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Did you know that the Syrian opposition group the Arab Revolutionary Labour Party was founded in 1966 as a Marxist splinter-group of the Ba'ath Party ?
Did you know that the song " Día de Suerte " by Mexican singer-songwriter Alejandra Guzmán is the theme song for the telenovela Una Familia Con Suerte ?
Did you know that Wayne Guppy and Rex Kirton , the current and previous Mayors of Upper Hutt in New Zealand, have served their community for over a third of a century?
Did you know that Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG had the highest amount of damages ever awarded in a copyright infringement case?
Did you know that Red Snapp was considered the "king of the minor leagues "?
Did you know that global precedence is the tendency to see the forest, and not the trees ?
Did you know that the log-Cauchy distribution has been proposed as a model for the progression of HIV in individuals?
Did you know that Finners Quinlan had his professional baseball career cut short when he lost an eye and a leg while fighting in World War I ?
Did you know that Young Thor is one of the first Western-developed digitally distributed video games to be released on the PlayStation Network in Japan?
Did you know that independent filmmaker Michael Roemer paid just $5,000 to acquire the rights to use Motown hits for his 1964 film Nothing But a Man ?
Did you know that during the British aircraft carrier Argus ' s 1920 Spring Cruise with the Atlantic Fleet , three of her aircraft were blown over the side of the carrier?
Did you know that despite winning the 2011 ARCA Racing Series championship by 340 points, Ty Dillon lost the series' rookie of the year title by two points?
Did you know that Paul Koechlin , winner of the first automobile race ever, the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race, was a second cousin to Maurice Koechlin , the structural engineer of the Eiffel Tower ?
Did you know that CCM singer Matthew West co-wrote half of the tracks on the Casting Crowns 's album Come to the Well ?
Did you know that physician Robert Martensen has attracted attention for his criticism of end-of-life care in the United States ?
Did you know that the British aircraft carrier HMS Perseus was fitted with temporary stands in June 1953 for VIPs and the press during Elizabeth II 's Coronation Fleet Review in Spithead ?
Did you know that baseball player Tom Tennant led three different minor leagues in hits before appearing at the major leagues ?
Did you know that in 1965, Tropical Storm Debbie broke the daily rainfall record in Mobile, Alabama , despite dissipating offshore?
Did you know that 12 half eagle gold coins were sent from Confederate North Carolina through enemy lines to Philadelphia to be tested by the 1862 United States Assay Commission , and were found to be correct?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Poltava was the only one of her class to survive the Russo-Japanese War ?
Did you know that Clyde Goodwin started his professional baseball career at the age of 16?
Did you know that the 856 Damghan earthquake , which killed an estimated 200,000 people in the Persian province of Qumis, also badly disrupted the region's water supplies?
Did you know that hexagonal water , a configuration of water that supposedly stops aging , is a marketing scam ?
Did you know that Richard Nixon chose the Wilson desk as his Oval Office desk because he believed it was used by Woodrow Wilson , but it was actually used by Henry Wilson , Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant ?
Did you know that Paul McCartney 's song " Call Me Back Again " has been interpreted as his response to calls for a Beatles ' reunion during the 1970s?
Did you know that in 1924, Francis Alfred Broad MP led a delegation of the birth control movement which included H. G. Wells , Dora Russell and Frances Huxley?
Did you know that the cargo ship MS Ravnaas , owned by Arnt J. Mørland 's company, was sunk by Japanese aircraft east of the Samar Island about the same time as the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that according to opinion polls, Gregor Virant's Civic List and Positive Slovenia , two newly formed political parties, already rank among top three for the upcoming Slovenian parliamentary election ?
Did you know that baseball player Dave Barbee twice led the Pacific Coast League in home runs ?
Did you know that, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq , the Bassetki statue , which is more than 4,200 years old, was found in a cesspool ?
Did you know that the United Nations Population Fund has designated today as the Day of Seven Billion ?
Did you know that Fowler's Ghost was first seen on the London Metropolitan Railway in 1861, nearly exploded and was never seen again after 1895?
Did you know that the unusual way that John C. Colt disposed of his murder victim's corpse may have influenced Edgar Allen Poe 's story " The Oblong Box "?
Did you know that the body of the first person buried at Ute Cemetery in Aspen, Colorado , was later exhumed to be reburied in Texas?
Did you know that Tyler Lockett , the only player in Kansas State Wildcats football history to return a kickoff for a touchdown in consecutive games, was a high school state champion in football and basketball ?
Did you know that Black Loch in East Ayrshire, which has outflows draining in two directions, is connected to Loch o' th' Lowes and Creoch Loch by a manmade ditch?
Did you know that the optometry and dental schools of the defunct North Pacific College are still operating 65 years after the college closed?
Did you know that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano ?
Did you know that the Andrzej Fidyk 's documentary Defilada about North Korea , despite its anti- totalitarian message, was initially praised both by communist Poland's censors and in North Korea itself?
Did you know that in 1984, Thomas Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons by just 247 votes?
Did you know that in the 1950s Congregation Beth Israel of Asheville, North Carolina, shortened and moved its Shabbat service two hours earlier, so members could open their stores following prayers?
Did you know that current Denver Nuggets basketball player Julyan Stone holds both the University of Texas-El Paso and Conference USA record for most assists in a career with 714?
Did you know that the flowers of the Sydney blue gum are eaten by the grey-headed flying fox ?
Did you know that during the Aboakyer festival of Winneba in Ghana , warrior groups compete to be the first to capture a live bushbuck from a game reserve ?
Did you know that Mike Pegues scored 2,030 points during his college career between 1996 and 2000, setting a Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball record that still stands?
Did you know that the Wyoming State Legislature has a Nicholas in the House and a Nicholas in the Senate?
Did you know that playwright Jerzy Szaniawski , a member of the Polish Academy of Literature who married at age 76, was starved and physically abused by his wife, 20 years his junior, until his death in 1970?
Did you know that the first words of the first AFN broadcast from Allied-occupied Germany in July 1945 so enraged General Patton that he demanded that the responsible person be court-martialed ?
Did you know that when the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, he was treated as a Republic of China national without household registration ?
Did you know that Frank Langella is the only person to win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play more than once?
Did you know that Texas Governor Hardin Richard Runnels signed a bill into law allowing a free Negro to return to slavery by selecting a new master?
Did you know that the Triple Alliance of 1788 , formed on the verge of the French Revolution , almost led to a war which would have pitted Great Britain and Prussia against Russia?
Did you know that the deputy mayor of Safed was indicted for selling paintings from the museum that Emanuel Romano founded for his father, the sculptor Enrico Glicenstein ?
Did you know that when wood carver Patrociño Barela premiered at the Museum of Modern Art , he was the "discovery of the year"?
Did you know that Acer castorrivularis is one of five extinct maples from the Eocene Beaver Creek flora in Montana?
Did you know that diplomat Barry Steers served as Canada 's first Commissioner to Bermuda from 1976 to 1979?
Did you know that the high-pressure metamorphic rock whiteschist may be formed from both basaltic and granitic rocks by metasomatism ?
Did you know that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of spontaneous human combustion , due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
Did you know that among Amir Hamzah 's works are poems that are both explicitly religious and have an erotic element present?
Did you know that Kansas State 's all-time leading wide receiver Kevin Lockett completed his only two National Football League pass attempts for touchdowns ?
Did you know that a complete set of the treatises of Japanese playwright Zeami Motokiyo was not published until almost 500 years after his death?
Did you know that Charles Howard McIlwain won a Pulitzer Prize for his analysis of the American Revolution as a disagreement over interpretation of the constitution of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that prospector John Brackett Allen‎ did not strike it rich until he turned to pies ?
Did you know that when goalkeeper Sam Gillam replaced Alf Pugh for Wales against Scotland on 15 April 1889, he became the first substitute in international football ?
Did you know that Oregon politician Shawn Lindsay proposed a law in response to the acquittal of Casey Anthony in Florida?
Did you know that the Thoroughbred racehorse George Frederick was named after the future King George V , and won the 1874 Derby Stakes on the young prince's birthday?
Did you know that Indonesian actress Titi Sjuman agreed to make her film debut only after being cajoled by her brother and sister-in-law (the film's director)?
Did you know that larval buckeyes eat bluehearts ?
Did you know that the Triassic archosaur Poposaurus walked on two legs like some dinosaurs, but was more closely related to crocodiles?
Did you know that a Turkic language was spoken in the Avar Khaganate and an inscription on a golden bowl preserves a fragment of it?
Did you know that Rachel Feinstein , whose latest art work is inspired by The Snow Queen , is half of what the New York Times called the American art world's "power couple"?
Did you know that the current speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut , Hunter Tootoo , is the last remaining member of the Legislative Assembly elected in Nunavut's first election in 1999?
Did you know that debris from the failed Russian Meridian 5 satellite launch landed on a house on Cosmonaut Street?
Did you know that a dance at the Ritz Ballroom scheduled for May 22 , 1955, featuring Fats Domino was cancelled by the Bridgeport Police Department , citing worries about rioting over rock and roll music?
Did you know that Indonesian judge Soeprapto was aided in his escape from Pekalongan during Operatie Product by a man whom he had just sentenced to death?
Did you know that the Eocene maple Acer clarnoense is not found in the Clarno Formation even though the species was named after it?
Did you know that Alabama 's first superintendent of public education, Confederate brigadier general and college professor William F. Perry , had little or no formal education?
Did you know that The X-Files Mythology, Volume 1 was well-received, despite its lack of liver-eating elastic monsters?
Did you know that Polish magazine Miasto Kobiet organizes Szafobranie, a recurring event in which people give and get clothes without exchanging money?
Did you know that weeping lovegrass is used for funeral rituals in Lesotho , and sometimes hybridizes with Lehmann's lovegrass ?
Did you know that two New Zealand Members of Parliament , David Buick and Alfred Hindmarsh , died in the 1918 influenza epidemic ?
Did you know that the unorganized territory of Mont-Albert in Quebec, Canada, is a home to the only remaining herd of migratory woodland caribou south of the Saint Lawrence River ?
Did you know that Katrina Kaif considers the item number Sheila ki jawani to be one of her raunchiest ever?
Did you know that Florida state legislator C. A. Roberts was named to the first Board of Union County Commissioners at the age of 18?
Did you know that the murder of Sadia Sheikh has been called Belgium's first honour killing trial?
Did you know that Russian-born pianist Alexander Zakin performed with violinist Isaac Stern for 37 years and played the piano at the White House under Presidents Eisenhower , Kennedy and Johnson ?
Did you know that the term sex and/or gender diverse is beginning to be used in Australia to replace transgender ?
Did you know that upon being asked whether he would like to join the Canadian Senate by Warren Allmand in 1977, Inuit politician Willie Adams responded, "What's the Senate?"?
Did you know that although no deaths occurred, the United States Weather Bureau was criticized for its inadequate warnings in advance of Hurricane Debra ?
Did you know that a reviewer described the film Khalifah as a "veiled warning" to Indonesians about wearing the niqab ?
Did you know that although the Dungarvan Town Council of County Waterford , Ireland, was formed in 1855, records indicate that a local authority existed in the town as early as the 15th century?
Did you know that during the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia , the Relief Society of Tigray organized a mass exodus of Tigrayan villagers to camps in Sudan ?
Did you know that the Rebbe of Ruzhin lived like a king, with a palatial home, many servants, a carriage drawn by four white horses, stylish clothing, and solid-gold boots studded with diamonds?
Did you know that although it ended peacefully, the Rotem Crisis of 1960 was later seen as a "trial run" for events leading to the 1967 Six-Day War ?
Did you know that Swampy, the lead character in the game Where's My Water? , is the first original character created by Disney for a mobile video game ?
Did you know that the Church of St Thomas the Martyr , and the adjoining Monnow Bridge , were both damaged by fire in the Battle of Monmouth in 1233?
Did you know that American painter and lithographer Bolton Brown was the first person to climb Mount Clarence King ?
Did you know that the European windstorm Friedhelm was colloquially called Hurricane Bawbag , from a Scots word for a scrotum ?
Did you know that in 1924 a rifle range was built in the basement of the parish hall at the Church of St. Barnabas in Irvington, New York ?
Did you know that a documentary film by Ucu Agustin led to a prostitution district in Tulungagung, East Java , being shut down?
Did you know that copyright infringement not involving profit was not a criminal offense in the United States between the 1994 U.S. v. LaMacchia ruling and the 1997 passage by Congress of the NET Act ?
Did you know that the growth of thickspike wheatgrass in an area can inhibit the spread of weeds including Russian and diffuse knapweed ?
Did you know that Deep Throat was inspired by Deep Throat ?
Did you know that merchant Solomon Warner was obsessed with building a perpetual motion machine ?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Imogen was accidentally sunk by the light cruiser Glasgow during the night of 16 July 1940?
Did you know that the 1932 Jalisco earthquake was the first of three earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater to strike western Mexico in June that year?
Did you know that as minister of justice Sahardjo suggested rescinding Indonesia 's civil and commercial codes ?
Did you know that during the Prohibition era in the United States , Marsoui in Quebec, Canada, was a favorite hideout for smugglers fleeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ?
Did you know that Frederick B. Karl served in the Florida House of Representatives , Florida Senate and Florida Supreme Court ?
Did you know that Muddy Waters switched from semi-acoustic guitar to electric guitar for his album At Newport 1960 ?
Did you know that President Sukarno slighted Chief Justice Wirjono Prodjodikoro by inviting Ruslan Abdulgani for breakfast when Abdulgani was supposed to be before the Supreme Court of Indonesia ?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Lakers recently signed Malcolm Thomas , whose father goes by the same name and also played college basketball ?
Did you know that millions of chickens have viewed life through rose-colored glasses ?
Did you know that the Kupol Gold Mine north of the Arctic Circle is only accessible in winter via an ice road , which can only be built when temperatures are below −25 °C (−13 °F)?
Did you know that Maya Angelou 's sixth and final autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven is framed by the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
Did you know that Indonesian Minister of Justice Moeljatno attempted to ensure Prosecutor General Soeprapto 's subservience to him by passing a law?
Did you know that the Lancaster City Museum houses a Roman tombstone with a dramatic depiction of a Roman soldier with a decapitated opponent at his feet?
Did you know that Graves 's grave is unknown, but his memorial is not?
Did you know that holiday mail seeking a Christmas postmark continued to be sent to Christmas, Arizona , two decades after the town's post office had closed?
Did you know that Georges Bizet dedicated his song "Rêve de la bien-aimée" ("Dream of the beloved") to the Belgian coloratura soprano Léontine de Maësen ?
Did you know that Yorkshire fog occurs on the Cornish coast between Polruan and Polperro ?
Did you know that Plante and Sherman 's Faith and Health states that highly religious people have a 29% higher odds of survival than less religious people?
Did you know that the early Oligocene maple , Acer ashwilli , is known from only eight places in Oregon?
Did you know that Cliff at Christmas was the only album released during Cliff Richard 's second period with music label EMI , to whom he'd previously been signed for over forty years?
Did you know that Gemiler Island , off the coast of Turkey, may have been the location of Saint Nicholas ' original tomb?
Did you know that sculptor Alexander Finta , who worked for 20th Century Fox , studied with Auguste Rodin ?
Did you know that the 1989 Ungava earthquake was the first earthquake in eastern North America known to be associated with ground rupture ?
Did you know that a 1640 Act of the Parliament of Scotland abolished the observation of Christmas in Scotland ?
Did you know that one critic thought Hulk Hogan 's acting in Santa with Muscles made " Arnold Schwarzenegger seem like Laurence Olivier "?
Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach's Christmas cantata Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 , is thought to persuasively express "the essence, the exuberance and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas"?
Did you know that artist Letterio Calapai was taken as a boy to the Fogg Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts which now own examples of his work?
Did you know that, contrary to a popular urban legend, Coca-Cola did not create the modern Santa suit ?
Did you know that when high school junior Jabari Parker held an open practice, Mike Krzyzewski , Bruce Weber , Thad Matta , Bill Self , Roy Williams and Tom Izzo all attended?
Did you know that during the Dunkirk evacuation on June 1, 1940, the British destroyer HMS Ivanhoe was hit by a German bomb that killed 26 men and knocked out two of her three boiler rooms ?
Did you know that when the Thoroughbred racehorse Pinza won the 1953 Derby Stakes , it gave 25 times Champion Jockey , Gordon Richards , his first win after 27 previous starts in the race?
Did you know that when sick, galaxy coral can be fed brine shrimps incorporating specific antibiotics ?
Did you know that West Virginia House Delegate Dr. Margaret Anne Staggers considered retiring from emergency medicine following an attack by an elderly patient?
Did you know that Jan Sandström composed the Motorbike Concerto , and a setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen for two choirs a cappella : one in four parts, singing Praetorius , and the other in eight parts?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Brad Boxberger was named to the Arizona Fall League 's 2011 Top Prospects Team?
Did you know that prior to its passage of the Human Rights Act 2003 , Nunavut was the only Canadian jurisdiction without protections against discrimination for its gay, lesbian and bisexual residents?
Did you know that the New York Yankees traded for Allie Reynolds on the advice of Joe DiMaggio ?
Did you know that the lesser long-tongued bat can extend its tongue for up to 50% of its own body length – even when its jaws are closed?
Did you know that Kyra Markham , whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
Did you know that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in Bandura 's 1997 book Self-Efficacy , "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
Did you know that Nemo Gaines is the only graduate of the United States Naval Academy to play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that in 2002 the Norwegian Poodle Topscore Contradiction was the first foreign dog to win Best in Show at the Crufts dog show in the UK?
Did you know that Emmaus United Methodist Church has helped survivors of the 2004 Gatumba massacre in Burundi resettle in Albany, New York ?
Did you know that Egor the Animator , an early computer animation program released on February 6 , 1996, by Sausage Software , was the first commercial software Java applet ?
Did you know that the lecture notes of Marcel Riesz were dubbed by physicist David Hestenes "the midwife of the rebirth" of Clifford algebras ?
Did you know that members of the Moldavian Kogălniceanu family contributed to the abolition of serfdom (1749), the abolition of slavery (1855), and several land reforms ?
Did you know that the seeds of poverty grass can remain in the soil for decades before they germinate ?
Did you know that according to New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists , the killing of Gadzhimurat Kamalov , founder of the newspaper Chernovik in Dagestan , Russia, is "a lethal blow to press freedom "?
Did you know that when George Harrison 's song " Awaiting on You All " was originally released on his All Things Must Pass album, lyrics critical of the Pope were omitted from the lyric sheet?
Did you know that the Mayan archaeological site Baking Pot covered a 9-square-kilometre (3.5 sq mi) area?
Did you know that 2011 Ohio Mr. Basketball Trey Burke has won both an Ohio High School Athletic Association State championship and an Amateur Athletic Union national championship?
Did you know that over 110 species of vascular plants have been discovered on the small Eastern Isles , of the Isles of Scilly , UK?
Did you know that Compugen ' s first computer system, the "Bioccelerator," could analyze DNA sequences at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
Did you know that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a gulag and banishment to Kazakhstan , and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
Did you know that Italian Renaissance artist Girolamo Mocetto was long thought to have been born a generation before he actually was?
Did you know that Polish actor and singer-songwriter Andrzej Bogucki and his wife were awarded the title Righteous among the Nations for helping Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman escape the Warsaw Ghetto ?
Did you know that the life cycle of the no-brand crow may pass through several generations in a year?
Did you know that over a 26-year span the Illinois Central Railroad 's Land O'Corn used self-propelled cars, steam and finally diesel locomotives ?
Did you know that the Westminster Psalter contains what may be the earliest representation of Saint Christopher in English art, from about 1250?
Did you know that Danish marathon champion Henning Larsen took up pigeon racing after his retirement from athletics?
Did you know that the Silverdale Hoard , discovered in Lancashire in September 2011, contains over 200 items of Viking treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?