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Did you know that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi , a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km 2 ), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
Did you know that semi-professional football player Nevin Saroya featured in the football-themed film Mean Machine ?
Did you know that Katsura Hoshino based her manga character Allen Walker on a female character, only altering the hair length?
Did you know22, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Mount Widerøe , Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe , who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km 2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
Did you know that at only 0.32 miles (0.51 km) long, New Jersey Route 64 is a state highway that consists primarily of a bridge over Amtrak -maintained railroad tracks ?
Did you know that Brandenburg and Pomerania settled their conflicts in the Treaty of Soldin , but fought it out when Pomerania disobeyed?
Did you know that the Swedish reality show Wild Kids has been described as a children's version of Survivor ?
Did you know that Jim Bunning , currently a U.S. Senator from Kentucky , was the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1968 ?
Did you know that Polish archaeologist Mieczysław Domaradzki , who was based in Bulgaria for 22 years studying the archaeology of Thrace , discovered the ancient market centre Pistiros ?
Did you know that Beverly Hills , California , produces more than 874,000 barrels of oil a year, with approximately 11 million barrels in reserve , and oil wells on campus at the local high school ?
Did you know21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the gorgon Medusa is a common theme in the mosaic decoration of Villa Armira , a Roman villa near modern Ivaylovgrad , Bulgaria ?
Did you know that Jacques Callot 's series of etchings The Large Miseries of War were so called to distinguish them from a smaller set of Miseries ?
Did you know that of the two formats of Ashokan Edicts (Delhi) namely, rock edicts and stone pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links Delhi ’s history with the Ashokan era (273–236 BC)?
Did you know that the Simpson Railroad is one of the last operational logging railroads in the continental United States?
Did you know that Austrian Jewish author Elfriede Gerstl as a child had to hide in a wardrobe to avoid deportation to a concentration camp ?
Did you know that all but one of Masami Hirosaka 's IFMAR titles were won driving cars by Yokomo and their home market distributor Associated Electrics ?
Did you know that in the world's northernmost university it is obligatory to take self-defence shooting classes?
Did you know that Gershom Schocken was the editor of Haaretz for over 50 years?
Did you know that the hydraulis or water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first water organ found in Greece , and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
Did you know that the history of transport in Somerset has gone from the Sweet Track , an ancient causeway , to a modern international airport?
Did you know that polyaryletherketone (PAEK) is a family of thermoplastics that are used in high temperature applications and surgical implants ?
Did you know that mainstream Japanese film journal Kinema Junpo chose director Tatsumi Kumashiro 's The World of Geisha as one of the best ten Japanese films of 1973 despite its being in the softcore Roman porno genre?
Did you know that the 2009 Serbian Air Force MiG-29 crash killed Lieutenant Colonel Rade Randjelovic, Serbian Air Force 's display pilot and commander of the 98th Air Base ?
Did you know that Leonese nobleman Fruela Díaz gave, as a gift to Queen Urraca of León , a horse worth the equivalent of 5,000 sheep?
Did you know that No. 6 Commando , a British commando unit, used American uniforms and equipment during Operation Torch in an attempt to placate the Vichy French ?
Did you know that The Homestead , one of the oldest buildings in Haverstraw, New York , has been home to a state legislator and congressman , the county sheriff and the local school superintendent ?
Did you know that the thirteen-year-old Kumawakamaru took revenge for his father by assassinating the monk Homma Saburō with his own sword?
Did you know that the two roads that use former New Jersey Route 65 , Port Street and Doremus Avenue, dead-end just after their respective intersection?
Did you know that Edward Atienza made his London theatrical debut in 1954, as the Mole in Toad of Toad Hall ?
Did you know that the United States Navy conducted Operation Teardrop in 1945 in the mistaken belief that German U-boats were en route to attack the United States east coast with V-1 flying bombs ?
Did you know that Japan 's incoming First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama claims to have been abducted by aliens in a triangular-shaped UFO and to have known Tom Cruise when he was Japanese in a prior incarnation ?
Did you know21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that prior to reclamation of the Polaris mine , the 700 feet (210 m) long warehouse that stored concentrated ore was the largest building in Nunavut ?
Did you know that in 1947 a group broke away from the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and founded the rival Red Communist Party , in protest of the PKI leadership's willingness to negotiate with the Dutch ?
Did you know that the Russell Drysdale 's 1948 painting The cricketers has been described as "possibly the most famous Australian painting of the 20th century"?
Did you know that the Battle of Oldendorf was one of only two battles in the Thirty Years' War where both armies attacked?
Did you know that the political cabaret show Neues aus der Anstalt is the first of its kind to be broadcast on the second German public-service channel since 1979?
Did you know that British Isles and Australian rugby player Blair Swannell played every game in the same pair of unwashed breeches ?
Did you know that in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II , German soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog ?
Did you know that Jacob van Deventer spent fifteen years making hundreds of maps of Dutch cities, but his work was only rediscovered 299 years after he began?
Did you know that Battle of Long Khanh was the last joint American-Australian battalion-sized operation in Vietnam?
Did you know that wet storage stain , more commonly known as "white rust", is a very selective type of corrosion that only occurs on fresh zinc surfaces that are stored in close quarters and collect moisture?
Did you know that Bulgarian – Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff , an honorary citizen of Turin , studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar ?
Did you know that the Soviet Il-8-2 ground-attack aircraft prototype mounted a cassette of ten AG-2 aerial grenades to drop in the path of pursuing fighters?
Did you know that the German hospital ship Ophelia was seized by the British Navy as a spy ship in 1914 only to be torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat UB-10 a year later?
Did you know that mob boss Gennaro Angiulo ' s high-school ambition was to be a lawyer?
Did you know that the giant Tiber oilfield was found 6 miles (10 km) down, in some of the oldest offshore rock layers ever drilled for oil?
Did you know that San Jose Mercury News West Magazine received awards for reporting on Japanese American internment , environmental policies of the Reagan administration , and effects of Proposition 13 ?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale , Cheshire , England , is the grave of John Middleton , who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall?
Did you know that Haitian pianist and composer Ludovic Lamothe was hailed as the "black Frédéric Chopin " after years of recitals to the Haitian elite?
Did you know that the four Brandenburg -class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy ?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom a drought is defined as fifteen consecutive days or more with less than 0.2 millimetres of rainfall ?
Did you know that Gaylord Stinchcomb , one of the stars of Ohio State 's first football victory over Michigan , also won the 1921 NCAA championship in the broad jump ?
Did you know that as the result of a wrong order, the elite British T-Force moved in to Kiel just prior to VE Day while a strong German force was still present in the city?
Did you know that a miniature clay figurine of a woman or goddess in the Argos Archaeological Museum in Greece is one of the oldest sculptural representations of humans found in Europe to date?
Did you know that after being part of the Communist Party of Burma for 20 years, Pheung Kya-shin mutinied against the party and established his own army?
Did you know that in the initial Anglo-Italian Cup football tournaments, one point was awarded for every goal scored?
Did you know that the English explorer Robert Machin , who has been credited with discovering the island of Madeira , may never have existed?
Did you know21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Romanian DJ David Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, I Can Feel and So Bizzare [ sic ], with the last becoming a number one hit?
Did you know that Ford developed a people mover system known as ACT , but the only one to see passenger service was built between the Hyatt Regency hotel and Fairlane Town Center shopping mall on Ford-developed lands in Dearborn, MI ?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII appointed Hilarius Breitinger as Apostolic Administrator to the Reichsgau Wartheland , the portion of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that during the 2009 Big Ten Conference football season nine teams open their seasons at home ?
Did you know that the building of the Archaeological Museum of Chania in Crete was once the main church of a Franciscan monastery and survived a major earthquake in 1595?
Did you know that African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park ?
Did you know that Kirātārjunīya , a Sanskrit poem by Bharavi , is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
Did you know that Henry Gerber founded the first gay rights organization in the United States in 1924, only to see it destroyed in less than a year following accusations that it was a "strange sex cult"?
Did you know that Roy Nielsen was one of the two saboteurs responsible for sinking the German troop ship SS Donau in the Oslofjord in January 1945?
Did you know that Travis Tritt 's song " Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man " features Brooks & Dunn , T. Graham Brown , George Jones , Little Texas , Dana McVicker , Tanya Tucker and Porter Wagoner ?
Did you know that the Edenton Tea Party was one of the first instances of political activism by women in the Thirteen Colonies ?
Did you know that although Tennessee Williams co-wrote the screenplay for the 1950 film version of his play The Glass Menagerie , he called the film a "dishonest" adaptation of his work?
Did you know that the Oslo Metro station serving the district of Grini in Bærum was closed in 1995 because many passengers chose to walk to another station from whence the fare was cheaper?
Did you know that Christian Kølle introduced the feminine grammatical gender in Norway in an anonymous work released in 1785?
Did you know that a turma signified a cavalry squadron of 30 men in the Roman army , but evolved into a regiment of up to 6,000 men in the Byzantine Empire ?
Did you know that German CDU politician Karl-Josef Laumann was appointed Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs for North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005?
Did you know that Turner Contemporary , a visual arts venue in Margate , has begun construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the North Sea ?
Did you know that bonnetmouths can be found at depths from 3 to 90 metres (9.8 to 295.3 ft), but mainly occur in schools at about 64 metres (210 ft) deep?
Did you know that the British Velocette Valiant motorcycle launched in 1956 was criticised for its underpowered engine?
Did you know that Singaporean author Rex Shelley wrote his first novel The Shrimp People , about the Eurasian community in Singapore , in 1991 at age 61?
Did you know that the herald Robert Glover was appointed to the office of Norroy King of Arms jointly with his 82-year-old father-in-law William Flower in 1580?
Did you know that Hamburg 's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck , and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
Did you know that Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur paid to have his book, Oregon Geographic Names , published in 1928 and that the book is still in print today?
Did you know that in the 1894–95 Madagascar expedition , France lost only 25 men in combat , but as many as 4,800 men to diseases ?
Did you know that Helga Karlsen , who was the first female Member of Parliament from the Norwegian Labour Party , died only four days before she could be elected for a third term?
Did you know that members of the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature used a glass eye and the services of a prostitute to ensure passage of the session's first act ?
Did you know14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that English former footballer David Hamilton was Wigan Athletic 's first ever full-time scout ?
Did you know that the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library is the oldest chartered public library in Rockland County, New York ?
Did you know that Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg became the youngest soldier in the world when assigned to the 15th Mecklenburg Dragoons by German Emperor William I shortly after his birth?
Did you know that in 1987, 13 years after its citizens voted to repeal the city's gay rights ordinance , Boulder , Colorado , became the only American city to adopt a gay rights law through popular referendum?
Did you know that the former actress Sherry Boucher , formerly married to George Peppard , is now a Realtor in Bossier Parish , Louisiana ?
Did you know that Death Risk Rankings , nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder , in a twelve-month span?
Did you know that the former secretary to the French embassy to Constantinople and army officer Étienne Soulange-Bodin set up a horticultural institute near Paris to rival Kew in the early 19th century?
Did you know that Shirley Temple film vehicles Curly Top and The Littlest Rebel were both named to Variety ' s list of top box office draws for 1935?
Did you know that Old Norse poems attributed to Torf-Einarr describe his defeat of Hálfdan Longlegs?
Did you know that De Eendracht , a smock mill in Anjum , Netherlands , is used as a tourist information office as well as being a working mill?
Did you know that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly homoerotic " depictions of men appeared in physique magazines ?
Did you know that the deepest living demersal fish ever retrieved, Abyssobrotula galatheae , was found in the Puerto Rico Trench at a depth of 8,370 metres (27,453 ft)?
Did you know that Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana was originally formed in 1800 by flooding stemming from a large log jam on the nearby Red River ?
Did you know that on New Year's Day in 1980, 60 people were killed by an earthquake in the Azores Islands ?
Did you know that when designing The Spectacular Spider-Man , Victor Cook looked at the style of Hellboy: Blood and Iron , which he directed, for inspiration?
Did you know that the RAF Memorial Flight Spitfire Mk IIa P7350 is the only surviving Spitfire from the Battle of Britain still flying?
Did you know that Tien Ang Tong is the first Methodist church built in China that provided services in the English language ?
Did you know that Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as " cannibals " devouring "a civilized man"?
Did you know that Sapta Puri represents the seven holy Hindu cities of Ayodhya , Dwarka , Haridwar , Ujjain , Kanchipuram , Mathura and the holiest, Varanasi ?
Did you know that many well-known works of Renaissance art passed through the hands of connoisseur art dealer Stefano Bardini of Florence ?
Did you know that Winnfield , home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame , is known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because three governors , Huey and Earl Long and O.K. Allen , were born there?
Did you know that Med Hondo is an award-winning Mauritanian film director who dubbed the voice of Donkey in the French language version of Shrek ?
Did you know that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar ?
Did you know that after cancelling the political cabaret series Notizen aus der Provinz in 1979, the ZDF did not broadcast a similar show for 28 years?
Did you know14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that three-time All-American Eddie Mahan was named by Jim Thorpe as the greatest football player of all time?
Did you know that William Blake 's unfinished manuscript An Island in the Moon contains early versions of three of his famous Songs of Innocence ?
Did you know that the waviness of bearing balls and bearing races surfaces is one of the reasons for bearing noise and vibrations?
Did you know that the 1986 Vrancea earthquake in Romania , which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as Poland and as far southwest as Italy ?
Did you know that Francesco Torniello was the first to define the point as a unit of measurement in typography?
Did you know that the position of Clerk of the Parliaments has existed in England since at least 1315?
Did you know that Norwegian professor of bacteriology Sverre Dick Henriksen was an honorary member of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists , despite having never worked in Poland ?
Did you know that Severe Tropical Cyclone Keli was the first recorded tropical cyclone to form within the South Pacific Ocean in June?
Did you know that Henry Dorling , step-father of cookery writer Mrs Beeton , was the first Clerk of the Course of Epsom Racecourse ?
Did you know that the farmland at Ramstad , Norway , was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the Drammen Line and the European route E18 ?
Did you know that in 1974, Louis Gaston Mayila became Deputy Personal Adviser to the then President of Gabon , Omar Bongo ?
Did you know that the treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) aboard the International Space Station was named after political satirist Stephen Colbert ?
Did you know that Robin Hoare received the Albert Medal for removing depth charges from a ship while it was on fire?
Did you know that critics praised The Spectacular Spider-Man episode " Natural Selection " for its action and fight sequences?
Did you know that the term surface integrity is defined as the nature of the surface condition of a workpiece after being affected by manufacturing processes?
Did you know that one of the largest fish culture stations in Quebec , Canada , is in Lac-des-Écorces ?
Did you know that Triangle , the 1967 album by The Beau Brummels , was partially inspired by the Legion of Honor ?
Did you know that Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT ' s youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?
Did you know that Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries , Scotland ?
Did you know that supporters invaded the pitch on three occasions during a football match between West Ham United and Millwall in 2009?
Did you know that the Intimidator roller coaster on the South Carolina side of the Carowinds amusement park takes its name from the nickname of former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt ?
Did you know that according to government records in 2006, more than a third of the total number of Chinese residents in Botswana worked in the construction business?
Did you know that the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden , Louisiana , preserves the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871?
Did you know that Giveamanakick ' s live performances involved gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"?
Did you know14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that all proceeds from the 2009 Radiohead song " Harry Patch (In Memory Of) " were donated to The Royal British Legion ?
Did you know that Giuseppe Ricciotti 's book "Life of Jesus Christ" was edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times?
Did you know that as a result of the Okęcie Airport Incident in 1980 , four top players of the Polish national football team were disqualified, and one of them never capped for Poland again?
Did you know that Alexander Gordon Lyle is one of only two dental officers ever to receive the United States ' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that, predicted to appear in at least 1 in 20,000 humans, the microduplication of a band on chromosome 17 leads to the rare disease Potocki-Lupski syndrome ?
Did you know that King Louis IX of France said that he would rather break clods behind a plough than accept the 1264 Peace of Canterbury ?
Did you know that the Castilian nobleman Fernando Núñez de Lara became a Knight Hospitaller on his deathbed in exile in Marrakesh ?
Did you know that Joginder Singh and Nick Nowicki were twice members of a group nicknamed the Unsinkable Seven after managing to be among the seven survivors of the East African Safari Rally in 1963 and 1968?
Did you know that users in the upcoming MMORPG DUST 514 will be able to interact with users from another game, EVE Online , through mercenary assistance?
Did you know that the Polish Committee for Settling of Place Names determined 32,138 toponyms of Poland inbetween 1946 and 1950?
Did you know that the White-throated Round-eared Bat creates roosts inside the nests of the termite , Nasutitermes corniger ?
Did you know that William Hutton , François Pierre La Varenne and Benjamin Disraeli wrote about game pie , and Josiah Wedgwood made cooking dishes for it?
Did you know that groups considered UFO religions by scholars include Aetherius Society , Heaven's Gate , Order of the Solar Temple , Raëlism , and Scientology ?
Did you know that the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris reimagined the Lewis Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French capital ?
Did you know that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988 Yokohama Film Festival Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese adult video director Tohjiro ?
Did you know that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon , are criminals?
Did you know that Fuzhou Tanka people in Fujian lived on boats most of their lives?
Did you know that in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account ?
Did you know that after The Saturday Evening Post announced its closure in 1969, embittered editor-in-chief William Emerson wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics will lose their other eye"?
Did you know that Caney Lakes Recreation Area and nearby Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana have been plagued with the giant salvinia fern, which impairs boating ?
Did you know that 80% of the taxis used for transport in Hamburg are driver-owned?
Did you know that the 1930 musical The New Yorkers received criticism for bad taste, and its song " Love for Sale " was subsequently banned from the radio?
Did you know that Mexico celebrates its Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Mexico Revolution in 2010?
Did you know15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park , a former burial ground in the City of London , elevated above street level?
Did you know that Al Purvis played for the Edmonton Mercurys , an ice hockey team sponsored by a local car dealership, that won the gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics ?