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Did you know that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats , the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats , was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris ?
Did you know that Hartley Road, the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes , is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake ?
Did you know that quarterback Vic Hall broke the Virginia state record for total yards as a high school junior and then broke his own record as a senior ?
Did you know that the Macmillan Report 's most briefly discussed issue, an alleged "gap" in British industrial financing , was one of the only recommendations acted upon?
Did you know that professional wrestler Juan Alvarado Nieves and his five brothers all use ring names with the term Brazo ( Spanish for "arm") in them?
Did you know that future U.S. President Gerald Ford waited tables at the fraternity house of Michigan halfback Herman Everhardus ?
Did you know that early audience members of Dublin 's LGBT film festival Gaze risked being arrested as homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland ?
Did you know that Khaled Mohieddin , a former member of the Free Officers Movement , founded the leftist Taggamu party in Egypt ?
Did you know that the endangered Socorro springsnail is found in only one spring in the U.S. state of New Mexico ?
Did you know that businessman John Young migrated to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom , but was worth A$184 million in 2006, although the company that made him rich is now insolvent ?
Did you know that over 5,000 people applied to the quiz show Jeopardy! to be a part of the show's Clue Crew , a team of correspondents that film videos used to accompany some of the show's clues?
Did you know that in an obituary of Adolf Hitler , Knut Hamsun infamously referred to Hitler as "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations"?
Did you know that Louis Edward Gelineau , the American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was succeeded by Robert Edward Mulvee in 1997, opposed a 1985 ordinance for the city of Providence to protect homosexuals from discrimination?
Did you know that the professional wrestling group Los Infernales were the first team to win both the Mexican National Trios Championship and the CMLL World Trios Championship ?
Did you know that the United States ' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii ?
Did you know that Bonneau du Martray is the only estate in Burgundy to make wine exclusively from grand cru vineyards ?
Did you know that baseball Hall of Famer Fred Clarke was the last Louisville Colonels manager ?
Did you know that, inspired by nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen 's success in France , Norwegian anti-immigrant political party Stop Immigration 's only election win was a single seat on the Drammen City Council?
Did you know that Colonel Ernest Bankey won the Soap Box Derby twice before becoming an American ace in a day on December 27, 1944?
Did you know that journalist James F. Bowman wrote a grandiose poetry review for The Californian newspaper, then published an anonymous review in the Dramatic Chronicle savaging his earlier review?
Did you know that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough ?
Did you know that in 1899, Lave Cross and Joe Quinn managed the Cleveland Spiders to the worst record in professional baseball history?
Did you know that in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea , to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
Did you know that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York , collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever 's design?
Did you know that Hungarian handball player Anita Görbicz was voted World Player of the Year 2005 by the International Handball Federation ?
Did you know that " Love Minus Zero/No Limit " is a fraction ?
Did you know that Jane Weinberger , wife of Caspar Weinberger , began writing and publishing children's books in response to budget cuts by the Reagan administration ?
Did you know that the opportunity for the establishment of the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama as part of the 2010 IndyCar Series season resulted in part from the Detroit Indy Grand Prix being discontinued?
Did you know that Lorenzo Campeggio , the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation , determined that Henry VIII 's marriage could not be annulled?
Did you know that Howard Engle was the lead plaintiff in a class action suit in which a jury awarded a U.S. record punitive damage verdict of $145 billion against the tobacco industry ?
Did you know that in the 1960s, Israel trained Ethiopian forces for counterinsurgency operations against the Eritrean Liberation Front ?
Did you know that Tony Romano was the Peterborough Petes 's leading scorer during the 2008–09 Ontario Hockey League season?
Did you know that Matt Kirshen 's Bigipedia article on the "Bee Whisperer" was inspired by an article found using the random article function on Wikipedia ?
Did you know that Thomas B. Kay was elected as the Oregon State Treasurer four times and served in the office longer than anyone else in Oregon history?
Did you know that in the late 1980s, the Mongolian pioneer movement , the Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization , had a membership of 360,000?
Did you know that while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo , Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo 's 2001 Space World ?
Did you know that in 2006, the Michigan State Spartans mounted the greatest comeback in top division college football history, but their coach was fired two weeks later?
Did you know that ex parte O'Brien was a test case seeking the release of between 80 and 100 people arrested under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920 ?
Did you know that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club 's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove ?
Did you know that " She Belongs to Me " was one of the first anti-love songs?
Did you know that American Racing Hall of Fame jockey Isaac Burns Murphy , now interred at the Kentucky Horse Park , was initially buried at African Cemetery No. 2 ?
Did you know that the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester , Cheshire , has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?
Did you know that Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past ?
Did you know that players from the 1990 England and West Germany association football teams replayed their Italia '90 World Cup semi-final match in aid of charity, for the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy ?
Did you know that the Commanding Officer of RAAF Station Richmond in 1938–40, Group Captain "Kanga" De La Rue , was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa in Tartus , built by the Crusaders in the mid-12th century, is among the best-preserved religious structures of the crusades?
Did you know that the game rock-paper-scissors has been used to determine the winner of several events at the World Series of Poker ?
Did you know that Heinz Lord , Secretary General of the World Medical Association , survived Moringen concentration camp and the sinking of prison ship Cap Arcona ?
Did you know that Walter Scott met the explorer Mungo Park by the banks of the Yarrow Water , and that William Wordsworth journeyed there with "The Ettrick Shepherd" ?
Did you know that professional wrestlers Timothy Well and Steven Dunn , of the tag team Well Dunn , were criticized for their ring attire, which mixed bow ties and thongs ?
Did you know that the Kölcsey Ferenc National College in Satu Mare , Romania , was established in 1557 as a subsidiary of the University of Debrecen ?
Did you know that Tahitian nationalist Pouvanaa a Oopa was elected to the French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France ?
Did you know that the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion was Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War ?
Did you know that Fritz Crisler called George Ceithaml , quarterback of the Michigan Wolverines 's single-wing offense from 1941 to 1942, "the smartest player he ever taught"?
Did you know that Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States ?
Did you know that mechanical plating , developed in the 1950s, is commonly used to overcome hydrogen embrittlement issues when electroplating hardened steel ?
Did you know that CEPPS is a cooperative agreement between the International Foundation for Electoral Systems , the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ?
Did you know that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk , a medieval church in Leiden , the Netherlands , include four U.S. presidents ?
Did you know that a former Bear Stearns executive and magazine mogul are part of the November Nine trying to prevent logger Darvin Moon from winning millions of dollars?
Did you know that Joan Baez has been regarded as the subject of " It's All Over Now, Baby Blue " and also covered the song herself?
Did you know that unlike contempt of court , contempt of cop is not a crime in the United States?
Did you know that while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund , Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three world championships ?
Did you know that a 1955 " Speaker's Corner " experiment in Bangkok inspired the launching of a Thai Hyde Park Movement Party ?
Did you know that during the 1960s , Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River ?
Did you know that Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno , running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie , would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November?
Did you know that when Wales rugby union international Dan Rees switched to professional rugby league in 1905, his signing-on fee of £300 was a Welsh record?
Did you know that the Azm Palace in Hama , Syria , has been regarded as "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria"?
Did you know that Michigan halfback Tom Kuzma was described as "a smacker from Smackersville"?
Did you know that the Norwegian airline Braathens ' destinations included seven offshore oil fields served by Braathens Helikopter ?
Did you know that Sister Pearl Corkhill was one of only seven Australian military nurses to win the Military Medal in the First World War ?
Did you know that the 2006 The Dawn album Tulad Ng Dati was not intended to serve as a soundtrack album for the film of the same title ?
Did you know that in eastern Turkey around 1900 BCE, a Near East mass migration set in motion a vast wave of refugees that changed the population of Greece forever?
Did you know that Canadian writer Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, The Republic of Love , despite being involved in the pre-production of the film?
Did you know that rigged elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus became an official legitimization of Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in 1939?
Did you know that when the play Trafford Tanzi was produced on Broadway , the cast included singer Deborah Harry as a professional wrestler and comedian Andy Kaufman as a referee ?
Did you know42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that, in 2007, the spiritual needs of the residents of Linxia County were served by 445 imams , 12 Taoist priests , 31 Buddhist monks , 15 lamas ,  and 3 living Buddhas ?
Did you know that the Chrysotriklinos , the ceremonial hall of the Great Palace of Constantinople , was the model for Charlemagne 's Palatine Chapel in the Palace of Aachen ?
Did you know that at the 1895 United Kingdom General Election , Tankerville Chamberlayne 's election as a Member of Parliament was declared void because of electoral fraud ?
Did you know that the persecuted Cagots were only allowed to use the special holy water font when attending the church in Saint-Savin ?
Did you know that Typhoon Choi-wan was the first Category 5 equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale during 2009?
Did you know that when M.P. and Lord Mayor , Sir James Sanderson, bart. died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of William Huntington S.S. ?
Did you know that the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre , which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa ?
Did you know that bankers, airline executives, Academy Award -winning directors, Bob Geldof and a representative from Coca-Cola were among delegates who attended the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009?
Did you know that lawyer, politician and anti-immigration activist Erik Gjems-Onstad also initiated the cyclosportive Styrkeprøven ?
Did you know that the United Bible Society and Norwegian Protestant Mission have provided a New Testament in the Khassonké language for the Malian commune Tomora ?
Did you know that in 1960, Archbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara became the first papal representative to visit the British Houses of Parliament in four centuries?
Did you know that Matt Brown , from Idalou , Texas , won the gold medal for discus with a prosthetic leg at the 2008 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro ?
Did you know that unlike most Depression -era armories in New York, the Schenectady Armory was built in the center of its city rather than on its outskirts?
Did you know that " Pawnee Zoo ", an episode of the American television comedy Parks and Recreation , features a fictional same-sex marriage between two penguins?
Did you know that ferritic nitrocarburizing is a ferrous case hardening process that causes little shape distortion because of its low temperature (below 650 °C)?
Did you know that Mette Hanekamhaug , at 22, became the youngest parliamentarian elected in the 2009 Norwegian parliamentary election ?
Did you know that the first United States national track and field championships were organized by the New York Athletic Club in 1876?
Did you know that the "severe" and "assertive" former St Peter's Church in Shoreham-by-Sea was converted into a nursing home , retaining many of its original features?
Did you know that former Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Dale Sittig was credited with obtaining lighting for the Louisiana State University at Eunice 's baseball stadium?
Did you know that Marcel Oopa , French National Assembly member from Tahiti and the Polynesian autonomist R.D.P.T , died on Bastille Day 1961?
Did you know that Buster Keaton built a trestle bridge near Culp Creek, Oregon , just to burn it down for a movie ?
Did you know42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Admiral Sir Francis Wheler's mangled body was washed up two days after the loss of his flagship HMS Sussex in 1694?
Did you know that a pastor of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach, California , vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps?
Did you know that the historical region of Colchis in which the Kolkheti National Park of western Georgia is now located appears in the Jason and the Argonauts myth?
Did you know that the 1955 Hindi film Vachan marked composer Ravi 's debut as a film music director?
Did you know that after the Division I men's basketball coach Norman Shepard went undefeated in his first year, he quit?
Did you know that Travis Touchdown , the anti-hero of the Wii video game No More Heroes , was so named to "sound cool to a Japanese audience"?
Did you know that Ireland 's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's largest agricultural event?
Did you know that Yilun Yang is ranked as a 7 dan in the board game Go ?
Did you know that the 1920 film Sex , opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that the rice rat " Oryzomys hypenemus ", first identified from bones collected from caves in Antigua and Barbuda as early as 1958, still lacks a formal scientific name ?
Did you know that B.G. Dyess was elected to the Louisiana Senate at the age of 73?
Did you know that no one was allowed to take photographs of the Beardmore Relics for more than thirty years?
Did you knowthat when Friedrich Giesel discovered actinium independently from André-Louis Debierne , he wanted to call it "emanium"?
Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond , Oregon , is the city's oldest church?
Did you know that Emanuel Levenson married the widow of the record producer of his only surviving recording?
Did you know that Lunugamvehera National Park is one of the protected areas where the near threatened species Tufted Gray Langur occurs?
Did you know that Romanian writer Eugène Ionesco deemed critic Şerban Cioculescu "stupid by obligation" during a cultural debate of the 1930s?
Did you know that Guo Moruo wrote a poem about the Liujiaxia Dam , while the displaced farmers received about RMB 364 per person?
Did you know that Jo Swerling initially declined to rewrite Frank Capra 's first draft screenplay for the 1930 film Ladies of Leisure because he thought it was a "putrid piece of gorgonzola "?
Did you know42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that besides being a clown , mime , juggler , and sleight of hand magician , vaudevillian Avner the Eccentric is a certified Ericksonian hypnotist ?
Did you know that the blurred and smooth lanternsharks form a species group distinguished from the rest of their family by the shape and arrangement of their dermal denticles ?
Did you know that John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
Did you know that Bath , the only entire city in England to be a World Heritage Site , was awarded that status largely because of its buildings and architecture ?
Did you know that Robert Bloet , a medieval Bishop of Lincoln , appointed his own son Simon as Dean of Lincoln ?
Did you know that Trondheim Airport Station opened as the Nordic Countries's first airport rail link in 1994?
Did you know that Andy "The Bull" McSharry , who was jailed for banning hillwalkers from his land, compared his opponents to the Mafia and patrolled his farm on a quad ?
Did you know that physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize -winning husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ?
Did you know that reviewers called The Wolf Woman the "greatest vampire picture of all" and its star, Louise Glaum , "the greatest vampire woman of all time"?
Did you know that Sandouping , China , has not only the world's largest power plant , but also 1,000 hectares of citrus orchards?
Did you know that after limited success in film , actor Patrick McVey won starring roles in three television series : Big Town , Boots and Saddles , and Manhunt ?
Did you know that the United States revenue cutter Jefferson Davis was named in 1853 for Jefferson Davis , later president of the Confederate States of America ?
Did you know that Ilyas Kashmiri was an elite Pakistani commando before he was killed by a U.S. drone in 2009?
Did you know that the landmark Insurance Exchange Building in Long Beach, California , has housed a boy's clothing store, courthouse, dance studio, nightclub and Jamaican restaurant?
Did you know that Captain Robert Waterman set three speed records for sailing from China to New York in the 1840s?
Did you know that Studio Wall , an oil painting by the German artist Adolph Menzel , is considered one of the "masterpieces of Menzel's maturity"?
Did you know that the Tibetan Annals form the oldest surviving Tibetan history providing a summary of events from the 640s to 764 CE, when Tibetan soldiers returned from sacking the Chinese capital, Chang'an ?
Did you know that the Benham Plateau is located in the West Philippine Basin and its basement is probably a micro-continent ?
Did you know that the green lanternshark often preys on squid and octopus much larger than itself, which it may overwhelm by attacking in packs ?
Did you know that Ras Alula Engida was called "the Garibaldi of Abyssinia "?
Did you know that U.S. Independence Day is celebrated every 4th of July in Rebild National Park in Himmerland , Denmark ?
Did you know42, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Sanni Yakuma is a traditional Sinhalese exorcism and dance ritual that calls various demons believed to be ailing humans and humiliates them through comic and obscene enactments?
Did you know that as of 2009, Liz Shuler is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the labor federation's history?
Did you know that " Gossip ", the sixth season premiere of The Office , saw an 18 percent Nielsen Ratings drop compared to the fifth season premiere, " Weight Loss "?
Did you know that just behind the Agave Garden on the Plaza Garibaldi , a museum of tequila is being built, complete with a large tasting room?
Did you know that Jesse Sublett was a pioneer of the Austin, Texas , punk rock scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the Texas Turnpike Authority ?
Did you know that with Kerry 's victory in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final , Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to win medals at the highest level of Australian rules and Gaelic football ?
Did you know that frogfish can suck prey into their mouths in just 6 milliseconds , too fast for other animals to see?
Did you know that the song " Sentimental Lady ," written by Bob Welch , which appeared on Fleetwood Mac 's 1972 album, Bare Trees , was re-recorded to feature on his 1977 debut album, French Kiss ?
Did you know that during the 1527 sacking of Rome by imperial troops, William of Enckenvoirt paid 40,000 scudi to protect his house and properties?
Did you know that Du Jun was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in Hong Kong 's biggest insider trading case?
Did you know that the Suceava North railway station in Suceava was selected as a location for the film Gruber's Journey because the filmmakers believed the architecture was reminiscent of World War II ?
Did you know that some geologists say the Great Falls Tectonic Zone is a shear , while others argue it is a suture ?
Did you know that John T. Elson , who famously asked, " Is God Dead? " in 1966, is dead at age 78?
Did you know that the largetooth cookiecutter shark has the largest teeth relative to its body of any living shark ?
Did you know that the Italian comune of Acerno in the Province of Salerno was founded by refugees from Picentia , destroyed by the Romans after the Second Punic War ?
Did you know that the Carolina Liar single " Show Me What I'm Looking For " was described as " rock music for anyone who finds Snow Patrol a bit too giddy sometimes"?
Did you know that Dirty Diaries is a collection of Swedish pornographic feminist short films that sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money?
Did you know that the Ilyushin Il-18 airliner was installed with different engines than those originally intended, but the plane was then cancelled because its engines were unreliable?
Did you know that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, Tulsa Tribune as a cause of the Tulsa race riot , but all copies of that page of the newspaper have apparently disappeared?
Did you know that the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders , Belgium , having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary"?