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Did you know that table tennis world champion Gertrude Kleinová 's first husband was the chairman of her table tennis division, and her second husband was her coach?
Did you know that The Old Lady and the Pigeons lost the Oscar but won the Genie ?
Did you know that Alberta has three provincially designated wilderness areas: Ghost River , Siffleur and White Goat ?
Did you know that Cursed Days consists of the diaries and notes of Nobel Prize -winning Russian anti- Bolshevik author Ivan Bunin about his country's first days under communism ?
Did you know that Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur Lydia Sarfati is credited with introducing seaweed -based skin treatments in the United States?
Did you know that the Palestinian Patriarchate was involved in redeeming formerly Jewish-owned land in Palestine ?
Did you know that translator Marilyn Booth claimed that her original translation of the best-selling Saudi novel Girls of Riyadh had been interfered with by the author and the publisher?
Did you know that the North Star House of Grass Valley, California , built for Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote , was one of architect Julia Morgan 's first projects?
Did you know that due to laws regarding religion in Malaysia a non-Muslim must obtain the permission of his Muslim neighbours to get a pet dog?
Did you know that the fall of the Hraschina meteorite in 1751 was the first fall of an iron meteorite reported by a significant number of witnesses?
Did you know that Blood & Thunder is the biography of the creator of Conan the Barbarian ?
Did you know that the aquatic fungus Limnoperdon has been described as a floating puffball ?
Did you know that the Empire Dunnet was built in 1945 then sold and renamed three times before wrecking in Borneo in 1967?
Did you know that Norlom was one of the eighteen ships sunk in the air raid on Bari on 2 December 1943 ?
Did you know that the Viking adventure film Severed Ways was shot partly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the site of an 11th-century Norse settlement?
Did you know that Lord Justice Brian Leveson of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has been picked to lead the public inquiry into media regulation ?
Did you know that the 1973 second division game between Bavarian rivals FC Augsburg and TSV 1860 München was watched by 80,000 spectators, a record for the Olympic Stadium in Munich ?
Did you know that New York Post art critic William Anderson Coffin was awarded the French Legion of Honor ?
Did you know that acclaimed Scottish actor Iain Blair wrote a series of romantic novels under the pen name Emma?
Did you know that twelve Indonesian newspapers and magazines were closed after the Malari incident in 1974?
Did you know that the English country house of Chilston Park in Kent has been home to five members of Parliament and four members of the House of Lords ?
Did you know that Herbert Freudenberger fled Germany alone during WWII at the age of twelve, later becoming a well-known psychologist in the United States?
Did you know that the name of the Beach Hebrew Institute was chosen to avoid attracting the attention of the Canadian German Party?
Did you know that Carl Ward 's 104-yard kickoff return in 1967 was the longest in the history of the Cleveland Browns ?
Did you know that the Somali bushbaby has particoloured hair on its belly so that it appears sandy by day and greyish by night?
Did you know that the British 1st Airlanding Light Regiment used the American 75 mm pack howitzer during the Battle of Arnhem ?
Did you know that both David "Bakes" Baker and David "ODB" Baker have finished in the money at least four times in each of the last three World Series of Poker ?
Did you know that Empire Duke was lent to the team from Cambridge University Engineering Department to assist in the search for the cause of structural failures in a number of Liberty ships ?
Did you know that attorney Rizwana Hasan ' s focus on regulations for the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh earned her the Goldman Environmental Prize ?
Did you know that Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden earned 5 of HBO 's 104 total nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards ?
Did you know that after his victory at the Crufts dog show, the Pekingese dog Yakee A Dangerous Liaison was falsely accused of having plastic surgery?
Did you know that Gründlehämmer was the first theatrical production of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society , an all-volunteer rock opera company formed in 2009?
Did you know that the official magazine of the Polish Underground State published 80 issues in the dangerous conditions of occupied Poland?
Did you know that six of the ten siblings of Norwegian stage actress Ada Kramm were actors themselves?
Did you know that artist Ginger Gilmour , first wife of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd , was given a British Red Cross Award for "Services to Humanity"?
Did you know that Swedish scientist Johan Rockström led a team that has initiated an international debate on planetary boundaries , the central concept in a new framework for sustainable development ?
Did you know that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC , but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed?
Did you know that the Nazis documented murder and genocide during their perpetration of the Holocaust with euphemisms such as Sonderbehandlung ?
Did you know that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
Did you know that the Fort Pitt Blockhouse in downtown Pittsburgh was the only portion of Fort Pitt saved from demolition in 1797?
Did you know that Bernt H. Lund became Norway's first ambassador to Namibia in 1990?
Did you know that nearly half of all known RNA structures were determined through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of nucleic acids ?
Did you know that runner Garry Bjorklund qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 m despite losing a shoe during the U.S. Olympic Trials ?
Did you know that Albany architect Marcus T. Reynolds ' 1893 thesis, Housing of the Poor in American Cities , is still cited in scholarly work today?
Did you know that composer Gil Shohat denies that his opera The Child Dreams is about the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the Bulldog Strathtay Prince Albert was the first non–terrier to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show ?
Did you know that the first two destroyers scheduled to be constructed by domestic shipyards for the Polish Navy were never completed due to the German invasion of Poland ?
Did you know that Hefaiston is an annual international competition of blacksmiths that had more than 400 participants in 2010?
Did you know that David Mendelblatt , an American former Optimist Pram National Champion, is the older brother of Olympian Mark Mendelblatt ?
Did you know that the Domestic of the Schools was the commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army from the 9th to the 11th century?
Did you know that Orange Phelps , later mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon , opened the first movie theater in that city in 1908?
Did you know that Jamie Sadlowski won the 2008 and 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship , and has a personal-best golf drive of 445 yards (407 m)?
Did you know that the synagogue building of Congregation Knesseth Israel (the "Junction Shul") is the oldest surviving in Toronto that is still in use?
Did you know that the late 1890s, British philatelist Percival Loines Pemberton participated in stamp auctions in London where potential buyers were sometimes given alcoholic drinks to encourage bidding?
Did you know that Shibuya -based video game localization company 8-4 is named after the final level of Super Mario Bros. ?
Did you know that the Score the Goals comic book – featuring ten soccer players – was launched by the UN to educate children on how to help reduce poverty by 2015?
Did you know that David Olère was the only artist to have worked as a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz concentration camp and survived?
Did you know that Li Lu , an associate of Warren Buffett , was one of the pro-democracy activists rescued by Operation Yellowbird in 1989?
Did you know that Richard Weiner , one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century, wrote a regular fashion column under a female pseudonym?
Did you know that the environmentally-friendly ticketing system used for the 87th NCAA basketball season wastes less paper?
Did you know that the mother of Georgine Darcy , an actress in Alfred Hitchcock 's Rear Window , urged her to become a stripper ?
Did you know that All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is author Maya Angelou 's recounting of her years spent in Accra , Ghana, in the early 1960s?
Did you know that in his campaign against the Malli in India, Alexander the Great was seriously injured and nearly died?
Did you know that Clarence Crum 's 15.43 earned run average was the worst on the 1918 Boston Braves ?
Did you know that the adjacent Big Jacks Creek Wilderness and Little Jacks Creek Wilderness in Idaho have been designated as wild rivers ?
Did you know that Duquesne University president Vernon F. Gallagher once composed an operetta and learned Slovak on his own?
Did you know that despite being a boxing-themed short film, the Duke of Chicago was criticized for being "slow-paced and seemingly a lot longer than its fifty-nine minutes"?
Did you know that baobab ice cream is a feature of Angolan cuisine ?
Did you know that the public dispute between molecular nanotechnology founder Eric Drexler and Nobel laureate Richard Smalley has been characterized as being "reminiscent of a Saturday Night Live sketch"?
Did you know that Empire Drum and Empire Dryden were both built in 1941 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland, UK, and that both ships were torpedoed and sunk by U-boats in April 1942 ?
Did you know that Johann Karl Nestler was teaching scientific animal and plant breeding at the University of Olomouc in what is now the Czech Republic when Gregor Mendel studied there?
Did you know that in the mid-1970s the Saint Helena Labour Party tried to boost links between Saint Helena and South Africa?
Did you know that it took Chrisye multiple takes to finish recording Kala Cinta Menggoda because he would break down in tears after singing a few lines?
Did you know that in 2010, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said that 21-year-old Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson "might be Prime Minister one day"?
Did you know that indigenous territories organized as Native Community Lands in Bolivia cover 16.8 million hectares ( 168,000 km 2 ), over 15% of Bolivian territory?
Did you know that Orli Wald spent from 1936 to 1945 in Nazi prison and concentration camps for being a communist, only to leave the Communist Party in 1948 because of Stalinism ?
Did you know that Glenn Doughty rushed for 329 yards in his first two college football games for the 1969 Michigan Wolverines and later played eight years for the Baltimore Colts ?
Did you know that Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was the first female chief minister of Punjab , but only the eighth female chief minister of an Indian state?
Did you know that Duquesne University has named one of its colleges and a street on its campus in honor of Henry J. McAnulty ?
Did you know that the First Battle of Guinegate was the first use of the Old Swiss Confederacy pike square formation by non-Swiss powers?
Did you know that the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem may be used to extend the four-color theorem from finite planar graphs to planar graphs with infinitely many vertices?
Did you know that both the Pole Creek Wilderness and North Fork Owyhee Wilderness have some of the largest concentrations of sheer-walled volcanic rhyolite and basalt canyons in the western United States?
Did you know that at the end of World War II, the British 133rd (Parachute) Field Ambulance were responsible for the medical care of 4,500 Russian prisoners of war?
Did you know that American NFL quarterback Robert Halperin was awarded the Navy Cross , won an Olympic bronze medal and a Pan American Games gold medal in sailing, and co-founded the Lands' End clothing retailer?
Did you know that Italian Vincenzo Sarno was 11 years old when he signed to play professional football with Torino F.C. ?
Did you know that while the Jersey Bridge was being replaced, the only way for tourists to visit the Drake Well Museum was by train ?
Did you know that Nama leader Simon Kooper received an annual allowance for not continuing his attacks on Imperial Germany 's forces in German South-West Africa ?
Did you know that the owl limpet maintains a small meadow of algal turf for its own exclusive use?
Did you know that although modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat described his novel Rama and the Dragon as "untranslatable", an English translation appeared 23 years after the original publication in Arabic?
Did you know that Richmont Castle once overlooked the Chew Valley ?
Did you know that former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Freddie Mitchell received threatening hate mail in 2003, apparently due to his appearance on a reality television show, A Dating Story ?
Did you know that Karen Stollznow writes for two skeptical magazines ( Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer ) and hosts two skeptical podcasts ( Point of Inquiry and Monster Talk )?
Did you know that Academy Award -winning director Jonathan Demme directed the first episode of the television series A Gifted Man ?
Did you know that the name of Tarkio River , a non-navigable river that stretches from Iowa to Missouri, meant a "place where walnuts grow"?
Did you know that Selman Riza 's 1952 work on Serbo-Croatian grammar is regarded as a work of contrastive analysis , although the theory was not formulated until five years later by Robert Lado ?
Did you know that a small single-runway airport serves Kapoeta South County in the Greater Kapoeta region of South Sudan ?
Did you know that cornet player Bohumir Kryl offered his daughters US $100,000 to refrain from marriage until they reached the age of 30 years?
Did you know that blinded Bristol boxer Dixie Brown was visited during World War II by African American soldiers, who respected him as "a much admired character"?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Thomas G. Carmody obtained passage in 2009 of a bill strengthening penalities for the crime of indecent behavior with juveniles?
Did you know that Niccolò Machiavelli 's military reforms were designed to create a citizen army in the style of Ancient Rome?
Did you know that the 200-year-old Dundee Royal Infirmary was one of the first UK hospitals to acquire a catSCAN head scanner ?
Did you know that military historian Lars Borgersrud 's research includes taboo subjects like the fate of war children and Norwegian military officers with Nazi sympathies prior to and during World War II?
Did you know that when the Frog Boys went missing, South Korean President Roh Tae-woo dispatched 300,000 police officers to search for them?
Did you know that as political prisoners were released due to the fall of communism in Poland, regular prisoners rioted , demanding better conditions and an amnesty?
Did you know that the school started in 1843 by Edward Baigent 's wife at their home in Wakefield is today New Zealand's oldest public school?
Did you know that Fort Peck Lake is the largest lake by surface area in Montana ?
Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Chuck Kleckley has been instrumental in broadening the functions of the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District?
Did you know that Morges Castle in Switzerland had a fortified kitchen that was attached to the castle's exterior walls?
Did you know that Indonesian "renaissance man" Mochtar Lubis , co-founder of the daily Indonesia Raya , wrote novels involving superstition , corruption , and erectile dysfunction ?
Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Brett Geymann once sought a legislative remedy for crawfish being pushed into neighboring ditches because of rising waters?
Did you know that the United Nations Honour Flag was designed as a symbol of the Allies of World War II at the suggestion of Winston Churchill ?
Did you know that Late Gothic architect Benedikt Rejt rebuilt parts of Prague Castle and built the vault for St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora ?
Did you know that May 3rd Constitution Day , among the most important Polish holidays , was banned in the former communist state, the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you know that Donald S. Nesti clashed with the Tamburitzans as president of Duquesne University ?
Did you know that the parenting book On Becoming Baby Wise tells parents to put their infant down to sleep while he is awake?
Did you know that in 1960 Provincetown, Massachusetts , Town Manager Walter E. Lawrence requested financial aid from the state government to help fight the infiltration of beatniks into the town?
Did you know that during the Battle of Drashovica over 3000 German soldiers died, more than 200 of whom were inside the barracks of Drashovicë?
Did you know that despite holding a degree in architecture , Erwin Gutawa became a composer and conductor?
Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Bodi White has pushed for full financial disclosure and mandatory governmental ethics training for legislative officials?
Did you know that the East India Film Company , formed in 1932, was a pioneer in the production of films in Bengali , Hindi , Tamil , and Telugu ?
Did you know that General Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald was an army balloon photographer who later served in India, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, China and led a major expedition into Tibet?
Did you know that Michael Gilbert was kept as a slave and regularly beaten by a family who eventually murdered him?
Did you know that Wally Heider engineered the remote recording of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ?
Did you know that damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake at the Peterborough Centre is estimated at NZ$ 12 million, only NZ$0.3M less than the insured value of this historic building?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin expelled an American Navy captain from Moscow after learning he had fathered a " love child " with a well-known Soviet film actress , who was then banished to Siberia for eight years?
Did you know that in Bach's cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 ( "Merciful Heart of eternal love" ), the closing chorale melody is prefigured in the first duet in dancing 6/4 time?
Did you know that the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad main line in Oregon was damaged by storms three times, then finally abandoned due to repair costs?
Did you know that in the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships , Mayookha Johny became only the second athlete from India to win a gold medal in the long jump event?
Did you know that retiring Louisiana State Rep. Hollis Downs broke with his party to support an anti-bullying bill?
Did you know that East African Highland bananas are so important as staple food crops in Uganda that ' Matoke ', the traditional meal made from steamed bananas, is synonymous with the word "food"?
Did you know that the late 19th-century novel Homo sapiens , although well received in Germany, was withdrawn from sale in the U.S. after being called obscene ?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Sir John Inglis was the head of British Naval Intelligence and attempted to cover up the " Buster Crabb affair" in 1956?
Did you know that although elk had disappeared from the Table Mountain Wilderness , they were reintroduced in 1979 and are now one of the largest herds in Nevada ?
Did you know that Keren Leibovitch , Israeli four-time gold medal winning Paralympic swimmer, is paralyzed from the waist down because of an injury she incurred during her service with the Israeli Defense Forces ?
Did you know that the International Broadcasting Bureau Greenville Transmitting Stations located in Greenville , North Carolina , were the most powerful international broadcaster in the world?
Did you know that Louisiana State Representative John E. Guinn , a father of ten children, earns his livelihood as an auctioneer ?
Did you know that the Kauai remya is threatened by the banana poka ?
Did you know that the shadow of nearby mountains first hit the Tower of Jericho on the sunset of the summer solstice and then spread across the entire proto-city in c. 8000 BCE ?
Did you know that a ruptured fuel pipeline leaked 1.5 million liters of jet fuel into the Zin Stream in southern Israel in June 2011 ?
Did you know that although William FitzOsbern had given All Saints' Church of Newchurch, Isle of Wight , to an abbey in Normandy , Henry VIII later gave it to the See of Bristol ?
Did you know that Bobby Parks ' son chose Manila's National University over Georgia Tech but was almost not cleared to play in the 74th UAAP basketball season due to eligibility issues?
Did you know that American yachtsman Mark Mendelblatt won the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships when he was 11 years old?
Did you know that Zinaida Reich was expelled from school at the end of the eighth grade in the tsarist Russia for her political activities?
Did you know that the Population Estimates Program sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau helps determine the allocation of U.S. federal funds?
Did you know that evidence for domesticated dogs between 10,150 and 9320 BC has been found at Hatula in modern-day Israel ?
Did you know that even after he was forced off two different crippled warships during the Battle of Copenhagen , the wounded Danish commodore Olfert Fischer still refused to concede defeat to Lord Horatio Nelson ?
Did you know that songwriter Doug Fieger has stated that The Knack 's song " Baby Talks Dirty " was written about the same Sharona who inspired the group's No. 1 hit " My Sharona "?
Did you know that Xavier Mertz is suspected to have died as a result of eating dog liver?
Did you know that Russian broadside ironclad Ne Tron Menia was named after the biblical verse John 20:17 ?
Did you know that "Dad" Moulton , a participant in Sherman's March to the Sea , was the U.S. sprint champion in the 1870s, and trained the "world's fastest human" in the 1880s?
Did you know that the steepest roller coaster in the world , with a drop angle of 121°, is Takabisha at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan?
Did you know that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall in Cheshire , England, originally a country house, was later a Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
Did you know that Amanda Peet jokingly described her character in the upcoming television comedy series Bent as "a repressed woman who needs to get laid"?
Did you know that the severed head of Julia Martha Thomas , murdered, boiled and dismembered by her maid in 1879, was found next door to Sir David Attenborough 's house in 2010?
Did you know that the song " Indonesia Maharddhika ", from the critically acclaimed album Guruh Gipsy , has the names of the contributors hidden in its lyrics?
Did you know that Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight can be traced to AD 872 to the time of Alfred the Great and was owned by William the Conqueror , as mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086?
Did you know that Dick Campbell , as a theater producer and director, helped launch the careers of several black theater artists, including Ossie Davis , Frederick O'Neal , and Helen Martin ?
Did you know that the reputedly haunted Pioneer Park is the only intact Second Empire house in Aspen, Colorado ?
Did you know that Australian climate scientist Will Steffen helped initiate an international debate on planetary boundaries and has promoted the concept of the Anthropocene ?
Did you know that for many years, the Russian Soviet Republic did not have its own Communist Party ?
Did you know that Douglas Mawson was the sole survivor of the Far Eastern Party , enduring a month alone in the Antarctic and walking about 100 miles (160 km) to safety?
Did you know that according to an Islamic tradition, the Invasion of Banu Qaynuqa was caused by a Jewish jeweler allegedly stripping a Muslim woman?
Did you know that Jane Baker , a former cooking show host and community organizer , became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California ?