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Did you know that the popularity of Sunday night repeats of the 1967 BBC television drama The Forsyte Saga were said to be a threat to both publicans and clergymen ?
Did you know that 'Asta Bowen's novel Wolf: A Journey Home is based on the recorded lives of a pack of wolves relocated from Pleasant Valley, Montana , to Glacier Park in 1989?
Did you know that remains of Lund's Amphibious Rat , one of the largest living rice rats , have been found in association with saber-toothed cats , ground sloths , and glyptodonts ?
Did you know that World War II RAAF fighter ace John Waddy later became a Minister of the Crown , while British Army paratrooper John Waddy went on to command the SAS ?
Did you know that patient activist Rose Kushner is credited with helping to end the practice of treating breast cancer by performing both a biopsy and a mastectomy as a one-step surgical procedure?
Did you know that the first six of Do As Infinity's studio albums from Break of Dawn to Need Your Love reached the top 5 of the Japanese Oricon albums chart?
Did you know that in order to register themselves as a political association according to Austro-Hungarian regulations, the Jewish socialist Bund of Bukovina had to limit its membership to male Austrian citizens?
Did you know that video game Jungle Strike was accused of jingoism ?
Did you know that although a yellow fever epidemic forced the team to play the final month of the season on the road, Otto Williams batted .278 and helped the New Orleans Pelicans win the 1905 pennant?
Did you know that the Municipality of Crabtree in Quebec, Canada is named after Edwin Crabtree, whose paper mill led to the town's development?
Did you know that Irish international sporting brothers Louis Magee and James Magee both had the middle name Mary?
Did you know that the work of Violet Tillard , a British nurse and relief worker who died during the Russian famine of 1921 , was mentioned in the writings of Leon Trotsky ?
Did you know that although Spottail pinfish are known from both south Florida and the Gulf of Mexico , there are no confirmed reports of them from the West Indies ?
Did you know that Arunah Shepherdson Abell , founder of the Baltimore Sun newspaper, used pony express routes, telegraphy, steamships, and even carrier pigeons to gather the news more quickly?
Did you know that the Embassy of Russia in Copenhagen was designed by Danish architect Vilhelm Dahlerup , who also designed the Hotel D’Angleterre ?
Did you know that twin brothers Bubber Jonnard and Claude Jonnard formed the Nashville Volunteers baseball team's battery in 1920 and 1921?
Did you know that the Abir Congo Company was once described as "the black spot on the history of Central African settlement"?
Did you know that John Hyson published articles on the history of the toothbrush, George Washington 's dentures, and one entitled "Did You Know A Dentist Embalmed President Lincoln ?"?
Did you know that Dr. John J. Wild , credited with the first successful detection of breast cancer using ultrasonography, was awarded the $370,000 Japan Prize for his development of ultrasound imaging ?
Did you know that the star attraction of the Westminster Pit , a Victorian blood sport arena, was a dog named "Billy", who was reportedly able to kill 100 rats in five minutes?
Did you know that marketing executive Edward Gelsthorpe , who introduced Ban roll-on deodorant and Manwich sloppy joe sauce, earned the nickname " Cran-Apple Ed" after developing the juice drink for Ocean Spray ?
Did you know that two steam trains were involved in a head-on collision on the Lößnitzgrundbahn heritage railway in Saxony , Germany , on 12 September 2009?
Did you know that David Davies was transported to Australia for his part in the Rebecca Riots , an uprising that saw the mob leaders cross-dressing as women?
Did you know that the Quarter pony horse breed was developed from horses that did not meet the American Quarter Horse Association 's original height requirement of 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) high?
Did you know that Yehuda Hiss has been the chief pathologist at Israel 's National Institute of Forensic Medicine since 1988?
Did you know28, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Mexican masked professional wrestler La Parka is the second man to wrestle under this ring name ?
Did you know that the East Side Historic District of Saratoga Springs, New York , contains 379 structures including 82 buildings formerly used by Skidmore College ?
Did you know that Giuseppe Giulietti , a leader of the Italian seamen's union, once hijacked a ship that was transporting weapons to the White movement in Russia ?
Did you know that a team of archaeologists has recently discovered the remains of a 5000-year old circle of bluestone monoliths , about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Stonehenge ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football defensive end Brandon Graham was captain of his U.S. Army All-American Bowl team?
Did you know that the historic Streamline Moderne Greyhound Bus Depot in Columbia, South Carolina , is now the office for a plastic surgeon ?
Did you know that the illegal Galician castle constructed by Muño Peláez in 1121 was considered a "den of robbers and bandits" by contemporaries, and was soon razed?
Did you know that the Giant Bible of Mainz , on display at the U.S. Library of Congress , was seized from Mainz Cathedral as a prize of war by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1631?
Did you know that the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) found evidence that suggests a portion of Antarctica was once joined to southern Africa ?
Did you know that the architect John Douglas designed a pair of houses at 31 and 33 Dee Banks, Chester , Cheshire , England, one for his own use and the other probably as an investment?
Did you know that there are 1,000 species and subspecies of eucalypts at South Australia 's 32 ha (79 acres) Currency Creek Arboretum ?
Did you know that Heinrich Roller invented a popular shorthand system in 1875 after having been sued unsuccessfully for publishing a popular textbook on Leopold Arends ' shorthand system?
Did you know that the Kodaikanal–Munnar Road in Tamil Nadu and Kerala was built by the British in 1942 as an evacuation route in preparation for a possible Japanese invasion of South India ?
Did you know that the platform of Austro–Hungarian Jewish politician Benno Straucher , who represented his Bukovina constituency in the Reichsrat , has been called "a sort of half-hearted Zionism "?
Did you know that Billy Lauder coached Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Collins in college, and Collins later hired Lauder to coach the Chicago White Sox ?
Did you know that the 1979 Abbotsford landslip was the biggest landslide ever in an urban area in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Lee Robins "pioneered the field of psychiatric epidemiology " and "played a key role in determining the prevalence of mental problems in the United States and the world"?
Did you know that Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul founded Marseilles , the oldest city of France , circa 600 BCE ?
Did you know that it is claimed that in 1888 Victorian medium Robert James Lees led police to the home of Jack the Ripper ?
Did you know that the deaths of coal and iron miners in the Forest of Dean are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at New Fancy ?
Did you know that Karl Wilhelm Scheibler , the "Cotton King" of Łódź , sold his stock at triple the price after the American Civil War broke out?
Did you know that Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke went back to acting and directing her own films after her car accident in 2005?
Did you know that the people of Scilla spent the night on the beach after the first shock of the 1783 Calabrian earthquakes sequence only to be caught by the tsunami caused by the second?
Did you know that Jesuit Louis J. Gallagher , who brought to Rome the relics of Andrew Bobola which were rescued from the Bolsheviks by Edmund A. Walsh , later published books about both men?
Did you know that Archduke Charles personally led his Hungarian Grenadiers in a charge against the French line at the Battle of Stockach in 1799?
Did you know that banker Jacob Furth , whom historian Bill Speidel called " Seattle 's leading citizen for thirty years," began his career as a confectioner in Budapest ?
Did you know that realising the many sexual and drug pressures facing young people, a student association in Morocco encourages their youth to seek Answers, Solutions and Knowledge ?
Did you know that in 1991, Victor Erlich, the grandson of Henryk Ehrlich , was informed that his father, a Jewish Bund leader who had been executed on Stalin ’s orders, had been " rehabilitated "?
Did you know28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Lucas Murray , who was born blind, is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins , called echolocation ?
Did you know that Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts , USA, was founded by Jonas Gilman Clark in 1887?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian artist and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft was the first Australian fashion designer invited to show her work in Paris?
Did you know that, having begun as an affiliate of the fascist Iron Guard , Romanian author Ion Negoiţescu became a noted anti-fascist , before defying the communist regime as an openly homosexual dissident?
Did you know that Mary of Woodstock , daughter of Edward I of England , travelled widely as a nun despite a papal travel prohibition ?
Did you know that the stink-bug Nezara viridula can feed on plants from over 30 families , but its preference for legumes , such as beans and soybeans , make it an economically important pest on crops?
Did you know that The Kinks founded their own recording studio and record label in 1973, named " Konk "?
Did you know that in 1493, 150 Pomeranian prelates and landlords confirmed the Treaty of Pyritz by oath?
Did you know that Maria Gulovich sheltered Jews, worked for the anti-fascist underground, and was awarded the Bronze Star for saving the lives of OSS agents during World War II ?
Did you know that the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party was admitted as a "sympathizing party" in the Communist International in 1935?
Did you know that Per Arne Watle , current chairman of Hurtigruten and former CEO of Widerøe , was also president of the European Regions Airline Association ?
Did you know that William Herbert Shipman owned a historic house in Hilo, Hawaii , a refuge from World War II near a volcano, and a remote beach estate where endangered nēnē were raised?
Did you know that more than 4,000 people died in 1933 on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union , many of whom were deported there only because they did not have an internal passport ?
Did you know that in 941 CE, the Byzantine chamberlain Theophanes , commanding only 15 old ships armed with Greek fire , defeated a Rus' fleet of 1,000 ships?
Did you know that Marie Wadley helped to introduce legislation to establish the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Oklahoma and later served as its first president ?
Did you know that the Cypriot women's basketball team was disqualified at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie for exceeding the permitted number of naturalized players?
Did you know that the animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was nominated for thirty-one awards throughout its run?
Did you know that Michał Klepfisz , a hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , saved his comrades' lives by throwing himself on a German machine gun ?
Did you know that Rakhine State in present-day western Burma was an independent country before it was invaded and annexed by Konbaung Burmese forces led by Thado Minsaw in 1784?
Did you know that if a tree falls on seedlings of the Walking Palm its stilt roots allow it to re-root in a different location?
Did you know that the Indian Army during World War II was the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945?
Did you know that according to the book Who's Your City? , in the United States the highest concentrations of people whose dominant personality trait is neuroticism are found in the New York and ChiPitts area?
Did you know that in the 1679 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Brandenburg was forced by France to return recently conquered Swedish Pomerania to Sweden ?
Did you know that Alex Rodriguez set the AL record with 7 RBI in one inning in the team's final game of the 2009 season, the same game where he reached 30 HRs and 100 RBI for a record 13th consecutive year?
Did you know that Hirsh Lekert , a Bundist , tried unsuccessfully to assassinate the governor of Vilna , and became a folk hero in the Jewish workers’ movement, with poems and dramas written about him in Yiddish ?
Did you know that William Michael Crose was the first Governor of American Samoa styled as such, the previous ones holding the title "Governor of Tutuila"?
Did you know that the teenage Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar 's music collection had a long-term influence on the musical style of Johann Sebastian Bach ?
Did you know22, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that to avoid being hit by Allied bombers during the Battle of Elephant Point in 1945, troops of the British Indian Army carried orange umbrellas?
Did you know that the leader of the Bund and organizer of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee , Victor Alter , was executed on Stalin ’s orders, which provoked an international outcry of protest?
Did you know that Lord Nuffield rejected the first designs for the buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford by the architect Austen Harrison , saying that they were "un-English"?
Did you know that Marie Haupt , Josephine Schefsky‎ and Friederike Grün‎ each premiered a character in Richard Wagner 's first Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in August 1876?
Did you know that Hurricane Brenda was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Mexican state of Campeche ?
Did you know that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends special " Destination: Imagination " won the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More)" in 2009?
Did you know that Euphorbia celastroides , a spurge closely related to the poinsettia , is sometimes used as a treatment for cancer?
Did you know29, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Antonio Frasconi spent ten years creating an artwork that shows the people who disappeared during the dictatorships in Uruguay ?
Did you know that Bill Cullen took the Guinness World Record for the largest ever book signing by signing 1849 copies of his self-help book Golden Apples on 16 April 2005 in Easons , O'Connell Street ?
Did you know that the first known Japanese settlement in the Federated States of Micronesia dates back to 1890?
Did you know that the Belgian-born Dutch politician Robert van Genechten collaborated with the German occupiers in Belgium during World War I and in the Netherlands during the Second World War ?
Did you know that the chicks of the Australian Little Bittern are covered with orange-buff down and are fed by regurgitation by both parents?
Did you know that the Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first commercially successful typewriter ?
Did you know28, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that under university president of Northwest Missouri State University Dean L. Hubbard's tenure a program was started to replace students' printed textbooks with the electronic books or ebooks ?
Did you know that The Other Economic Summit (TOES), founded in 1984, was a counter-summit to the G7 meetings, held each year for the next two decades in the G7 host country?
Did you know that Napoleon's coronation involved two orchestras with four choruses, numerous military bands and over three hundred musicians?
Did you know that risk management firm Verisk Analytics raised $1.9 billion in its October 7, 2009 initial public offering , making it the largest IPO in the United States to date in 2009?
Did you know that nine years before being cast as J. Homer Bedloe on CBS 's Petticoat Junction , Charles Lane appeared as a hard-nosed newspaper editor in Peter Lawford 's short-lived NBC sitcom , Dear Phoebe ?
Did you know that the engine house of the Pinchbeck Engine , Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire , England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument ?
Did you know that Luise Jaide created two roles in Richard Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle?
Did you know that Discovery Channel called Ardi , "The evidence that Darwin could only have dreamed of"?
Did you know that Mimi Weddell , whose acting career started in her mid-sixties, was named as one "The Most Beautiful New Yorkers " by New York magazine in 2005 at age 90?
Did you know that "Papa" De Hem ' s oyster-house in Soho was patronised by poets, spies and rock-stars?
Did you know that Far Rockaway High School in Queens , whose alumni include three Nobel Prize laureates and Bernard Madoff , stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades?
Did you know that Anna Deinet created the role of Brangäne in Richard Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde , the first of two Wagner characters she premiered?
Did you know that in Toyota v. Williams , the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the ADA , a disability includes limitations in a " major life activity ", but excludes limitations in specific job-related tasks?
Did you know that the termite Globitermes sulphureus uses autothysis , a form of suicidal altruism , to entangle intruder ants in a sticky substance?
Did you know28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII ) 1936 visit to the United States was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin ?
Did you know that for the score of the Prince of Persia , composer Inon Zur combined classical orchestral music with Arabic flutes and the woodwind duduk ?
Did you know that following the capture of Kafr 'Inan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war , its inhabitants were expelled by the Israel Defense Forces on three separate occasions in 1949?
Did you know that John Martin Poyer was appointed Naval Governor of American Samoa after he had retired from active duty?
Did you know that "Stop Lasnamäe !" was one of the slogans of the Estonian Singing Revolution ?
Did you know that the remains of Melanie Hall who went missing in 1996 were discovered by the M5 motorway in October 2009?
Did you know that the Seinfeld writers, attempting to produce a " Quentin Tarantino version of a sitcom", included the title character ’s death in a dream sequence in " The Baby Shower "?
Did you know that journalist Savik Shuster who used to work for Russian TV channels now prefers to work for the Ukrainian TV because he felt the Russian Government was limiting his journalistic freedom ?
Did you know that in 1644, during the English Civil War , Haggate was the scene of a skirmish in which five people were killed by King Charles I 's troops?
Did you know that Clark Daniel Stearns was removed from command of the USS Michigan for allowing the sailors under his command to organize advising committees?
Did you know that it is uncertain whether the extinct oryzomyine rodent Megalomys audreyae came from Barbuda or Barbados ?
Did you know that W. Horace Carter won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for anti- KKK reporting, "waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger" that led to the conviction of over 100 Klansmen?
Did you know that in June 2004, the only businesses in operation at Normal, Illinois ' College Hills Mall, now The Shoppes at College Hills , were three anchor stores and a restaurant?
Did you know that footballer Arthur Wood had a metal plate inserted in his forehead following an injury received in the First World War , and was never again able to head the ball?
Did you know that the selection of Ernie "Indian Red" Lopez for the California Boxing Hall of Fame led to his discovery in a Texas homeless shelter after being missing for 12 years?
Did you know that during filming of The Emperor Waltz in Jasper National Park , director Billy Wilder had California pines planted on location because he was unhappy with the look of the native trees?
Did you know that Likir Monastery in Ladakh contains a statue of Avalokiteśvara with 1000 arms and 11 heads?
Did you know that before becoming an ICC commissioner, James D. Yeomans helped manage two railroads and ran a stock farm?
Did you know that potbelly sculpture is a crude non- Maya sculptural style distributed along the Pacific slope of southern Mesoamerica and dating to the Preclassic Period ?
Did you know that some of the thrust horses in Montana 's Adel Mountains Volcanic Field fold some of the intrusions , while others are cut by them?
Did you know that Charles Langdale was one of the first Roman Catholics in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829 ?
Did you know that in 2008 over two-thirds of all prisoners in Switzerland were non-Swiss nationals?
Did you know that Isaac Baker Brown was an English surgeon who in 1867 was expelled from the Obstetrical Society of London for performing clitoridectomies without his patients' consent?
Did you know that Pindus National Park is one of three areas in Greece that hosts populations of bears ?
Did you know that William J. Calhoun 's report on the death of an American in Cuba persuaded President McKinley that war against Spain was advisable?
Did you know that Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz was suspected of involvement in the first of several military coup attempts in Pakistan ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Misterioso, Jr. ' s nickname translates as "the King of Yogurt"?
Did you know that John Travolta 's older brother Joey Travolta produced the documentary film about autism Normal People Scare Me ?
Did you know28, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that old houses in England saw an increased number of visitors in the 1840s due to published lithographs depicting architecture and historical scenes in them drawn by Joseph Nash ?
Did you know that Phuntsok Wangyal , a progressive pro- communist Tibetan who founded the Tibetan Communist Party , once taught at Tromzikhang in Barkhor , Lhasa ?
Did you know that Joseph Flores , the first Chamorro Governor of Guam , also published the island's first locally owned newspaper ?
Did you know that the Kultur Lige was a socialist Jewish organization associated with the Jewish Labour Bund , established in Kiev in 1918, whose aim was to promote Yiddish language literature, theater and culture?
Did you know that Raymond B. West developed a new standard of double exposure photography while directing a 1917 film in which one actress played two sisters?
Did you know that a feud between Bartolomeo Prignano and Pierre de Cros fueled the outbreak of the Western Schism ?
Did you know that the Riverside International Automotive Museum in Riverside, California , houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Maserati road cars in the United States?
Did you know that despite the efforts of fledgling writers Norman Lear and Larry Gelbart , Celeste Holm bombed after only eight episodes in her 1954 CBS sitcom Honestly, Celeste! ?
Did you know that the biography Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now concludes the influence of religion on Morrison 's music may be his most lasting contribution?
Did you know that 29 years after his defection to the Soviet Union , American Victor Norris Hamilton was discovered in a mental hospital?
Did you know that Llandovery Bank , established in Wales in 1799, was known locally as the "Black Ox Bank" because it issued banknotes bearing a black ox ?
Did you know that Tacchi Venturi , the personal liaison between Mussolini and the popes, was the architect of the Lateran Treaty , which created Vatican City and made Catholicism the state religion of Italy?
Did you know that the 1976 crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452 is the all-time worst aviation accident in Turkey ?
Did you know that Truman C. Everts was lost for 37 days while exploring what would become Yellowstone National Park ?
Did you know that the Rev. George W. Bridges libelled anti-slavery activists Escoffery and Lecesne when he said they wanted to "sheath their daggers in the breasts of their white inhabitants"?