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Did you know that, during the 1989 Revolution , Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc appeared on television with a toilet paper roll, as a symbol of "wiping out" the communist regime 's traces?
Did you know that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary , the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland ?
Did you know that the Battle of Sena Gallica , fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
Did you know that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge?
Did you know that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers?
Did you know that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi , the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard ?
Did you know that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents ?
Did you know that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man ?
Did you know that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino ?
Did you know that Mary Shelley 's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid 's Metamorphoses and Chaucer 's The Wife of Bath's Tale ?
Did you know that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide , online social capital and the public sphere ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo , whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm?
Did you know that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$ 100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud ?
Did you know that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy ?
Did you know that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?
Did you know that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap ?
Did you know that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles (124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line?
Did you know that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec , Canada , because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty 's Empress Zhang , during her husband Emperor Suzong 's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him?
Did you know that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha , William A. Paxton , was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards , the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company ?
Did you know that Oregon 's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
Did you know that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04 ?
Did you know that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio ?
Did you know that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building for 50 years?
Did you know that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus , but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane , regained full copyrights to the comic strip ?
Did you know that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar Lithuania ?
Did you know that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel ?
Did you know that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission ?
Did you know that Vancouver 's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine -born businessman Peter Wall ?
Did you know that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania ?
Did you know that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in September 1942 by friendly fire ?
Did you know that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha 's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game ?
Did you know that the Welshmen Edward Edwards , Griffith Griffith , Owen Owen , Richard Richards , Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas ) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford ?
Did you know that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base?
Did you know that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel 's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British ?
Did you know that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the 1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his memoir on life as a bandit?
Did you know that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java , its leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya ?
Did you know that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall 's racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
Did you know that in a 1998 bilateral agreement , China pledged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never established diplomatic relations ?
Did you know that Angela James , once called the " Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey ," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day , St John's Day ( 23 June ), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
Did you know that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
Did you know that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court , and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills , before he became chief justice of Queensland ?
Did you know that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
Did you know that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway , one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes ?
Did you know that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta , babbler , logrunner , bird of paradise , or cinclosomatid families ?
Did you know that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States ?
Did you know that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
Did you know that The Reenactment , a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie , was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents?
Did you know that with the Philippine Basketball Association 's acceptance of Solar Sports ' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season ?
Did you know that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross , then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross ?
Did you know that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites for its use?
Did you know that the lyrics of Naer Mataron , a black metal band from Greece , are  influenced by Greek mythology ?
Did you know that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor —the U.S. military 's highest decoration—in the European Theater of Operations during World War II ?
Did you know that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence ?
Did you know that the One-armed bandit murder , the first gangland killing in North-East England , inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
Did you know that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon ?
Did you know that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock ?
Did you know that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such as coronary catheterization , and can cause kidney damage ?
Did you know that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC 's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ?
Did you know that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur ?
Did you know that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail trail was constructed?
Did you know that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel 's State Comptroller ?
Did you know that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"— better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars ?
Did you know that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe "?
Did you know that W. Jasper Blackburn , a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana , was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency ?
Did you know that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars , set in apartheid -era South Africa , was actually shot in Oregon ?
Did you know that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight ?
Did you know that Howlin' Dave was credited with introducing Filipino rock music to Filipino radio listeners?
Did you know that Oregon 's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn " high wheels ", steam-powered " donkey engines ", and antique saw mill machinery?
Did you know that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence Nightingale , Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career?
Did you know that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah ?
Did you know that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor?
Did you know that the Minden Press-Herald , a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana , was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?
Did you know that in Korean cuisine , dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon ?
Did you know that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for throwing fish to customers?
Did you know that on December 12 , 1996 , India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters ?
Did you know that the New Jersey Library Association , the oldest library organization in New Jersey , began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
Did you know that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan ?
Did you know that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators ?
Did you know that the SC Johnson & Son -produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle ?
Did you know that Lady Elsie Mackay , socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe , attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ?
Did you know that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern , five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
Did you know that author Laura Vernon Hamner , informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
Did you know that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy ?
Did you know that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside steps from the road up to its entrance?
Did you know that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long , who shared his interest in buttermilk , horse racing , and politicking?
Did you know that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993 , went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
Did you know that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis 's first Catholic mayor?
Did you know that Circle of Chalk , a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China , Soviet Georgia and East Germany ?
Did you know that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none of his descendants would be High King of Ireland ?
Did you know that the Florida state comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected?
Did you know that the 1966–68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field?
Did you know that Kari Blackburn , daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn , taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC ?
Did you know that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals?
Did you know that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community , Arizona ?
Did you know that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of an Englishman in India?
Did you know that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park?
Did you know that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs in English football ?
Did you know that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks , as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt ?
Did you know that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice " in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo ?
Did you know that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass , Mexican , Eastern European , African , zydeco , soul and country influences?
Did you know that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of countering China 's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power ?
Did you know that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch , could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
Did you know that the canine teeth of male baboons —which can be up to four times as long as those of females—are an example of a sexual dimorphism ?
Did you know that Barbette , a female impersonator aerialist , served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau , Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock ?
Did you know that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste violence in Rajasthan , India ?
Did you know that French writer Honoré de Balzac 's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?
Did you know that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players , laptops , and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
Did you know that Vinh Trang Temple in southern Vietnam has been severely damaged by both French military action and extreme weather?
Did you know that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC Sports ' Wide World of Sports during his career?
Did you know that the 1994 French – Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars ?
Did you know that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
Did you know that the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football ?
Did you know that an original 35 mm film print of the 1987 film A Month in the Country was only rediscovered in 2004 due to the efforts of a fan?
Did you know that Henry A. Smith became the dominant landowner in what is now Interbay , Seattle , Washington by buying when so many others were selling during an 1855–56 Indian War ?
Did you know that the St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is being restored with the same methods that were used 500 years ago?
Did you know that Sebastian Hardie were Australia 's first symphonic rock band and released their debut album Four Moments in 1975?
Did you know that in order to force certain officials to leave office, Arizona Territorial Governor Lewis Wolfley‎ had their salary payments withheld?
Did you know that 80% of all British banknotes are contaminated with drugs ?
Did you know that Australian ophthalmologist Sir Norman McAlister Gregg discovered the link between rubella and congenital disorders in newborn infants after overhearing several of his patients discussing their illness during pregnancy ?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel of New Orleans, Louisiana , severely flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was flooded again in 2007?
Did you know that the source of the bomb that brought down Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 near 100 Mile House, British Columbia in 1965, taking the lives of all 52 aboard, was never determined?
Did you know that original stained glass from the Miller and Herriott House was removed to a restaurant near Disneyland , prompting one writer to compare the new glass to the wooden leg on Sarah Bernhardt ?
Did you know that the Guarijío of Mexico prepare an herbal tea , malo en el cuerpo (pain in the body), from Wimmeria mexicana , chamomile , and cilantro ?
Did you know that at WWE 's No Mercy (2005) pay-per-view, Randy Orton and his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton , kayfabe locked The Undertaker in a casket and set it on fire?
Did you know that the sexual script is a sociological analysis of what leads up to sexual intercourse ?
Did you know that young Heliobolus lugubris lizards scare off predators by imitating certain acid -squirting ground beetles ?
Did you know that the New York Mets traded Mike Welch to the Philadelphia Phillies for Hector Mercado , a player who was drafted and traded the same day, only for him to play against the Mets on his major league debut?
Did you know that Japanese director Kei Kumai 's Sandakan No. 8 lost the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film to a film by another Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa 's Dersu Uzala ?
Did you know that International Association of Athletics Federations ' third president, Adriaan Paulen , was part of the Dutch resistance during World War II ?
Did you know that during the Great Depression , violence in Seattle 's Smith Cove between longshoremen , strikebreakers and police ultimately resulted in the loss of much of the city's maritime traffic to the Port of Los Angeles ?
Did you know that the 1932 Southern German football championship final between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich was halted seven minutes before the end due to Bayern supporters invading the pitch ?
Did you know that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction ?
Did you know that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a campaign of disinvestment from Israel ?
Did you know that there are over three thousand miles of interstate highways and U.S. Routes in the state of Utah ?
Did you know that the BEL Weapon Locating Radar was developed after engineers noticed that the Rajendra Radar could unexpectedly detect and track artillery shells ?
Did you know that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest ?
Did you know that Dustin Lance Black is the only writer on Big Love , a drama about Mormon fundamentalists , who was raised in the Mormon faith?
Did you know that despite his winning the 1916 election by 43 votes, court rulings removed George W. P. Hunt as Governor of Arizona for nearly a year?
Did you know that the Revolt of the Comuneros against Charles V was partly provoked by the taxes raised in order to bribe prince-electors to elect him Holy Roman Emperor ?
Did you know that one of the owners of Woodlawn Farm in Slate Hill, New York used the wild teasel from his fields to card wool at his nearby hat factory?
Did you know that South Vietnamese politician Truong Dinh Dzu once put his wife up as collateral ?
Did you know that snakes were a favorite remedy of the medieval monk and healer Nicholas of Poland ?
Did you know that the General Board of the United States Navy was an advisory body of the United States Navy , effectively a naval general staff ?
Did you know that philanthropist Lorry Lokey has donated US$ 132 million to the University of Oregon ?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson 's first published poems, Messiah and London , were directly inspired by the writings of Alexander Pope ?
Did you know that Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana ?
Did you know that Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her documentary film In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies , which examined the situation in post- genocide Rwanda ?
Did you know that the Narikuravas who reside in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu speak an Indo-Aryan language called Vagriboli?
Did you know that Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle , the two-hour finale for Avatar: The Last Airbender , was the most-watched cable television broadcast in the week of its transmission?
Did you know that Childress , a small city in the Texas Panhandle , is named for George Campbell Childress , the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence ?
Did you know that Sir Murray Maxwell , a celebrated Royal Navy officer, once spent weeks marooned on an island under attack from pirates following the loss of HMS Alceste in 1817?
Did you know that the brittlegill mushroom Russula betularum grows under birch , while the closely related Russula emetica is found under conifers ?