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Did you know that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron , Royal Australian Air Force , escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute ?
Did you know that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma , a severe alteration in the level of consciousness , by affecting the reticular formation ?
Did you know that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison , Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford ?
Did you know that Elliott Cutler , who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
Did you know that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland , but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
Did you know that during the Texas Revolution , soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?
Did you know that the biography of a Douglas-fir , Tree: A Life Story , was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki 's home?
Did you know that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall , a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
Did you know that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine , are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
Did you know that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana ?
Did you know that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that The West Wing episode " Ways and Means " was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling , two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House ?
Did you know that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural -sized works?
Did you know that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers ?
Did you know that Major General William P. T. Hill , Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews ' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
Did you know that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India ?
Did you know that the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York , suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
Did you know that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia 's strategic environment?
Did you know that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer ?
Did you know that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana ?
Did you know that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh ?
Did you know that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop! , starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
Did you know that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII , despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
Did you know that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby , which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science ?
Did you know that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8 , even though it was released in December of that year?
Did you know that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer , who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station ?
Did you know that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label ?
Did you know that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh , Scotland ?
Did you know that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery ?
Did you know that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
Did you know that Yukiko Iwai , at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club ?
Did you know that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty ?
Did you know that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris ?
Did you know that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas , a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
Did you know that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band , although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
Did you know that Vic Aldridge , nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
Did you know that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army ?
Did you know that although the Collared Lory is only found in Fiji today, fossil evidence shows that it once existed in Tonga and was extirpated by human settlers?
Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley , Steve Austin and Percy Pringle ?
Did you know that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement ?
Did you know that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip 's song " Boy From School " was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack ?
Did you know that Heroes' Day in Namibia , recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August ?
Did you know that Somerset cricket captain Reggie Ingle maintained his hay fever was made worse by train journeys, and travelled in the luggage rack to avoid the dust at lower levels?
Did you know that St. Maria ad Gradus , a former church in Cologne , Germany , was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
Did you know that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season ?
Did you know that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing " Manchester Part I and Part II " were filmed in Bluemont , Virginia instead?
Did you know that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) during the 1940s?
Did you know that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica , where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils , is unique among all known flowering plants ?
Did you know that R. Thomas Flynn , retired president of Monroe Community College , won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?
Did you know that René Victor Auberjonois , one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie , where he lived most of his life?
Did you know that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
Did you know that Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans ?
Did you know that one of the founders of the International Time Capsule Society estimated that over 80 percent of time capsules will be lost before they are opened?
Did you know that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming , is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson , the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson ?
Did you know that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa ?
Did you know that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe ?
Did you know that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona ?
Did you know that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper , to meet a paper shortage in America?
Did you know that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina ?
Did you know that in 1985, molecular biologist Richard A. Houghten developed the "tea-bag" method for peptide selection?
Did you know that Ad exstirpanda , promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV , authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics ?
Did you know that the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head"?
Did you know that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live ?
Did you know that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory ?
Did you know that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
Did you know that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe , a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith , has been debated since the 16th century?
Did you know that the " Australian Legends " in 2000, Walter Parker and Roy Longmore were among the last living veterans of the ANZAC who had served in World War I ?
Did you know that primitive weevils of the Aglycyderini , Metrioxenini and Oxycorynini tribes are believed to have evolved in the Late Cretaceous or perhaps Paleocene period , some 100-60 million years ago?
Did you know that Steve Adkins , on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?
Did you know that " Greenzo ", an episode of 30 Rock , was part of NBC ’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme ?
Did you know that English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote well-known verses on gun safety ?
Did you know that the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
Did you know that beetles of the Belinae subfamily prefer feeding on wood of diseased or dying plants to healthy ones?
Did you know that Rogers Morton was the only person in the 20th century from the East Coast of the United States to serve as Secretary of the Interior ?
Did you know that Cine City in Manchester , England , the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
Did you know that George Edward Pendray coined the term time capsule and created the word laundromat ?
Did you know that Adolf Dietrich , one of Switzerland 's leading painters of the 20th century, had no formal training and worked for most of his life as an untrained labourer?
Did you know that the melody of British electropop band Hot Chip 's song, " One Pure Thought ", was said to be reminiscent of New Order ?
Did you know that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie , Pennsylvania the most?
Did you know that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders , six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that a solitary pulmonary nodule , a mass in the lung smaller than 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter, can be an incidental finding found in up to 0.2 percent of chest X-rays and about 1 percent of CT scans ?
Did you know that the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army ?
Did you know that the Doctor Who episode " The Stolen Earth " features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady ?
Did you know that Art Ross , the first head coach of the Boston Bruins , served four stints as head coach?
Did you know that 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance 's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
Did you know that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California , recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
Did you know that the 1946 earthquake in Nankaidō , Japan caused a 6-meter (20-ft) tsunami that destroyed 2,100 homes?
Did you know that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that the best result of German motorcycle rider Georg Braun , a second place, was achieved in a wet race in the 1954 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten ?
Did you know that the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor , built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri ?
Did you know that the Durga Vahini , the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad , have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India ?
Did you know that the 2100 series of the Keihin Electric Express Railway produces a " do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do " tune when its propulsion system starts up?
Did you know that when wrestler George Scott and his brother Sandy were in Australia , they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship three times between 1966 and 1968?
Did you know that units in LA 's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project , reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists ", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?
Did you know that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
Did you know that Karl Wahl , in 1954, was the first former Nazi Gauleiter to publish his autobiography after having received permission from the denazification authorities to do so?
Did you know that a revolution in burrowing marks the base of the Cambrian period, and is followed by the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity?
Did you know that Arthur Barret , the twenty-second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri , died after serving only eleven days in office?
Did you know that Dibeen Forest Reserve , established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan ?
Did you know that at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games?
Did you know that Silas D. Alben proposed a model for more efficient turbine blades based on the bumpy flippers of humpback whales ?
Did you know that age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships ?
Did you know that the song " Shake a Fist " was almost included on the British electropop band Hot Chip 's second album, The Warning , instead of their third?
Did you know that Albert Anker is sometimes called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th century Swiss village life?
Did you know that the United Nations Institute for Namibia , established in 1976 in Lusaka , Zambia , sought to promote Namibian independence as well as educate Namibians for after independence was achieved?
Did you know that only a year after being established by car dealership owner Giuseppe Risi, the Risi Competizione team won their class at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
Did you know that Toledo Mud Hens relief pitcher Ian Ostlund is one of only two people in Virginia high school history to strike out the side in every inning of a complete game ?
Did you know that Russula nigricans is an edible fungus which turns red, then grey, and finally black on bruising or cutting?
Did you know that the Valmet Nr II tram of the Helsinki tram network was redesigned to include air conditioning in the cockpit after a driver fainted in the summer heat and killed a motorcyclist in a collision ?
Did you know that The Voice of the Turtle , the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible ’s Song of Solomon ?
Did you know that philanthropist Bilquis Edhi , who helped save 16,000 babies, has been nicknamed "Mother of Pakistan "?
Did you know that International Surfing Day originated in 2004 to celebrate the sport of surfing and clean up beaches?
Did you know that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith ?
Did you know that Buddy West was chief legislative advocate for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa ?
Did you know that Castleshaw Roman fort in Greater Manchester was a Roman fort built in 79 AD replaced by a smaller fortlet before being abandoned in the 120s?
Did you know that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine played for three different colleges in three different states before he turned professional ?
Did you know that hundreds of political prisoners were freed in numerous raids on communist prisons in Poland between 1944 and 1946?
Did you know that Kemar Roach played in his first Twenty20 match against Australia and finished with the best bowling figures of the match?
Did you know that burials took place for almost 60 years at the site before Monfort Cemetery in Port Washington, New York was officially set aside for that purpose?
Did you know that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth , lesbian , transsexual comedian "?
Did you know that the first modern time capsule was Thornwell Jacobs ’ Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University , Atlanta, Georgia , due to be opened May 28 , 8113 ?
Did you know that coffee production in Costa Rica in the 19th century created enough revenue to build the National Theater in the capital San José ?
Did you know that the title for Christian musician Matthew West ’s album Something to Say had already been decided before he knew that he would have to be vocally silent for two months?
Did you know that the Dorado Group is one of the richest galaxy clusters in the Southern Hemisphere and thought to be unvirialized which could explain its abundance of H I and spirals ?
Did you know that the painter Cuno Amiet , a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland , created more than a thousand self-portraits ?
Did you know that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love , a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert , was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip?
Did you know that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga ?
Did you know that almost all Pakistani pop music videos were forbidden to air on local television after Zia-ul-Haq 's military coup in 1977?
Did you know that Adam Raphael was named Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards of 1973 for a Guardian series on labour conditions in South Africa ?
Did you know that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War ?
Did you know that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta , a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown ?
Did you know that Native Americans in Nebraska who live on reservations generally do not pay State of Nebraska taxes ?
Did you know that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization ?
Did you know that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada , built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River ?
Did you know that the 2008 film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins uses "meerkats actors" to depict the Whiskers and Lazuli groups rather than using actual footage of the real meerkats ?
Did you know that Bert Freeman was the top scorer in the English Football League in three seasons before 1914?
Did you know that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India ’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
Did you know that Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive Amoy -English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today?
Did you know that in 1298, Pope Boniface VIII decreed in Periculoso that nuns "ought henceforth to remain perpetually cloistered in their monasteries"?
Did you know that the prosecution of Dr. Leonard Arthur for the murder of a Down's syndrome baby led to a change in British law regarding the disclosure of technical evidence?
Did you know that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae , the rose family?
Did you know that velology is the study of vehicle tax discs ?
Did you know that all four stars of Starved , an FX sitcom about eating disorders , struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting?
Did you know that the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine , France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents ?
Did you know that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi ?
Did you know that boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up?
Did you know that Leves were Roman soldiers armed with javelins ?
Did you know that anthropologist David Zolotarev ’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet -style "socialist construction"?
Did you know that the Miss Great Britain Party is a British political movement which campaigns to make politics "sexy not sleazy"?
Did you know that a 3D model artist for The Matrix Reloaded went on to participate in the fangame project Chrono Resurrection ?
Did you know that Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime ?
Did you know that a Jueju , a type of Chinese poem , is a quatrain with either five or seven characters per line?
Did you know that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs , taverns and alehouses were issued?
Did you know that D'Oyly Carte Opera Company star Donald Adams could only perform in his own Gilbert and Sullivan for All theatre group on his nights off?
Did you know that the 1971 film Sentinels of Silence featured Orson Welles narrating the English version and Ricardo Montalban narrating the Spanish version?