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Did you know that when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union , Cordtz fired him for insubordination ?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson 's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger ?
Did you know that a Western Hartebeest can run at speeds of up to 80 km/h (50 mph ), making it one of the fastest antelopes ?
Did you know that the Russian frigate Oryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red Russian flag ?
Did you know that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures ?
Did you know that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue , and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot ?
Did you know that the 30 Rock episode " Secrets and Lies " was performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to show support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ?
Did you know that when the Common Tunnel opened in 1928 it made the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia ?
Did you know that the 1998 film Goodbye, 20th Century! features a sequence where a man dressed like Santa Claus attends a wake that turns violent to the sound of Sid Vicious singing " My Way "?
Did you know that in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India ?
Did you know that Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil , despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
Did you know that mountaineer Ger McDonnell , the first Irish person to summit K2 , brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003 ?
Did you know that the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai ?
Did you know that Šalata is the first neighborhood in Croatia to use digital homes ?
Did you know that Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife traveled around Europe lecturing on American classical music ?
Did you know that in 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps traveled overland the full length of Russia to deliver reports from the La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris ?
Did you know that Holyhead High School , located on the Welsh island of Anglesey , was the first British comprehensive school ?
Did you know that an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?
Did you know that Rogers Orchards in Southington, Connecticut has been owned and run by seven generations of the same family since 1807?
Did you know that Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing " Jack in the Box " at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest ?
Did you know that Roger Connor , whose brother Joe Connor was also a baseball player, was the first to hit an over-the-wall home run at Polo Grounds ?
Did you know that David Pendleton Oakerhater , a Cheyenne warrior who fought at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls , was declared a saint of the Episcopal Church in 1985?
Did you know that, on the day he broke Mark Spitz ' 10-year world record in the 100 meters butterfly , Joe Bottom overslept and missed his pre-race warmup swim?
Did you know that in building Arthur De Wint Foote ' s Foote's Crossing Road , Italian stonemasons constructed high embankment walls above the Middle Yuba River ?
Did you know that the colonels' group dominated the Polish government for most of the history of the Second Polish Republic ?
Did you know that during his days as a community organizer in Chicago , Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation ?
Did you know that the Paul MacCready -designed Solar Challenger was the first solar-powered aircraft capable of sustained, high-altitude flight?
Did you know that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos ?
Did you know that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts ?
Did you know that Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes , an early Elizabethan stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare 's plays?
Did you know that Vasili Blokhin , chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD , led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin 's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
Did you know that the Jolimont Workshops , part of Jolimont Yard , were built for Melbourne 's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917?
Did you know that as a publicity stunt , Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the United States ?
Did you know that the namesake family of Fuller's London Pride ale , live in Neston Park , an English country house in Wiltshire ?
Did you know that proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$ 3 billion increase in tax on alcopops ?
Did you know that the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine "?
Did you know that British Columbia 's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
Did you know that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics , Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?
Did you know that the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason , a Patriot turned British Loyalist , and George Washington ?
Did you know that West Indies Power is a company developing geothermal power in Nevis , Saba and Dominica ?
Did you know after being headmaster of St. Bees School , George Mallaby joined the army , rose to Colonel , became High Commissioner to New Zealand , and was knighted ?
Did you know that international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík , Iceland , from a peaceful demonstration ?
Did you know that in 2007 , the John Edwards 's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras ?
Did you know that the American football team the Cardinals has had 36 head coaches ?
Did you know that due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?
Did you know that parts of the veiled stinkhorn Phallus indusiatus have been consumed by lifeforms as diverse as bees , flies , Chinese diplomats and Henry Kissinger ?
Did you know that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae ?
Did you know that Pedro Pizarro , a Spanish chronicler and conquistador , took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
Did you know that according to Pliny the Elder , Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works?
Did you know that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five , a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing , was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass ?
Did you know that the Bardwell-Ferrant House in Minneapolis, Minnesota , was built in 1883 as a Queen Anne style house and then given onion-domed towers in an 1890 Moorish Revival makeover?
Did you know that taxis in Brunei have license plates with white letters on a green background to distinguish them from private vehicles?
Did you know that the FC Büsingen , a German football club formed in 1924, had a nut tree in its playing field penalty area until 1927, when it was cut down?
Did you know that law professor and anti-tobacco activist John F. Banzhaf III started his career as an electrical engineer ?
Did you know that the Ryazan miracle in 1959 was an apparent tripling of agricultural production in the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the Barcol hardness test was developed during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Corps to check that airplane rivets had not been sabotaged?
Did you know that the Manila Grand Opera House also served as a theater , residence , cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel ?
Did you know that Union Army officials offered US$ 5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas ?
Did you know that delay certificates issued by railway companies in Japan and Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
Did you know that when the namesake of Yardley, Pennsylvania , William Yardley , moved from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, he took with him 40 pounds (18 kilograms ) of shoes?
Did you know that Marilyn Roman was the first female Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey ?
Did you know that the Melaka Zoo is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia ?
Did you know that the sudden collapse of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history ?
Did you know that young people are more literate in Hakha Chin than their elder counterparts?
Did you know that in 1922, the Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder ?
Did you know that the Least Killifish is the smallest fish found in North America ?
Did you know that Steve Brye , in his first and only season as a starting outfielder in Major League Baseball , led the Minnesota Twins in doubles ?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing " he ever heard of?
Did you know that Puerto Rican journalist Héctor Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II ?
Did you know that after two previous buildings burned down , the Town of Southeast, New York , built its 1896 town hall of less flammable material?
Did you know that female Redtail Splitfin nourish their unborn young through organs known as  trophotaeniae that function similar to umbilical cords in mammals ?
Did you know that Ireland 's reality show Fáilte Towers takes its name from the BBC sitcom , Fawlty Towers ?
Did you know that there are over 2500 miles of interstate and U.S. highways in Washington ?
Did you know that Mal Cochrane is the hooker in the New South Wales Rugby League 's " Indigenous Team of the Century"?
Did you know that during the Great Depression , the New Order of Cincinnatus , accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council ?
Did you know that the Saffron Parasol is actually a small orange mushroom found throughout temperate regions of Europe and North America ?
Did you know that the New Orleans -based family of master plasterer Earl Barthé has specialized in historical and decorative plasterwork since 1850?
Did you know that The Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter , sheltered suffragettes released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act , sometimes helping them to flee abroad?
Did you know that the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie , did so in Oklahoma ?
Did you know that the scientific name of Longnose trevally ( Carangoides chrysophrys ) means "golden eyebrow"?
Did you know that an episode of 30 Rock , " Jack the Writer " , contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series?
Did you know that the boiler was the only part of the British steam locomotive 60163 Tornado that could not be made in Britain, and was instead built by the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works in Germany?
Did you know that Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon ?
Did you know that Kay Chorao ' s Cathedral Mouse was considered one of 1988's best picture books by the New York Times ?
Did you know that unlike Jesus , the Avignon popes did not object to the close proximity of religious centers and the Avignon Exchange ?
Did you know that the "Howell Code", the legal code enacted by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature , was named after Judge William T. Howell ?
Did you know that the cartoon depiction of British model Christabel Leighton-Porter was said to have inspired the British 36th (Ulster) Division to advance six miles into Normandy in 1944?
Did you know that the Silver Marten rabbit likes playthings to toss around its cage ?
Did you know that the British ship of the line HMS Colchester , launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
Did you know that Jan de Baen was a popular portrait painter during the Dutch Golden Age ?
Did you know that eighteen years ago, medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?
Did you know that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton , he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon ?
Did you know that the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912?
Did you know that on May 29 , 1913 , Johnny Beall was traded to the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers , only to return to his original major league team a month later?
Did you know that the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvínov pipeline does not start in Ingolstadt and does not run to Kralupy and Litvínov ?
Did you know that the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II ?
Did you know that the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia , Peru , and Venezuela ?
Did you know that the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York ?
Did you know that enemies of Viking chieftain Tryggve the Pretender claimed he was the bastard son of a priest ?
Did you know that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts , concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa , brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania ?
Did you know that Pisanosaurus , from 228 to 216.5 million years ago, is the oldest known ornithischian dinosaur ?
Did you know that after the First National Bank of Brewster , New York , closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?
Did you know that only one of the cardinal electors in the papal conclave, 1304–1305 , which elected Pope Clement V , who began the Avignon Papacy , was French ?
Did you know that chemosynthesis , the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight , was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh ?
Did you know that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson 's greatest poem?
Did you know that in 1899 , Bill Lange , a popular Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
Did you know that the protracted papal conclave, 1314–1316 , the first of the Avignon Papacy , was mediated by three incumbent and future French monarchs in succession?
Did you know that Union general John A. Logan seized a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina in 1865?
Did you know that the name of Kazabazua in Quebec comes from the Algonquin word kachibadjiwan , meaning "underground river", and refers to the Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
Did you know that ancient herds of White Park , a rare breed of horned cattle , have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages ?
Did you know that blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano ?
Did you know that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America ?
Did you know that hula master George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii ?
Did you know that Central African general Jean-Bédel Bokassa claimed that he seized his country's power to prevent Jean Izamo from doing the same?
Did you know that Akersbanerne was founded in 1917 to build suburban tramways between Kristiania and Aker , Norway ?
Did you know that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state ?
Did you know that Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia ?
Did you know that on July 11 , 2008 , the Kayelekera mine in Karonga , Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining ?
Did you know that John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States ?
Did you know that John Dorewood was Speaker of the House of Commons for the first parliaments of both Henry IV and Henry V of England ?
Did you know that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed, stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?
Did you know that the historic Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina was periodically violated causing destruction to all of the headstones and some of the bodies ?
Did you know that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando ?
Did you know that Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is considered a precursor of conceptual art for his quipus , reinterpretations of an ancient Andean device?
Did you know that over 96% voted in a referendum in Latvia for a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to initiate a referendum to dissolve parliament ?
Did you know that Larry Gowell ′s baseball in the Baseball Hall of Fame was his first and only major league hit ?
Did you know that the developers of the video game Chocolatier took the guided tour of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker 's factory to see how chocolate is made?
Did you know that The Johnson Gang are believed to have committed the largest ever domestic burglary in the United Kingdom worth tens of millions of pounds?
Did you know that Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly ?
Did you know that Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt ?
Did you know that Clyde Barnhart was second on his team with 114 runs batted in for the 1925 World Series winner Pittsburgh Pirates ?
Did you know that Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos , and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt ?
Did you know that SS El Sol was the first of four sister ships launched by Newport News Shipbuilding for the steamship line of the Southern Pacific Company ?
Did you know that Côte d'Ivoire once quasi-monopolised the world market on fresh pineapples ?
Did you know that the Minnesota Twins franchise has had four managers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19 , 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999?
Did you know that the Berlin Circle in New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
Did you know that Northern Irish housewife Sarah Conlon ' s campaign to clear the names of her wrongfully-convicted husband and son led to an apology from then British Prime Minister Tony Blair ?
Did you know that the New York City Fire Department lost 12 firefighters in the 23rd Street Fire in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on September 11, 2001 ?
Did you know  that Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana , a town was to be named after Varina Davis , the first lady of the Confederate States of America ?
Did you know that Bad Blood (2003) , a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, was offered free of charge to members of the U.S. military returning from the Iraq war ?
Did you know that " Fight Fiercely, Harvard " is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician ?
Did you know that Reed Memorial Library is the oldest library building in Putnam County, New York ?
Did you know that the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant will be the first Russian nuclear power plant with foreign shareholding ?
Did you know that 36 tropical and subtropical cyclones have formed outside the normal boundaries of an Atlantic hurricane season ?
Did you know that Archie McCardell , the business executive who led both Xerox and International Harvester , later owned and subdivided the farm which gave Pepperidge Farm its name?
Did you know that it took over 50 years to complete the foundation of Jesus College, Oxford , as one Principal lost the draft statutes and the next one kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?
Did you know that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO 's Entourage ?
Did you know that the Brühl , a single street in Leipzig , accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?
Did you know that the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke , Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia 's Independence Hall ?
Did you know that the Endicott Pear Tree , located in Danvers , Massachusetts , is thought to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America ?
Did you know that the funerary art on the gravestones at Gilead Cemetery in Carmel, New York , illustrates changes in Protestant views of the role of death in the later 18th century?
Did you know that the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ?
Did you know that Max von Stephanitz , creator of the German Shepherd dog breed, also founded the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde ?
Did you know that the Norfolk Biffin apple appears in the works of Charles Dickens and was sent from Norfolk to London for Sir Robert Walpole ?
Did you know that in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?
Did you know that the SC Jülich 1910 , record winner of the now defunct German amateur football championship , was the feature of a German television documentary ?
Did you know that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California ?
Did you know that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar ?
Did you know that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home ?
Did you know that the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts the height of buildings in Washington D.C. to 20 ft (6 m ) taller than the width of the street they face?
Did you know that the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul , Turkey ?
Did you know that although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln , New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour , as its governor?
Did you know that Huta Stepanska , one of the largest Polish defense centers during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia , was abandoned due to lack of ammunition?
Did you know that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army ?
Did you know that in 1923 , University of Nebraska running back Dave Noble scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium ?
Did you know that the "Red Tower" of the Hackensack Water Company Complex completed in 1883 in Weehawken, New Jersey , combined offices and a 165,000-gallon water tank in a single 175-foot-high structure?
Did you know that the Roanoke City Market in Downtown Roanoke is the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the Commonwealth of Virginia ?
Did you know that Kenny Chesney 's 2008 single " Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven " was initially recorded by George Strait , who had planned to include it on his 2008 album Troubadour ?
Did you know that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens , Brooklyn -bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing ?