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Did you know that when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, the crew of the incomplete Sleipner class destroyer Tor scuttled their vessel at the shipyard and joined the land forces fighting the invasion?
Did you know that Polly Bergen closed each episode of her 1957–58 NBC variety program , The Polly Bergen Show , with the 1956 song " The Party's Over "?
Did you know that Rameshwar Prasad became the first Naxalite member of Parliament elected from the Indian state of Bihar in 1989?
Did you know that the woman for whom Memphis' Messick High School is named was superintendent of schools in 1908, when the school was established?
Did you know that the Louisiana politician Albert Estopinal, Jr. , was involved in hurricane relief efforts in his native storm-prone St. Bernard Parish ?
Did you know that variables and attributes are some of the most basic concepts in science ?
Did you know that Russian journalists Viktor and Marina Kalashnikova claim to have been poisoned because of their political writings?
Did you know that Jacksonville 's Atlantic Boulevard , which is considered to have been the beginning of Florida 's highway system, was just 18 ft (5.5 m) wide when first built?
Did you know that a Nazi saluting dog nearly brought the wrath of the Third Reich upon a Finnish pharmaceutical company?
Did you know that two of the illustrations in the Leofric Missal , a 10th and 11th century illuminated book from England, depict a method of divination derived from Coptic Egypt ?
Did you know that Julio Ibarra became Governor of Cardenal Caro Province , in Chile just after two major earthquakes in the country?
Did you know that above the chancel arch of St Barbara's Church, Haceby , Lincolnshire , are the Royal arms of Queen Anne on top of a medieval Doom painting?
Did you know that Baths ' debut album, Cerulean , though recorded in his bedroom in two months, was acknowledged by "album of the year" lists?
Did you know that the Greek city Phoenice became the center of the federal government of the Epirote League after the assassination of the last Aeacid dynasty ruler, Deidamia II of Epirus ?
Did you know that the 55-point margin of victory by Alabama in the 1953 Orange Bowl was the largest for a college football bowl game until surpassed by Tulsa 55 years later in the 2008 GMAC Bowl ?
Did you know that the Inclined Plane Bridge spans Stonycreek River , connecting the Johnstown Inclined Plane to the city of Johnstown , Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Roberto Córdova became the mayor of Pichilemu , Chile , after Marcelo Cabrera Martínez was removed permanently as mayor of the city on August 19 , 2009?
Did you know that at the end of the 19th century, E. C. Stearns & Company was one of the most extensive hardware manufacturers in the US ?
Did you know that James Cecil was impeached by the House of Commons for high treason ?
Did you know that iron smelting furnaces over 2500 years old have been found in Taruga , Nigeria ?
Did you know that after her Baby Tooth Survey showed kids took in strontium-90 from nuclear fallout , Dr. Louise Reiss 's son picked up the phone and heard the caller say "This is John Kennedy , can I talk to your mom?"
Did you know that the Swiss Fort du Scex and the Fort de Cindey are connected by a natural cave, the Grotte aux Fées ?
Did you know that Paul Pyant designed lighting for the production of George Frideric Handel ’s Xerxes at the Houston Grand Opera in 2010?
Did you know that pyridine is a part of the Cornforth reagent and Crabtree's catalyst ?
Did you know that in order to travel to Moscow to study their T-3 fusion reactor, physicist Derek Robinson got married so he would always be "properly accompanied by a reliable person"?
Did you know that the Forest of Compiègne was the site of armistice agreements in both the First and the Second World Wars ?
Did you know that 20 years after scoring a goal in Luxembourg 's first-ever football victory over France , Zénon Bernard became the first communist elected to the Luxembourgian parliament ?
Did you know that fairytale author Mary de Morgan told stories to the young Rudyard Kipling and his relatives?
Did you know that according to a BBC report, the ethnic conflict in Sampit town in Indonesia caused 500 deaths, with over 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes?
Did you know that Michigan football player and author Lewis Reimann wrote in 1916 that post-game celebrations by students "filled with 'spirit ' " were damaging the university's reputation?
Did you know that the Ballistic Missile Target System target rocket could be launched in any of four different configurations?
Did you know that the song "For a Friend" from The Communards ' album Red was written in memory of Mark Aston, a friend of the band members, who died from AIDS ?
Did you know that the explosion to move Antoinette , wrecked on Doom Bar , blew in all the windows in the port town of Padstow ?
Did you know that Eugene K. Garfield used a personal Pullman car when he rode the Auto-Train service he started to carry people and their vehicles between Virginia and Florida ?
Did you know that discussions on the knowledge of Christ have had a central place in Christology for centuries?
Did you know that proper design of a sampling frame can be crucial in statistical research ?
Did you know that record producer Cachorro López co-wrote " Color Esperanza ", a song performed in Argentina back to back with the national anthem ?
Did you know that a tropical depression in 1970 was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in Puerto Rico ?
Did you know that in the 1920s revue Casanova , the dancer La Jana was carried on-stage semi-naked on a silver platter?
Did you know that during William Fones ' tenure as a Tennessee Supreme Court judge, the court upheld a law banning snake-handling in religious services?
Did you know that not only can sodium tungsten bronze conduct electricity like a semiconductor or a metal , but it can also superconduct ?
Did you know that an 1848–49 crime thriller set in the world of horseracing, written by journalist Angus Reach , was later described as a "template for the pulp tradition"?
Did you know that the original wooden bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Batavia, New York , blew down within a year of its construction and was replaced by the stone one originally intended?
Did you know that following a referendum in 1984, Liechtenstein became the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote ?
Did you know that the Fuller Rock Light in Providence, Rhode Island , was destroyed in an explosion?
Did you know that the 1991 illustrated children's book of the year , The Mousehole Cat , is based on the legend of the stargazy pie ?
Did you know that although its main expedition was focused on Bulgaria , the Savoyard crusade nevertheless included the first Christian success against the Ottomans ?
Did you know that the Scotsman John Jardine Paterson was President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce in 1966?
Did you know that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke , the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke ?
Did you know that the Conclave of 1740 elected Benedict XIV after he advised them "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti ; a statesman, Aldrovandi ; an honest man, me"?
Did you know that Yeshayahu Yerushalmi was the presiding judge of the initial enquiry into the USS Liberty incident in 1967?
Did you know that the mushroom Xeromphalina setulipes is known only from Ciudad Real Province , Spain ?
Did you know that the British detective series Saber of London ran on two American television networks between 1951 and 1960 under four different show titles?
Did you know that Polad Bülbüloğlu , an Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician and diplomat, won the Russian Order of Friendship and numerous other national awards in post-Soviet states ?
Did you know that the LOCAT rocket, intended to provide 50% savings in target practice costs, was constructed from plastic and paper tubing?
Did you know that William D. Cochran , former Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis , was known as "Pink Cheeks" as a Michigan Wolverines football player?
Did you know that the stabilizing fins of the MQR-16 Gunrunner rocket were made from plywood ?
Did you know that there are hundreds of monotowns in Russia —towns whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company?
Did you know that Point Danger Light on the Queensland – New South Wales border lays claim to being the first lighthouse to experiment with laser technology?
Did you know that the 1968 pamphlet Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? claimed that sex education was a Communist conspiracy?
Did you know that a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed five minutes after taking off from Lamidanda Airport , Nepal , last month?
Did you know that Jenova Chen designs video games such as Flow and Flower so that they appeal to universal emotions rather than specific cultures?
Did you know that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail ?
Did you know that Australian professional road racing cyclist Chloe Hosking began competitive cycling after injuring herself rock climbing when she was twelve?
Did you know that during their campaign to sabotage the French -controlled Vietnamese railway network , Viet Minh guerrillas built their own 300 km railway out of tracks stolen from the main line ?
Did you know that New Zealand MP George Macfarlan ' s grave was removed to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway ?
Did you know that the 1912 revolt in Himarë , Albania , led by Greek officer Spyros Spyromilios , overthrew the Ottoman forces from the region?
Did you know that despite being the second youngest player at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge , Canadian forward Nathan MacKinnon finished seventh in tournament scoring?
Did you know that the Grotte aux Fées in Switzerland features a 77-meter high underground waterfall?
Did you know that E.B. Harris , former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , paraded an Angus calf around the trading floor to celebrate the beginning of live cattle futures trading on the exchange?
Did you know that German scientist Jens Blauert was honored with the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1999?
Did you know that Te Matua Ngahere is believed to be the second largest living kauri tree, and to have the biggest girth of any kauri in New Zealand ?
Did you know that a song by England Dan & John Ford Coley , " It's Sad to Belong ", topped the adult contemporary chart for five weeks in 1977?
Did you know that Cornelius Dupree was cleared by DNA profiling of committing a robbery for which he served 30 years in prison, longer than any other exonerated inmate in Texas ?
Did you know that the name of the Town of Macamic , in Quebec , Canada , comes from the Algonquin word Makamik meaning "limping beaver "?
Did you know that rapper Scribe is the only artist to have had two year-end number-one singles in New Zealand ?
Did you know that American historian Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 ?
Did you know that Jacques Kallis has scored more Test centuries than any other South African cricketer ?
Did you know that Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company , The Grateful Dead , and Moby Grape performed at the Mantra-Rock Dance , a charity event for the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple?
Did you know that Dinocochlea was thought to be a giant snail shell or fossilised dinosaur dung but is actually a solidified worm's burrow?
Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Fourteen is currently the only U.S. carrier strike group that does not have an assigned aircraft carrier or carrier air wing ?
Did you know that British chef Gordon Ramsay , who was threatened at gunpoint whilst filming in Costa Rica , described the illegal shark fin trading in the country as "a multi-billion dollar industry"?
Did you know that Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was such a talented organist that Franz Liszt declared him to be a "master of the art"?
Did you know that during the 1765 Sino-Burmese War the Qing army built a stockade "as big as a city" at Shwenyaungbin ?
Did you know that Dicky Moegle was awarded a touchdown for Rice in the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic after Tommy Lewis entered the field of play from the Alabama sideline to tackle him?
Did you know that as theologian to the Pontifical Household , Wojciech Giertych provides advice to the Pope on theological issues?
Did you know that in the 1930s, the Indochinese Communist Party and the Vietnamese Trotskyists collaborated on the joint publication La Lutte ?
Did you know that Daniel Bellemare , chief prosecutor for the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon , is also the longest-serving head of the Federal Prosecution Service in Canadian history?
Did you know that demonstrators in New Delhi wore garlands made of onions to protest against the rising onion prices in India ?
Did you know that German musicologist Alfred Dürr has been called "the scholar who has done most to establish the new chronology of Bach 's vocal works "?
Did you know that there was a public outcry from onion farmers after Vincent Kosuga cornered the onion futures market ?
Did you know that in November 2010 it was reported that two Iranian Secret Intelligence agents arrived in Ghorband District and were accused by the U.S. of helping insurgents to attack coalition forces?
Did you know that halfback Otto Carpell and ends Efton James and Curtis Redden were the three Michigan Wolverines football players killed while serving in the military during World War I ?
Did you know that in the 1981 Pacific hurricane season , Tropical Storm Lidia caused more damage and casualties than Hurricane Norma ?
Did you know that Heidi Løke won a gold medal with the Norwegian team at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship , and was also selected into the all-star team as best pivot of the tournament?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Central Green Co. v. United States that the term 'flood waters' includes accidental flooding from a canal ?
Did you know that despite an embargo on the sale of military aircraft due to the Spanish Civil War , the French government allowed the sale of the Farman F.480 Alizé to Spain on the grounds that they were, as built, civilian ?
Did you know that wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness has been denounced as a form of feel-good slacktivism that saves no lives?
Did you know that a defeated candidate in the 2005 special election at Cebu's 5th district in the Philippines remarked that the election was a waste of money?
Did you know that Polish athlete Edward Sarul became the first ever World Champion in the shot put in 1983 but missed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Eastern Bloc boycott ?
Did you know that the Groningen gas field is the largest natural gas field in Europe and the tenth largest in the world?
Did you know that first white settlers of the Town of La Sarre , in Quebec , Canada , were squatters on the land who were discovered during a survey in 1908?
Did you know that Julia Bonds was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading the fight against the practice of mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountain range ?
Did you know that the name of the Brazo Anti-Radiation Missile was intended as a pun?
Did you know that the range of the rodent Macrotarsomys petteri is believed to have shifted as a result of climatic change?
Did you know that Bach 's cantata Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154 , first performed on 9 January 1724, "contains a graphic evocation of ear drumming", according to Gardiner ?
Did you know that the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler was discovered in 1945 by Arnold Weiss of the United States Army , who had come to Wisconsin as a Jewish orphan from Nazi Germany at the age of 13?
Did you know that Neil Young scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that Bishop Oldham liked to eat punctually on the hour, so when he was late his servant manipulated time to make sure that he did?
Did you know that U.S. Rep. Albert Estopinal of Louisiana led three missions during the Civil War to transport Union prisoners to the Confederate capital , Richmond , Virginia ?
Did you know that the Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is the only surviving building from the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort, a mineral spa visited by U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren ?
Did you know that Indian Maoist guerrillas killed seven prominent local members of Agragami Adivasi Samiti in Purulia District in December 2010 ?
Did you know that, as a junior in 2009–10, Lavoy Allen became the first Temple basketball player to average a double-double since Ollie Johnson accomplished the feat in 1970–71?
Did you know that the town of Angangueo , Mexico , was nearly moved completely because of landslides and flooding in February 2010 ?
Did you know that the Mikea Forest , one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar , is yet to be protected?
Did you know that although Juan Solano came to South America to be the bishop of Cuzco , he first joined the Spanish army and fought at the Battle of Jaquijahuana ?
Did you know that a Singapore Subordinate Court criminal case appealed to the High Court cannot be further appealed to the Court of Appeal , but questions of law can be referred to that Court for determination?
Did you know that Steve Collins was the first freshman in Oklahoma Sooners football history to start at quarterback in a season opener?
Did you know that Frans Otto Eriksson was a Swedish baker who committed a double murder in 1909?
Did you know that Chuck McCoy was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009?
Did you know that the ancient Catalonian village of El Fonoll was rebuilt as a naturist resort?
Did you know that Chateau Grand Traverse produced Michigan 's first commercial ice wine and the 1987 vintage was served at the presidential inauguration of George H. W. Bush ?
Did you know that Drove Cottage Henge is around 54 metres (177 ft) in diameter, yet is hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged it?
Did you know that Joseph Tabarlet was made mayor of Jonesboro, Louisiana , four times, but only completed one full term?
Did you know that Patience and Sarah has been called the first lesbian opera ?
Did you know that the Chicago Bears have more individuals inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame than any other National Football League franchise?
Did you know that the hulk of the USS Wateree , stranded by an 1868 tsunami , was shifted several kilometres along the coast by an 1877 tsunami ?
Did you know that there are more male snails than females in the shallow waters of Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand , and that snails are sicker in the lake's shallower rather than deeper water?
Did you know that Barbara Newhall Follett , who by age fourteen had published two novels to critical acclaim, left her apartment the night of December 7, 1939, at age twenty-five, and was never seen again?
Did you know that the Illinois River channel was carved out in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent ?
Did you know that the tympanum of the Norman doorway of St Benedict's Church, Haltham-on-Bain , Lincolnshire , contains carvings of a Maltese cross in a circle, a fan-shaped shell, and a knot in a circle?
Did you know that 69 people were killed in 1971 when the Vickers Viscount they were flying in crashed on approach to Minangkabau International Airport , Padang , Indonesia ?
Did you know that before being cast as Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza , Dan Blocker appeared in four episodes of John Payne 's NBC western series , The Restless Gun ?
Did you know that the story of Winter , a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, is being made into a film?
Did you know that in 2000, a Wuhan Airlines Xian Y-7 aircraft crashed in China , killing 51 people, after it was struck by lightning ?
Did you know that songwriter Marty Balin said that " Miracles ", which became Jefferson Starship 's biggest hit single, was originally perceived by the other band members as "pretty weird"?
Did you know that in 1929, a group of laborers discovered a 958 carat doubly truncated bipyramid sapphire near Gwebin , which sold for £ 13,000 to a New York dealer, who cut it into nine different sapphires?
Did you know that a wrestler was briefly declared unable to compete at the World Wrestling Federation 's Fully Loaded (2000) event when he faked food poisoning ?
Did you know that the English Springer Spaniel Buster has a specially made pen to protect it from biological attack ?
Did you know that the first major rock and roll concert, 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball , was to include rhythm and blues singer Varetta Dillard , but the show was shut down before she could perform?
Did you know that the newly opened Hainan Eastern Ring Railway employed 50,000 workers, and is Hainan 's largest single investment project to date?
Did you know that newly inaugurated California Board of Equalization Member Sean Wallentine surpassed five-day Governor Milton Latham of 1860 as the state's shortest-serving constitutional officer?
Did you know that outdoor hockey games played in football, soccer and baseball stadiums have resulted in numerous attendance records , including a world record of 113,411 at an American college game ?
Did you know that Kit Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I , but not to Charles I , who "would have no drunkards of his chamber"?
Did you know that many Western scholars working in Chinese studies now receive funding from the Taiwan -based Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation ?
Did you know that R&B singer Alexa Goddard 's debut chart hit, a cover of " Turn My Swag On ", topped the UK Indie Chart on its second week of release?
Did you know that al-Insaniyyah , founded in 1925, was the first official Arabic communist newspaper?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy purchased a Russian missile for use as a target drone after the AQM-127 SLAT failed seven of eight test firings?
Did you know that Villanova coach Marty Stern initially thought that future Olympic runner Vicki Huber "was a wimp" who he hoped would "leave and go home"?
Did you know that a hacktivist known as The Jester claims to have taken down the website of the Taliban through a denial-of-service attack ?
Did you know that Matt Taibbi 's book Griftopia has been described as a "necessary ... corrective" to the assertion that bubbles are an inevitable part of the market economy ?
Did you know that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak condemned two letters written by Israeli rabbis that urged Jewish Israelis not to rent property to, date, or socialize with Arabs?
Did you know that the Knoxville L&N rail station had three waiting rooms: one for ladies, one for " colored " people, and a general waiting room?
Did you know that Louis Gilbert , who scored all 21 points in Michigan Stadium 's dedication game, was described as "the campus sheik" who "wears bear grease on his hair and dances a mean black bottom "?
Did you know that Tom Oran was the first Native American to play Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that Wallblake House is reported to be the oldest structure on the island of Anguilla , built in 1787?
Did you know that Flora and Maria were the first two of nine female Christian Martyrs of Córdoba ?
Did you know that the Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile was intended to be effective against both hardened ground targets and AWACS aircraft?
Did you know that Steve Hanley , who played for rugby union side Sale Sharks from 1998 to 2007, scored 75 tries in the English Premiership which remains a record?
Did you know that the inquiry into the murder of Joanna Yeates , dubbed "Operation Braid", has become one of the largest police investigations in Bristol , England ?
Did you know that Saint Bernadette of Lourdes entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers named for the seventh-century Saint Gildard , not the sixth-century Saint Gildard ?
Did you know that construction plans of the first Cape Capricorn Light , a lighthouse on Curtis Island, Queensland , failed to include a lamp room, so one had to be urgently constructed?