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Did you know that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her final album Rendezvous so much that she called them her "fur coat"?
Did you know that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania , only Forksville , Hillsgrove , and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
Did you know that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee 's poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry ?
Did you know that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone basins ?
Did you know that Roy Agnew has been described as the most outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century?
Did you know that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest City, Utah smelter it was built to serve?
Did you know that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22 , 1987 , the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila ?
Did you know that Morris W. Turner , as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock , was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
Did you know that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba 's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake ?
Did you know that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud ?
Did you know that in Norse mythology , the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
Did you know that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha ?
Did you know that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation ?
Did you know that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building ?
Did you know that Bruno Sacco , the Italian -born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright 's textile block work, Storer House , was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver , producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix ?
Did you know that the 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was the first "tsunami earthquake" to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks?
Did you know that Matthew Bruccoli , a scholar on F. Scott Fitzgerald , owned a collection of Fitzgerald memorabilia valued at US$2 million?
Did you know that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor ?
Did you know that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University 's Heating Plant ?
Did you know that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne ?
Did you know that in 1928, the Mayo Beach Light tower was removed from its site on Cape Cod and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light ?
Did you know that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India ?
Did you know that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign of Mansa Suleyman ?
Did you know that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four career shutouts in 1988 , the season after his rookie year?
Did you know that prior to colonial times , written literature was virtually absent from Burkina Faso , with the country's first novel not published until 1962?
Did you know that although allies during the Vietnam War , bilateral relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of Tonkin and Cambodia , resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979?
Did you know that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns ' novel Cold Sassy Tree into an opera after his sister gave him a copy?
Did you know that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
Did you know that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse Guards Regiment ?
Did you know that Manabendra Narayan Larma was a major political leader of the Chakma people and other tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and founder of the Shanti Bahini militia?
Did you know that writer Robert W. Peterson , whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball , was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America ?
Did you know that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. building died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century?
Did you know that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter , is said to be the smallest cathedral in the world?
Did you know that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations "?
Did you know that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard 's science fiction novel of the same name ?
Did you know that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda ?
Did you know that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull , England , until the Restoration ?
Did you know that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been described as "punk Buddhist "?
Did you know that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States ?
Did you know that Dulcie Holland 's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano , described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music ", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
Did you know that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen , Norway by 60 km (37 mi)?
Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard 's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award ?
Did you know that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests ?
Did you know that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon , on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
Did you know that in 1784, Abel Buell published the first map of the new United States created by an American?
Did you know that India 's USD 650–750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the Taliban ?
Did you know that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1 ?
Did you know that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate to study prison rape in the United States ?
Did you know that French singer Patricia Kaas ' 1990 album Scène de vie was certified Diamond in France , Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum in Canada ?
Did you know that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon ?
Did you know that Down Among the Z Men (1952) is the only film starring all four original members of The Goons : Peter Sellers , Spike Milligan , Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine ?
Did you know that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of Oregon 's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
Did you know that Otto Soemarwoto ’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia 's Saguling Dam project?
Did you know that amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds?
Did you know that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon 's sole federal district court ?
Did you know that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA 's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington , Billie Holiday , and Louis Armstrong ?
Did you know that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association , the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen , not Irishmen ?
Did you know that in 1977 , L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Revolt in the Stars which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space opera theology ?
Did you know that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-called Paulskirchenverfassung , or Constitution of the German Empire ?
Did you know that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University ?
Did you know that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German Nazi Party ?
Did you know that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims , but was not the worst ever seen along the road?
Did you know that in optics and acoustics , the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium?
Did you know that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film Devdas ?
Did you know that compared to standard pistols , the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel This Side of Paradise in a successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him?
Did you know that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000?
Did you know that Western Kentucky University 's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
Did you know that Mary's Point in New Brunswick , Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator , a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers ?
Did you know that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf 's admiration for Turkey 's model of modernism and secularism ?
Did you know that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848 , before the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849 , and that it fought only in the Battle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark ?
Did you know that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games , which had been missing for more than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002?
Did you know that the Guglers , mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so named because of their headwear ?
Did you know that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the  official position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament , even if it is unilateral?
Did you know that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, 1984 , had its world premiere in 2005?
Did you know that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge , in Kapa'a , Hawaii were forged in 1890 in Motherwell , Scotland ?
Did you know that Mihail Moruzov , Romania 's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of the Jilava Massacre , while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison?
Did you know that Indiana 's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning ?
Did you know that renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?
Did you know that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port ?
Did you know that the novel Final Blackout by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction ?
Did you know that Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes?
Did you know that Bristol, Quebec , had Canada 's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant?
Did you know that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel 's population support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel?
Did you know that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare 's Richard II was filmed at an abandoned Civil War -era fort on an island in Boston Harbor ?
Did you know that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway , a kilometre -long corduroy road in County Longford , Ireland , was built around 148 BC?
Did you know that Melomani , the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble , was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland ?
Did you know that in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for the England national football team ?
Did you know that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios ?
Did you know that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum ?
Did you know that French singer Patricia Kaas ' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified Platinum by the SNEP ?
Did you know that Frank T. Norman , a Louisiana Democrat , was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South ?
Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Woodstock Villa marked the debut of veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher 's son, Sikandar Kher ?
Did you know that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes , an inland wetland in Alberta , Canada , and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison ?
Did you know that Karin Pouw 's statements about the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography prompted the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige to publicly criticize the Church of Scientology online?
Did you know that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest green roof ?
Did you know that Oskar Sosnowski , professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech , was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
Did you know that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland , Uri Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by the power of his mind ?
Did you know that charcuterie , derived from the French words for flesh ( chair ) and cooked ( cuit ), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from pork ?
Did you know that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the film Blood Diamond 's screenplay , since he could potentially be sued by mining corporations?
Did you know that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean ?
Did you know that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état ?
Did you know that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by the Incredible Hulk comic books?
Did you know that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse , an ancient street in Berne , Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005?
Did you know that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto Zobel , the inventor of the m-derived filter – both used in composite image filters ?
Did you know that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32 matches in 25 different stadia?
Did you know that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu , the later Emperor Daizong?
Did you know that the Chantecler , the only breed of chicken native to Canada , was developed by a Trappist monk?
Did you knowthat the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys , one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
Did you know that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy 's first novels ?
Did you know that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium , it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
Did you know that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26 , 2007 ?
Did you know that the University of Bristol 's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?
Did you know that Australian composer Raymond Hanson , a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium , was himself largely self-taught ?
Did you know that the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
Did you know that Darryl Brinkley , the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400 , lost his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
Did you know that the 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay Carmela! takes its title from the favorite song of the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that formed during the month of May since 1981?
Did you know that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of representing proteins ?
Did you know that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time as currency ?
Did you know that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan ?
Did you know that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern Europe ?
Did you know that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
Did you know that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched in Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr. , whose mother was Sioux and father was African American , became the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ?
Did you know that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand ) severed virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries?
Did you know that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?
Did you know that Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX is a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus ?
Did you know that Wrigley Square 's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois ?
Did you know that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625?
Did you know that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
Did you know that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev ?
Did you know that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
Did you know that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India , when he started a bus service in Madurai , Madras Presidency in 1912?
Did you know that having reached peak windspeed on September 6 , 1959 , Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane ?
Did you know that while serving in World War II , baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel ?
Did you know that the Eimsbütteler TV , a German football club, failed to advance in the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later champion, FC Schalke 04 , in both years?
Did you know that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia ?
Did you know that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the rivers Brue , Axe and Parrett , to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels ?
Did you know that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire , and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War ?
Did you know that Valium is the prescription most often dispensed by the Vatican Pharmacy ?
Did you know that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes , thought to have been the first all-sung English opera ?
Did you know that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that sumo wrestler Keisuke Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of up to 80 percent of his matches were fixed ?
Did you know that Penedo, a small town in Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Finland ?
Did you know that although Portland, Oregon 's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop , is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
Did you know that Indian coracles , which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the Kaveri River ?
Did you know that fighter ace Hartmann Grasser , who is credited for shooting down 103 enemy aircraft during World War II , later worked as an adviser for the Syrian Air Force ?
Did you know that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a " ghetto in the sky"?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy "?
Did you know that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny , only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
Did you know that India 's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba ?
Did you know that the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease was discovered by genetic studies of a family from Contursi Terme in Italy , which had 61 members with Parkinson's?
Did you know that Hardy Lake is Indiana 's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?