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Did you know that Appollo received the Dickin Medal on behalf of all search and rescue dogs who participated in rescue operations after the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that radio station WMSP in Montgomery, Alabama , broadcasts the college football games of both the Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival Auburn Tigers ?
Did you know that when Charles, Prince of Wales was attacked for calling his friend Kuldip Singh Dhillon "Sooty", Dhillon defended the Prince as a man of "zero prejudice"?
Did you know that when a young Mozart toured Italy , Pope Clement XIV awarded the composer a knighthood, but Empress Maria Theresa dismissed Mozart and his father as "useless people"?
Did you know that J. K. Gill started a bookstore in Portland, Oregon , in 1870 that grew to a chain of 63 stores before the company folded in 1999?
Did you know that despite its fishy smell, Lactarius volemus is considered a choice mushroom for eating?
Did you know that the 1895 deaths of Richard Corney Grain and Alfred German Reed ended the German Reed Entertainments , which had been presented since 1855?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the devotee Pundalik kept the god Krishna waiting because he was busy serving his parents?
Did you know that Evelyn Lauder , who co-created and popularized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness, helped create Estée Lauder 's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser?
Did you know that the BSA M20 was one of the longest serving British military motorcycles and the most numerous with 126,000 produced?
Did you know that the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is the first of three major theaters in New Orleans , USA , to reopen since Hurricane Katrina struck the city in August 2005?
Did you know that Australian Second World War flying ace Adrian Goldsmith was credited with shooting down 12¼ Axis aircraft over Malta between the months of February and July 1942?
Did you know that Michael Jackson was only 10 years old when he recorded " Big Boy ", the first single by The Jackson 5 ?
Did you know that Father Émile Petitot was the first European to reach the Tuktut Nogait National Park area in northern Canada ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Mighty Igor Vodic used to bring kielbasa to his matches and share it with the fans?
Did you know that To My Surprise was the only album ever released by the alternative rock band To My Surprise before they disbanded in 2006?
Did you know that while Captain Horatio Nelson was initially enthusiastic about his new command HMS Albemarle , his more experienced uncle, Maurice Suckling , expressed doubts?
Did you know that the 4,400-acre (1,800 ha) McLean Game Refuge was privately created by George P. McLean , a Senator and Governor of Connecticut ?
Did you know that Liverpool -based singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness once performed for Sir Paul McCartney ?
Did you know that the filming of Dexter was forced to move from Miami to Los Angeles , beginning with the episode " It's Alive! ", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season?
Did you know that the shooting of a sparrow , during the preparations for the Domino Day World record attempt, was investigated by the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals in 2005?
Did you know that Frank Layden is the only Utah Jazz head coach to have a number retired by the Jazz?
Did you know that Leon Keyserling was the head of the Council of Economic Advisers advising U.S. President Truman , yet never finished his own graduate dissertation in economics?
Did you know that the post office in Coxs Creek, Kentucky , had to be moved because it created many accidents along U.S. 31E ?
Did you know that, due to racial segregation , African American wrestlers like Tiger Conway, Sr. competed on the " chitterling circuit", named after pig innards that were fed to slaves?
Did you know that on the outbreak of the First World War Bat sold all their remaining stock of Bat No. 2 Light Roadster motorcycles to the Russian military but were never paid?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Nick Carter was the Philadelphia Athletics ' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1908, his only season on the Major Leagues ?
Did you know that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor Andrew Sachs , on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints?
Did you know that the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 provided penalties ranging from a life sentence to a term of any number of years for violators?
Did you know that Sir Norman Denning anticipated an attack on Singapore by the Japanese as early as the mid-1930s, but his report was dismissed as him "over-exercising his imagination"?
Did you know that Harry Kinnard was the inspiration for General Anthony McAuliffe 's one-word reply "Nuts!" in response to a German demand for surrender at the Siege of Bastogne ?
Did you know that two perpetrators of the 1977 Moscow bombings were caught after attempting to bomb the city's Kursky Rail Terminal later that year?
Did you know that in 1966, Donald Gleason developed the Gleason score , still used as the standard to measure the aggressiveness of prostate cancer despite millions spent in attempts to displace it?
Did you know that though the Vigo Ordnance Plant never produced any biological agents it did produce 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii ?
Did you know that a Chardonnay from the Robert Young Vineyard in the Alexander Valley AVA was one of the first premium vineyard designated wines in California history ?
Did you know that Leon Kruczkowski , a major figure in post- WWII Polish theater , was also involved in introducing the socrealism doctrine in Poland ?
Did you know that Hamilton Clarke , a prolific composer of the Victorian era , is remembered today chiefly for his compilation of the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Mikado ?
Did you know that church music composer Geoffrey Shaw was the father of Sebastian Shaw , who played Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi ?
Did you know that the Bernard Daly Educational Fund , established in 1922, has provided over 2,000 college scholarships to students from communities in Lake County, Oregon ?
Did you know that Théodore Vienne , who founded the Paris-Roubaix cycle race , was described by the New York Times as "the leading fight promoter of France"?
Did you know that the East African plant Commelina lukei has been informally recognised as a separate species since 1969, but was only formally described in 2008?
Did you know that industrialist S. Anantharamakrishnan became the first Indian director of the British-owned Simpson's group of companies of Madras in 1938?
Did you know that during her husband's presidential campaign , Michelle Obama met with Mormon officials in their Church Administration Building ?
Did you know that Harvey , Barnes , Brown , Johnson , Loxton and Hassett were members of Bradman's Invincibles who won the First , Second and Fourth Ashes series Test matches of 1948 and drew the Third ?
Did you know that the Australian government hopes to use the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement as a model for future free trade agreements with other countries?
Did you know that in 1636, Phineas Hodson , Chancellor of York Minster , lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
Did you know that the character of Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films was named after studio executive Ned Tanen , who had reacted aggressively towards writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis at a meeting?
Did you know that TT racer Harold Daniell tested the new Norton motorcycle frame in 1950 and declared that it was like "riding on a featherbed" – and it has been called the " Featherbed frame " ever since?
Did you know that William Thomas Pecora , who headed the United States Geological Survey from 1965 to 1971, was a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin ?
Did you know that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on Ireland 's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment?
Did you know that the Great Divide Brewery won a prestigious Great American Beer Festival award less than three months after opening?
Did you know that Sahu Mewalal scored the only goal in the final of the first Asian Games football competition held at Delhi , India , in 1951?
Did you know that during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
Did you know that Arthur Dodd , a British prisoner of war during World War II , was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz ?
Did you know that Philip Leget Edwards , the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon , later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California ?
Did you know that from 1936 to 1998, the Germany national football team had just five managers , each of whom won a major trophy, with Helmut Schön (1964–1978) winning two?
Did you know that John Clarke Hawkshaw was a member of the Royal Commission set up by King Edward VII to decide the British representation at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Rufus R. Jones used to tell opponents that his middle initial stood for "guts"?
Did you know that a helicopter once crashed on Interstate 84 in New York , stopping traffic and causing a power outage ?
Did you know that the 1871 election of Father Eduard Müller to the new Reichstag was considered "an astonishing victory of a nobody" over an aristocratic landowner?
Did you know that professional wrestler Gene Petit was hired by the World Wrestling Federation because of a picture he took as a joke?
Did you know that prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif , all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea ?
Did you know that "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", from Claude Jeter 's 1961 song "Mary Don't You Weep", was the inspiration for Paul Simon 's 1970 song " Bridge over Troubled Water "?
Did you know that the Alternanthera mosaic virus , a type of Potexvirus , has been misdiagnosed as the closely-related Papaya mosaic virus ?
Did you know that U.S. Route 20 in Massachusetts used to be part of the Boston Post Road , one of the earliest roads established in the United States ?
Did you know that Sin Chang-won , a South Korean fugitive criminal famous for his close escapes, was first arrested at the age of 15 after being turned in by his father for stealing a watermelon ?
Did you know that the historic McGehee-Stringfellow House in Greensboro, Alabama , collapsed in the 1980s when the MacMillan Bloedel company tried to move it?
Did you know that while Kevin Thomas played for Edinburgh Athletic in the East of Scotland Football League he also worked for a hotel booking agency run by his mother?
Did you know that Prairieville, Alabama 's Italianate Browder Place was inspired by an 1852 Samuel Sloan publication?
Did you know that archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson was founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College ?
Did you know that the proposed Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary would be the southernmost protected area on the Central Asian Flyway , a bird migration route covering 30 countries and used by 279 migratory waterbird populations?
Did you know that Lucien Heath , the first Oregon Secretary of State , later served in the California State Assembly ?
Did you know that in 1991, Manufacturers Hanover CEO John McGillicuddy was the chief architect of a merger with the Chemical Banking Corporation that was the largest US bank merger to that time?
Did you know that winemakers in the Carmignano region of Tuscany have been blending Cabernet Sauvignon with Sangiovese since the 18th century, long before the emergence of " Super Tuscans "?
Did you know that, despite competing for over 20 years, Alberto Madril now reportedly refuses to acknowledge that he was once a professional wrestler ?
Did you know that goalkeeper Jack Wheeler and his five defenders set a Football League record in the 1952–53 season by all playing in every league game for Huddersfield Town ?
Did you know that Mount Hamiguitan in the Philippines has a protected area with a 2,000-hectare (4,900-acre) pygmy forest of century-old trees growing in ultramafic soil ?
Did you know that professional wrestlers Jos LeDuc and Paul LeDuc played the role of brothers so well that news that they were not related created a sensation on talk shows?
Did you know that Kanhopatra is venerated as a saint in the Varkari sect of Hinduism , despite spending most of her life as a courtesan ?
Did you know that Cialis , the erectile dysfunction drug developed by Icos , was originally researched in the hopes of a treatment for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina ?
Did you know that when Norwegian alpine skier Ole Kristian Furuseth won a silver medal in slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics , he had not placed this high in a major race since March 1995?
Did you know that pathologist Kenneth Walton conducted a 1973 study into the causes of heart disease in which he got participants to eat greasy fry-ups ?
Did you know that shale oil was used to light the streets of Modena , Italy , at the turn of the 17th century?
Did you know that in his later years, Union Army general Thomas Alfred Davies published a number of books supporting the divine inspiration of the Bible , and refuting the materialistic philosophy ?
Did you know that The Softwire is PJ Haarsma 's young adult science fiction series about a thirteen-year-old Johnny T, and his struggles with "the Knudniks, the Nagools, and his indentured slavery "?
Did you know that professional wrestler Ray Gunkel won his final match despite suffering a heart injury in that match that killed him later that day?
Did you know that the Phnom Penh Commercial Bank was Cambodia 's 23rd bank and the first Japanese-financed bank in the country?
Did you know that in addition to his academic works, Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden is known as a conveyer of popular science and a former board member of Greenpeace ?
Did you know that in 2006, a prisoner escaped from HM Prison Ranby , England , by hiding in a rubbish lorry ?
Did you know that Khmer numerals were the first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure ?
Did you know that before starring in This is Nightlive , John Ryan was co-creator with Derek O'Connor of blogorrah.com , and a former co-owner of the unsuccessful New York Dog and Stars on Sunday publications in partnership with Kiss and Stellar founder Michael O'Doherty ?
Did you know that Bishop Auckland F.C. was the only football club to win the FA Amateur Cup in three consecutive seasons?
Did you know that historic Glencairn in Greensboro, Alabama , was built in 1835 by Alabama legislator John Erwin?
Did you know that Lucy Kennedy has described The Lucy Kennedy Show as " Livin' with Lucy in a studio" and "a bit like The Charlotte Church Show gone wrong"?
Did you know that professional wrestler Dan Kroffat created the ladder match during a feud with Tor Kamata in Stampede Wrestling ?
Did you know that the Spanish–American War -era Fort Terry on Plum Island was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
Did you know that former Beninese army Chief of Staff Alphonse Alley was known as "the wine, women and song officer"?
Did you know that British plant physiologist Daphne Osborne showed that the gas ethylene is a natural plant hormone which regulates ageing and the shedding of leaves and fruits?
Did you know that 1944 was proclaimed the "Year of naturalization and the Hebrew name " by the Zionist leadership?
Did you know that Anatoly Koryagin was imprisoned for conducting psychiatric interviews with Soviet dissidents confined to mental institutions and smuggling a paper about his findings to the Lancet ?
Did you know that the Seashell Trust is the oldest charity for deaf children in North West England ?
Did you know that Okinawan folk singer Rinshō Kadekaru was gravely wounded during World War II , and reported dead, only to survive and enjoy a lengthy career, living until 1999?
Did you know that We Were Dancing , The Astonished Heart , Red Peppers , Hands Across the Sea , Fumed Oak , Shadow Play , Ways and Means and Star Chamber were presented in rotation, in groups of threes, as part of Noël Coward 's 1935 play cycle Tonight at 8:30 ?
Did you know that, due to a government-imposed curfew , professional wrestler Mario Milano had to wrestle under a mask at the beginning of his career because he was underage and not allowed out after 9 o'clock?
Did you know that the 30 June 1961 wrestling match between Pat O'Connor and Buddy Rogers had ticket sales of US$148,000, which was a North American professional wrestling record for almost 20 years?
Did you know that the Empire Arnold was torpedoed and sunk less than five months after her launch?
Did you know that in 1914, railway official Lucius Seymour Storrs became president of the Connecticut Company ?
Did you know that Relative Values , a satire of postwar snobbery, marked the return of Noël Coward to playwriting after World War II ?
Did you know that Tangton Gyelpo , a 15th-century Nyingma yogi , physician, treasure finder, and founder of Tibetan opera, is known for building numerous iron chain suspension bridges in Tibet ?
Did you know that Mohammad Usman was the first Indian to act as the Governor of Madras Presidency in British India ?
Did you know that one draft of the 1982 Spanish film Labyrinth of Passion had Salvador Dalí and the Pope meeting and falling passionately in love?
Did you know that Karim el-Mejjati was implicated in the bombing of targets in Casablanca , the American barracks in Riyadh , the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London bombings ?
Did you know that Joseph Losey directed both the first U.S. theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht 's Galileo in 1947 and the 1975 film version ?
Did you know that after three years as a back-up, college football quarterback David Johnson threw for 46 touchdowns in 2008 and led Tulsa to an 11–3 record?
Did you know that ships built by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company during World War II included the SS Empire Arthur and the SS Empire Clansman ?
Did you know that despite her illiteracy , Catherine Ferguson founded the first Sunday school in New York City which later became known as Murray Street Sabbath School?
Did you know that the RTÉ series Five Women Go Back to Work follows five women as they attempt to compile a glossy magazine aimed at working women?
Did you know that pitchers Bill Wilkinson and Jim Bluejacket are the only great-grandfather and great-grandson pair to both play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that many soldiers in the Wehrmacht forces deployed for the Ardennes Offensive could not speak German ?
Did you know that Teiji Honma became one of the first goaltenders in ice hockey to wear a mask when he used one that resembled a baseball catcher 's mask at the 1936 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist candidate at the 1945 Neath by-election was the first Trotskyist to stand in a British parliamentary election?
Did you know that the NAACP forced the cancellation of some wrestling events in Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?
Did you know that the Edmund Barton Building , named after the first Prime Minister of Australia , is the largest example of the late 20th-century International Style of Australian architecture in Canberra ?
Did you know that more than 3,000 containers of the chemical agent lewisite were dumped off the Florida coast during Operation Geranium ?
Did you know that after acquiring Movado in 1983, Gedalio Grinberg heavily promoted the modernistic "Museum Watch", based on a design by Nathan George Horwitt included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art ?
Did you know that during a blowout , fans often chant to request that players who only play in garbage time be put in the game?
Did you know that Maria Kinnaird , who was adopted by the politician Richard "Conversation" Sharp , married the surveyor who first used the Drummond Light ?
Did you know that Conolophus rosada , a newly described species of iguana , diverged some 5.7 million years ago, making it among the oldest incidents of evolutionary divergence recorded in the Galápagos archipelago ?
Did you know that in 1820, the missionary William Jowett bought the 9,539-page manuscript of Abu Rumi 's first-ever translation of the Bible into Amharic "on terms which appeared... equitable to all parties"?
Did you know that the 2005 Operation Iron Hammer , aimed to clear Al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Hai Al Becker region in western Iraq , resulted in no reported casualties and no use of deadly force?
Did you know that twin brothers Robert and Ross Hume became known as the "Dead Heat Kids" after finishing nine straight mile races, including the Big Ten and NCAA championships, holding hands in dead heat victories?
Did you know that the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN ) in Carrollton, Alabama , is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi ?
Did you know that Scottish footballer Jim Baxter once taunted opponents in an international match by playing keepie uppie during the game, and that he described his style as "treating the ball like a woman"?
Did you know that when Robert de Bethune was nominated Bishop of Hereford in 1130, King Henry I of England did so because he felt he needed one "godly bishop" around?
Did you know that concerns were raised in 2001 that anthrax research done by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency as part of Project Jefferson violated the Biological Weapons Convention ?
Did you know that at great risk, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF negotiated the transfer of 166 allied airmen from Buchenwald concentration camp , a week before their scheduled execution ?
Did you know that James Bennet was set to become Beijing correspondent for The New York Times when he instead was appointed the fourteenth editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly in March 2006?
Did you know that in Blood of the Irish , presenter Diarmuid Gavin examined the claim that 20% of men in the north-west of Ireland are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages , an ancient High King of Ireland ?
Did you know that Edward D. Hamilton was appointed as the Secretary of the Oregon Territory after later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declined the position?
Did you know that the Brazilian team at the 1958 World Cup had not assigned squad numbers in advance, and a 17-year old Pelé was randomly assigned the number 10, which he wore for the rest of his career?
Did you know that after Pope Alexander III absolved Gilbert Foliot 's excommunication , Thomas Becket exclaimed that " Satan is unloosed for the destruction of the Church"?
Did you know that recommendations from the U.S. War Bureau of Consultants in 1942 led to the founding of the War Research Service and a bio-weapons program?
Did you know that handballer Tonje Larsen was a part of the All-Star Team at the 2008 European Championship , sixteen years after debuting on the Norwegian national team ?
Did you know that the first 8- real banknotes were printed in Puerto Rico in 1766?
Did you know that internal division caused when three sympathizers of the Democratic Agrarian Party of Moldova competed in the 1996 presidential election was one factor that led to the party losing all parliamentary seats two years later?
Did you know that the owner of Twin Oaks Plantation organized Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army on the lawn in front of his house?
Did you know that Benoît Sinzogan , described as "too timid to mount a coup" during the 1960s and 1970s, was "one of Dahomey 's few senior officers not to attempt to"?
Did you know that the lyrics " suicide, it's a suicide ", first used by rapper KRS-One in 1987, have since been re-used by artists such as Ice-T , Redman and Jay-Z ?