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Did you know that Pedro Borrell , the Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the Caribbean Sea ?
Did you know that Bach assigned two opposing voices to one singer in his cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109 , for the 21st Sunday after Trinity ?
Did you know that Perlman syndrome is a very rare overgrowth disorder with an estimated incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world literature?
Did you know that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable chain being lowered into a boat?
Did you know that American historian Terry H. Anderson co-authored with Charles R. Bond, Jr. the first published diary of the exploits of a pilot assigned to General Claire Chennault 's World War II Flying Tigers ?
Did you know that the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross diocesan community in Wisconsin was founded in 1868 to teach and provide medical care to the Belgian residents?
Did you know that Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey discusses both issues of the fair treatment of governesses and the ethical claim of animals to human protection?
Did you know that the father , mother , and father-in-law of Muhoozi Kainerugaba , Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People's Defence Force , are all members of the Cabinet of Uganda ?
Did you know that the passing of the Food Quality Protection Act marked the first time the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to directly address the risks that pesticides posed for infants and children?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
Did you know that James Turrell 's art installations Stuck Red and Stuck Blue create an optical illusion which seems to collapse the room they occupy into a single plane ?
Did you know that the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition managed to march the 2.6 t elephant Jumbo over the Alps , but could not make her accept the name Hannibella ?
Did you know that British peer Ted Hill lived in a terraced house in Wivenhoe ?
Did you know that Alexis Rockman 's mural Manifest Destiny , commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
Did you know that the Naskapi ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve in northern Quebec , Canada , as a prerequisite to the formation of their own reserve ?
Did you know that in 1970, Texas historian Robert A. Calvert co-authored The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL , an inside study of the financing and organization of the popular football team ?
Did you know that in 1833, the opium clipper Sylph set the unbroken record of sailing from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours?
Did you know that the Araçuaí River valley in Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of Minas Novas ?
Did you know that the incomplete structural test airframe of the Avro 720 is often claimed to be the prototype of the cancelled interceptor ?
Did you know that Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction"?
Did you know that Dennis Mackrel , the last jazz drummer to be personally hired by Count Basie , is the new director of the Count Basie Orchestra ?
Did you know that the Saxony Apartment Building in Cincinnati , Ohio , features two facades ?
Did you know that BPP University College of Professional Studies is the United Kingdom's first for-profit institution of higher education ?
Did you know that Herman G. Felhoelter was the first US Army chaplain to win a valor award in the Korean War for his actions at the Chaplain-Medic massacre ?
Did you know that English vocalist Sarah Brightman had to beg Italian composer Ennio Morricone to let her add lyrics to his movie theme , " Gabriel's Oboe ", to create her own song, " Nella Fantasia "?
Did you know that the Fort des Ayvelles was the scene of German executions of French civilians in both World War I and World War II ?
Did you know that in the Expedition of Mostaganem in 1558, Spain failed to capture the Ottoman -held city of Mostaganem , and lost thousands of men?
Did you know that Herb Wiedoeft , Ad and Gay all played Cinderella, and that their brother Rudy and their sister Erica were both players too?
Did you know that the Umayyad general Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik , who led the second Arab siege of Constantinople , was also ascribed the construction of the city's first mosque in popular legend?
Did you know that the Nairana class escort carriers of the Royal Navy were constructed in three different countries?
Did you know that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for his work with Barbra Streisand ?
Did you know that after the 1880 general election in the United Kingdom , the election of Macclesfield MP David Chadwick was declared void, and his agent convicted of bribery?
Did you know that EastCare is the critical care mobile air and ground transport of Pitt County Memorial Hospital ?
Did you know that Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis ' plans to construct a luxury hotel in view of Neuschwanstein Castle caused an uproar from local Bavarian farmers, who believed it would ruin the rural landscape?
Did you know that Antiguan professional basketball player Kurt Looby did not play high school basketball?
Did you know that the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig , by an African American string band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops , reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Bluegrass chart?
Did you know that Texas Tech professor emeritus Alwyn Barr , who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995 , and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas ?
Did you know that the Greek television series To Nisi , based on the best-selling novel The Island by Victoria Hislop , is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
Did you know that a U.S. appeals court declared the federal government was obliged to bring a lawsuit against the state of Maine , claiming 60% of the state's land on behalf of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot ?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Sunn Classic Pictures specialized in four wall distribution , a practice in which distributors show their films in rented theaters and keep all of the box office revenue?
Did you know that Evangelical mysticism , a branch of Christianity , dates back to the 18th-century works by John Wesley , founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church ?
Did you know that after the Ottoman invasion of the Balearic islands in 1558 , over 3,000 inhabitants were taken as slaves ?
Did you know that country music songwriter Bill Rice has 73 awards from ASCAP , more than any other songwriter?
Did you know that, as part of the agreement to end the deadly Tarakan riot in 2010, the communities involved agreed to jointly hold an Idul Fitri celebration?
Did you know that the American boogie-woogie pianist and singer , Mose Vinson , recorded two versions of " Forty-Four ", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone"?
Did you know that the only airstrikes carried out by India in its own civilian territory happened during the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising ?
Did you know that in the 1945 general election , Harold Roberts was one of only three Conservative MPs elected in the English city of Birmingham ?
Did you know that the 1932 Pre-Code film Laughter in Hell drew praise for its open depiction of the lynching of African Americans ?
Did you know that Texas A&M historian Walter L. Buenger wrote articles on Texas entrepreneurs H. L. Hunt and Jesse H. Jones ?
Did you know that the blind and oval electric rays can barely swim, instead "walking" along the sea floor ?
Did you know that English former professional footballer Jimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won £ 200,000 on a single race?
Did you know that when sailors on board Almirante Latorre mutinied , one of their demands was for more sugar?
Did you know that Anita Martinez was the first Mexican American woman to serve on the city council of Dallas, Texas ?
Did you know that approximately 8% of commuters in Portland , Oregon , bike to work , the highest proportion of any major United States city?
Did you know that Reginald Laurence Scoones was the last British military commander in the Sudan Defence Force ?
Did you know that an elaborate, three-storey tomb memorializing Sir George Shirley inside the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill , Leicestershire , was constructed 20 years before his death?
Did you know that the Cold War led nations to subsidise foreign exchange programs to encourage student migration from developing countries ?
Did you know that in State of Missouri v. State of Iowa in 1849, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a border dispute between two states that had caused the " Honey War " of 1839?
Did you know that Ed Beisser won three consecutive AAU basketball national championships from 1946 to 1948 and was selected as an alternate for the United States men's national basketball team ?
Did you know that Internet service provider Fasthosts , sold for £ 61.5 million in 2006, was founded by a 17-year-old for a school project?
Did you know that completion of the Croatian A4 motorway on October 22 , 2008 marked completion of the Budapest – Zagreb – Rijeka motorway route?
Did you know that puppeteer Van Snowden , who performed the puppetry for the H.R. Pufnstuf and Crypt Keeper characters, also developed the facial movements for Furby toys?
Did you know that running back Gerald White played football for Bo Schembechler at Michigan , Tom Landry at Dallas and Don Shula at Miami ?
Did you know that tens of thousands of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried in multiple mass graves near Titanyen ?
Did you know that, during the height of the Cold War , the Canadian government drew up plans for mass arrests of communists and crypto-communists ?
Did you know that Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant will be the largest power plant in Ethiopia when fully operational, but has been accused of aiming "to provoke Egypt ’s anger"?
Did you know that the Rose Bowl was used as a velodrome as one of the venues of the 1932 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Louis Henkin slept on the couch of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on Friday nights so he could attend the justices' weekly Saturday conference without violating the Jewish Sabbath ?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter David Halberstam 's book The Breaks of the Game was listed as one of the best sports books ever written by Sports Illustrated ?
Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Atsede Habtamu set a new course record at the Eindhoven Marathon with her first marathon victory earlier this month?
Did you know that the release of Future X-Cops was delayed, as time was needed to enhance the quality of the film's special effects ?
Did you know that after winning his last fight via 10-second knockout due to head kick, English welterweight Mark Scanlon was signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship ?
Did you know that Shamkir reservoir is the second largest reservoir in the Caucasus ?
Did you know that American soprano Lauren Flanigan premiered the title role of Hugo Weisgall 's opera Esther at the New York City Opera in 1993?
Did you know that a 13-year-old girl discovered Grotte du Vallonnet , a cave in the Alpes-Maritimes of France that contained stone tools dated to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC ?
Did you know that a 1967 appeal by Felix Ziegel on Soviet television led to citizens submitting a barrage of supposed unidentified flying object sightings?
Did you know that Jameel Sayhood was shot down by Cesar Rodriguez mere minutes after achieving one of the few Iraqi aerial victories of the Gulf War ?
Did you know that the term educology , referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?
Did you know that Robert Tishman co-founded Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law Jerry Speyer , a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
Did you know that Chesham tube station on the Chesham branch is both the northernmost and westernmost point of the London Underground ?
Did you know that IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen had five caps in football , two in bandy and an Olympic silver medal in sailing ?
Did you know that even though it was released in 1932, the Pre-Code film The Devil is Driving deals openly with sex and violence?
Did you know that the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Cooper Rawson was a chairman of Durex Ltd?
Did you know that Codex Floriacensis , an Old Latin manuscript of the New Testament , begins from the Book of Revelation ?
Did you know that in 1995, Canada's lower Kazan River area, an important caribou crossing as well as the ancestral home of Harvaqtuurmiut , was designated the Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site ?
Did you know that despite suffering from asthma , Indian badminton player Parupalli Kashyap continues to play the sport?
Did you know that Silvio D'Amico , first editor of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts , gave his name to the state-funded Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico ?
Did you know that Rusty Mike Radio broadcasts over the internet to the two hundred and fifty thousand Anglos in Israel ?
Did you know that Robert L. Rutherford was the vice commander of the United States Air Force 's Military Airlift Command and commander of both the Air Mobility Command and United States Transportation Command ?
Did you know that Yvor Winters titled the third volume in his three-volume collection of literary criticism , examining the work of prominent writers associated with Modernist poetry , The Anatomy of Nonsense ?
Did you know that The Waybacks , a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay , played covers from The Beatles ' album Abbey Road at the 2010 MerleFest ?
Did you know that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror , Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
Did you know that Saint Mary's College Gaels men's basketball coach Randy Bennett turned around a team that was 2–27 in 2001 to 28–6 in 2010?
Did you know that Jovan Ćirilov has been the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival for 43 years, the longest term in the history of international theatre festivals ?
Did you know that the original publishers of The Lord of the Rings also released the Slavic mythology -based short story collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 30 years earlier?
Did you know that Texas A&M women's studies professor and historian Sara Alpern wrote the definitive biography of Freda Kirchwey , editor of The Nation from 1933 to 1955?
Did you know that the 1974 Oneida I decision, holding that U.S. federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear aboriginal title disputes, "spawned a vast number of Indian land claims"?
Did you know that a horse was added to the buttock of the central figure of The Street Enters the House as a nod to the artist's earlier work?
Did you know that Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo paid US$ 1 million to build and furnish the four-story Rhinelander Mansion at Madison Avenue and 72nd Street in Manhattan , but never lived in it?
Did you know that Virginia Governor William E. Cameron was lampooned in a comic opera after he personally led a failed expedition against illegal dredgers in the Oyster Wars ?
Did you know that the directors of ForceSelect , a charitable foundation aimed at supporting military service leavers, include General Sir Mike Jackson and bestselling author Andy McNab ?
Did you know that, in 2004, Shikha Tandon became the first female Indian swimmer to qualify for two separate events at a single Olympics ?
Did you know that the San José Mine in Atacama Region , Chile , began to be exploited in 1889?
Did you know that French priest Jean-Claude Faveyrial wrote the first recorded history of Albania ?
Did you know that The Hangover 2 , the upcoming sequel to the 2009 comedy film , is set to take place in Thailand ?
Did you know that the British Conservative Party politician Francis Lucas married the daughter of a Viscount of Portugal ?
Did you know that nearly one-quarter of the Vrata Tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway is actually a bridge built over an underground cavern?
Did you know that Matthew Werkmeister almost missed out on his audition for Neighbours because his father refused to drive the five hours it took to get there?
Did you know that Wobogo 's given name was Boukary Koutou, and that he lived in perpetual fear of assassination, according to Dr. Crozat?
Did you know that after her sister was sunk in late 1917 while anchored right next to her, Budapest took on her role of being a floating barracks?
Did you know that San Beda College had a 28-year men's basketball championship drought until they won in the Philippine NCAA 's 82nd season ?
Did you know that " Smoke and Mirrors ", the season-two finale of the BAFTA Award-winning TV series Spooks , was watched by over a third of the British television audience?
Did you know that after Joe C. Carr enlisted during World War II , his wife took on his role as Tennessee Secretary of State , becoming the first female constitutional officer in the state?
Did you know that the Croatian A6 motorway crosses the Bajer Bridge , which spans Lake Bajer, and the Kamačnik Bridge , which spans a canyon that is protected landscape ?
Did you know that the Atlantic Wind Connection is a planned "superhighway for clean energy" to serve 1.9 million Mid-Atlantic households with power from wind farms to be built 20 miles (32 km) offshore?
Did you know that Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City is known for old mansions , theaters , and prostitution ?
Did you know that, despite being ejected from the " boot camp " stage of the Popstars talent show , Warren Stacey was signed by an American record label and went on to support Destiny's Child in concert?
Did you know that Elina Ringa , who was the Latvian national pole vault champion on ten occasions, has also published a book about Microsoft Office ?
Did you know that the Church of St Edmund in Rochdale is unique among English churches for its overt Masonic symbolism ?
Did you know that entertainment news journalist Roger Friedman was one of the producers of D. A. Pennebaker 's documentary film about Memphis soul musicians, Only the Strong Survive ?
Did you know that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998) , the state constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriages , passed through the Twentieth Alaska Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays?
Did you know that as a result of the approaching Soviet Red Army , Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein and her family were forced to flee eastern Germany, leaving most of their possessions behind?
Did you know that in addition to being made an officer of the Order of Canada , Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?
Did you know that the 20 days between Dallas Braden's perfect game and Roy Halladay 's was the shortest span between two perfect games since 1880?
Did you know that the deck of Severinske Drage Viaduct , a part of the Croatian A6 motorway , is at a constant grade at one part of the viaduct, while vertically curved at the other?
Did you know that during the Spanish–American War the Spanish gunboat Elcano captured the American bark Saranac , which was carrying 1,640 tons of coal from Newcastle, NSW , for Admiral Dewey's fleet?
Did you know that the Liberty Green Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut , contains a time capsule that should be opened on 4 July 2976?
Did you know that Italian operatic tenor Lodovico Graziani was described as lacking "dramatic gifts"?
Did you know that the memorial in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church , Hadlow to the 30 hop-pickers who drowned in the River Medway on 20 October 1859 is Grade II listed ?
Did you know that Norman O. Houston co-founded what was, in 1945, the largest business west of the Mississippi owned by an African American ?
Did you know that during the Second World War the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Vindex still used the Fairey Swordfish biplane ?
Did you know that Universal Pictures sold its 1946 horror B movie The Brute Man to another distributor to avoid accusations of having exploited star Rondo Hatton , who died of acromegaly before the film's release?
Did you know that Filipino basketball player Gabby Espinas lost the Most Valuable Player race during the 2005 NCAA season to a former volleyball star?
Did you know that the British Conservative Party politician Pierse Loftus was a part-owner of Adnams Brewery ?
Did you know that after Long Island University chancellor R. Gordon Hoxie forced provost William Birenbaum to resign, 1,500 students protested, chanting "We want Bill" and demanding Birenbaum's reinstatement?
Did you know that the Blue Monkey microbrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla Porter , and 99 Red Baboons?
Did you know that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone?
Did you know that Kenyan athlete Paul Malakwen Kosgei became the World Half Marathon Champion in 2002 despite having never competed in a half marathon before?
Did you know that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a tenement he owned to make way for 1 Lincoln Plaza , so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?
Did you know that Urraca the Asturian , born in 1132 as an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile , became queen in a neighboring kingdom in 1144?
Did you know that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little killer bees , be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
Did you know that Joan Henry 's Look on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of homosexuality to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain ?
Did you know that the Lugenda River of Mozambique in the Yao language means simply "a large river"?
Did you know that the successful 1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred Lafone in Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes?
Did you know that the World War II search and rescue dog Jet of Iada was awarded both the RSPCA 's Medallion of Valor and the Dickin Medal ?
Did you know that the chief of the Chilean Army 's meteorological office predicted the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake ten days in advance?
Did you know that when rugby union international player David Marques arrived with the British Lions in Australia , he stepped off the plane dressed as a city gent, complete with bowler hat and umbrella?
Did you know that the parallel structures of Croatia 's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
Did you know that Clyde Lucas and His California Dons recorded background music for some of the early talkies ?
Did you know that producers for the sixth season of The West Wing originally cast Marley Shelton as Deputy Press Secretary Annabeth Schott ?
Did you know that William Rule published the first comprehensive history of the American city of Knoxville ?
Did you know that the Messalo River flooded its banks in March 2000 during the 2000 Mozambique flood ?
Did you know that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the United Kingdom after the club's captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £ 1000 from the club's coffers?
Did you know that before a population crash due to overfishing , the annual catch of Bering Sea Tanner crab was as much as 332,000,000 pounds (151,000,000 kg)?