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Did you know that 1960's Tropical Storm Brenda , which made its initial landfall in Florida , dropped record-breaking rainfall on New York City ?
Did you know that fairy-like insect people feature in the classic Czech children's book Broučci by Jan Karafiát ?
Did you know that Lowell, West Virginia , was first settled in 1770, making it the oldest community in Summers County ?
Did you know that Sir John Ramsay was the first Australian surgeon to apply heart massage to revive a dead man?
Did you know that within ten years bass singer Klaus Mertens recorded all vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir ?
Did you know that workers employed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were banned from reading the communist newspaper Rahbar , and could be fired if they did?
Did you know that the English coin collector Roger Gale (d. 1744) not only donated his collection of coins to Cambridge University , but translated a book that helped new coin collectors avoid being cheated?
Did you know that the Snow Patrol song " An Olive Grove Facing the Sea " was recorded in two different studios, The Stables and Substation?
Did you know that 21 October is now an annual public holiday in the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali to commemorate a battle victory in 1912 during the First Balkan War ?
Did you know that Texas ' northernmost extensive beds of seagrass can be found in Redfish Bay , where they are protected by state law?
Did you know that during the English Civil War , Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?
Did you know that Duchess of Norfolk , a minesweeper in the Royal Navy during World War I , rejoined the Navy for World War II as Ambassador , but reprised her old role as a minesweeper?
Did you know that the Hannah Robinson Tower in South Kingstown, Rhode Island , is named after a woman whose life of poverty had one of her last moments at an overlook over Narragansett Bay?
Did you know that the District of Columbia Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. , is responsible for 144,000 trees adjacent to city streets and 241 bridges?
Did you know that Lenny Fant , as coach of the University of Louisiana at Monroe men's basketball team from 1957 to 1979, compiled eighteen consecutive winning seasons?
Did you know that one day after Mexican soldier Melquisedet Angulo Córdova was honored as a hero at his funeral, his mother and three relatives were gunned down in retaliation by drug cartel hitmen?
Did you know that despite snowfall totals exceeding 24 in (60 cm), the effects of the December 2000 nor'easter were minimized due to its weekend arrival?
Did you know that Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Castor at the frigate action of 29 May 1794 ?
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Did you know that Hans Christian Andersen Award -winning author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch illustrated his first book so his son could boast, "Look, my papa made a children's book"?
Did you know that Percnon gibbesi is the most invasive decapod species ever to enter the Mediterranean Sea ?
Did you know that Zairean President Mobutu gained renown for treating Air Zaïre as his personal service, and would commandeer its aircraft for shopping trips abroad?
Did you know that the Austrian chemist Guido Goldschmiedt determined the structure of the opium alkaloid papaverine in 1889?
Did you know that the pitted stingray is one of only two stingrays with a "W"-shaped groove on its underside?
Did you know that although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade Unions was able to revive its activities under the rule of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early 1950s?
Did you know that a Sunday assassination attempt against Malkiat Singh Sidhu caught Canadian authorities off-guard, as information about the threat received on Friday was not passed along until Monday?
Did you know that Hondo Creek , a tributary of the Frio River in Texas , was the site of both an 1842 battle between the Republic of Texas and Mexico , and an 1866 Indian attack ?
Did you know that among the recipients of the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award are fiddler Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa , actress Ella Hval , and long term editor of Arbeidermagasinet Nils Johan Rud ?
Did you know that prior to becoming a St. Louis County park, Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park was a resort and the site of numerous boating events?
Did you know that Flower was intended by designer Jenova Chen to fill what he saw as a gap in the "emotional spectrum" offered by video games ?
Did you know that the Master of SS Brighton committed suicide in a pub after he was blamed for the collision with the windjammer Preußen in 1905?
Did you know that Old Ephraim , a giant grizzly bear that lived in Utah , was known as "Old Three Toes" by shepherds because of a congenital deformity on one foot?
Did you know that Howard C. Hillegas was the first journalist to report that the fighting between Britain and the Boers had started in the Second Boer War ?
Did you know that in Santa María Tonameca , Oaxaca , Mexico, there is a group of people called “pintos” or “Ñutis” who have patches of yellow, black, red, white and even blue on their skin due to a genetic mutation ?
Did you know that Slovakia recently sent explosives to Ireland on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230 ?
Did you know that May Day was first celebrated in Persia in 1922, and during the 1920s thousands of people participated in the May Day rallies of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Tehran ?
Did you know that pin-up girl Gloria Nord attracted more than a million people to her rolling skating exhibitions in 1942 and 1943 and later gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that a Spanish vessel blown into Texas ' Saint Charles Bay by a storm, was allegedly stranded in a creek and later taken apart to construct houses?
Did you know that the Simpsons episode " Million Dollar Maybe " will feature a new character created by the winner of a fan-contest organized by the staff of the show?
Did you know that the Irish novelist Lady Morgan was married to the private physician Thomas Charles Morgan after a meeting engineered by the wife of his employer?
Did you know that in 1965 Congo-Brazzaville national airline Air Congo was renamed to avoid confusion with an airline of the same name from Congo-Kinshasa ?
Did you know that Emanuel Chobot , chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party in interbellum Czechoslovakia , was active in the cooperative movement ?
Did you know that 51-year old Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg will represent Mexico at the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Johannes Andenæs , himself a concentration camp prisoner of Nazis during WWII , criticized the harshness of the legal process against Nazis in Norway after the war?
Did you know that the Mary Rose Trust , the charitable trust that salvaged the Mary Rose in 1982, played an important part in preserving historical shipwrecks in the UK from exploitation?
Did you know that Andrew Lloyd Webber is concerned about casting a dog in the forthcoming BBC television series Over the Rainbow ?
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Did you know that on December 14, 1947, a rival government-supported Iranian union, ESKI , carried out an attack on a club building of the Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran ?
Did you know that Cyclone Gwenda of the 1998–99 Australian region cyclone season was the most intense Australian tropical cyclone on record?
Did you know that the bombing of an Italian courthouse, the arrests of five Indian police officers, and the funeral for Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto 's son are among the events in organized crime so far this year?
Did you know that the Blue Vanga is the only vanga occurring outside of Madagascar ?
Did you know that the Nigerien politician Issa Lamine ignored the opposition calls for a boycott of the 2009 parliamentary election , and was elected as an independent ?
Did you know that Irish film critic Michael Dwyer attended every Cannes Film Festival from 1982 until 2009, months before his death?
Did you know that New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was a finalist for the 2009 Cycle Friendly Awards in the 'Cycling Champion of the Year' category?
Did you know that in the first naval engagement of the War of 1812 , the American privateer Dash captured HMS Whiting but the US released her, telling her captain to leave American waters as soon as possible?
Did you know that the fungal genus Polytolypa is known from a single specimen found growing on dung of the North American porcupine ?
Did you know that during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia the site of the Maritime Museum was used as logistic storage for the Japanese army?
Did you know that according to a mediaeval chronicle , saga , and later clan tradition, Páll, son of Bálki blinded and castrated the son of a Manx king—a son who would in time become king himself?
Did you know that American basketball player Kobe Bryant has scored forty points or more in 113 games in his career?
Did you know that three Canadian Sikhs accused of plotting to blow up Air India Flight 112 in 1986 were released when it was revealed that wiretaps had been mistranslated?
Did you know that the father and daughter, mathematics professor Ralph Tambs-Lyche and women's rights activist Guri Tambs-Lyche , were both members of left-wing organizations, Clarté and the Communist Party respectively?
Did you know that the undefeated 1930 Michigan Wolverines football team was led by Harry Newman , referred to by the United Press as the "crack Jewish field general"?
Did you know that Rodrigo Pérez de Traba ' s knights unlawfully imprisoned Arias Muñiz, the archdeacon of Trastámara , in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela ?
Did you know that although the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation was critically panned, it was considered one of the best comedies of the year during its second season ?
Did you know that after losing his House of Commons seat, Denis Shipwright found he "cannot get work" and resorted to advertising in The Times ?
Did you know that the Vardy Community School in Hancock County, Tennessee , was started by missionaries to educate children who were barred from public schools because they were Melungeons ?
Did you know that during spring training in 1997, Mexican baseball player Tavo Alvarez was mistakenly introduced as Taco Alvarez?
Did you know that the crew of the Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets mutinied themselves when they confronted the mutinous battleship Potemkin in Odessa Harbor in June 1905?
Did you know that Sigmund Freud visited Worcester State Hospital in 1909 during his only trip to America?
Did you know that the first photography subjects of the German photographer Aenne Biermann were her own children?
Did you know that the American Journal of Physical Anthropology was selected as one of the top 10 most influential journals of the last 100 years in the fields of biology and medicine?
Did you know that Rosario Rodríguez was the youngest baseball player in the National League during the 1989 season?
Did you know that the smalleye stingray may have convergently evolved a shape and swimming mode akin to that of manta rays ?
Did you know that Tales of Silversleeve , named ninth best album of the decade by The Irish Times , received its title after its creator neglected to wipe her runny nose ?
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Did you know that Jason Little won two Ignatz Awards in consecutive years for his graphic novel Shutterbug Follies ?
Did you know that Z Special Unit member Major G. S. Carter went on to found the Kundasang War Memorial and Gardens in Sabah ?
Did you know that the juvenile leaves of the Australian Queensland rainforest tree Stenocarpus cryptocarpus reach 115 cm long, but the adult leaves only 14 cm long?
Did you know that before he won a record seven short course off-road racing championships, Carl Renezeder was an All-American in water polo ?
Did you know that the 20-metre (66 ft) tall trestle bridge on the former Noojee railway line is the tallest surviving trestle bridge in Victoria, Australia ?
Did you know that cellist Felix Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven, described by NPR as "a church for people who don't go to church," in an abandoned gas station off Route 66 in New Mexico ?
Did you know that Eustace fitz John , the founder of Alnwick Abbey who fought against his own countrymen at the Battle of the Standard , had only one eye?
Did you know that the release of Game Change , a book about the 2008 United States presidential election , led Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize over remarks he made about President Barack Obama ?
Did you know that Unė Babickaitė , a Lithuanian actress who appeared in American silent films , was sentenced to five years in a Soviet gulag ?
Did you know that Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park , located in East Java , is the only conservation area in Indonesia that has a sand sea ?
Did you know that the late Wyoming politician Tom Walsh made 14 trips to Southeast Asia at his own expense looking for Vietnam War POWs and MIAs ?
Did you know that the horse Authentic has won three Olympic medals and two World Equestrian Games medals?
Did you know that Terminator: TSCC ' s " Self Made Man " references franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger with its Skynet plot to assassinate the Governor of California on New Year's Eve 2010?
Did you know that Carl Sagan 's book Cosmos , which accompanied the Cosmos television series , became the best-selling science book in 1980?
Did you know that the Major League Umpires Association 's executive director and 22 umpires were fired after they tried a mass resignation campaign in 1999?
Did you know that the Phenes raptor dragonfly is the largest Odonata in Chile ?
Did you know that the Todd Manning and Marty Saybrooke rape storylines from the American daytime drama One Life to Live have been the subject of various academic works, as well as outrage from leading anti-sexual assault organizations such as RAINN ?
Did you know that reproductions of The Moorish Chief , painted by Eduard Charlemont , are the best-selling paintings at the museum store of the Philadelphia Museum of Art ?
Did you know that the BBC program Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas was described in the press as Oz Clarke and Hugh Dennis divining that the true spirit of Christmas is " getting hammered "?
Did you know that Swiss defenceman Tim Ramholt played just 45 seconds in his National Hockey League career?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin imposed a tax on childlessness , which forced bachelors and childless families to pay an additional 6% income tax until the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the anonymous composer of the 15th-century carol " I syng of a mayden " used traditional imagery deriving from Old Testament texts to celebrate the Annunciation of Jesus ?
Did you know that at the 2010 Olympics , 20-year-old Drew Doughty is to become the youngest ice hockey player since Eric Lindros in 1991 to represent Canada in a major best-on-best tournament?
Did you know that the Colombian palm Aiphanes leiostachys is an endangered species , while two other Colombian endemics in the same genus , Aiphanes duquei and Aiphanes lindeniana , are vulnerable to extinction ?
Did you know that the Armenian Iranian communist leader Ardeshir Ovanessian spent eleven years in Qasr prison ?
Did you know that the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion is the administrative organisation responsible for monitoring the accounts of professional football clubs in France ?
Did you know that while recording their album Fight the Tide , Sanctus Real 's guitarist tried putting nail polish on his fingertips because they were raw from continuous playing?
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Did you know that Glamorgan County Cricket Club 's 1921 promotion to first-class status was strongly aided by early fund-raisers organised by Vernon Hill ?
Did you know that Billfrith , the Northumbrian saint whose name appears in the Durham Liber Vitae , is credited with providing the original gold , silver and jewel ornamentation for the Lindisfarne Gospels ?
Did you know that John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Ernle-Erle-Drax raised and supported the East Kent militia during the 1830 Swing Riots ?
Did you know that the Gulf Snapping Turtle was described as " Australia 's first living fossil freshwater turtle, an extant population of a Pleistocene taxon "?
Did you know that Ange Diawara , the leader of the Congolese rebel group M 22 , sought inspiration from Che Guevara and the Cameroonian UPC ?
Did you know that in 1992, the Greece men's national junior ice hockey team lost 1–47 to Latvia ?
Did you know that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois , Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century?
Did you know that in 1831 John D. Defrees founded the first newspaper in Northern Indiana ?
Did you know that after ten years of service in the Royal Navy , the brig-sloop HMS Curlew became involved in the drug trade , and sold £330,000 worth of opium in China in 1833?
Did you know that The Terrorist Hunters was originally banned from sale by a High Court injunction issued the day of its official release?
Did you know that it is unclear who designed the Majestic Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri , due to conflicting records on the building's plans and permits?
Did you know that State Representative Lanny Johnson was inducted in 1982 into the Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame for the 1958–1962 seasons at the University of Louisiana at Monroe ?
Did you know that Clayton, West Virginia , was named after a balloonist from Cincinnati who landed in the community after a record-setting 300-mile (480 km) flight in 1835?
Did you know that the satirical radio comedy The News at Bedtime is based on a column in Private Eye magazine?
Did you know that Laumeier Sculpture Park in Sunset Hills, Missouri , does not have any recreational facilities because its founder wanted a passive park ?
Did you know that the cellar of 23 Northgate Street , Chester , Cheshire , England, contains the remains of columns from the principia of the Roman fortress that previously stood on the site?
Did you know that no member of the U. S. Congress has been appointed to the United States Supreme Court since the 1949 nomination of Sherman Minton ?
Did you know that the Sovetsky Soyuz -class battleship Sovetskaya Belorussiya was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after it was discovered that 70,000 rivets used in her hull plating were of inferior quality?
Did you know that between 2000 and 2009, ten singles sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that after his ship was torpedoed , Captain Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice was picked up from the water, apparently with his monocle still firmly in place?
Did you know that the Etzioni Brigade participated in the first ever Israeli Haganah operation that deployed more than one brigade?
Did you know that, according to a medieval source, the Anglo-Saxon Fenland noble Æthelstan Mannessune donated a piece of the True Cross to Ramsey Abbey ?
Did you know that at the 1949 congress of the government-sponsored Iranian trade union centre ESKI , only two out of 36 delegates were workers?
Did you know that Bertrand Tavernier directed Safe Conduct because of his interest in reviving films from 1942 to 1944 and because he has friendships with key figures from those films?
Did you know that the employers' organization in French Equatorial Africa , COLPAEF , was significantly weaker than its West African counterparts, as employers in Equatorial Africa were highly individualistic?
Did you know that Claude d'Abbeville was a Franciscan missionary who wrote in 1614 about the dispatch of Brazilian Tupinambá Indians to the French king Louis XIII ?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Hygrophorus agathosmus smells like almonds ?
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Did you know that the attack on Camp Chapman in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009, was the most lethal sustained by the CIA in 25 years?
Did you know that Patrick Whelan allegedly assassinated Thomas D'Arcy McGee four months after warning the police about a similar plot against the Canadian politician?
Did you know that the civil flag of Monaco utilizes the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi ?
Did you know that after having covered the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent journalist Lise Lindbæk worked to aid Spanish refugee children in France?
Did you know that De Cornwerdermolen , Cornwerd is the most westerly windmill in Friesland ?
Did you know that in 1974, Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz created the first transgenic mouse by injecting DNA from Simian virus 40 ?
Did you know that Blind Willie Johnson 's gospel-blues song " Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground " was included on the Voyager Golden Record to represent human loneliness to extraterrestrial life?
Did you know that American artist William Allen Rogers worked with Harper's Weekly as a political cartoonist for 25 years, and with the New York Herald for an additional 20 years?
Did you know that artifacts uncovered in Kafr Misr , an Arab village located to the south of Mount Tabor , Israel, attest to Jewish , Christian and Muslim habitation over the centuries?
Did you know that Thomas Humber was apprenticed as a blacksmith and went on to found the Humber bicycle company in 1869 which evolved into Humber automobiles ?
Did you know that Flight of the Red Tail chronicles the second restoration of a P-51 Mustang bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II ?
Did you know that the Minuscule 536 is one of the manuscripts purchased by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906)?
Did you know that in 2003 Curtis Gatewood became the first college football recruit from Memphis to sign with Vanderbilt since 1997?
Did you know that the top half of the Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light was part of another tower originally used at the Vidal Shoals near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ?
Did you know that approximately 6,000 years ago in central Oregon, Lava Butte exploded, and eventually created Benham Falls ?
Did you know that as a child, Jerry Kennedy , who later produced for legendary musicians such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis , recorded several songs with Chet Atkins for RCA Records ?
Did you know that the Wayang Museum in Jakarta contains the tombstone of Jan Pieterszoon Coen ?
Did you know that after turning down an invitation to play with the Americans, Brandon Kozun scored the shootout winning goal for Canada to defeat the United States during round robin play at the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ?
Did you know that Lykke Friis , the current Danish Minister for Climate and Energy , was not a member of the party Venstre before becoming a minister?
Did you know that while filming The Restorers , director Adam White stumbled upon the Red Tail Project , which led to the production of Red Tail Reborn ?
Did you know that, to promote their Glacier Mints (iconified by Peppy the polar bear ), Fox's Confectionery used to exhibit a stuffed polar bear at public events?
Did you know that Icelandic modernist Einar Bragi , one of the original Atom Poets , translated poetry from all major European languages?
Did you know that the Jakarta History Museum was formerly used as the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company ?
Did you know that same-sex marriage under United States tribal jurisdictions has been allowed in the Coquille Tribe of Oregon despite the state's defense of marriage amendment ?
Did you know that installation of about 25,000 pail closets in 19th-century Manchester, England helped clear the city's drains and rivers of up to 3,000,000 gallons of waste?
Did you know that Uniontown, Washington, D.C. 's first " suburban " community, is part of the Anacostia Historic District ?
Did you know that Sarraounia is an award-winning film that depicts a real-life battle between French Colonial Forces and an African queen ?
Did you know that William Gurney Benham collected and arranged over fifty thousand quotations in one of his books?