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Did you know that John Douglas conducted more than 50 opera productions at Temple University ?
Did you know that the southernmost section of the Wellington Fault in North Island , New Zealand , has moved at a rate of 6.0–7.6 mm (0.24–0.30 in) per year for the last 140,000 years, shown by the offset of dated river terraces ?
Did you know that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916 , the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
Did you know that, while serving in the Solomon Islands during World War II , Austin Volk discovered a river which he named "Brown Bear River" in honor of his alma mater , Brown University ?
Did you know that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch , aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
Did you know that the Hero's Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal are currently the highest and second-highest military decoration in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam , included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?
Did you know that despite using clean coal , Prairie State Energy Campus , due to go online in August 2011 , may become the largest source of carbon dioxide built in the United States in a quarter-century?
Did you know that St Wilfrid's Church and its rectory in Ribchester , Lancashire , were constructed in the 13th century of sandstone rubble ?
Did you know that in his final season as Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coach , John Thompson III led the 2003–04 team to the 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
Did you know that the world's littlest skyscraper , located in downtown Wichita Falls , Texas , is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)?
Did you know that a "temporary" regent of Nigeria 's Idoani Confederacy ended up ruling the state for over 14 years, as the chiefs couldn't agree on the succession ?
Did you know that in 1883, after Robert Russ was persuaded to donate 600 acres (240 ha) of land for a new townsite in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana , the town was called Russ Town—today the city of Ruston and the parish seat ?
Did you know that a student-run high school station is the only oldies radio station in the market of Knoxville, Tennessee ?
Did you know that the Dutch Ter Apel Monastery , founded by the Croziers , used to make money by selling loam , dug from land owned by the neighboring hamlet of Weerdinge , to the hamlet of Roswinkel ?
Did you know that Albanian Grand Vizier Davud Pasha built the largest public baths in the Balkans ?
Did you know that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in Belize has revealed evidence of a Mayan city?
Did you know that Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey , as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
Did you know that Redline , Madhouse 's latest anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
Did you know that portable palisades carried by Texians at the Battle of Velasco were completely ineffective against Mexican gunfire?
Did you know that soprano Dolores Wilson lamented that "the Italian I'd learned by studying operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and tragic love affairs"?
Did you know that a deadly anti-Semitic riot involving approximately 10,000 people erupted in Warsaw in 1922 in response to a planned concert of Yiddish song by soprano Isa Kremer ? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Isa Kremer and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Archive 7#Did you know? 18:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC) , as well as at WT:DYK#Printing corrections and apologies .)
Did you know that Holly Madison 's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
Did you know that by taking the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 Princeton Tigers basketball teams to the National Invitational Tournament , coach Bill Carmody achieved the Ivy League record for career winning percentage?
Did you know that in 1418 Margery Kempe was tried for Lollardy in All Saints Church, Leicester ?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared the 1982 military coup led by General Hussain Muhammad Ershad to be illegal?
Did you know that in 1860 schoolteacher Thomas Hopley was found guilty of manslaughter for the beating to death of a student described as "stolid and stupid"?
Did you know that a human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"?
Did you know that the Lombardy Apartment Building has been named one of the Cincinnati region's best examples of late 19th century urban Victorian architecture ?
Did you know that the Superintendent of the Otago Province , John Hyde Harris , would have played an even more important role in New Zealand politics but for his difficult financial situation?
Did you know that jazz musician Phil Moore arranged and worked on the scores of over 30 films ?
Did you know that the 1979–80 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team of the Ivy League played seven games against participants in the 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament , although they did not play in the tournament themselves?
Did you know that the character Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars was inspired after George Lucas suggested that the bounty hunter in the series should go Western ?
Did you know that even though it was outside the city at the time, the medieval Church of St George in Kyustendil , Bulgaria , was Kyustendil's cathedral until 1816?
Did you know that Bill Andriette was 15 years old when he joined the pedophile organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) ?
Did you know that Bryant Fleming 's 1927 renovations to the Keeney House in Le Roy, New York , made it a more purely Federal-style building?
Did you know that the first Orthodox Christian service ever held in Canada was conducted by the Russian Church and took place in 1897 in the tiny hamlet of Wostok, Alberta ?
Did you know that with his appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1979, Stephen Lachs was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United States?
Did you know that one of the venues of the 1904 Summer Olympics was Forest Park , the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ?
Did you know that Kalaallit Jørgen Brønlund was a member of the 1902–1903 Danish Literary Greenland Expedition, along with Knud Rasmussen , Harald Moltke , and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen ?
Did you know that John Thompson III led the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team to postseason tournaments in his first two seasons as head coach in 2000–01 and 2001–02 ?
Did you know that Archaeomarasmius , Aureofungus , Coprinites , Palaeoagaracites , and Protomycena are the only five genera of agaric mushrooms known from the fossil record?
Did you know that Sean Morton claims that, while in India , Nepalese monks taught him the secret of time travel ?
Did you know that Alms and Doepke was once the leading dry goods company in the region of Cincinnati , Ohio ?
Did you know that Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence , philosophy , and cognitive science ?
Did you know that coach Pete Carril led the 1995–96 Princeton Tigers to an upset in the 1996 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament , and successor Bill Carmody led the 1996–97 and 1997–98 teams back to the Tournament?
Did you know that the hamlet of Trefasser , Pembrokeshire , is said to be named either after Asser , a friend and biographer of Alfred the Great , or Asser's nephew, Asser Meneventsis, a Benedictine monk ?
Did you know that the Girl Scout National Center West outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming , was one of the largest encampments in the world, covering 14,600–15,400 acres of rugged wilderness?
Did you know that Charles Joseph Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall were founder-shareholders in the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. along with Pre-Raphaelite artist William Morris ?
Did you know that the Spanish warship that fought in the Action of 13 June 1898 would later serve in the Venezuelan Navy ?
Did you know that the centrepiece of the Messner Mountain Museum , established by Italian mountaineer , Reinhold Messner , is at Sigmundskron Castle near Bolzano , and focuses on man's encounter with the mountains ?
Did you know that Hyderabad -based Snow World was India 's first and the world's biggest snow themed park at the time of its opening in 2004?
Did you know that the 1987–88 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team holds the national record for single-season three point field goal percentage and individuals on that team hold the career and single-season Ivy League records?
Did you know that Sava River Bridge carrying the A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981?
Did you know that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was the flagship of Admiral Rozhestvensky at the Battle of Tsushima ?
Did you know that despite its general accuracy, Carnegie Mellon's Never-Ending Language Learning semantic learning tool came to the conclusion that Internet cookies were a kind of baked good ?
Did you know that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years?
Did you know that Barton Kay Kirkham was the last prisoner to be hanged by the state of Utah ?
Did you know that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas was founded by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad in 1993 to oversee the construction of a Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya ?
Did you know that the 1986–87 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team led the nation in field goal percentage ?
Did you know that in 2004, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated a dedicated stem cell research center at Hyderabad's L. V. Prasad Eye Institute ?
Did you know that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused for the 2004 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that a spontaneous strike in Oslo in 1941 , due to lack of milk , led to martial law , court-martial , executions, and mass arrests ?
Did you know that the Tokuyama Dam is the largest dam by volume in Japan and also creates the country's largest reservoir by volume?
Did you know that Fleet Air Arm squadrons on the Attacker class escort carriers sank six U-Boats during the Second World War ?
Did you know that the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned four consecutive invitations to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament , where the 1988–89 , 1989–90 , 1990–91 and 1991–92 teams lost by a combined total of 15 points?
Did you know that Kremlin adviser Georgy Arbatov acknowledged that the Soviet Union had lost the Cold War , but insisted that the United States had suffered too by losing "The Enemy"?
Did you know that during the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (ca. 1518–1687), water from Hyderabad 's Durgam Cheruvu lake was supplied to the residents of Golconda Fort ?
Did you know that during the 18th century, St Gregory's Church, Fledborough , Nottinghamshire , was regarded as "the Gretna Green of the Midlands"?
Did you know that High Court Justice Thomas Dickson Archibald was one of 19 children?
Did you know that while Comstock Lode mining millionaire Sandy Bowers claimed he had money to throw at birds, Samuel Clemens described Bowers as "miraculously ignorant"?
Did you know that Louis-Guillaume Perreaux was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869?
Did you know that, in Lesotho , English replaces Sotho as the medium of instruction after the fourth year of primary school ?
Did you know that Mark Friedman , founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in Warminster , Pennsylvania , as the hardest job he ever did?
Did you know that the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive broke the siege of Leningrad ?
Did you know that Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders won the Victoria Cross for playing the bagpipes whilst wounded and under fire, in the British attack on the Dargai Heights in 1897?
Did you know that in 1958, Texas Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Whittenburg proposed the direct election of United States Supreme Court justices?
Did you know that the 1980–81 , 1982–83 , and 1983–84 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams all went to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ?
Did you know that Encosta De Lago 's service fee rose to AUD$ 302,500 in the 2008 season, during which he served 227 mares who produced 166 live foals?
Did you know that in the week that " When It Rains, It Pours " originally aired , 30 Rock was the only Thursday program whose ratings did not fall from its season premiere ?
Did you know that Wheatland , the former home of the 15th US President , James Buchanan , was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Nora W. Tyson became the first woman to command a United States Navy aircraft carrier task group when she was chosen to command Carrier Strike Group Two ?
Did you know that the Desert Mothers were Christian ascetics and hermits who lived in the desert of Egypt during the 4th and 5th centuries?
Did you know that the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike in the United Kingdom led to the first UK legislation aimed at ending pay discrimination between men and women?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Neptune was deemed "a white elephant , being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
Did you know that John Albert Taylor chose to be executed by firing squad to embarrass the state of Utah ?
Did you know that due to his intense fear of flying , Bill Green was never able to play for the NBA 's Boston Celtics ?
Did you know that the apex organisation of Hindu saints , the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad , has welcomed the 2010 Ayodhya verdict , saying it will prevent further political exploitation of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple issue ?
Did you know that in the 1970s Pete Carril led two Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament – the 1975–76 and 1976–77 teams ?
Did you know that Élie Barnavi , an Israeli historian and a former Israeli ambassador to France, has called for an independent inquiry into the controversial Muhammad al-Durrah incident ?
Did you know that Washington, D.C. 's Capital Bikeshare is expected to become the largest bicycle sharing system in the U.S. when fully deployed, offering 1,100 bicycles and 110 stations?
Did you know that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb?
Did you know that the dog Old Jock , born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern Fox Terrier ?
Did you know that Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Morgan Trent was a sprinter for the Michigan track team and set indoor state track records in the 60-yard dash and 200-meter run?
Did you know that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of Venosa , owner of Italian wine estate Fiorano , considered the white mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?
Did you know that, due to a compromise between the National Basketball Association and its player union , players banned "permanently" for substance abuse are allowed to be reinstated after two years?
Did you know that St Mary's Church in Wilton , Wiltshire , was restored by Robert Bingham , the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom , whose ancestor Robert de Bingham was consecrated there in 1229?
Did you know that Prenkë Jakova wrote Mrika , the first Albanian opera , which premiered in 1958?
Did you know that the extinct Protosialis casca is one of only two known alderflies from the West Indies ?
Did you know that the Fifth Dalai Lama was installed as supreme ruler of Tibet in the 17th century at Shigatse Dzong by Mongol ruler Güshi Khan ?
Did you know that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first motorcycles , the steam-powered, penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
Did you know that chemical analysis of remains from Herod the Great 's Royal Stoa supports Josephus ' account of the Roman destruction of the Temple Mount in a great conflagration ?
Did you know that California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia , a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of expulsion ?
Did you know that in the comedic documentary The Standard of Perfection: Show Cats some show cat owners treat their cats better than family?
Did you know that the North Korean 766th Independent Infantry Regiment lost half its men during the Battle of P'ohang-dong in 1950?
Did you know that although the 1971–72 and 1974–75 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams did not win the Ivy League , they both played in the postseason in the National Invitation Tournament , and were champions in 1975 ?
Did you know that the rock garden in Indira Park , Hyderabad, India , is an award-winning design of 2001 by the then commissioner of customs and excise duty ?
Did you know that four-time NFL All-Pro safety Rick Volk spent two days in an intensive-care unit after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Jets fullback Matt Snell in Super Bowl III ?
Did you know that Katrin Zytomierska is one of the most-read bloggers in Sweden ?
Did you know that the Taft Homes of Peoria , Illinois , were originally built in 1952 as a temporary means of shelter for veterans returning from the Korean War ?
Did you know that Kermit the Frog asked Sesame Street adviser Gerald S. Lesser "when you get back to Harvard , how are you going to explain that you spent all day in New York talking to a frog"?
Did you know that in Bach's cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity , Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen, BWV 48 , a trumpet plays a chorale in canon with two oboes ?
Did you know that HMS Avenger was the only aircraft carrier to take part in Convoy PQ 18 , one of the Arctic convoys of World War II ?
Did you know that Princeton Tigers men's basketball won or shared the Ivy League regular season championship in both of Pete Carril 's first two years as head coach in 1968 and 1969 ?
Did you know that Edward Thorndike and company counted 18,000,000 words by hand to create the first English language words frequency list of its size?
Did you know that the town of Lice, Turkey , was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the earthquake in 1975 , with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later?
Did you know that Mekia Cox can be seen dancing with Michael Jackson to the song " The Way You Make Me Feel " in This Is It ?
Did you know that Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , who renounced his claim to the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1909, later claimed he had been forced to by being locked up in an insane asylum ?
Did you know that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete his floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008 European Championships ?
Did you know that the bracketed sic , while sometimes used to insinuate ignorance of a source, may also reflect upon the user's own ignorance of American and British English spelling differences ?
Did you know that during his five seasons as head coach of Princeton Tigers men's basketball , Butch van Breda Kolff , who retired with the highest all-time career Ivy League winning percentage, led the team to four Ivy League championships: 1963 , 1964 , 1965 , and 1967 ?
Did you know that the 18th-century " Frenchman's Garden " in Maisland , New Jersey , was responsible for the spread of the non-native Lombardy poplar throughout the United States?
Did you know that the British central battery ironclad HMS Audacious grounded twice while she was transiting through the Suez Canal despite the presence of escorting tugs ?
Did you know that discards from commercial fishing ships are a major food source for black dogfish in the northwestern Atlantic ?
Did you know that Andre Weathers returned interceptions for game-winning touchdowns against Ohio State in Michigan's 1997 national championship season and in his first NFL game in 1999?
Did you know that NATO nations periodically deploy fighter aircraft to Iceland under the Icelandic Air Policing mission as the country does not have an air force ?
Did you know that the Penicillium fungus in blue cheese is parasexual ?
Did you know that Mike Martin won consecutive high school state championships in both wrestling and shot put and has been called "the Most Valuable Player Not Named Denard " on the 2010 Michigan football team ?
Did you know that Sir Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize mainly due to his experiments on malaria at the then Begumpet military hospital in Hyderabad ?
Did you know that in a 2010 game against Notre Dame , Stanford football player Owen Marecic scored touchdowns on offense and defense —and did so within 13 game seconds?
Did you know that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduces, but does not eliminate, the disparity in criminal penalties for crack versus powder cocaine in the United States?
Did you know that Sir Anand Satyanand , the first Governor-General of New Zealand of Indian descent, attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Delhi , India ?
Did you know that the Holy Cross Church in Burley, Rutland , contains a memorial to Lady Charlotte Finch , governess to the children of George III ?
Did you know that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide rule and my diploma from the University of Havana " and became known as "Mr. New York"?
Did you know that after playing basketball for the Chicago Stags , Gene Rock joined the Los Angeles Police Department and was eventually promoted to captain ?
Did you know that James St. Clair Morton was the only general during the American Civil War to voluntarily reduce his rank?
Did you know that the explosive charge in some Canadian pipe mines would soon deteriorate into a porridge-like mush?
Did you know that despite receiving a budget allocation in 2003, the public sports stadium in Gibeon, Namibia hadn't been repaired as of December 2007?
Did you know that stockbroker Fulham Davies managed to keep open the Merrill Lynch office in Little Rock , Arkansas , during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on public roads ?
Did you know that Bill Henry was listed as Rice University 's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game ?
Did you know that snooker player Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament at the 2004 European Open in Malta ?
Did you know that Rudolf Katz became a League of Nations envoy in Nanjing after he escaped from Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that Castle of Park , near Glenluce , Scotland , has "commodious closets "?
Did you know that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York , post office was officially renamed in memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year?
Did you know that Capricorn Silvereyes are not only socially, but also genetically, monogamous ?
Did you know that the salt-shaker earthstar is distinguished from other earthstar fungi by the presence of numerous holes on top of its spore sac?
Did you know that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch , Herefordshire, is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed Roman altar?