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Did you know that the next Finnish Chief of Defence Lieutenant-General Ari Puheloinen , is a son of an electrician, while the four preceding chiefs-of-defence have come from officer families?
Did you know that Edward R. Tinsley , who rescued K-Bob's Steakhouse from bankruptcy in 1992, is a former president of the National Restaurant Association ?
Did you know that when appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice ?
Did you know that the former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York 's stockade to be settled?
Did you know that the Mayor of Danzig , Conrad Letzkau , was treacherously murdered in 1412 by the Teutonic Knights for his support of Poland and refusal to pay taxes?
Did you know that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia , Bulgaria , once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film?
Did you know that at the 1929 Rose Bowl , Benny Lom stopped Cal teammate Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels who had run 60 yards in the wrong direction and was about to score a safety , in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech ?
Did you know that the tutor of Peter the Great , Nikita Zotov , became the "Prince-Pope" of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters ?
Did you know that before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982 , the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981?
Did you know that Sidonia von Borcke , executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction ?
Did you know that the 1850 Squatters' Riot in Sacramento , California , effectively ended land speculation in the region?
Did you know that Lionel Pincus , who ran Warburg Pincus from 1966 to 2002, has donated more than $5,000,000 to the New York Public Library , including an endowment for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division?
Did you know that the idiom kick the bucket probably comes from a method of suicide in the middle ages?
Did you know that State Senator Coleman Lindsey became lieutenant governor of Louisiana , when Earl  Long succeeded Governor Richard W. Leche ?
Did you know that footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored a 12-minute hat-trick after coming on as a substitute ?
Did you know that at least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675?
Did you know that plug and feather , still used today, was the method used by the ancient Egyptians to cut stone?
Did you know that Martin Siem was among the leaders of the naval intelligence organization RMO in Norway during World War II?
Did you know that Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, " Ghost of a Chance "?
Did you know that the President's Surveillance Program , authorized by George W. Bush , included "unprecedented collection activities" that are still highly classified?
Did you know that Canadian football wide receivers and Murray State University graduates Andrew Nowacki and Jason French caught touchdown passes nearly one minute apart?
Did you know that the MILA tracking station provides the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of a Space Shuttle launch?
Did you know that in 1960, top US labor mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said employers shouldn't be stuck with "antiquated rules" nor should workers hit by automation be handled as "a robot to be cast on a trash heap"?
Did you know that Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party , the oldest political party in Sri Lanka , along with her brother Philip ?
Did you know that nurses have been alarmed by brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus ?
Did you know that Eddisbury hill fort , the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire , was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them?
Did you know that Mexican professional wrestler La Sombra made his in-ring debut at the age of thirteen?
Did you know that the first upper division college was the College of the Pacific ?
Did you know that after 30,000 people visited the Roman-era mosaic in Lod in one weekend, it was reburied to prevent damage until the Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center opened?
Did you know that the University of Virginia men's lacrosse game against Maryland in 2009 extended into seven overtime periods, making it the longest game in college history?
Did you know that during the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka the slaughter of cattle was a crime punishable by death ?
Did you know that the funding for the German König -class battleships was secured by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz 's threat of resignation?
Did you know that Donold Lourie , a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
Did you know that the 1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors for the first time?
Did you know that scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the Skins episode " JJ " were shot at the show's own offices?
Did you know that Robert Leiber , Jesuit adviser to Pope Pius XII , advised Bishop Alois Hudal that he should think of his plan for a "ratline" for fascists escaping Europe as a "crusade"?
Did you know that Mark Twain wrote the essay " The Awful German Language " to express his frustrations when learning German ?
Did you know that Diana Golden , who lost a leg to cancer at the age of 12, was named female skier of the year in 1988 by the United States Olympic Committee ?
Did you know that in 1999 at the Battle of Aidabasalala an Australian SAS team was surrounded but were able to shoot their way out, killing five of their attackers before being successfully extracted?
Did you know that in 2009 the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera , Texas , named the late folklorist J. Frank Dobie to its new Texas Heroes Hall of Honor?
Did you know that Carl Daniel Ekman , who first commercialized the sulfite process of wood pulp paper production, was the last of his father's sixteen children, who were all born in the same house?
Did you know that the skin colour of the Pokémon Jynx was modified because of complaints that the original design was racist?
Did you know that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?
Did you know that the Lebanese are the most numerous community in Uruguay after the Spanish and Italians ?
Did you know that Frances Fuller Victor , an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft 's monumental work, The History of the West ?
Did you know that Ryan Smyth has been captain of the Canadian Ice Hockey World Championships five times, more than any other Canadian player since 1977 ?
Did you know that the authorship of the Instructions of Kagemni is attributed to a vizier of the fourth dynasty of Egypt , even though the earliest source is the Prisse Papyrus of the twelfth dynasty ?
Did you know that although the design of the Livingston County Courthouse was chosen in part for its fireproof qualities, the building was called "hardly fireproof" in 1915?
Did you know that Domhnall Gleeson , son of Brendan and cast as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl ?
Did you know that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon , once held a chariot race ?
Did you know that the first point of the 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania demanded to put Kazys Skučas , Minister of the Interior, and Augustinas Povilaitis , Director of the  State Security Department, on trial?
Did you know that as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Son of a Gun "?
Did you know that while governor of Jaffa in the early 19th century, Muhammad Abu-Nabbut initiated the city's fortification, the erection of two public fountains, and renovation of the Mahmoudiya Mosque ?
Did you know that in 1893, The Philadelphia Record "held its own" as "one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States " despite a troubled economy ?
Did you know that Leonardo Carrera who wrestles as Damián 666 is nicknamed "The Beast of the Apocalypse"?
Did you know that in order to attract new residents to the town, the community of Greenethorpe, New South Wales , has developed a farmhouse rental scheme offering houses for rent at AU$ 1 per week?
Did you know that Nuclear Assault 's EP The Plague includes mocking references to singer Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe ?
Did you know that the cuticle of the mushroom Agaricus arorae , which was first described in Santa Cruz County, California , turns yellow in potassium hydroxide when cut?
Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
Did you know that the first Czechoslovakian flag was handed over by the French President in the small Vosges town of Darney ?
Did you know that drunkards are held not to have the capacity in English law to enter into ordinary contracts ?
Did you know that to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM , which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000?
Did you know that, being created in 1934, the Mexican National Lightweight Championship is one of the oldest professional wrestling championships still in use today?
Did you know that V.V. Whittington was a Louisiana state senator from 1928 to 1932 and later president of the Louisiana Bankers Association?
Did you know that in 1996, the University of Glasgow renamed its Chair of Drama after former professor James Fullarton Arnott ?
Did you know that the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville , Texas , features the works of living artists in the genre of Remington and Russell ?
Did you know that in 1990, drug lord Haji Ayub Afridi used his Pakistani government connections to gain a seat in the Pakistani National Assembly for the Islamic Democratic Alliance ?
Did you know that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world?
Did you know that in 2009, theater students performed a series of old-style radio dramas on WNJR , Washington & Jefferson College 's radio station?
Did you know that the Quartet has supported election reform in Palestine through a UN -sponsored Elections Reform Support Group ?
Did you know that in Marcel Bellefeuille 's head coaching debut, wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez had 198 total yards to help Bellefeuille record his first win?
Did you know that the SS Ferret was stolen from Scotland and reappeared several months later in Australia under a new name?
Did you know that the direct action group Queer Liberaction staged same-sex kiss-ins and a marriage ceremony to draw attention to same-sex marriage issues?
Did you know that on July 9, 2009, the racing yacht Alfa Romeo II broke the Transpac record for miles sailed in one day, by sailing 431 nautical miles in 24 hours?
Did you know that the killing of Aza Gazgireeva , former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia , was described as "brutal" and "brazen"?
Did you know that the National Policy on Education of 1968 called for education spending to increase to six percent of India 's national income ?
Did you know that over ten million people watched Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2009 final through Sveriges Television 's online service compared to only 3,592,000 who watched the actual television broadcast?
Did you know that during his tenure as West Germany 's Federal Ministry of Justice , Fritz Neumayer worked primarily on reforming criminal law ?
Did you know that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops ?
Did you know that rough hits from Michigan 's Richard France induced Wisconsin star Pat O'Dea to slug France, leading to O'Dea's ejection from the 1899 Western Conference championship game?
Did you know that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor ?
Did you know that the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa , Texas is uniquely dedicated to the presidential office rather than specific presidents?
Did you know that Howiesons Poort , a Middle Stone Age culture in South Africa , shows evidence that humans used symbolism in the form of ground ochre 25,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic ?
Did you know that IGN 's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600 , which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time ?
Did you know that the diesel exhausts from the Royal Navy's Dark-class fast patrol boats caused the ships to become so dirty that they had to paint the hulls black?
Did you know that later Verdens Gang editor-in-chief Oskar Hasselknippe was a sub-editor in the newspaper Ringerikes Blad under editor Kaare Filseth before an intermezzo in Milorg ?
Did you know that the Latrobe Gate was one of the few structures at the Washington Navy Yard not destroyed when British forces burned the city ?
Did you know that the National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War , in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine?
Did you know that in summer 2008, future Memphis Grizzlies draft pick Sam Young , then a player for the University of Pittsburgh , slept at the school's basketball arena for a month?
Did you know that a selvage is the edge of a piece of woven or knitted fabric that does not fray or come unraveled?
Did you know that Oscar Mayer , maker of hot dogs and processed meats, was led by three generations of Oscar Mayers as chairmen, founder Oscar F. Mayer , his son Oscar G. Mayer, Sr. and grandson Oscar G. Mayer, Jr. ?
Did you know that in his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base?
Did you know that Udawatta Kele Sanctuary contains a 200–300 years old giant Entada rheedii liana ?
Did you know that Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary , a diary he kept until three days before his death?
Did you know that the radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota ?
Did you know that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?
Did you know that James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Subway ", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform?
Did you know that the doom metal band Bloody Panda performs wearing executioner's hoods and robes?
Did you know that almost a quarter of the brown lanternsharks found in Suruga Bay , Japan , have both male and female organs ?
Did you know that You Chung Hong , the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California , helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?
Did you know that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?
Did you know that Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II ?
Did you know that today, most Butts are Muslims , although some practice Hinduism or Christianity ?
Did you know that Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South ?
Did you know that the conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was formally overturned by the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 1975?
Did you know that the time travel video game Achron allows players to play simultaneously and independently in the past, present, and future?
Did you know that the bench from which David Salomons rose to become the first Jew ever to speak in the British Parliament is preserved in the Salomons Museum ?
Did you know that courts applying the dominant factor test have determined that poker is not gambling ?
Did you know that Togo Tanaka publicly called Japan 's government "stupid" the day after Pearl Harbor for starting an unwinnable war but was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar camp?
Did you know that " Racing in the Street " commemorates the racing that occurred on a little fire road outside Bruce Springsteen 's home town of Asbury Park ?
Did you know that in 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural"?
Did you know that the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio , Texas , contains the graves of legendary Justice of the Peace Roy Bean and his son, Sam?
Did you know that some historians believe Goscelin of St Bertin may have been the author of the anonymous Life of King Edward ?
Did you know that, although mayor Hardin Bigelow served the city of Sacramento for only seven months, a flood, several fires, a riot , and a cholera epidemic all afflicted the city during his term?
Did you know that the Gangavaram Port is the deepest port in India ?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Princess Lover! 's anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast?
Did you know that The New York Times said Paul Hemphill ' s first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written"?
Did you know that the Hetaireia , the Byzantine guards unit responsible for the safety of the emperor on campaign, was composed chiefly of foreigners?
Did you know that Martin Wheelock , football player for the Carlisle Indian School in the 1890s, was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980?
Did you know that much of the Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa was built during the Ottoman era using construction materials acquired from Roman columns ?
Did you know that James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was the first assassin to use a gun?
Did you know that Cyneweard of Laughern , last Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire , lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot around 1069?
Did you know that during World War II , Australia produced almost 500,000 barrels of shale oil by operating the Nevada–Texas–Utah type of oil-shale retorts ?
Did you know that John Brown was the first physiotherapist of the Scotland national rugby union team ?
Did you know that Plymouth Synagogue is the oldest synagogue built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English speaking world ?
Did you know that Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah , the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance?
Did you know that the distribution of the snail Escargot de Quimper is disjunct ?
Did you know that homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence?
Did you know that Bovista aestivalis is so similar to Bovista dermoxantha that a microscope is required to differentiate the two fungi based on their spores ?
Did you know that the Opera Krakowska , one of the leading Polish opera companies , founded in 1954, moved into its first permanent house only in 2008?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed Robert E. L. Taylor ' s 1963 contempt conviction for refusing to reveal sources in a corruption case as his actions were protected by the state's shield law ?
Did you know that after their defeat at the Battle of Arnhem , 138 men were able to escape German occupied territory in Operation Pegasus ?
Did you know that the levels in the iPhone video game Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid are in 2.5D while the characters remain in 2D ?
Did you know that research done by D. Mark Hegsted in the 1960s on the effects of diet on cholesterol levels led to recommendations to reduce consumption of the saturated fats found in meat and eggs?
Did you know that the World Uyghur Congress ' s activities have been described as "cyber- separatism "?
Did you know that Robert Kenner won an Emmy in 2006 for producing and directing the Vietnam War documentary "Two Days in October" for the PBS television program American Experience ?
Did you know that Montreal up-and-comers Hollerado accompanied The Stills to the TransmitCHINA conference, an event established to promote musical exchange between Canada and the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that a recent court case in South Carolina dealt with an 1802 law that makes Sorry! and Monopoly illegal?
Did you know that taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell has opened a brothel to fund his bid to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania was host and chief mediator at the peace conference ending the Northern Seven Years' War ?
Did you know that the 1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain 's novel, following silent versions in 1907 and 1917?
Did you know that the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel , which is tasked with drafting the bills of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , is staffed by 61 lawyers?
Did you know that Aubrey Epps of the Pittsburgh Pirates had three hits in four at bats in the final game of the 1935 season, but never played another major league game, ending his career with a .750 batting average ?
Did you know that the yellow passionflower is the only known pollen host for the passionflower bee , but this bee species is not known to pollinate this flower?
Did you know that according to different versions of his legend, Hindu cattle-god Bir Kuar was killed by either a tigress , seven witches , Mughal soldiers, or his own sister?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode " Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together " was nominated for an Emmy award for the song "I Ain't Got Rhythm"?
Did you know that Insadong is a district of Seoul consisting of galleries and antique shops, known for " culture of the past and the present"?
Did you know that the location for the Hauz-i-Shamsi tank, revealed to Sultan Iltutmish in a dream by the Prophet Muhammad , has Jahaz Mahal (Ship Palace) built on its eastern edge?
Did you know that Paul Bunker died in a Japanese POW camp in 1943 but kept hidden a remnant of the U.S. flag from Corregidor now displayed at the West Point Museum?
Did you know that Anchor Church in Derbyshire had its caves extended to be a summerhouse for Sir Francis Burdett ?
Did you know that, although the NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes has announced the induction of three sets of "brothers", only George and Sandy Scott are actually related?
Did you know that Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006?
Did you know that all twenty of David Bowie's solo studio albums from Hunky Dory (1971) to date have reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart ?
Did you know that the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad was the last railroad in America to use steam locomotives exclusively in common carrier freight service?
Did you know that during World War II , Jan Dahm , Leif Utne and Bjarne Thorsen helped operate an illegal radio transmitter in Bergen codenamed " Theta "?
Did you know that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections?