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Did you know that fossilized remains of giant sea turtles have been found at an elevation of 7,696 feet (2,346 m) within Vega State Park in Colorado ?
Did you know that the Montserrat national football team has only won two matches in their history , both victories coming against Anguilla ?
Did you know that Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the now British overseas territory of Gibraltar ?
Did you know that "Canonsburgh Comet" Leo Koceski , halfback for Michigan 's 1948 national championship and 1950 Rose Bowl championship teams, was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame?
Did you know that " Kashi ", the name of an all natural , seven whole grain food company based in La Jolla, California , means "happy" in Chinese and "energy" in Japanese ?
Did you know that Pavel Antseborenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for detonating a live hand grenade to avoid capture, killing himself and several German troops in the process?
Did you know that Jesse G. James ' company West Coast Choppers earns 60% of its revenue from sales of T-shirts and other tie-in merchandise?
Did you know that Wally Teninga played football for Michigan 's undefeated 1947 and 1948 championship teams and later became vice chairman and chief financial officer of Kmart Corporation ?
Did you know that the song " La Cima del Cielo " recorded by Ricardo Montaner became his first number-one single in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart ?
Did you know that the mechanism of the Winchester Model 1911 , an autoloading shotgun made from 1911 to 1925, is so tricky that in 2005 four people shot themselves accidentally while clearing the weapon?
Did you know that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater was said to have overseen the "cleanest mayor 's election in modern times" in New Orleans ?
Did you know that the eastern Yorkshire peninsula Holderness is thought to have taken its name from Thurbrand the Hold , killer of Uhtred the Bold ?
Did you know that the Argentinian Labour Party , which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón 's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party ?
Did you know that North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color ?
Did you know that between 19,500 and 50,000 Japanese military personnel are estimated to have surrendered during World War II , despite being prohibited from doing so?
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Did you know that in 1997, Steve Carell played chef Yorgo Galfanikos in the ABC sitcom Over the Top ?
Did you know that Kevin Rockett is considered one of the pre-eminent authorities on the history of Irish cinema?
Did you know that INFORM , a British charity providing impartial information on new religious movements , was established with the support of the Home Office and Britain's mainstream churches?
Did you know that Alice Greenough Orr became a rodeo star after she found her preferred job of forest ranger largely unavailable to women during the era after World War I ?
Did you know that Roanoke, Virginia , television station WROV-TV was the first UHF station in the United States to shut down?
Did you know that P. Munuswamy Naidu became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency after the 1930 election ?
Did you know that Howard Yerges began his football career with the Ohio State Buckeyes and finished it as the quarterback of Michigan 's 1947 "Mad Magicians" national championship team ?
Did you know that one local architectural historian disparaged the combination of two older houses into the current Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House in Claverack, New York , as a "growth"?
Did you know that credit for describing the Jolthead porgy goes to both Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Schneider in 1801, though Bloch died in 1799?
Did you know that the 1931 film Alice in Wonderland was the first talking picture to be based on Lewis Carroll 's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ?
Did you know that current Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos is a professional magician who has performed in both Las Vegas and Hollywood ?
Did you know that hundreds of millions of Chinese Soft-shelled Turtles are raised every year in Asia's turtle farms ?
Did you know that the Genoese have contributed significantly to Gibraltar 's architectural and culinary heritage ?
Did you know that despite being a clone of the Apple II , the Soviet Agat computer cost as much as twenty times the average monthly Soviet salary?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Jigsaw was trained by Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush ?
Did you know that the Maharishi University of Management stabbing drew international attention because it occurred at an institution with a founding principle of reducing crime?
Did you know that Cheryl Cole debuted her song " Parachute " whilst performing a Latin dance with Derek Hough on the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In ?
Did you know that the first religious leader of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio , was Simon Lazarus , a clothing merchant who founded what would become Lazarus department stores ?
Did you know that Mamajuda Island in the Detroit River , which once contained a lighthouse, has since been eroded away to nothing more than a few boulders seen only during times of low water levels?
Did you know that Ragnar Kalheim was one of the main architects behind the formation of the Socialist Electoral League in Norway ?
Did you know that with their extensive vineyard holdings in the Douro and many Port wine brands, the Symington Family Estates are considered a "Port empire "?
Did you know that the 9th Bomber Regiment was tasked to lead groups of Soviet fighters and attack aircraft (over 2,000 aircraft in total) to their targets during 1941 because their pilots could not navigate on their own?
Did you know that while recording swordfights for Barbarian , the video game's designer Steve Brown nearly took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the film Conan the Destroyer ?
Did you know that plans were shelved for the Southside Connector over concerns that it would pollute aquifers that were later found to be polluted inadvertently by the military?
Did you know that as a consequence of Earl Rivers ' reversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697, the name of the Lyon's Paw Hotel in Frodsham , Cheshire , England, was changed to the Bear's Paw ?
Did you know that Johan Kling , a Swedish filmmaker whose career started with making TV shows and McDonald's commercials, won the award for best Swedish film for his debut movie, Darling ?
Did you know that chef Aaron McCargo Jr. became host of the Food Network series Big Daddy's House as the grand prize for winning the fourth season of the reality series, The Next Food Network Star ?
Did you know that Spanish singer-songwriter Bebe received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album for her second studio album titled Y. ?
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Did you know that Margaret Formby , the daughter of Texas ranchers , was the founder of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth ?
Did you know that on December 26, 2009, Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a Football Bowl Subdivision bowl game, when she served as line judge for the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl ?
Did you know that the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park , Australia, encompasses about 1/10th of New South Wales ?
Did you know that Swedish history painter Johan Fredrik Höckert died of natural causes at the age of 40, only two years after becoming professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts ?
Did you know that the actress cast as Amy Pond , a companion character to the Eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who , had previously portrayed a soothsayer on an episode involving the Tenth Doctor ?
Did you know that between the years 2000 and 2009 in North Carolina , the deadliest tropical cyclone was Tropical Storm Allison ?
Did you know that the Little Zigzag River begins on Zigzag Glacier , flows down Little Zigzag Canyon, over Little Zigzag Falls, and enters the Zigzag River upstream of Zigzag, Oregon ?
Did you know that Matilda of Brandenburg might have had an affair with Henry IV Probus before their marriage?
Did you know that Benigno Fitial , the current governor of the Northern Mariana Islands , once sued the Marianas Variety News & Views newspaper for defamation ?
Did you know that the 1894 Michigan football team played Chicago in a sleet storm as the grandstand was "packed with yelling collegians" and the carriage rooms "filled with society people"?
Did you know that the flamboyant Louisiana Sheriff F.O. "Potch" Didier once spent seven days in his own jail upon conviction, after a sensational trial, of malfeasance in office ?
Did you know that after running aground at Sharpness , SS Stancliffe was cut into two separate sections and then sailed to Cardiff, Wales , in 1947?
Did you know that, on the orders of King Edward the Elder and Ealdorman Æthelred , the English thegn Uhtred bought back land at Hope and Ashford in Derbyshire from the Vikings ?
Did you know that the Swaraj Party refused to form a government despite winning the 1926 election in Madras Presidency ?
Did you know that there are different theories about the parentage of Piast princess Constance , who ruled over Wodzisław Śląski until her death in 1351?
Did you know that the third season and its episodes of the animated sitcom Home Movies won two Pulcinella Awards in 2003?
Did you know that Anna Mendelssohn , who spent five years in jail over Angry Brigade bombings, later became a published poet?
Did you know that the second Fred Quilt inquiry into the Tsilhqot'in 's death at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found that injury was caused by a blunt force applied by an unknown object?
Did you know that the French Minister of Cooperation Pierre Abelin initiated the process that culminated with the signing of the Lomé Convention in 1975?
Did you know that Dane Erik Holtved was the first university-trained ethnologist to study Greenland 's Inughuit ?
Did you know that Hereford , Texas , broadcaster Clint Formby 's daily commentary is the longest-running program by a single host in radio history?
Did you know that the French resistance activist Michel Zunino was the sole former socialist Popular Front parliamentarian who was later re-elected as a communist ?
Did you know that the Council on Religion and the Homosexual once held a fundraiser dance despite intimidation from San Francisco police?
Did you know that in the late 1480s, students of the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli presented the first Senecan tragedy mounted since Antiquity?
Did you know that the San Diego neighborhood of Old Town was the site of the first European settlement in present-day California ?
Did you know that twice in the Dakar Rally , a Mercedes-Benz support truck for the Citroën team got caught up in armed conflicts resulting in the driver's death ?
Did you know that stand-up comedian Louis C.K. is writing, directing, editing, producing, and starring in his upcoming FX comedy series, Louie ?
Did you know that in 1989, a block of flats in Worthing , England, was named in commemoration of the Capella , wrecked off the coast in 1891 , but the name was accidentally misspelt?
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Did you know that Colonel J. Thomas Scharf , who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy , later became New York 's Chinese Inspector?
Did you know that Nepal 's capital Kathmandu only had one restaurant in 1955?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Rep. Raymond Laborde defeated future Governor Edwin Edwards in 1943 in the race for senior class president of Marksville High School?
Did you know that the 13th-century Chinese mathematician Li Zhi solved polynomial equations and advised Kublai Khan ?
Did you know that the 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team won the inaugural game in the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry by a score of 34 to 0?
Did you know that Polish publicist and politician Jan Ludwik Popławski was one of the first chief activists and ideologues of the right-wing National Democracy political camp?
Did you know that the 1692 Jamaica earthquake , which destroyed Port Royal , occurred at 11:43 a.m., according to a stopped pocket watch found in the harbour?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode " At the Movies " introduced the character of Reptar , who became a heavily recurring character throughout the series and the basis of countless merchandising tie-ins?
Did you know that Sir Denys Roberts was the first and only Colonial Secretary and Chief Secretary who was appointed Chief Justice in Hong Kong ?
Did you know that although the original text of the Đại Việt sử ký was lost during the fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam , its contents were still preserved in other books such as the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư ?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Beint Bentsen was a member of four different municipal councils ?
Did you know that microchromosomes are very tiny gene -rich chromosomes which are a typical genetic component in birds , and some groups of non-mammalian animals?
Did you know that the longest retreat of the U.S. Army was 120 miles (190 km)?
Did you know that professional wrestler "Dr. Death" Steve Williams has called working on the sitcom Learning the Ropes the "most painful $2,000" he ever earned?
Did you know that in Das Erbe , a Nazi propaganda movie, a friendly professor shows a young blonde woman how animals pursue "racial policy"?
Did you know that ambulanceman Stanley Skinner was awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions in the aftermath of the train crash at Marden , Kent in 1969?
Did you know that the Three Parishes pilgrimage churches in the Slovenian village Rosalnice contain a 15th-century Gothic sanctuary with wall paintings depicting the crucifixion and Saint Christopher ?
Did you know that John Pittenger , former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education , was the first legislator to regularly employ high school seniors as legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine does not display frontal nudity or human genitalia in order not to go against Filipino values ?
Did you know that former football official Lencie Fred was the first Vanuatuan to be included on the FIFA list of referees ?
Did you know that David Hockney took two weeks to paint a moment that lasted two seconds in his 1967 painting A Bigger Splash ?
Did you know that when Francis Close retired as Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England ?
Did you know that Pocheon , a South Korean city located between Seoul and Gangwon province is famous for makgeolli (unfiltered rice wine) and galbi (marinated short beef ribs)?
Did you know that human barricades, coordinated by the Dresden Without Nazis alliance, blocked Europe's largest annual neo-Nazi demonstration in February 2010?
Did you know that George Meredith 's book The Adventures of Harry Richmond first appeared in Cornhill Magazine between September 1870 and November 1871, with illustrations by George du Maurier ?
Did you know that biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov won the gold medal at the mass start event at his first Olympics three months after winning his first World Cup race?
Did you know that the 9th century Pustakasala Hindu temple was discovered under the library construction site of Indonesia Islamic University?
Did you know that Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon is considered a pioneer of fire insurance in England?
Did you know   that the Aketajawe-Lolobata   National Park on Halmahera island of Indonesia , is considered vital for 23 endemic bird species?
Did you know  that despite serving the Chalcedonian Byzantine Empire ,   the Ghassanid ruler Al-Harith ibn Jabalah actively contributed to the  revival  of the monophysitic Syriac Church ?
Did you know that infragravity  waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica ?
Did you know  that Paula Dow ,   the New  Jersey  Attorney General , is  the first African American woman to serve that post in the state's history?
Did you know   that while both U-117 and U-66 were attacked by aircraft from the USS Card on 7 August 1943, only U-117 was sunk?
Did you know  that the appearance of Raphael Friedeberg at the Monte Verità sanatorium turned Ascona into a center for itinerant anarchists ?
Did you know that fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona ?
Did you know that the Patrick Henry Brittan House in Montgomery, Alabama , was built in 1858 by the 10th Secretary of State of Alabama ?
Did you know that Putsy Caballero is the youngest player ever to play in a game at third base in Major League Baseball history?
Did you know that Archiinocellia is the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada ?
Did you know that designated heritage designs by the early 20th-century Canadian architect Neil R. Darrach can be found in both St. Thomas, Ontario , and Regina, Saskatchewan ?
Did you know that Memories Off 5: Encore 's PlayStation Portable port includes a built-in screen capture feature to download images onto a memory stick ?
Did you know that former professional footballer Tony Larkin helped to establish Britain 's first football academy for visually impaired players?
Did you know that a class action lawsuit was brought against a Pennsylvania school district for allegedly using webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home?
Did you know   that at just over 18 millimetres (0.71 in), Fibla carpenteri is the largest species of snakefly known from amber ?
Did you know that in the four largest  cities within the Greater Austin metropolitan area (US) the  percentage of college-educated individuals in each is over 39% (compared to  the national average of 24.4%)?
Did you know that Tom Walley managed Watford 's  1982 FA Youth Cup winning team, which included John Barnes , Nigel Gibbs and Neil Price ?
Did you know that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards , most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck , the first all- Dave Brubeck string quartet recording?
Did you know  that Iro ni Ide ni  Keri Waga Koi wa was the result of both Windmill 's staff and fans wanting a game  that was set in a school setting?
Did you know that the inaugural inductees into the University of  Connecticut Huskies of Honor included 23 basketball players and four head coaches , including Hall of Fame coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma ?
Did you know  that the short story " The Congress " by Argentine writer Jorge Luis  Borges was published  in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold ?
Did you know that former Scotland international rugby union player Andrew Balfour led a health initiative that reduced malaria deaths in Khartoum , Sudan , by 90%?
Did you know  that 1967's  Hurricane Doria was described as "one of the most  erratic storms ever observed"?
Did you know that after her European Parliamentary career, Anne André-Léonard served as the Assistant Commissioner for Belgium at the World Expo in Zaragoza from 2006 to 2008?
Did you know  that in Fort Geldria in South India there is a well-preserved Dutch  cemetery, with tombstones carved in the Netherlands , cared for by the Archeological  Survey of India ?
Did you know  that the Latin poem Carmen Priami features an artificially archaic language as a reaction to the Hellenizing trend in Latin poetry led by Ennius ?
Did you know that the Israeli politician and diplomat Adin Talbar was the national 800 meter dash champion in 1942?
Did you know that the tyranny of  small decisions is a concept developed by the  American economist Alfred E. Kahn in 1966, and has been applied to market failures , environmental  degradation and  health outcomes?
Did you know that in 2007, Fiji international goalkeeper Simione Tamanisau was prevented from playing in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match by the New Zealand authorities?
Did you know that the mushroom Stropharia ambigua has been said to taste like old leaves?
Did you know that Nasrullah Khan was Emir of Afghanistan for one week in February 1919?
Did you know that the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is the only NASCAR -sanctioned asphalt track in Wisconsin ?
Did you know that the American television program Cannabis Planet features horticulturist and author Ed Rosenthal as a cannabis "expert"?
Did you know that in 1988 , the Major League Baseball ERA title was decided by a margin of less than 1 ⁄ 100 of a run between Allan Anderson and Teddy Higuera ?
Did you know that some modern K'iche' Maya revere rival syncretised forms of the pre-Columbian Moon goddess Awilix that are said to be the lovers of St. James ?
Did you know that the English pirate Peter Love set up a base of operation in the Outer Hebrides , but was betrayed by an associate outlaw and executed by the Scottish Government in 1610?
Did you know that for The Kinks ' 1968 album Live at Kelvin Hall , sessions were held to "sweeten" the original live recording ?
Did you know that Fulcran Vigouroux was the first secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission ?
Did you know that the broad whitefish is eaten by brown bears when they cannot find salmon ?
Did you know that Joe Oeschger co-owns the Major League Baseball record for most innings pitched in a single game with 26?
Did you know that the Tiller Ranger Station in southern Oregon served as the administrative headquarters for five different Umpqua National Forest ranger districts?
Did you know that Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram survived the Dunkirk evacuation because the soap dish he was carrying in his military backpack stopped a bullet that would have hit him in the back?
Did you know that King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha , Egypt's first ambassador to Iran ?
Did you know that the Church of the East , originally the Christian church of Sassanid Persia , eventually established churches throughout Asia , including in Mesopotamia , India , Central Asia , and China ?
Did you know that recombination refers to the formation of the first electrically neutral hydrogen atoms in the universe?
Did you know that Andrea Fay Friedman ' s first voice-acting role was portraying Ellen, a young woman with Down Syndrome , on the " Extra Large Medium " episode of Family Guy ?
Did you know that KV35YL , a mummy that was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 in 1898 and thought to be male at the time, was recently determined by DNA testing to be King Tut 's mother?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles running back Perry Harrington was expected to compete for the starting fullback job in 1981 when he broke his leg in the fourth game of the season?
Did you know that the Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria , Louisiana , US , started mostly with discarded pets when it opened in 1926?
Did you know that despite not sinking a single ship in her career, U-241 managed to shoot down a Norwegian Catalina flying boat?
Did you know that the Battle of Mingtiao marked the beginning of the Shang dynasty ?
Did you know that after Willy Schaeffler taught George Patton to ski, he moved to the US and became the most successful ski coach in US history?
Did you know that Ororaphidia and Styporaphidia are the oldest snakeflies known from China , dating from the Middle Jurassic ?
Did you know that the BBC Sound Archive was founded in 1936 by Marie Slocombe while she was working as a temporary secretary disposing of sound recordings?
Did you know that the spinnenkopmolen Arkens , Franeker , is the only windmill in the Netherlands fitted with Vlinderwieken (English: Butterfly sails )?