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Did you know that fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave , Israel , show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook ?
Did you know that New York Governor Thomas Dewey appointed Alger Chapman as his 1946 campaign manager, though Chapman had no political experience?
Did you know that Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
Did you know that Eddy Arnold was inspired to record The Casinos ' " Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye " after hearing its writer, John D. Loudermilk , sing it?
Did you know that Banksia 'Roller Coaster' , the prostrate cultivar of Banksia integrifolia , is less than 50 centimetres high, while the normal form can be a 25 metre tree?
Did you know that professional wrestler Ángel Azteca died from a heart attack shortly after losing a wrestling match?
Did you know that Detective John Munch 's pro- drug liberalization rants in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " And the Rockets' Dead Glare " were based on actor Richard Belzer 's real-life past of drug abuse?
Did you know that Stanley Palace in Chester , Cheshire , built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments , a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms?
Did you know that before the 2008 Sugar Bowl game Georgia defensive tackle Geno Atkins asked Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan for his autograph?
Did you know that outlaw motorcycle club the Gypsy Jokers has rallied the support of rival clubs to protest proposed Australian anti-" bikie " laws?
Did you know that Alan Taylor was chosen to direct the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " A Dog and Pony Show " after the show's producers were impressed by a short film Taylor made in a seminar taught by Martin Scorsese ?
Did you know that the sole developer and creator of Bob's Game tried to publicly protest by locking himself in his room for 100 days or until Nintendo granted him the software development kit for the game?
Did you know that in both 2006 and 2007, Louisiana Tech defensive tackle D'Anthony Smith had five tackles against Fresno State ?
Did you know that while running for the presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton credited political advisor and lobbyist Anne Wexler with providing her first job in politics?
Did you know that the USS Archer-Fish (SS-311) , under the command of Joseph F. Enright , sank the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine ?
Did you know that master distiller Jimmy Bedford "held what he considered one of the most enviable jobs imaginable — making sure Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey tasted just the way it had since 1866"?
Did you know that after Rokuzan Ogiwara viewed Auguste Rodin 's just-completed masterpiece, The Thinker , he abandoned his career as a painter and became a sculptor instead?
Did you know that Possibility Playground , a $450,000 playground for special needs children, was built through donations and volunteer work from thousands of people?
Did you know that dramatic actor Alexander Ostuzhev , who completely lost his hearing in 1910, played leading roles at Maly Theatre for four more decades?
Did you know that Shawnee Community College is one of only a few community colleges to offer on-campus housing ?
Did you know that Indu Mitha is one of only two Bharatanatyam experts in Pakistan ?
Did you know that the Oregon Bach Festival is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary under the direction of its founder, German conductor Helmuth Rilling ?
Did you know that the sport of ferret legging is open only to sober male contestants, who must first remove their underwear?
Did you know that Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia was written by a James Beard Award winner and her bulimic daughter?
Did you know that ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League 's Tampa Bay Lightning ?
Did you know that 120 earthquakes and tremors in total were felt in Edo , Japan during the Ansei Great Earthquakes of 1854–55?
Did you know that the largest derrick in New York State at the time was used to build the Broadway Theatre in Kingston ?
Did you know that SS - Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge , executed for his crimes at Auschwitz , was one of the first SS men to be deployed there?
Did you know that Rend Lake College broke ground for its present campus on the very same day it received accreditation on March 27, 1969?
Did you know that this month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the main Burgess Shale locality?
Did you know that make-up artist Howard Smit led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup and require film studios to credit make-up artists in a film 's screen credits ?
Did you know that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi ?
Did you know that six years after leaving the governor's cabinet, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker, Jr. was elected to his small town's board of selectmen ?
Did you know that Angelo Mathews scored 152 runs in the finals of the 2009 Inter-Provincial tournament to help the Basnahira North cricket team to win the title?
Did you know that Arthur Adams , the singer of " You've Got the Floor ", was a bandleader at B. B. King's blues club in Los Angeles?
Did you know that when the Water Tower in Chester , Cheshire , England, was built in 1322–25 it stood in the River Dee , but it is now about 200 yards (183 m) inland due to silting of the river?
Did you know that in 1941 the United States Naval Academy refused to play a lacrosse game against Harvard University because Harvard's team included a black player?
Did you know that the Prayer of Joseph is a fragmentary Old Testament pseudepigraph composed in the first century AD?
Did you know that Larvik Fotball was founded as a cooperation club in Larvik , Norway, but repeatedly failed to include the club Larvik Turn in the merger?
Did you know that AT&T once released designs for 83,539 equivalent transforms of a circuit into the public domain just to deny their competitors the ability to patent them?
Did you know that preserving food in tin cans was first patented in 1810 by Peter Durand although he did not invent the process?
Did you know that Sixteen , the 16th-floor restaurant at Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago , features an eye-level view of the Wrigley Building clock tower?
Did you know that Ragnar Ulstein has written several documentary books on military intelligence in Norway during World War II ?
Did you know that a contestant on reality boxing show Charity Lords of the Ring left after being warned by neurosurgeons that he might die?
Did you know that rapper Lil Wayne is said to have brought the phrase " no homo " into the mainstream of hip hop ?
Did you know that the tuber of Drosera gigantea , one of the largest carnivorous sundew species, can be a metre below the ground?
Did you know that following the battle of Menin Road , Daniel Poole received a bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal for what was described as "reckless leadership"?
Did you know that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election the Communist Party of India (M-L) Red Flag decided to support the Left Democratic Front , claiming that its opponents were pro- Israeli ?
Did you know that the majority of Mexican land grant Rancho Las Putas was covered by Lake Berryessa in 1957?
Did you know that the early career of Mauritian - Norwegian footballer Caleb Francis was halted due to racist abuse ?
Did you know that John 3:7 , once flung from a train window, made the news again in 2009 after going missing on a train?
Did you know that the sandakada pahana design originally had carvings of a procession of elephants, lions, horses and bulls, but bulls were later removed due to influences of Hinduism ?
Did you know that in 2007, Indiana University defensive end Greg Middleton led college football in sacks and broke a school record?
Did you know that composer Gian Carlo Menotti considered his opera The Island God "a big bore"?
Did you know that the creators of the 1996 documentary film The West traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) to gather footage and conduct research?
Did you know that the social systems of some bee-eaters are the most complex of any bird , including four tiers: pair, family, clan and colony ?
Did you know that sidewalks in Ann Arbor, Michigan , were spray-painted with the words " AnnArbor.com is here"?
Did you know that when the Soviet cruiser Voroshilov was bombed in 1942, flooding caused by one bomb hit extinguished an artillery magazine fire started by another?
Did you know that the 1st Australian Task Force was deployed northeast of Saigon during the 1968 communist Tet offensive and was heavily engaged during the Battle of Bien Hoa between January and March?
Did you know that in 2008, defensive tackle Arthur Jones was one of only 10 players for Syracuse to start every game?
Did you know that during the 11th century, Christian kingdoms of medieval Spain gained considerable wealth by collecting parias from the taifas of al-Andalus ?
Did you know that Hugh Murray was both the youngest Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California , having been appointed at ages 25 and 27, respectively?
Did you know that a quarter wave impedance transformer can make an electrical open circuit look like a short circuit ?
Did you know that DJ George Taylor Morris created a 1997 media frenzy with the " Dark Side of the Rainbow " phenomenon, in which the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon is said to synch up with The Wizard of Oz ?
Did you know that due to the John Wood Community College ' s "Common Market" approach, its first class of graduates in 1976 never set foot in a classroom of the college?
Did you know that the 1977 Pat Travers album Live! Go for What You Know , featuring Travers and Pat Thrall on guitar, is said to bridge the gap between 1970s and 1980s styles of metal guitar playing?
Did you know that Samuel Coleridge's Eminent Characters series includes: a lawyer , a speaker , a Unitarian , a general , a rebel , a betrayer , a poet , an actress , a philosopher , a friend , a playwright and a lord ?
Did you know that Babette March , the first cover model of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , became a farmer in Canada and is now an artist, entrepreneur and chef in Halfway, Oregon ?
Did you know that the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri of India lasted only 19 months due to his sudden death in 1966?
Did you know that country music singer Easton Corbin ' s debut single "A Little More Country Than That" was co-written by Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory ?
Did you know that the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal , although they were not originally created for this purpose?
Did you know that Martina Navratilova is credited as a corpse in Single-Handed , a drama series in which the main character has sexual intercourse with his own sister ?
Did you know that the 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain organised by Albert Baskiville helped establish rugby league in Australia and New Zealand ?
Did you know that the Bank of New England went bankrupt in 1991, but its liquidation is still in progress?
Did you know that despite the amputation of his left leg and injury to his left hand, Russian World War I fighter ace Juri Gilsher continued to fly and scored five kills in 1917?
Did you know that the Kenny Chesney – Dave Matthews duet " I'm Alive " was previously recorded by Willie Nelson on an album that Chesney co-produced?
Did you know that Al-Majdal, Tiberias , a village depopulated in 1948 , preserved the name of the ancient village reputed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene ?
Did you know that the White Cyclone is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States?
Did you know that the first rotating-wheel can opener was invented by William Lyman in 1870?
Did you know that Royal Navy Admiral Lawrence Halsted was the son of a naval captain , married the daughter of an admiral , and was the father of a vice-admiral?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode " Reptar on Ice " was a satirical parody of over-commercialization of children's media in the form of merchandise tie-ins ?
Did you know that the 1695 Siege of Namur has been called the most important event in the Nine Years' War ?
Did you know that according to Taiwan 's Central Weather Bureau the earthquakes of Douliu , Meishan , Nantou , Hsinchu-Taichung , Zhongpu , Xinhua , the East Rift Valley , Hengchun , Baihe , and Jiji were the ten deadliest quakes to strike the island in the 20th century?
Did you know that Carvins Cove, Virginia , was abandoned and subsequently inundated to create Carvins Cove Reservoir in the 1940s?
Did you know that Viennese -born architect Konstantin Jovanović provided the original designs for the National Assembly buildings of both Bulgaria and Serbia ?
Did you know that 19-year-old Panamanian sprinter Alonso Edward is a two-time South American Champion and the fourth fastest 200 m runner this year?
Did you know that the Kunjin virus , which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated?
Did you know that the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon ?
Did you know that the SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought ship built by the German Imperial Navy ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Super Muñeco teamed with Super Ráton (dressed like Mighty Mouse ) and Super Pinocho (dressed like Pinocchio ) to form Trio Fantasia ?
Did you know that for his 2009 film Lucky Bastard , writer/director Everett Lewis drew upon his own relationship experience with a crystal meth addict?
Did you know that Madeleine Masson unknowingly met Krystyna Skarbek , whose biography she would write two decades later, days before Skarbek's murder in 1952?
Did you know that Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell , with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
Did you know that Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos created the Metropolitanate of Lithuania , which was later regarded as an "anomaly" by the Byzantine authorities?
Did you know that Alex Cusack , on his debut in first-class cricket , partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record?
Did you know that Ball Park station was used as a backdrop by Jon Huntsman, Jr. to support a proposition that included 33 unidentified transit projects?
Did you know that Jennifer Zeng was imprisoned and subject to electroshock therapy in the People's Republic of China for being a Falun Gong practitioner?
Did you know that the Nano Ganesh mobile application allows farmers in India to control irrigation pumps in remote fields with mobile phones ?
Did you know that on his wife Nancy 's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis , to thank her for giving birth to Nancy?
Did you know that Ambassador Kazimierz Papée protested to Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione regarding the Holocaust in Poland that "when something becomes notorious, proof is not required"?
Did you know that Rika's Landing Roadhouse in Big Delta , Alaska , was transferred from John Hajdukovich to Rika Wallen for "$10.00 and other considerations"?
Did you know that Bill Humble was a test pilot for Hawker Siddeley during the Second World War , and was the grandfather of British TV presenter Kate Humble ?
Did you know that the concert selected for the Dave Matthews Band 's newest live album, Live Trax Vol. 16 , was chosen by the staff at a Dave Matthews Band fansite?
Did you know that in 1704 Simón Susarte , a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd , revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar , so they could surprise the Anglo - Dutch troops based there?
Did you know that Acanthoplus discoidalis is able to squirt haemolymph up to 30 centimetres (11.8 in) when attacked by predators?
Did you know that Minnesota Vikings safety Colt Anderson recited a vulgar rhyme celebrating his hometown of Butte before each game while at the University of Montana ?
Did you know that Beatrix Potter initially resisted the idea of colour illustrations for The Tale of Peter Rabbit ?
Did you know that the former United Nations commander in Bosnia , Colonel Bob Stewart , has been accepted as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Conservative Party ?
Did you know that the Bald Man and the Red Emperor, the antagonists in Ion Creangă 's Harap Alb story, have been interpreted as echoes of conflicts opposing Romanians to the Tatars and the Khazar " Red Jews "?
Did you know that Toney Douglas and his brother Harry are the sixth pair of brothers to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), respectively?
Did you know that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom considered influential to the outcome of the next United Kingdom general election ?
Did you know that contestants on the reality television series Face the Ace win US$1 million if they beat three poker professionals in one-on-one matches of Texas hold 'em ?
Did you know that Kerry Hallam , an artist based in Nantucket , but trained in Chesterfield , has created an exhibition of nude ex-wives?
Did you know that during World War I , U.S. YMCA worker and preacher William Howard Hoople sailed to France to serve on the front lines as an entertainer?
Did you know that the PlayStation 3 video game Rorona no Atelier: Aarando no Renkinjutsushi is the first in its series to feature 3D computer graphics ?
Did you know that the history of Bali dates back at least 200,000 years, with evidence of paleolithic tools such as hand axes found in Sembiran and Trunyan villages?
Did you know that black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination ?
Did you know that the British Army Gold Cross awarded to field and general officers during the Peninsular War inspired the design of the Victoria Cross ?
Did you know that the LRC tilting train provided core service with VIA Rail in Canada for several decades, and that Bombardier Transportation used its coach design on the Acela Express and British Rail Class 221 ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Estrella Blanca holds the record for the most " bet match " wins?
Did you know that the Australian energy company Linc Energy is the first company in the world to produce synthetic fuel by combining underground coal gasification and gas-to-liquid technologies?
Did you know that after he lost the Battle of Wolgast , Christian IV of Denmark withdrew from the Thirty Years' War by concluding the Treaty of Lübeck ?
Did you know that the Uncle Sam diamond , the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States , bears the nickname of the man who found it?
Did you know that the House of Neville , one of the most powerful families in England during the Middle Ages, descended from the same line as the Scottish monarchy ?
Did you know that, as a Louisiana state senator in 1946, Drayton Boucher proposed a tax on amusements, including theater tickets, to finance teacher pay raises?
Did you know that Bulgarian physical chemist Ivan Stranski is considered the father of crystal growth research?
Did you know that after Sweden entered the Thirty Years' War , Pomerania and France became her allies in the Treaty of Stettin (1630) and the Treaty of Bärwalde (1631)?
Did you know that in 993, Seo Hui , a Korean diplomat in the Goryeo period , prevented an invasion by Khitan troops?
Did you know that the Genetic Studies of Genius is the longest-running longitudinal study in the world?
Did you know that Ken Major was considered a world authority on windmills , watermills , animal engines and other forms of industrial archaeology ?
Did you know that John McClannahan Crockett was the second mayor of Dallas , and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863?
Did you know that Joachim-Friedrich Huth lost a leg in World War I but served as a general in the Luftwaffe of both the World War II Wehrmacht and the West German Bundeswehr ?
Did you know that Thomas N. Schroth worked for his father Frank D. Schroth as an editor at the Brooklyn Eagle and two decades later at The Ellsworth American under his father-in-law James Russell Wiggins ?
Did you know that the copper roof of Hungary 's Óbuda Synagogue was melted down to make weapons during World War I ?
Did you know that Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President ?
Did you know that Benson , Britain's "biggest and best-loved" common carp , was known as "the people's fish"?
Did you know that because the only approach to Badrinath , Uttarakhand , India, since early times was along a path through a forest of berries, the word "Badri" (berry) was suffixed to Sapta Badri temples?
Did you know that Ernesto Basile completed the reconstruction of the Palazzo Montecitorio , which is now the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies ?
Did you know that the gift of $105 million of Coca-Cola stock to Emory University by brothers Robert W. and George W. Woodruff was the largest single donation ever made to a school?
Did you know that in Chinese mythology , Wu Gang had to chop down a tree on the moon that always healed itself, forcing him to keep trying forever?
Did you know that after Indian domino cockroaches copulate , a female does not permit males to approach, kicking them away with her hind legs?
Did you know that synthetic analogues of Viagra , such as thiomethisosildenafil , have been detected in some products sold as " herbal " aphrodisiacs ?
Did you know that less than two months after the Puget Sound Shore Railroad opened, service was suspended for over a year?
Did you know that with a shell height of up to 91 centimetres (36 in), Syrinx aruanus is the largest snail in the world?
Did you know that the BBC commissioned Carol Ann Duffy , the British Poet Laureate , to write Last Post to mark the deaths in July 2009 of First World War veterans Henry Allingham and Harry Patch ?
Did you know that the forces of the ancient state of Epirus invaded Latium , threatening Rome itself, during the Pyrrhic War in 280 B.C.?
Did you know that Takeo Kimura made his feature film directorial debut at age 90?
Did you know that the singer of " Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus " had never even met the cricketer , "let alone greeted him in such an overfamiliar way"?
Did you know that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration funded Lincoln Laboratories to develop Terminal Doppler Weather Radar in the 1990s to assist air traffic controllers by improving wind shear detection?
Did you know that Irish multi-instrumentalist musician R.S.A.G. performs with a virtual band projected onto a screen in a style which has been likened to Gorillaz ?
Did you know that Crypt Chambers , a department store in Chester , Cheshire , England , was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?
Did you know that Alfredo Figaro of the Detroit Tigers is the cousin of fellow Tigers pitcher Fernando Rodney ?
Did you know that Project Kaisei is investigating whether the debris floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be collected and recycled?
Did you know that Portuguese warrior and folk hero Gerald the Fearless led several Christian victories during the Reconquista , but later switched sides and served as governor of al-Sūs under the Almohad caliph Yusuf I ?
Did you know that Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in France is home to a Brotherhood of the Sardine , of which French Prime Minister François Fillon is a special "sympathizer"?
Did you know that one of the first actions of India 's Desai government was to formally end the state of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi ?
Did you know that Frank Chance is the only Chicago Cubs manager to lead the team to a World Series victory?