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Did you know that artist David Herbert exhibited a 96" replica of a VHS videocassette—normally 7½" in length?
Did you know that the Clan Line ship Clan Matheson assisted in the eradication of the Coconut Moth from Fiji ?
Did you know that the Israeli-invented Wonder Pot bakes cakes, casseroles and roasts on the stovetop rather than in the oven?
Did you know that Channel 4 billed its Comedy Gala , held at the O2 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital , as "the biggest live stand up show in UK history"?
Did you know that the Dutch marine artist Hendrick Dubbels opened a shop selling "caps, bonnets and stockings ", but went bankrupt in 1665?
Did you know that Thomas Herbert of the Royal Navy was involved in over 20 engagements and wounded three times in the War of 1812 against the United States?
Did you know that of the 34 amphibians that became extinct in last 500 years, 19 were from Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that not all complex questions are informal fallacies ?
Did you know that former Texas legislator and motivational speaker Rick Green produced the 1994 video The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan : The Truth About the Eighties ?
Did you know that three animal species that do not need oxygen were discovered in the hypersaline anoxic l'Atalante basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean?
Did you know that Koto Hoxhi , who secretly taught students in Qestorat in Albanian , died in jail rather than reveal the name of his friends?
Did you know that the new Chair of Gaelic at the University of Glasgow is the first established chair in Gaelic at a Scottish university?
Did you know that baseball player Lyman Linde was part of the Beaver Dam High School basketball team when they were Wisconsin state champions in 1937?
Did you know that " Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum? ", a 1944 novelty jazz song written by Murray Kane and performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra , was inspired by a phrase used by British children towards American soldiers during World War II ?
Did you know that the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist includes four dead people, one of whom would be "spinning in his grave" if his book won, and two living people, one of whom couldn't remember her own book 's plot?
Did you know that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband Roland Bonaparte , Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million francs ?
Did you know that the German submarine U-255 was one of the most successful U-boats to operate in the Arctic Ocean in World War II?
Did you know that Laura Berg is the most decorated athlete in softball at the Summer Olympics , with three gold medals and one silver?
Did you know that the land snail Amphibulima browni was not collected during the entire 20th century?
Did you know that actor Jim O'Heir , who plays Jerry on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Andalusia won 57.4% of the votes in the 1983 municipal election in Córdoba, Spain ?
Did you know that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder , when called to advise upon the Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?
Did you know that Australian record producer , Richard Pleasance , who was a founding member of 1980s band Boom Crash Opera , also composed the score for the 2006 feature film Kenny ?
Did you know that after being boycotted from international cricket for over two decades, South Africa women achieved a 3–0 series whitewash against Ireland women on their return?
Did you know that Bouthaina Shaaban , a former Minister of Expatriates of Syria , has been described as the Syrian "regime's face to the outside world"?
Did you know that the stems of the neotropical palm genus Cryosophila are covered with spines that are actually modified roots ?
Did you know that Margaret Ballinger , an M.P. for native South Africans , was hailed as the "Queen of the Blacks" in 1944?
Did you know that slave -built Federal style Wilkinson-Martin House , in Pulaski, Tennessee , stayed in one family for 130 years?
Did you know that John Wesley preached in the kitchen of Gates Farm in Cholmondeston , Cheshire , England?
Did you know that the graveldiver fish may burrow to depths of 7.6 metres (25 ft) or more in a substrate such as sand, gravel, or broken shell?
Did you know that the Exchequer of Pleas was dissolved after its chief judge died?
Did you know that Heinz Hennig founded the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 and conducted the boys' choir until 2001?
Did you know that one of the English leaders in the successful defense of the 1705 Siege of St. John's , Newfoundland , was a mason ?
Did you know that historian and museum director Arnfinn Moland has also contributed to films, writing a book on Max Manus together with screenwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller ?
Did you know that the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada 's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif ?
Did you know that opposing admirals Adam Duncan and Jan de Winter played a game of whist in the aftermath of the Battle of Camperdown ?
Did you know that the 1995 fire in Baku Metro became the world's deadliest subway accident?
Did you know that the goliath conch, Eustrombus goliath , is the largest of the true conchs ?
Did you knowthat Darell Hammond co-founded KaBOOM! , an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
Did you know that the Hirtz compass , a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
Did you know that the music documentary MC5: A True Testimonial includes U.S. government surveillance footage of an MC5 performance?
Did you know that although considered as the ideal woman in Philippine society , María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the Filipina in the last 100 years"?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 520 had its boiler explode and pulled a " railfan special", before it was preserved in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Juan Luna 's Tampuhan painting depicts a Filipino man and a Filipino woman sulking after a lovers ' argument?
Did you know that Sarah Beth Barnette, a senior at Lexington Christian Academy , is the first player from Lexington to win Kentucky 's "Miss Basketball" award?
Did you know that there was once a gallows in Low Coniscliffe , Durham , England ?
Did you know that in 2006, Birkelunden underwent the first "conservation of a cultural environment in a city" in Norway ?
Did you know that the Pavlos Vrellis Greek History Museum is the best known wax museum in Greece ?
Did you know that Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire , England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids , mannequins , toy robots , a pinball machine and Keith Richards ' Bentley ?
Did you know that Gazette d'Amsterdam was one of the most important European newspapers of the Enlightenment period?
Did you know that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien , Vienna ?
Did you know that the primary leaf veins for the extinct plant Trochodendron nastae are palmate rather then being pinnate like those in the living Trochodendron aralioides ?
Did you know that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , founder of Transcendental Meditation , also created the Maharishi Group , a $700 million non-profit conglomerate in India?
Did you know that Juan Luna 's The Parisian Life painting portrays three Filipino gentlemen and heroes glancing inquisitively at a woman while inside a café in Paris , France ?
Did you know that the rice rat Oryzomys couesi is infected by two different hantaviruses ?
Did you know that reality television star Kim Kardashian was brutally murdered in the South Park episode " The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs ", but she found it very funny?
Did you know that during his basketball career, John Hummer played for four head coaches who have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the Central American palm , Schippia concolor , exhibits the unusual germination strategy of transferring all resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs?
Did you know that Juan Luna 's La Bulaqueña painting is a serene portrait of a Filipino woman from Bulacan wearing a Maria Clara gown ?
Did you know that despite inheriting the vast Parker Ranch as a child, Richard Smart became an actor and singer in musical theater on Broadway ?
Did you know that the East Texas Historical Association was founded in 1927, disbanded during the Great Depression , and reborn in 1962?
Did you know that the turreted Johan Poulsen House in Portland, Oregon 's Brooklyn neighborhood was built in 1891 and owned by a lumber magnate and a " doughnut king"?
Did you know that the Breton writer Pêr-Jakez Helias asserted "my heritage lies on my tongue, it shall never be yours"?
Did you know that in 1876 Llewelyn Kenrick , founder of the Football Association of Wales , organised and played in Wales ' first international match ?
Did you know that the AZ-1 Marvelette was an experimental aircraft built by Mississippi State University to test a boundary layer control system?
Did you know that Andreas Karasiak recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion , scored for double chorus, with two boys choirs , Knabenchor Hannover and Thomanerchor ?
Did you know that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam ?
Did you know that Spencer Haywood was included in the 1971 NBA Draft even though he already played in the NBA before the draft?
Did you know that people's veto is a type of a referendum that allows citizens to repeal an existing law?
Did you know that private military companies operating in Iraq use the Mamba armoured personnel carrier because it appears "less aggressive"?
Did you know that there were no women among the 172 deputies elected to the Parliament of Syria in the 1961 parliamentary elections ?
Did you know that James E. Boyd started nuclear research at the Georgia Institute of Technology while leading the Georgia Tech Research Institute ?
Did you know that the Anglo-Danish carved stones in St Mungo's Church, Dearham include a wheel-head cross , the Adam Stone, and the Kenneth Cross?
Did you know that, after earning distinction in World War I battles, Romanian writer Felix Aderca sparked controversy with pacifist and socialist novels which discuss his countrymen's wartime crimes?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 257 has two interchanges only 0.3 miles apart?
Did you know that JB's Dudley , which claims to be the UK's longest-running live music venue, began life as a disco night at Dudley Town F.C. 's social club?
Did you know that the nematode Skrjabinoclava kinsellai is characterized by the presence of shoe-like and nipple-like structures?
Did you know that Edward Cephas John Stevens initiated the land transfer that gave Christchurch , New Zealand , the park on which AMI Stadium now stands?
Did you know that the anti-war poster And babies shows half-naked women and babies killed at My Lai during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that former Spanish sailor Don Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii ?
Did you know that the People's Party of Syria was established in 1948 as the main opposition party to the National Party ?
Did you know that the BBC reduced actor Alan Davies ' fee for the Jonathan Creek episode " The Judas Tree " by 25 percent?
Did you know that since 1948 Israel has only lost 18 planes in air to air combat ?
Did you know that Blessed Daniel Brottier , when asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, responded, "I will be the Pope"?
Did you know that Laiko Vima was the only newspaper printed in Greek in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania ?
Did you know that Jama Williamson , who plays the attractive surgeon ex-wife of Tom Haverford in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , also provided voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ?
Did you know that the co-pilot of the lead C-47 at the Mitla Pass parachute drop, which launched the 1956 Suez War , was a woman, Yael Rom ?
Did you know that the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer , better known as the Alles Machines, pioneered additive synthesis and served as the basis for several commercial instruments in the early 1980s?
Did you know that in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks ?
Did you know that the first imperial examination in the history of Vietnam was organized in 1072 during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court 's decision in United States v. Ballin (1892) was based in part on the assumption that the Journal of the House of Representatives is always accurate?
Did you know that the captured Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj was used for shipboard trials of the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) helicopter by the Kriegsmarine in 1942–43?
Did you know that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk , a UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
Did you know that Chantilly porcelain , a " soft-paste porcelain " made from c.1730 is not a true porcelain because it lacks "china clay", kaolin ?
Did you know that footballer Sid Storey , who played for York City from 1947 to 1956, drove the open top bus that paraded the York team after winning the 1983–84 Fourth Division championship ?
Did you know that the word game Trickster , a spin-off of Scrabble , includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
Did you know that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in Mexico , he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin ?
Did you know that in the 1818 English case of Ashford v Thornton , the defendant demanded and was granted a right to trial by battle ?
Did you know that three of the five highest NBA career point totals by Ivy League players were by Princeton Tigers men's basketball players?
Did you know that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis , Embothrium , Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
Did you know that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed Alex Band 's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
Did you know that sandstone blocks used in the construction of St John's Church, Crosscanonby , Cumbria , England, might originate from a former Roman building?
Did you know that Bidal Aguero , a civil rights activist in Lubbock , published El Editor , the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas ?
Did you know that their loss in Watson v British Boxing Board of Control forced the British Boxing Board of Control to move to Wales?
Did you know that an Australian couple bought the town of Wauconda, Washington , in an online auction for $370,601?
Did you know that American economist Adam Posen advises both the Bank of England and the United States Congressional Budget Office ?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Kola , a town in Russia , depicts a whale because whaling was the occupation of many town residents?
Did you know that The Blood Compact painting, currently displayed at the top of the grand staircase of the Malacañang Palace , was one of the last paintings created by Filipino artist Juan Luna ?
Did you know that during the 2008–10 campaign , two friendly games between the German rugby union team and a selection of the British Forces Germany had to be cancelled because of bad weather?
Did you know that both Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve and Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve are larger than any of Svalbard 's seven national parks ?
Did you know that James Moore , hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge , was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army ?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Poole , Cheshire , England, include a pinfold or cattle pound?
Did you know that civil aviation pioneer Lester Brain declined a knighthood in the 1960s, but accepted appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1979?
Did you know that though clavarioid fungi were originally thought to comprise a single genus , they are now classified in multiple orders and families ?
Did you know that the real estate developer Buddy Tudor won awards for the historic preservation of the landmark Bentley Hotel in Alexandria , Louisiana ?
Did you know that although the South African RG-35 mine resistant ambush protected vehicle is powered by a diesel engine, it can also accommodate hybrid electric drive ?
Did you know that Alex Silvagni ' s debut performances in the Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
Did you know that in rice rats living in the water, the tufts of hair at the base of the claws are reduced?
Did you know that in the mid-1990s, Alf Tande-Petersen presented the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth most viewed television program episodes in Norway ?
Did you know that Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River ?
Did you know that Colonel Lorenzo Latorre resigned as President of Uruguay in 1880, declaring the country "ungovernable"?
Did you know that Atari showed off its AMY additive synthesis sound chip in a special version of the 65XE computer, but never released it and focused on the Atari ST instead?
Did you know that throughout his career, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?
Did you know that the Bronze Age gold Casco de Leiro was a fisherman's chance find on a beach in Galicia , Spain?
Did you know that swimmer Janine Pietsch won two gold medals at the 2006 World Championships , each by 0.25 seconds?
Did you know that the timeline of Tanzanian history includes the shortest war in history and the first discovery of a new monkey genus since 1923?
Did you know that Gossia acmenoides (scrub ironwood) is named in honour of ex-Queensland Premier Wayne Goss ?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer Bedford Pim was the first man to travel from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side?
Did you know that Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse went undefeated in Ivy League competition for seven consecutive seasons?
Did you know that the worship of Princess Lieu Hanh was suppressed by the Vietnamese government because of possible Taoist influence?
Did you know that Kolsky Uyezd was established on the Kola Peninsula by the Tsardom of Russia as a result of the territorial claims from Denmark–Norway ?
Did you know that the German submarine U-246 went missing on 7 March 1945 in the Irish Sea?
Did you know that in Gillingham Borough Council v Medway (Chatham) Dock Co Ltd , the trial judge rejected the defendant's arguments, but still held that they were not liable?
Did you know that the ideas of Hermann Baumgarten not only influenced the political outlook of social theorist Max Weber , but also helped accelerate the unification of Germany in 1871?
Did you know that American Lester Reiff was the top jockey in Britain in 1900 but lost his licence after allegedly throwing a race?
Did you know that the Norwegian cities of Oslo and Bergen are governed through a parliamentary system ?
Did you know that the New South Wales Waratah lost out to the Golden Wattle to become Australia's floral emblem in 1912?
Did you know that from his freshman year at Oak Park High School through his junior year at the University of Michigan , Herb Steger never lost a game of football ?
Did you know that the seventeenth government of Israel was dissolved by Yitzhak Rabin following a breach of the Sabbath ?
Did you know that the Stevenson Memorial , painted by Abbott Thayer to honor Robert Louis Stevenson , was painted, in part, with a broom?
Did you know that although a quiet town now, Cuilapan de Guerrero , Mexico , was a major pre-Hispanic city and the site of a major Dominican monastery?
Did you know that voting for the mascot of the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship was done through the tournament's page on Facebook ?
Did you know that a golden handshake report by New Zealand journalist Duncan Garner cost an MP his Cabinet position?
Did you know that the Bhutan Textile Museum in Thimphu was supported technically by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that among victims of the 1994 Baku Metro bombings was jazzman Rafig Babayev ?
Did you know that the Guardians of the Free Republics sent out letters to all 50 US state governors demanding that they leave office within three days or be removed?
Did you know that the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?
Did you know that Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 after the final chorale?
Did you know that the numerosity adaptation effect demonstrates that we not only have a direct and automatic visual sense of the reddishness of half a dozen ripe cherries, but also of their quantity?
Did you know that the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi was offered professorship for his painting Christ in the Desert , but rejected it?
Did you know that King William IV credited Captain Humphrey Fleming Senhouse as "one of the cleverest fellows of the navy"?
Did you know that Cherokee humorist Will Rogers was named for William Penn Adair , a Cherokee statesman who advocated for the rights of Texas Cherokees?
Did you know that the belted cardinalfish carries its developing eggs in its mouth ?
Did you know that Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a donkey on State television?
Did you know that some historians have considered Alwyn MacArchill to have been an ancestor of the Earls of Lennox in the male-line, while others have suggested he was only an ancestor in the female-line?
Did you know that frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm condition?
Did you know that 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. , was the last private building to be renovated under the 1974 Pennsylvania Avenue redevelopment plan?
Did you know that the FAMAS-awarded 1965 film Blessings of the Land is about a Filipino deaf-mute son who rose above his handicap ?
Did you know that in 1930 Albanian feminist Urani Rumbo was accused by the authorities of encouraging girl students to perform in theater plays?
Did you know that biosocial criminology predicts that left handed individuals are more likely to engage in criminal behavior than right handed ones?
Did you know that Árni Magnússon , who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection , would do whatever it took to acquire an Icelandic book or manuscript?
Did you know that, in the role of Southern belle "Geneva Lee Browne", Paige Miles performed in a school rendition of The 1940's Radio Hour , a World War II musical about a radio station in New York ?
Did you know that Indre Wijdefjorden National Park contains the only High Arctic steppe vegetation in Europe?
Did you know that Sin has been described as the most controversial and most bohemian among F. Sionil José ’s novels because it created an “ artifice of sexual tension ”?
Did you know that the planned St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal would have covered 35.2 miles (56.6 km) and linked the St. Johns River with the Intracoastal Waterway ?
Did you know that communist activist Franz Jacob organized one of the largest resistance groups in Germany during World War II ?
Did you know that univariate analysis is the simplest form of quantitative (statistical) analysis ?