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Did you know that an article she wrote about boar hunting in Brittany led to Kate Betts ' career as a fashion journalist ?
Did you know that Jim "the Darp" Ostendarp , Amherst College football coach for 33 years, refused to allow ESPN to televise a game saying, "We're in education. We aren't in the entertainment business"?
Did you know that First Presbyterian Church 1793 is the de facto college church of Washington & Jefferson College , a nearby nonsectarian liberal arts college?
Did you know that the Brazilian dance known as the Surra de Bunda describes a female dancer pounding her buttocks into a man's face?
Did you know that playwright Penny Arcade 's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! was made partly in response to a bill amendment banning the National Endowment of the Arts from granting funds for "obscene or indecent art"?
Did you know that Elias Martin has been described by Nationalencyklopedin as Sweden 's "first big landscape painter"?
Did you know that Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I ?
Did you know that the Motherwell v Hibernian football match on 5 May 2010 , which ended in a 6–6 draw, is the highest scoring match in Scottish Premier League history?
Did you know that José Albi was a Spanish literary critic and the last of the post Spanish Civil War poets?
Did you know that Augie Schmidt won the Golden Spikes Award , an award given to the top amateur baseball player in the United States, in 1982?
Did you know that C/2009 R1 , one of more than fifty comets known as " Comet McNaught ", has been noted for its "impressive green coma and long ion tail ", lending it the appearance of an "apple on a stick"?
Did you know that in English trusts law , constructive trusts are used for things as varied as land transfers, bribery and murder?
Did you know that the British steam-powered submarine HMS Swordfish ' s performance underwater was so unsatisfactory that she was converted to an anti-submarine patrol boat in 1917–18?
Did you know that the Lothair Crystal , an engraved gem now in the British Museum , was once sold for ten pounds ?
Did you know that Benjamin Fondane , known as a Symbolist poet in Romania , a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina , was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
Did you know that the UConn Huskies won the 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl to end a year marked by five games lost by 15 total points, a double-overtime victory at Notre Dame , and the murder of cornerback Jasper Howard ?
Did you know that Rafael Fraguela was elected to the N.J. Assembly 33rd District as a Democrat , became a Republican to run for the N.J. Senate , and returned to the Democrats to vote for a stem cell research bill?
Did you know that Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, confessed to the Grangegorman killings and spent eight months in jail, though he did not commit the crime?
Did you know that the film Let the Devil Wear Black is a modern-day version of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet that is set in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that Prvić near Krk is the windiest Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea ?
Did you know that people have reportedly witnessed the ghosts of Roman legionnaires passing through Maesmawr Hall in Powys , Wales , site of an ancient Roman road?
Did you know that Alfred Sinding-Larsen , who wrote folk songs with the Vika dialect , was one of the first writers to use a dialect from Norway's capital ?
Did you know that the 16th-century chancel window of the Welsh church of St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus , has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall?
Did you know that the propellers of the Dornier Do 29 could be tilted downwards by up to 90 degrees?
Did you know that the low-budget horror film Raging Sharks has been described as a poor man’s combination of early Steven Spielberg films?
Did you know that after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old, New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Kramer pushed bills requiring sex offender registration , saying " Megan Kanka would be alive today" if his bills were law?
Did you know that the Tanganyikan Spiny Eel was one of the species that was photographed as part of a FishBase mission which had the primary objective to document and photograph the rich fish diversity of Lake Tanganyika ?
Did you know that in English law , resulting trusts work based on the equitable maxim that "equity abhors a vacuum"?
Did you know that when a fifteen-year-old girl garlanded Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the inauguration of India 's Panchet Dam , she was considered to have "married" him?
Did you know that when in danger of predation , the harvestman Leiobunum rotundum can self-amputate its legs, but they will not regenerate ?
Did you know that the ChristChurch Cathedral has a western porch and a memorial window to commemorate Alfred Creyke and John Watts-Russell , respectively, paid for by their widow Elizabeth?
Did you know that a big part of the collection of the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon came from Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle and his son Antoine ?
Did you know that David C. Chapman , the man who was involved in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park , has a mountain named for him in the park?
Did you know that the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar , an environmental award given by the Government of India to organizations, carries a cash prize of 500,000 Indian rupees ?
Did you know that as point man for the Kennedy administration on the August 1963 March on Washington , John W. Douglas was given "historic credit for the orderliness and smoothness and joy of that day"?
Did you know that the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous -class carrier HMS Furious ?
Did you know that in the Mexican state of Hidalgo there is a community that claims to be descended from Sephardi Jews who migrated to New Spain in the 16th century?
Did you know that the Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane was powered by an engine originally intended for use in airships ?
Did you know that Jerusalem 's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway , because it was originally built as one?
Did you know that in 1896, a flooding disaster occurred at River Level Colliery in the Welsh village of Abernant , killing six colliers?
Did you know that Fred Swanton , known as the P. T. Barnum of Santa Cruz , promoted everything from the Neptune Casino to ZaSu Pitts ?
Did you know that the Bar U Ranch in Alberta , Canada , hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid ?
Did you know that Offshore Power Systems , a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding , spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant?
Did you know that the 1878 constitution of San Francisco 's Congregation Beth Israel prohibited members from praying out loud?
Did you know that baseball player Ed Sprague, Jr. is the only Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft pick to be a part of both Blue Jays' World Series championships?
Did you know that the United Public Workers of America was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1950 for being communist -controlled, and its president convicted of contempt of Congress ?
Did you know that actor Jason Lee will star as a detective who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator in the upcoming American television series Memphis Beat ?
Did you know that John Mott-Smith was the first permanent dentist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and its last ambassador to the U.S. ?
Did you know that Rhodesia was the only African country to compete at the first Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that late Roman office-holder Sossianus Hierocles was one of the more fervent supporters of official persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ?
Did you know that the German submarine U-343 managed to shoot down two Wellington bombers ?
Did you know that Nadrian Seeman was inspired to create the field of DNA nanotechnology while pondering the M. C. Escher woodcut Depth at a campus pub?
Did you know that the German submarine U-355 went missing on 4 April 1944 and was never heard from again?
Did you know that United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947) is the only U.S. Supreme Court decision prior to 1965 to address the meaning of the Ninth and Tenth amendments substantively?
Did you know that the decisive factor for the Greek victory at Bizani (1913) was not numerical superiority, but the solid operational planning that did not allow the Ottoman forces to react?
Did you know that Don Cohan , the oldest sailor to win an Olympic bronze medal (at age 42), won a U.S. sailing championship at age 72?
Did you know that the pilot of the Aichi F1A sat in an open cockpit , while the observer's position was enclosed?
Did you know that Owen Aspinall , the 45th Governor of American Samoa , banned a Korean man from marrying a Samoan woman, despite the fact that he, a Colorado native, married a Samoan woman himself?
Did you know that the political surveillance of Socialist People's Party founder Knut Løfsnes by the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency amounted to at least 2500 pages of surveillance documents?
Did you know that Endiandra introrsa , commonly known as Dorrigo Plum or Red Walnut, is neither a plum nor a walnut but a member of the laurel family ?
Did you know that Orville Nave compiled his best-known work, Nave's Topical Bible , while serving as a chaplain in the United States Army ?
Did you know that in 1910, the public library in Dragon, Utah , arranged for the Uintah Railway to deliver borrowed books for free?
Did you know that publicist Stephen Rivers arranged Jane Fonda 's 1987 trip to Poland , where she went to express her support for Lech Wałęsa , leader of the then-banned Solidarity movement?
Did you know that visually impaired runner Said Gomez , three time Paralympic champion, is the only Panamanian to have won medals at the Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that Vietnamese coffee producer Trung Nguyên 's Legendee brand coffee is a simulated Kopi Luwak product?
Did you know that retired professional baseball player Joe Campbell missed most of spring training in 1967 with the Chicago Cubs due to obligations he had in the United States Marine Corps ?
Did you know that the Terwilliger-Smith Farm in Kerhonkson, New York , has the only extant stand-alone slaughterhouse in Ulster County ?
Did you know that since the superstructure of Johnstown 's Cathedral of St. John Gualbert was laid using nearly 590,000 pounds (270,000 kg) of steel , the roof was able to be completed before the foundation walls?
Did you know that the trophy for the Enterprise Cup , a Kenyan rugby union competition, was donated by sailors of the HMS Enterprise who toured East Africa in 1928?
Did you know that the publishers of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings insisted on adding the caveat "Music Inspired by" to the title of Bo Hansson 's 1972 concept album Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that at the end of 2006 the UK made the final payment on the Keynes World War II loan negotiated by John Maynard Keynes in 1945?
Did you know that during his performance in the Reduta Theatre at age 11, Mozart was dissatisfied with the sound of the trumpets ?
Did you know that Conrad Susa 's opera Transformations is based on Grimm's Fairy Tales as retold by American poet, Anne Sexton ?
Did you know that when an elevated train derailed on Ninth Avenue in New York in 1905, some passengers escaped from one carriage through an apartment window?
Did you know that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stock the Little Cottonwood Creek with 1000 trout yearly?
Did you know that the colour printing process chromoxylography was mostly used to print book covers for penny dreadfuls , yellow-backs , and children's books during the mid to late 19th century?
Did you know that Lodge Park in Gloucestershire is England's only surviving 17th-century deer course and grandstand ?
Did you know that the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the French and British war ships entering the Bosphorus from the Black Sea during the Crimean War ?
Did you know that Pelé and Mia Hamm are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game Academy of Champions: Soccer ?
Did you know that in September 1942 No. 62 Commando carried out a raid on what was later to become known as Omaha Beach in France, where American forces would land on D-Day in 1944?
Did you know that the United Nations and Amnesty International have called for an investigation into the death of Congolese activist Floribert Chebeya ?
Did you know that D. John Markey complained of the Democratic Party 's 82-year grip on Maryland after the close and controversial 1946 Senate race against Governor Herbert O'Conor ?
Did you know that under the Vandalism Act of Singapore , a person convicted for the first time of vandalism by defacing property using an indelible substance such as paint must be sentenced to caning ?
Did you know that British judo expert Trevor Leggett 's adherence to Japanese culture extended even to wearing traditional Japanese underwear ?
Did you know that looters at the Maya archaeological site of Holtun in Guatemala uncovered a series of large stucco masks flanking the main stairway of the principal pyramid ?
Did you know that during World War II, English biochemist Samuel Victor Perry failed to escape as a prisoner of war on three occasions, and was captured by the same German guard twice?
Did you know that Jan Kobow sang the tenor part of Bach 's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2 , written for the second Sunday after Trinity of 1724, with Philippe Herreweghe ?
Did you know that American athlete Marla Runyan , who is legally blind , won the national 5K road running title three consecutive times at the Freihofer's Run for Women ?
Did you know that a ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle made by Thomas Earnshaw is now in the British Museum ?
Did you know that Vera Beaudin Saeedpour , an American Jew , opened the first U.S. museum dedicated to the Kurdish people ?
Did you know that the Bloom Festival in Dublin 's Phoenix Park is twice as large as the UK's Chelsea Flower Show ?
Did you know that celebrities who have worn Jonathan Saunders ' designs include Madonna , Kylie Minogue , Sienna Miller , and Michelle Obama ?
Did you know that The Brahmin and the Mongoose , an Indian folktale about the rash killing of a loyal animal, travelled the world and inspired shrines to the dogs Saint Guinefort in France and Gelert in Wales?
Did you know that Paralympic athlete Kortney Clemons lost his leg because a roadside bomb exploded when he was helping fellow US soldiers in Iraq?
Did you know that Ismael Urbain was a high-level official in mid-nineteenth century French Algeria and adviser to Napoleon III due to his strong knowledge of Islam ?
Did you know that the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum bears the inscription " This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ "?
Did you know that U-111 's first patrol took place in the North Atlantic and her second patrol took place in the South Atlantic?
Did you know that the Rangit Dam project in Sikkim in northeastern India cost more than $109 million ?
Did you know that Pierre Buyoya became president of Burundi twice, following a military coup d'état in 1987 , and another in 1996 ?
Did you know that Franz Liszt 's piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called Lisztomania , which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos?
Did you know that of the 22 players selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1980 NBA Expansion Draft , only two played more than one season for the team?
Did you know that Stanley Ott helped lay to rest a convicted murderer near the graves of bishops ?
Did you know that the 1999 Grenadian general election was called 18 months early after the foreign minister defected from the governing New National Party ?
Did you know that the baritone Andreas Schmidt created the part of Ryuji in Hans Werner Henze 's opera Das verratene Meer in 1990 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ?
Did you know that scenes from the 1955 film, The Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster , were filmed at Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park ?
Did you know that Rudy Garcia resigned his post as mayor of Union City, New Jersey , in the wake of a recall election petition that had gathered 6,700 signatures?
Did you know that in 2008, a member of the Dallas County, Texas , county commission claimed that the term black hole , as used in astronomy, was racist ?
Did you know that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs , referred to as subfossil lemurs , that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 441 lb)?
Did you know that Craig Rundle , a college football head coach for 24 years, led Albion College to the 2001 MIAA championship with his sons playing at quarterback and tight end ?
Did you know that despite a magnitude of only 5.8, the 1992 Cairo earthquake was the most destructive to affect Cairo since 1847, killing 545 people, injuring another 6,512, and making 50,000 homeless?
Did you know that the Albanian Vajtim (dirge or lament of the dead) in the 17th century would make the city of Gjirokastër extremely noisy on Sundays?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony received a Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album for his third studio album titled Contra La Corriente ?
Did you know that when Alfred Eriksen was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1903, he was among the first group in the Parliament representing the Labour movement?
Did you know that Teruji Kogake set a world record in the triple jump at the Japanese Olympic Trials but only managed eighth in the finals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics ?
Did you know that the original administration building in Jasper National Park had a fish hatchery in the basement?
Did you know that 20 days after he brought his high school baseball team to the state finals, Texas Rangers first-round draft pick David Clyde made his Major League Baseball debut?
Did you know that Buffalo Bill Cody once owned part of Buffalo Bill State Park in Wyoming ?
Did you know that the zoea larvae of crabs have long rostral and dorsal spines?
Did you know that Dorsey Dixon 's song "Babies in the Mill" is about the Southern United States textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the increasing overall divorce rate is primarily in elderly, long-married couples, a phenomenon dubbed " grey divorce "?
Did you know that the original Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral building was saved from burning during the American Civil War when the parish priest imitated General Banks 's voice and ordered Union troops to spare the church?
Did you know that although the Welsh church of St Pabo, Llanbabo has a 14th-century monument to Pabo Post Prydain , its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no strong evidence that he founded the church?
Did you know that despite their plan to settle farther west, Timothy and Rachel Sheldon were so impressed with their camping spot on the Chicago Road that they bought land nearby and built the Sheldon Inn ?
Did you know that a children's book about a toy owl, written by Finn Havrevold in 1957, was made into a film by Ivo Caprino ?
Did you know that, for the first time in the history of the main Final Fantasy series of video games , the music of Final Fantasy XIII does not include any musical compositions by Nobuo Uematsu ?
Did you know that Jack Siedlecki led Yale , Amherst and Worcester to conference championships in 21 years as a head football coach?
Did you know that in the United States there is a math–verbal achievement gap on both the SAT and the ACT , because students do much better on the math portion?
Did you know that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman weighs an estimated 1,000 tonnes ?
Did you know that American painter of the Old American West J. K. Ralston was awarded a Gold Medal by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that Henry Kissinger did not have to release phone transcripts that were made while he was Secretary of State ?
Did you know that the endangered spiny gardenia has been threatened by the development of banana plantations and the Pacific Highway ?
Did you know that Norman Bethune Sanson climbed Canadian mountains with King George VI of the United Kingdom and King Prajadhipok of Siam ?
Did you know that LeRoy J. Jones, Jr. proposed a ban on the sale of box cutters to teenagers in New Jersey , saying that they had become "the weapon of choice" for gang members?
Did you know that the milk protein lactoferrin provides antibacterial activity to human infants?
Did you know that sack tapping can lead to amputation and is posted on YouTube ?
Did you know that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island , including Allison , Compton , Deacock , Downes , Ealey , Fiftyone , Gotley , Lied , Schmidt , Stephenson , Vahsel and Winston , have a negative mass balance and are in retreat ?
Did you know that the Coocumbac Island Nature Reserve in the Manning River is an example of a large fig – giant stinger tree association ecological community?
Did you know that Nidal Malik Hasan and Jihad Jane were said to have started out as a " jihobbyists ", also known as "eHadis"?
Did you know that after she was torpedoed by E boats during Operation Pedestal , Almeria Lykes was scuttled to prevent her falling into enemy hands?
Did you know that a dipper well , a perpetual-flow sink used for cleaning ice cream scoops , uses an average of 260,000 gallons (984,000 liters) of water yearly?
Did you know that the record for the longest hitting streak in NCAA college baseball history is 60 games, held by Damian Costantino of Salve Regina University ?
Did you know that the abandoned O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben , New York , is so well-preserved that coal remains in its bin more than 50 years after it closed?
Did you know that the carcinologist Robert Gurney was not connected to a university, and carried out his scientific work at home?
Did you know that the Nereid Monument was constructed in the British Museum in 1969 from material brought from Lycia in 1840?
Did you know that " So Close ", a 1990 song by Hall & Oates , was the duo's 29th and final U.S. Top 40 single to date?
Did you know that in his concurrence in Wieman v. Updegraff in 1952, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter called teachers "priests of our democracy"?
Did you know that after colonizing Antarctica , the Lobodontine seals rapidly diversified to include the only seal that feeds primarily on krill and the only seal that feeds primarily on the krill-eating seals?
Did you know that when Kamie Ethridge played basketball for the University of Texas , the arena where she played was dubbed "the best little scorehouse in Texas"?
Did you know that Downfall , the upcoming American television game show series, features contestants who must answer trivia questions correctly before their cash and prizes fall from the top of a 10-story building?
Did you know that the Italian battleship Caio Duilio was one of the longest-lived World War I dreadnoughts?
Did you know that a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jiří Traxler lives in Canada ?
Did you know that in response to Pakistan banning Facebook after the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy MillatFacebook was founded to cater primarily to Muslims ?
Did you know that in the auction sale of Augustin Blondel de Gagny 's renowned collection of paintings and furniture (Paris, 1776) there was a Stradivarius violin ?
Did you know that St Matthew's Church in Silverhill, East Sussex , was meant to have a large tower with a tall spire, but when money ran out only a small flèche was built?
Did you know that in 1944 the Summer Lake Wildlife Area became the first wildlife refuge in Oregon specifically established to preserve wetland habitat?
Did you know that right-handed amphetamines are usually 4–10 times more potent psychostimulant drugs than left-handed ones?