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Did you know that although the 20 mm Breda is an anti-aircraft gun , during the Kurtës Ambush it was used against German trucks?
Did you know that Scottish bookseller Alexander Donaldson sold cheap copies of books after their copyright had expired, in disregard to London booksellers' opinions on literary property ?
Did you know that English drummer Chris Townson replaced The Who 's Keith Moon on a 1967 UK tour?
Did you know that the French battleship République was hit by a torpedo from the Patrie , her sister ship ?
Did you know that José Rodríguez was once the manager of a Cuban League championship baseball team that included five future members of the US Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the asphalt volcano is a rare underwater volcano composed of asphalt and erupting petroleum and methane instead of lava ?
Did you know that Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov , one of the founders of laser physics, has also described an antiferromagnetic transition in the organic material DPPH ?
Did you know that Capcom 's Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be run on the MT Framework engine , the same engine that is used by Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 ?
Did you know that "The Mighty Midget", Rodney Wilkes , won the first ever Olympic medal for Trinidad and Tobago at the 1948 Games ?
Did you know that before beginning his revolt in 803, Bardanes Tourkos , with his three principal associates, Thomas , Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian , allegedly visited a monk who foretold their fates?
Did you know that a finished study for The Death of Nelson by Daniel Maclise in Westminster Palace is in the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ?
Did you know that the tianguis market is a Mexican tradition which comes mostly unchanged from the pre-Hispanic era ?
Did you know that Matthew Elderfield took a €193,000 paycut from his previous position in the Bermuda Monetary Authority to go work as Ireland 's Financial Regulator ?
Did you know that the district Nadderud in Norway , now known for the multi-purpose stadium Nadderud stadion , once delivered limestone to Akershus Fortress in 1629 and the Royal Palace, Oslo , in 1827?
Did you know that William J. Winter , while serving as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh , confirmed an estimated 45,000 Catholics?
Did you know that RuBot II is the world's fastest Rubik's cube -solving robot ?
Did you know that the New Zealand Member of Parliament Frederic Jones was described as the foremost local government expert of his time?
Did you know that during the opening sequence of " The Squirt and the Whale ", The Simpsons addressed the controversy surrounding censorship of the South Park episode " 201 "?
Did you know that since 1969 more than 600 works of contemporary chamber music have been premiered at the festival Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in the Ruhrgebiet , the European Capital of Culture for 2010?
Did you know that footballer Barry Hutchinson scored in each of the seven games that Weymouth played in January 1965?
Did you know that German politician Willy Brandt was the first recipient of the International Rescue Committee 's Freedom Award in 1957?
Did you know that Louisiana State Senator Sydney B. Nelson 's bid for Senate President was halted in 1988 by the tradition in his state that the governor choose the legislative leaders?
Did you know that the Tibetan saint Drukpa Kunley , according to mythology, created the Takin , found in Motithang Takin Preserve , with the head of a goat and the body of a cow ?
Did you know that Kevin Harvick broke a 115-race winless streak by winning the 2010 Aaron's 499 ?
Did you know that Christian Jouanin , a French ornithologist , has described three species of birds , including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin ?
Did you know that the Bessarabian -centered agenda with which Viaţa Basarabiei magazine confronted Romanian authorities in the 1930s has been called "ferocious nativism " and an "aberrant form of defense"?
Did you know that because their range is the southernmost of all rainbowfishes , Australian rainbowfish can tolerate low winter temperatures of 10 to 15 °C (50 to 59 °F)?
Did you know that on average, Kenyan water utilities provide 14 hours of service each day, supplying water for 16 hours in Nairobi and for 6 hours in Mombasa ?
Did you know that Mike Gary played American football at Minnesota with Bronko Nagurski and coached Western Michigan for 13 years, including undefeated seasons in 1932 and 1941?
Did you know that while the 126.8-metre (416 ft) Raghadan Flagpole in Amman is both earthquake- and weather-resistant, excessive noise means the flag must be lowered during high winds?
Did you know that John Ashley , American outlaw and occasional pirate, robbed banks and hijacked whiskey shipments from the Bahamas ?
Did you know that the genomes of Babesia bovis and Theileria parva , two protozoans that cause diseases in cattle, are remarkably similar?
Did you know that the Hermoniakos' Iliad is a 14th-century paraphrase of the Iliad , written in vernacular Greek ?
Did you know that the George Munger Award , given since 1989 to the college football coach of the year, is named for long-time Penn coach and decathlon champion George Munger ?
Did you know that an antipathy between Paul ten Bruggencate and Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer while they worked at Göttingen Observatory resulted in the creation of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics ?
Did you know that the reason why occupancy frequency distributions tend to be bimodal is not known?
Did you know that construction of Interstate 140 outside Wilmington , North Carolina , was delayed in part to redesign an off-ramp to avoid a 450-year-old oak ?
Did you know that in coverage of a charity event for Darfur , the blog Gawker referred to attendee Micah Jesse , internet gossip blogger, as a "publicistgay"?
Did you know that Jess Cameron scored more than half of her team's runs when the Australian Under-21 cricket team played the senior team ?
Did you know that Simonsbath House was the only house in the Royal Forest of Exmoor for 150 years?
Did you know that the French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste was based at Oran from September 1937 to February 1938 to protect neutral shipping from commerce raiders during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know the specific name of the Gabonese fungus Pulveroboletus bembae is derived from the name used by the Baka people for the tree it associates with?
Did you know that Indian Mound Cemetery , originally created by the Hopewell culture , was defended in battle by Confederate soldiers and is the last resting place of an owner of the Washington Redskins ?
Did you know that Ambrose Burke went on to become president of Saint Ambrose University after being expelled from its seminary as a student?
Did you know that Olympic marathon runner Lisa Weightman won the Award for Business Excellence from Australian broadsheet The Age ?
Did you know that Cleo O'Donnell coached the 1914 Everett team that outscored opponents 600 to 0 and was rated by Sports Illustrated as the greatest high school football team of all time?
Did you know that the capture of the strategic Klisura Pass by the Greek army , in January 1941, was considered a major success by the Allied forces?
Did you know that the 2010 Canadian film GravyTrain is the first feature film appearance of Glass Tiger lead singer Alan Frew ?
Did you know that the Becher Point Wetlands form one of the youngest wetland systems on the Swan Coastal Plain ?
Did you know that Cars is the last artwork by Andy Warhol and remained unfinished on his death?
Did you know that during " Boobquake ", thousands of women tested a hypothesis that they could start earthquakes by dressing immodestly ?
Did you know that Eddie Dodson was convicted of robbing 71 banks, more than any other bank robber?
Did you know that the district Øvrevoll has Norway's only track for gallop horse racing ?
Did you know that Sylvan Lake is the deepest in Dutchess County, New York ?
Did you know that Havergate Island is the only island in the county of Suffolk , England , and has the largest breeding population of pied avocets in the UK ?
Did you know that when Minnesota Duluth coach Jim Malosky retired in 1998 he was the winningest football coach in Division II history and ranked 11th in wins among all college football coaches?
Did you know that Jewish pirates from Joppa raided traders between Rome and Alexandria , interrupting Rome's grain supply during the First Jewish–Roman War ?
Did you know that 40,000 people were estimated to make a living from seaweed farming in the Philippines in 1997?
Did you know that Doris Parkes competed in ice hockey and speed skating at the 1931 Banff Winter carnival ?
Did you know that Animal's drumming on The Muppet Show was performed by English drummer Ronnie Verrell ?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Al-Qabu was depopulated on 1 May 1949, almost a month after the 1949 Armistice Agreement had been signed?
Did you know that Donovan Warren was initially projected to be selected in the first or second round of the 2010 NFL Draft , but was not drafted at all?
Did you know that the " Song of Çelo Mezani ", an Albanian folk song, was censored in 1973?
Did you know that Ronald Skirth wrote The Reluctant Tommy , a memoir of World War I , about his deliberate acts of sabotage to avoid killing enemies?
Did you know that the Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra of Hillsboro, Oregon , once used an owl from the Oregon Zoo in a concert?
Did you know that the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson , bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital ?
Did you know that Dayton Flyers coach Mike Kelly has the fourth best winning percentage (81.9%) of all time among college football coaches with at least 25 years of experience?
Did you know that former Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus ?
Did you know that the German Mediterranean Division consisted of two ships, Goeben and Breslau ?
Did you know that the Zion Hill Mission was the first free European settlement in what is now Queensland ?
Did you know that Swedish athlete Lena Berntsson has competed at World Championship -level in both the 60-meter dash and weightlifting ?
Did you know that Brill railway station was owned and operated by Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos ?
Did you know that 10,000 people protested against construction of a dam across the Subarnarekha River in India ?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Representative George B. Holstead participated in the Olympic track and field trials held in New Orleans in 1948?
Did you know that the Arab village of Sheikh Danun is made up of two old villages constructed around shrines dedicated to sheikhs ?
Did you know that New York City -based hip hop poetic theater ensemble Universes were sponsored by the US State Department to tour six countries in Africa, Asia and Europe in 2008?
Did you know that U-30 sank the first ship in World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner Athenia , just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?
Did you knowthat Robert O. Peterson , who founded the Jack in the Box fast food chain in 1951, was married to the mayor of San Diego during the 1980s?
Did you know that in the fluke Notocotylus fosteri , the genital pore is located above the oral sucker?
Did you know that Günther Weidlinger broke the 23-year-old Austrian record in the marathon in his second-ever race over the distance?
Did you know that Toolibin Lake supports 25 species of breeding waterbirds , which is the greatest number for any wetland in southwestern Australia ?
Did you know that the New Eritrea Party initially favoured Italian trusteeship of Eritrea prior to independence?
Did you know that after the death of Florence of Worcester on June 5 or July 7, 1118, his work was continued by John of Worcester until 1141?
Did you know that Revocation ' s guitarist David Davidson was an alumnus of Berklee College of Music ?
Did you know that German nobleman Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach , was elected King of Lithuania , but never visited that country?
Did you know that in 1914, Paul Walden described the first room-temperature ionic liquid , ethylammonium nitrate ?
Did you know that in 1935, the Hardanger Line became the first new line of the Norwegian State Railways to open with electrification ?
Did you know that American football player Mark Ortmann was a discus throw champion in high school?
Did you know that Rev. Griffith Hughes was the first to describe grapefruit , which he referred to as "The Forbidden Fruit"?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian battleships Habsburg , Babenberg , Árpád , Prinz Eugen , Tegetthoff and Viribus Unitis participated in the bombardment of Ancona ?
Did you know that as a college student, Philadelphia Phillies president David Montgomery attended Phillies games at Connie Mack Stadium with future governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell ?
Did you know that Dan Boisture said of his move from the two-time defending national champion Michigan State Spartans football to the Eastern Michigan Hurons , "There weren't many jobs open ... It was a cute campus"?
Did you know that Bill Beaney led Middlebury College to an unprecedented five straight national men's ice hockey championships and ranks 11th on the all-time NCAA hockey win list?
Did you know that about 6 million people are infected with Opisthorchis viverrini in Thailand?
Did you know that author Ted McKeever cited Planet of the Apes as inspiration for his futuristic comic book series Meta 4 , saying that it changed his life?
Did you know that the tower of the older Church of St Saviour, Ringley , Greater Manchester , was left in an isolated position when the present church was built on a different site?
Did you know that economist Eric Jones is known for popularizing the term European Miracle ?
Did you know that Green Lake in Texas , is the largest natural freshwater lake entirely within the state, despite its proximity to the brackish waters of San Antonio Bay ?
Did you know that mice were used to detect any concentrations of carbon monoxide inside the hull of the British petrol-engined B -class submarines ?
Did you know that Birgitta Jónsdóttir , a member of the Althing and spokesperson for Wikileaks , sponsored the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative ?
Did you know that in his dissenting opinion in the case of Taylor v. Beckham , U.S. Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan wrote that the right to hold elected offices should be considered part of the definition of "liberty" and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment ?
Did you know that the uncial letters of the Codex Nanianus represent the last stage before the introduction of compressed uncials?
Did you know that LNER CME Nigel Gresley was so concerned about unsafe railway practices shown in the 1929 film The Flying Scotsman that he made the film producers include a disclaimer at the beginning?
Did you know that the National Basketball Association (NBA) public relations director Haskell Cohen originated the idea for the first NBA All-Star Game ?
Did you know that there is a tradition that the Middleton miners gave either a week's wages or a week's work towards the cost of building the church of St Mary the Virgin, Middleton in 1846?
Did you know that as he "didn't even know it was a paying job", Superintendent Carmine DeSopo donated his entire $35,000 salary as New Jersey Assemblyman to the Burlington County Special Services School District ?
Did you know that Margie Wright is the all-time winningest NCAA softball coach and ranks second all-time in career victories among NCAA Division I coaches in all sports?
Did you know that when the Italian sparkling wine Prosecco received DOCG status, the name of its grape changed from Prosecco to Glera so others could not make wine with the grape and call it Prosecco?
Did you know that African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
Did you know that the first entomological article written by a New World native concerned the " Great Black Wasp "?
Did you know that Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County , Ohio , to have ever received the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that Erling Sandberg , installed as Finance Minister by Reichskommissariat when Nazis occupied Norway , was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
Did you know that anti-apartheid activist Nico Smith and his wife were the only legal white residents of Mamelodi, South Africa , from 1985 to 1989?
Did you know that according to neuroeconomist Gregory Berns , the challenges and novel experiences we undergo while we strive to achieve an aim bring us more fulfillment than the achievement itself?
Did you know that although the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation was created in 2004 to implement a 20-year, $ 8 billion redevelopment plan in Washington, D.C. , it was abolished after just three years?
Did you know that the 2008 Indonesian film Love was a remake of the 2006 film Cinto ?
Did you know that J. A. "Daff" Gammons played professional baseball and football , coached the Brown University football team, founded a successful insurance agency, and was an accomplished amateur golfer ?
Did you know that the entire board of directors of Australian mining company Sundance Resources was killed in an airplane crash in the Republic of Congo in June 2010?
Did you know that 29-year-old writer Justin Halpern was catapulted to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list after moving back into his parents' home and starting a daily journal of his father's salty remarks ?
Did you know that a cat, Oscar , has had a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet, which could lead the way for similar treatment on humans?
Did you know that American handicapper George E. Smith won $115,000 on one horse race in 1891, the largest payout recorded in the US to that date?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Jonathan Johnson was admitted to the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 2006?
Did you know that the death of Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester , at the Battle of Bannockburn , set in motion a train of events that ended in the deposition of King Edward II of England ?
Did you know that Henry Wilkens received the Medal of Honor for his part in the battle of Little Muddy Creek?
Did you know that French Major General Marcel Alessandri received twelve Croix de guerre citations over the course of his forty-one year-long career?
Did you know that after Leander Clark College went bankrupt and merged with Coe College , an heir of the school's namesake sued to have his donation returned?
Did you know that in English law, Quistclose may be constructive trusts, resulting trusts, express trusts, or completely illusory?
Did you know that Asri Muda was ousted as the President of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party in 1982, and later joined the party's rival, the United Malays National Organisation ?
Did you know that word of Dartmouth football coach Jackson Cannell 's termination prompted a team petition and The New York Times to dismiss it as a "rumor [that] springs up every year"?
Did you know that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
Did you know that remnants of a gristmill , distillery and oil well have been found at Falling Waters State Park which also has the highest waterfall in Florida ?
Did you know that John W. Comfort enlisted in the Regular United States Army just four months after leaving the 29th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry?
Did you know that character actor Vince O'Brien cherished his role on television and print advertisements as the Shell Answer Man , a job he felt was "like hitting the state lottery"?
Did you know that evolutionary biologist and herpetologist Alex Pyron graduated from Piedmont College at age 16 and earned two master's degrees and a PhD by age 21?
Did you know that the Louisiana Tech University named its Endowed Professorship in History after historian John D. Winters ?
Did you know that the first missionary house in South-West Africa , today's Namibia , was erected in Warmbad in 1806?
Did you know that Ernie Robson played his final first-class cricket match for Somerset aged 53, less than a year before his death?
Did you know that Fox Sports College Hoops '99 was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64 ?
Did you know that the $1 million spent by Sean F. Dalton and the other candidates in the 1993 General Assembly race for New Jersey 's 4th Legislative District was the most for any district in the state that year?
Did you know that to preserve an archeological site in Guerrero , Mexico , a tunnel was dug under it for a highway joining Acapulco with Cuernavaca ?
Did you know that although Neil Bancroft was awarded the Medal of Honor , he had died by the time the government located him to issue the medal?
Did you know that the film Out of the Clouds used one of Ealing Studios ' largest ever sets to create the interior of the terminal building?
Did you know that Protestant Reformation in Italy was significantly hindered by the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church ?
Did you know that New Jersey Assemblymember Jack Casey was one of many Democratic Party incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave"?
Did you know that James Anderson was one of six men awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a group of Plains Indians at the Wichita River in Texas ?
Did you know that The Victoria Advocate is the second oldest newspaper in Texas, and the first published west of the Colorado River of Texas?
Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded " Kansas City Bomber " as the theme song to the Raquel Welch film of the same name , but it was rejected by the film's producers?
Did you know that Louis XIV 's personal physician Guy-Crescent Fagon recommended that the king only drink Côte de Nuits wines from Nuits St-Georges because of the wines ' reported health-giving properties ?
Did you know that rock band Cave In released an album through RCA Records , but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a heavier style ?
Did you know that in 1991 Judicial Commissioner K. S. Rajah annulled a marriage between a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and another woman, reasoning that a transsexual 's gender was biologically determined?
Did you know that the music video for Japanese band Sakanaction 's " Aruku Around " was shot in a single take using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera?
Did you know that on the last day of the Battle of Hill 170 in January 1945, an estimated 700 Japanese artillery shells landed on the hill?
Did you know that the Five talent show Don't Stop Believing was created based on the popularity of American musicals Glee and High School Musical ?
Did you know that preference-based planning can help you to plan your visit to Starbucks before going to school?
Did you know that 5'5", 135 lb (1.65 m, 61 kg) Chris Limahelu set a USC Trojans football record with a 47-yard field goal at the 1974 Rose Bowl game?
Did you know that Jimmie Johnson has the most consecutive NASCAR drivers' championships with four earned from 2006 to 2009?
Did you know that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of Holy Trinity Church, Horwich , in Greater Manchester ?
Did you know that the resort of Jamaica Beach on West Bay in Texas was built on a Karankawa Indian burial ground?
Did you know that James N. Wood created major exhibitions of works by Gauguin , Monet and van Gogh that set records for attendance at the Art Institute of Chicago ?
Did you know that the documentary Chords of Fame includes scenes in which its subject, U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs , is portrayed by Bill Burnett?
Did you know that a fine for skinny dipping led Bill Slater into a legal career?
Did you know that Bombay Bicycle Club 's second album Flaws consists entirely of acoustic music , including cover versions of other artists?