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Did you know that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs?
Did you know that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
Did you know that Frank Tepedino , former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker , a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school , took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
Did you know that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University 's off-campus programs?
Did you know that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas ?
Did you know that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey ?
Did you know that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
Did you know that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams ?
Did you know that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey , and later served as the university's second chancellor ?
Did you know that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery ?
Did you know that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James , and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia ?
Did you know that Megalictis ferox , a species of extinct predatory mustelid , resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?
Did you know that Czech businessman František Mrázek is believed to have covertly influenced Czech politics for the 20 years before he was assassinated?
Did you know that Glenn Dumke was the chancellor of California State University from 1962 to 1982, during which time it became the largest system of higher education in the United States with 319,000 students?
Did you know that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II ?
Did you know that Tom Gish 's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining ?
Did you know that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi) * ?
Did you know that Terrance Carroll , the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives ?
Did you know that in 18th-century Europe, tobacco smoke enemas were considered the most potent method of resuscitating near-drowned people?
Did you know that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail ?
Did you know that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari ?
Did you know that although Fairfield Grammar School , Bristol , expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
Did you know that David Hoadley restructured management of the Panama Railway so that it avoided bankruptcy and finished its track a year early?
Did you know that internet service provider McColo , taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam ?
Did you know that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott , William Wordsworth , Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer ?
Did you know that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series , NBA Finals , NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
Did you know that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab , which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639 ?
Did you know that singer Christina Milian 's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis ?
Did you know that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew , known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California , admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture ?
Did you know that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?
Did you know that ABC moved the Roseanne episode " December Bride ", which featured a same-sex wedding , from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?
Did you know that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army , without fighting a single battle?
Did you know that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals ?
Did you know that Exchange Plaza , the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange , is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club ?
Did you know that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln 's first choice for Secretary of War , but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
Did you know that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba ?
Did you know that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match?
Did you know that in Japan during the Muromachi era , the shogun 's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?
Did you know that, on the way to Liverpool , the engine of the diesel-powered cargo liner MV Rakaia failed and the crew had to design makeshift sails to complete the journey?
Did you know that Pulicat Lake , a 450 km 2 (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary , adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre , launch site of India 's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1 ?
Did you know that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern , except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
Did you know that Aaron Edlin , an expert in law and economics , co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press ?
Did you know that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit , a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma , and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide ?
Did you know that when Jack Heslop-Harrison resigned as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1976 he was the first director to do so in the 154 years of its existence?
Did you know that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless , Tennessee ?
Did you know that Phil Ochs described " Power and the Glory " as "the greatest song I'll ever write"?
Did you know that following his team's loss in the 1965 Rose Bowl , Oregon State Beavers football coach Tommy Prothro was hired as head coach at UCLA , where he led the team to victory in the following year's Rose Bowl ?
Did you know that the Pied Tamarin , an endangered primate of the Amazon basin , is being gradually displaced by the Red-handed Tamarin ?
Did you know that the Woodland Opera House was the first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley ?
Did you know that Byron Brown was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Buffalo, New York , even though six African-Americans had been the nominee before him?
Did you know that at least five mutations are known to cause diplopodia in chickens , resulting in the development of extra toes or other structural abnormalities in the hind limbs?
Did you know that Benjamin Hanford ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1904 and 1908?
Did you know that a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar competition by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life"?
Did you know that Howard C. Belton lost the election to become the Oregon State Treasurer in 1948, only to be appointed to the same office 12 years later?
Did you know that the first episode of the third season of 30 Rock is currently the most watched episode of the series ?
Did you know that Howard Pyle 's 1883 children's novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood had a vast influence on portrayals of Robin Hood through the 20th century?
Did you know that almost all documentation of PZL.49 Miś , a development of advanced Polish medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś , was destroyed during the siege of Warsaw to prevent it from falling into Nazi German hands?
Did you know that Charles Thomas Campbell , who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War , helped found the town of Scotland, South Dakota ?
Did you know that the oldest known text of the Martyrology of Tallaght is in a 12th-century manuscript now at University College, Dublin ?
Did you know that Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav ?
Did you know that General Charles G. Boyd , United States Air Force , is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank ?
Did you know that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales ' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel , sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
Did you know that Vatalanib , an anti- cancer drug currently in clinical trials , inhibits the growth of new blood vessels by selectively blocking receptors of vascular endothelial growth factors ?
Did you know that before becoming a general in the American Civil War , Robert Francis Catterson practiced medicine in Rockville, Indiana ?
Did you know that the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis vexillaria was discovered in 1867 by plant collector David Bowman and introduced from Colombia to England in 1873 by a fellow Veitch employee, Henry Chesterton ?
Did you know that Hilary Teague served as Liberia 's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence ?
Did you know that perfluorononanoic acid , an environmental contaminant , has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?
Did you know that Snarøya , a peninsula in Bærum , Norway , was an island until the 19th century?
Did you know that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress , she worked as a model , starting when she was only two and a half years old?
Did you know that mokomokai , the preserved heads of Māori people with facial tattoos , were traded for firearms during the early 19th century in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Morten Wetland was the campaign manager for Gro Harlem Brundtland when she applied for the World Health Organization directorship in 1998?
Did you know that Irwin Gunsalus discovered lipoic acid , an enzyme cofactor which has been proposed as a dietary supplement to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases ?
Did you know that Jacques Rabemananjara , former Vice President of Madagascar , was also an important negritude poet and playwright?
Did you know that Bobby Leonard , Jack McKinney , Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA ?
Did you know that the Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981?
Did you know that Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport ?
Did you know that suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin?
Did you know that Vivaldi 's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron ?
Did you know that the 30- storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
Did you know that publisher and biographer Newman Flower was criticized by some contemporaries for sanitizing aspects of his subjects' personal lives?
Did you know that ATIC , a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica , recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles ?
Did you know that although Antonio Maria Bononcini 's 1718 opera Griselda was successful, his older brother, Giovanni Bononcini , composed a more popular version in 1722?
Did you know that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen , founder of the company of the same name , also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament ?
Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa ?
Did you know that the cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons ?
Did you know that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States , consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
Did you know that Jeffrey Blitz wrote Rocket Science based on his own adolescence despite claiming to be "allergic" to autobiographical films?
Did you know  that Soviet submarines patrolling in the North Atlantic in the 1970s reported mysterious frog-like sounds, dubbed " quackers ", which have been classified as Unidentified Submerged Objects ?
Did you know that the fungus Podaxis is often used as face paint by the Australian Aborigines ?
Did you know that Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde ?
Did you know that Lucky Dragons have not only released 19 albums, but also run an art society called Sumi Ink Club and an internet community called Glaciers of Nice?
Did you know that the cave paintings at La Marche in France, which include detailed depictions of humans rather than stick figures, were met with skepticism when discovered in 1937?
Did you know that former Princeton Tigers Will Venable and Chris Young were the first players named first-team All- Ivy League in both basketball and baseball ?
Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora elaphi is a parasite that infests the hepatic blood vessels of Red Deer in Spain ?
Did you know that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times , which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.?
Did you know that the 350-acre (140 ha) Mar Y Cel estate, built in the early 1900s in the foothills of California 's Santa Ynez Mountains , included an aqueduct , water works, arches, and statues?
Did you know that Donald Finkel , a poet who had aspired to be a sculptor as a youth, created sculptures out of found items that he called "dreckolage"?
Did you know that Plymouth Cathedral experienced subsidence after a Royal Navy officer fired new Turkish man-of-war guns in Plymouth Sound ?
Did you know that seven Caltrain stations have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that before becoming a famous opera singer, Ines Maria Ferraris had a career as a concert pianist beginning at the age of 12?
Did you know that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus , a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia , Italy ?
Did you know that Abell 2142 , a galaxy cluster , is one of the most massive objects in the universe?
Did you know that historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II , but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
Did you know that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini were awarded the 2000 Crafoord Prize for identification of TNF blockade as an effective therapeutic principle in rheumatoid arthritis ?
Did you know that according to the U.S. copyright law , musicians who accuse others of plagiarising their work must prove "access" and "similarity", in the absence of a confession?
Did you know that Nabi Shu'ayb , Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro ", is used in English to refer to the site where Druze tradition holds he was buried?
Did you know that the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 reorganised the reserves of the British Army , creating the Territorial Force ?
Did you know that openly gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career?
Did you know that Karl Marx called the Daily Express of Dublin "the Government organ" and accused it of "false rumours of murders committed, armed men marauding, and midnight meetings"?
Did you know that Jerry Ziesmer , who delivered the line " Terminate with extreme prejudice " in Apocalypse Now , was also the film's assistant director ?
Did you know that, apart from inventing the saxophone , Belgian musician Adolphe Sax also devised the brass instrument saxotromba ?
Did you know that the character Seo Hell from the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus tells Satan to leave her dwelling, and has been compared to the female being Hel of Norse mythology ?
Did you know that former Detroit Tigers pitcher Pat Underwood 's first game in the major leagues was a 1-0 victory against his brother Tom ?
Did you know that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité , Europe's largest transmission system operator , manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines ?
Did you know that enraged plebs burned down the home of Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus because of a rumor that he would rather slake lime with wine, than sell wine at the price they wanted?
Did you know that many of the members of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team which toured England in 1868 were Jardwadjali men?
Did you know that before serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War , James M. Goggin worked as a cotton broker?
Did you know that until the former Arab village of Nabi Rubin was captured by Israel in 1948, it was the site of a large annual  religious festival with tens of thousands of Muslims participating?
Did you know that a 12-mile (19 km)-long railway ride was planned to be built on Dunderberg Mountain in the 19th century, but was never completed?
Did you know that mushrooms of the genus Calostoma are sometimes called "prettymouth" because of peristome tissue that appears on them when they expand?
Did you know that 1996 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee Jack Kemp won two American Football League Championships as the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and 1965?
Did you know that the bankruptcy of property fund owner William Stern with debts of £118 million led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act in 1975?
Did you know that Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur -themed artwork?
Did you know that Swedish scientist Per-Ingvar Brånemark ’s discovery of osseointegration led to the development of titanium dental implants ?
Did you know that in the 1850s, the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company was the largest marine and general insurance firm in North America?
Did you know that in 1903, a toll of 10 pennies (equivalent to £14.00 today) was levied to take a flock of twenty sheep across Maidenhead Bridge ?
Did you know that Rosetta Reitz , whose Rosetta Records focused on the women of jazz, was behind the 1980 Newport Jazz Festival tribute called "Blues is a Woman", featuring Adelaide Hall and Big Mama Thornton ?
Did you know that Order of the Builders of People's Poland was the highest civilian decoration in the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you know that Chuck Churn won only three games in his Major League Baseball career, one of them handing Elroy Face his only loss in 1959 when he finished with an 18–1 record?
Did you know that during the Great Bombay Textile Strike of 1982, nearly 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai , India ?
Did you know that Mieczysław Jagielski negotiated the agreement which recognized Solidarity as the first independent trade union within the Eastern Bloc ?
Did you know that Emperor Dezong of Tang ordered the former chancellor Dou Can to commit suicide as Dou was heading to his exile in Vietnam ?
Did you know that when it was completed in 1976, the 32-storey Allendale Square in Perth, Western Australia , was one of the largest fully aluminium -clad skyscrapers in the world?
Did you know that the 1996 Orange Bowl had the lowest attendance of any Orange Bowl since 1947?
Did you know that when Wales national rugby union team beat Scotland in the 1952 Five Nations Championship , Rex Willis played a large proportion of the match with a broken jaw bone?
Did you know that at least one song written by Sonny Throckmorton was on the country music charts for almost every week between 1976 and 1980?
Did you know that the Lava River Cave in Newberry National Volcanic Monument is the longest known uncollapsed lava tube in Oregon , U.S.?
Did you know that Charles Dinsmoor invented the endless chain tractor in 1886, forerunner of the continuous track vehicle?
Did you know that Uncial 0212 is the first manuscript of Greek Diatessaron , a Gospel harmony , to be discovered in modern time?
Did you know that in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant , in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn , New York ?
Did you know that there are four types of spinning , a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers—wet, dry, melt, and gel?
Did you know that during the War of 1812 , Grenadier Island , Canada , housed a small military installation?
Did you know that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes considered the founding of Ohio State University one of his two greatest achievements?
Did you know that a proposal by James Armsey of the Ford Foundation led many major universities in the United States to integrate in the 1960s?
Did you know that the white horse in mythology is associated with the sun chariot, warrior-heroes, fertility or an end-time saviour?
Did you know that American illustrator , painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale ?
Did you know that validation of ocean surface wave models through hindcasts and forecasts is important to the shipping industry , which relies on them for tactical seakeeping ?
Did you know that Dalberg Global Development Advisors developed a ranking system to assess the quality of 20,000 NGOs and UN agencies ?
Did you know that the bell tower of the Bărboi Church in Iaşi , Romania , is over a century older than the present church, and once contained a private library?