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Did you know that Lucius Walker blamed Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by Contra rebels in Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"?
Did you know that the British breastwork monitor HMS Hydra saw service during the Russo-Turkish War with Admiral Sir Cooper Key 's Particular Service Squadron in Portland Harbour ?
Did you know that depleted student bodies at American universities caused by World War II enabled Dick Ives to play basketball for Iowa as a 17-year-old freshman?
Did you know that historian A. L. Rowse said the biography Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins "got nearer to penetrating the secret of the most remarkable woman in history than any other"?
Did you know that Nadine Gordimer says her novel Burger's Daughter was "a coded homage" to Bram Fischer , Nelson Mandela 's treason trial defence lawyer?
Did you know that a pit-house discovered near Trout Creek is at least 5,000 years old?
Did you know that at 11.38 km (7.07 mi) long, the Eng Sérgio Motta Dam on the Paraná River is the longest in Brazil ?
Did you know that the Eternal Peace , concluded between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Persia in 532, lasted for just eight years?
Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Abe Jacobs once defeated three other wrestlers in Johannesburg despite suffering from jet lag and competing at a high altitude?
Did you know that the last prioress of North Berwick nunnery handed the lands of her nunnery over to her kinsman, the fifth Lord Home ?
Did you know that Serbia has large but undeveloped reserves of oil shale ?
Did you know that Petter Jakob Bjerve defended his doctorate thesis while serving as Norway's Minister of Finance ?
Did you know that the British breastwork monitor HMS Cyclops and other ships of her type were described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with"?
Did you know that Thomas Guinzburg hired Jackie Onassis as a book editor, but she left after Viking Press published Shall We Tell the President? about a fictional plot to assassinate President Ted Kennedy ?
Did you know that the Miage Glacier is the largest debris -covered glacier in Europe and the longest glacier in Italy ?
Did you know that the Watervliet Shakers are thought to have been the first seed sellers to package seeds in small, paper envelopes?
Did you know that after the county cricket match between Yorkshire and Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition?
Did you know that Lake Zabuye is the major source of lithium in China ?
Did you know that Kyle Watson , a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck , is also the head Jiu-Jitsu instructor at the H.I.T. Squad ?
Did you know that Bruce Erickson , an American paleontologist , has a collection of about a million specimens of ancient fossils ?
Did you know that the accommodations aboard the Cyclops -class monitors were rated the worst in the Royal Navy and referred to by ordinary seamen as "ratholes with tinned air"?
Did you know that the founding leader of Bangladesh , Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , also co-founded the East Pakistan Renaissance Society which promoted East Pakistan as an independent state?
Did you know that in the Battle of Satala in 530, a Byzantine officer captured the Persian general's flag, causing the Persian army to panic and retreat?
Did you know that Holly Hunter sang the traditional murder ballad " Down in the Willow Garden " as a lullaby in the 1987 film Raising Arizona ?
Did you know that Hugh of Amiens , archbishop of Rouen , was the first abbot of Reading ?
Did you know that the Itá , Machadinho and Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plants can together generate 127% of the energy demand in Brazil 's state of Santa Catarina ?
Did you know that despite turning professional scarcely more than a year prior, Alexander Volkov reached the final of the M-1 Global Eastern Europe tournament?
Did you know that Becconsall Old Church , Lancashire , was built with handmade bricks supplied by the lord of the manor ?
Did you know that Oscar Torp , later Prime Minister of Norway , was responsible for the successful flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
Did you know that archaeological finds in Călineşti-Oaş demonstrate it was inhabited by the Starčevo culture during the Early Neolithic Age ?
Did you know that a college scholarship program, a technical college, and a middle school are all named for T. H. Harris , who served as Louisiana education superintendent from 1908 to 1940?
Did you know that it is possible to calculate the age of three children from just the sum, product and uniqueness of their ages?
Did you know that James Haldenston , Prior of St Andrews and Dean of Theology at St Andrews University , was praised by the medieval historian Walter Bower for his hatred of Lollards ?
Did you know that of the nine British battlecruisers built before World War I only HMS Tiger was retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922?
Did you know that American diplomat R. Smith Simpson wrote in 1962 that many students interested in joining the Foreign Service knew little about the U.S. and were "wholly unprepared for diplomatic work"?
Did you know that the range of the pearl oyster Pinctada radiata extends from Japan to Victoria ?
Did you know that Sharif El-Gamal , the Muslim real estate developer behind the " Ground Zero mosque ", is a member of the local Jewish Community Center , which he says served as an inspiration for his project?
Did you know that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario – Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw , was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
Did you know that Stephen A. Swails may have been the first African American commissioned as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was recently bumped off the top spot on the French music chart by a single by René la Taupe , a virtual singing groundhog ?
Did you know that the origins of the team sport bando are closely connected to hockey , shinty and bandy ?
Did you know that on the chancel arch of St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer , North Yorkshire , is a painting of Moses and Aaron ?
Did you know that 2010 Summer Youth Olympics diving bronze medalist Michael Hixon 's parents are both coaches in American collegiate sports ?
Did you know that the Fenton Hill Observatory is home to the RAPTOR telescopes, which can swivel to any point in the sky in less than three seconds?
Did you know that Tony Blair was pelted with shoes and eggs the day after promoting his book on The Late Late Show in Dublin ?
Did you know that the Legg House was built outside of Bloomington, Indiana , but now lies near the heart of the Indiana University campus?
Did you know that Bob Dylan did not release his 1963 song " Lay Down Your Weary Tune " until 1985, but it was covered by The Byrds and other artists in the interim?
Did you know that Triggs was once described as the "the fittest dog in Cheshire "?
Did you know that Percy Reeve , known for composing operettas and writing music criticism , also produced a book of poetry, Love & Music ?
Did you know that the Japanese escort ships Okinawa , CD-63 and CD-207 sunk the American submarine Bonefish ?
Did you know that The Causeway in Washington, D.C. , is an estate named for a bridge rather than an occupant?
Did you know that the fictional parish of Stoneground, setting for E. G. Swain 's Stoneground Ghost Tales , is based on Stanground, Peterborough , where Swain himself was Vicar?
Did you know that Moto Racer DS was the first Moto Racer video game to be released since 2002?
Did you know that British Army General Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe was created one of the first Companions of the Order of the Bath ?
Did you know that the New Ireland stingaree is the only stingaree with dermal denticles , and may represent a new genus ?
Did you know that Eberhard von Brauchitsch called his company's donation of about 26 million Deutsche Mark to all the major German parties between 1969 and 1981 "cultivating the political scene"?
Did you know that the Homagial Crown was probably the coronation crown of king Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland?
Did you know that some of the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing Ojibwe themes, although the Ojibwe never lived near the petroglyph site?
Did you know that the hidden camera conversations between Patrick van der Eem and Joran van der Sloot set a television broadcast record in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that although the Paulo Afonso Complex in Brazil dammed a waterfall , its spillways can recreate it?
Did you know that professional baseball player Eddie Phillips never batted or fielded a ball in the major leagues , but scored four runs for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1953 season ?
Did you know that the broken top of the Aviation Martyrs' Monument in Istanbul is to symbolize the incomplete status of the flight missions?
Did you know that Louisiana Republican figure Bob Reese in his later years was a gymnastics coach and a portrait painter?
Did you know that after capturing the Prussian capital of Berlin in 1757 , cavalrymen of the Holy Roman Empire demanded a dozen pairs of gloves for the Empress as part of the city's ransom?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Richard Etchberger 's original nomination for the medal was rejected because the mission he was on was classified?
Did you know that Old Sarum Cathedral , the Norman church built at Old Sarum , Wiltshire , was replaced by a new cathedral at Salisbury in the 13th century?
Did you know that the 1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Big Ten Conference single-game field goals made record of 55?
Did you know that Bulat Okudzhava wrote song lyrics for The Adventures of Buratino but some of his work was considered too philosophical and was left out?
Did you know that the flushwork decorating parts of St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling , Lancashire , is in two colours of sandstone rather than the more usual materials of flint and stone?
Did you know that Silver Creek flows through a canyon near Riley, Oregon , with over 200-foot (60 m) tall walls?
Did you know that Indian leader Jairamdas Daulatram represented East Punjab in the Constituent Assembly of India before becoming the Governor of Assam ?
Did you know that Albin Eines started working on the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn in 1928, less than a year after he edited the Communist Party newspaper Norges Kommunistblad ?
Did you know that Morton Cohen 's 1995 biography of Lewis Carroll is generally considered the definitive scholarly work on Carroll 's life?
Did you know that the 1980 Michigan defense , led by All- Big Ten linebackers Andy Cannavino , Paul Girgash and Robert Thompson , gave up an average of only 1.8 points per game in the last five games of the season?
Did you know that for the film Reign of Assassins , John Woo spent over a week directing an action scene featuring his daughter Angeles?
Did you know that Mozambique's Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago is the focus of WWF and CARE projects aimed at preserving its spectacular reef system?
Did you know that former Louisiana Attorney General Bolivar Kemp, Jr. was a brother-in-law of Cajun humorist and chef Justin Wilson ?
Did you know that despite extreme physical similarities to the Kingdom Hearts character Roxas , Ventus is a completely different character from the same series?
Did you know that in April 2010, New Jersey cat sanctuary Tabby's Place received three cats from a U.S. Marine in Okinawa, Japan , marking the organization's first international rescue?
Did you know that Cody McKenzie , who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck , has the second-most guillotine choke victories in the world according to Sherdog.com ?
Did you know that the newly described monkey, Rondon's Marmoset , was named in honor of Amazonian explorer Cândido Rondon ?
Did you know that Hinder 's lead singer, Austin Winkler, considers the band's upcoming album, The All-American Nightmare , to be the record he is proudest of?
Did you know that the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender plan to make a spinoff called Avatar: Legend of Korra , which is set at least 70 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai?
Did you know that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
Did you know that the Kai stingaree has only been collected by the HMS Challenger , in 1874?
Did you know that Sako Chivitchian holds 11 U.S. national judo titles and won his debut mixed martial arts fight in 98 seconds at age 15?
Did you know that the George D. Oakley House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a window through its lava rock chimney ?
Did you know that Canadian artist Will Munro became known for fashioning artistic works out of men's underwear?
Did you know that the recently described dwarf black stingray looks like, but is less than a third as wide as, the black stingray ?
Did you know that in 1848, James Mathews Leigh founded a popular art school in London , providing training for many leading British artists?
Did you know that Gubazes II , the king of Lazica , was assassinated by two Byzantine generals whom he had accused of incompetence?
Did you know that the extinct fern Wessiea is known from Miocene fossils found at the "Ho ho" locality in Yakima County, Washington ?
Did you know that Brian Birdwell , the newest member of the Texas State Senate , was a burn victim of the terrorist attack on The Pentagon on September 11, 2001 ?
Did you know that Deltaterrasserne , containing features of both Independence I and Independence II cultures , is one of the largest archaeological sites in Peary Land ?
Did you know that John Rudometkin 's NBA career was cut short due to his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ?
Did you know that Seymour Pine , who led the NYPD raid that triggered the Stonewall riots , later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?
Did you know that Shantungosuchus , a small, primitive crocodile from the Cretaceous period, was terrestrial instead of aquatic?
Did you know that Manoj Pradhan , an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party , was elected from Orissa 's G. Udayagiri assembly constituency?
Did you know that former Louisiana Atty. Gen. Fred S. LeBlanc , as a district judge in 1959, signed the letter committing his old rival, Earl Long , to undergo evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia ?
Did you know that the UK charity Counsel and Care was one of the first advocates of a "death tax" as a method to fund the care of the elderly ?
Did you know that in the first round of the 2004 Grand Prix snooker tournament, Stephen Maguire was docked a frame for not having his chalk at the start of his match against Shaun Murphy ?
Did you know that artist William W. Fenn, although blind , was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art (1878–1904)?
Did you know that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton , Lancashire , was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
Did you know that the Aruba Police Force was once stationed in a clock tower at Fort Zoutman , the oldest establishment on the island?
Did you know that, in later life, English illustrator Lawson Wood was a recluse, living in a 15th century medieval manor house he had moved brick by brick from Sussex to the Kent border?
Did you know that Dickie Boon , Stanley Cup champion player with the Montreal Hockey Club of 1902–1903 is credited with inventing the poke check used in ice hockey to knock the puck off an attacking player's stick?
Did you know that Old St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling , Lancashire , has been called "an unusual survival of a small Georgian church"?
Did you know that Charles Folkard created the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip, The Adventures of Teddy Tail , for the Daily Mail in April 1915 ?
Did you know that the Luiz Gonzaga Dam in Brazil was renamed in honor of Luiz Gonzaga who is known as the "king of Baião " and "Gonzagão"?
Did you know that part of the bed of the Dry River in central Oregon is used as a hiking trail?
Did you know that in 1830, 80% of the residents of Mexican Texas —part of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas —were from the United States or Europe?
Did you know that This Ain't Avatar XXX , an American pornographic film parody of Avatar , is being shot in 3D and is the most expensive film Hustler Video has ever produced?
Did you know that Bach used recorders and pizzicato of the strings to evoke funeral bells in his cantata Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161 , written in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity ?
Did you know that during the Nannygate political controversy of 1993, Americans were asked if they had a " Zoë Baird problem"?
Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan 's dictum in Cone Hospital that the Federal Arbitration Act applied to state courts later became the central holding of Southland Corp. v. Keating ?
Did you know that about 67 powerful and destructive earthquakes occurred in 1985 ?
Did you know that the Academy Honorary Award and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award are presented at the Governors Awards ?
Did you know that Greenland 's well preserved archaeological site on Nipisat Island contains some stone artifacts that were previously unknown from the Saqqaq culture ?
Did you know that the two Scorpion class ironclads that were ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 from a British shipyard were seized in 1863 by the British Government to prevent their delivery?
Did you know that footwraps , pieces of cloth wrapped around the feet in place of socks, are being phased out by the army of Belarus in 2010?
Did you know that radio mogul John Lynch initially played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers , but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
Did you know that the new Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey lays out a roadmap for exploring extrasolar planetary systems and investigating the nature of dark energy ?
Did you know that American organist Carl Weinrich performed the premieres of Samuel Barber 's Prelude and Fugue in B Minor , Louis Vierne 's Organ Symphony No. 6 , and Arnold Schoenberg 's Variations on a Recitative ?
Did you know that after leaving the aircraft by evacuation slide , some of the passengers from Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514 foraged for mushrooms whilst awaiting rescue?
Did you know that the Arkansas River bridge between Johnson and Logan counties in Arkansas is named for Ada Mills , who lobbied 40 years for the project?
Did you know that the Church of Saint Andrew in High Ham , Somerset , England, has a 12th century lead-lined font on a stem with rope moulding?
Did you know that Montana Territorial Governor John Schuyler Crosby fought and subdued a crazed knife wielding valet from his sick bed?
Did you know that ten years after releasing an entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band Yes won their first Grammy for " Cinema ", a two-minute instrumental?
Did you know that author and wine educator Karen MacNeil‎ 's book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
Did you know that Canpotex manages the entire Saskatchewan potash -exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
Did you know that all of mixed martial artist Mairbek Taisumov 's documented victories have come by knockout or submission ?
Did you know that the first ever UK City of Culture will be Derry in 2013?
Did you know that the detection of supernova SN 2008D on January 9 , 2008, by Alicia M. Soderberg using data from NASA 's Swift X-ray space telescope marked the first time a supernova was observed as it occurred?
Did you know that the cathedra at Beirut 's Saint George Maronite Cathedral is the armchair used by Pope John Paul II during his 1997 visit to Lebanon ?
Did you know that Colonia Hipódromo was home to refugees from the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that after keeping a clean sheet in an FA Cup match against defending champions Manchester United , Bournemouth goalkeeper Ian Leigh was rewarded with a lifetime supply of pizzas from a local Italian restaurant?
Did you know that two players named John Schultz, one a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and one a catcher for the St. Louis Browns , each enjoyed cups of coffee during the 1891 Major League Baseball season ?
Did you know that the quilting show Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel has been on the air for more than 30 years?
Did you know that the 7.5 M w 1985 Pichilemu earthquake lasted about three minutes?
Did you know that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
Did you know that the blackedge whipray is known in Tamil as the " salt -like ray"?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Bill Frieder won five consecutive NCAA tournament berths and include the 1980–81 , 1983–84 , 1984–85 , 1985–86 , 1986–87 , and 1987–88 teams , and 1988–89 national championship team ?
Did you know that the Deaf Smith County Historical Museum contains artifacts from a World War II Italian POW camp located near Hereford , Texas ?
Did you know that beginning in the 18th century, Tanners' Bridge was used to cross Lanë in Tirana until the stream was redirected in the 1930s?
Did you know that Malcolm, Lord Douglas of Mains was hung, drawn and quartered in 1584 for kidnapping King James VI of Scotland in the Raid of Ruthven ?
Did you know that there is some confusion about whether Shigeki Osawa 's MMA fight against Katsuya Toida was a no contest or a disqualification win for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
Did you know that the McBarge , a futuristic floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 , has been anchored derelict next to an oil refinery since 1991?
Did you know that the 4th century Roman glass Lycurgus Cup is dichroic ; lit from in front it is green, but thanks to surface plasmon resonance it is red when lit from behind?
Did you know that the Rrashbull Tunnel of the Durrës–Tiranë railway in Albania was dug by Bulgarian volunteers, members of the Youth section of their Communist Party ?
Did you know that French royal troops attacked the Spanish Netherlands when portions of that province were not ceded to Louis XIV as part of his wife's dowry?
Did you know that American musicologist and critic Joseph Kerman described Puccini 's opera Tosca as "a shabby little shocker"?
Did you know that author and wine educator Mary Ewing-Mulligan was the first female American Master of Wine ?
Did you know that Route Trident in Afghanistan was the first road to be built by the Royal Engineers during combat since the Dhofar Rebellion in the early 1970s?
Did you know that when Gordon MacInnes won a State Senate seat in 1993 in the 25th Legislative District , he became the first Democrat from Morris County in 18 years to be elected to the New Jersey Legislature ?
Did you know that Parque México in Mexico City exists because environmental laws in the 1920s did not allow housing to be built on a former racetrack?
Did you know that in retaliation for Nepal recognising Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan broke off its ties with Nepal ?
Did you know that historian David J. Weber of Southern Methodist University was called "at least a generation ahead of his time in recognizing how entwined Mexico and the United States were and are"?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Johnny Orr featured Rudy Tomjanovich , Campy Russell , Rickey Green and Phil Hubbard and included the 1968–69 , 1969–70 , 1970–71 , 1971–72 , 1973–74 , 1976–77 , and 1979–80 teams , and the NCAA Tournament runner-up 1975–76 team ?