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Did you know that Francis Skeat designed over 400 stained glass windows, including memorials to the footballer Duncan Edwards and the explorer John Smith ?
Did you know that although Justices of the King's Bench received salaries from 1278, the first pension provisions were not made until 1799?
Did you know that Gardiner considers Bach the "best writer of dramatic declamation ... since Monteverdi " for the dialogue in his cantata for the Second Day of Christmas , Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57 ?
Did you know that American diplomat, orator, and Harvard professor Edward Everett bought two New Testament manuscripts , Lectionary 297 and Lectionary 298 , during a visit to Greece in 1819?
Did you know that Dick Hoerner played in three consecutive NFL Championship Games , became the Los Angeles Rams ' all-time leading rusher and was considered "a murderous line backer "?
Did you know that insertion reactions are integral to the Cativa process , a method used to produce millions of tons of acetic acid annually?
Did you know that the only remaining original scrolled station sign on the New York City Subway can be found at the Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street station?
Did you know that Harvey Wells founded the city of Wellston, Ohio , but he never owned his own house there?
Did you know that Stephen Venard , a 19th century Nevada City, California lawman and renowned road agent killer, used a Henry rifle ?
Did you know that Louis Gruenberg 's The Emperor Jones was available to premiere at New York City 's Metropolitan Opera because an opera by a Jew about a black was not wanted in Berlin in 1933?
Did you know that the Jacksonville Rockets , an Eastern Hockey League franchise based in Jacksonville , were Florida 's first professional ice hockey team?
Did you know that the crest of the Königstein Ridge near Westerhausen , Germany , is dominated by the striking Kamelfelsen rocks whose shape resembles two camels lying down?
Did you know that Monte Scheinblum , son of All-Star baseball player Richie Scheinblum , hit a golf ball over 329 yards (301 meters) into a 20 mph ( 32 kph ) wind to win the 1992 U.S. National Long Driving Championship?
Did you know that despite attaching an inscription to his first wife's grave implying he would not marry again, British politician Giles Eyre not only remarried but buried his second wife in the same grave?
Did you know that Teresa Teng 's " The Moon Represents My Heart " was one of the first love songs to become popular in mainland China under the Open Door Policy ?
Did you know that when District of Columbia judge Robert L. Wilkins was recently out of law school, he was stopped by Maryland State Police for " driving while black " and won a landmark racial profiling lawsuit?
Did you know that 11 out of 19 species of land snails found on the Samoan island of Tutuila are endemic?
Did you know that the drama series Huge , created by Savannah Dooley and her mother, Winnie Holzman , employed Dooley's father as an actor and her uncle as the cinematographer?
Did you know that Jim Cockman is the oldest player to ever make his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Yankees ?
Did you know that the ancient Gambuh dance is performed in Batuan, Bali , every full moon ?
Did you know that after a tsutsugamushi epidemic occurred at Sausapor , research was conducted on the area's rats and mites , using C-rations as rat bait, to better understand the illness's epidemiology ?
Did you know that Spanish songwriter Javier Limón earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2004 ?
Did you know that the world's first quantum machine "literally vibrated a little and a lot at the same time" and was named " Breakthrough of the Year " by Science in 2010?
Did you know that when Great Britain lost the 1951 Ryder Cup by a score of 9½–2½, golfer Arthur Lees took part in the team's only two match wins?
Did you know that A Christmas Record released in 1981 on the ZE label was described as the first-ever alternative Christmas album and contains both a hit single and a "blasphemous, nearly tuneless piece of skronk"?
Did you know that the Christmas album Una Navidad con Gilberto by Gilberto Santa Rosa won a Latin Grammy Award for "Best Traditional Tropical Album" in 2009?
Did you know that the Aero HC-2 Heli Baby was the first Czechoslovakian-designed helicopter to go into production?
Did you know that although Geographia Neoteriki , written by Grigorios Konstantas and Daniel Philippidis , was welcomed with enthusiasm by western intellectuals, it was largely neglected by Greek scholars?
Did you know that after winning a minor league baseball batting title in 1903, Charlie Loudenslager joined a major league team but only appeared in one game?
Did you know that the Cincinnati Riot of 1853 involved Germans objecting to the presence of an Italian cardinal preaching in French in the United States on Christmas Day?
Did you know that in 1874, a 5720 pound copper nugget whose surface had been worked by prehistoric miners was discovered at the Minong Mine ?
Did you know that Joe Marshall , also known as "Home Run Joe", did not hit any home runs in his Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that Dylan Thomas ' short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales was first published under its own title two years after his death?
Did you know that in 1958 the Public Personnel Association named the New Orleans attorney Charles E. Dunbar "Mr. Civil Service of North America"?
Did you know that a Group Representation Constituency is a type of electoral division in Singapore in which a team of candidates stands for election and is voted into Parliament as a group?
Did you know that Dionte Christmas led the 2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team in points per game , three-pointers completed, and total steals ?
Did you know that the freshman State Rep. Leopold Caspari in 1884 pushed successfully for the creation of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana ?
Did you know that the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala , protects the source of its food supply, green scale insects , by removing predatory larvae that might eat them?
Did you know that Derek Lynch won his first NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race during his first full season on the tour?
Did you know that Brace Mountain , the highest peak in Dutchess County, New York , is a popular launch spot for hang gliding and paragliding due to the smooth geography of the area?
Did you know that Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 's first released single was a blues rock cover of Bo Diddley 's " Diddy Wah Diddy "?
Did you know that the people of Saukorem produce Korwar figures, which are often made with the skulls of deceased family members?
Did you know that Andrew McKinley , David Aiken , and Leon Lishner created the parts of the Three Kings in the world premiere of Menotti 's Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors which was broadcast live by NBC to an audience of millions on Christmas Eve 1951?
Did you know that the investigation by the Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung into the Crossair Flight 850 accident took 3,005 days to complete?
Did you know that Claybrook Cottingham , the president of two colleges in Louisiana , began his academic career as an assistant principal at an academy in Virginia when he was 19?
Did you know that Jason Aldean 's duet with Kelly Clarkson , " Don't You Wanna Stay ", is the first duet of his career?
Did you know that Ed Householder won his first minor league baseball batting title at the age of 37?
Did you know that the Rugby League Atlantic Cup , held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida , is contested by emerging rugby league nations in North America ?
Did you know that the Schnarcherklippen rocks in the German High Harz are mentioned in Goethe 's dramas Faust I and Faust II ?
Did you know that baseball player Farmer Steelman appeared in one game for the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas and was the only rookie to play for that team during the entire season?
Did you know that Dexter executive producer Daniel Cerone encouraged the mother of his son's friend not to let her son audition for " Seeing Red " because he would be filmed sitting in a pool of blood?
Did you know that the wildlife of Malaysia is some of the most diverse in the world, existing in forests believed to be 130 million years old?
Did you know that the Scott Sisters of Mississippi are serving life sentences for their alleged involvement in a robbery in which $11 was stolen and no one was injured, although they had no previous criminal records?
Did you know that the communist -led federation SOBSI was the largest trade union movement in Indonesia prior to the Suharto era ?
Did you know that former New Zealand wrestler Onno Boelee worked as an actor and opened a private security company after his retirement from wrestling?
Did you know that Swedish financial assistance to the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO increased significantly under the Torbjörn Fälldin cabinet?
Did you know that Milwaukee's Bronze Fonz is an $85,000 public artwork of a Happy Days TV show character?
Did you know that the crew of the ill-fated slave ship Luxborough Galley became cannibals?
Did you know that professional wrestler Bobby Walker sued World Championship Wrestling for making him look "obnoxious" and "shiftless"?
Did you know that the Marlborough White Horse was cut from a hillside in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy?
Did you know that college football coach A. M. Miller was notified to testify during the Scopes Monkey Trials ?
Did you know that one of the stages in the Xbox Live Arcade game Faery: Legends of Avalon takes place in a city on the back of a giant beetle?
Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Fred H. Mills, Jr. , wrote legislation in 2010 to permit pharmacists , such as himself, to administer medication therapy management services?
Did you know that Harvard Divinity School 's Hollis Professor of Divinity has the right to graze a cow on the Harvard Yard ?
Did you know that before his elections in 1944 and 1956 to both houses of the Louisiana Legislature , Frank Estes Cole had been an LSU Tigers football player and a high school coach in Rayville and Many, Louisiana ?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiserin was the first battleship to pass through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in July 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I ?
Did you know that one of the largest aboriginal title claims in the United States was rejected based on an interpretation of the Articles of Confederation ?
Did you know that Sakis ' Parafora (2010) received more bids than any other Greek album to be released as a covermount since the practice became common after the recent economic crisis , and all were refused?
Did you know that Albanian American Anthony Athanas , who rode a donkey en route to the United States , became a multi-millionaire restaurateur in Massachusetts ?
Did you know that the former Confederate officer Christopher Columbus Nash , as sheriff in Grant Parish , Louisiana , crushed the Colfax Riot in 1873 and formed the White League in 1874?
Did you know that 40,000 people were involved in the construction of venues for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney ?
Did you know that the deindustrialization of Youngstown has had the effect of cutting the population of the Ohio city in half?
Did you know that the Soviet ship MO-103 sank the German submarine U-250 , capturing the commander and five crewmen in July 1944 ?
Did you know that Roald Hoffmann 's development of the isolobal principle helped him earn the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ?
Did you know that feathers from a dead swan , which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's antependium ?
Did you know that Karuizawa , Japan , where curling competitions were held during the 1998 Nagano Olympics , is the first town to have hosted both Summer and Winter Olympic events?
Did you know that the CBC 's senior correspondent Neil Macdonald is the brother of comedian Norm Macdonald ?
Did you know that the busiest Namibian border post is the Angolan one at Oshikango in the town of Helao Nafidi ?
Did you know that the Atlanta Neighborhood Union , an all-women African-American association founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?
Did you know that the light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? was an honourable mention at Fujimi Shobo 's 20th Fantasia Awards?
Did you know that before the 62nd Grey Cup , CFL defensive back Tony Proudfoot fired staples from a staple gun into his shoes to improve his traction on an icy football field?
Did you know that the award-winning war photographer Yuri Kozyrev , who spent several years working for the American press in Baghdad , lived together with Iraqis in the city?
Did you know that newly promoted Arkansas State head football coach Hugh Freeze was depicted in the movie The Blind Side about Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher ?
Did you know that Hiroshi Ishikawa won the New Montreal Film Festival 's Best Director award for Su-ki-da , his second film?
Did you know that Sir William Blackstone 's Commentaries on the Laws of England (published 1765–1769) is still cited by the Supreme Court of the United States between 10 and 12 times a year?
Did you know that zombie apocalypse drama The Walking Dead was named as one of the top 10 television programs of 2010 by the American Film Institute ?
Did you know that Louisiana state court judge O. E. Price of Bossier City participated in two triathlons when he was in his fifties?
Did you know that in 1936, the North Fork Shenandoah River flooded Cootes Store in Virginia during the Great Flood which reached four feet high at its worst?
Did you know that the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story was written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports reporter and narrated by Dustin Hoffman ?
Did you know that 17 years after an aircraft crash killed most of the Zambia national football team , the Zambian government has yet to release a report on the crash?
Did you know that a survey conducted in 1993 on the influence of the children's television program Sesame Street found that by the age of three, 95% of all American children had watched the show?
Did you know that the English landscape architect Edward Kemp was buried in Birkenhead , Merseyside , in the Flaybrick Hill Cemetery , which he had designed himself?
Did you know that the Bulgar notable Mauros intended to organize an uprising in Thessaloniki on the night before Easter in order to catch its defenders unprepared?
Did you know that Bach first performed his cantata for Advent , Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132 , on 22 December 1715 in the Schlosskirche Weimar ?
Did you know that the Louisiana sheriff Cat Doucet of St. Landry Parish apparently obtained his nickname from his practice of protecting illegal "cathouses," a slang term for brothels ?
Did you know that Monica Nashandi was removed from the 2009 Namibian general election SWAPO electoral list because she had not registered to vote in the previous election ?
Did you know that " The Virgin's Cradle Hymn ", a lullaby collected by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Germany in 1799, was derived from a Flemish engraving by Hieronymus Wierix ?
Did you know that Mark Miodownik is delivering the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ?
Did you know that the Pervenetz class ironclad was the first ironclad class of ships in the Russian Navy ?
Did you know that the music of songwriter Lincoln Chase , who wrote " Such a Night ", " Jim Dandy ", and " The Clapping Song ", has been described as "like a black Frank Zappa but groovier"?
Did you know that the Richmond Theatre fire of 1811, which killed around 72 people, was at the time the worst urban disaster in American history?
Did you know that of the great glaciers of the French Oisans , the Glacier Noir descends farthest because of favourable topography and moraines that screen it from the sun ?
Did you know that though 2000 lay dead on the field of the Battle of Zappolino (November 1325), when forces of Modena routed Bologna , the status quo was re-established afterwards and historians generally ignore the event?
Did you know that John Deering volunteered to have his heart monitored by an electrocardiogram while he was shot to death ?
Did you know that Western Wood was preselected for the City of London seat in 1861 in preference to future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ?
Did you know that The Pretty Druidess (1869) was the last of W. S. Gilbert 's early operatic burlesques , written before the Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
Did you know that Frederick S. Lyman 's account of the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano and 1868 Hawaii earthquake was written from a nearby sheep and goat ranch?
Did you know that Plas yn Rhiw house in Gwynedd was originally built in the 10th century to prevent incursions by Vikings into Porth Neigwl, and is reportedly haunted?
Did you know that medieval Bulgarian noble Aldimir , the despot of Kran , changed sides to the Byzantines even though he had blinded a rival in order to gain the Bulgarian emperor 's trust?
Did you know that when Weymouth Lifeboat Station was sent a new lifeboat in 1930 it was too big to fit in the boathouse so it had to be kept moored in the harbour instead?
Did you know that actress Julia Stiles had no idea whether her character was going to live or die in " The Big One ", the fifth season finale of the Showtime series Dexter ?
Did you know that a radar station which was active at Grassy Hill Light during World War II included an imitation lighthouse keeper 's cottage for camouflage purposes?
Did you know that Stanford and Detroit Lions running back Ernie Caddel , known as the "Blond Antelope," led the NFL in average yards gained per rushing carry for three consecutive years?
Did you know that despite his role in the Counter-Reformation , the abbot of Göttweig Abbey David Gregor Corner reluctantly included Protestant hymns in his 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch ?
Did you know that The Fisherman's Cot in Devon overlooks the River Exe and a bridge which was wrongly thought for many years to be the inspiration for Paul Simon 's song " Bridge Over Troubled Water "?
Did you know that in 1925, Hortense Sparks Ward led a special all-female Texas Supreme Court after no male judges or lawyers could be found to hear a case?
Did you know that the scams uncovered by Operation Broken Trust , the largest investment fraud sweep by the US Government , may have involved over 120,000 victims?
Did you know that English -born footballer Ellis Remy made his international debut playing for the Montserrat national football team ?
Did you know that La Vivandière (1867) was one of the early comedies by W. S. Gilbert that used satiric devices later employed in his famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
Did you know that chef Louis Diat , a recipient of the distinguished Chevalier du Mérite Agricole , learned to cook at the age of five?
Did you know that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico ?
Did you know that in 1863 the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was propelled underground from Holborn to Euston railway station in a parcel capsule to demonstrate the system built by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company ?
Did you know that artist Thomas Eakins suggested Anna Willess Williams pose for the depiction of Liberty on the Morgan dollar ?
Did you know that seven Croatian Army generals were forcibly retired in 2000 for signing an open letter to the Croatian public ?
Did you know that English artist Chantal Joffe , who sometimes uses pornography for source material, created such large paintings that she required scaffolding to work on them?
Did you know that the Albuquerque Thunderbirds were awarded the first overall selection in the 2009 NBA Development League Draft ?
Did you know that when New Zealand -born pop artist Dinah Lee became 'Queen of the Mods ' in 1964, her own mother could not recognise her?
Did you know that James W. Rodgers requested a bulletproof vest before he was executed by firing squad ?
Did you know that six years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Louisiana NAACP president Emmitt Douglas was arrested for trying to desegregate a restaurant in Baton Rouge ?
Did you know that adult males of the parasitic wasp , Encarsia perplexa , can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
Did you know that Ellingham Hall , an 18th century country house near Bungay , Norfolk , is the temporary residence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his extradition hearings in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that in 1878, the old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard sang one of his poems over the grave of Dodge City Marshal Ed Masterson , the victim of a gunfight?
Did you know that during the wreck of the Algoma , the worst loss of life in Lake Superior history, victims were literally dashed to pieces?
Did you know that diners at beefsteak banquets "keep score" by piling up the bread slices that come with their beef tenderloin ?
Did you know that Richard Bustillo learned Jeet Kune Do directly from Bruce Lee and went on to instruct Lee's children Shannon and Brandon in the martial art?
Did you know that the action role-playing game Infinity Blade is the fastest grossing application on Apple 's iOS , selling 271,424 copies in merely four days?
Did you know that in 1934, the congregation of the St. John's Lutheran Church in New Finland , Saskatchewan , Canada , had their church cut into two halves so as to relocate it by five miles using a tractor ?
Did you know that Jonah Hex was named "Worst Picture" of 2010 by the Houston Film Critics Society at their 2010 awards ceremony ?
Did you know that McGaheysville in Virginia was originally named "Ursulaburg" after the wife of the ousted Reverend Charles Lang, who was ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia in 1771 and left Ursula behind?
Did you know that a by-election in 1869 was held in the borough of Blackburn , Lancashire , England , after an election petition led to a previous election being overturned due to systematic intimidation?
Did you know that the Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall in Hawaii cost twice its original budget, partially due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ?
Did you know that the Admiral Lazarev class monitors had their main armament replaced during their career, allowing them to remain among the most powerful ships in the Russian Navy 's Baltic Fleet ?
Did you know that in May 2009, when proposing that Nominated Members of Parliament should be a permanent part of Singapore 's Parliament , the Prime Minister said they had "outshone even the Opposition MPs "?
Did you know that New Zealand explorer and surveyor Charlie Douglas claimed that not being able to swim "had saved his life many a time"?
Did you know that a 1977 book by the historian Martin V. Melosi examines the role of partisan politics in delaying public disclosure of events leading to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that the Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone National Park burned while being demolished in 1960?
Did you know that Oregon entrepreneur Norm Winningstad helped found Floating Point Systems , Thrustmaster , and Lattice Semiconductor ?
Did you know that on December 19, 1981, the entire crew of the Penlee Lifeboat were killed trying to rescue people from a ship in a storm, but sufficient volunteers came forward within a day to form a new lifeboat crew?
Did you know that "football nut" "Sturzy" Sturzenegger spent most of his career coaching college football at Michigan , USC and UCLA despite having attended Harvard Law School ?
Did you know that San Andrés islanders practice obeah , a voodoo witchcraft of West Indies ?
Did you know that Guy Touvron has been called "one of the leading pedagogues of trumpet technique and interpretation France has ever produced"?
Did you know that the Duke of Wellington chose not to buy Somerhill House in Kent because he considered the local fox hunting not good enough?
Did you know that Sam McMackin died less than six months after making his Major League Baseball debut?