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Did you know that at the Tiananmen Square protests , Cui Jian gained notoriety for performing " Nothing To My Name " while wearing a red blindfold ?
Did you know that Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick , is best remembered for his role in the execution of a favourite of Edward II ?
Did you know that in a Spanish language scene of the Dexter episode " Return to Sender ", actor David Zayas learned all of his dialogue in English and translated each line mentally during each take?
Did you know that the Alpirod , a defunct 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) European sled dog race, was the longest competition of its kind outside of North America ?
Did you know that American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead , into a movie before he finished reading it?
Did you know that French Pass has the fastest tidal flows in New Zealand , reaching nearly nine knots and capable of stunning fish?
Did you know that former Union Army Brigadier-General Patrick Henry Jones acted as a negotiator in the Alexander Stewart body snatching case?
Did you know that the highest circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom at the start of the 19th century sold only 4,000 copies a day?
Did you know that  " You Are Everything ", 2008's most-played song on contemporary Christian radio,  was recorded after singer Matthew West 's surgery for vocal fold hemorrhaging?
Did you know that monastic historian David Knowles wrote that Dominic of Evesham (who died before 1145)  authored the deathbed account of the Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham in the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham ?
Did you know that Viper's Creed , a Mecha action anime series, takes place after the Earth's cities are underwater due to global warming and a third world war has caused calamity and turmoil?
Did you know that Utah Governor Stephen S. Harding used his home in Milan, Indiana , to help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad in Indiana ?
Did you know that film critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the 2004 documentary film The 3 Rooms of Melancholia "one of the saddest films ever made"?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning historian Paul Herman Buck was the first Provost of Harvard University ?
Did you know that a Jones reductor can be used to prepare solutions of ions , such as chromium (II), Cr 2+ , which are immediately oxidized on contact with air?
Did you know that the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel in Dufur , Oregon , are 18 inches (460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer months?
Did you know that when Will Sessoms ran for mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia , in 2008 he had a US$ 321,000–$5,600 fundraising edge over the incumbent mayor, Meyera E. Oberndorf ?
Did you know that 1972 is seen as a pivotal year for Christian music due to the Explo '72 Christian music festival ?
Did you know that CBS 's Harts of the West featured Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges , in a comedy / western set at the fictitious Flying Tumbleweed Dude Ranch in Nevada ?
Did you know that Rome needed eight years to confirm the election of Peter Jarweh as Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church because he had received funds from Protestant missionaries to buy a printing press?
Did you know that Eric Blau , co-creator of the Off Broadway show Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris , looked so much like Groucho Marx that he would be approached by fans of the comedian?
Did you know that Chilean Líder supermarkets sold Cuban rum at half price to eliminate it from stock in anticipation of becoming a Wal-Mart subsidiary, causing a controversy in Chile?
Did you know that the original cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will appear in " Not All Dogs Go to Heaven ", a seventh season episode of Family Guy ?
Did you know that Muir's Corella is listed in Western Australia both as a ‘declared pest of agriculture’ and as ‘rare or likely to become extinct’?
Did you know that answering service operator Mary Printz , who served New York's theater and business elite, was the inspiration for the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing and the 1960 film of the same name ?
Did you know that GRB 970508 was the first gamma-ray burst to have its redshift measured?
Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera zonaria was first witnessed flowering in 1954, 106 years after it was described as a new species?
Did you know that baritone Hans von Milde sang for nearly forty years at the Staatskapelle Weimar where he performed the role of the High Priest in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns 's Samson et Dalila in 1877?
Did you know that in 1969, building work in the Southgate area of Crawley , England, uncovered evidence that northern Sussex was a pre- Roman industrial area?
Did you know that NBC 's The Road West featured Andrew Prine and Brenda Scott in 1966 as brother and sister though the actors had been married to each other?
Did you know that fashion model Frankie Rayder has posed with her sisters Molly and Missy for Gap holiday ads?
Did you know that the extinct Pliocene dolphin Australodelphis from the Vestfold Hills of Antarctica has been described as an example of convergent evolution with whales ?
Did you know that Captain Thomas Dundas 's ship, HMS Naiad ,   towed  the crippled HMS Belleisle through a  gale to safety after the Battle of Trafalgar ?
Did you know that Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium , Washington & Jefferson College's combined lacrosse , baseball , and soccer facility, is the largest continuous artificial playing surface in the world?
Did you know that big-game hunters , Douglas Hamilton and Victor Brooke , shot the largest elephant ever killed in South India ?
Did you know that the United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Cooperation for its provisions on regional cooperation?
Did you know that before his political career, future Interstate Commerce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty worked at an observatory until he returned home to Vermont due to ill health?
Did you know that " Care ", the first episode of Law & Order: UK , is a remake of an original Law & Order episode from 1992?
Did you know that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army , the Potomac Creek Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days?
Did you know that the Dominica Freedom Party of former Prime Minister Eugenia Charles failed to win any seats in the 2005 Dominican general election for the first time in 35 years?
Did you know that Nonnie Moore , a woman who had been fashion editor at Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar , was hired by GQ in 1984 in a move that was called an "an odd choice, but... was actually the perfect choice"?
Did you know that in 1940 the unarmed Norwegian steamship Dronning Maud was sunk by German aircraft while she was flying Red Cross flags and carrying a company of medical personnel?
Did you know that the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is one of only ten urban National Wildlife Refuges in the United States?
Did you know that despite the office existing for 118 years, only nine individuals ever served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office ?
Did you know that Don Chafin , the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia , received bribes of at least $32,700 annually for preventing the unionization of coal miners ?
Did you know that Ranga Ediriwickrama could become the first Australian Football League player of Sri Lankan descent?
Did you know that the 2.5-litre, 68-bhp diesel Land Rover engine was also used in the Austin FX4 London Black Cabs and the Freight Rover 300 commercial vans?
Did you know that Canadian Elmer Lach retired as the National Hockey League 's leading scorer in 1954?
Did you know that Al-Firdaws Madrasa , established in 1236 under the patronage of Malik az-Zahir 's wife, Dayfa Khatun, is the largest and best known of the Ayyubid madrasas in Aleppo ?
Did you know that German bass Hans Herbert Fiedler sang the role of Moses in the original 1954 production of Arnold Schoenberg 's Moses und Aron ?
Did you know that the American militia group known as the Yellow Jackets gained their name by having dyed bright yellow cuffs and fringes on their buckskins and wool coats?
Did you know that Gail Trimble , captain of the team which won BBC TV 's University Challenge before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google " and the " Usain Bolt of general knowledge"?
Did you know that Japanese video game designer Makoto Kanoh worked on the first three Metroid games, as well as 17 other games for Nintendo ?
Did you know that the Rothschild Prayerbook has been since 1999 the most expensive illuminated manuscript ever sold at auction?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns 's 1911 opera Déjanire was originally a 1898 play accompanied by symphonic music , choruses and a ballet ?
Did you know that Irishman Henry Nugent was created Count Valdesoto before he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar ?
Did you know that the Rushmore Memorial Library in Highland Mills, New York , takes its name from Charles E. Rushmore , the same man Mount Rushmore is named for?
Did you know that Nordahl Rolfsen ' s readers for elementary school , Læsebog for folkeskolen (published 1892–1895), became the most widely used schoolbook in Norway?
Did you know that the Nassau -class battleships laid down in 1907 were the first class of German dreadnoughts built in response to the British HMS Dreadnought ?
Did you know that the Navarrese prince Ramiro Garcés was betrayed and murdered at Rueda in 1083?
Did you know that Jane Austen 's novel Sense and Sensibility is a critique of Charlotte Turner Smith 's novel of sensibility Celestina ?
Did you know that Bangladesh 's first Citizenship Order after it gained independence was issued by the President of Bangladesh in 1972?
Did you know that Canada 's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec , in 1803?
Did you know that the 1983 translation of the Gospel into Azerbaijani by Mirza Khazar has been republished five times in subsequent years?
Did you know that Claud Schuster served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department for a record 29 years under 10 different Lord Chancellors ?
Did you know that solar power in Romania has, as of 2007, an installed capacity of 0.81 megawatts?
Did you know that Rwandan film-maker Eric Kabera was inspired to start a career in film after losing 32 family members in the Rwandan Genocide ?
Did you know that the non-ferrous smelter built for the Phoenix Mine in 1900 by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company was the largest in the British Empire ?
Did you know that the Yukon Quest is considered the toughest sled dog race in the world?
Did you know that Wilbert Tatum , editor of the New York Amsterdam News , ran front-page editorials from 1986 to 1989 critical of Mayor of New York Ed Koch with the title "Why Koch Should Resign"?
Did you know that the stegosaurid Miragaia had more neck vertebrae than almost all of the sauropod dinosaurs, known for their long necks?
Did you know that the 2001 best seller Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War includes the case in which followers of Osho sprayed salmonella onto salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon ?
Did you know that the engineers of the Triumph Bonneville 790 motorcycle deliberately built in some vibration to give it "character"?
Did you know that the aquaculture industry in New Zealand aims to be a sustainable NZ$ 1 billion industry by 2025?
Did you know that Kjell Heggelund has translated poems by Mao Zedong , as well as the French surrealists Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos into the Norwegian language ?
Did you know that the " Hilo Massacre " resulted in 50 casualties after Hawaiian police fired on 200 union protesters?
Did you know that operatic tenor Franz Ferenczy portrayed the role of Samson in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns 's Samson et Dalila on 2 December 1877?
Did you know that according to the U.S. Supreme Court 's Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police ruling, state officials are not always people for legal purposes ?
Did you know that in 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido ?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns 's opera Hélène was recorded in 2008 after not being heard since 1919?
Did you know that at #425 on the ATP Singles Rankings , Ivaylo Traykov is the second-highest ranked Bulgarian tennis player?
Did you know that Sony sold 280 million Trinitron televisions and monitors during the 40 years they were being produced?
Did you know that according to a local legend, shoemaker Hans von Sagan heroically took the initiative and led the Teutonic Knights to victory in the Battle of Rudau ?
Did you know that American historian Fred Albert Shannon won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for History for his two-volume book The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 ?
Did you know that the author of the "' Gersony Report ", the controversial conclusion by UN contractors that the new government in post-genocide Rwanda had carried out systematic killings of civilians, was instructed never to discuss his findings?
Did you know that when NCAA Division I basketball head coach John Beilein 's son was a high school recruit, Beilein was restricted by NCAA rules from talking to him at a basketball camp?
Did you know that the oldest bell in St Michael's Church , East Peckham was cast in 1747?
Did you know that the Gloster Gannet aircraft, which was originally built solely to compete in the Lympne Trials , never flew at the event due to engine troubles?
Did you know that Modern School activist Harry Kelly founded the most successful and longest lasting anarchist colony in America?
Did you know that the Moravian Duets was the starting point for subsequent works which propelled Antonín Dvořák to international fame?
Did you know that Marcus Adam , who competed in three sprint events at the 1992 Summer Olympics , later shifted to bobsleigh and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the British Indian passport was seen as a symbol of colonialism and was only valid for travel in the British Empire and seven other countries?
Did you know that, during a television interview, Romanian politician Elena Udrea made reference to the "President of Norway ", apparently unaware that the country is a monarchy ?
Did you know that the former Checkerboard Inn in Monroe, New York , got its name because an early owner supposedly painted it in a checkerboard pattern to attract travelers?
Did you know that Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Battle of Omdurman for saving the lives of two war correspondents ?
Did you know that the Haudenosaunee women's lacrosse team will be the first team of women to represent the indigenous peoples of the Americas when they play in the 2009 World Cup ?
Did you know that Barbara Tuge-Erecińska , the Republic of Poland Ambassador to the United Kingdom , became Poland 's first female Deputy Foreign Minister in 1999?
Did you know that the front cover of Rufus Wainwright 's album Release the Stars is from the gigantomachy frieze at the Pergamon Altar ?
Did you know that Peter N. Myhre was the first leader of the Youth of the Progress Party in Norway , from 1978 to 1984?
Did you know that in 1920 the publishers of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs invented the fictional town of Stotham, Massachusetts , as the purported home for several early New England structures?
Did you know that Emperor Frederick II exempted the hospitaller Order of Saint James of Altopascio from taxes?
Did you know that Mexican professional wrestler Charly Manson was injured so badly that a surgical steel plate on his femur bent more than 20 degrees and had to be replaced?
Did you know that 35 species of woodlice are native to the British Isles ?
Did you know that former professional footballer Charlie Sillett was one of two Royal Navy gunners killed when the Norwegian steamship SS Corvus was sunk by a torpedo launched from the German U-boat U-1018 ?
Did you know that Thai students pay respect to their teachers in the wai khru ceremony near the beginning of every school year ?
Did you know that Robin Buckston , High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1960, was previously the captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club ?
Did you know that male Western Bowerbirds attract potential mates with bowers decorated with fruits, shells , and bones , as well as man-made objects like bullet casings and glass?
Did you know that if its congestion pricing proposal is approved, San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to implement this method of reducing traffic congestion ?
Did you know that Preah Netr Preah District in Cambodia is home to the “Dam of Widows”?
Did you know that Mosby Tavern , a private residence, has served as the courthouse and jail for both Cumberland County and Powhatan County, Virginia ?
Did you know that with eight world titles, the UAE's Victory Team is one of the most successful in the sport of offshore powerboat racing ?
Did you know that the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians is the smallest Indian tribe in the U.S., with only eight members?
Did you know that although John Thompson Productions ' pornographic films have won several awards, they have been banned in several countries, including Canada and Switzerland ?
Did you know that a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the uniform of a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary Army is featured at the Polish American Museum in Port Washington , New York ?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian actor Steve Dodd worked as a stockman before going on to appear in twenty Australian films spanning more than fifty years?
Did you know that although the Jersey Act of 1913 limited the registration of American-bred Thoroughbreds in the British General Stud Book , it wasn't actually a law?
Did you know that in the first Gulf Art Fair in 2007, the Pékin Fine Arts gallery exhibited a Mini Cooper car painted with coloured spots by Damien Hirst ?
Did you know that the Gloster Survey , a 1920s British photo-survey biplane ,  had only two prototype models made before production was discontinued?
Did you know that the deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen were one instance of only two publicly known cases of alleged fraggings involving United States military forces during the Iraq War ?
Did you know that the Inner Hebridean crannóg of Dùn Anlaimh may be the remains of a fortified island dating back to the late Middle Ages ?
Did you know that St.GIGA was a satellite radio company that used to broadcast gaiden -versions of Nintendo 's most popular franchises?
Did you know that John Ordronaux , an American Civil War army surgeon, went on to become a professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on medical jurisprudence and U.S. constitutional law ?
Did you know that Stan Smyl was the longest-tenured Vancouver Canucks captain ?
Did you know that German socialist politician Siegmund Glücksmann initiated the first socialist protests against the Piłsudski government in Poland ?
Did you know that American Airlines Flight 6780 crashed on approach to Newark Airport in 1952, killing everyone onboard including pilot Thomas J. Reid, with the plane crashing just blocks from his home?
Did you know that Syrian Orthodox bishop Michael Jarweh with a large number of his faithfuls revitalized the Syrian Catholic Church ?
Did you know that the White-capped Albatross breeds in New Zealand 's subantarctic possessions but nonbreeding birds may range to the southwestern South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ?
Did you know that twin brothers Yuen and Yong Poovorawan from Thailand are both Outstanding Researcher Award-winning scientists, although in the different fields of computer science and medicine ?
Did you know that the Pirate Party of the United States was formed after a 2006 raid by the Swedish police on the servers of The Pirate Bay , a popular file sharing website?
Did you know that earliest mention of the Slavs occurs in the 6th century, in De Bellis of Procopius ?
Did you know that the ABC children's TV series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass , considered primitive even for 1950, was telecast live to stations on the West Coast and seen elsewhere by kinescope ?
Did you know that the Secret Military Printing Works of the WWII Polish resistance Home Army was probably the largest underground publisher in the world?
Did you know that Hawaii House Bill 444 would allow civil unions in the state of Hawaii ?
Did you know that the Japanese manga Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens went on a hiatus because the mangaka fell ill, though there was speculation that the hiatus was caused by a fan controversy over Nagi's virginity ?
Did you know that Ludvig Meyer , the defender of writer Hans Jæger during the high-profile censorship case in 1886, later became the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party ?
Did you know that Jupiter is the only planet capable of pulling an interstellar comet into a Sun-centered orbit?
Did you know that New Zealand journalist Bill Ralston was shot at a Soweto school in South Africa in 1986?
Did you know that even though the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma only has 519 members, they created the first and only eagle rehabilitation center in Oklahoma ?
Did you know that Typhoon Conson of the 2004 Pacific typhoon season was the first of the record ten typhoons to impact Japan that season?
Did you know that New York City Police Commissioner Douglas I. McKay was so successful in reviving the use of the police lineup that the police department kept it on a permanent basis?
Did you know that a foreshock before the 1930 Salmas earthquake caused residents of Dilman to sleep outside, probably saving thousands of lives from the actual earthquake ?
Did you know that Derrell Palmer , winner of both AAFC and NFL championships with the Cleveland Browns , was called one of the two best defensive tackles he ever coached by Paul Brown ?
Did you know that, upon hearing they were to be laid off , 100 Waterford Crystal workers occupied the plant , accompanied by a Sinn Féin politician?
Did you know that Ted Pickett has been called "probably the greatest all-round sportsman Tasmania has produced"?
Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Baltimore Branch Office is located in a historic building designed in 1926 in the Second Renaissance Revival style?
Did you know that archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth ?
Did you know that the winner of the first Coupe Charles Drago, predecessor of the Coupe de la Ligue , was decided by a coin-toss , after the scores finished equal after extra time ?
Did you know that English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School 's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play?
Did you know that the fishing trawler Bugaled Breizh is considered to have been pulled under by a submarine that got caught in its lines?
Did you know that Native American activist Robert Robideau was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents, for which his cousin Leonard Peltier was later convicted and is serving two life sentences?
Did you know that although it was prohibited by a 1951 law , Pakistan now officially allows its citizens to hold dual citizenship with 16 other countries?
Did you know that New Writings in SF is the earliest of the notable science fiction anthology series published in the 1960s and 1970s?
Did you know that Russian poet Alexander Pushkin stopped at Wolf and Beranget Confectionery located at historic Kotomin House before heading off to a duel where he was mortally wounded?
Did you know that the TV series Pony Express (1959–1960)  roughly coincided with the centennial of the real Pony Express that operated from 1860 to 1861?
Did you know that a record 25 candidates stood in the 2005 Anguillan general election ?
Did you know that J. Max Bond, Jr. ignored a Harvard professor's advice not to pursue a career in architecture due to his race and went on to oversee the museum at the National 9/11 Memorial ?
Did you know that the Mount Zion Temple organized the first synagogue and was led by the first rabbi in Minnesota ?