?
Did you know that both spans of Washington, D.C. 's 11th Street Bridges are considered "fracture critical", which means if one girder in a span fails the entire bridge is likely to collapse?
Did you know that the first Volkswagen ever built outside Germany was assembled in Ireland ?
Did you know that unlike other other Siricid Wood wasps , Xeris spectrum does not have symbiotic fungi to aid its larvae as they burrow in the wood of fir and other conifer trees?
Did you know that the cantref of Arwystli was at the center of a dispute, which involved Llywelyn the Last and Edward I of England and escalated tensions between the Principality of Wales and the English crown?
Did you know that the popular Chinese TV talent show contestant Lou Jing , dubbed the "Black Pearl", is of Chinese and African American heritage?
Did you know that 1,468 fauna species are found within the protected area of Laguna de Términos , located in southeastern Mexico ?
Did you know that before a hitman shot Colombian drug lord Leonidas Vargas to death in his hospital bed, the shooter asked a neighboring patient whether he was Vargas?
Did you know that the Dutch ocean liner Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft caught fire before entering service, in service, and on her way to the scrapyard?
Did you know that the 1925 silent film The Air Mail was filmed in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada ?
Did you know that the 61st Battalion was an Australian infantry battalion that adopted Scottish-style uniforms including kilts and the designation of Queensland Cameron Highlanders?
Did you know that the Eugene Saturday Market in Eugene , Oregon , is the oldest weekly open-air crafts market in the United States and is attended by 3,000 and 5,000 people every week?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Maria Dunn hosted a folk music radio show for twelve years before becoming a performer herself?
Did you know that the video game AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity was inspired by BASE jumping in a wingsuit ?
Did you know that cassareep , a flavoring and preservative made from cassava roots, has been rumored to keep a meat stew called Guyanese pepperpot edible for over a century?
Did you know21, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Louisiana State Senator Jack Donahue through his philanthropic Suited for Success helped Hurricane Katrina victims  refurbish their business clothing?
Did you know that Marcus Baebius Tamphilus instituted the first Roman law against electoral bribery in 181 BC?
Did you know that the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in a church in London in 1907?
Did you know that figure skater Tonya Harding was once treated at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Oregon for injuries from an assault?
Did you know that Shanti Bhushan is an advocate in India who has represented Deve Gowda , Arundhati Roy and the accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case and the 2001 Indian Parliament attack ?
Did you know that athletes in the 1928 Winter Olympics competed in skijoring , a demonstration sport in which the competitors wore skis while being pulled behind horses?
Did you know that during the Easter Rising of 1916, the Dublin Gazette printed a proclamation of martial law and temporarily ceased publication?
Did you know that Carolyn Stait , one of only two women to reach Commodore rank in the Royal Navy , had enlisted in 1975 with plans to transfer to the diplomatic service ?
Did you know that semi-trailer trucks have struck the Eastern Avenue bridge over the Anacostia Freeway so many times, the District of Columbia is replacing it with a bridge that is two feet higher?
Did you know that colorist Josette Baujot , recently deceased, created the distinct color schemes of works in Hergé 's Adventures of Tintin series?
Did you know that West Virginia 's Ice Mountain contains ice vents that allow subarctic plant species to survive?
Did you know that Emile St. Godard won the demonstration Sled dog race at the 1932 Winter Olympics , the only time the sport has been in the Olympics?
Did you know that the Austrian town of Fucking installed theft-resistant road signs in 2005 because the signs were frequently stolen by tourists?
Did you know that the Soviet mixed-construction Yak-8 utility aircraft was never produced in spite of a recommendation to do so, probably because the Soviets were switching to all-metal aircraft?
Did you know that pirated CDs were identified by the IFPI to account for 50% of all music sales in Greece in 2006?
Did you know that Jake Warga was an assistant cameraman on Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway , The Prophecy 3: The Ascent and Mimic 2 before becoming a story contributor for National Public Radio ?