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Did you know that King Charles II rewarded Captain Richard Haddock for his actions in the Battle of Solebay by giving him a hat?
Did you know that Hurricane Holly was the first Atlantic hurricane by this name, having replaced Hattie after the 1961 season?
Did you know that Antonín Dvořák arranged his Romantic Pieces from a trio he originally wrote to play with one of his mother's tenants?
Did you know that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, " Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?
Did you know that the Prague trade union centre Odborové sdružení českoslovanské was founded in 1897, as Czech unionists considered that the Austrian unions were neglecting them?
Did you know that the USS Timbalier , a Barnegat class seaplane tender , served as a postwar cruise ship until 1989?
Did you know that the first two steamboats on the Kootenay River sank when they were overloaded with supplies by the Northwest Mounted Police en route to quell an uprising?
Did you know that Japanese jūdōka Shokichi Natsui became the first World Judo Champion in 1956 ?
Did you know that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common , near Sheffield , for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792?
Did you know that the oak mazegill fungus Daedalea quercina has been used as a horse-comb and as a bee anesthetic?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned at Sitabuldi Fort in Nagpur from April 10 to May 15 in 1923?
Did you know that Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there?
Did you know that Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms ?
Did you know that after Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick ,  most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business?
Did you know that overchoice refers to the situation where when faced with too many choices , people become indecisive and unhappy?
Did you know that before becoming a professor of the sociology of law , Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Norwegian anti-Nazi resistance group XU ?
Did you know that Serenity High School , the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas , has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?
Did you know that the 1932 National Hunger March , the largest hunger march in the 1920s and 1930s, led to days of widespread violence in central London ?
Did you know that the bǎ construction in Chinese grammar has been used to perform neuroimaging studies of language processing and to evaluate theories of construction grammar ?
Did you know that William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion ?
Did you know that Paul McCartney 's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode " Lisa the Vegetarian " was that Lisa , who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?
Did you know that in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard , who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow ?
Did you know that Adam Stanisław Grabowski , Prince-Bishop of Warmia , was a patron of the arts and a representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that the Durham Performing Arts Center opened in November 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas , at a cost of US$48 million?
Did you know that the exoperidium of the Bovista plumbea peels off at maturation in hot, dry conditions?
Did you know that before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War , Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York ?
Did you know that the Camp of Great Poland was an interwar fascist -influenced right-wing organization that aimed at toppling the Sanacja -dominated Polish government?
Did you know that Bob Blake was voted the most popular ice hockey player in Buffalo, New York , in 1941?
Did you know that Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway ?
Did you know that Polish sculptor Maria Albin Boniecki practiced his craft even when imprisoned in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp ?
Did you know that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania , USA , is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood?
Did you know that James Godkin was simultaneously the chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper and the Dublin correspondent of The Times of London ?
Did you know that although Chuck Daly is a Basketball Hall of Famer now, when he served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers he had a 9–32 record and was fired mid-season?
Did you know that Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard , until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot ?
Did you know that in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel- Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre ?
Did you know that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees ?
Did you know that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company ?
Did you know that after executing Caesar Gallus , officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum , and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
Did you know that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states ?
Did you know that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish 's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow 's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish ?
Did you know that each country who participated in MGP Nordic 2008 entered two songs, rather than one, to make the contest bigger?
Did you know that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port , in Cheshire , England , contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
Did you know that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair ?
Did you know that Albert Einstein , according to writer Illana Katz , may have had autism ?
Did you know that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson ?
Did you know that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito , the reigning Emperor of Japan ?
Did you know that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg , founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig ?
Did you know that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong ?
Did you know that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Agamemnon ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen , in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
Did you know that John F. Kelly 's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller 's 1951 Korean War promotion?
Did you know that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
Did you know that Byron 's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix , Claude-Joseph Vernet , and Théodore Géricault ?
Did you know that, due to his considerable oratory skill, U.S. Representative Richard Menefee of Kentucky was called "the young Patrick Henry of the West"?
Did you know that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski , a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors ?
Did you know that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that Wahsatch, Utah , established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad ?
Did you know that the Fountain of Qayt Bay , built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
Did you know that Robert Howlett , photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel , died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel , the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona , had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
Did you know that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield , .455 Webley , .476 Eley , and .455 Colt all interchange?
Did you know that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters ' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire , England ?
Did you know that French-designed cannons , manufactured in both the North and the South , were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that MV Biscaglia was the 97th ship to be hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this year?
Did you know that checkers champion Richard Fortman learned the game from his father, a telegraphist who would play the game with other operators by memorizing the board to avoid detection?
Did you know that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos , Nigeria , caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
Did you know that the Fremont Canning Company , owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?
Did you know  that three years after the Battle of Marcelae in 756 AD , Constantine V invaded Bulgaria once more but suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Rishki Pass ?
Did you know that Pat Austin was the first drag racer to win two eliminators at an NHRA event?
Did you know that the simulation of medical procedures was first used by anaesthetists to reduce the rate of accidents?
Did you know that the first guidebook to the English Lake District was written in 1778 by Catholic priest Thomas West ?
Did you know that 1. FC Nuremberg reached every final of the Bavarian under 19 football championship from 1967 to 1994?
Did you know that Robert J. Morris lost a bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1958, and then ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964 and 1970, losing both times to George H. W. Bush ?
Did you know that English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston , Lancashire , as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine in the 1860s?
Did you know that during the Battle of Missionary Ridge , Confederate General James Argyle Smith was shot through both thighs and survived?
Did you know that Women For Sobriety , a group founded in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step addiction recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous , had over 200 chapters as of 1998?
Did you know that Air Marshal Charles Read broke with tradition by refusing to sit for the usual portrait painted of retiring RAAF Chiefs of the Air Staff ?
Did you know that Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture ?
Did you know that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York ?
Did you know that Nicolas Sarrabat , a French scientist and Jesuit , conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded ?
Did you know that the winning cup for the European club champion of football is now kept by the final winners?
Did you know that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals , noting that " chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
Did you know that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Edgar was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS Agamemnon , ran aground?
Did you know that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa ?
Did you know that the first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived?
Did you know that the Nariman House , which was home to a Chabad house , was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks ?
Did you know that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges ?
Did you know that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth , Western Australia , was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
Did you know that Norman Lear 's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
Did you know that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus ) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
Did you know that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government ?
Did you know that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia , was designed by Benjamin Latrobe , the second architect of the United States Capitol?
Did you know that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
Did you know that the Beverly Hills Diet , which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
Did you know that the police shooting of Rahul Raj , a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai , India , sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
Did you know that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues ?
Did you know that after organist Dudley Savage 's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
Did you know that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?
Did you know that puffballs of fungal genus Bovista have been used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments?
Did you know that U.S. journalist John Whitaker received the Italian War Cross for his coverage of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia but was expelled from Italy in 1941 for critical reports on the fascist regime ?
Did you know that Sir Kirby Laing served as Deputy Lieutenant of both London and Hertfordshire ?
Did you know that the Sunburst community , a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism , Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S. ?
Did you know that Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter , international cricketer , novelist and marksman who founded the British Army 's sniping school during the First World War ?
Did you know that Mount Silverheels was named after a popular dance-hall girl in the now-deserted ghost town Buckskin Joe, Colorado ?
Did you know that in spite of her great reputation in Europe, operatic soprano Lucienne Bréval had limited success in America as critics thought her singing lacked polish?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral ?
Did you know that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon ?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia ?
Did you know that the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom?
Did you know that both the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan resigned in order for the 1993 Pakistani general election to be held, after a power struggle between them?
Did you know that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks ' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
Did you know that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean ?
Did you know that the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
Did you know that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia ?
Did you know that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both black and smokeless powder loadings?
Did you know that Lucie Skeaping , a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music , has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman , historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd ?
Did you know that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama , reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted ?
Did you know that the oldest known turtle is the 220 million year-old Odontochelys , a prehistoric turtle with teeth and possessing only half a shell?
Did you know that when Kjell Almskog left his job as CEO of Kværner in 2001, he became known for receiving a golden parachute worth 78 million kr ?
Did you know that the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes ?
Did you know that Sean Payton is the only head coach of the New Orleans Saints to lead the team to a National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game ?
Did you know that the radiator layout of the McLaren M20 was initially intended to increase driver comfort, but also led to a more aerodynamically efficient bodywork design?
Did you know that the Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara people in 1833 or 1834 was caused by a dispute over a beached whale ?
Did you know that Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland , sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved , only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
Did you know that the Muncy Creek Railroad tried to save money by using wooden rails in 1875, but found they were too light to support its trains?
Did you knowthat the Abukuma , a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid , was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
Did you knowthat the Paço Imperial , a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
Did you knowthat the German actor Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when he starred as a high school student in the 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle ?
Did you knowthat lyrics from the B-52's song " Love Shack " were quoted in a 2005 majority opinion by Eleventh Circuit Court judge William H. Pryor, Jr. ?
Did you knowthat most of the trees in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
Did you knowthat the Polish writer Gustaw Morcinek survived three Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat Bhai Taru Singh was a Sikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
Did you knowthat feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan 's draconian Peace Preservation Laws ?
Did you knowthat the gene that creates the crest of the Bali Duck also causes physical defects which can kill it before it hatches ?
Did you knowthat JMWAVE was a secret CIA base on University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
Did you knowthat African-American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics ?
Did you knowthat the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in New York City negotiated the first pension plan in the construction industry?
Did you knowthat the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley , Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner ?
Did you knowthat Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
Did you knowthat 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
Did you knowthat Donald Cameron of Lochiel , a major figure in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 , was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
Did you knowthat the ultra-modern disposable female urination device , which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922 ?
Did you know that Oil Creek State Park in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well ?
Did you knowthat as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship ?
Did you knowthat in 1955 , What's the Story , an American game show , was the last television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network ?
Did you knowthat the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille , defended it defiantly?
Did you knowthat the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prison sentences for the owners?
Did you knowthat Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life ?
Did you knowthat Leonard Crofoot , a dancer in The Singing Detective , has had three Star Trek roles?
Did you knowthat the medieval Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire "?
Did you knowthat the Mayan ruins in Belize called Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat" headdress on an 8th century stela ?
Did you knowthat the yaw string , a simple tuft of yarn used as a flight instrument by the Wright brothers , is still in use today?
Did you knowthat Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions ?
Did you knowthat in 1973 , an experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin webs in space ?
Did you knowthat William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold ?
Did you knowthat Manseibashi Station in Tokyo was rebuilt after a 1923 earthquake and later became a museum ?
Did you knowthat although the official cause of the 2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog , the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
Did you knowthat former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God ?
Did you knowthat the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois ?