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Did you know that Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement ?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid ?
Did you know that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ' only blocked punt of 2006?
Did you know that gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?
Did you know that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House , built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
Did you know that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history ?
Did you know that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy ?
Did you know that according to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia , Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire"?
Did you know that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain ?
Did you know that the Artocarpeae , one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family , is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit , two widespread tropical crops?
Did you know that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted , who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration , drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg ?
Did you know that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication ?
Did you know that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs , Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?
Did you know that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day ?
Did you know that the first shots by the United States in World War I were fired by the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry from El Morro Castle at a German ship in San Juan Bay , Puerto Rico ?
Did you know that the 2008 single " Enfants ", by microhouse producer Ricardo Villalobos , incorporates "no development over its seventeen minute length"?
Did you know that one of the public address applications of parabolic loudspeakers is to project sound waves in a 10° cone pattern 300 feet (90 m) away?
Did you know that Fred Hollands scored twice in Southampton St Mary's biggest competitive victory, a 14–0 FA Cup win against Newbury Town on 13 October 1894 that still remains a record win for Southampton?
Did you know that Egyptian military figure and politician Youssef Seddik launched the first military procedures in the July 23 Revolution of 1952?
Did you know that the Kavala Archaeological Museum has been described as being the most important archaeological museum in Eastern Macedonia ?
Did you know that director Henri-Georges Clouzot once drugged actress Brigitte Bardot to make her drool ?
Did you know that film director Quentin Tarantino encouraged Omar Doom to become an actor, and cast Doom in Inglourious Basterds two weeks before filming began?
Did you know that after the Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder in 1631, it took six days to bury the dead in mass graves ?
Did you know that because of his patriotic songs, Czech songwriter Karel Hašler died in Mauthausen concentration camp ?
Did you know that Magnolia × soulangeana is the most commonly used magnolia in horticulture in the British Isles?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna , leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party , was killed in the 1965 massacres ?
Did you know that ex-professional tennis player Claire Curran competed for both Ireland and Great Britain in the Fed Cup and accumulated a win–loss record of 20–7 in Fed Cup matches over the course of her career?
Did you know that since being dedicated for "park and parkway" purposes in 1909, Dickerman Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota , has been primarily used for parking lots and front yards of businesses?
Did you know that Polish actor Roman Kłosowski portrayed Nostradamus in the 2009 film Before Twilight ?
Did you know that the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is one of only four health centers in the United States with seven professional colleges?
Did you know that Karl Evang and Torbjørn Mork , who consecutively headed the Norwegian Directorate for Health between 1938 and 1992, were both active members of the Labour Party ?
Did you know that the Wrinkle-faced Bat is able to bite 20% harder than other bats of a similar size allowing it to eat a wider range of fruits ?
Did you know that, though ostensibly built to defend the city, the citizens of Cork pulled down Elizabeth Fort within two years of its first construction for fear that it would be used against them by James I ?
Did you know that an ancient pagoda on the Toe River in Ma-ubin , Burma , fell in 2002 due to river erosion and had to be rebuilt?
Did you know that in addition to leading a committee which investigated alleged communists, California State Senator Jack Tenney composed the popular song " Mexicali Rose "?
Did you know that the Australian rainforest (and garden) plants Narrow-leaved- , Brown , and Native Gardenias of the genus Atractocarpus have fragrant flowers, much like the more familiar Common Gardenia ?
Did you know that Polish historian and socialist activist Adam Próchnik was alleged to have been an illegitimate son of the Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Daszyński ?
Did you know that The Play of the Weather by the Catholic playwright John Heywood is a plea for religious tolerance after the Reformation in the form of an allegory ?
Did you know that Taschereau Bridge and Galipeault Bridge were both widened in a bid to appease Île Perrot merchants who were worried that the newly-built Île aux Tourtes Bridge would drive away their customers?
Did you know that Brigadier Ronnie Tod was awarded the freedom of Athens by Archbishop Damaskinos in 1944?
Did you know that within 15 years of its construction, the J. Vivian, Jr. and Company Building was enlarged twice, firstly to add a third story, and secondly to increase its width?
Did you know that the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi , Ukraine , is one of the biggest historic Jewish cemeteries preserved in Central and Eastern Europe?
Did you know that basketball center Jānis Krūmiņš won 1956 Olympic silver only three years after he started playing basketball?
Did you know that Hitchcon , a convention celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , will feature a live commentary on Twitter given by Marvin the Paranoid Android ?
Did you know that Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized an African-American civil rights sit-in at the Alexandria, Virginia , public library as early as 1939?
Did you know that the music video for Pirates of the Mississippi 's 1991 single " Feed Jake " was believed by some members of the gay community to have a homosexual theme?
Did you know that Polish architect Chrystian Piotr Aigner used a range of styles including Classicist , Neoclassicist , Palladian , Neogothic , Empire and Romantic ?
Did you know that the Byzantine regiment of the Vigla , which served as an imperial bodyguard unit in the 8th–11th centuries, had its origin in late Roman cavalry units of the 5th century?
Did you know that American cab driver Ihab Ali Nawawi crashed a Sabre jet belonging to Osama bin Laden into a sand dune in Sudan?
Did you know that the primary line constants describe characteristics of copper transmission lines ?
Did you know that in 1896, Christian IX of Denmark awarded Ramon Santamarina the Order of the Dannebrog , for supporting the settlement of Danish emigrants in Argentina ?
Did you know that the Jenisch house , a 19th-century country house , is located in the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg , Germany?
Did you know that koalas eat the leaves of the eucalyptus tree known as the Red Mahogany ?
Did you know that Ola Lindholm hosted the 2004 version of Melodifestivalen , an annual music competition and the most watched television program in Sweden?
Did you know that reflections of signals on conducting lines cause high frequency electrical ringing on domestic power cables which continues long after the original disturbance?
Did you know that William Weston may have been the first Englishman to have led an expedition to North America ?
Did you know that Japanese theoretical physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima is well-known for developing the concept of strangeness in particle physics ?
Did you know that with 665 Members taking part, the August 1892 vote of no confidence against the Marquess of Salisbury 's government saw the most votes ever cast in Parliament ?
Did you know that the Dagenham Roundhouse in East London featured acts including Genesis , Led Zeppelin , Thin Lizzy and Pink Floyd during the early 1970s?
Did you know that Per Voksø resigned as editor-in-chief of Morgenposten shortly after Sverre Munck bought the newspaper?
Did you know that the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin 's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background?
Did you know that Glensanda was an ancient deserted settlement in the Highlands of Scotland , but is now a super-quarry which exports 6,000,000 tons of granite every year?
Did you know that the Australian Military Court was declared constitutionally invalid after a sailor accused of " teabagging " a superior officer challenged its validity in the High Court of Australia ?
Did you know that fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks , an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania 's best-known creators of comic strips ?
Did you know that Georgia Cottage , an 1840s house in Mobile, Alabama , was the home of Augusta Jane Evans , the first female author in the United States to earn more than $100,000 for her literary work?
Did you know that Gus Hurdle rejected a chance to play international football for Barbados to help Crawley Town in their relegation match against Dorchester Town , saying it was the "bigger game"?
Did you know that Elvis recorded his last number one hit, " Suspicious Minds ", at American Sound Studio ?
Did you know that in 2004, Jørn Holme became the first active politician to be appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Security Service ?
Did you know that Iron Duke , the lead ship of the Iron Duke -class battleships was the flagship of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916?
Did you know that the death of John Lewis (better known as " Spanish Louie ") was the first recorded use of a drive by shooting as a means of gangland execution in New York City ?
Did you know that Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to take photographs of Monticello, California as it was being prepared for destruction?
Did you know that Gray's Inn only began employing a librarian after barristers began stealing the books?
Did you know that the agaric mushroom species Agaricus benesii is found under the pines of Monterey Cypress trees and bruises pinkish-red when injured?
Did you know that the English herald Ralph Brooke tricked Sir William Segar into granting a coat of arms to a London hangman ?
Did you know that Louisiana state Judge Henry L. Yelverton , facing mandatory retirement at 75, went on to work five years as a clerk for the appeals court in Lake Charles ?
Did you know that SS General Karl Wolff claimed to have foiled a plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII ?
Did you know that Hurricane Greta in 1956 was the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded?
Did you know that the United Kingdom relied on the Imperial Japanese Navy and its North American Task Force to defend Canada 's west coast during the First World War ?
Did you know that brothers George Wright and Harry Wright both managed the Providence Grays National League baseball team?
Did you know that Albert Bates , partner of Machine Gun Kelly , participated in the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles Urschel in 1933?
Did you know that Taking Woodstock , Elliot Tiber 's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival , was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title ?
Did you know that a savior sibling has undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to serve as a stem cell donor to a diseased sibling?
Did you know that Richard Petty 's victory at the 1966 Daytona 500 was the first and only time that he captured the pole position , despite winning the event a record seven times?
Did you know that American artist Duke Riley was arrested for driving his wooden submarine too close to the Queen Mary 2 ?
Did you know that a portion of the Rhode Island Route 37 expressway was inadvertently constructed over a historic cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island ?
Did you know that Johannes Kvittingen , an exiled Norwegian bacteriologist in London in 1940, was asked to be head recruiter of Norwegian agents for the Special Operations Executive ?
Did you know that there have been 57 celebrity housemates in the British version of Big Brother ?
Did you know that the construction of Stalingrad -class battlecruisers was cancelled soon after their major supporter, Joseph Stalin , died in March 1953?
Did you know that in 1975 Phil Slocombe was Somerset County Cricket Club 's first batsman to score 1,000 runs in his first full season?
Did you know that Karhu Sports sold the three stripe trademark to Adidas for the equivalent of 1600 euros and two bottles of whiskey?
Did you know that the 13th-century settlements known as the Mise of Amiens and the Mise of Lewes are the only two such "mises" in English history?
Did you know that Alfred Proksch won two gold medals at the 2009 World's Masters Championships because he was the only competitor in the 100+ age bracket for discus and shot put ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball presents a variety of awards each season for individual performance , excellence in batting , pitching performance , and fielding prowess ?
Did you know that despite being born in Harlow , England , Alex Stavrinou qualified to play for the Cyprus youth football team through his father's Cypriot heritage?
Did you know that, during World War II , Greek Air Force pilot Marinos Mitralexis rammed the rudder of an enemy bomber with the propeller of his PZL P.24 , causing the enemy aircraft to crash to the ground?
Did you know that David Orme-Johnson wanted the United States Department of Defense to hire 10,000 people to perform Transcendental Meditation continuously in order to improve society?
Did you know that injuring Lactarius indigo will make it bleed a blue milk that slowly turns green?
Did you know that during the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom , around 430,000 animals were slaughtered?
Did you know that the recording of " La Incondicional " by Luis Miguel broke several airplay records in Latin America , where it remained at the top of the charts for seven months?
Did you know that linguist Dennis Baron has written about the English-only movement , peoples' relationships with their computers, and the grammar of the Second Amendment ?
Did you know that the Portuguese Fireplace war memorial is the remains of a camp where Portuguese labourers helped the Canadian Forestry Corps in felling timber during World War I ?
Did you know that Alaska Airlines evolved from McGee Airways , which originated with a single three-seat Stinson plane?
Did you know that Chromis abyssus was the first species entered into the ZooBank registry of zoological nomenclature ?
Did you know that My Boy Jack , a 2007 film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig , is based on one of Haig's plays of the same name ?
Did you know that three students were burnt to death in the 2000 Dharmapuri bus burning , an incident which resulted from the conviction of J. Jayalalitha for corruption?
Did you know that the Canadian documentary film Act of God investigates the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning ?
Did you know that the calendar web application 30 Boxes is able to determine the time, date, and title of an event from a single sentence?
Did you know that when the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, Walter Walsh , its oldest living former agent, was one year older than the agency itself?
Did you know that American football player Captain Munnerlyn returned a kickoff for 84 yards and a blocked field goal for 81 yards in the same game?
Did you know that Art Attack is the longest running programme in the history of CITV ?
Did you know that actors Nicolai Cleve Broch and Aksel Hennie have been referred to as " Norway 's Ben Affleck and Matt Damon "?
Did you know that Charles Darwin 's 1875 book Insectivorous Plants describes how he tried to feed meat and glass to carnivorous plants to get them to bite?
Did you know that AltaRock Energy 's demonstration project for generating renewable energy through geothermal power may increase the number of earthquakes in California ?
Did you know that in 1988, after flying to space with first Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Méndez , Yuri Romanenko was invited to an underwater fishing trip with Fidel Castro ?
Did you know that American theologian Jonathan Edwards , in his 1734 sermon The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners , condemns Jews for their strict observance of Mosaic Law ?
Did you know that 97% of the letters from viewers of The Rejected , the first documentary about homosexuality to air on American television , were positive?
Did you know that Tunisian philosopher Youssef Seddik attempted to publish a Qur'an in the form of seven volumes of comics in 1992?
Did you know that Basil "The Owl" Banghart (1900–1982), an American burglar and prison escape artist, acquired his nickname because of his abnormally large eyes?
Did you know that semi-professional footballer Gareth Risbridger holds a UEFA 'B' Pro Licence coaching badge and is also a qualified referee , as well as working as a greenkeeper at Wycombe Heights Golf Club?
Did you know that the world's largest mobile phone producer, Nokia , have announced their plans to release their first PC since 1991 ?
Did you know that Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she started working for the Boston Telephone Despatch company in 1878?
Did you know that the "kids for cash" scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania involves kickbacks from prison officials to judges to send kids to prison?
Did you know that the Original Dixieland Jass Band 's " Livery Stable Blues " (1917) was the first released jazz recording?
Did you know that the California lizardfish is not sought by most anglers because its flesh has a taste resembling iodine ?
Did you know that Dipak Patel once called Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa a "cabbage" and accused him of rigging his election , yet still went on to serve as his Minister of Commerce?
Did you know that the Rijksmonument designation has been applied to about 55,000 sites in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that Eileen McKenney , who was the inspiration for the title character in My Sister Eileen , was killed in an automobile accident four days before the play opened on Broadway ?
Did you know that new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air , not in his Melbourne studio?
Did you know that the Paleozoic monoplacophoran Pilina unguis was twice as large as any known living monoplacophoran?
Did you know that the mass-luminosity relation , first derived by Arthur Eddington in 1924, helps astronomers find the distances to binary star systems ?
Did you know that the Boga is also known as the Snit in Jamaica and as the Bonnetmouth in the Bahamas ?
Did you know that kids are people too!
Did you know that the Oslo Sporveier tram company became the first company to be found guilty of homicide in Norway as a result of a 2001 fatal accident involving an SM91 tram ?
Did you know that audiobook publisher Michael Viner produced the Incredible Bongo Band 's often- sampled recording of " Apache ", as well as a joke album called The Best of Marcel Marceau ?
Did you know that a young Idi Amin was a reserve player for the East Africa rugby union team during the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa ?
Did you know that Thomas E. Corcoran received the Medal of Honor for rescuing his crewmates from their sinking ship during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that rock group The Beau Brummels sang " Laugh, Laugh " on a 1965 episode of The Flintstones as The Beau Brummelstones?
Did you know that in his lifetime, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times, but died from a gunshot?
Did you know that the seven most obese nations in the world are all located in the Pacific ?
Did you know that HMS Fifi , a German warship captured and added to the Royal Navy during the First World War , was named to mean 'tweet-tweet' in French ?
Did you know that Ernest Poole 's book His Family received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918?
Did you know that a British rower attempting to break the record for the quickest solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean abandoned his boat due to the approach of Hurricane Bill ?
Did you know that Kari Gjesteby is the first female State Conciliator of Norway ?
Did you know that 99 Fables , a posthumously published collection by William March , "emphasizes the platitudes of life by the platitudinous nature of his fables ?"
Did you know that as part of the cortisol awakening response , the stress hormone cortisol normally increases by about half in the half hour after we awake?
Did you know that Viking warlord Sigurd Eysteinsson was killed by the severed head of his enemy?
Did you know that kuisis are Native American flutes crafted in distinct male and female pairs, but meant to be played together?
Did you know that oats have been ground at a watermill on the site of Barry Mill , in Scotland, since 1539?
Did you know that a 1999 excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority inside a sewer pipe in the depopulated Arab village of Bashshit revealed ceramic remains dating back to the Early Islamic period?
Did you know that inventor Brutus de Villeroi tested the first French submarine in the commune of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île on 12 August 1832?
Did you know that the Hamsa-Sandesha is a Sanskrit love poem that tells the story of Rama and Sita in the style of Kalidasa 's Meghaduta ?
Did you know that although John Fortescue listed ten Inns of Chancery , only nine are known?
Did you know that country music singer Alan Jackson still likes bologna ?
Did you know that William Anderson , a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution , wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman had an "almost intolerable" bite?
Did you know that Asaga ' s Vardhaman Charitra (Life of Vardhaman ), written in 853 CE, was the first Sanskrit language biography of Jain Tirthankara , Mahavir ?
Did you know that the coincidence of the global financial crisis with the release of Margaret Atwood 's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth led The Walrus to auction predictions by Atwood at a fundraiser?
Did you know that Empty Dwelling Management Orders , designed to help put empty housing back into use in the United Kingdom , have only been used twenty-four times in three years?
Did you know that scholars identify the mound upon which the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Tulayl was built, with the Roman town of "Thella"?
Did you know that Rita Inos , a Doctor of Education , was the first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands ?
Did you know that because the Foulées du Gois road running race is held on a tidal causeway , participants are sometimes forced to swim to the finish line?
Did you know that Bristol 's classical chamber orchestra , the Emerald Ensemble , play standing up and have performed at a local nightclub?
Did you know that in the eight months after the Battle of Narva in 1700, Andrew Vinius melted one quarter of Russia's church bells to make cannon ?