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Did you knowthat more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop , including Tom Waits , Beck , and R.E.M. ?
Did you knowthat Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was nicknamed Teutonic in the British House of Commons after a steamship built by his company Harland & Wolff ?
Did you knowthat the Michigan Wolverines ' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious?
Did you knowthat Viet Nam Vong Quoc Su , a history text by Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau , changed the style of prose used in Vietnamese writing ?
Did you knowthat St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest , Cheshire still practises a rush -bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century?
Did you knowthat John Latenser, Sr. , an early architect in Omaha, Nebraska , designed more than 12 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat Michigan State University , which gave technical assistance to South Vietnam from 1955 to 1962, provided cover for the CIA ?
Did you knowthat the globe in the initial release of the NT$ 1,000 fifth series of the New Taiwan Dollar banknote was mirror-reversed?
Did you knowthat the Hatfield Government Center light rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon , was the busiest on the Westside MAX extension within a year of opening?
Did you knowthat Giampietro Campana financed his collection of Roman sculpture , Greek vases and Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry in part by embezzling money from the Papal pawnbroker ?
Did you knowthat the fact that no one has been arrested for the murder of Indian ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri is seen as evidence of government complicity?
Did you knowthat Stone Bridge in Saint Petersburg , Russia was so steep, that in the 19th century bus passengers had to disembark in order for the bus to go over it?
Did you knowthat attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana 's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
Did you knowthat the Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called Arlington West every Sunday at Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each U.S. military person who has died in the Iraq War ?
Did you knowthat since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap , a traditional olive oil -based soap , has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe ?
Did you knowthat prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes , in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ?
Did you knowthat Wiener sausages are named after the mathematician Norbert Wiener ?
Did you knowthat the winner of the Ernie Awards is the person who gets the loudest boos from the audience?
Did you knowthat the 31-mile (50 km) West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat although presidents of Russia , Ukraine and Kazakhstan have been requested to give technical advice about software patches in open-source computer operating systems , only the Ukrainian president did so?
Did you knowthat James Garner sent two of his associates  into a room filled with toxic chlorine gas ?
Did you knowthat Jan Wils won a gold medal in architectural design in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for his design of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam ?
Did you knowthat John F. Kennedy was shot dead in an ambush by government agents who had foreknowledge of his whereabouts?
Did you knowthat in a few villages and towns of southern France and Spain it is illegal to die , and that there are attempts to have the same law in a town in Brazil ?
Did you knowthat Weber kettle grills were actually made out of buoys cut in half?
Did you knowthat men are able to be insured against alien impregnation ?
Did you knowthat Ben Affleck died while shoveling snow outside of his house, leaving behind an unexpectedly small estate speculated to be worth as little as US$ 20,000?
Did you knowthat American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter defied the popular idiom and actually made a profit when he sold coal to Newcastle ?
Did you knowthat six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat physicist Siegfried Flügge collaborated with Fritz Houtermans , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , and others in an effort to create an atomic weapon for Nazi Germany ?
Did you knowthat the Berlin Rules adopted in 2004 is the authoritative summary of all customary international law applicable to waters and the relevant international standards for environmental and humanitarian laws?
Did you knowthat Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha pardoned his son Isaac after he had twice been convicted of murder?
Did you knowthat the Carrikeri Harlequin Frog , a critically endangered toad endemic to northern Colombia , was recently rediscovered after an absence of 14 years?
Did you knowthat the Great Platte River Road through the Nebraska Territory is considered today to be an early superhighway in the American Old West ?
Did you know that the Gazette Building in Little Rock , Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign ?
Did you know that Weeb Ewbank coached the most games in New York Jets franchise history?
Did you know that the Norwegian lake Lutvann leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
Did you know that Isfield railway station , now the terminus of a preserved railway line , was used during the First World War to take German prisoners of war to work in nearby woodland?
Did you know that the Martinican Communist Party became the largest political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Martinique in the 1960s?
Did you know that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter ?
Did you know that Poole Stadium , a former football ground now used for greyhound racing and speedway , was the venue for the 2004 Speedway World Cup final?
Did you know that, although projects for restoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
Did you know that Carlos Minc , the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party ?
Did you know that Maryland 's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
Did you know that in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan ?
Did you know that the 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film ?
Did you know that Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi ?
Did you know that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to provide streamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with the Silver Meteor in 1939?
Did you know that General Ziauddin Butt , former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency , was nominated to head the army in 1999?
Did you know that during the War of 1812 , Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams ?
Did you know that in Victor Hugo 's novel Les Misérables , Cosette 's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
Did you know that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle ?
Did you know that Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times?
Did you know that in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States , which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes ?
Did you know that Fountains Fell , a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales , England , is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
Did you know that Mark Goffeney , nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professional guitarist who plays with his feet because he was born without hands ?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory ?
Did you know that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska , considered the heart of the city's African American community , has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
Did you know that 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals in Vatican City using pseudonyms from Gone with the Wind ?
Did you know that Mary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write her children's books inside a Pickle Barrel House ?
Did you know that neurologist Derek Denny-Brown introduced British anti-Lewisite as a treatment for the copper overload disorder Wilson's disease ?
Did you know that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville , Kentucky was once a church?
Did you know that a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade , which grew to US$ 2.6 billion by 2006?
Did you know that 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World , after reading about conquistador atrocities?
Did you know that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather in California , Hurricane Liza of 1968 caused US$ 5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach ?
Did you know that some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats , whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
Did you know that the Golden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?
Did you know that the presidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successful draft effort on Facebook ?
Did you know that in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh 's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant ?
Did you know that Native American actor and director James Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the early silent film era?
Did you know that torchon lace is one of the oldest bobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
Did you know that Philippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in the New Bilibid Prison ?
Did you know that the Rio Napo Screech-Owl is part of a group of owls that have been reclassified three times since 1850?
Did you know that A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in history?
Did you know that the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists protested against Victoria's Secret for allegedly printing their catalogues with paper sourced from endangered forests?
Did you know that the yuja hwachae , Korean traditional fruit punch made with Korean pear and yuja , is often served with flower pancakes made of chrysanthemum ?
Did you know that mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition -winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
Did you know that the Webster ruling is a legal precedent clarified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professional footballers in Europe the same contractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries?
Did you know that Zaha Hadid 's architectural design won an international competition for the upcoming Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum ?
Did you know that father and son James E. Bolin and Bruce M. Bolin both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a state district court judge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
Did you know that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party , Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate ?
Did you know that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose ?
Did you know that Dwight Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower 's whims?
Did you know that German chemist Albert Niemann became the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859?
Did you know that the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists ?
Did you know that Cornelia Adair , during World War I , invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal , Ireland ?
Did you know that the Museum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to the Woodstock Festival , and located on its site?
Did you know that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia 's oldest known European structures?
Did you know that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics , that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem 's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George , one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
Did you know that the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world?
Did you know that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II ?
Did you know that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove , England , is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II 's orders?
Did you know that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights , U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments ?
Did you know that the Sperrgebiet , a diamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent of Namibia 's surface area?
Did you know that the oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?
Did you know that the Academic Gymnasium Danzig , along with similar schools in Elbląg and Toruń , transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century?
Did you know that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic ?
Did you know that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing a regional free trade area that would account for almost half of world trade ?
Did you know that Jack Christiansen and Bill Walsh are the only San Francisco 49ers head coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that boundary surveyor Joseph Smith Harris climbed a ship's mast to direct mortars during the Civil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ?
Did you know that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule circa 522 BCE?
Did you know that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon ?
Did you know that Walter Emden designed London theatres and music halls in the late 19th century, including the Palace Theatre , the Duke of York's , the Garrick and the Royal Court ?
Did you know that John Aspinall was the first recipient of the James Watt International Medal ?
Did you know that QUIET , an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory , Chile , will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation ?
Did you know that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
Did you know that Kaunas University Hospital , the largest medical institution in Lithuania , was designated a cultural monument in 2008?
Did you know that Nielluccio , Sciacarello and Vermentino are the three leading grape varieties for making Corsica wine ?
Did you know that the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies the creation of an authentication and authorization system in an ASP.NET website?
Did you know that in 1968 , The Detroit Wheels recorded " Linda Sue Dixon ", a thinly-veiled paean to the illicit hallucinogenic drug LSD ?
Did you know that the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany ?
Did you know that Richard Neutra 's Jardinette Apartments building in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
Did you know that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō , there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki ?
Did you know that a cat named " Room 8 " was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke , and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant ?
Did you know that the Red Cross with Imperial Portraits Fabergé egg commemorates the work of women from the House of Romanov for the Red Cross during World War I ?
Did you know that American physicist Hugh Bradner developed the first neoprene wetsuit but was unable to patent it?
Did you know that the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse , erected in 1863 in Malacca , Malaysia , includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar ?
Did you know that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps , an extinct crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic , has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name , "valley head", derives?
Did you know that in 1847 Thomas Huling sold the town of Zavala, Texas for US$ 1,000 and 5,000 boxes of "Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment"?
Did you know that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate , and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts ?
Did you know that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh ?
Did you know that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
Did you know that Étienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ?
Did you know that Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series ?
Did you know that aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska – Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian – North American relations during World War II ?
Did you know that mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture , a still-open generalization of the four-color problem , "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory "?
Did you know that the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris starred theater and cabaret stars Elly Stone and Joe Masiell in their only film performances?
Did you know that more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78 ?
Did you know that neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler , who resembled Adolf Hitler , had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
Did you know that Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even though it never charged admission?
Did you know that Paris -based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish -language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
Did you know that the Crown Point Light , constructed as a conventional lighthouse , was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument to Samuel de Champlain 's explorations?
Did you know that the discovery of a celt with Indus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded by epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu "?
Did you know that Russian right-wing politician Nikolai Markov tried to convince Germany to contribute to a conspiracy to re-instate the House of Romanov after the post-World War I revolutions?
Did you know that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7 , 1948 , when passengers on the B&O Railroad 's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series ?
Did you know that the 1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km (190 mi)?
Did you know that Bucks point lace is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?
Did you know that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies?
Did you know that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement ?
Did you know that English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University ?
Did you know that the 2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200 was the strongest to hit Algeria since 1980?
Did you know that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters ' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas ?
Did you know that Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki ?
Did you know that the cap and sails of Shiremark Mill were blown off in 1886?
Did you know that historian Lon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor of John Wayne 's 1960 film The Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented the Battle of the Alamo ?
Did you know that Bangladesh declined to renew its 1972 Friendship Treaty with India , criticizing it as unequal and an imposition of excessive Indian influence ?
Did you know that when John Stanley recreated one of his covers for Little Lulu for the cover of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide in 2005, both editions sold out within three days?
Did you know that during the Battle of Ridgefield in April 1777, Benedict Arnold escaped unharmed after being pinned to the ground when his horse was shot?
Did you know that the city of Nairobi , Kenya , averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
Did you know that Joshua Packwood is the first white man to graduate as valedictorian of the all-male HBCU , Morehouse College , an overwhelmingly African American university in Atlanta, Georgia ?
Did you know that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?
Did you know that Stave Puzzles makes a 44-piece jigsaw puzzle named Champ that can be put together 32 different ways but has only one correct solution?
Did you know that in 1898, the Egyptian government appointed Maurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of the Aswan Dam ?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Danville , Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?
Did you know that Mukti Bahini guerrillas were absorbed into the ranks of regular military officers and enlisted personnel upon the formation of Bangladesh's armed forces ?