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Did you know that according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung ?
Did you know that Peter "Papa Bear" Mazzaferro was removed as head football coach at Bridgewater after 19 years, sued for age discrimination, and coached another 17 years there after being reinstated?
Did you know that a gala performance of The Rose of Castille was given on 21 January 1858 as part of the nuptials of Queen Victoria 's daughter, Princess Victoria , and Prince Frederick William of Prussia ?
Did you know that the Star Watch Case Company made a "Moonwatch" that was worn by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan on a trip to the moon?
Did you know that, out of the 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track in use in Vietnam 's national railway network , 85% of passenger volume and 60% of cargo volume is transported along the 1,726 km (1,072 mi) North–South Railway line?
Did you know that Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1862 essay " Chiefly About War Matters " was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you know that the 1874 Fichte-Bunker , the last surviving gasometer in Berlin , became an air-raid shelter in World War II and later housed refugees from East Germany ?
Did you know that no American has won a medal in Olympic table tennis , but if one wins gold, USA Table Tennis will pay a $100,000 bonus?
Did you know that ribbon farms established near Detroit were only 150 feet (46 m) wide, but up to 3 miles (4.8 km) long?
Did you know that soprano Ursula Buckel recorded the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 , which Bach had written for the feast of the Visitation always celebrated on 2 July?
Did you know that only five units of the production model PWS-5 , a Polish liaison aircraft , were built?
Did you know that City Councilman Amir Omar is believed to be the first Muslim and first Iranian-American to hold a political office in Texas ?
Did you know that in the Victorian era the concept of a picture book for children, with illustrations dominating the text, was popularized with small books called toy books ?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker is currently in command of 140,000 troops as acting commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that when John Livingston Lowes taught Kubla Khan , he told his class "If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock ."?
Did you know that while still a boy, John Ross walked more than 600 km, crossing crocodile and hippopotamus -infested rivers, to obtain relief supplies for the settlement at Port Natal ?
Did you know that Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez , the mayor of Guadalupe , was murdered in front of his family in the Mexican Drug War ?
Did you know that during the 1973 Buffalo Bills season , O.J. Simpson set the current single-season National Football League record for average rushing yards per game?
Did you know that Huber's bills itself as the oldest restaurant in Portland , Oregon ?
Did you know that Ed Saugestad began coaching the Augsburg College hockey team while he was still a student and led the school to three NAIA national championships in 37 years as the coach?
Did you know that Zippel Bay in Zippel Bay State Park on Lake of the Woods in Minnesota was once the site of a caviar production business?
Did you know that Justin Verlander , a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers , won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2006?
Did you know that the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang , North Korea , would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying ?
Did you know that an enthalpy–entropy chart shows enthalpy in terms of internal energy, pressure and volume, so that the work done in vapor cycles can be directly measured as a length?
Did you know that Mike McShane led Norwich to eight Frozen Fours and ranks ninth all-time among NCAA men's ice hockey coaches with 564 wins?
Did you know that the 47th Battalion was one of three infantry battalions disbanded by Australia due to casualties suffered during the German Spring Offensive in May 1918?
Did you know that the gape of nestlings of several passerine bird species have been shown to be conspicuous in the ultraviolet spectrum?
Did you know that in the wake of voter anger at tax increases enacted by Governor James Florio , New Jersey Assembly member Thomas P. Foy supported allowing voters to remove legislators from office by referendum ?
Did you know that the noise of the 1929 Murchison earthquake , which occurred on New Zealand 's South Island , was so loud that it was heard in New Plymouth , over 250 km (160 mi) away on North Island ?
Did you know that before cola became widespread, the hamburger was typically served with coffee ?
Did you know that drummer Kevin Kelley was the first non-original member to join the Los Angeles rock band The Byrds ?
Did you know that John Thomson served for 55 years as the schoolmaster of Nantwich Blue Cap School in Cheshire , England , and the school closed some six months after his retirement aged 86 or 87?
Did you know that HMS Concorde , a former French ship, was involved in the capture of the French frigates Engageante and Virginie , and almost captured the Bravoure ?
Did you know that bookbinder Richard Minsky was involved in a lawsuit with the creators of Second Life over the trademark registration of SLART ?
Did you know that St. Aloysius' Catholic Church in Carthagena, Ohio , had the first tall church tower in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches ?
Did you know that Iowa and Indiana coach Gayle Blevins retired in June 2010 ranked second in NCAA Division I softball history with 1,245 wins?
Did you know that a number of British pubs, bars and nightclubs operate a safety initiative called PubWatch that may ban individuals for drunken or anti-social behaviour ?
Did you know that since 1997, The Georgetown Improv Association has hosted "Improvfest," one of the oldest improvisational theater festivals in the United States ?
Did you know that Tim Coghlin advanced to the Frozen Four in six of the past eight years and has the second highest career winning percentage among the 100 all-time winningest college men's hockey coaches?
Did you know that Rollover Pass , which connects East Bay with the Gulf of Mexico , was named after the practice of rolling exports and imports to avoid Customs during Spanish rule ?
Did you know that in 1958 while studying tropical moist static energy profiles, Herbert Riehl and Joanne Malkus found that hot towers were the primary mechanism for transporting energy out of the tropics?
Did you know that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000–701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford , near Ely , Cambridgeshire , England?
Did you know that in 1993, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell suggested that William G. Austin 's Medal of Honor be rescinded due to the controversial battle after which it was given?
Did you know that the shrimp Periclimenes dardanicola resides on sea anemones on the shell of the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus , in one of the few associations between two decapods ?
Did you know that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song " Bad Penny Blues " has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles ' " Lady Madonna "?
Did you know that John Hartmann, a 24-year-old law student, won election to the New Jersey General Assembly 's 15th Legislative District in 1991, making him the youngest Republican ever elected to the Assembly?
Did you know that Magdalene Thoresen became a model for several female characters in Norwegian literature , including Ibsen 's " Rebekka West " and " Ellida Wangel ", and Bjørnson 's "Petra" and "Leonarda"?
Did you know that the Belgian early music ensemble, La Petite Bande , takes its name from Jean-Baptiste Lully 's petite bande , a string orchestra at the court of Louis XIV ?
Did you know that Judi Garman , raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton ?
Did you know that Agora was a proof of concept email -based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet ?
Did you know that United Auto Workers of America president Stephen Yokich was taken to his first strike picket line when he was just 22 months old?
Did you know that the Anglican church in Amlwch , Wales, named after St Eleth , was built in 1800 with money derived from copper mining at nearby Parys Mountain ?
Did you know that Somerset cricketer Izzy Westbury made her senior international debut for the Netherlands aged 15?
Did you know that the Oyu Tolgoi mine will cost US $4.6 billion to complete, and will be the most expensive project in Mongolian history?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient William R. Parnell died in San Francisco , California on August 20, 1910, after falling from a street car ?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden is rated "one of the finest pick-up spots in Manhattan"?
Did you know that Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson said that Bruce R. Bent and Henry B. R. Brown should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their invention of the money market fund ?
Did you know that deer penis , which is said in traditional Chinese medicine to enhance virility in men, was added to the list of banned substances during the 2008 Beijing Olympics ?
Did you know that the search for Cratendune continues though evidence that any one site is the lost village remains sparse?
Did you know that Romgaz is the largest natural gas producer in Romania ?
Did you know that the sports club Skeid , with a former top-level football team, has also won the Norwegian league in bandy ?
Did you know that Deusdedit of Canterbury (d. 664), a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury was the first non-Italian Archbishop of Canterbury?
Did you know that Qawmi primary education lasts six years, though it does not differentiate students by progressive grade levels ?
Did you know that when prisoner of conscience and philosopher Ukshin Hoti 's sentence was complete, he was transferred to another prison instead of being released?
Did you know that elderly Family Guy character Herbert 's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?
Did you know that the music of In convertendo Dominus , a setting of Psalm 126 for mixed choir and organ by Jules Van Nuffel , has been compared to the style of Puccini and Vaughan Williams ?
Did you know that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001 ' s graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?
Did you know that the 1988 St Jean Bosco massacre in Haiti saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide 's church burned down and at least 13 people killed?
Did you know that New Mexican bureaucrat Nicolas de Aguilar was exiled for ordering Christian natives to participate in traditional Kachina dances?
Did you know that Walter Hass , who helped reestablish the sport at the University of Chicago , played college football under three different Hall of Fame head coaches?
Did you know that Fehim Zavalani organized the Congress of Manastir , which decided the Albanian alphabet , in his own home?
Did you know that Indian leader Syed Mahmud was released from prison after writing a letter of apology to the British Viceroy for participating in the Quit India movement ?
Did you know that The Washington Post described Rock Creek Park Golf Course 's back nine holes in 1999 as so steep they seem "to have been designed by a mountain goat"?
Did you know that American blogger Pamela Geller has strongly defended former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps ?
Did you know that the Royal Navy first trained pilots in 1911, in borrowed Short S.27 aircraft?
Did you know that French general Jean Touzet du Vigier served four governments in World War II – the Third Republic , the Vichy regime , Free France , and the Fourth Republic ?
Did you know that Loving Natalee , Beth Holloway 's bestselling book about her missing daughter , was made into the Lifetime movie Natalee Holloway that suspect Joran van der Sloot himself reportedly watched?
Did you know that Benjamin D'Israeli , grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli , traded as a merchant of straw hats and other Italian commodities?
Did you know that on February 9 , 1913 , a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?
Did you know that soon after the creation of the Łomża Ghetto , Nazi Germans killed all the Jews suspected of collaborating with the previous occupying power, the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Olav V of Norway competed in skiing for the club SFK Lyn ?
Did you know that Iwan Tirta , who held a law degree , designed the batik shirts worn by world leaders at the 1994 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit?
Did you know that after Pete Allen retired from professional baseball he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later became a physician ?
Did you know that the gold and enamel Dunstable Swan Jewel dates from about 1400 when such livery badges were highly controversial and could be dangerous for the wearer?
Did you know that Bernard de Montfaucon was the first to use the term "palaeography"?
Did you know that aspens and whitebark pines are keystones to the ecology of the Rocky Mountains ?
Did you know that Grady Wallace of South Carolina beat out Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain to secure the 1956–57 NCAA men's basketball scoring title ?
Did you know that when African American golfers attempted to play at Washington, D.C. 's racially segregated East Potomac Park Golf Course in 1941, angry whites threw stones and threatened them with violence?
Did you know that the first permanent Baptist church in the history of Baptists in Alabama was originally named West Fork of Flint River Church?
Did you know that the skeleton of a pregnant woman and her unborn child dating back to 3000 BC was found in the Kamenica Tumulus in Albania ?
Did you know that " Entrégate " involved a winemaker and a man with a bass guitar?
Did you know that Neil Gardner holds the sixth-fastest recorded time for a Jamaican 400 m hurdler ?
Did you know that Dimitry Laptev worked for Nazi Germany , the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union under different names?
Did you know that the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy provides lodging for the 72 astronomers working at the Mauna Kea Observatory ?
Did you know that to secure sponsorship for his TV show , New York-based host Jake Sasseville talked his way onto a local broadcast 700 miles away, so he would be seen by executives at his target's headquarters?
Did you know that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand ?
Did you know that Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg mysteriously disappeared from London society to the Philippines , where he was killed during a battle of the Philippine–American War ?
Did you know that robbers stole $80,000 worth of jewelry from Lida, Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis , but neglected to take a necklace valued at $400,000?
Did you know that James Conder , who collected coins and issued token coins , never knew that there was a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins buried beneath the doorstep of his house in Ipswich ?
Did you know that the 1943 Filipstad explosion in Oslo shattered the glass in over 1600 buildings ?
Did you know that Amin al-Hindi is believed to have been the last living person involved in the planning of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that, as of 2008, over 95% of urban Burkina Faso has access to improved water sources ?
Did you know that Coretta Scott King called African-American civil rights activist Randolph Blackwell an "unsung giant" of nonviolent social change ?
Did you know that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in a log cabin in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee ?
Did you know that Jerry Nelson is the principal designer and project scientist for the Keck telescopes ?
Did you know that Watain received gold for Reaping Death ?
Did you know that Elmwood Park in downtown Danbury, Connecticut , was once used for growing hay ?
Did you know that Andrew Mack , prior to becoming Mayor of Detroit in 1834, had sailed around the world three times?
Did you know that the number of coho salmon spawning on the Ten Mile River in Mendocino County, California , has dropped precipitously since the 1960s?
Did you know that Red Rock Job Corps Center is within Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania , uses the facilities of the former Benton Air Force Station , and is still home to an FAA radar?
Did you know that Qeparo is home to one of the nine churches in Albania dedicated to Saint Demetrius ?
Did you know that " The Conquered Banner " was written by Father Ryan , the "poet-priest of the Confederacy"?
Did you know that celebrated French courtesan Rosalie Duthé has been called history's first dumb blonde ?
Did you know that Latavious Williams rejected a US$ 100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?
Did you know that empresario James Power was notified of the Mexican land grant offerings by the "Father of Texas " Stephen F. Austin ?
Did you know that John Lawson Walton 's defence in an 1896 libel case led to the largest damages awarded by a British jury to that date?
Did you know that although the team was founded in 1896, the first Connecticut Huskies bowl game did not come until the end of the 2004 college football season ?
Did you know that Sonny Bono produced rockabilly singer Roddy Jackson 's "Hiccups"?
Did you know that to avoid sending her to the scrapyards, the Imperial Japanese Navy converted the battleship Hiei into a training ship?
Did you know that cameline , a middle ages "cheap" fabric of camel's hair , is considered by some authorities to be what we call today cashmere ?
Did you know that comedian Bob Hope , U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post , every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course ?
Did you know that the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction?
Did you know that the original Small Diameter Bomb was developed by Boeing but the competition was restarted as a result of a corruption scandal and the Raytheon version of the GBU-53/B was selected instead?
Did you know that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German - Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger 's Requiem ?
Did you know that Bolinas Ridge which runs parallel to California 's San Andreas Fault has been the setting for numerous automobile television commercials ?
Did you know that Olga Maturana was elected the first Mayoress of Pichilemu , Chile , in 1951?
Did you know that the miniseries Nurse Jeffrey , a spinoff of House MD was originally released exclusively for Apple devices?
Did you know that in 1725 Bach composed a cantata text written by Salomon Franck in Weimar , Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164 , for the 13th Sunday after Trinity ?
Did you know that cricketer Malcolm Jardine , the father of Douglas , was probably one of the first batsmen to play the leg glance ?
Did you know that the Caroline test of self-defence is based on a burning ship going over Niagara Falls ?
Did you know that the Kermadec Red-crowned Parakeet is the first documented example of a parrot recolonising an island after the removal of invasive predators ?
Did you know that energy executive William G. Higgs is both a Distinguished Eagle Scout and a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy ?
Did you know that Sandur was described as "an autonomous Jewish republic" in 1934?
Did you know that during the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia , writer Ludvík Kundera was banned from being published?
Did you know that publisher Moses Annenberg bought Ranch A in 1927 with US$ 27,000 cash that he had in his pocket?
Did you know that Harvey B. Scribner oversaw the 1965 busing plan that made Teaneck, New Jersey , the first district in the US with a white majority to implement a voluntary school integration program?
Did you know that the Western Union Defence Organization was a precursor to NATO , with its headquarters, personnel, and plans providing the structure for NATO's military command?
Did you know that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah calls the Hezbollah theme park a "tourist jihadi center"?
Did you know that St. Mary's of Aransas in Refugio County, Texas , was home to philanthropist Clara Driscoll who is known for her efforts in restoring the Alamo Mission in San Antonio ?
Did you know that Swedish death metal band Nirvana 2002 had to add the "2002" to its name after seeing an advertisement for Nirvana 's 1988 debut single, " Love Buzz/Big Cheese "?
Did you know that half of the population of Colonia Buenos Aires in Mexico City makes a living from selling used auto parts?
Did you know that Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
Did you know that the Dortmunder Philharmoniker , the orchestra of the city of Dortmund , Germany, for opera and concert, founded in 1887, recorded its first CD in 2010?
Did you know that the textual Family 1739 codex represents the Caesarean text-type in the Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles ?
Did you know that quarterback Steven Threet began his college football career at Georgia Tech , played for Michigan in 2008 and is now a member of the 2010 Arizona State team ?
Did you know that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire , and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?
Did you know that with over 1.2 million burials, the Bródno Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Warsaw , Poland ?
Did you know that Swedish-Norwegian television host Kristin Kaspersen is the daughter of Swedish singer Lill-Babs and Norwegian football goalkeeper Kjell Kaspersen ?
Did you know that the village of Edgehead in Midlothian , Scotland , is located on the site of the Roman road Dere Street ?
Did you know that Yolande Harmer , who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari "?
Did you know that the Pyréolophore was probably the world's first internal combustion engine and was fuelled by burning powdered moss , coal granules and resin?
Did you know that the 2009 film An Education received nine British Academy Film Award nominations, but only came away with one award?
Did you know that Niels Bohr inspired Indian physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan to create the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai ?
Did you know that over two days Sun Yingjie won both the Beijing Marathon and a silver medal in athletics at the 10th Chinese National Games , but lost her medal because a rival spiked her drink with steroids ?
Did you know that Samuel Pepys drank purl in a bawdy house behind the House of Lords ?
Did you know that when Nazi Germany invaded Poland , Polish-Jewish poet Rajzel Żychlińsky fled by taking a taxicab?
Did you know that the Centro Urbano Benito Juárez apartment complex in Mexico City was mostly destroyed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake ?
Did you know that in 1874, Nova Scotian MP and marine architect William D. Lawrence built the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada , the William D. Lawrence ?
Did you know that the earliest accurate description of an action potential appears in the first issue of the physiology journal Pflügers Archiv ?
Did you know that Operation Marlborough was a mission to kill Iraqi terrorist insurgents wearing suicide vests who were intending to target cafes and restaurants in Baghdad ?
Did you know that the very first athletics track in Zagreb was built around the football pitch at Stadion Koturaška in 1907?