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Did you know that the New Haven , which operated most of the steam railroad mileage in the U.S. state of Connecticut , also controlled a vast system of trolley lines through the Connecticut Company ?
Did you know that after defending American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell , attorney David I. Shapiro was told by Rockwell to "listen up, Jewboy ... I'll watch as you and all the other Jews go to the gas chamber"?
Did you know that before the 2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute , Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices?
Did you know14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Bavarian ministry of education once ordered 75,000 copies of a song book for school children to be destroyed because it contained Biermösl Blosn ' s Gott mit dir, du Land der BayWa ?
Did you know that Japanese high school pitcher Yusei Kikuchi could be the first player to bypass a domestic draft and play for a Major League Baseball team?
Did you know that a CD by hazzan Samuel Benaroya of Seattle, Washington 's Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation is one of the few recordings of Ottoman Hebrew sacred music?
Did you know that the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake caused the most devastating tsunami in Japanese history , destroying about 9,000 homes and killing more than 22,000 people?
Did you know that Kobaïan is a lyrical language created by French drummer and composer Christian Vander for his progressive rock band Magma ?
Did you know that reviews for the pilot episode of Modern Family compared it to Arrested Development and Married...With Children ?
Did you know that U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Marie Foster walked fifty miles in a march , despite receiving injuries two weeks earlier on Bloody Sunday ?
Did you know that Arne Berge and Conrad Vogt-Svendsen , priests at the Norwegian seamen's church in Hamburg, played a central role in the White Buses operation?
Did you know that all three former head coaches of the BC Lions already inducted to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame , Annis Stukus , Eagle Keys and Cal Murphy , had losing records coaching this Canadian football club?
Did you know that Bernard Lens III was the first English miniaturist to paint on ivory instead of vellum ?
Did you know that the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco houses one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of academic sexological and erotological resources?
Did you know that in William Blake 's poems, Imagination fights Reason in his version of Genesis , Eden , and Exodus while his son later starts revolutions in America , Europe , Africa and Asia ?
Did you know  that in 2008 61-year-old Rosie Swale-Pope completed a five-year 20,000-mile around the world run to highlight the importance of early diagnosis of prostate cancer ?
Did you know  that in 2008, a 49% stake in Air Malawi was offered to Comair for only US$ 3,500?
Did you know07, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Dominican baseball prospect Miguel Angel Sano received the highest international signing bonus in Minnesota Twins history, more than the Twins spent on 70 international prospects from 2006 to 2008 combined?
Did you know that the Lulworthiaceae are a family of marine fungi that typically grow on submerged wood or seaweed ?
Did you know that Joseph Zack Kornfeder , a founding member of the Communist Party of America in 1919, became a vigorous anti-Communist after his wife was arrested by the NKVD during the Great Purge of 1937–38?
Did you know that Saint Giles 's leper hospital at Fugglestone was founded by Queen Adelicia ?
Did you know that Hawaiian Chiefess Kapiʻolani ' s walk into an active volcano in 1824 was the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ?
Did you know that Tadeusz Kościuszko initially did not want to support the Greater Poland Uprising of 1794 in order to avoid a two-front war against both Russia and Prussia ?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode " A Rugrats Passover " fell under controversy from the Anti-Defamation League over the designs of two characters featured in it?
Did you know that after resigning in 2003 as Texas secretary of state , Gwyn Shea accepted employment with Harrah's Entertainment Company and lobbied for privatization of the state lottery ?
Did you know that Queen Victoria was "vastly amused" by a command performance in 1892 of La fille du régiment , presented by the Carl Rosa Opera Company at Balmoral Castle ?
Did you know that Jake Owen 's 2009 single " Eight Second Ride " is a re-recording of a song from his 2006 debut album Startin' with Me ?
Did you know that Pedro Fróilaz de Traba ( fl. 1086–1126) had an iron statue of himself erected in the square in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain ?
Did you know that Maurycy Orzech and Leon Feiner wrote the telegraph informing Bundist member of the Polish government in Exile Szmul Zygielbojm of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ?
Did you know that Mississippi -born Joshua Green had successive careers as a major figure in the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and as a Seattle banker?
Did you know that the copilot of the Tupolev Tu-8 could turn his seat 180° and man a 20 mm (0.79 in) Berezin B-20 cannon in the rear of the pilot's compartment?
Did you know07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Sani Monastery in Zanskar contains a chorten thought to date to the Kushan emperor Kanishka ’s reign in the 2nd century CE ?
Did you know that the fruiting structures of Conidiosporomyces fungi grow in the ovaries of various grass species?
Did you know that in 2004, there were only 90 women for every 100 men in the age group 18–29 in the new federal states of Germany?
Did you know that the officially unreleased material of Michael Jackson includes the song " A Place With No Name ", which was leaked by website TMZ.com following the singer's death ?
Did you know that one of the most notable actions of minor sabotage in occupied Poland during World War II involved stealing a propaganda plaque from the monument of Mikołaj Kopernik ?
Did you know that research in which vertebrates or cephalopods are used in Canada must meet the ethical standards set by the Canadian Council on Animal Care ?
Did you know that Joseph T. Buckingham , a leading Boston journalist of the 1830s, was an indentured farm laborer as a boy?
Did you know that John Ortved was signed to author the book The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History after writing an oral history of The Simpsons for Vanity Fair ?
Did you know that the French electro - swing band Caravan Palace was formed in 2005 after three of its members were hired by a film production company to provide the soundtrack for silent pornographic movies ?
Did you know that Pleurotus nebrodensis was declared to be a critically endangered mushroom in Sicily by the IUCN ?
Did you know that once the Motion Picture Association of America began enforcing the Hays Code in 1934, it became impossible to re-release Waterloo Bridge due to its controversial plot?
Did you know that the Church of the Sacred Heart was transported via barge from Cambridge to St Ives ?
Did you know that teenage singer Faryl Smith 's upcoming album Wonderland features a digitally produced duet with Luciano Pavarotti , who died in 2007?
Did you know that a local resident created a board game based on roundabouts built in front of the Green Oak Village Place shopping mall in Brighton, Michigan ?
Did you know that the Bolhrad High School in Bolhrad , Ukraine , was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
Did you know that Cromwell Dixon died in a plane crash in 1911 only two days after becoming the first aviator to cross the Continental Divide of the Americas ?
Did you know that several groups have managed to add non-natural bases to DNA, while others have added non-natural amino acids into the genetic code?
Did you know that the sculpture Critical Assembly used an actual central component of an atomic bomb ?
Did you know that prior to becoming White House Online Programs Director in the Obama Administration , Jesse Lee worked for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi ?
Did you know that the Russian folk song " Kupala and Kostroma " was later renamed and the lyrics altered because of pagan references?
Did you know that Werner Heubeck , the managing director of Ulsterbus during The Troubles , was known for personally removing IRA bombs from buses to keep them running on time?
Did you know that Xiuhcoatl was a mythological Aztec fire- serpent , viewed as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli , the fire god , and was the lightning-like weapon of the god Huitzilopochtli ?
Did you know that the U2 song " Breathe " is set on 16 June, an intentional reference to James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ?
Did you know that, as a child, Jewish Romanian literary historian Zigu Ornea was persecuted by the antisemitic Ion Antonescu regime, and is said to have made a living selling humming tops?
Did you know that Nancy Wexler , who discovered the location of the gene that causes Huntington's disease and created a genetic test for it, is herself at risk as the daughter of a sufferer?
Did you know that the Bristol Guild of Applied Art has survived both Second World War bomb damage and a 1974 Provisional IRA attack?
Did you know that Frank Kanning Mott was a messenger for Western Union , a telephone operator , a hardware business owner and a city councilman before he was elected mayor of Oakland, California in 1905?
Did you know that some academics believe that the " First Great Debate " in international relations theory never actually took place?
Did you know07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the 464 BC earthquake in Sparta , Greece , led to a revolt of helots ?
Did you know that 43 miners were trapped for five days underground in the 1926 Pabst Mine Disaster in Michigan ?
Did you know that Asian women have been left traumatised and questioned by police investigating missing two-year-old Aisling Symes in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Martha Wainwright has contributed backing vocals on all of her brother's studio albums , and was a featured performer on his 2007 tribute album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall ?
Did you know that Max Beerbohm 's 1922 book Rossetti and His Circle contained caricatures of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ?
Did you know that Cooper Mountain Nature Park in Oregon is located on an extinct volcano ?
Did you know that species in the aquatic fungus family Loramycetaceae have spores with gelatinous sheaths thought to act as flotation devices?
Did you know that the A,A Light Sculpture by Jim Sanborn at the University of Houston illuminates its surroundings with prose from different languages?
Did you know that a complete interactive 3D reconstruction of the 3 mm marine slug Pseudunela cornuta has been accomplished?
Did you know that in Bryan Talbot 's graphic novel Grandville , France won the Napoleonic Wars , invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family ?
Did you know that Katie Piper , a former model who was burnt by acid in an attack arranged by her ex-boyfriend, had her face removed and rebuilt in a single operation, which was the first of its kind?
Did you know that the Dictionary of Welsh Biography contains the biography of nearly 5,000 eminent Welsh men and women over seventeen centuries?
Did you know that two songs on Scott Miller 's 2001 album Thus Always to Tyrants are based on unearthed family letters from the American Civil War ?
Did you know that theater reporter Sam Zolotow of The New York Times was said to be able to get any information he needed, as long as he had "a corned-beef sandwich, a cigar and a telephone"?
Did you know that critic Robert Christgau called The Indestructible Beat of Soweto the most important record of the 1980s?
Did you know that William M. Walton , Attorney General of Texas , withdrew his nomination for reelection when he learned his opponent was a disabled Confederate veteran with a family to support?
Did you know that the Aldabra banded snail from the Seychelles died out due to climate change ?
Did you know that the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia is one of the best objects for calibrating Earth observation satellites ?
Did you know that Chinese singer Ai Jing is best known for a folk rock song about the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China ?
Did you know that Edward VI of England 's 1547 Injunctions mandated that a copy of the English translation of the Paraphrases of Erasmus was to be kept in every parish church?
Did you know that producer Daniel Melnick's films won more than 20 Academy Awards out of 80 nominations, while his play Kelly closed after only one night on Broadway ?
Did you know that the eastern segment of Canada Park in Israel lies on the village site of the depopulated former Palestinian village of Dayr Ayyub ?
Did you know that while Tim Greve was editor-in-chief of Verdens Gang it became the largest newspaper in Norway?
Did you know that economics professor Arnljot Strømme Svendsen chaired the board of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene for 31 years, and also chaired the Association of Norwegian Theatres for 22 years?
Did you know that Jason Aldean said his 2009 single " The Truth " was "one of those songs that I heard the first time and knew I wanted to cut"?
Did you know that Czech jockey Josef Váňa won his sixth Velká pardubická steeplechase at the age of 56?
Did you know that Pope Adrian VI was so angered by one of the talking statues of Rome that he wanted to have it thrown into the Tiber River ?
Did you know07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Sir Oliver Starkey was the only English knight present at the siege of Malta and is the only person to be buried in the crypt of Valetta Cathedral who was not a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller ?
Did you know that the book 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America includes criticism of the Fox News Channel , The Wall Street Journal , and drivers of sport utility vehicles ?
Did you know that a drummer boy in the Irish Legion was given the Legion of Honor for beating the charge during the Siege of Astorga even after losing both legs?
Did you know that iron chelate helps fix chlorophyll deficiency in garden plants but is toxic to slugs and snails ?
Did you know that the British Invincible class were the world's first battlecruisers ?
Did you know that the alternative country band The V-Roys were originally named The Vice Roys, but were forced to change their name after being threatened with a lawsuit from a Jamaican band?
Did you know that some parts of the United Kingdom 's Consumer Credit Act 1974 , which received Royal Assent on 31 July 1974, did not come into force until 1985?
Did you know that during the Cadex 2009 military training exercises , Sri Lanka Navy cadets trained aboard vessels of the Indian Navy , while Indian cadets got a chance to visit historical places in Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that Life on Another Planet , a graphic novel by Will Eisner , has been called by James Morrow , "a kind of science fictional Bonfire of the Vanities "?
Did you know that Mohammed bin Hadou was a Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II in England in 1681–82?
Did you know that until 1950, only descendants of Massachusetts Bay or Plymouth colonists could become members of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ?
Did you know that long distance runner Zersenay Tadese was the first person from Eritrea to win an Olympic medal in any sport?
Did you know that the U2 song " Unknown Caller " was written from the perspective of a suicidal drug addict whose phone begins receiving cryptic text messages?
Did you know that in a 1933 first-class cricket match, Jack Lee claimed the wicket of his older brother Harry , with the catch being taken by younger brother Frank ?
Did you know that the Commander Australian Fleet holds full command of all maritime combat forces and operations within the Royal Australian Navy ?
Did you know that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts , the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?
Did you know that the Belgrade Race Through History and Belgrade Marathon competitions were held in 1999, despite the fact that the NATO bombing campaign had caused widespread damage to the city that year?
Did you know that the title of the Bob Dylan song " The Wicked Messenger " mirrors a Proverbs passage, which reads "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief; but a faithful ambassador is health"?
Did you know that Moroccan alligator wrestler and circus strongman Tahar Douis set a world record by lifting 12 men weighing a total of 1,700 pounds on his shoulders?
Did you know that by the time Lyon's Inn was dissolved it was being run by only two of the standard twelve governors, neither of whom had any idea what their duties were?
Did you know that Aliquandostipitaceae members have the widest hyphae in the Ascomycetes ?
Did you know that Donna Mae Mims , known as the "Pink Lady" of racing, became the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963?
Did you know that several ethnic Uighurs who were former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison are amongst the approximately 1,000 Chinese people living in Palau ?
Did you know that current Chief of National Defense General Staff of Greece , Air Chief Marshal Ioannis Giagkos , served as Commander in NATO Combined Air Operations Centre -7?
Did you know that Gabriel Schanche Kielland's summer house Ledaal from the early 1800s later became a royal residence in custody of Stavanger Museum ?
Did you know that Puritan colonist Nicholas Upsall saved the lives of jailed Quaker pioneers Mary Fisher and Ann Austin , was later banished , and then helped found the first Monthly Meeting of the Quakers in America?
Did you know that P53 , a live album by experimental music group P53 , features two classical grand pianists , a turntablist and a real-time sampler /processor?
Did you know that A.W. Lawrence , the former Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University was the brother of 'Lawrence of Arabia' ?
Did you know56, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that conservative State Senator Dan Morrish broke with the Louisiana Family Forum in 2009 by supporting a law which permits restaurants to levy cover charges for live entertainment and to sell alcohol ?
Did you know that after the Palestinian Safad village of Fir'im was depopulated in 1948, the Israeli settle­ment of Hatzor HaGlilit was established nearby?
Did you know that after playing association football and coaching the Philippine women's national football team , Tony Chua switched to manage a team in the Philippine Basketball Association ?
Did you know that three Nobel Peace Prizes have led to withdrawal of members of the awarding Norwegian Nobel Committee ?
Did you know that until United States v. Georgia ,  no U.S. Supreme Court decision required US state prison systems to provide facilities for disabled inmates under ADA ?
Did you know that despite being one of the largest malls in the Denver area, Westminster Mall is half-vacant?
Did you know that when sailors more than 320 kilometres (200 mi) off the coast of Massachusetts felt the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake , they thought their ship had run aground?
Did you know that the Lake George, New York , post office features aspects of modernistic and Art Deco architecture on a basic Colonial Revival building?
Did you know that Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles -based La Opinión , the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States?
Did you know that the CALERIE study subjects humans to a 25% reduction in food calories over a two-year period, to determine if calorie restriction prolongs life and reduces the incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease ?
Did you know that Kevin Newsome was a two-time state champion hurdler at Western Branch High School before he enrolled at Penn State to play football ?
Did you know that the shrine at Saint Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell is reputedly the oldest Romanesque shrine in Britain , dating from the early 1100s?
Did you know that producer David Aukin has been nominated for two BAFTA Awards for films about Tony Blair ?
Did you know that pictures featured on Cake Wrecks , a photoblog founded in 2008, include a cake decorated with a sonogram image?
Did you know that in 1990 former Louisiana State Senator Fritz H. Windhorst spoke on behalf of a vetoed bill which would have made abortion a felony punishable by imprisonment ?
Did you know that many Jews of the Radom Ghetto in occupied Poland were forced to work in the local arms factory ?
Did you know that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode " Store Wars " was released on DVD with an audio commentary in which the characters discuss events not seen in the episode?
Did you know that a 36-cell jail is located on the twelfth floor of the Oakland, California City Hall ?
Did you know that Eddie Eagan , a medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics in bobsledding and at the 1920 Summer Olympics in boxing, is the only person to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that at a 2004 public demonstration, Segway inventor Dean Kamen drank his own urine after it had been passed through a Slingshot ?
Did you know that in the book A Thousand Days , Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was highly critical of United States Ambassador to Laos J. Graham Parsons who he felt "drastically misconceived the situation" in Laos ?
Did you know that the song " Fuiste un Trozo de Hielo en la Escarcha " performed by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne was written by a member of the Spanish band Mecano ?
Did you know that items from the collection of Mark Samuels Lasner relating to Aubrey Beardsley , Oscar Wilde and other writers and artists of the 1890s have provided the basis for numerous publications and exhibitions?
Did you know that B. Dalton , once the second-largest bookstore in the U.S., was founded in 1966 by the Dayton's department store chain?
Did you know that in a 1981 case, Judge Fred C. Galda allowed a woman to claim she shot her husband in self-defense, making him the first judge in New Jersey to accept a battered woman defense in a spousal killing?
Did you know that the 15th-century Ancient Priors in Crawley had hidden rooms reached by pulling meat-hooks to open a trapdoor and twisting a wall-carving to move a fireplace?
Did you know that Basketball Hall of Fame coach Ernest Blood led the Passaic High School Hilltoppers to a 200–1 record over ten seasons, and started the team on a U.S. record 159-game winning streak?
Did you know that Thomas Trantino spent 38 years in the prison system for the murder of two Lodi, New Jersey , police officers, making him the longest-serving prisoner in the state as of his parole in 2002?
Did you know that Zhenguo Temple 's Wanfo Hall is the only surviving building that was built during China's Northern Han dynasty?
Did you know that Julius Beerbohm , a Victorian author and explorer, traveled to Patagonia in 1877 to survey the land between Port Desire and Santa Cruz in the footsteps of Ferdinand Magellan ?
Did you know that the name of the Black Abbey is based on the fact that  the Dominicans were often referred to as Black Friars, because of the black cappa or cloak which they wear over their white habits ?
Did you know that the former Louisiana State Representative Peppi Bruneau of New Orleans secured passage of a bill clarifying the right of a victim to shoot carjackers ?
Did you know that although Saint-Thomas once was the largest tobacco producer in the province of Quebec , Canada , it no longer is cultivated there?
Did you know that the skills of Michigan Wolverines football punter Zoltan Mesko were discovered in seventh grade gym class when he knocked out a light during a kickball game?
Did you know that although the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 is recognized as an important milestone in the development of religious freedom , it still allowed the execution of non- Christians ?
Did you know that Jayden Stockley made his debut in the Football League for Bournemouth whilst still a student at secondary school ?