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Did you know that the sticky bomb was designed by Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as " Winston Churchill 's Toyshop"?
Did you know that because Fred Perrett switched from rugby union to rugby league he was often left out of lists of Wales players who died in action during World War I ?
Did you know that the only significant Koreatown established by Koreans in Spain is in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria ?
Did you know that on July 8, 1942, pitcher Doyle Lade threw a no-hitter and won the game 1–0, with his solo home run providing the only run support for his team?
Did you know that Charles Taylor was the first of thirteen Welsh international rugby players to die in action during World War I ?
Did you know that Almoloya del Río , a Mexican small town with the population of 7,992, hosts an international biker rally every year?
Did you know that Hurricane Lisa of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season attained forward motion of over 58 mph (93 km/h ) on October 9?
Did you know that The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers has been in charge of publishing Finland 's ethical guidelines on engineering for over 40 years?
Did you know that the first submarine boat and self-propelled torpedo , and the engines for the ironclad warship USS Monitor were all built at the foundry operated by Cornelius DeLameter ?
Did you know that the Ropar Wetland , in addition to being home to several endangered and threatened species, was the site of the signing of an 1831 treaty between the English and the Sikhs ?
Did you know that Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere , Massachusetts features over 7 miles (11 km) of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?
Did you know that Grace Church is one of few remaining structures from the once-thriving town of Ca Ira, Virginia ?
Did you know that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists ?
Did you know that in 2007 the Kenyon Athletic Center was surrounded by Knox County residents to "form a shield of protection" in preparation for a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event?
Did you know that the Commission on Social Welfare , from 1983 to 1986, reviewed social welfare in Ireland ?
Did you know that former American Medical Association president Ronald Davis played a major role in the AMA's 2008 apology to black doctors for the organization's history of racial discrimination?
Did you know that at 440 meters (1,440 ft), Della Falls in British Columbia is the tallest waterfall in Canada and 16th-tallest in the world?
Did you know that Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone , based on stories about a traffic cone , that he made up for his children on long trips?
Did you know that Tarab Abdul Hadi co-founded the first Palestinian women's organization in 1929?
Did you know that arcing horns are projecting conductors used to protect insulators on high voltage transmission systems from damage during flashover ?
Did you know that the Stella Artois television advertisement Good Doctor won more awards than any other television campaign in 2002?
Did you know that relief pitcher Doug Nickle was assigned to seven different clubs over the course of his six-year major league baseball career?
Did you know that with his appointment to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American to hold a U.S. Cabinet Secretaryship ?
Did you know that Finnish -born filmmaker Antero Alli shot his 1995 science fiction feature The Drivetime on a budget of U$5,000?
Did you know that Canadian -born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?
Did you know that the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc , a gold ornament discovered at Cwmystwyth , is over 4,000 years old, making it the earliest gold artifact discovered in Wales ?
Did you know that quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi ?
Did you know that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company ?
Did you know that before becoming a full-time professional footballer at the age of 21, Mike Bickle worked as a milkman ?
Did you know that the Lebanese Navy SEALs undergo heavy military training, which spans three months and sometimes reaches 20 hours per day?
Did you know that U.S. President Benjamin Harrison appointed James R. Tanner Commissioner of the Pension Bureau in 1889, but had to remove him six months later because he vastly exceeded his office's budget?
Did you know that men from the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment were the first explorers to climb down the 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to reach the shore of Crater Lake ?
Did you know that Dream Cinema is the last remaining single-screen movie theater in Seoul , Korea ?
Did you know that athlete Al Hall won three Pan American Games gold medals in the hammer throw in three consecutive decades, with wins in 1959 , 1963 and 1971 ?
Did you know that the Australian band Spy vs Spy had to change its name to avoid legal action from the publishers of Mad magazine?
Did you know that of the over 4,000 U.S. chemical munitions found to be leaking chemical agents in 2002, more than 2,000 were Sarin -containing M55 rockets ?
Did you know that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology ?
Did you know that the first same-sex kiss on an American soap opera was between fictional characters Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery in 2003, who were also American soap opera's first lesbian couple?
Did you know that in 2005, Shannon Sohn became the first helicopter news reporter to win a national Emmy Award , which she won for her coverage of the crash of the helicopter of a rival TV station?
Did you know that among other methods, archaeoparasitologists study historical human parasites by looking for references to them in art and literature?
Did you know that the Ghost Town Trail in Western Pennsylvania utilizes 36 miles (58 km) of donated and abandoned railroad and features many abandoned mining ghost towns ?
Did you know that Tropical Depression One-C of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season caused minor flooding on the Island of Hawaii ?
Did you know that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch ?
Did you know that HMS Hinchinbrook was Horatio Nelson 's second navy command, and his first as post-captain ?
Did you know that editor Kenneth P. Johnson , who ran a story that led to the article subject's suicide as threatened, stated that "if a story is newsworthy and supported by the facts, it is our policy to publish"?
Did you know that Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love?
Did you know that Miguel Ramón Izquierdo was the last Francoist mayor of Valencia, Spain and secured the transfer of the Turia River gardens from the Spanish crown to local administration?
Did you know that in November 1864, Camp Nelson ′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
Did you know that actor David Morrissey gained 2 stone (28 lb ; 13 kg ) for his role as Gordon Brown in the 2003 film The Deal ?
Did you know that Ernest Peixotto ′s 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest was the first appearance of the ethnic slur " spic " in writing?
Did you know that American Joe Lutz became the first foreigner to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball when he was selected to manage the Hiroshima Carp in 1975?
Did you know that Henry Fitz was the first American to make refractor telescopes and constructed the largest refracting telescopes in America on five different occasions?
Did you know that BOHICA is an acronym that means "Bend Over, Here It Comes Again"?
Did you know that Ann Nixon Cooper , the subject of Barack Obama 's presidential acceptance speech , served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association?
Did you know that during the history of San Diego State University some students joined the armed forces during World War II and assisted in the Doolittle Raid over Japan ?
Did you know that Soviet defector Boris Bazhanov became the only assistant at Joseph Stalin 's secretariat to ever turn against the Soviet regime?
Did you know that Edi Gathegi fell into acting when he took up an undergraduate acting class as an "easy course" after sustaining a basketball injury?
Did you know that actor Nate Parker was an All-American wrestler in both high school and college?
Did you know that Ludvík Čelanský was the founder and the first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ?
Did you know that historian Richard C. Lukas estimated that upwards of one million Poles were involved in the rescue of Jews by Polish communities during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that ballerina Rosella Hightower received critical acclaim in 1947 after filling in for the sick Alicia Markova and learning the role of Giselle in five hours, having never danced the part before?
Did you know that the curfew law associated with the curfew bell started by Alfred the Great was abolished by Henry I of England ?
Did you know that David G. Booth gave US$300 million—the largest ever gift to a business school—to his alma mater, now renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business ?
Did you know that Henri Joseph Fenet , a soldier in World War II , was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France and the Knight's Cross by Germany ?
Did you know that the historic Charles Shorey House mixes both gambrel and gable roofs?
Did you know that Polish - Armenian Roman Catholic priest, Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski was ordered to be silent by the Krakow Curia because of his clergy lustration activities?
Did you know that Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch , an uncle of later Norwegian Prime Minister Kåre Willoch , was lost with his ship in 1940 during the Battles of Narvik ?
Did you know that in 2008, the biofuel company Mascoma received a US$26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a cellulosic fuel production facility?
Did you know that Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper ?
Did you know that one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama ?
Did you know that Nausicaä , the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and " The Princess Who Loved Insects ", a Japanese folk hero?
Did you know that when cellist George Sopkin auditioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 18, conductor Frederick Stock looked at him and remarked "so we're taking Boy Scouts now?"
Did you know that Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future ?
Did you knowthat B.P. Newman , a business entrepreneur from Laredo , began operations with a dairy distributorship but branched into restaurants , subdivisions , apartments , and ranches throughout much of Texas ?
Did you know that the Connecticut River Museum is located in a restored 1878 steamboat warehouse?
Did you know that, though there is no evidence for it, Louis Rocca is  credited with having coined the name Manchester United ?
Did you know that a digital time capsule " A Message From Earth " was transmitted to the planet Gliese 581c and included a message by actress Gillian Anderson consisting of images of George W. Bush and Barack Obama ?
Did you know that ballet impresario George de Cuevas faced Serge Lifar in a 1958 duel with swords, that was described as "the most delicate encounter in the history of French dueling"?
Did you know that Jheryl Busby , once President and CEO of Motown Records , was a major shareholder of the first African-American-owned national bank in the U.S. along with Janet Jackson and Magic Johnson ?
Did you know that Pacific University 's first building at its Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon , attained LEED gold status in 2007?
Did you know that in 784, due to wars and famine in the capital Chang'an region, Emperor Dezong of Tang sent the official Liu Zi to Nanchang to conduct imperial examinations for examinees from southern China ?
Did you know that India 's Harike Wetland has a concentration of migratory waterfowl with a number of globally threatened species ?
Did you know that Harrison Gray Dyar erected the first telegraph line and dispatched over it the first message ever sent, making him the real inventor of the telegraph?
Did you know that the works of Azerbaijan -born artist Semyon Bilmes have been featured in Reader's Digest , The New York Times and in advertisements for AT&T and Citibank ?
Did you know that Clarence W. Spangenberger was the last president of Cornell Steamboat Company, whose more than sixty vessels once made it the largest tugboat company in the United States ?
Did you know that Qualifying Industrial Zones are special free-trade zones in Jordan and Egypt created to take advantage of the free trade agreements between the United States and Israel ?
Did you know that Zeituni Onyango is the half-aunt of President-elect Barack Obama and a political asylum claimant from Kenya whose case was disclosed in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential election ?
Did you know that at Royal Rumble (1993) , the winner was guaranteed a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania , which subsequently became an annual tradition?
Did you know that during one trial of the Mexican Inquisition , 123 men were accused of homosexuality but 99 managed to escape before the proceedings?
Did you know that Mark Canton , producer of 300 and The Spiderwick Chronicles , started his movie career working in the mail room of Warner Bros. ?
Did you know that The ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky was the most widely read political work in Soviet Russia ?
Did you know that the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman, Kentucky took ten years and US$10,000 to build?
Did you know that Tzvia Greenfeld is the first Haredi woman to serve as a member of the Knesset ?
Did you know that Lexington, North Carolina 's urban revitalization efforts include the Pigs in the City public art initiative?
Did you know that Bill Stall of the Los Angeles Times won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of editorials the Pulitzer board said "served as a model for addressing complex state issues"?
Did you know that attorney P. Cameron DeVore died of an apparent heart attack , but jested in a self-written obituary that he had succumbed to "a surfeit of pâté de foie gras ice cream smothered in huckleberries "?
Did you know that the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?
Did you know that in 1919, Poland tried to overthrow the Lithuanian government , but the Sejny Uprising resulted in the plan's failure?
Did you know that pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism ?
Did you know that most of the information available about English novelist Phebe Gibbes is derived from an application to the Royal Literary Fund for financial support in 1804?
Did you know that the Michigan Tech Huskies , from Michigan 's Upper Peninsula , have won three NCAA Division I championships in ice hockey , with players such as Tony Esposito ?
Did you know that in 1966, Vin Denson became the first British rider to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia ?
Did you know that William Jay Bolton was the first artist in the United States to design and manufacture figural stained glass windows?
Did you knowthat before becoming a general in the American Civil War , Robert Alexander Cameron worked as a newspaper publisher?
Did you know that SM U-5 , ceded to Italy in 1920 as war reparations , was the only member of the U-5 -class submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to survive World War I ?
Did you know that Manny Harris was the first player to start for three consecutive Detroit Public School League Basketball Champions since Jalen Rose and Voshon Lenard ?
Did you know that bilateral trade between India and Poland has grown by more than seven times from 1992 to 2007?
Did you know that William Louis Abbott , American doctor and philanthropist , went to Madagascar to enlist in the native army against the second French occupation of the island ?
Did you know that an initial € 1 million was allocated for the new political foundations at European level in 2007–08?
Did you know that the historic ranger's residence in the Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District , no longer needed by park rangers , is now used mainly by recreational visitors?
Did you know that the subprime mortgage crisis , among several other factors, led to a negative demand shock in the U.S. economy , which causes demand for goods and services to decrease?
Did you know that Terence Tolbert , Nevada state director for Barack Obama 's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election ?
Did you know that after serving in the Norwegian Parliament for four terms, Ingvald Godal involved himself in solidarity work for Chechnya ?
Did you know that the Urakami class destroyer Kawakaze of the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in Scotland , sold to the Regia Marina of Italy and sunk as a ship of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield , Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates ?
Did you know that SM U-10 and SM U-11 , which were U-10 -class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I ?
Did you know that Thomas Paton worked on the construction of the Owen Falls Dam which was responsible for the first complete stoppage of the White Nile in history?
Did you know that Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
Did you know that the " Valley of Tears " in the Golan Heights was so named after it became the site of a major battle in the Yom Kippur War ?
Did you know that Japanese admiral Mitsumi Shimizu authorized the midget submarine operation during the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that General James Deshler was killed instantly by a Union cannon's artillery shell at the Battle of Chickamauga ?
Did you know that William Munroe was the first manufacturer of pencils in the United States ?
Did you know that Subtropical Storm One in 1978 is the only Atlantic subtropical cyclone to develop in the month of January?
Did you know that David Jeaffreson served as Commissioner of ICAC before retiring from the Hong Kong government in 1991?
Did you know that the restoration of the Tithe Barn, Pilton in Somerset , England was supported by profits from the Glastonbury Festival ?
Did you know that Zaki Tun Azmi became the Chief Justice of Malaysia after serving just over one year in the superior courts of Malaysia ?
Did you know that director Peter Ustinov instructed Richard Burton not to blink during his performance as the sociopath in the 1972 film Hammersmith is Out ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Li Mian kept places at feasts for two deceased subordinates for three years after their deaths, offering meals and wine to their spirits?
Did you know that Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that Ylon Schwartz , main event finalist at the 2008 World Series of Poker , has gambled on backgammon , darts , horses , and his ability to toss lemons across a street onto the roof of a Burger King ?
Did you know that veteran Tour de France commentator Daniel Mangeas has been called a "talking encyclopedia of cycling " because he never needs notes?
Did you know that the steamboats Enterprise and Maria once had a monopoly on transport along the Fraser River in British Columbia ?
Did you know that al-Karmil , an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization "?
Did you know that Joseph C. Hare , American politician and lumberman, has a railroad station, railroad stop, and valley all named after him?
Did you know that Meare Pool was an important source of fish for Glastonbury Abbey before being drained between 1500 and 1750?
Did you know that Policeman Bluejay , a children's novel by L. Frank Baum of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fame, was first published in 1907 under the pen name "Laura Bancroft"?
Did you know that Schloss Vollrads claims to be the oldest winery of Germany ?
Did you know that the Mediterranean land snail species Papillifera bidens lived in England for over 100 years before being discovered?
Did you know that Franz Burgmeier became the first Liechtensteiner to play football in England after being signed on the advice of a club chairman's twelve-year-old grandson?
Did you know that when Australian cricketer Jack Massie fought at Gallipoli , he wore a scarlet rag on his right arm to distract snipers from his bowling arm?
Did you know that William Shockley , co-inventor of the transistor ,  also helped calculate the solar cell 's Shockley-Queisser limit ?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Charles Austen ′s family included Admiral of the Fleet Francis Austen , and the novelist Jane Austen ?
Did you know that Ford Road in Dearborn, Michigan , was named for William Ford , father of Henry ?
Did you know that Zhang Yanshang , his father , son, and father-in-law were all Tang Dynasty Chinese chancellors ?
Did you know that Kentucky 's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
Did you know that the meaning of " Der Pleier ", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel , is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing ?
Did you know that Milan Bandić was elected in 2005 as the mayor of Zagreb , Croatia , with the support of only a seventh of eligible voters?
Did you know that country music singer Jeremy McComb was once a tour manager for comedian Larry the Cable Guy ?
Did you know that Amasa Holcomb was the first in the United States to manufacture telescopes ?
Did you know that Nemattanew , a renegade Powhatan captain dubbed "Jack-of-the-Feather" in 1611 for his extravagant regalia , believed he was invincible to English bullets?
Did you know that the Fodder Scam involved the alleged embezzlement of about Rs . 950 crore (US$ 199 million) from the treasury of the Indian state of Bihar ?
Did you know that the silhouette artist S. John Ross had a 60-year association with the Sydney Royal Easter Show , and created portraits of Vivian Leigh and Nicole Kidman ?
Did you know that broadcaster Tony Dean was eulogized by a South Dakota Senator for striking a balance in "his advocacy on behalf of conservation and sportsmen alike"?
Did you know that Ingres painted Jupiter and Thetis to fulfill his obligations to the French Academy in Rome , a body famous for the patriarchal attitude that the work seeks to repudiate?
Did you know that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune , started in 1815 as a blacksmith 's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery , turbines and locomotives ?
Did you know that Jacob Earl Fickel is credited with firing the first gunshots from an airplane?
Did you know that India 's Kanjli Wetland , a manmade wetland created in 1870, has been recognised by the Ramsar Convention for its rich biodiversity ?
Did you know that the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake was the most powerful earthquake in New Zealand ?