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Did you know that American architect Edward Brickell White contributed designs for buildings for five National Historic Landmarks and three on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina ?
Did you know that Romain Gary 's 1970 fictional memoir White Dog , originally released as Chien Blanc , attacks Marlon Brando and Jean Seberg for their activist activities in the 1960s?
Did you know that when Dorothea Holt Redmond was hired in 1938 in the "heretofore exclusively male field" of film production design , male co-workers demanded that she work in an area separated from them?
Did you know that French submarine Doris was sunk by German submarine U-9 in May 1940, after being ordered to sortie with significant damage, rendering it unable to dive?
Did you know that crew chief Drew Blickensderfer helped driver Matt Kenseth become the fifth driver to start a NASCAR season with back-to-back wins?
Did you know that the building of the Festning Tunnel made it possible to turn Rådhusplassen , Oslo into a car-free square?
Did you know that George Hedges , a lawyer who represented Hollywood stars and studios , was part of an archaeological team that discovered the remains of the ancient frankincense trading city of Ubar ?
Did you know that flautist Eugenia Zukerman has been the Classical Music Correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1980?
Did you know that the original Liberty ship was designed by the owners of J.L. Thompson and Sons shipyard in Sunderland?
Did you know that Charles Scribner II 's country house in Cornwall, New York , combined a Shingle Style exterior with a Colonial Revival interior?
Did you know that after being imprisoned for allegedly leading Islamic militants in Azerbaijan , Ahmad Salama Mabruk began leading a new militant group within prison?
Did you know that when the Vika Line opened in 1995, it was the first new street line of the Oslo Tramway since 1939?
Did you know that politician Warren Tolman ran a campaign for governor of Massachusetts while suing to implement the state's Clean Elections law?
Did you know that Street Fighter IV character Rufus has been listed as 12th on GameDaily 's "Top 25 Most Bizarre Fighting Characters" list?
Did you know that the future of newspapers in the United States is in doubt: as of 2005, an estimated 70 percent of older Americans read a newspaper daily, while fewer than 20 percent of younger Americans did?
Did you know that Kristian Kristiansen ' s main literary work is a trilogy about a boy growing up in an orphanage in the late 1600s?
Did you know that the Batavier II and Batavier V , of the Dutch Batavier Line , were captured, released, and later sunk by four different submarines ?
Did you know that, fourteen years after the release of their debut album, heavy metal band Iced Earth charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time?
Did you know that the 1908 Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau was the first journal of comparative law in the United States ?
Did you know that British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI 's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings?
Did you know that the mockumentary Male Restroom Etiquette is the most viewed Sims video on YouTube ?
Did you know that the father and son combination Cecil Fielder and Prince Fielder each won a Silver Slugger Award at first base ?
Did you know that a Fairey Swordfish from HMS Archer was the first aircraft ever to land on Ascension Island ?
Did you know that Sultan Ali of Johor signed a treaty on 10 March 1855 with the Temenggong which formally ceded his sovereignty claims over Johor ?
Did you know that, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the eldest son of Earl Siward of Northumbria , Osbeorn , died in battle against King Macbeth of Scotland in 1054?
Did you know that in 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Davis v. Beason that it was acceptable to prohibit religious polygamists from voting?
Did you know that a sub-marine eruption near the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga began spewing steam, smoke, pumice , and ash thousands of feet into the sky on March 16, 2009?
Did you know that the Borromeo String Quartet uses laptops instead of paper sheet music when they perform?
Did you know that in the early 20th century there were two American newspapers called Hobo News , one published by the IBWA , a mutual aid society for migratory workers ?
Did you know that Kyryl Studynsky was among the first academics to protest against the Holodomor ?
Did you know that writer - director Joel Hopkins made Last Chance Harvey to recreate the chemistry he had seen between actors Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in a theatre production?
Did you know that the history of the Oslo Tramway started with the construction of a horsecar line to Homansbyen in 1875?
Did you know that Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina , is a Gothic revival church designed to resemble York Minster ?
Did you know that the discovery of feather-like structures on the primitive dinosaur Tianyulong raises the possibility that ancestral dinosaurs were feathered?
Did you know that the South Park episode " The Coon " spoofs such dark comic book movies as The Dark Knight , The Spirit and Watchmen ?
Did you know that the U2 song " Magnificent " was originally titled "French Disco"?
Did you know that Adolf Pilch , Polish resistance fighter trained by SOE during WWII , fought against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that after the September 11 attacks , Korean Air Lines Flight 85 accidentally sent out a hijack signal?
Did you know that Indian historian V. Kanakasabhai , who was the first to attempt a systematic chronology of Tamils , was of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry?
Did you know that the PSP video game Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner uses the PSP's internal clock to continually train the player's monsters, even when the console is not in use?
Did you know that child actor Johnny Washbrook , though educated at two London art academies, spent his later adult years as a banker in Massachusetts ?
Did you know that Le Journal de Mickey , a French comics magazine first published in 1934, is credited with "the birth of the modern bande dessinée "?
Did you know that Chinese American sculptor Hai Ying Wu 's work includes the Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial in Seattle and the Auto-Lite Strike Memorial in Toledo, Ohio ?
Did you know that the Straits Lumber mill at the ghost town of Red Gap, British Columbia was once the largest in the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fan sought to dissuade Emperor Xianzong from seeking immortality by citing the failed examples of Qin Shi Huang , Emperor Wu of Han , and Emperor Taizong of Tang ?
Did you know that the Database Console Commands are a set of Transact-SQL statements used to check the consistency of a Microsoft SQL Server database ?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Stephanie Novacek created roles in the premieres of two important operas , the role of Maria Callas in Daugherty 's Jackie O and the role of heroine Jo March in Adamo 's Little Women ?
Did you know that Sandomierz Voivodeship (1939) , a proposed administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic , was projected to be 24,500 km² and to incorporate 20 or 21 powiats ?
Did you know that when only given enough money to paint half his ship , John Phillimore protested by asking the Navy Board which half they wished him to paint?
Did you know that one episode of the western TV series My Friend Flicka depicts 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt , played by Frank Albertson , trying to halt a range war ?
Did you know that sentences with reduced relative clauses , such as the horse raced past the barn fell , can lead you down a garden path ?
Did you know that Sweden could have been represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the Greek song " Alla "?
Did you know that the Fountain of the Great Lakes , with semi- nude figures, was not dedicated until after Chicago changed its obscenity laws for public art in 1913?
Did you know that Martin Knowlton conceived the Elderhostel concept, in which senior citizens take college-level courses in the summer, to overcome "the disturbing concept that people are all used up after age 65"?
Did you know that Banksia lindleyana goes by the common name of "Porcupine Banksia"?
Did you know that in the first eight years after Harvard Girl was published in mainland China , the number of Chinese applicants to Harvard increased tenfold?
Did you know that Davy Crockett (1954–1955) was the first miniseries in the history of television , although the term "miniseries" had not yet been coined?
Did you know that according to the Zizhi Tongjian , the Tang Dynasty chancellor Pei Ji raised the assessed value of goods to avoid undue tax burden on people who paid taxes with goods?
Did you know that St Bernard's Hospital is the only civilian general hospital in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar ?
Did you know that the first textbook in Hungarian , an encyclopedia by János Apáczai Csere , was written and published in The Netherlands ?
Did you know that the jilted bride Eliza Emily Donnithorne, who is buried in Camperdown Cemetery , may have been the model for Charles Dickens ' reclusive Miss Havisham ?
Did you know that Chilkat weaving ,  a traditional technique of indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia , is so complex that it may take a year to  weave a blanket?
Did you know that Trooper Patrick Fowler spent most of World War One hiding in a wardrobe in German-occupied France?
Did you know that the peninsula Kadettangen got its name as a site of cadet training, conducted by the Norwegian Military Academy and discontinued from 1896?
Did you know that the 1962 ABC sitcom Mr. Smith Goes to Washington featured a television appearance by mime artist Harpo Marx ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Yu Di lost his chancellorship in a scandal where he tried to use bribes to obtain a Jiedushi (military governor) position?
Did you know that an edition of BBC radio programme Any Questions? , featuring former Prime Minister Edward Heath , was broadcast live from St Philip's Church, Hove in 1995?
Did you know that after realizing the blogosphere was similar to a stock market , Seyed Razavi created BlogShares to allow people to buy shares of blogs with virtual currency ?
Did you know that Sloat's Dam is the only remaining intact dam on the Rockland County stretch of the Ramapo River ?
Did you know that at Against All Odds , Jeff Jarrett was not allowed to use a guitar as a weapon, so he used a cello instead?
Did you know that during the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season , Wooden , Naismith , and Robertson Award committees all selected different Big Ten players for their midseason top candidates lists?
Did you know that the Antelope Ground , Southampton was the first home of both Hampshire County Cricket Club and of Southampton Football Club ?
Did you know that in 1905, Edmund Harbitz declined to join the cabinet of his former law firm partner Christian Michelsen ?
Did you know that the edibility of the small woodland mushroom Agaricus semotus is disputed, with some sources claiming edibility and others warning of gastrointestinal discomfort ?
Did you know that the main house at Brykill Farms in Gardiner, New York , was expanded in a similar style and material 200 years after the first section was built?
Did you know that Gears of War failed to win any prize at the 4th British Academy Video Games Awards , even though it was nominated for six?
Did you know that, despite wrestling alongside each other for years and holding a tag team championship together, brothers Mark Starr and Chris Champion used different last names?
Did you know that when Per Øisang hosted the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation 's election debates in the early 1960s, the questioning of politicians was conducted by other politicians?
Did you know that Faith Lutheran College, Redlands was the first independent Christian school opened in the Redlands Shire, South East Queensland ?
Did you know that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All- Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season ?
Did you know that the porch of Macclesfield Castle in Macclesfield , dating from the reign of English King Henry II and the only standing part of the castle, was replaced by cottages and shops in 1932?
Did you know that judge and law school dean George G. Bingham was once the coroner for Yamhill County, Oregon ?
Did you know that Australian Made , a 1987 concert tour promoting " Good Times " and the mateship of nine local acts, was headlined by INXS and ended with two band managers coming to blows?
Did you know that James Beach was selected to run for the Camden County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders after appearing at a candidate recruitment interview complaining and waving his tax bill ?
Did you know that Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and translated select writings of Procopius , Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus , and John Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian ?
Did you know that the " Golden Ticket " episode of the U.S. version of The Office was watched by 7.7 million viewers, tying with Grey's Anatomy for number one among the broadcast networks in adults 18–34?
Did you know that when King Edward VII opened Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent , England, in 1905, that the main corridor was almost 1,000 feet (300 m) long?
Did you know that Tin Pan Alley song " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away " by Paul Dresser , Indiana 's state song , became its first official state symbol in 1913?
Did you know that Henry Cronin won the Military Cross in the First World War for assaulting enemy positions and taking prisoners of war , despite being assigned to build field defences ?
Did you know that during the filming of Dexter episode " The Damage a Man Can Do ", actor Jimmy Smits accidentally stabbed a stunt man with a real knife?
Did you know that Janet Beaton , Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh, had five husbands and was immortalized as Sir Walter Scott 's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his poem " The Lay of the Last Minstrel "?
Did you know that the blind cave beetle Leptodirus hochenwartii , originally discovered  in 1831 in the Postojna cave system, was the first animal to be recognized as a true cave dweller ?
Did you know that excavations at Locust Grove in Dillwyn, Virginia , revealed the grave of an infant in the kitchen garden ?
Did you know that Hulda Garborg was co-founder of Det Norske Teatret in Oslo , which was established in 1912?
Did you know that Hudson Stuck , who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley 's South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits in Alaska ?
Did you know that India's S. Srinivasa Iyengar resigned as Advocate-General of Madras Presidency and returned his Order of the Indian Empire in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ?
Did you know that Laurelwood Academy moved to Eugene, Oregon , after 103 years in Laurelwood, Oregon , but did not change its name?
Did you know that 17th-century baronet Sir Thomas Peniston received £50 per year as a member of the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset , and that his wife, Martha, was the Earl's mistress?
Did you know that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of Carlus", and a large number of Irish hostages ?
Did you know that the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning was an inspiration for Bernard Osher 's funding Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes for adults over age 50 at over 120 universities and colleges?
Did you know that it was at the urging of Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Jifu that Emperor Xianzong ordered that husbands be found for imperial princes' daughters?
Did you know that the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
Did you know that Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren , a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?
Did you know that the Association of Polish Artists and Designers was disbanded by the Polish military authorities for opposing the 1981 imposition of martial law in communist Poland ?
Did you know that American Summit in Alaska is the location of what has been called one of the most remote liquor stores in the world?
Did you know that the 1916 children's novel Just David was the second in a series of four consecutive bestsellers in the United States for Eleanor H. Porter ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Lalakaon in 863 AD, three Byzantine armies, marching from different directions, converged on time to surround an Arab army?
Did you know that Darby Hinton , who played Fess Parker 's son on NBC 's Daniel Boone , as an infant lost his father in a plane crash but remains close to Parker nearly 40 years after the series ended?
Did you know that during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy Steven Chu , Republican Senator John Barrasso read a passage from The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression ?
Did you know that the Kikuchi samurai clan was descended from the royal family of the Korean kingdom of Baekje ?
Did you know that Nolan Bushnell , founder of both Atari, Inc and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters , was made a fellow of BAFTA at the 5th British Academy Video Games Awards ?
Did you know that Norwegian surrealist poet Triztán Vindtorn changed his first name into the name of his favorite pub?
Did you know that, in the 1999 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament , the Loyola Greyhounds under head coach Dave Cottle became the only first- seeded team ever to be eliminated before the semifinals?
Did you know that Allah Bux Soomro , Premier of Sindh , renounced his OBE and the title of Khan Bahadur and resigned his membership in the National Defence Council of India during the Quit India Movement ?
Did you know that the Gable Mansion is one of the last Victorian Italianate mansions of its style, size, and proportion in California ?
Did you know that Lawrence Herkimer invented the cheerleading jump known as the herkie by accident while a cheerleader at Southern Methodist University in the 1940s?
Did you know that Swedish writer, photographer, film maker, and artist Jan Lindblad kept two Bengal tigers as pets?
Did you know that Mongolian Ninja miners are so named because the green bowls they carry on their backs for gold panning resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ?
Did you know that during World War II , the Joshua Hendy Iron Works under the management of Charles E. Moore built one 137-ton Liberty ship engine every 40.8 hours?
Did you know that the first and so far the only mathematics paper by Bill Gates was published in Discrete Mathematics in 1979?
Did you know that the little skate pushes itself along the sea floor using a pair of leg-like fin lobes, a mode of locomotion known as "punting"?
Did you know that record label manager TobyMac pulled his car over to the side of the road when he first heard Christian hip hop artist B. Reith 's music?
Did you know that Dadabhai Naoroji Road in South Mumbai , starting in Crawford Market and leading to Flora Fountain at its south end, is studded with neoclassical - and Gothic -style buildings of the 19th century?
Did you know that the indie video game Gang Garrison 2 adapts the FPS Team Fortress 2 into a 2D shooter game with 8-bit graphics?
Did you know that salsa music promoter Ralph Mercado got his start with "waistline parties", live music events where women paid based on their waist size (thinner women paid less) and Mercado measuring at the door?
Did you know that Lou Reed said "I knew I was in the presence of an angel" after hearing the Antony and the Johnsons song " Cripple and the Starfish "?
Did you know that Ancistrochilus rothschildianus is a species of semi-terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics ?
Did you know that John Dyneley Prince , who later served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and Yugoslavia , learned the Romani language as a 12-year-old, which helped him when he ran away for three days to a gypsy camp?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yin opposed issuance of commissions for eunuch commandants on hemp paper, saying it was reserved for commissions of imperial princes and chancellors ?
Did you know that the 395th Infantry Regiment was the only unit during the Battle of the Bulge that did not retreat, earning the nickname Butler's Blue Battlin' Bastards ?
Did you know that Doris Abrahams started producing on Broadway as a teenager and  co-produced the Tony Award -winning Equus with Kermit Bloomgarden ?
Did you know that the recently discovered dracula fish lost its teeth then re-evolved a set of bony fangs from its jawbone?
Did you know that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress ?
Did you know that in the Philippines , double-dead meat refers to meat from pigs that died of disease, which is sold for human consumption ?
Did you know that Tom Coughlin , head coach of the New York Giants , founded the Jay Fund charity to honor Jay McGillis, a player Coughlin coached at Boston College who died of leukemia ?
Did you know that after Tang Dynasty general Wu Chongyin died, his officers cut off and burned the flesh from their thighs as a sacrifice to him?
Did you know that Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald 's 1936 recording of " Indian Love Call " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 72 years later?
Did you know that Charles S. Lieber 's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused by alcohol , not malnutrition ?
Did you know that a date stone beetle virgin will have sex with her first son to reach maturity before eating him and all of his brothers?
Did you know that the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk , Northwest Territories , Canada ?
Did you know that the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data?
Did you know that during their first football game against Yale in 1884, the Dartmouth Big Green were routed, 113–0?
Did you know that Indian National Congress politician and member of Indian parliament P. Thanulinga Nadar was a leader of Hindu nationalist organisation Hindu Munnani in his later years?
Did you know that George Frideric Handel 's cantata Ero e Leandro was first published in 1999, 292 years after it was composed?
Did you know that the assassins of the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wu Yuanheng decapitated him and took his head with them?
Did you know that the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary , known for annually returning egrets and herons , has not had any return since 2000?
Did you know that Jim Cramer's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart led to The Daily Show website's highest day of traffic in 2009?
Did you know that the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive is part of a series of "forgotten operations", almost completely ignored by Soviet archives and historiography ?
Did you know that because a car crashed through his store's window, Steve Bernard's Cape Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business boomed?
Did you know that the term Rock of Israel was the subject of controversy just hours before the promulgation of the Israeli Declaration of Independence ?
Did you know that Roy Rogers and Gene Autry called the western entertainer Eddie Dean the best cowboy singer of all time?
Did you know that in the Battle of Barnet , Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick was fighting for Henry VI , whom he formerly deposed, and against Edward IV , whom he had helped to gain the throne?
Did you know that Julien's Auctions sold Star Trek star William Shatner 's kidney stone for US$ 25,000?
Did you know that Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison ?
Did you know that the German Grossdeutschland division, located 50 miles (80 km) east of Târgu Frumos , repelled three Soviet divisions and recaptured the town 48 hours after receiving its initial order?