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Did you know that the Hankensbüttel Otter Centre won first prize in the German Ministry of Transport Regions of the Future competition in 2000?
Did you know that one of the tenants of Bloomington, Illinois ' Eastland Mall had operated a store in town since 1892?
Did you know that The Coronas had to be escorted out of the building after being mobbed by their fans following a performance at The Music Show in 2008?
Did you know that the three Habsburg -class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy since the ironclad SMS Tegetthoff of the 1870s?
Did you know that George Washington and James Fenimore Cooper visited the springs at Brookside , an early resort in Ballston Spa, New York ?
Did you know that the Punch of the Hamburg Police has educated children in road traffic safety since 1948?
Did you know that Lady Emma Herbert , a bridesmaid of Camilla Parker-Bowles , is now a circus trapeze artist?
Did you know that in May 2007 alone, 987,000 unique visitors tried Starfall , a free website that helps children learn to read?
Did you know that the museum of Epidaurus has a reconstruction of part of the entablature of a Temple of Artemis , dated to 370–310 B.C.?
Did you know that in the 2003–04 AHL season , Binghamton Senators defenceman Andy Hedlund went 17 games without scoring a goal following his game-winning shot against Syracuse ?
Did you know that Cuban poet Cintio Vitier published his first book of poetry in 1938, at the age of seventeen?
Did you know that the deadliest aircraft incident in Russia occurred because one air traffic controller fell asleep on the job?
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Did you know that the Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport was the first building in Wales designed by Richard Rogers ?
Did you know that one driver was killed at Japan's Suzuka Circuit when he was struck by another car just after he exited his stricken car?
Did you knowthat Archbishop Leon Tourian was assassinated in a Manhattan church on Christmas Eve , 1933 , for his refusal to publicly support independent Armenia?
Did you know that English author Selina Davenport , in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school?
Did you know that the library in Michigan's Calumet and Hecla Industrial District originally housed public baths in its basement?
Did you know that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth , who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop?
Did you know that the Jensen Arctic Museum in Monmouth, Oregon , is the only museum on the West Coast other than in Alaska that focuses solely on Arctic culture?
Did you know that the Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara is one of the Solosmasthana , the 16 religious sites in Sri Lanka that Buddhists believe to have been hallowed by visits of Gautama Buddha ?
Did you know that over 19 days, the magnitude -6 1703 Apennine earthquakes progressed southwards 36 km and killed an estimated 10,000 people?
Did you know that Adolf Bniński , Polish presidential candidate in 1926, was the Government Delegate of the Polish Underground State for the Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that the 58-foot (18 m) motor yacht Sundowner , manned by Charles Lightoller , his son Roger, and a Sea Scout called Gerald, evacuated 130 men from Dunkirk ?
Did you know that C. Gardner Sullivan , once named among the ten greatest contributors to the motion picture industry, has four films in the U.S. National Film Registry ?
Did you know that Elia Kazan 's 1947 film Boomerang! , about a murder defendant whose innocence was proven by the prosecutor, was based on the true story of Harold Israel ?
Did you know that George Osbaldeston was twice Master of the Quorn ?
Did you know that husband and wife Heinrich and Therese Vogl portrayed the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde in Richard Wagner 's Die Walküre on June 26, 1870?
Did you know that in 1900 alone the Eastern German provinces lost about 1,600,000 people due to Landflucht ?
Did you know that amateur telescope maker Robert E. Cox helped make the first live coverage of a solar eclipse ?
Did you know that " Black Is Black ," a 1966 song by Los Bravos , was the first international hit single by a Spanish rock band?
Did you know that Bank Indonesia Governor J. Soedradjad Djiwandono was not officially informed of his dismissal from office in 1998 until six days after President Suharto 's decree?
Did you know that the writers of the title track to Toby Keith 's 2009 album American Ride told him he was "the only guy in the world that could get away with cutting" that song?
Did you know that Dutch rocker Wally Tax learned English by age 11 by working as a pimp for American sailors in the Port of Amsterdam ?
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Did you know that silent film comedian Shorty Hamilton died in 1925 when his automobile crashed into a steam shovel in Hollywood?
Did you know that wine produced from grapes grown in Washington , California , Chile , Argentina or South Africa can be labeled " Cellared in Canada " and sold as Canadian wine ?
Did you know that Peter Rosted served as chief judge at Inderøy District Court for 46 years, from 1733 to 1776?
Did you know that the sculptor Emile Norman's largest and most famous work is a four-story high endomosaic window in the lobby of the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco ?
Did you know that Paul L. Foshee , who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature , holds a patent on an airplane mount bracket?
Did you know that the 1914–1944 Japanese presence in the Marshall Islands resulted in about 10% of the present-day islanders having some Japanese ancestry?
Did you know that Gina Krog and Hagbard Emanuel Berner founded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884?
Did you know that as a child, Czech painter Kamil Lhoták was infected with poliomyelitis by his father, a physician?
Did you know that Spinellus fusiger is a pin mold that parasitizes several species of mushrooms ?
Did you know that American folk blues guitarist and Grammy -winning music historian Elijah Wald is the son of prominent biologists Ruth Hubbard and Nobel laureate George Wald ?
Did you know that the French Church in Bucharest , Romania , is topped by a Gallic rooster ?
Did you know that Rabbi Wolfe Kelman prepared the way for the rabbinic ordination of women in Conservative Judaism and his daughter Naamah Kelman was the first woman in Israel ordained by the Reform Judaism movement?
Did you know that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire , completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie , builder of London Bridge ?
Did you know that more than 6,000 fans of Michael Jackson attended at a memorial service at U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana ?
Did you know that the Vienna -born historian Saul K. Padover wrote definitive biographies of figures as diverse as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson ?
Did you know that James Howden invented the marine forced draught system that was used on the Lusitania and Mauretania ?
Did you know that the married Western Ukrainian Clergy became a hereditary caste that dominated western Ukrainian society?
Did you know that National Football League offensive tackle Jake Long was hospitalized in intensive care for smoke inhalation while in college?
Did you know that the Great Western Railway built three different stations to serve the town of Wootton Bassett in just 63 years?
Did you know that the monogram of King Haakon VII of Norway , H7 , became a resistance symbol during the Second World War ?
Did you know that the cryptographic primitives CAST-128 , CAST-256 , Grain , and HAVAL were all designed using bent functions for cryptographic security?
Did you know that former Romanian secret police chief Nicolae Pleşiţă , notorious for his dealings with Carlos the Jackal , admitted dragging dissident writer Paul Goma around his cell by his beard?
Did you know that the new world's record for the largest formation of women skydivers was organized by the daughter of Lamb Chops puppeteer , Shari Lewis ?
Did you know that although Andrew Bonar Law originally had fewer than forty supporting Members of Parliament , he became Leader of the UK Conservative Party after both of the frontrunners simultaneously withdrew?
Did you know that the recording of " Fría Como el Viento " by Luis Miguel became his third number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
Did you know that philanthropist James W. Davidson spent CAN$ 250,000 of his own money in 1914 and 1915 to establish over 20 branches of Rotary International on three continents?
Did you know that people used home-made balloons and submarines to escape across the inner German border between East and West Germany during the Cold War ?
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Did you know that Archuleta v. Hedrick was a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by an insanity defense acquitee, hospitalized against his will?
Did you know that while being a member of the Spanish colonial guardia civil , Francisco Carreón also served as a member of the Philippine Revolutionary group Katipunan ?
Did you know that Byne's disease is not actually a disease, but a chemical reaction that attacks shells in storage or on display?
Did you know that footballer Tony Hawksworth had only made three appearances for Manchester United 's reserve team when he made his Football League debut, but never played another League match?
Did you know that the last recorded sighting of the Knob-billed Duck , now thought to be extinct in Sri Lanka , occurred in Lahugala Kitulana National Park ?
Did you know that the American progressive rock / avant-jazz group The Muffins were influenced by the English Canterbury scene ?
Did you know that women complained when celebrity chef Neven Maguire posed for a Food & Wine photo shoot alongside a bikini -wearing model and a plate of food?
Did you know that despite historically good relations , Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called for Switzerland 's dissolution in September 2009?
Did you know that the Eparchaean Unconformity in India is a major discontinuity between Proterozoic Nagari Quartzites and Archaean granite with a time gap of at least 500 million years between the two formations?
Did you know that the term " Moonie " was first used by American media sources to refer to members of Sun Myung Moon 's Unification Church in 1974, during church events at the Madison Square Garden ?
Did you know that one of the French ships captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805 went on to serve the Royal Navy for 144 years?
Did you know that the 1974 floods along the Finke River in Australia's Northern Territory resulted in the dramatic spread of the introduced Athel Tamarisk ( T. aphylla ) through the desert?
Did you know that French politician Jean Fontenoy , initially a communist , later became a fascist ?
Did you know that John Cantius , patron saint of the Jagiellonian University , is buried in the Church of St. Anne, Kraków ?
Did you know that the Byzantine chapel of the Theotokos of the Pharos at Constantinople housed a huge collection of holy relics, many of which were acquired by Louis IX of France for his Sainte-Chapelle ?
Did you know that referee Johnny LoBianco awarded boxer Roberto Durán a 1972 knockout despite his apparent low blow , with sportswriter Red Smith stating "anything short of pulling a knife is regarded indulgently"?
Did you know that the Classic Period Mesoamerican archaeological site of Bilbao on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala , features a significant amount of sculpture with ballgame imagery?
Did you know that the Australian town of Acland , once host to Queensland 's oldest and smallest continuously worked coal mine , now has a population of one?
Did you know that Lucy Vodden was John Lennon 's inspiration for the song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "?
Did you know that Freddy Bienstock was the designated song screener for Elvis Presley ?
Did you know that W. S. Gilbert 's 1878 play The Ne'er-do-Weel was the second that he wrote for actor E. A. Sothern , who did not appear in either?
Did you know that the Christian Byzantine Emperor Leo V performed pagan rituals in Constantinople at the signing of a peace treaty in 815 with the Bulgarians ?
Did you know that Karen L. Gould , a scholar of French-Canadian literature and francophone women writers, is the first woman president of Brooklyn College ?
Did you know that Abba Garima Monastery , located near Adwa , Ethiopia , contains the crown of the Emperor Zara Yaqob of the Solomonic dynasty ?
Did you know that during the Second World War , the Japanese-American family of Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima were interned in a horse stall ?
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Did you know that Bruce Spizer , a New Orleans tax attorney , wrote 2,592 questions for a special Beatles edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit ?
Did you know that people of Austronesian origin traveled in and around the Philippine Islands using balangays , which were eventually used to trade with the Srivijayan empire?
Did you know that Jean de La Forêt was the first French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1534, and that he negotiated in 1536 a Franco-Ottoman treaty of alliance ?
Did you know that the electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago was the second extensive Internet encyclopedia dedicated to the history of a U.S. city?
Did you know that the Indian film Shehar Aur Sapna , a love story set in a drain pipe, won the National Film Award for Best Film and Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for actor Nana Palsikar ?
Did you know that reticulated foam is used to protect the fuel tanks of military aircraft such as the A-10 Thunderbolt II ?
Did you know that Richard Prince 's controversial "rephotograph" of Garry Gross ' s nude image of Brooke Shields at age 10 was recently banned from the Tate Gallery in London ?
Did you know that Gary Lakes became an opera singer because a cracked vertebra sustained as a high school football defensive tackle derailed his plans for a sports career?
Did you know that some of the mallees in the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens may be up to 2,500 years old?
Did you know that William S. Dix was recognised as one of the American Libraries' 100 most important figures although he never obtained a degree in library science ?
Did you know that the Lhasa Brewery Company, which produces Tibetan beer is the highest commercial brewery in the world?
Did you know that Finnish chemist Edvard Hjelt organized the training of a infantry unit later used in the Finnish Civil War in 1918?
Did you know that Women of the Sun was the first Australian television series to portray the lives of Aboriginal women in 19th-century Australia ?
Did you know that Roy Frankhouser , a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon , was arrested at least 142 times?
Did you know that the rapid automatized naming of objects, pictures and colors in pre-literate children predicts their later success in learning to read ?
Did you know that the Klamath Diversion in the 1960s would have involved diverting the entire Klamath River to the Central Valley and Southern California ?
Did you know that the Norwegian company Maarud was the largest snack food producer in Scandinavia in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Stone Bridge near Hart Mountain in Lake County , Oregon , is completely underwater?
Did you know that Dymitr of Goraj , one of the most powerful people in the late 14th-century Kingdom of Poland , was instrumental in preventing the marriage between Jadwiga of Poland and William, Duke of Austria ?
Did you know that philanthropist Joseph Gurwin lost more than $36 million to Bernard Madoff , but promised he would continue making charitable donations even if he had "to sell apples on the street"?
Did you know that Julius Anton Glaser 's 1873 code of criminal procedure was the first to introduce trial by jury in Austria ?
Did you know that the Distomo Archaeological Collection of Greece has an exhibition of photographs related to the Distomo massacre in 1944  by Nazi troops?
Did you know that the Christian music industry was the fastest growing segment of the music industry in the 1990s?
Did you know that in 2007 , Rachel Robinson , the wife of Jackie Robinson , was the first non-player to be presented with Major League Baseball 's Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award ?
Did you know that 51 Ophiuchi has a disk of dust and gas that is likely a planetary system in the late stages of formation?
Did you know that the biography Van Morrison: No Surrender discusses the musician's spiritual exploration of Gestalt therapy , Jehovah's Witnesses , mysticism , Rosicrucianism , and Scientology ?
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Did you know that the newspaper and radio of Vatican City during World War II ceased reporting the weather at the request of the Italian government ?
Did you know that in 1833, romantic poet Panagiotis Soutsos envisioned the revival of the ancient Olympic Games , 63 years before the first International Olympics ?
Did you know that the Abraham Glen House , now the Scotia branch of the Schenectady County, New York , public library, is a rare surviving Dutch Colonial heavy timber frame house in the Capital District ?
Did you know that after World War II , designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
Did you know that historian Sue Eakin published an edited version of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup , a free black taken from New York into slavery in Louisiana ?
Did you know that successful repair of both cruciate ligaments in a human knee was first reported in 1903?
Did you know that prior to writing the episode " The Apartment " of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld , writer Peter Mehlman had "barely written any dialogue in [his] life"?
Did you know that author Tom Spanbauer became so stressed while writing the LGBT novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon that he fainted in Penn Station ?
Did you know that a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu , including official persecution of Jews , failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary ?
Did you know that Don Larsen won the 1956 World Series Most Valuable Player Award after pitching the only perfect game in World Series history?
Did you know that Ernst Märzendorfer was the first conductor to record the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn ?
Did you know that " Do-Over ", the third-season premiere of the television comedy series 30 Rock , is the highest-rated episode of the series to date?
Did you know that besides serving as famine food , the tree Balanites aegyptiaca can be used to make furniture, cooking oil , snail repellent, and glue , and provides raw materials for making birth control pills?
Did you know that Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi was the first non- Jewish member of an Israeli government ?
Did you knowthat the Scotia, New York , post office was one of the last to be built in the state under Depression -era relief programs?
Did you know that L.C. Lecesne rose to prominence as an activist against slavery after the British Government compensated him for his illegal exile from Jamaica ?
Did you know that the posthumous Michael Jackson album This Is It will include a spoken word poem by Jackson titled Planet Earth ?
Did you know that disabled veteran street vendors have been exempt from certain municipal regulations in New York state since 1894?
Did you know that Operation Fair Play was the codename for the 1977 military coup that overthrew the regime of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ?
Did you know that the only operable AWACS equipped aircraft of the Iranian Air Force was destroyed in a mid-air collision on 22 September 2009?
Did you know that professional wrestler Dukes Dalton teamed with World Wrestling Entertainment veteran Steve Lombardi at a " Toys for Tots " event hosted by the United States Marines ?
Did you know that despite establishing the mandate that Port wine should only come from the Douro , the Marquis of Pombal allowed grapes grown from his own estate in Carcavelos to be used by Port producers?
Did you know that Edward Fokczyński knew that Poland had solved Germany 's Enigma ciphers , but kept the secret even while being worked to death at Sachsenhausen ?
Did you know that Robert Southey composed five epic poems that describe: human sacrifices , murderous Hindu demons , evil sorcerers , a Goth rapist , and a violent maid ?
Did you know that personal injury lawyers mapped the sidewalks of New York City for defects, rendering the city liable for $600 million in judgments between 1997 and 2006?
Did you know that Australian musician Jim Keays , who fronted The Masters Apprentices during 1965–1972, was diagnosed with myeloma in 2007 and is in remission after stem cell transplants?
Did you know that the decision in Gyles v Wilcox established the legal precedent of fair abridgement, which later evolved into the modern concept of fair use ?
Did you know that director Paul Weiland , whose credits include Mr. Bean , 66 and more than 500 television commercials, owns an 18th-century country estate in Wiltshire , England ?
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Did you know that American opera singer Margaret Harshaw portrayed more Wagnerian heroines on stage at the Metropolitan Opera than anyone else in the opera's history?
Did you know that Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington helped popularize the Portuguese wine Bucelas in London after he discovered it while fighting in the Peninsular War ?
Did you know that the Ballston Spa, New York , post office was once located in an opera house ?
Did you know that baseball player Warren Cromartie filed an injunction against screening of the comedy film Cromartie High - The Movie because the (fictitious) school was portrayed as full of thugs and delinquents?
Did you know that the mural by Leon Kroll in the Worcester Memorial Auditorium was the largest in the United States when completed?
Did you know that Emmy Award winner and Golden Raspberry nominee John Herzfeld has directed films about the Long Island Lolita , the Preppie Murder , Ryan White , Don King , and 2 days in the Valley ?
Did you know that during one of several British airborne operations in North Africa , an officer knocked unconscious was heard to ask a waiter for fish?
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Did you know that during the First World War Edwin Flavell was awarded the Military Cross three times?
Did you know that wine critic Robert Parker has said that all Grolleau vines should be ripped out of the Loire Valley and replaced with other grape varieties ?
Did you know that the Wilsonville railroad bridge in Oregon does not need to be painted ?
Did you know that in 1953, former SS - Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw received an eight year prison sentence for severely abusing political prisoners and Jews ?
Did you know that the designers of the proposed Vigilant Eagle system hope to be able to create an invisible protectant dome around an airport to block a missile ?
Did you know that casting director Caro Jones cast for more than 1,000 films and television shows , including Rocky , The Beverly Hillbillies and The Karate Kid ?
Did you know that at one point in the history of the TNA Women's Knockout Championship , a male argued that he was the rightful champion ?
Did you know that Irish folk-singer Tommy Sands received an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Nevada , Reno ?
Did you know that "Mad" Micky McAvoy committed what was dubbed "the crime of the century" in 1983?
Did you know that the confidential academic paper more commonly known as the " Cornell Paper ", which detailed an abortive 1965 coup d'état attempt in Indonesia , was eventually published in 1971 to avoid any misconception of its contents?
Did you know that Milwaukee 's first underground parking garage was built in 1927 in the basement of George Brumder ' s Germania Building?
Did you know that an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1980 argued that "everything we know as Hollywood traces to Wilfred Buckland ", film innovator and Hollywood 's first art director ?