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Did you know that Breandán Ó Buachalla was considered "the leading authority on Gaelic poetry and writing in early modern Ireland" and "one of the most prominent Irish language academics of his generation"?
Did you know that the tick Ornithodoros erraticus spreads the African swine fever virus in the Iberian Peninsula ( Spain and Portugal )?
Did you know that Aline Hofheimer painted a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field , Long Island ?
Did you know that the strongest earthquake in Germany reported to date struck Düren on February 18, 1756?
Did you know that the New York Yankees sent pitcher Ernest Groth to the Oakland Oaks to make up for an earlier deal that did not work out?
Did you know that the 21 km New Danube in Vienna has been described by UN-HABITAT as "the first truly multipurpose fully sustainable flood protection scheme"?
Did you know that singer Lissie was invited to open for Lenny Kravitz after he saw her MySpace page?
Did you know that a recent bomb blast before a dance show in Stavropol killed seven people?
Did you know that the American soul-blues musician L.V. Johnson ' s track "I Don't Really Care", was sampled by Strong Arm Steady on their 2010 album In Search of Stoney Jackson ?
Did you know that in Jewish mysticism , even angels cannot endure seeing the divine countenance directly?
Did you know that prior to the Recreational Charities Act 1958 , the English courts refused to accept any charities involving recreational activities as valid?
Did you know that Frederik Due in 1841 became the first non- noble prime minister of Norway ?
Did you know that if the remote supergiant Delta Canis Majoris were as close to us as Sirius , it would be as bright as a half-full moon?
Did you know that now-retired professional wrestler Mark Freer was once handcuffed to ring ropes and beaten with a nightstick at the end of a match?
Did you know that before Ferdinand II became Holy Roman Emperor , he settled claims with the other Habsburgs in the secret Oñate treaty ?
Did you know that reliable water flow from the Sun Kosi , in mountainous Nepal , is proposed to be diverted through a 16.6 kilometres (10.3 mi) tunnel to the Kamala River for irrigation and other purposes?
Did you know that the Detroit blues singer Calvin Frazier 's "This Old World's in a Tangle" was both the title of the first song he recorded, and of a 1993 compilation album issued by Laurie Records ?
Did you know that Rønne , a town on the Danish island of Bornholm , was bombed by Soviet fighter aircraft during World War II ?
Did you know that after an effort to elect left-wing Democrats to the U.S. Congress failed in 1946, the Union for Democratic Action was disbanded and Americans for Democratic Action formed to replace it?
Did you know that Cyrille Dion won the first U.S. professional pool championship in 1878?
Did you know that the Via Josephina was commissioned in 1775 by Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor after he reportedly fell from his horse while traveling from Senj ?
Did you know that the Port of Jacksonville is the second busiest vehicle-handling port on the east coast of the United States ?
Did you know that 1993 Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the 2010 contest in Oslo , Norway ?
Did you know that MasterChef Australia contestant Marion Grasby was awarded one of only nine journalism cadetships offered nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 2006?
Did you know that Yangluo Bridge near Wuhan , China , is tied with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco , United States , as the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world ?
Did you know that the geology of New Zealand's Northland region includes exotic seafloor rocks, an extinct volcanic arc , and a massive tombolo ?
Did you know that 1912 Olympic champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his track and field medals after it was discovered he had played baseball professionally ?
Did you know that Bonaventure Broderick ran a gas station for 40 years until Cardinal Francis Spellman restored him as an Auxiliary Bishop ?
Did you know that it has been difficult to establish when the Oliver Barrett House near Millerton, New York , was built since there are no records of it until 14 years after its likely construction date?
Did you know that the oldest running wood-burning locomotive in Hawaii, now at Grove Farm Museum, one of two heritage railways in Kauai , was almost sold for $500 to the Disney Company in the 1970s?
Did you know that Juwan Howard was the first student–athlete to graduate on time along with his class after declaring early for the NBA Draft and joining the National Basketball Association ?
Did you know that Eric Selleck was the first hockey player to be a SUNYAC Rookie of the Year and MVP in consecutive years?
Did you know that the estuarine , burrow -dwelling ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis is used as bait , but is sometimes attacked with insecticides because it damages Pacific oyster farms ?
Did you know that ten New Zealand soldiers lost their lives in 1917 in the Bere Ferrers rail accident due to being unaccustomed to the British railway system?
Did you know that poet and author Kostas Krystallis escaped to Greece after being denounced by the Ottoman authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry?
Did you know that Wallaby Myer Rosenblum employed future Prime Minister of Australia John Howard as an articled clerk in 1959?
Did you know that the opera Didone abbandonata ( Dido Abandoned ) of Domenico Sarro , successful in 1724, was revived by harpsichordist , conductor and musicologist Ludger Rémy ?
Did you know that the four Ersatz Monarch -class battleships planned for the Austro-Hungarian Navy were expected to cost 82 million kronen each, but none were ever completed?
Did you know that American sprinter Jeff Williams won his first World Championship medal at the age of 29 under the guidance of women's Olympic medalist Barbara Ferrell ?
Did you know that Madonna’s first producer purchased an old chandelier factory in 1981, which has been used to record tracks by Queen Latifah , INXS and Taking Back Sunday ?
Did you know that seifertite , one of the densest polymorphs of silica , is named after Friedrich Seifert and has only been found in meteorites ?
Did you know that Chinese Australian soldier Caleb Shang was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal partly for his skill with lamps ?
Did you know that Dutch malacologist Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen is an expert in African land snails?
Did you know that Orientalism in early modern France started from the time of Francis I in the 16th century, with the work of Guillaume Postel ?
Did you know that one of the outstanding Parisian Louis XV ébénistes remained a mystery until 1957, as his maker's stamp just reads BVRB ?
Did you know that the extinct Hipposideros besaoka was the largest insectivorous bat of Madagascar ?
Did you know that President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently launched TV Brasil Internacional , a Portuguese language television station aimed at 49 African nations?
Did you know that Pike Hill Signal Tower was built by the Romans as part of fortifying the Stanegate and was later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall ?
Did you know that Lofty Large once floored a donkey with a single punch while fighting rebels in Oman ?
Did you know that over the course of more than 200 years, the Struve family produced renowned scientists including Jacob , Friedrich , Otto Wilhelm , Genrikh , Hermann , Ludwig , George Hermann , Wilfried and Otto Struve?
Did you know that Associated Students, Chico is a student government with over $13 million in assets making it one of the largest non-profit organizations in Northern California ?
Did you know that although the giant fossa , formerly one of the top carnivores of Madagascar , is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living fossas ?
Did you know that newspaper illustrator Salo Grenning became an honorary citizen of Middelburg , Netherlands , after helping liberate the city from Germany in 1944?
Did you know that the late Paleozoic environment of the Chaco-Tarija sedimentary basin of Bolivia has been likened to that of present-day Labrador Sea ?
Did you know that 2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner for neurobiology, Hannah Monyer , can speak several languages and play the piano?
Did you know that a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall in Cheshire , England ?
Did you know that Eduardo Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera ?
Did you know that the caterpillars of the moth Mompha raschkiella cause a yellowish blotch on the leaves of Rosebay Willowherb that bleach rapidly after the caterpillars leave them?
Did you know that Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander publishes articles for the Russian newspaper Kultura ?
Did you know that the Australian Institute of Family Studies (est. 1980) conducts research in family wellbeing, as used in the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales?
Did you know that the journalist and columnist Per Egil Hegge has been called a "housegod" of those dissatisfied with the development of the Norwegian language ?
Did you know that the French battleship Gaulois was sunk on 27 December 1916 by the German U-boat SM UB-47 ?
Did you know that in the early 1930s, mathematician Gerhard Kowalewski persuaded more women at German universities than anyone else to become doctors in mathematics?
Did you know that cattle infested with ticks can be treated with an extract from the African tree Margaritaria discoidea ?
Did you know that during World War II , the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship , the Oryoku Maru ?
Did you know that Computer Usage Company was the first company devoted to developing computer software in 1955, but went bankrupt in 1986?
Did you know that Brian Eno , one of the principal innovators of ambient music , played synthesisers on Coldplay 's 2007 single " White Shadows "?
Did you know that all nine individuals who served as Michigan Wolverines head football coaches from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the Literary Review said of a novel by Daisy Waugh " Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye, Mr. Chips "?
Did you know that Donna Simpson maintains a website where male fans pay to watch videos of her eating and measuring her waistline?
Did you know that in 1985, former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Rufus D. Hayes sold 14 acres of land to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for $750,000?
Did you know that Clouded Magpie moths resemble bird droppings while they are resting on the upper surface of leaves?
Did you know that during a match in 2000, professional wrestler Ricky Blues left the ring to argue with hecklers at ringside?
Did you know that the Bryansk State Agricultural Academy (BSAA) in the Bryansk Oblast rural locality of Kokino has a notable library of some 410,000 volumes?
Did you know that the K-105 ski jumping hill in Schanzen Einsiedeln is named after World Championships winner Andreas Küttel ?
Did you know that the shooting ranges at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Massachusetts , were closed after a bullet ricocheted and nearly hit a mother and her toddler?
Did you know that in Serbian tradition, a zmajevit was a man whose spirit could leave his body while he was asleep, and fly skywards to fight against the demon ala that led hail clouds over fields to destroy crops?
Did you know that Erie J. Sauder was a Mennonite cabinetmaker with only an eighth-grade education when he started the ready-to-assemble furniture industry ?
Did you know that the logo of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring , an industrial conglomerate of Nazi Germany , remained in use until the 1980s?
Did you know that World War II U.S. Army veteran David Rubitsky claims to have singlehandedly killed 500 to 600 Japanese soldiers during a 21-hour battle and that he was denied the Medal of Honor because he is Jewish?
Did you know that Dorothy Ellicott was the first woman to be elected to two different Gibraltar Councils and was posthumously awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour on Gibraltar National Day 2008?
Did you know that the ideas of Aesthetic Realism and Siegel's Theory of Opposites are the guiding principles of New York City 's Terrain Gallery ?
Did you know that the Italian protected cruiser Giovanni Bausan was designed to destroy battleships ?
Did you know that American Phelps Phelps , the first civilian Governor of American Samoa and an Ambassador to the Dominican Republic , was dismissed from Yale University for paying another student to take his tests?
Did you know that Ernst von Leyser was a major defendant at the Hostages Trial in 1947–1948?
Did you know that the Golden Cue Billiard Lounge is the only extant billiard hall in Albany, New York ?
Did you know that Hypogeomys australis , Nesomys narindaensis , and Brachytarsomys mahajambaensis are the only extinct rodents of Madagascar ?
Did you know that works of the Polish artist Dorota Nieznalska stirred a religious controversy and charges of blasphemy in Poland?
Did you know that 2009 College Football All-America Team selection Zane Beadles was also a 2009 Academic All-America selection?
Did you know that a stained glass window in All Saint's Church in Eastchurch commemorates the deaths of aviation pioneers Charles Rolls and Cecil Grace ?
Did you know that Christopher Columbus received a royal reward for the 1492 sighting of unknown light ?
Did you know that Theresia L M Russ rescued the survivors from the Reichsmarine 's training schooner Niobe ?
Did you know that except for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley , Harry Goodwin photographed every single act that entered the Top 30 of the UK Singles Chart between 1964 and 1973?
Did you know that the International Rugby Board do not permit players to wear rugby shorts with padding sewn into them?
Did you know that anti-Nazi resistance fighter Joar Olsen once escaped apprehension by claiming that he drove a Red Cross truck?
Did you know that the eastern North American destroying angel contains cyclic peptides that, if consumed, can cause kidney failure , liver failure , and/or death?
Did you know that in addition to its stone arch, Natural Bridges State Beach in California is known for the up to 150,000 Monarch butterflies that overwinter there?
Did you know that the radar at Benton Air Force Station was once jammed by "the lady of the house" watching a soap opera ?
Did you know that even though HMS Marlborough was hit by a torpedo at the Battle of Jutland , the crew suffered only four casualties?
Did you know that only one isolated population of the butterfly Boloria eunomia in Serbia is known?
Did you know that Thomas Darden , the last naval Governor of American Samoa , advocated for the integration of the United States Navy ?
Did you know that the four rooms on the first floor of Hiddenhurst outside Millerton, New York , are decorated in different architectural styles ?
Did you know that when the Finnish cargo ship SS Enso was lengthened in 1955–56, her gross register tonnage was reduced?
Did you know that Barry Bonds was retired with the bases loaded twice during the 1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game ?
Did you know that after calling for a polar bear , Disneyland and palm trees to be brought to Reykjavik in Iceland , The Best Party won the most seats in the 2010 Reykjavik City Council election ?
Did you know that retired Sacramento bishop Alden John Bell was stabbed in his office while preparing for a trip to see Pope John Paul II ?
Did you know that in 1851, Jackey Jackey , a young Aboriginal Australian , was awarded a specially engraved silver breastplate for heroic deeds by the then-Governor of New South Wales ?
Did you know that the battleship Moreno was the subject of multiple disputes between Argentina and the United States?
Did you know that the Ancient Forest Alliance , founded in British Columbia to protect endangered old growth forests and ensure sustainable forestry jobs, grew to over 6,000 members in only two months?
Did you know that 13-year-old Jordan Romero recently became the youngest mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest ?
Did you know that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall , Kennedy Center and the Getty Center ?
Did you know that an English Heritage investigation found that Milecastle 9 , on Hadrian's Wall , was one of two milecastles damaged by farming?
Did you know that Charles Jenkins of Hofstra University is only the ninth repeat-winner of the Haggerty Award in its 75-year history?
Did you know that Eiliv Austlid was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his command in the rescue of the Norwegian government during World War II , after Trygve Lie maligned him for it?
Did you know that Franklin Canyon Park was where the famous hitchhiking scene from It Happened One Night and the opening from The Andy Griffith Show were filmed?
Did you know that Theodor Grotthuss published the first basically correct concept for the charge transport in an electrolyte in 1806?
Did you know that Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot Raymond V. Haysbert became a successful African-American CEO after World War II and later chaired the Greater Baltimore Urban League until his recent death at age 90?
Did you know that in southern France , people were inflicted with acute renal insufficiency because they confused Amanita ovoidea with the poisonous species Amanita proxima ?
Did you know that the three Erzherzog Karl class battleships – SMS Erzherzog Karl , Erzherzog Ferdinand Max and Erzherzog Friedrich – helped quell a mutiny at Cattaro in 1918?
Did you know that Taylor Hall became the first ice hockey player to win the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy after leading the 2010 Memorial Cup in scoring?
Did you know that the fungal plant pathogen Taphrina padi turns the fruits of infected Bird Cherry trees into distinctive, elongated, tongue -like structures?
Did you know that the source of the Ha Chhu river in Bhutan is located to the south of Chomo Lhari (Mountain of the Goddess)?
Did you know that Mikhail Roshchin ' s play Valentin and Valentina was written in 1971 and performed the same year by theatre director Valery Fokin in Moscow ?
Did you know that four separate wrestlers suffered legitimate injuries at WWE's Over the Limit pay-per-view ?
Did you know that Eledone moschata is an octopus that smells of musk ?
Did you know that the extinct plant genus Dillhoffia cannot be placed into a flowering plant family at this time?
Did you know that Clarrie Isaacs , one of the founders of the Aboriginal Provisional Government , travelled to Libya on what he claimed was a valid Aboriginal passport but was denied re-entry to Australia with it?
Did you know that Saint George's Church in Gavril Genovo , northwestern Bulgaria , features vernacular Gothic Revival details and "puzzling" archaic decoration?
Did you know that Czechoslovak General Heliodor Píka was accused of espionage and high treason on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of forgery "?
Did you know that possible relatives of the extinct Madagascar mammal Plesiorycteropus include hedgehogs , aardvarks , and hyraxes , and its remains have been misidentified as rodents and the giant aye-aye ?
Did you know that Polish aerial photographer Mariusz Adamski is known for shooting aircraft from unusual perspectives?
Did you know that Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003?
Did you know that Commodore William Martin threatened to reduce Naples to ashes unless King Charles agreed to his demands?
Did you know that a species of mushroom in the genus Phlebopus can attain cap diameters of up to 1 meter (3.3 ft)?
Did you know that the 2001 film Gosford Park received seven Academy Award nominations, but came away with only one award?
Did you know that Joseph Mabry 's death in a shootout with another businessman was chronicled by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi ?
Did you know that the Windswept Helmet-orchid of Macquarie Island is threatened by rabbit digging and seal wallowing?
Did you know that New Jersey General Assemblyman Peter J. Genova sponsored a bill that would make English the state's official language, stating that "Spanish has just grown too prominent in New Jersey "?
Did you know that an invocation to the Norse god Thor is hidden on the Sønder Kirkeby Runestone using bind runes located in the waves under a ship image?
Did you know that college football coach Billy Laval modified his team's jerseys to help a color-blind quarterback find his receivers ?
Did you know that less than six weeks after being fired from his 20-year career as the University of Wisconsin 's football coach and athletic director , Ivy Williamson died from falling down a staircase?
Did you know that the Ascension Island parsley fern was considered extinct until four plants were recently discovered on Ascension Island ?
Did you know that after resigning from the University of Tennessee presidency amid controversy, John Shumaker was honored by the University of Louisville for increasing its focus on research?
Did you know that the PWS-4 , a Polish sports aircraft built in 1928, was not developed beyond a single prototype?
Did you know that commercial fishing of Sockeye salmon from the Chilkoot Lake in Haines Borough, Alaska , is worth about US$ 1 million annually?
Did you know that as a result of his success during the Cambodian Campaign , Army of the Republic of Vietnam General Do Cao Tri was dubbed the " Patton of the Parrot's Beak"?
Did you know that the 16th-century 140–142 Hospital Street in Nantwich , Cheshire , may stand on the site of the 11th-century Hospital of St Nicholas , which gives the street its name?
Did you know that Therdchai Jivacate has designed and built prosthetic limbs for elephants injured by landmines ?
Did you know that at age 46, Bob Emery already ranks among the 20 all-time winningest college men's ice hockey coaches, with 465 wins?
Did you know that the children's book Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? by Helen Palmer Geisel is often mistaken as a Dr. Seuss book?
Did you know that Monroe Jay Lustbader of New Jersey 's 21st Legislative District proposed stiffening penalties for juvenile car thieves, as those "old enough to steal cars are old enough to face severe consequences"?
Did you know that Hungarian National Defence Day falls on 21 May , the anniversary of the climax of the Battle of Buda (1849) ?
Did you know that Lithuanian poet Liudas Gira was a member of the delegation sent to petition the Soviet Union to accept the newly proclaimed Lithuanian SSR into the union?
Did you know that before the 19th century, the Kuban River flowed into both the Black Sea and the Azov Sea ?
Did you know that General Mai Huu Xuan presided over the capture of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem after a successful coup , which Do Mau helped organise?
Did you know that the restaurant in the Hacienda El Lucero in San Miguel Acatlán, Mexico , serves crocodile ceviche ?
Did you know that, on July 19, 2010, Rich Cho became the first Asian American general manager in NBA history when he was hired by the Portland Trail Blazers ?
Did you know that the pearls of the Laccadive Sea have been praised for about 2,000 years?
Did you know that Roy Vernon Scott , a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University , co-authored a history of Sam Walton and the Wal-Mart merchandising enterprise?
Did you know that the Jawa Dam in Jordan is the oldest known dam in the world, dating back to 3000 BC?
Did you know that John Joseph Woods won ten guineas for composing the national anthem of New Zealand ?
Did you know that the report " Top Secret America " by The Washington Post revealed that over 850,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community have top-secret clearance?
Did you know that, despite its location in the Arctic , one could conceivably grow lettuce at Tanquary Fiord ?