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Did you know that the character of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm 's 1919 satire Seven Men was probably drawn from real-life socialite Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon ?
Did you know that Triumph Bonneville T120s achieved the first three places in the Thruxton 500 endurance race in 1969?
Did you know that conservation reliant species , which require continuing wildlife management interventions for their survival, comprise 80% of endangered species in the US ?
Did you know that the sports club Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo has co-organized the Bislett Games , an IAAF track and field event event,  since 1966?
Did you know that Alfred J. Kahn spent 57 years on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work , where he wrote multiple reports regarding child welfare in New York City for the Citizens' Committee for Children ?
Did you know that Mario Duschenes was the widely admired conductor of young people's orchestra concerts across Canada ?
Did you know that University of Pittsburgh basketball player DeJuan Blair grew up 600 yards (550 m) * from the university's campus?
Did you know that the Old Icelandic Homily Book is a collection of Norse sermons dating from the 13th century?
Did you know that the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door was reenacted in the film Forrest Gump ?
Did you know that Kōmyō-ji , a Jōdo temple in Japan dedicated to the training of Buddhist priests and scholarly research, has a pet cemetery on its premises?
Did you know that trainer/driver Stanley Dancer drove the Harness Horse of the Year seven times, with trotters Su Mac Lad in 1962 and Nevele Pride in 1967 through 1969, and with pacers Albatross in 1971 and 1972 and Keystone Ore in 1976?
Did you know that Paul Gauguin described the Tahitian goddess he sculpted in 1894, Oviri , as "monstrous and majestic, drunk with pride, rage and sorrow"?
Did you know that the towers of the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center at Tel Aviv University are an architectural squaring of the circle ?
Did you know that Phnom Srok District of Cambodia is home to the rare Eastern Sarus Crane ?
Did you know that the historic district in the Village of Monroe includes the factory where Velveeta was first made and the oldest Masonic lodge in New York state ?
Did you know that in 132 CE, Zhang Heng , a Chinese court astronomer during the Han Dynasty , produced a seismometer with an inverted pendulum that indicated the direction of earthquakes that occurred hundreds of kilometers away?
Did you know that the World's Largest Cedar Bucket was burned by arsonists in 2005?
Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner , writing in 1965, described the recently built Crawley Hospital in the town's West Green neighbourhood as "easily the best building in Crawley up to date"?
Did you know that The Salt Box , one of the first Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments , was razed by fire seven months after being relocated to make room for a $500 million skyscraper development?
Did you know  that Norwegian poet Gunnar Reiss-Andersen is grandfather to mystery author Berit Reiss-Andersen , a former Norwegian Secretary of State ?
Did you know that Rogatien Vachon , who was the head coach of the Los Angeles Kings for three non-consecutive stints, coached the fewest games of any of the Kings ' head coaches?
Did you know that in 1917, a fleet of 47 naval drifters , used by the British to blockade the Otranto Straits , was attacked by the Austro-Hungarian Navy ?
Did you know that the death of the chimpanzee Travis inspired a New York Post cartoon that was later called racist ?
Did you know that Cyclone Arthur of the 2006–07 South Pacific cyclone season reached its peak intensity just 18 hours after being named?
Did you know that Charles Hoff was the first Norwegian to set a world record in a track and field event?
Did you know that a series of innovative computers , including the first transistor computer and the world's fastest computer, were produced by a small team working at Manchester University between 1947 and 1977?
Did you know that during World War II , the Tunnel Railway in Ramsgate , England , became part of an air-raid shelter capable of housing more than 60,000 people?
Did you know that when 2001 Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba set the world record, she joined four-time winner Khalid Khannouchi with a current world record time set at the Chicago Marathon ?
Did you know that the A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum in Prineville , Oregon , was opened in 1971 and is housed in the historic Crook County Bank Building ?
Did you know that Joseph Ferguson Peacocke , Archbishop of Dublin , was painted by Philip de László ?
Did you know that haejangguk is a kind of Korean guk (soup) consumed as a remedy for hangovers ?
Did you know that the band Animo is said to derive its name from Spanish slang for "get going"?
Did you know that the 1803 Treaty of Fort Wayne dictated that the Native Americans were given up to 150 bushels of salt ?
Did you know that despite being an object of ridicule in popular culture, over 8 million British Rail sandwiches were sold in 1993?
Did you know that the tunnel on the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link , under construction in South Korea , is slated to become the deepest immersed roadway tunnel ?
Did you know that Peter of Canterbury , who drowned near Boulogne , was the first abbot of what became St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury ?
Did you know that during the filming of The Linguists in the Andes , the cast coped with altitude sickness by drinking coca leaf tea?
Did you know that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera erythrorhiza was split into four related subspecies in 1992?
Did you know that Christ Church in Greenville, South Carolina , has a window depicting the Last Supper dedicated to Confederate general and bishop Ellison Capers ?
Did you know that the highly-regarded edible mushroom Cortinarius caperatus is known as the granny's nightcap in Finland ?
Did you know that Cornwall Friends Meeting House is the oldest religious building in Cornwall, New York ?
Did you know that over 400,000 people consulted over 4 million documents during the Central Case Examination Group 's investigation of President Liu Shaoqi of the People's Republic of China in 1968?
Did you know that Muzzammil Hassan is the CEO of Bridges TV , the first American Muslim television network to broadcast in English ?
Did you know that during the Brazilian Tenente revolts the Prestes Column of guerrillas marched more than 25,000 kilometers (16,000 mi)?
Did you know that the Palm Court , called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles ," has been the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph Valentino danced with starlets?
Did you know that according to Ernst Lohmeyer , "the Christian faith is only Christian as long as it retains in its heart the Jewish faith "?
Did you know that Kentucky Jones featured Dennis Weaver , in his first TV series since Gunsmoke , as a widowed veterinarian and guardian of a 10-year-old Chinese orphan?
Did you know that the planned International Finance Complex in Phnom Penh , Cambodia , will be the tallest man-made structure in the country?
Did you know that 1 SS Infantry Brigade took part in numerous anti-partisan operations and the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the Buckner homestead and farm is used by the National Park Service as an interpretive center to show visitors what pioneer life was like in Washington ?
Did you know that novelist Charles Dickens received news of the death in India of his son Walter Landor Dickens on his own birthday on February 7, 1864?
Did you know that in the 1898 case Smyth v. Ames , the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared a Nebraska railroad tariff law unconstitutional?
Did you know that the Dexter episode " Our Father ", aired September 2008, was Showtime 's highest-rated drama season premiere since 2004?
Did you know that Polkagris is a Swedish candy stick invented in 1859 by a widow in Gränna ?
Did you know that as chairman of advertising agency Bozell & Jacobs , Charles Peebler oversaw the " Got Milk? " milk mustache advertising campaign, and " Pork. The Other White Meat " created for the National Pork Board ?
Did you know that the cross in the coat of arms of Colchester represents the True Cross , as discovered by Saint Helena , the patron saint ?
Did you know that the musical style of Ayiesha Woods ' album Love Like This has been said to "rival the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae for her pop - soul throne"?
Did you know that track cyclist Aksel Gresvig started a bicycle shop in 1901, which later developed into the largest chain of sports shops in Scandinavia ?
Did you know that the Southern Baptist Convention was formed at the First Baptist Church of Augusta in May 1845?
Did you know that comedic actor Ed Helms performs an a cappella version of Paul Simon 's " You Can Call Me Al " in the fifth season The Office episode, " Heavy Competition "?
Did you know that a former ingredient in 3M 's Scotchgard , perfluorooctanesulfonamide , can uncouple oxidative phosphorylation and has been detected in slimy sculpin , dolphin , and people?
Did you know that Christian Schibsted established the publishing house Schibsted and the newspaper Aftenposten ?
Did you know that radio stations KSUH and KWYZ simulcast a mix of K-pop and Korean language news and talk to the Seattle metropolitan area ?
Did you know that the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs ?
Did you know that Daniel Gault worked as a teacher, newspaper editor, and postmaster, and served in the Oregon House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the War of Laws was a major reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?
Did you know that the 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake leveled walls in the village of Zeynabi, Iran ?
Did you know that the Stone Creek Jamboree holds the world record for the largest potluck , with 882 dishes?
Did you know that Czech writer and sports reporter Ota Pavel was diagnosed with bipolar disorder following the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck ?
Did you know that the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the farthest north daily newspaper in North America ?
Did you know that Kampong Tralach District was home to Cambodia ’s ancient capital of Lovek ?
Did you know that American historian Marcus Lee Hansen was posthumously awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 ?
Did you know that The Georgian Chronicles are a series of medieval texts outlining the history of the Kingdom of Georgia dating from the 9th to the 14th century?
Did you know that Torstein Eckhoff , an authority on European Community law in Norway , opposed Norwegian membership in that institution ?
Did you know that in April 1920, Texas Rangers expelled some 125 prostitutes from the oil boomtown of Desdemona in Eastland County east of Abilene , Texas ?
Did you know that architect Henrik Bull designed several churches, but his most widespread works were coins designed for Norges Bank ?
Did you know that the film Defendor was under its financial requirements after director Peter Stebbings donated his savings?
Did you know that Mark Simpson tore his lateral meniscus thirteen games into the 1996–1997 indoor soccer season while playing for the Buffalo Blizzard ?
Did you know that the giant leucopax mushroom has bioactive compounds with antioxidative , antibiotic , and anti-cancer properties?
Did you know that under the authority granted by the Reorganization Act of 1939 , President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Reorganization Plan No. 1, which created the Executive Office of the President ?
Did you know that despite being a valuable table fish and gamefish , the brassy trevally is almost never targeted by anglers because larger relatives occur within its range ?
Did you know that the quarterback for the first College Football All-America Team in 1889 was Edgar Allan Poe ?
Did you know that William Rich Hutton accompanied Edward Ord on an expedition to the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1849 before returning east to work as a civil engineer on projects including the Washington Bridge ?
Did you know that the new Shia Family Law of Afghanistan has attracted criticism for including clauses that some analysts believe encourage spousal rape ?
Did you know that the first high-altitude balloon flight from Stratobowl attracted 30,000 spectators?
Did you know that British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
Did you know that Medway Plantation in South Carolina was owned by a former Office of Strategic Services spy Gertrude Sanford Legendre ?
Did you know that the world's only museum dedicated to Lawn Bowls is in Brooklands, Taranaki ?
Did you know that some music scholars have claimed that Chopin 's Nocturnes Op. 37 and related pieces act as an " aphrodisiac " and were used by women to "comfort their repressed libido [s]"?
Did you know that Donald Richberg helped co-author the Railway Labor Act , Norris-LaGuardia Act , National Industrial Recovery Act , and Taft-Hartley Act ?
Did you know that T. S. Eliot 's Paradiso -like poems of the Four Quartets ( Burnt Norton , East Coker , The Dry Salvages , and Little Gidding ) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno -like poem The Waste Land ?
Did you know that Jamaican ambassador Anthony Johnson appealed at a Reggae Fest in Washington D.C. to gain support for Jamaica's National Disaster Recovery Fund following Hurricane Gustav ?
Did you know that the Spring Creek Dam collects acid mine drainage from one of the most acidic streams in the world?
Did you know that Jonas Kubilius is one of the principal contributors to the Turán–Kubilius inequality theorem and organizer of the first mathematical olympiad in Lithuania ?
Did you know that the name recognition for international varieties of grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay is so high that many consumers believe they are either wine regions or brand names themselves?
Did you know that reporter Leo Katcher became a newspaper's office boy at age 10 when he promised not to bounce balls against the building, and later got an exclusive with Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann ?
Did you know that Alexa Thatcher decided to become a professional wrestler after meeting her boyfriend, wrestler Corvis Fear, when she was sixteen?
Did you know that the 1915 Avezzano earthquake killed over 30,000 people and flattened the town of Avezzano , Italy ?
Did you know that although Jim Brandstatter is best known as a color commentator for the Michigan Wolverines , his father and brother both played for the rival Michigan State Spartans ?
Did you know that some Nazi German anti-partisan operations later became the basis for counterinsurgency policies developed by countries such as France and the United States ?
Did you know that Carl Oscar Munthe , a Commander of Fredrikstad Fortress and Bergenhus Fortress , wrote several books on military history ?
Did you know that during the Cold War , Canada permitted the United States to practice photo reconnaissance over Grey Goose Island with the RB-52C Stratofortress ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Eddie Edwards won the NECW Iron 8 Championship Tournament final in a match where another competitor suffered a broken ankle?
Did you know that wake lows and their associated heat bursts can cause high winds as well as large temperature spikes, even overnight?
Did you know that after graduating from high school, baseball pitcher Ed Blake pitched batting practice for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1943 World Series appearance?
Did you know that Poundisford Park was set up as a medieval deer park by the Bishop of Winchester ?
Did you know that Fredrik Georg Gade was behind the moving and reconstruction of Fantoft stave church ?
Did you know that at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix the Ferrari and Toro Rosso cars displayed messages of support for the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake ?
Did you know that mahi-mahi fishing in Hawaii has been done from kites flown from cliff tops?
Did you know that Melissa Rosenberg finished the script for the Dexter episode " Love American Style " quickly due to her experience writing for broadcast TV ?
Did you know that wildfires have occurred on the Earth for over 420 million years ?
Did you know that by the end of the 18th century , Native American women were decorating cloth with intricate ribbon work appliqué using French silk ribbon ?
Did you know that Øvre Richter Frich , creator of the action hero Jonas Fjeld , sold more than two million copies of his books?
Did you know that Love Patrol is a ni-Vanuatu edutainment soap opera designed to educate viewers about HIV AIDS ?
Did you know that a boycott of Molson beer led to the successful merger of the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association in 1979?
Did you know that Vietnam War veteran Christine Griffin was the first female member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a physical disability ?
Did you know that DNA analysis techniques are used to prevent fraudulent marketing of the false scad fish as a horse mackerel ?
Did you know that John Fetterman , the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania , lives in a warehouse he purchased for US$ 2,000?
Did you know that the new 100-meter (330 ft) observation tower with a 66-meter (217 ft) slide planned to be built on the Pyramidenkogel , a mountain in Austria , will be the tallest wooden tower in the world?
Did you know that the Battle of Big Dry Wash was the last battle fought between the Apache and the US Army and four Medals of Honor resulted from the battle?
Did you know that Gustav A. L. Heiberg was a defender in the last impeachment case in Norway ?
Did you know that " Flip Decision " , a 1952 Donald Duck comic book story, introduced the term flipism ?
Did you know that Miguel Durán is the head of the Libertas Spain list for the 2009 Euroelections in Spain ?
Did you know that the Economy Act of 1933 repealed all federal laws in the U.S. regarding veterans' benefits but permitted the President to re-establish them via executive order ?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Antonio Bastardo had an average of 21.6 strikeouts per game after one start in 2007?
Did you know that the existence of Aitvaras , now a squadron of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force , was revealed after the capture of Lithuanian sailors in Guinea in 2000?
Did you know that the Texas saddlemaker Tooter Cannon 's work is so prized by ranchers and rodeo performers that it is held mostly in private collections and unavailable on the open market?
Did you know that William Preble Hall was a Medal of Honor winner from the American Indian Wars and champion marksman from 1879 to 1892?
Did you know that 1978's Hurricane Cora played a part in the historic Double Eagle II hot air balloon transatlantic voyage?
Did you know that the bear kept in Camperdown Country Park , the largest park in Dundee , bit the arm off a 10-year-old boy?
Did you know that Andreas Claussen , best known as State Conciliator of Norway , survived a 1948 seaplane crash that also involved Bertrand Russell ?
Did you know that the National Bible Bee has the largest cash prize of any Bible Quiz ?
Did you know that the Nameless Book is the oldest existing Japanese work of literary criticism ?
Did you know that Archidermapteron martynovi is an extinct species of earwig named for Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov , who conducted extensive studies of fossil insects in the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Barakhamba is the name prefixed to the fourteenth century Lodi period  “Barakhamba Monument” in Nizamuddin complex  and to “Barakhamba road"  in Connaught Place in New Delhi ?
Did you know that Whitelaw Reid served as editor, president and chairman of the New York Herald Tribune , later winning a national singles tennis title in his age group at age 85 and a national doubles title at 90?
Did you know that the underworld kingpin Keyser Söze from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects was an inspiration for the Doctor Who campfire trailer ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Christie Ricci first became a fan of professional wrestling after attending a Sunday school class with Ted DiBiase, Jr. ?
Did you know that deforestation rates of primary forest in Sri Lanka have decreased by 35% since the end of the 1990s?
Did you know that Oregon politician Edward Schulmerich ' s former home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that the presence of the rare bigeye sand tiger in the Pacific Ocean was first suspected based on teeth recovered from the ocean floor ?
Did you know that in the 1930s Lady Olive Baillie held house parties at Leeds Castle , Kent , England, and her guests included the film stars Charlie Chaplin , Errol Flynn , and Gertrude Lawrence ?
Did you know that the Azure-hooded Jay , though not threatened with extinction , is uncommon in some parts of its Central American range?
Did you know that Carl Platou was dismissed from the Ministry of Justice and the Police for listening to a Norwegian resistance radio broadcast in his office?
Did you know that the word "terminator" had not been used in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles until the second season finale, " Born to Run "?
Did you know that Filipino Major General Jovito Palparan is credited with reducing communist insurgencies on the island of Samar by 80 percent?
Did you know that lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) from the brain can show how quickly you prepare to make a motor response?
Did you know that Congressman Greg Walden , former owner of radio station KIHR in Hood River, Oregon , began his career in broadcasting as the station's janitor ?
Did you know that Polar 3 , the first German airplane to reach the South Pole in December 1984, was shot down by Polisario Front rebels over Western Sahara on its way home in February 1985?
Did you know that UCLA Bruins end Dick Wallen won the 1957 Voit Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast?
Did you know that most of the land area of Tuek Phos District , Cambodia , is currently listed for lease on the internet as a potential bio-diesel plantation?
Did you know that Isaac Zamora ' s family attempted to commit him to an asylum before he killed five people in September 2008?
Did you know that thanks to its well-preserved medieval fortifications, the town of Paczków is called the Polish Carcassone ?
Did you know that Jermaine Mays was named All-State in high school as a senior despite breaking his collarbone ?
Did you know that Alexander, Lord of the Isles stripped down to his underwear for his surrender in the royal church to King James I of Scotland after the Battle of Lochaber ?
Did you know that Spirit of the Marathon , a documentary film about marathon runners, won Best Picture at the Mammoth Film Festival ?
Did you know that  the linguist Amund B. Larsen made the first dialect map in the Nordic countries ?
Did you know that Bookpeople was an employee-owned book distributor that helped revolutionize independent publishing and bookselling ?
Did you know that on 19 April 2009, cricketers from Afghanistan played Scotland in their first ever one-day international match?
Did you know that Zen Pinball is the first pinball game designed for the PlayStation 3 ?
Did you know that 80-year-old actor Bernard Cribbins will be the companion in David Tennant's final Doctor Who story ?
Did you know that biologist Thomas Henry Manning , known as Lone Wolf of the Arctic , honeymooned with his wife for a year and a half while mapping Baffin Island ?
Did you know that the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force was created after a request for a judicial inquiry was turned down?
Did you know that Douglas Clark , known as one of the "Sunset Strip Killers", was sentenced to death in 1983 yet still sits on California's Death Row ?
Did you know that the 1957 Triumph Twenty One was the first of the Triumph unit construction twin cylinder motorcycles?
Did you know that Chuck Cannon , husband of singer Lari White , co-wrote several hits for Toby Keith , including " How Do You Like Me Now?! "
Did you know that the most successful of Nazi Germany 's anti-partisan operations of the Second World War was Operation Hannover ?