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Did you know that in 1977, the Douglas Stenstrom Bridge in Indian Mound Village, Florida , replaced the Osteen Bridge , a 1920s hand-turned swing bridge that had become an unsafe driving hazard?
Did you know that during the bird flu pandemic of 2005 , chef Alexis Gauthier removed bird related products from the menu at his Michelin starred restaurant in London?
Did you know that although Czech psychiatrist and neuropathologist Oskar Fischer made significant contributions to the description of Alzheimer's disease , his works largely remained unknown until 2008?
Did you know that the Ouachita Dusky Salamander , the Fourche Mountain Salamander , and the Rich Mountain Salamander are all endemic to the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma?
Did you know that Abraham Avigdorov received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine ?
Did you know that Moubray House , one of the oldest buildings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile , was once the premises of Archibald Constable , the owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica ?
Did you know that Mulford Winsor was Arizona Territory 's first Territorial Historian?
Did you know that Parasola auricoma mushrooms are short-lived, typically lasting only a few hours?
Did you know that NASCAR driver Mike Olsen is known for being sponsored by Little Trees ?
Did you know that 2012 British Paralympian Helena Lucas was the only female sailor in the 16-boat fleet for the 2.4 mR event , in which she won her nation's first ever Paralympic sailing gold medal?
Did you know that Edmond Panariti , the current minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania , is the first Albanian government minister to visit Australia ?
Did you know that DDG Hansa lost all but one of its ships in World War I and all its ships in and after World War II and still became the world's largest heavy lift shipping company?
Did you know that George M. Stratton founded Berkeley 's psychology department?
Did you know that despite being over 70 years old, the Byzantine general Bessas was entrusted with overall command of the Byzantine forces in the Lazic War ?
Did you know that Poczta Królewiecka , published 1718–20 in Królewiec (Königsberg), was the second oldest Polish newspaper?
Did you know that Philip Bell was governor of the puritan Providence Island colony , which turned into a haven for pirates?
Did you know that the investigation into the murder of Celine Figard saw the UK's first national DNA screening programme in the hunt for a suspect?
Did you know that Steven Rodriguez became the first player selected in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft to reach the major leagues?
Did you know that the Madras State awarded 75 acres (30 ha ; 0.117 sq mi ) to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for the establishment of Central Leather Research Institute ?
Did you know that before the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began operations in 1934 there was a citadel on Alcatraz Island ?
Did you know that nearly half the students in the Harvard "Introduction to Congress " course were implicated in a cheating investigation ?
Did you know that tenor Martin Petzold , a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor and a singer of Bach's Evangelist parts with the group, co-published 800 Years Thomana ?
Did you know that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California ?
Did you know that the larvae of the terrestrial Ceylon caecilian have gills and a tail fin and develop in water?
Did you know that the village of Najran in Syria was named after the Najran of South Arabia , whose inhabitants, the Balharith , fled to Syria in the 520s?
Did you know that the British racehorse Teenoso won the 1983 Derby Stakes with the slowest winning time of this race in the 20th century?
Did you know that María Soledad Iparraguirre was only the second woman to serve on the executive of the Basque separatist group ETA and was wanted by Spanish police for participation in at least 14 assassinations?
Did you know that Ed, Edd n Eddy ' s TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show , premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network ?
Did you know that despite being founded in 1984, the Roux Scholarship contest was only first televised in 2012?
Did you know that Ryan Westmoreland , considered one of the best prospects in baseball , has had brain surgery twice to correct a cavernous malformation ?
Did you know that the town of Muzayrib in southern Syria served as the first major resting place along the Hajj caravan route from Damascus to Mecca during the Ottoman era ?
Did you know that indigenous Australian rapper Briggs toured with Ice Cube , who he described as "my favourite rapper since I was a kid", just a year after releasing his first EP?
Did you know that in May 1936, on orders of the Nazis, Expressionist artworks were burnt in the furnace of the Kronprinzenpalais , which housed the modern art division of the Berlin National Gallery ?
Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic silver medallist archer Mel Clarke had to remodel her shooting style after Lyme disease caused her to lose her sight in one eye?
Did you know that the Dutch television series De Kris Pusaka draws from Indonesian stories about krisses ?
Did you know that Colonel Joseph H. Tucker , twice commander of the Camp Douglas (Chicago) prison camp during the American Civil War , was never mustered into the Union Army ?
Did you know that Jamal Fyfield assisted Matty Blair 's winning goal for York City in the 2011–12 FA Trophy semi-final second leg against Luton Town with a cross from the left flank?
Did you know that in a move to accommodate Muslims, the West African Catholic trade union CATC replaced the word "Christians" in its name with "Believers"?
Did you know that Ragnhildur Helgadóttir became the youngest female member of the Icelandic Parliament when she was elected in 1965 at the age of 26?
Did you know that the town of Jindires in Syria was the site of a decisive Roman victory against the Parthians in 38 BC?
Did you know that in 1979 Irish horse trainer Edward O'Grady became only the fifth individual to train the winner of the Galway Plate and the Galway Hurdle in the same year?
Did you know that the Suru River , a tributary of the Indus River , originates from the Panzella glacier and flows entirely in the Kargil district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ?
Did you know that near-death experience researcher Karlis Osis said his research created a "diminishing fear of death"?
Did you know that the Alcatraz water tower was covered in graffiti during the island's occupation by Native Americans ?
Did you know that wheelchair tennis player Andrew Lapthorne won the doubles tournament at his very first Grand Slam ?
Did you know that chef Alain Ducasse opened his restaurant Le Louis XV following a challenge by the Prince of Monaco ?
Did you know that Japanese child actress Miyu Honda is also a figure skater ?
Did you know that to date, the 2009 song " The Climb " performed by Miley Cyrus , is her first and only single to peak at number one on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
Did you know that 2012 British Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Wells was the first para-equestrian rider to win an international, non-disabled dressage competition?
Did you know that an annual bike tour in Memphis , Tennessee, takes place at midnight?
Did you know that Jeff Powers and Jesse Smith played on the United States men's national water polo team at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympic games ?
Did you know that Chilean Mexican band Los Ángeles Negros adopted that name after a member's mother said she liked it?
Did you know that NYPD detective Barney Ruditsky once stopped a robbery with the help of his wife on their wedding anniversary ?
Did you know that the filly Saucy Sue won the 1000 Guineas , the Epsom Oaks , and the Coronation Stakes in 1925, helping Lord Astor become Britain's champion owner that season?
Did you know that a week before he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art , Hugo Johnstone-Burt was approached to play Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet ?
Did you know that the Royal Naval Hospital Gibraltar was the first military hospital to receive a Baby Friendly Award from UNICEF ?
Did you know that in 1955, two years after interviewing American actor Gregory Peck for the newspaper France Soir , French journalist Veronique Passani became Peck's wife?
Did you know that at least one species in the earwig family Pygidicranidae is cannibalistic?
Did you know that the Abbasid vizier al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi' was the main instigator of the civil war between brothers and rival caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Amin ?
Did you know that scenes in " Episode 5 " of Twin Peaks were filmed in Angeles National Forest ?
Did you know that the Old English Lambeth Homilies (c. 1200), written in the Middle English period, share five homilies (and the Poema Morale ) with the Trinity Homilies (c. 1200–25), which likewise preserve Old English forms?
Did you know that after failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in triathlon , American Mary Beth Ellis went on to win five Ironman Triathlons , including the 2012 U.S. Championships at Ironman New York?
Did you know that the filly Sun Stream narrowly won the 1945 Epsom Oaks by "a small head"?
Did you know that in 2010, the restaurant Au Crocodile was sold for over a million euros?
Did you know that minuscule 880 , a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament , was written by George Hermonymus , a teacher of Reuchlin and Budeus ?
Did you know that Libby Houston received the 2012 H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London ?
Did you know that for the portrayal of Trevor Raznik in the film The Machinist , Christian Bale lost 63 pounds (28.5 kg)?
Did you know that during the Liverpool Exchange by-election in 1897 , the Liberal candidate Russell Rea was denounced by a Conservative Party politician as a "white slave" of Irish Nationalists ?
Did you know that Spanish governor Diego de Salinas surrendered Gibraltar to English marines under the command of a former Viceroy of Catalonia in 1704?
Did you know that the Musidora Stakes , an annual race held at York , was named in honour of the 1000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks -winning filly Musidora ?
Did you know that the Alcatraz gun gallery was situated in the recreation yard , mounted on one of the dining hall 's exterior walls?
Did you know that recent estimates of the number of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia range from a denial of any political prisoners at all to 30,000?
Did you know that water polo player Shea Buckner won NCAA Championships and was named to the All-American first team in both 2008 and 2009?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Endogone are important in the ecology of plant succession in sand dunes?
Did you know that it is not compulsory for a place of worship in England and Wales to be officially registered , but doing so makes the premises exempt from Council Tax ?
Did you know that Alabama nose tackle Jesse Williams is the first Indigenous Australian to receive a scholarship to play college football in the United States?
Did you know that Victoria's Secret Angel model Chanel Iman plays Usher 's love interest in the music video for " Dive "?
Did you know that Monsieur d'Amour married four times, once to a 14-year-old girl ?
Did you know that John Hilliard ' s Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Michael Roeger has played football, basketball, table tennis and cricket?
Did you know that the English racehorse Galatea won both legs of the Fillies Triple Crown that were held in 1939?
Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Georgina Cassar was the first athlete from Gibraltar to compete at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that the Glee episode " Britney 2.0 " features Britney Spears mashed up with Justin Bieber ?
Did you know that Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer , a leading rosh yeshiva in prewar Poland , was forced to work in a Warsaw Ghetto factory making footwear for German soldiers ?
Did you know that beer distributor Ron Fowler led a group that included golfer Phil Mickelson that was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the San Diego Padres for $800 million ?
Did you know that Varietease , starring Lili St. Cyr and Bettie Page , was Irving Klaw 's first feature length documentary film about 1950s burlesque ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Carlee Beattie was named the most valuable player at the 2000 Netball State Titles?
Did you know that after pressure from his mamluks , the Burji sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal supported James II with a naval fleet in his attempt to gain the throne of Cyprus ?
Did you know that the cricket team Chennai Super Kings of the Indian Premier League has received the Fly Kingfisher Fair Play Award three times out of five?
Did you know that water polo goalkeeper Chay Lapin set the all-time saves record at the University of California, Los Angeles ?
Did you know that Mayer Zald and John D. McCarthy developed the resource mobilization theory, which became one of the major theories on social movements ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Jake Lappin is able to perfom push ups without using his legs?
Did you know that upon the release of Mariah Carey 's 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel , her song " Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue) " peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs chart?
Did you know that Ethel McMillan holds the distinction of being the first woman in New Zealand appointed as a savings bank trustee?
Did you know that Kara Mustafa Pasha, the founder of the Ridwan dynasty , was a former gate-slave of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Simon Patmore has Erb's palsy and works as a technology officer?
Did you know that the orange sea lily and the beaded crinoid conceal their bodies in crevices while they extend their arms to filter feed ?
Did you know that blind athlete Robert Matthews won eight Paralympic gold medals for middle and long distance running and now competes as a cyclist?
Did you know that the 1969 Greensboro uprising started with a student council election?
Did you know that the Umayyad military leader Abdallah al-Battal became a popular hero in medieval Arabic and Turkish tradition for his exploits against the Byzantines ?
Did you know that a California casino is putting up a million dollars to save the Chukchansi language , which has eight fluent speakers?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Amber Merritt was named the MVP at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge?
Did you know that in 2008, the only songs to spend two weeks at number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart were Madonna 's " 4 Minutes ", featuring Justin Timberlake , and Donna Summer 's " Stamp Your Feet "?
Did you know that in 1924, Izetta Jewel became the first woman to address a major political party convention to second a U.S. presidential nomination ?
Did you know that the tadpoles of the Sri Lanka rock frog and the Kirtisinghe's rock frog are often found on wet rocks near mountain streams?
Did you know that 2012 Indian Paralympic powerlifter Farman Basha won an event for non-disabled athletes in 2006, leading to a ban on disabled athletes in Indian Powerlifting Federation events?
Did you know that according to T. E. Lawrence , the Syrian town of Tafas was the site of an infamous massacre perpetrated by retreating Ottoman troops during World War I ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Erik Horrie was previously a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team and only took up rowing in 2011?
Did you know the spores of the mushroom Boletellus russellii are grooved and furrowed like its stem?
Did you know that American artist Jean Wells created a five-foot tall ice cream cone for a San Diego Museum of Art exhibition?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rosemary Little had to raise AUD$ 8,000 to replace her racing wheelchair following a collision at the 2011 City2Surf ?
Did you know that the Ellerbusch Archaeological Site in the U.S. state of Indiana was picked for extensive excavation partly because it was so small?
Did you know that Abdullah Al Rabiah , once named the world's 45th most influential Arab by a business magazine, used to work as a surgeon who separated conjoined twins ?
Did you know that the Astor Bridge was considered "one of the most hazardous road sections in Florida" in the 1970s?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic long jumper Stephanie Schweitzer works as a personal trainer?
Did you know that the filly Lady Carla won the 1996 Epsom Oaks by nine lengths , the fourth-widest margin of victory of this race in the 20th century?
Did you know that the Corporation of Madras was established in 1688, and is the oldest municipal body in India?
Did you know that in the Kinks ' song " Sitting in My Hotel ", singer and songwriter Ray Davies muses about the cost of stardom in terms of loneliness and losing touch with his roots?
Did you know that a Philippine Basketball Association team that successfully defends the Philippine Cup for three consecutive times, will permanently keep the Jun Bernardino Trophy ?
Did you know that in August 2012, an employee of Gibraltar -based Profield Contractors was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a terrorist cell ?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympics competitor Rajinder Singh Rahelu won the first-ever medal for India in powerlifting in 2004?
Did you know that the type specimen of Eucalyptus denticulata was only collected in 1989?
Did you know that Conflict Kitchen , in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , is a take-out restaurant that only serves food from nations with which the United States is in conflict?
Did you know that the Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement was a proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty created by Yossi Beilin and Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in 1995?
Did you know that five-time gold medallist Thomas Oelsner was the first athlete to be sent home from any Winter Paralympic Games when he failed a drugs test in 2002?
Did you know that the June 26 , 2012, Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances has been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ?
Did you know that Henry Nock , the maker of the seven-barrelled volley gun used by Patrick Harper in Sharpe episodes, founded a company which became Wilkinson Sword ?
Did you know that the Dras River , a tributary of Suru River in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir , originates from the Machoi Glacier ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Damien Bowen has previously competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that the Danube bleak , a migratory fish , has had its traditional routes blocked by the building of dams ?
Did you know that Mika Yamamoto , the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria ?
Did you know that Tim Hunter , director of " Episode 4 " of Twin Peaks , was inspired by Otto Preminger 's use of small sets in 1945's Fallen Angel ?
Did you know that John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the sinking of the Palatine Light ghost ship with a poem written in 1867?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic sailor Stephen Churm competed in his first sailing race in 1963?
Did you know that the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brăila , Romania, is the country's only former mosque converted into an Orthodox church?
Did you know that the 2011 film Love's Kitchen starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani and featuring chef Gordon Ramsay in a cameo role, took £ 121 on its opening weekend?
Did you know that British record producer Shahid " Naughty Boy " Khan started his career by winning twice in one year, once for The Prince's Trust and then on Deal or No Deal ?
Did you know that Irapé Dam on the Jequitinhonha River is the tallest dam in Brazil?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic 100 metre runner Gabriel Cole became a serious runner after the intervention of his high school French teacher?
Did you know that Karen Gillan , who portrays Amy Pond , was so moved by her exit from Doctor Who that she could not read the script without crying?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Silcocks has Poland's syndrome , a syndrome he had at birth, that caused development problems with his right arm?
Did you know that the Black Salamander may defend itself by biting a western garter snake attacking it?
Did you know that Ben Burns , a pioneering white editor of black publications, answered if he was "Negro or white" by saying: "Neither, I'm Jewish "?
Did you know that Canadian S10 swimmer Summer Mortimer won a medal in each of her individual events at the 2012 Paralympics , breaking two of her own world records?
Did you know that a Japanese bank funded a project to improve the quality of Hussain Sagar reservoir in Hyderabad, India ?
Did you know that a minimal surface of revolution can be visualized as soap film stretched between two circular wires , and C. W. B. Goldschmidt discovered mathematical solutions describing cases in which the film breaks?
Did you know that in her film debut Kris of Mataram , Fifi Young stabs herself with the titular weapon ?
Did you know that 2012 Paralympics competitor and Gold Coast Wheelchair Rugby Titans captain Ben Newton was a member of the undefeated 2011 Australia national wheelchair rugby team ?
Did you know that of all the county bridges currently in use in Wyoming, EDZ Irigary Bridge has the longest clear span ?
Did you know that in 2002, Randy and Teri MacDonald were the first brother-sister combination to compete against each other in NASCAR since Ethel and Tim Flock in 1949?
Did you know that U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts mandated for 2013 have been called a fiscal cliff due to their projected economic effects?
Did you know that British swimmer James Crisp has won medals in every different competitive stroke style ?
Did you know that domestic violence in Pakistan has been described as "endemic in all social spheres"?
Did you know that in United States v. Jackalow (1862), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a jury should decide whether the Long Island Sound was on the "high seas"?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Georgia Beikoff quit cricket and soccer in order to pursue athletics?
Did you know that Lucy Spraggan 's song " Last Night " reached number eleven in the UK charts despite being pulled midweek?
Did you know that Brad Teague was fastest in third-round qualifying for the 1989 Daytona 500 , but did not compete in the event?
Did you know that Lindsey Berg was twice named the USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year?
Did you know that the Hanajira tribe inhabited the area between Gaza and Beersheba before being expelled to the Gaza Strip during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
Did you know that in 1915, British ship-owner Joseph Hoult offered a reward of £500 each to the next four British merchant ships that sank German U-boats ?
Did you know that Georgian daba Manglisi has been a mountain resort area for the people of Tbilisi since the 19th century?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympian Rachael Dodds , who has cerebral palsy , was introduced to athletics by her physiotherapist?
Did you know that during the Albanian Revolt of 1432–36 , forces under Gjergj Arianiti defeated 10,000 Ottoman troops under Ali Bey near the valley of Shkumbin?
Did you know that Mike Kenny is the most successful British Paralympian , having twice retained his gold medals in three swimming events ?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Cameron has represented his country in athletics and wheelchair basketball?
Did you know that pottery from the Duffy Archaeological Site in Illinois is distinctive for its lack of decorative elements?
Did you know that in 1332 Taynal , the Mamluk governor of Tripoli , was transferred to Gaza as punishment by the viceroy of Syria , only to be reassigned to Tripoli three years later?