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Did you know that Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons, co-founder of KVAS (now KKEE ) in Astoria, Oregon , created the one of the first cable television systems in the United States?
Did you know that in 1979, John Phillip Santos became the first Mexican-American Rhodes Scholar ?
Did you know that Del Rey Manga finds most of its translator talent from anime and manga fans at conventions since fluent English speakers who know enough Japanese are preferred over native Japanese translators?
Did you know that Harrison Oxley was the youngest cathedral organist in Britain when he became organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral at age 24?
Did you know that Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores?
Did you know that R. Thamaraikani punched former Agriculture minister Veerapandi Arumugam during a debate in the Tamil Nadu state assembly in 1999?
Did you know that the original radio studios of the station now called KLMG were located in California 's Old Sacramento State Historic Park ?
Did you know that Hartvig Andreas Munthe , an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway , was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905 , only to die three months later?
Did you know that the film Best: His Mother's Son was made in 2009 without the consent of George Best 's family?
Did you know that Hugh Stockwell rose from the rank of Major to that of Major General in fewer than five years?
Did you know that the South Fallsburg, New York , Hebrew Association Synagogue has a full sukkah in its basement?
Did you know that the host of The Political Cesspool was described as "ecstatic" that the show was included on the Southern Poverty Law Center 's Hate Watch List?
Did you know that in 1994, Joseph Takahashi and his collaborators identified the genetic basis for circadian rhythms in mammals ?
Did you know that Harriman Historic District in Bristol, Pennsylvania , originally built to house workers of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation , was the largest single housing project undertaken by the EFC in World War I ?
Did you know that Wes Schulmerich turned down an offer to play football for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame , later becoming a Major League Baseball player ?
Did you know that South Africa 's Take a Girl Child to Work Day started in 2003 to fight gender inequality in the workforce ?
Did you know that Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn collaborated on the South Bronx Hall of Fame , monuments of ordinary people, as a response to the practice of enshrining public figures?
Did you know that the Lipka Rebellion of 1672 was the only time that the Muslim Lipka Tatars mutinied against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that an early Washington National Opera , unrelated to its modern namesake, presented Bidu Sayão in her 1936 U.S. operatic debut with organ , not orchestra , accompaniment owing to a financial dispute?
Did you know that Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first African-American journalist to accompany a U.S. president while traveling?
Did you know that Salbit , thought to have been the site of the biblical Shaalabbin, was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
Did you know that Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard ?
Did you know that the Lake Chelan wine region petition was delayed because of a hold on all AVA approvals due to the Napa Valley sub-AVA controversy?
Did you know that V. Ramaswami was the first Justice of the Supreme Court of India to face impeachment proceedings in independent India ?
Did you know that the cotton presses near Latta, South Carolina and Tarboro, North Carolina , are antebellum , animal-powered, handmade wooden presses?
Did you know that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost ?
Did you know that Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura had his former wrestling tag team partner Stephen Cepello paint his official portraits?
Did you know that the book Yellow Star is based on the true story of one of twelve children who survived the Lodz Ghetto ?
Did you know that Ida Henrietta Hyde was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg ?
Did you know that Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?
Did you know that Derek and Alex King changed their defense twice in the course of prosecution for the murder of their father?
Did you know that the encyclical Demandatam was issued in 1743 to ordain the full preservation of the Byzantine Rite in the Melkite Catholic Church ?
Did you know that Barbara McGuire invented the "Duo-Stamp," a two-sided rubber stamp that is popular with the stamping community?
Did you know that Thomas Henry Barry was Superintendent of the United States Military Academy from 1910 to 1912?
Did you know that in his first TV series , Crusader ( CBS , 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism ?
Did you know that the medieval bishop Julian of Cuenca raised money for himself and the poor by making and selling baskets?
Did you know that after a dam created a reservoir for the Delaware and Hudson Canal during the 19th century, it was later named Silver Lake and became an attraction for guests at the summer resorts near Woodridge, New York ?
Did you know that Fernanda Nissen was one of the two first film censors in Norway?
Did you know that charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda ?
Did you know that the application of a spray-on condom was based on the logistics of a drive-through car wash ?
Did you know that after being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting ?
Did you know that when architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed his American System-Built Homes , he produced over 900 working drawings , which was more than he made for any other project?
Did you know that Fatma Aliye Topuz , whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer?
Did you know that the Caricature Museum of Mexico City has featured cartoons and sketches by Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco ?
Did you know that actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges , with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children?
Did you know that the library system of the University of Toronto is the fourth-largest academic library in North America ?
Did you know that Ward Van Orman was denied the 1925 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning for landing his balloon not on land, but on the deck of a ship?
Did you know that Johannes Sejersted Bødtker , Finland's Honorary Consul to Oslo, was held almost three years in a concentration camp during World War II ?
Did you know that the tugboat that towed log rafts across Upper Klamath Lake to the Algoma lumber mill in Algoma, Oregon , is now on display in the Collier Memorial State Park logging museum?
Did you know that Samuel D. McDearmon played a critical role in developing the village of Appomattox Court House , where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant ?
Did you know that based on the documents in the Liber instrumentorum memorialium the twelfth-century population of Montpellier and its environs has been estimated at 9,000 people?
Did you know that Amalia Mesa-Bains , a Ph.D. psychologist, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her artwork?
Did you know that the Galapagos shark is often the most abundant shark around oceanic islands?
Did you know that although professional wrestler Max Bauer won the 2008 Toxic Waltz tournament , it was not counted because he competed under a mask ?
Did you know that the town of Shenkeng is popularly known in Taiwan as the " Tofu Capital"?
Did you know that in 1897, a Texas farmer discovered a UFO landed on his property: an airship operated by United States Army engineer Samuel Escue Tillman and inventor Amos Dolbear ?
Did you know that when the Rogue River eroded andesitic lava in the Rogue Valley , it created the Upper and Lower Table Rock geologic formations?
Did you know that Frye's Measure Mill is the only remaining water-powered measure mill in the United States after some 150 years of operations?
Did you know that when Richard Peek of Loddiswell became Sheriff of London , he paid for a missionary to visit the prisoners at Newgate Prison ?
Did you know that John Ruskin had wallpaper made for his study at Brantwood based on the design of a tablecloth in a painting of 1499 by Marco Marziale ?
Did you know that the fictitious newspaper article written by the journalist in the Parks and Recreation episode " The Reporter " was featured as a PDF file on the official NBC website?
Did you know that Rufus Wainwright 's second studio album Poses features a song originally written by his father, Loudon Wainwright III ?
Did you know that St Joseph's Church , a Roman Catholic church in Brighton , England, was not officially dedicated until 100 years after building work started because a debt had not been settled?
Did you know that The Grove at Ole Miss was called "the mother and mistress of outdoor ritual mayhem" for its legendary football game day tailgating by The New York Times ?
Did you know that Pacnews stopped reporting on Fijian news rather than submit to government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis ?
Did you know that the alfalfa grown on the Wendelin Grimm Farmstead in Carver County, Minnesota , became the source of varieties of alfalfa grown on 25,000,000 acres (10,000,000 ha) of the United States ?
Did you know that the Hallein Salt Mine is known for its long wooden slides for miners and tourists to descend into the mine?
Did you know that although professional wrestler B-Boy lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Nate Webb in Combat Zone Wrestling in August 2005, he returned to the promotion the next month?
Did you know that the " Devil's Cigar " is a mushroom found only in Texas and Japan ?
Did you know that among French handball player Valérie Nicolas ´ triumphs are victories at the World Championship , Champions League , EHF Cup , Cup Winners' Cup , and both French and Danish national championships?
Did you know that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave ?
Did you know that British flight instructor Valentine Baker taught such noted pupils as Edward, Prince of Wales , Amy Johnson , and Lord Londonderry of the Air Ministry ?
Did you know that Johanson-Blizzard syndrome , a recessive congenital disorder , can cause abnormal development of the pancreas , nose and scalp , with mental retardation , hearing loss and growth failure ?
Did you know that in April 2009, Lim Hwee Hua became the first woman to be appointed a full Minister in Singapore 's Cabinet ?
Did you know that the Royal Navy accepted Gay Viking and Gay Corsair into their service during the Second World War , with another 12 Gay class fast patrol boats joining in the 1950s?
Did you know that the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association stymied anti-suffragists by denying them widespread Conservative Party support?
Did you know that when Henrik Ibsen 's play Brand was first staged in Norway , 38 years after it was published, Egil Eide played the title role?
Did you know that Ki-a-Kuts Falls in Oregon were named after the last chief of the Atfalati band of Native Americans?
Did you know that in 1950 former record-setting balloonist Thomas G. W. Settle was assigned to perform a nuclear test in the Aleutian islands ?
Did you know that the first series of British radio stand-up comedy show Mark Steel's in Town was recorded in Skipton , Boston , Lewes , Walsall , Merthyr Tydfil and the Isle of Portland ?
Did you know that Don Featherstone created over 750 plastic animals, but is most famous for the plastic flamingo ?
Did you know that Frank Grouard , a famous scout during the Indian Wars , was believed by many to be an American Indian but actually came from the Society Islands in the South Pacific ?
Did you know that individual smalltooth sand tigers have been documented returning to the same location off Lebanon every summer?
Did you know that Julian Myrick , an insurance businessman, was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame for his promotion and administration of the sport in the United States?
Did you know that on 28 February 1828, dozens of people died when The Emma was launched on the River Irwell in Manchester ?
Did you know that the Czech actor Bolek Polívka was involved in one of the oddest legal disputes in the history of the Czech Republic ?
Did you know that according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas , Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic?
Did you know that volcanoes in the Puyehue Volcano complex may have produced some of the most primitive magmas in the Andes ?
Did you know that Studioteatret was started in Oslo by actors and students, including Jens Bolling , Liv Strømsted and Arne Thomas Olsen , who had secretly studied Stanislavski 's theatre theories during World War II ?
Did you know that season 8 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered April 2009 after a five-month delay, reportedly because the episodes with Jeff Goldblum were so "terrible" the production crew had to be changed?
Did you know that Archie Roe , who scored South Shields F.C. 's first ever goal in The Football League , was then signed by the team he had scored it against?
Did you know that a 2.5 million dollar climate change project in Basedth District , Cambodia , aims to improve water supply and increase rice production?
Did you know that Major Caleb Huse purchased the majority of imported weapons used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the Kangchu system was instrumental in driving Johor 's economy during the 19th century?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Alexander Oswald Brodie pardoned Pearl Hart under the condition the stagecoach robber left the territory?
Did you know that a rare, iridescent purple pearl worth thousands of U.S. dollars was found in a plate of steamed clams at a Florida restaurant?
Did you know that Gerhard Munthe , a painter, illustrator and chair of the National Gallery of Norway , lost his wife to explorer Fridtjof Nansen ?
Did you know that the Persian embassy to Europe in 1599–1602 aimed at establishing a Christian – Persian alliance against the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Patrick Murphy Malin was expected to become head of the family bank, but instead served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union ?
Did you know that patients with the congenital vascular malformation double aortic arch have two aortic arches , instead of one, which form a vascular ring that can compress the trachea ?
Did you know that the Indian Fields Methodist Campground in South Carolina has been used for camp meetings and religious gatherings for over 160 years?
Did you know that the erotic-philosophical film I + People = ? was created by Leonid Konovalov , a homeless Russian who has not showered in 19 years?
Did you know that Leonard T. "Max" Schroeder Jr. was the first American soldier to land in Normandy from an assault boat on D-Day in World War II ?
Did you know that more than a quarter of freshwater fishes that have been discovered in rivers and streams of southwestern Sri Lanka are endemic ?
Did you know that the Norwegian novelist and editor of Vinduet , Henrik Langeland , wrote a doctoral thesis on Marcel Proust ?
Did you know that the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University began as a specialized U.S. Army training program during the Second World War ?
Did you know that al-Batani al-Sharqi , a depopulated Palestinian village near Gaza , was originally founded as a ranch by the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I in the 8th century?
Did you know that James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia , to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Dick and the Duchess was one of the few American television series filmed in England ?
Did you know that the 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment Draft featured seven selections that affected seven of the company's nine championships ?
Did you know that before becoming director general of the Norwegian State Railways in 1924, Eivind Heiberg was the director of the manufacturing company Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk ?
Did you know that Queen Latifah 's rendition of " I'll Be Seeing You " from the Broadway musical Right This Way during the 81st Academy Awards In Memoriam tribute was the annual tribute's first vocal accompaniment?
Did you know that Jan Konopka was a Polish cavalry commander in the Napoleonic period , a general, a Baron of the French Empire , and was decorated with the Légion d'honneur ?
Did you know that " Broke ", a fifth season episode of The Office , was directed by lead actor Steve Carell himself?
Did you know that Hamby Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , is named after the owner of a Chevrolet car dealership?
Did you know that the Dragon Goby , which looks like a tiny dragon, is actually an almost blind and totally harmless fish?
Did you know that although Leo Wolman was once director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union , his criticisms of unions led directly to the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947?
Did you know that the extreme luminosity observed for supernova 2005gj could be explained by the incidence of a quark nova ?
Did you know that after professional wrestler "the New Horror" Sami Callihan won the CZW Iron Man Championship , he renamed it the "CZW New Horror Championship"?
Did you know that George Habash , founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , was a survivor of the Lydda Death March of July 1948?
Did you know that NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost , one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS ?
Did you know that the first chapter of Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari , an eleventh-century Japanese tale, no longer exists?
Did you know that David Shaw , who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for coverage of the McMartin preschool trial , got his first writing job at age 16 filling in at a motorcycle race for an absent reporter?
Did you know that the Anyangcheon , a river in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul City of South Korea , is home to a variety of wildlife such as goldfish , Grey Heron and Northern Shoveler ?
Did you know that the day the Parks and Recreation episode " Canvassing " aired on NBC , it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who?
Did you know that John Henry Turpin , who survived the catastrophic explosions of USS Maine in 1898 and USS Bennington in 1905, was one of the first African American Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Bobby Cowell only played for one professional club during his entire football career ( Newcastle United )?
Did you know that the ending of the South Park episode " Fatbeard " mirrors the resolution of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somalian pirates ?
Did you know that the linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century Siraya people of Taiwan ?
Did you know that over 100 countries are represented and almost 170 languages are spoken in the ethnic enclaves of New York City ?
Did you know that American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale , whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens ?
Did you know that the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ?
Did you know that during the First Great Migration , the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi , moved to Albany, New York , with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District ?
Did you know that protected areas of Sri Lanka such as Sinharaja Forest Reserve account for 26.5 percent of the total area of Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue in Glen Wild, New York , is so small it has never had its own rabbi ?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Lars T. Platou was an electrical engineer and farmer by occupation?
Did you know that the term maverick , referring to an animal without a brand , came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle?
Did you know that Gerontion is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 which relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man?
Did you know that Brian McMenamin graduated with a degree in political science , but is co-owner of the McMenamins chain of brewpubs ?
Did you know that The Magnet was the first film to give James Fox a starring role, at the age of 11?
Did you know that Julie Wainwright was CEO of one of the shortest-lived public companies on record?
Did you know that in Breaking the Spell , the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 's commune in Rajneeshpuram , Oregon ?
Did you know that José Sabogal was "the most renowned early supporter" of the artistic indigenist movement of Peru ?
Did you know that openly gay actor John Barrowman was one of the final candidates for the role of the gay character Will in the pilot episode of Will & Grace , but lost to heterosexual Eric McCormack for not being "gay enough"?
Did you know that Poricy Park in New Jersey is known for allowing limited collecting at its Cretaceous -era fossil shell beds?
Did you know that director/screenwriter Kang Dae-ha from Jeju Island , South Korea , directed films related to Korean shamanism ?
Did you know that Disappearing Model , a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair 's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not! ?
Did you know that although Darius Danesh did not win the first series of Pop Idol , he still achieved a number-one single with " Colourblind "?
Did you know that the Australian Army 's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996?
Did you know that then Conservative party leader William Hague and former Eastenders actor Michael Cashman campaigned for the 1999 Lichfield Council election ?
Did you know that after Daniel Shanks and John Wrench calculated pi to 100,000 decimal digits , a bound, gold-inscribed printout of the digits was presented to the Smithsonian Institution ?
Did you know that Wilco 's upcoming studio album is expected to feature a duet with Canadian singer Feist ?
Did you know that Islam and Protestantism have an early history of mutual support against Catholicism , and share some common attitudes to faith, such as textual criticism and iconoclasm ?
Did you know that Johnny Madison Williams Jr. , one of the most successful bank robbers in American history, was nicknamed " The Shootist " by the FBI because of his modus operandi of firing into the air at the beginning of each heist?
Did you know that the Kyshtym disaster was a serious nuclear accident in 1957 , which resulted in permanent evacuation of about 10,000 people?
Did you know that Benjamin Edwards , who expanded the privately-held A. G. Edwards into the largest U.S. brokerage firm headquartered outside of New York City , owned the world's largest collection of Imari porcelain ?
Did you know that both members of Duo Crommelynck , a noted classical piano duo, committed suicide in 1994, the only known such case in classical music history?