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Did you know that children in the high-altitude gold mining town of Kimberly, Utah , attended school from April through November to avoid the deep snows of winter?
Did you know that the 1956 film Lovers and Lollipops , by indie filmmaker Morris Engel , was noted for its realism and New York City locations, and influenced the French New Wave ?
Did you know that although the steam-powered SS Clan Alpine had a maximum forwards speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h ), on her final journey she went backwards at 35 knots (65 km/h)?
Did you know that Joey Hamilton held five baseball records at Georgia Southern University until 1995?
Did you know that in 2008, the Triumph Bonneville America was updated with electronic fuel injection to meet European legislation and had the fuel injectors concealed by dummy carburettors ?
Did you know that a 1.5 million dollar land concession project in Sameakki Mean Chey District , Cambodia , will provide land to 732 of the poorest farming families?
Did you know that the Kröd Mändoon episode " Our Bounties Ourselves " included an almost verbatim parody of George W. Bush 's famous "Fool me once" speech gaffe?
Did you know that Kevin Walton and Richard Butson were the first to climb several Antarctic peaks, with both of them going on to receive the Albert Medal for heroism and the Polar Medal ?
Did you know that Festival Republic has replaced Aiken Promotions as co-organiser of Stradbally Hall 's boutique Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival in 2009 ?
Did you know  that Obadiah Rich was a diplomat and bibliographer specializing in Latin American works whose younger brother William Rich was a botanist with the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–42?
Did you know that the Federal Works Agency funded and supervised the construction of housing, public health facilities, and schools for communities impacted by fast-growing defense industries during World War II ?
Did you know that architect Georg Andreas Bull designed about sixty railway stations, including the Krøderen Station from 1872?
Did you know that the butterflyfish species Forcipiger longirostris has the longest Hawaiian name for any fish: lauwiliwilinukunukuʻoiʻoi ?
Did you know that Ohave Shalom Synagogue was founded when the members of the existing synagogue in Woodridge, New York , had a dispute over who would be the community's ritual slaughterer of animals ?
Did you know that the Welbike was the smallest motorcycle ever used by the British Armed Forces?
Did you know that Baton Rouge attorney Dan Claitor was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana State Senate despite his fellow Republican , Governor Bobby Jindal endorsing his opponent?
Did you know that the problem of deforestation in Costa Rica in the 1980s and early 1990s was referenced in Michael Crichton 's 1990 novel, Jurassic Park ?
Did you know that, although professional wrestlers Kurt and Karl Von Steiger won the AWA World Tag Team Championship , their title reign is not recognized because the previous champions were not authorized to lose the title?
Did you know that the 64-pillared 17th century marble monument Chausath Khamba is a tomb for Mirz Aziz Koka?
Did you know that Jeffrey Zients , the new United States Chief Performance Officer , was in a club that tried to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team?
Did you know that Sofmap , a Japanese retailer, released a collector's box of Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns that mirrors the design of erotic eroge games?
Did you know that astronomer Rolf Brahde provided commentary for the 1969 moon landing on Norwegian television ?
Did you know that the vestararius managed both the wardrobe and money of the pope from the 8th to 11th centuries?
Did you know that Pete Overfield won a professional American football championship in 1901 and was later nominated by U.S. President William Howard Taft as a federal judge in Alaska ?
Did you know that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon , was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference ?
Did you know that Cherokee Chief J. B. Milam funded an expedition to Mexico in 1939 to find the grave of Sequoyah , the inventor of the Cherokee writing system ?
Did you know that members of a thief network, named " Pink Panthers " by Interpol , have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing ?
Did you know that as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service , Wayne L. Horvitz played a major role in negotiating labor disputes ranging from coal strikes to musicians at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that Xi , a console -based alternate reality game , involved the users in searching for clues in the real world ?
Did you know that Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel , but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
Did you know that defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris ?
Did you know that Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring ?
Did you know that the " Wizard of Oz " and " Iron Man " are just two of the four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who have won Gold Glove Awards at shortstop ?
Did you know that HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy , and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that SN 2002cx was classified as a type Ia supernova , but does not have some features that define a type Ia supernova?
Did you know that Angeles University Foundation , Arellano University and the Emilio Aguinaldo College are the guest teams playing in the 2009 basketball season of the Philippine NCAA ?
Did you know that the success of the championship 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team inspired promoters to form the first National Football League in 1902?
Did you know that 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus ' writings as prophecies of Napoleon , Hitler , and the establishment of modern Israel ?
Did you know that although it was mocked by Indira Gandhi 's Congress (I) as the "Congress for Defectors", Jagjivan Ram 's Congress for Democracy helped the opposition Janata Party win the 1977 election ?
Did you know that typical subjects for late medieval Andachtsbilder include the Pietà , Pensive Christ , Man of Sorrows and Arma Christi , and the Veil of Veronica ?
Did you know that Nanuli Shevardnadze , wife of the future president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze , initially rejected his marriage proposal, fearing her family background would ruin his career?
Did you know that while the Pakistan Socialist Party won several seats in 1954 in East Pakistan due to reservations for religious minorities, the party opposed such reservations in principle?
Did you know that Bernardo Peres da Silva , the only native Governor of Portuguese India in its 451-year history, was deposed after just seventeen days in office?
Did you know that the leaves of young Bagassa guianensis trees are so different from those of the adults that taxonomists considered them to be different species for at least 150 years?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Subway " was inspired by an episode of the HBO documentary series Taxicab Confessions where a detective talked about a man who became pinned between a subway train and the platform?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Rolf Thommessen edited the newspaper Tidens Tegn for more than twenty years, from 1917 to 1938?
Did you know that the 1932 Colgate University football team was "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited" after being snubbed by the Rose Bowl ?
Did you know that Centipede were an English jazz / progressive rock band with more than 50 members?
Did you know that during World War II , Richard Andvord conducted illegal resistance work through the company Rich. Andvord , founded in 1865 by his ancestor of the same name ?
Did you know that industries that have shaped the Hudson, New York , historic district include whaling , antique shops and prostitution ?
Did you know that Frank Bossard was the first spy caught with the aid of an electronic transmitter ?
Did you know that although he headed the Royal Stables of Norway from 1945 to 1960, Richard Andvord only had responsibility for motor vehicles ?
Did you know that the Veterans Benevolent Association , an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge ?
Did you know that the classically -inspired porticoes on the Hudson, New York , post office echo those of the Columbia County courthouse across the square?
Did you know that Michel T. Halbouty was a wildcatter who was credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, though he twice declared bankruptcy?
Did you know that a Maya ruler of Ixlu , a small ancient city in Guatemala , claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal ?
Did you know that John Mayberry, Jr. hit his first two career home runs against the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays , the last two Major League Baseball teams for which his father John Mayberry played?
Did you know that the rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales , Australia ?
Did you know that pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"?
Did you know that Ukrainian naturalist , lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales ?
Did you know that the 1749 pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen?
Did you know that Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines ' sexiest women of 2006?
Did you know that Isambard Kingdom Brunel used light rails and heavy timber baulks for the Great Western Railway 's baulk road track because existing technology could not produce strong rails?
Did you know that despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US , activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots , saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors"?
Did you know that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman , shortly before his own death in 1994?
Did you know that São Gabriel was one of the two ships of Vasco da Gama 's armada that returned from the trip to India ?
Did you know that the main theme of Indian novelist V.J.P. Saldanha ' s writings was the 18th-century captivity of 60,000 Mangalorean Roman Catholics at Seringapatam ?
Did you know that the organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people?
Did you know that HMS Lively won five battle honours during the Second World War , despite a career lasting less than a year from commissioning to being sunk?
Did you know that the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA , to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation ?
Did you know that the Maya archaeological site of El Tintal , in the northern Petén region of Guatemala , includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall?
Did you know that the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building is the tallest building in Harlem ?
Did you know that Pungent Stench 's early demos compiled on Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins caused a "considerable amount of interest" in the group, leading them to sign a deal with Nuclear Blast ?
Did you know that Alan Wagner , the first president of the Disney Channel , was also an opera critic and radio personality?
Did you know that Philipp Schoch is the only snowboarder to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games ?
Did you know that while Chief of Defence Staff Jean Boyle was ridiculed for ordering the Canadian military to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for missing files , some were subsequently found?
Did you know that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh ?
Did you know that a "no ID , no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID?
Did you know that despite its author keeping detailed journals of his experiences, the baseball memoir Odd Man Out was criticized by many people named in the book as being factually inaccurate?
Did you know that as governor of Davao del Norte , Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley , eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998?
Did you know that Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau , Hong Kong , has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?
Did you know that the British 21st Army Tank Brigade had so few tanks after the Battle of Dunkirk that two-thirds of the brigade was forced to serve as infantry ?
Did you know that Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering ?
Did you know that the estimated population of Japan significantly decreased from 160,300 in 1300 BC to 75,800 in 900 BC?
Did you know that the Garfield School , a 19th-century schoolhouse in Brunswick , New York , is considered unique for its time period because its design was commissioned ?
Did you know that Coleman Coker 's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National  Museum , the New York City MoMA , the San Francisco MoMA , the Wexner Center for the Arts , and the National Building Museum ?
Did you know that Duguetia tobagensis , a small tree endemic to the island of Tobago , has only been collected three times since its original discovery in 1912?
Did you know that Luchador Mascara Dorada had to outlast nine other wrestlers to win the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship ?
Did you know that the Quartermaster Award is the highest rank in the Sea Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America ?
Did you know that Broderbund 's computer game Orly's Draw-A-Story won the inaugural Interactive Achievement Award for Computer Innovation in 1998?
Did you know that Negro league baseball executive Cum Posey organized the East-West League in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?
Did you know that during World War II , the Czech actor Oldřich Nový refused to divorce his wife, as a consequence of which they were both imprisoned in a German concentration camp ?
Did you know that the internal column ( columella ) of the shell of snail Holospira is hollow?
Did you know that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders , made up of authors and journalists?
Did you know that in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti ?
Did you know that Helena Palaiologina , Queen consort of Cyprus , gave orders for the nose of her husband 's beautiful mistress to be cut off?
Did you know that the City of Carlisle is the largest city in England in terms of area , but is one of the smallest by population?
Did you know that Hans G. Furth , Professor in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America , trained to become a concert pianist and performed for Jewish internment camps?
Did you know that Aso Mining Company , which belongs to Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro 's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II ?
Did you know that the windmill at Aylsham in Norfolk was built so well that its demolition was abandoned?
Did you know that Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, British Columbia , built in 1863 in the building boom that followed the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush , is the oldest surviving synagogue in Canada?
Did you know that Wushan Man , a species of Homo , was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago?
Did you know that Jan Władysław Dawid was a lecturer at the Flying University in Warsaw ?
Did you know that the shooting death of striking miner Tom Manning in the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre in Butte, Montana is still officially unsolved?
Did you know that in 1992, the Utah Utes football team , coached by Ron McBride , ended a 28-year bowl game drought by appearing in the 1992 Copper Bowl?
Did you know that choreographer Sergey Vikulov selected three lead couples where Jennifer Olayvar was one of the dancers chosen to perform in La Fille Mal Gardée ?
Did you know that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$ 1 billion with which to finance film production ?
Did you know that former long jump record holder Carol Lewis tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics bobsleigh team?
Did you know that there are more than 250 different crystalline forms of silicon carbide , and that some of them have a 301.5 nm lattice constant , about 1,000 times longer than usual lattice spacings?
Did you know that Liam Jurrah , a Warlpiri from Yuendumu , is the first Indigenous Australian from a remote community in Central Australia to play in the Australian Football League ?
Did you know that Mexican group Los Bukis won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Regional Mexican Song in 1989 with their number-one single " Y Ahora Te Vas "?
Did you know that in the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament's semi-finals Wayamba beat Ruhuna in the bowl-out to reach the finals?
Did you know that Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon ?
Did you know that Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on Sabbath ?
Did you know that Charles Cameron , fired and deprived of his house by Paul I of Russia during the battle of the palaces , later lived in retirement in Paul's favorite palace ?
Did you know that Harvard historian Ernest May's 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis was the primary source for the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner ?
Did you know that in Albanian folklore, the zana , mountain fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano ?
Did you know that Kendrick Moxon assisted Scientologists in filing 50 lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network , which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the organization?
Did you know that the koa wood hull of a Hawaiian-style outrigger canoe named Mālia became the mold for modern fiberglass racing canoes ?
Did you know that How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? was described as "disgusting" by the parents of one of its creators?
Did you know that Japanese tenor Taro Ichihara made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of the Italian tenor in Der Rosenkavalier ?
Did you know that the 2001 Gator Bowl was the final collegiate game of American football star Michael Vick ?
Did you know that Stylianos Zaoutzes , the father-in-law of Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise , was one of only two people to ever be awarded the title of basileopator , meaning "father of the emperor"?
Did you know that the strong, dark red timber of the Australian hardwood tree the Narrow-leaved Ironbark was used in Elizabeth Farm , Australia's oldest surviving European dwelling?
Did you know that Korea Aerospace Research Institute 's STSAT-2 (Science and Technology Satellite-2) will carry two payloads, a satellite laser ranging and a Lyman-alpha Imaging Solar Telescope?
Did you know that Geary Eppley , an administrator at the University of Maryland , confiscated thousands of copies of the student newspaper when it printed an exposé on dormitory living conditions?
Did you know that some historians argue that Haimo , a medieval royal official who died around 1100, was one of the first barons of the Exchequer ?
Did you know that in 1796, Abraham Bradley, Jr. published the first comprehensive postal route maps for the United States Post Office Department ?
Did you know that Chennai Central Prison was 172 years old when demolition of its premises began in June 2009?
Did you know that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
Did you know that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden , Wales , contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone , former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , and his family?
Did you know that the song " Debo Hacerlo " written by Juan Gabriel has been covered by Aleks Syntek , Pandora , Nydia Rojas and Ana Gabriel ?
Did you know that during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power , the death metal band Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in Bogotá , Colombia , and performed in front of 80,000 people?
Did you know that the website United Kingdom Election Results is listed as a resource by the Parliament of Australia , The University of New South Wales , and The University of York ?
Did you know that Iceland–Norway relations date back to Norwegian colonization of Iceland in the ninth century?
Did you know that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church has survived earthquakes , tsunamis , lava flows , fires, and heavy tropical rains?
Did you know that Edward Hanrahan , groomed to succeed Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley , saw his elected career end after a 1969 police raid that resulted in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton ?
Did you know that the section of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 covering arbitration clauses was described as "very messy" and "a mire"?
Did you know that masked wrestler Dos Caras, Jr. only defended the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship four times in 533 days?
Did you know that the satellite GPS IIR-1 , intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System , was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?
Did you know that the 1979 Australian vampire-science fiction film Thirst drew influence from sources as diverse as Elizabeth Báthory and Soylent Green ?
Did you know that the current minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Marcellus, New York , was ordained in 1956?
Did you know that Dublin 's Windmill Lane Studios is regularly visited by tourists wishing to view the U2 -inspired graffiti adorning the walls?
Did you know that Prescott, Arizona , Mayor Sam Steiger was criminally prosecuted for painting a crosswalk between the local courthouse and the saloons on Whiskey Row?
Did you know that Joseph Anthony directed The Rainmaker , its 1956 film adaptation , and the musical version 110 in the Shade ?
Did you know that Specific ion Interaction Theory is a theory used to estimate single- ion activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions at relatively high concentrations?
Did you know that Israel 's Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center , known for its association with Jerusalem Syndrome , was built on the site of a 1947 massacre ?
Did you know that Sverre Mitsem wrote the column "SORRY" in Norway 's Aftenposten from 1946 to 1996, the year he turned 89 years old?
Did you know that the New York Islanders 's 2009–10 season will be the franchise's 38th season in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that a Royal Command Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Gondoliers was held before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1891?
Did you know that the Rumford Prize , awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light , is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America?
Did you know that Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine ?