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Did you know that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey , stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?
Did you know that King Philip V ordered that any lepers found guilty of poisoning wells in medieval France were to be burnt and their possessions forfeited to the Crown ?
Did you know that Burgers' Smokehouse is a California, Missouri -based seller of cured and smoked meats including bacon and hickory smoked, salt cured country hams, a specialty of the Ozarks ?
Did you know that during a rehearsal of Pagliacci with the Florentine Opera in 1998, tenor David Rendall sent a baritone to hospital when his prop knife failed to collapse?
Did you know  that Johan Søhr was responsible for investigating several espionage  cases in Norway during World War I , including the von Rosen and Rautenfels cases?
Did you know  that the Royal National  College for the Blind in Hereford houses the United Kingdom's National BlindArt collection?
Did you know  that during the Great Depression ,  R. C. Nueske used a panel truck to market Nueske’s  Applewood Smoked Meats , including bacon , sausages , hams and smoked turkeys , at little resorts across  northern Wisconsin ?
Did you know  the program STUDENT ,  written in 1964 by Daniel Bobrow for his PhD dissertation at MIT , is one of the earliest known  attempts at natural  language understanding by a computer?
Did you know  that Milwaukee elected George Hampel to the state legislature first as a Socialist and later as a Progressive before he helped merge the Progressives into the Republican Party ?
Did you know  that during the Ice Hockey European Championship in 1924, two of Spain's seven players were injured, but the Swiss and Swedish teams agreed to play with five players against them?
Did you know  that a flitch of bacon was offered at Wychnor Hall to married couples if they could swear that they did not regret their  union, but it was so rarely claimed it was replaced with a wooden one?
Did you know that Lennard Stokes , a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon ?
Did you know that the cheese dream was popularized during the Great Depression as "an inexpensive company supper dish"?
Did you know that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem , begun in 1980?
Did you know that the forest area of the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary helps in arresting desertification and advancement of the Thar desert ?
Did you know that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography ?
Did you know that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University ?
Did you know that the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army ?
Did you know that Sir Henry Bate Dudley not only chronicled the life of Gainsborough but also wrote the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon ?
Did you know that Serafin Olarte and Vicente Guerrero were the only independentist generals active during the low point of the Mexican War of Independence after the execution of José María Morelos in 1815?
Did you know that The BLT Cookbook was highly recommended by the National Pork Board ?
Did you know that in Đại Việt sử lược , it was recorded that Khúc Hạo , not his father Khúc Thừa Dụ , was the first of the Khúc family to be the Jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân ?
Did you know that Banksiamyces are fungi that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?
Did you know that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti ?
Did you know that former gold medalist in short track speed skating Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that John Singer Sargent 's c. 1882 painting Street in Venice shows the influence of Venetian photographers?
Did you know that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth ?
Did you know that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon ?
Did you know that the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon , Harvard guard Francis Burr , Yale end Bob Forbes , Cornell center Bill Newman , a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy , and a guard who was described as " one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron "?
Did you know that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain , England , and Kazakhstan ?
Did you know that the seaside landscape of Montauk Association Historic District in New York includes seven 1881–84 Shingle Style summer houses?
Did you know that the 1983 Queensland election was triggered when Terry White , Angus Innes , and various MLAs of the " Ginger Group " crossed the floor in the Australian state's Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica ?
Did you know that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City , is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
Did you know that Robert Downey Jr. 's costume in the 2008 film Iron Man was made by special effects artist Shane Mahan ?
Did you know that Rwandan cuisine includes urwagwa , a local beer made from fermented bananas ?
Did you know  that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton , Ecuador ,  and emigrated mostly to the United States ?
Did you know that Henry Bracy was one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era ?
Did you know that the tail of the Bennett's stingray can make up three quarters of its total length?
Did you know  that at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock , the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of  Colored People , is the  youngest person ever to serve in the position?
Did you know  that the Quadro Tracker detection device, which was  advertised as being able to detect drugs, weapons, explosives, alcohol,  missing people, precious metals, dead pets, and lost golf balls, was  denounced by the FBI as a fraud?
Did you know  that in the interwar period ,  the British legation in Norway complained about Victor Mogens ' bias as a commentator in Norwegian radio ?
Did you know  that in 1906, some Filipino prisoners involved in medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera , and those who survived were  rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?
Did you know that in Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc , Lord Goff suggested that Rylands v Fletcher was not an independent tort , but instead part of nuisance ?
Did you know that Master Joseph Thomas played a leadership role in two single ship actions , the first in 1803 in the hired cutter Princess Augusta and the second in 1810 in the hired cutter Queen Charlotte ?
Did you know that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German war poet of the First World War ?
Did you know that Fily Dabo Sissoko , who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in Mali ?
Did you know that Musa Demi was part of the group that opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates ?
Did you know that Canada won the first Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair curling at the 2006 Games ?
Did you know that three-time ARCA champion Tim Steele was the series' first driver to earn over $1 million in his career?
Did you know that Arizona SB1070 , the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States ?
Did you know that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of Bolivia in 1985?
Did you know that Macy's opened its first closeout store at Wheatfield, New York 's Summit Park Mall in 1992?
Did you know that earlier this season , Katey Stone of the Harvard Crimson became the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I women's ice hockey ?
Did you know that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche ?
Did you know that cricketer Julie Hunter saw Australia to victory from the last ball of the match in her first ODI innings?
Did you know that in 2000–04, excavations in Uppåkra , Scania , revealed that a heathen hof was located there for several hundred years?
Did you know that Tom Killin , a Paralympic silver medalist in wheelchair fencing in 1980, also won a silver medal in wheelchair curling for Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics ?
Did you know that Grant Park Symphony Orchestra began a tradition of Independence Day Eve concerts in Grant Park accompanied by fireworks when the Petrillo Music Shell was relocated in 1978?
Did you know that Lectionary 216 was used by Swainson , English theologian, for his treatise on the Greek Liturgies ?
Did you know that a British soldier is commemorated in the West Haven Green Historic District for his actions during the British invasion of West Haven, Connecticut , in the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that the Rustock botnet was capable of sending 30 billion spam messages every day, utilizing around 150,000 computers infected with a trojan horse ?
Did you know that Chris Cameron won the individual all-around title and led the Michigan Wolverines to the team title at the 2010 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship ?
Did you know that quarterback Walter Kennedy ' s amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the University of Chicago ?
Did you know that the Church of the Acheiropoietos , a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Thessaloniki , was the first Christian church to be converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of the Greek city in 1430?
Did you know that Erin Osborne led the wicket-taking in her maiden Women's National Cricket League season?
Did you know that in F. Sionil José 's novel Sherds , the pottery clay used by the aesthete symbolizes the oppression of villagers?
Did you know that psychologist and physiologist Henri-Étienne Beaunis published novels under the pseudonym "Paul Abaur"?
Did you know that the 1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game to pass without an extra-base hit?
Did you know that Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia is 140 miles (230 km) long?
Did you know that professional wrestling promoter Eddie Quinn is credited with making wrestling more popular in Quebec than any other sport except hockey?
Did you know that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party )?
Did you know that in addition to being the captain of the 1904 University of Chicago football team, Fred Speik was a member of Chicago's water polo and track and field teams?
Did you know that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
Did you know that cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener ?
Did you know that a Native American mound in Newtown, Ohio , was spared destruction because of its location in a cemetery ?
Did you know that despite being supported by tanks , Italian troops were completely routed during the Battle of Gjorm by Albanian Resistance units?
Did you know that former State Senator O.H. "Ike" Harris was honored in 2009 by the horse racing industry for his work in legalizing parimutuel betting in Texas ?
Did you know that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire , England, with asbestos dust?
Did you know that Yurii Lomonosov constructed the first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive ?
Did you know that for the second season of Survive This , a Canadian reality TV show, participants were selected for the show based on their strong personalities and required to take a three-day survival course?
Did you know that the Buffalo Braves first made the NBA playoffs during their 1973–74 season ?
Did you know that during the construction of Lake Seminole in 1948, archaeologists discovered the site of San Carlos de los Chacatos, a Spanish mission that Colonel James Moore had sacked during Queen Anne's War ?
Did you know that Nicolay Nicolaysen Sontum supplemented his career as an engineer and contractor with speculating in waterfalls?
Did you know that U-450 went on three war patrols, but did not sink any ships?
Did you know that author and social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obama at the age of 105?
Did you know that the Popular Independent Movement of Luxembourg was a single-issue political party that represented former Wehrmacht conscripts?
Did you know that Alex Blackwell captained the Australian women's cricket team to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand ?
Did you know that Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England , and the largest community bank in Massachusetts ?
Did you know that Montage of a Dream Deferred was described by its author, Langston Hughes , as a cross between a jam session and a popular song?
Did you know that Westcott railway station was a part of the London Underground , despite being more than 40 miles from central London ?
Did you know that fashion designer Elspeth Gibson ' s clients have included Madonna , Cate Blanchett and Queen Rania of Jordan ?
Did you know that in 1844, Carl Claus discovered ruthenium and named it after the olden Russia ?
Did you know that Debra Lehrmann won the Republican nomination for the Texas Supreme Court in the only contested statewide race on the April 13, 2010, runoff ballot?
Did you know that the Kii and Number 13 class battleships were to be part of Japan's eight-eight fleet ?
Did you know that Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer founded an institute to explore solar energy , today known as the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics ?
Did you know that writer John Irving and the main character in his novel Last Night in Twisted River were "Kennedy fathers"?
Did you know that Chesterfield centre-forward Walter Ponting was deprived of an apparently certain goal when the ball deflated and failed to cross the line?
Did you know that Connie Yori , the current Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball head coach, is the inaugural winner of the Kay Yow Award ?
Did you know that quadricyclane was proposed as a substance to store solar energy ?
Did you know that in the early 1900s, logging in Texas' forests was so successful that the state had become the third leading lumber producer in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Caprivi treason trial is the largest and longest trial in Namibian history?
Did you know that the album LifeTimes composed by the daughter of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard includes contributions from Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke ?
Did you know that the semaphore crab is the most abundant crab species in mangroves on Australia 's east coast?
Did you know that English footballer Brian Punter did not receive his 1953 FA Youth Cup runners-up medal until some 56 years later?
Did you know that Sarah Andrews is Australia 's ninth-leading wicket-taker in Women's One Day International cricket ?
Did you know that Burgess Hill , Hadlow Down , Hastings , Newick , Pell Green , Rye , Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use?
Did you know that over half the population of the rare wildflower Banksia scabrella are found on road verges ?
Did you know that Cameronia was the first British ship to arrive at New York after the start of the Second World War ?
Did you know that Inger Alver Gløersen , born in 1892, made her literary début in 1954?
Did you know that following the establishment of the Bhutan Olympic Committee in 1983, Bhutan participated for the first time in the 1984 Summer Olympics but only with six archers ?
Did you know that Silly Bandz , popular silicone bracelets that spring into a shape when taken off, have been banned in classrooms for being too distracting?
Did you know that D'Jamin Bartlett won the 1974 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer?
Did you know that the only non-industrial private railways of Norway never to be nationalized were the Holmestrand–Vittingfoss , Lier , Lillesand–Flaksvand , Nesttun–Os and Tønsberg–Eidsfoss lines?
Did you know that from his studies of the ionosphere during World War II , Walter Dieminger forecasted optimal shortwave communication for the military and police?
Did you know that the suicide weapon in J.D. Salinger 's " A Perfect Day for Bananafish " was an Ortgies 7.65 mm Semi-Automatic Pistol ?
Did you know that Stevie Brown led the 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team 's special teams with 11 tackles ?
Did you know that the satirical video Gap Yah , describing the experiences of fictional rah Orlando during his gap year , became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
Did you know that the Ravi River was known as Paruṣṇī or Irāvatī to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks ?
Did you know that Army All-American Henry Torney , who later became a millionaire, was arrested at a 1910 Shirtwaist Strikers protest that led the New York Mayor to rebuke the "police dictators"?
Did you know that the Archimedes screw in De Groene Molen , Joure , is now driven by a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) Lister diesel engine ?
Did you know that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base ?
Did you know that Nexhip Draga , a former Ottoman kaymakam , played an important role in the Albanian uprising of 1912?
Did you know that Tara Bethan, finalist in the BBC One TV show I'd Do Anything , was the daughter of " El Bandito "?
Did you know that a geological fault and coal mining caused the spire of St Catharine's Church, Scholes to lean and twist?
Did you know that the Tutt Brothers were early 20th century American vaudeville producers who created over 40 revues for black audiences?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Sheikh Bureik was named for a local Muslim saint to whose shrine women seeking remedies for infertility would bring presents?
Did you know that in a 16-year career, English footballer Bob Hutchinson played for 14 different clubs?
Did you know that start-up conservative cable TV network RightNetwork features Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and new-media star Andrew Breitbart , and is being funded by Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider ?
Did you know that Edvard Munch lived at both Olaf Ryes plass and Schous plass , two neighboring squares in Oslo , during the 1880s?
Did you know that the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond was the venue for a dinner hosted by Charles Dickens in 1850 to celebrate the publication of his novel David Copperfield ?
Did you know that members of the Women's Timber Corps were known as Lumber Jills?
Did you know that George Will acquired 11 press passes that offered special locker-room privileges in Major League Baseball stadiums while doing research for his book, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball ?
Did you know that when the Ålgård Line opened in 1924, it was the last state-owned railway in Norway to be built with narrow gauge ?
Did you know that St Martin's Church, Brampton , was the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb ?
Did you know that Daniel Trenton was head coach for the Australian Olympic taekwondo team in 2008?
Did you know that in 2007 California Assemblyman Joel Anderson authored legislation requiring state pension funds to divest from investing in companies that do business with Iran ?
Did you know that J. Denis Summers-Smith became an expert on sparrows by travelling as an expert in tribology ?
Did you know that Fig Trees , an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?
Did you know that Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina was dubbed the "Godfather of Cuban tobacco"?
Did you know that the Soviets organised a campaign against the pro-Allied sympathies of the Baltic governments before their annexation in 1940 ?
Did you know that by 1941, American zoologist Edward Alphonso Goldman had described more new mammals than any other living scientist?
Did you know that Maltese -born Anthony Perici , a veteran of the British Royal Navy , served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg , Ohio ?
Did you know that the Iceberg Theory refers to Ernest Hemingway 's distinctive writing style?
Did you know that British filmmaker Tim Sullivan began his career in television after chauffeuring Anthony Andrews to the set of Brideshead Revisited ?
Did you know that the city of Clearwater , Florida , painted two white lines across Watterson Avenue to block Lisa McPherson Trust protesters from disrupting the operations of the Church of Scientology ?
Did you know that the British Inspiration Awards are aiming to boost recognition for the creative industries of the United Kingdom , a sector generating an estimated £100 billion a year for the British economy ?
Did you know that Walter Woon , former Attorney-General of Singapore , was the first Member of Parliament since Singapore 's independence to have a private member's bill become a public law ?
Did you know that the Islamist group Revolution Muslim posted a warning about possible consequences on their website against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their portrayal of Muhammad in the episode " 200 "?
Did you know that Nick Burd's debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary was a New York Times "notable book" for 2009 and won the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category?
Did you know that the Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood authored his state's farm-to-market road program, which paved rural dirt roads in asphalt ?
Did you know that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan ?
Did you know that Darrell Floyd ' s day job paid more than the NBA basketball team the Saint Louis Hawks were offering?
Did you know that the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1939, six weeks after the dedication of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that in some areas of Brandenburg-Prussia , only 10% of the population survived the Thirty Years' War ?
Did you know that the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast -like human pathogens?
Did you know that Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones , the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives , in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
Did you know that Tlacolula de Matamoros is home to one of the oldest, largest and busiest weekly outdoor markets in the state of Oaxaca , Mexico ?
Did you know that the two towers on Old Main at Washington & Jefferson College symbolize the union of Jefferson College with Washington College?
Did you know that Halfdan Bryn was one of the first to take interest in the physical anthropology of Sami people ?
Did you know that the British No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando unit included soldiers from different countries including Germany ?
Did you know that "Big John" Macklin coached the Michigan State Spartans football program to its first wins over Ohio State and Michigan and also coached the school's basketball , baseball and track teams?
Did you know that the Haiti economic reforms of 1996 were designed to restore the economy of Haiti after the economic shocks of early 1990s?