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Did you know that near the exit from the Chee Kung Tong Society Building , a lintel once proclaimed, in Chinese , Everyone is Equal ?
Did you know that in 1975, professional baseball player Jimmy Sexton led the Texas League in stolen bases with 48?
Did you know that The Go-Betweens ' " Cattle and Cane ", although selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, never charted in Australia?
Did you know that Francisco Ada , the first Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands , spearheaded the construction of the modern Saipan International Airport ?
Did you know that the film Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds has been in development since the 1990s and once included a comedic incarnation with Jack Black set to star?
Did you know that in only their third year of involvement in the series, Hexis Racing won the FIA GT3 European Teams Championship in 2009 ?
Did you know that there is no evidence that Julius II or Leo X , two Renaissance popes , ever celebrated mass ?
Did you know that Adenanthos cuneatus has been called Sweat Bush , from the alleged propensity of horses to break out in a sweat after eating it?
Did you know that the Palace of Omurtag , an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria , includes the episcopal see of an Arian Gothic bishop besides a medieval Bulgarian fort?
Did you know that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University , during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?
Did you know that today's Solar Turbines got its start in the gas turbine industry due to its expertise in high-temperature metallurgy learned by building 300,000 exhaust manifolds in World War II ?
Did you know that in 1656, Thomas Wiswall signed a petition that ultimately led to the founding of the city of Newton, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that both Taklung Monastery and Riwoche Monastery belong to the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism ?
Did you know that " Grace, Replaced " , the Will & Grace episode, attracted the series' highest ratings of the first season?
Did you know that the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean ?
Did you know that later politician and barrister Lars Aspeflaten was a personal bodyguard of the acting Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions in 1945?
Did you know that actor Tom Cruise does not endorse a potent strain of cannabis called Tom Cruise Purple ?
Did you know that the falkuša sailboat raced in one of the oldest fishermen's regattas in Europe , held from 1593 to 1936 on the island of Vis , Croatia ?
Did you know that Konstantin Bozveliev became the first socialist to be elected mayor in Bulgaria in 1908?
Did you know that the magnitude -8.5 1922 Vallenar earthquake in Chile caused a series of tsunamis that reached as far away as Japan and Australia?
Did you know that the actor Sir Ian McKellen was the final guest to appear on Parkinson's Sunday Supplement and one of the first on Weekend Wogan , both Sunday morning programmes on BBC Radio 2 ?
Did you know that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge ?
Did you know that Pina Bausch and conductor Thomas Hengelbrock staged Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Paris and the ancient theater in Epidaurus ?
Did you know that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season , every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?
Did you know that the pygmy hardwood forest on the summit of New York's Graham Mountain is unique in the Catskills ?
Did you know that the New Zealand space scientist Ian Axford was a director of the German Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy ?
Did you know that the first Filipino full-length animated film , Adarna , was created by Gerry Garcia in the late 1990s?
Did you know that American soprano Anna Fitziu was the singing instructor for Shirley Verrett ?
Did you know that females of the species Toxotes chatareus may lay between 20,000 and 150,000 eggs at a time?
Did you know that despite being an Australian, Walter Cornock played both professional football and first-class cricket for English teams?
Did you know that because it could neither be repaired nor removed, a trolley bridge in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts , was turned into a garden called the Bridge of Flowers ?
Did you know that the Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto , by Pablo Picasso , is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at an auction in Europe?
Did you know that former State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr. , once told People magazine that all Louisiana residents needed to be contented was "a pickup and a shotgun"?
Did you know that in 1560, the English helped the Scots lay siege to the French encampment at Leith ?
Did you know that Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia " in the 30 Rock episode " The Natural Order "?
Did you know that the Almond Blossom Cross Country was created by the District of Faro and the Portuguese tourist board to promote sport and tourism in the area?
Did you know that despite being dismissed from the navy for disobeying orders, James Walker returned to fight at Camperdown and Copenhagen , and died a rear-admiral ?
Did you know that after losing a fight with Mikhail Gorbachev's cat, Dmitry Medvedev's cat Dorofei was castrated?
Did you know that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota ?
Did you know that soprano Annette Dasch appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre , where that opera had been premiered in 1781?
Did you know that the village of Ulnaby was abandoned in the 16th century when labour-intensive arable farming gave way to pasture ?
Did you know that Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana , a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
Did you know that when the Coucoucache Indian reserve was inundated by a new reservoir , the Canadian Government was compensated only $380 for the loss of land?
Did you know that the papal court resided in Viterbo , Italy, for twenty years in the 13th century?
Did you know that after concluding his participation in the Second Schleswig War , priest and educator Christopher Bruun walked from Denmark to Rome ?
Did you know that Lars Oftedal founded several social institutions in Stavanger , Norway, including an orphanage for boys and a home for women?
Did you know that the Berserker Range is a mountainous region near Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin 's play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino , was described in The New York Times as an "engaging, well plotted metaphor for the passing of Old Manila "?
Did you know that the distribution of the Brazilian rice rat Euryoryzomys emmonsae may be unique among muroid rodents ?
Did you know that the career of Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik was cut short by serious injury suffered in a car crash?
Did you know that Adolf Claus suggested a structure for benzene in 1867, still known as Claus' benzene ?
Did you know that during the annual Dutch book week , a book was occasionally published anonymously to let readers guess who the author was?
Did you know that actor Richard Stapley , who was sometimes known by the stage name Richard Wyler , published his first novel at age 17?
Did you know that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience ?
Did you know that clients of wandering frontier lawyer John Ricord included Sam Houston and Hawaiian King Kamehameha III ?
Did you know that acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis occur on average two to three times per year in a person suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ?
Did you know that Princess Bamba , the last of the family who ruled the Sikh Empire , was said to have "lived like an alien in her father's kingdom"?
Did you know that indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ?
Did you know that Lionello Cecil sang the lead tenor part in the first complete microphone recording of Verdi 's La traviata in 1928?
Did you know that Typhoon Nida was the most intense tropical cyclone during 2009?
Did you know that Carey McWilliams described Carlos Bulosan 's America Is in the Heart as a social classic that reflected the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America ?
Did you know that the extinct Mexican rice rat Oryzomys nelsoni has only been collected once?
Did you know that Sky News described the free legal video sharing website MUZU TV as a likely rival for YouTube ?
Did you know that the minesweeper USS Inaugural is the only National Historic Landmark in Missouri to have had its status as a National Historic Landmark withdrawn?
Did you know that Knut Kleve , known for his restoration of papyrus fragments, learned Latin while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp ?
Did you know that the fungal genus Sebacina includes species that can encrust the stem bases of living plants?
Did you know that at just 85 days in office, the sixteenth government of Israel was the shortest-lived in the country's history?
Did you know that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia 's first Paralympian ?
Did you know that the German submarine U-78 was the only U-boat to be sunk by land-based artillery fire in World War II ?
Did you know that both Symmachus and Laurentius turned to Theodoric the Great to resolve their disputed succession as pope , the first recorded example of papal simony ?
Did you know that after a search that has so far lasted 30 years, Muckaty station in Australia's Northern Territory is the only site being considered for a national radioactive waste facility?
Did you know that the Art Pavilion gallery was originally built for an exhibition in Budapest and then transported to Zagreb , where it was re-built in 1898?
Did you know that when Scottish soprano Muriel Dickson toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to New York City in 1934–1935, she was invited to join the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning " spider " and gryllus meaning " cricket "?
Did you know that Gustav Storm ' s translation of Snorre Sturlason 's Heimskringla into Norwegian in the late 1890s was the basis for a popular edition of this work?
Did you know that the largest known colony of mammals in the world is found in Bracken Cave near the small town of Bracken, Texas ?
Did you know that Yanko Sakazov was one of the two first socialist parliamentarians in Bulgaria , elected to the National Assembly in 1894?
Did you know that the number-one single " A Puro Dolor " , performed by Son By Four , was written by Omar Alfanno in ten minutes?
Did you know that renowned magazine illustrator David Hunter Strother recounted a treacherous journey on the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike in his recollections of the American Civil War in Harper's Magazine ?
Did you know that Israeli naval forces deployed explosive Italian motorboats to sink the Egyptian Navy flagship Emir Farouk in the naval campaign of Operation Yoav ?
Did you know that in ca. 1304, the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos introduced a new silver coin, the basilikon , modeled after the Venetian grosso , to pay the Catalan Company ?
Did you know that the current Mayor of Manukau is also its last one, as the Manukau City Council area is going to be incorporated into the Auckland super city ?
Did you know that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae , which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga , sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning ?
Did you know that the canoe route through Oskélanéo, Quebec , was once so popular that it prompted the construction of locks on the Oskelaneo River?
Did you know that " Pretty Baby.... " is the first soap opera episode to feature just a single character ?
Did you know that at 100 years old, Sir Nicholas Winton was named a British Hero of the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the AN/PSQ-20 "Enhanced Night Vision Device" combines image intensifier and thermal imaging technologies, which were previously used separately?
Did you know that Colleen LaRose , also known as "JihadJane", was living in suburban Pennsylvania when she was arrested for recruiting Islamic terrorists and plotting the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks ?
Did you know that conductor Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart finished the first complete recording of Bach's cantatas and oratorios on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985?
Did you know that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx when he joined the Mesame Dasi ?
Did you know that sea interferometry uses radio waves reflected off the surface of the sea to improve the resolution of a single radio detector?
Did you know that two plaster maquettes made by sculptor John Evan Thomas for House of Lords bronzes have just been found in Westgate, Canterbury , after being hidden in a tower for 100 years?
Did you know that William Hutcheon Hall of the Royal Navy earned the nickname "Nemesis Hall" for his services as commander of the Nemesis during the First Anglo-Chinese War ?
Did you know that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso ?
Did you know that the thirty pieces of silver which Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus are echoed in Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment by the thirty roubles which Sonia earns for selling herself?
Did you know that Swiss athlete Georges de Regibus introduced association football to Bulgaria in 1894 as a sports teacher in Varna ?
Did you know that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae , predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon ?
Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 , in Latin ?
Did you know that Empire Cedric , a former Landing Ship, Tank , was the first Ro-Ro ferry ?
Did you know that Yothu Yindi 's song " Treaty " was the first song by a predominately- Aboriginal band to chart in Australia and the first in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain international recognition?
Did you know that Mexican revolutionary Rubén Jaramillo ran for governor of Morelos twice and led two armed rebellions against the government?
Did you know that pairwise summation of a sequence (breaking it in half and summing each half separately first) greatly reduces rounding errors?
Did you know that Leslie Barrett was both a Shakespearean actor and the founder of a mime theatre?
Did you know that Hungry Bentley , an abandoned village in Derbyshire , England , was named for the poor quality of its land?
Did you know that professional wrestler Tiger Raj Singh had a try-out match for World Wrestling Entertainment in December 2009 and was signed to a developmental contract?
Did you know that the " Beethoven Burst " was a powerful gamma-ray burst which occurred on the birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven ?
Did you know that Jhalkaribai fought with the East India Company army in disguise as Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to let the queen escape easily out of the fort?
Did you know that more than 98% of the human genome is noncoding DNA , sometimes referred to as "junk" DNA ?
Did you know that in her novel Devil's Brood , author Sharon Kay Penman writes about Eleanor of Aquitaine who is imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England ?
Did you know that the original recording of The Byrds ' song " Eight Miles High " was not released until its appearance on the Never Before compilation album in 1987, some 22 years after it had been committed to tape?
Did you know that Javier Arias Stella , Peruvian foreign minister during the Paquisha War , is also a notable pathologist ?
Did you know that the Dome F105 Formula One car completed more than 900 kilometres (560 mi) of private testing, yet was never entered in a Grand Prix?
Did you know that bikini baristas can be found mixing up coffee drinks all over the Seattle area?
Did you know that the false scorpionfish mimics the true scorpionfish so well, it was originally described as a species of genus Scorpaena ?
Did you know that 5th-century Indian mathematician Aryabhata created the first sine table ?
Did you know that the American electric blues guitarist , singer , and songwriter , Johnnie Bassett , played on The Miracles 1958 debut single , "Got a Job"?
Did you know that a chance discovery in 1928 by a local farmer in Minet el-Beida led to the excavation of ancient Ugarit in Syria ?
Did you know that during the Korean War , US Army Colonel Robert F. Martin commanded the 34th Infantry Regiment for only 14 hours before he was killed in the Battle of Chonan ?
Did you know that 92% of students at West London 's Villiers High School do not speak English as their first language ?
Did you know that Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers served as a bodyguard for political rivals Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in 1905 and 1912, respectively?
Did you know that Para Siempre , the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández , reached number-one on the Mexican charts and won Best Ranchero Album at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards ceremony ?
Did you know that in 1779, New York State Senator John Williams was expelled from the Senate for defrauding fellow soldiers of income during the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that the main characteristic of the continental Celtic deity Dusios was its ability to impregnate animals and women, often by surprise or force?
Did you know that Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil ?
Did you know that the aviso SMS Hela was the first German ship to be sunk by a British submarine in World War I ?
Did you know that Fabian Joseph , a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team , won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s?
Did you know that the last words of the British judge Lord Tenterden were "and now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider of your verdict"?
Did you know that Bollywood actor Bobby Deol won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in Barsaat in 1995 ?
Did you know that the port city of Bergen was the site of the first German U-boat base in occupied Norway ?
Did you know that Garry Richardson interviewed Bill Clinton during a rain delay at the Wimbledon Championships ?
Did you know that The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José ?
Did you know that lieutenant general Nie Fengzhi joined the People's Liberation Army as a teenager in 1929?
Did you know that Al-Kahf Castle in al-Ansariyah mountains was the last Ismaili stronghold in Syria to surrender to the Mamluks ?
Did you know that the recently named trematopid temnospondyl Fedexia was named after the shipping service FedEx , which owned the land where the holotype specimen was found?
Did you know that Grace Voss Frederick (November 3, 1905 – January 16, 2009) was the creator of the Grace Museum of America and the Grace Museum for the Preservation of Americana?
Did you know that the Tour de Nesle scandal led to the imprisonment of French Princesses Blanche and Margaret and the execution of their lovers?
Did you know that the American soul blues guitarist , singer , and songwriter Jimmy Burns , issued a number of singles in the 1960s, but waited over 25 years to release his debut album ?
Did you know that Aritsugu , a supplier of swords to the Imperial House of Japan during the 16th century, now produces cooking knives and utensils?
Did you know that, although it had been assigned to them in 1853, the Atikamekw First Nation did not settle on the Wemotaci Reserve ( Quebec ) until the beginning of the 20th century?
Did you know that a message of farewell to the spa town of Buxton scratched onto a window pane of the Old Hall Hotel was reputedly inscribed by Mary Queen of Scots ?
Did you know that German and Scottish mercenaries, sent by Sweden to retaliate the roasting of a Swedish commander by Russian forces, killed each other instead in the Siege of Wesenberg (1574) ?
Did you know that Avondale Park , a Park Ship sunk on 7 May 1945, was one of two Allied ships destroyed by enemy action in the last hour of the Second World War in Europe ?
Did you know that minister Edward Woolsey Bacon served in the American Civil War and in 1865 led the black 29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry into Richmond, Virginia ?
Did you know that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
Did you know that the physicist Stefan Meyer led the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna before and after the Nazi regime ?
Did you know that a description of the Battle of Aspern-Essling written by Patrick Rambaud as The Battle was originally a project of Honoré de Balzac ?
Did you know that The Kinks ' " Sitting in the Midday Sun " is thought to be the first track recorded at their newly-built Konk Studios ?
Did you know that after Egypt was defeated by Israel during the Six-Day War the Egyptian government issued copies of the Hope paintings to its troops?
Did you know that in 1697, Reverend Ichabod Wiswall delivered the first known funeral sermon in British America ?
Did you know that the 7th century Maligawila Buddha statue , which was found broken into pieces in 1951, was repaired and re-erected in 1980?
Did you know that singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Gerhaher recorded music written in the concentration camp of Terezín by artists such as Ilse Weber , Hans Krása , Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann ?
Did you know that the silver stavraton replaced the gold hyperpyron as the Byzantine Empire 's chief coinage during the last century of its history?
Did you know that one political faction in Isabelline Spain was known as the polacos because of its leader's Polish ancestry?
Did you know that the Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford , have included Ronald Reagan and John Betjeman , even though neither had academic links to the college?
Did you know that the Birmingham Charity Cup , a Victorian football trophy, featured engravings of a football match and of "the poor and sick succoured by the heavenly spirit"?
Did you know that the Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization in 1989 sought to end the assimilationist approach of the governments in dealing with indigenous peoples ?
Did you know that Heinz Stahlschmidt was credited with saving 3,500 French lives when he refused to blow up the port of Bordeaux and instead blew up the munitions bunker, killing approximately 50 Germans?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Balata was a Frankish settlement during the Crusades ?
Did you know that actress Edith Craig , dramatist Christabel Marshall and artist Clare Atwood lived in a ménage à trois from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947?
Did you know that it has been suggested the extinct palm genus Palaeoraphe was restricted to the Greater Antilles ?
Did you know that the bootlegged song " Revolution 1 (Take 20) " by the British rock band The Beatles acts as a missing link between the seemingly unrelated " Revolution 1 " and the avant-garde " Revolution 9 "?
Did you know that despite its name, the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) had only 35% workers among its members?
Did you know that Indonesia 's first flag flown was fashioned by its first first lady Fatmawati ?
Did you know that Harvard -educated William Little Lee became the first Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1848 at the age of only 27?