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Did you know that the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy at the Vail Ski Resort is the first public winter sports academy in the U.S., combining public school education with rigorous ski and snowboard training?
Did you know that Essex Hall , where, in 1774, Theophilus Lindsey established the first such congregation in England , still serves as the headquarters for the British Unitarians ?
Did you know that Tiger Mask , Momotarō , Joe Yabuki , and Santa Claus have "donated" numerous randoseru and other goods to orphanages across Japan ?
Did you know that the replacement for Norberto Romuáldez , who died a day before the 1941 Philippine Senate election , still won due to block voting in the Philippine senatorial elections ?
Did you know that the Mesa Distance Learning Program is a grades 7–12 distance learning program sponsored by Mesa Public Schools in Mesa, Arizona, that offers students worldwide US based education leading to a high school diploma?
Did you know that, in 2004, Paolo Padovani and a team at the European Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) discovered 30 supermassive black holes which were previously obscured by dust clouds?
Did you know that the motif of acanthus leaves on the south doorway to St Andrew's Church, Sapiston , Suffolk , is unusual in the county?
Did you know that the oldest building in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut , has been so extensively altered that it is not a contributing property to the historic district ?
Did you know that the British Sea Wolf SAM was considered a possibility for meeting the U.S. Navy's Shipboard Intermediate Range Combat System missile requirement?
Did you know that Quest Crew , who competed on America's Best Dance Crew , appear in " Meatball It Up ", the second episode of Shake It Up ?
Did you know that Rose de Freycinet sailed around the world with her husband from 1817 to 1820 as a stowaway disguised as a man?
Did you know that the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida , was the first mall to have both J. C. Penney and its rival, Sears , as anchor stores ?
Did you know that on December 13, 2005, Rashad Jones-Jennings became just the tenth NCAA Division I men's basketball player since 1973 to record 30 or more rebounds in a single game ?
Did you know that 1919 agitations by left-wing socialists in Småland resulted in the formation of a separate Farm Workers Union ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has ruled in Daniels v. United States that a defendant cannot challenge previous convictions that were used to enhance his sentence ?
Did you know that a slogan of the Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour is "If we can laugh together, we can live together" ?
Did you know that Vittorio Erspamer (1909–1999) discovered the chemical compound octopamine , isolating it from the salivary glands of an octopus ?
Did you know that the Grambling State Tigers college football team has made the most appearances in and won the most SWAC Championship Games since the inaugural 1999 contest?
Did you know that thanks to the song " Sopa de Caracol " , the musical ensemble Banda Blanca became the best-known Honduran band?
Did you know that the Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google , Lego , CERN , and Scientific American ?
Did you know that Karl Marx wrote his Das Kapital while living in the building now occupied by Soho restaurant Quo Vadis ?
Did you know that antitumor agents isolated from bohemic acid are named after the characters of the opera La bohème ?
Did you know that Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein discovered the element that would later be named tellurium by Martin Heinrich Klaproth ?
Did you know that an increased printrun for author Amish Tripathi's first book, The Immortals of Meluha , led him to switch to a bigger publisher?
Did you know that Beauchamp Doran , a British Army general, was sacked from command of his brigade in 1914, reinstated, and sacked again from command of a division in 1916?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that interscholastic athletic associations have police power ?
Did you know that convicted Indonesian serial killer Verry Idham Henyansyah became known as the "singing serial killer" after he entertained audiences at his prison cell by singing a song from his upcoming album ?
Did you know that Burnett , a village in Somerset , had a civil parish of 608 acres until it was merged into the neighbouring village of Compton Dando ?
Did you know that Queen Calafia , fictional ruler of the Island of California , was the subject of a sculpture garden designed by Niki de Saint Phalle ?
Did you know that Horace Robertson accepted the surrender of an Italian general, an Italian admiral and a Japanese general?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Saltfleetby , in the marshlands of Lincolnshire , has a leaning west tower?
Did you know that it had been said that the new Michigan Wolverines football coach Brady Hoke would "crawl on hot, broken glass to work inside Schembechler Hall as the head coach"?
Did you know that Gene Kelly 's first Broadway appearance was in the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! ?
Did you know that a 1968 paper by Jack Ertle Oliver helped confirm the existence of continental drift , a theory that had been scoffed at by mainstream scientists when proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912?
Did you know that the prototype Bölkow Phoebus sailplane was placed third in its class at the 1964 German national gliding championship?
Did you know that the roots of lovage contain angelic acid ?
Did you know that the Long Tail Point Light survived attempts to demolish it in 1870, and has outlasted both its successors?
Did you know that the winners of the 1871 Belmont Stakes – Harry Bassett , the 1872 Belmont – Joe Daniels , and the 1873 Belmont – Springbok , were all owned and trained by the same person?
Did you know that activity at Calabozos , a Holocene caldera complex, has produced stratovolcanoes , hot springs , and a complex volcano ?
Did you know that instruments played by Cardiff -based group Under the Driftwood Tree include the didgeridoo ?
Did you know that Ruth Cavin edited hundreds of works of mystery fiction in a career that began in her 70s, and was described by Sue Grafton as "soul mother to mystery writers for years"?
Did you know that Bhutan is also known as Drukyul, which means Land of the Thunder Dragon ?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Thüringen destroyed the British armored cruiser HMS Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland ?
Did you know that the Icelandic census of 1703 was the first census to record the names, addresses, and ages of every inhabitant of a country, regardless of social class?
Did you know that, while undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer , actor Peter Donaldson gave a series of acclaimed stage performances?
Did you know that the Lucidarius , the first German language summa , written around 1190, was reprinted at least 25 times in two decades three hundred years later, between 1479 and 1499?
Did you know that, as a result of the agitations carried out prior to the founding of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden in 1906, the annual wages of statare increased by approximately 40 SEK ?
Did you know that Bach used an obbligato bassoon in a duet of his cantata Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? BWV 155 , first performed in Weimar on 19 January 1716?
Did you know that Daniel Balsam became enraged after he received unsolicited e-mails offering him breast enlargement products?
Did you know that the relationship between France and Monaco entails a Frenchman being chosen to oversee certain state affairs of Monaco ?
Did you know that hyperlocal media company Main Street Connect is based around a franchising model that has been compared to that of McDonald's ?
Did you know that the Game Boy Advance , PlayStation Portable , and Nintendo DS versions of the video game Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! are all different genres ?
Did you know that " Start It Up ", the series debut of Shake It Up , is the most-watched premiere for a Disney Channel series after the 2006 premiere of Hannah Montana , according to the Nielsen ratings ?
Did you know that the B&F Fk12 biplane can be purchased as either a complete aircraft or as a kitplane ?
Did you know that the Edward T. Archibald House was home to a man who took "the leading place among flour makers of [the U.S.] or of the world"?
Did you know that English actor and opera singer John Fryatt co-wrote a Gilbert and Sullivan pantomime adaptation entitled The Sleeping Beauty of the Savoy ?
Did you know that Smaart software was used to tune the sound reinforcement system during U2 's PopMart Tour 1997–1998?
Did you know that development of the VisionAire Vantage very light jet was terminated by a U.S. federal judge's order that the company be liquidated ?
Did you know that the newly released film Season of the Witch was scheduled to be released in March 2010 , but the original distributor, Lionsgate , pulled it five weeks before the release date?
Did you know that early dyers combined natural dyes with salt , vinegar , natural alum or stale urine ?
Did you know that the Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere owns five jackup independent leg cantilever drilling rigs : Atlas , Jupiter , Orizont , Prometeu and Saturn ?
Did you know that the Steele Dunning Historic District in Bloomington, Indiana , includes two different Sears Modern Homes and a shotgun house ?
Did you know that Central America 's highest volcano is located in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala ?
Did you know that new Stanford Cardinal football head coach David Shaw is the first Stanford alumnus to lead the team in over a quarter of a century?
Did you know that the Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky reaction , now used in a total synthesis of chemotherapeutic drug taxol , was developed after an attempted Wittig-like olefin synthesis yielded an epoxide instead?
Did you know that the 1925 harvest strike in Uppland is portrayed in novels by Swedish authors Ivar Lo-Johansson and Jan Fridegård ?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard 's HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft have been used for search and rescue , oil spill monitoring, and sea-turtle transport?
Did you know that information on the Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative list leaked by WikiLeaks was stated by some companies on the list to be "out of date and full of errors"?
Did you know that the B&F Fk9 lightplane can be equipped with either a tricycle or conventional undercarriage ?
Did you know that, despite repeated proposals to extend the Holmenkollen Line of the Oslo Metro to Tryvandshøiden Station , passenger trains never served the station since it was partly built in 1916?
Did you know that William Grigsby McCormick 's son Chauncey and nephew Robert bought the Hickory Hill estate more than 100 years after their great-grandfather built it?
Did you know that Soviet tank commander Aleksandra Samusenko was buried near the monument to German Emperor William I in Łobez ?
Did you know that the 1938 German musical The Stars Shine was a Busby Berkeley -style film intended to promote The Third Reich ?
Did you know that it took the U.S. Supreme Court less than three months to decide a case concerning an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act in 2001?
Did you know that Cayuga Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Pataki reversed a US$247.9 million jury award to the Cayuga Nation of New York based on the state's alienation of their land in violation of the Nonintercourse Act ?
Did you know that Kepler-10b is the first definitively confirmed rocky exoplanet ?
Did you know that Doris , a large racing yacht built in 1905, led the 1932 Bermuda Race until light winds undercut its advantages?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Subarashiki Hibi won the bronze prize in the overall category of the Moe Game Awards 2010 and the gold prize in the scenario category?
Did you know that despite being designated as an X-plane by NASA , the Gulfstream X-54 project does not otherwise involve the space agency?
Did you know that by the time St Peter's Church, Offord D'Arcy , Cambridgeshire , was declared redundant , people had to take umbrellas to the church and the heating no longer worked?
Did you know that the construction of the German dreadnought battleship Oldenburg sparked a major escalation in the international naval arms race before World War I ?
Did you know that Duke Ellington 's 1940 live recording At Fargo was an amateur bootleg not officially released until 1978?
Did you know that the Swiss Fort de Chillon is being converted into a wine cellar ?
Did you know that art critic and novelist B. H. Friedman wrote about his experiences using psychedelic drugs with Dr. Timothy Leary in his 2006 memoir Tripping ?
Did you know that engraver Wenceslaus Hollar was an eyewitness to the action of December 1669 off Cadiz , where HMS Mary Rose , under the command of Rear-Admiral John Kempthorne , fought off seven Algerine men-of-war?
Did you know that Clint Eastwood had his first audition for the 1955 film Six Bridges to Cross but was rejected?
Did you know that cyclopentenone has been isolated from pressure-cooked pork liver using distillation and solvent extraction techniques?
Did you know that the 1994 thriller film Drop Squad includes scenes satirizing stereotypical portrayals of African Americans in advertising campaigns?
Did you know that stray animals, which include dogs , bulls and cows , are common on the runways of Indian airports and pose a major threat to air safety ?
Did you know that the Ram was the first air-launched rocket to carry a shaped charge warhead?
Did you know that " Stop ", the Spice Girls ' seventh single, peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, ending their streak of six consecutive number-ones?
Did you know that despite wartime rationing during World War II , volunteers at the North Platte Canteen were able to hand out food to up to 8,000 servicemen and women a day for four and a half years?
Did you know that Douglas Coupland 's Player One: What Is To Become Of Us is the first entry in the Massey Lectures series to be a work of fiction?
Did you know that, following the crash of a Beechcraft Super King Air in Australia in 2000, air traffic control checklists were altered to include procedures for a flight crew incapacitated by hypoxia ?
Did you know that the Malagasy rodent Voalavo antsahabensis , which was only described as a species in 2005, is endangered because of slash-and-burn agriculture ?
Did you know that soil and ash from six Holocaust extermination camps are buried at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland , Oregon ?
Did you know that the SNCASE SE-400 was cancelled before the second prototype of the French floatplane could be completed?
Did you know that American ice hockey goaltender Tim Regan was awarded an Olympic silver medal in 1972 despite not playing a single game and leaving the Olympics early to return to college?
Did you know that the Grumman XSBF was designed to the same specification that produced the SBD Dauntless of World War II fame?
Did you know that Albanian rebels managed to capture Skopje , center of Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet , during the Albanian Revolt of 1912 ?
Did you know that former Miami University and Oberlin College head football coach C. K. Fauver played professional baseball with the Cleveland Lake Shores ?
Did you know that the planned Giurgiu–Ruse natural gas pipeline includes a 4.14 kilometres (3 mi) section to be built under the Danube river ?
Did you know that the album A Time for Love recorded by Arturo Sandoval was inspired by trumpeter Bobby Hackett and the album Clifford Brown with Strings ?
Did you know that Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets and Jerry Posin of Steppenwolf teamed up to perform music while both were imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, Arizona ?
Did you know that during a political rally on October 29, 1918, in Ljubljana , Mihajlo Rostohar shouted: "We soldiers renounce Austria and swear obedience to the state of our nation, to Yugoslavia!"?
Did you know that Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Rhode Island ?
Did you know that Hendrik Samuel Witbooi and Hosea Kutako could not present their 1947 UN petition for independence from South African occupation because they were not allowed to leave South-West Africa ?
Did you know that Clint Eastwood named his film company Malpaso Productions after Malpaso Creek which is located on his property in Monterey County, California ?
Did you know that Ernest P. Goodrich was the third head coach of the Michigan State Normal football team and the first president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers , both of which have since changed their names?
Did you know that in the 63 years after it opened, the cost of a liquor license for the Winter Saloon rose over 72,000%?
Did you know that the sculptor Gilbert Ledward created a new Great Seal of the Realm in 1953?
Did you know that in the North Leicestershire by-election in February 1857 , Charles Frewen campaigned on a slogan of "No Popery"?
Did you know that for almost three decades, Terra Chã on Terceira Island in the Azores was the location of the only Portuguese Air Force hospital?
Did you know that the short story " Conscience in Art " has been described as "a pleasant reminder of the inventiveness and cleverness" of author O. Henry ?
Did you know that despite coaching the only bowl game win and only 10-win season in school history, Jim Harkema resigned as head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team with a losing record?
Did you know that the house in Tekirdağ , Turkey , where Hungarian national hero Francis II Rákóczi spent his last years, is a museum now and is regarded as a cultural bridge between the two countries?
Did you know that the Farman F.281 only logged four hours of flight time between January 1933 and the spring of 1935, despite being in service with Air France ?
Did you know that in the case of budget bills and urgent matters, a bill must be passed in the same session of Parliament in Bhutan ?
Did you know that The Concord Review is the only academic journal in the world to publish the research papers of high school students?
Did you know that Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić was named after Casablanca , a city where her father Joško Vlašić won the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games ?
Did you know that in a 1946 incident, three ammunition magazines exploded at the Swiss Fort de Dailly ?
Did you know that a human relations award honoring those who promote diversity in employment is named for Roy Bass , who served as mayor of Lubbock , Texas , from 1974 to 1978?
Did you know that Essad Pasha Toptani , supported by the Kingdom of Serbia , established the Republic of Central Albania on October 16 , 1913?
Did you know that Oregon politician Michael Dembrow helped to create the Cascade Festival of African Films?
Did you know that the National Hockey League and its players' association founded the Hockey Fights Cancer charity in 1998 after former player John Cullen attempted to come back from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma ?
Did you know that Manzanar internee Tak Shindo went on to become a "Giant of Jazz" for exotica albums like Mganga! and Brass and Bamboo ?
Did you know that the Navajo Times was the first daily newspaper published by an American Indian Nation ?
Did you know that Kenny Francis began his racing career at the age of eight by racing go-karts ?
Did you know that Namibian President Sam Nujoma has visited India 11 times?
Did you know that the life of a nun, Agnes of Jesus , inspired Henri Cormier to join the Dominicans , and they were beatified together on November 20 , 1994?
Did you know that Casey Close was Baseball America 's National Player of the Year, married former Miss America Gretchen Carlson and negotiated more than $350 million in contracts for Derek Jeter and Ryan Howard ?
Did you know that despite releasing three EPs in less than a year, most of the material on dubstep producer James Blake ' s self-titled debut album is brand new?
Did you know that after 53 years, Indiana ' s last remaining manual bridge toll booth on the Wabash Memorial Bridge , was replaced with an automated toll collection system?
Did you know that Clearwater Fine Foods, a company owned by multi-millionaire John Risley , owns all fishing rights to offshore lobster in Canadian Atlantic waters?
Did you know that attorney Tom Tureen pioneered Nonintercourse Act litigation, negotiating an $81.5 million settlement of the Passamaquoddy case and the creation of the largest casino in the world ?
Did you know that the People's Republic of China is the world ' s top producer of sex toys ?
Did you know that the Sky Scorcher air-to-air missile would have carried a two- megaton nuclear warhead?
Did you know that the C-SPAN Video Library offers a complete archive of the American legislative broadcaster's content since 1987?
Did you know that in November 2010, pest controller Chris Swan bowled the third-best figures for a first class match in the history of the Queensland cricket team ?
Did you know that Malibu Lake has been featured in over 100 films and television programs, including the 1931 version of Frankenstein ?
Did you know that Robin Oswald hijacked TWA Flight 541 in an effort to free Garrett Brock Trapnell , who was in jail for hijacking a jetliner, after a failed attempt to hijack a helicopter by her mother?
Did you know that the rail line at the Swiss Fort Heldsberg incorporated a turnout to derail enemy armored trains ?
Did you know that Russian teammates Roman Lyashenko and Mikhail Donika are the only two players in the history of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships to win a medal of each colour?
Did you know that the mushroom Marasmius sasicola , known from Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan, grows on the fallen leaves of Sasa bamboo ?
Did you know that playwright Lanford Wilson wrote The Madness of Lady Bright on the typewriter of the reservations desk of the Americana Hotel while working there as a receptionist?
Did you know that the first rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation of Washington, Pennsylvania served for 50 years?
Did you know that before Mary of Teck married Prince George, Duke of York , she had been engaged to his brother Prince Albert Victor ?
Did you know that the bark of Alphitonia petriei gives off a strong smell of liniment or oil of wintergreen when bruised or cut?
Did you know that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach ?
Did you know that the Gimlet rocket may have been given its name because it was a small rocket for use against MiGs ?
Did you know that Arthurian author Nancy McKenzie wrote her novel Queen of Camelot to make Queen Guinevere "into someone a 20th-century person could understand"?
Did you know that the founder of the Churchill Machine Tool Company said business was good in 1896 because a boom in bicycling increased demand for automatic screw machines and similar machinery?
Did you know that actor William Caskey Swaim was drafted into the Army in 1968 and served as a medic during his tour on the island of Okinawa ?
Did you know that although in 1697 Zhuluo County covered more than half the landmass of Taiwan , a visiting Qing official wrote that the county contained "no residents, only savages "?
Did you know that one day before the 1996–97 NBA season began, Golden State Warriors player Marcus Mann quit the team to become a Christian minister ?
Did you know that the signal pattern displayed by the Fitzroy Island Light depended on the direction from which it was viewed?
Did you know that during Marburg's Bloody Sunday massacre, military units commanded by Rudolf Maister killed between 11 and 13 German civilian protesters in a central Maribor square?
Did you know that The New York Times in 1912 wrote that the expert passing of "Squib" Torbet had placed the Michigan football team "on a higher plane than they have reached before"?
Did you know that 17 Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin were published after the composer's death as his Op. 74?
Did you know that the Louisiana attorney and politician Arnold Jack Rosenthal owned racehorses and maintained a long-term interest in the racing industry?
Did you know that Peter Grippe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of fine arts in 1964 ?