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Did you know that HMS Chatham was laid down at Flushing , in Holland , and launched at Woolwich in England ?
Did you know that the Treaty of Bonn ( 7 November 921 ) was signed on a ship in the middle of the Rhine , the border between kingdoms of the two signatories, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler ?
Did you know that Lat found the inspiration to draw cartoons about circumcision while on assignment as a reporter to investigate dead bodies in a morgue?
Did you know that the 2008 King of the Ring event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment featured Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama impersonators in a match?
Did you know that Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
Did you know that the Plebiscite Front became the principal opposition to the state government of Jammu and Kashmir in the 1960s before merging into the National Conference in 1975?
Did you know that actress Ellen Hillingsø is the goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ?
Did you know that the first five columns of Lectionary 283 , a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in Siena , are written in gold?
Did you know that, during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown, Ioannina , as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
Did you know that Glenn Beck introduced a "Black-Robed Regiment" of pastors from various denominations during his Restoring Honor rally in 2010, and launched a news website called The Blaze three days later?
Did you know that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
Did you know that, as a member of the Parliament of Norway , Ole Gausdal proposed total disarmament ?
Did you know that when Einar Li objected to military service in 1908, he was exempted from a prison sentence he had received in 1906 and 1907?
Did you know that, after receiving contact lenses in 2010, Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum reported, "I could see everything like in HD"?
Did you know that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood , West Yorkshire , comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
Did you know that Mississippi -born singer J.D. Short sang the blues after both his testicles were shot off?
Did you know that, in 2009, there were 1,224 reports of groom kidnapping in Bihar ?
Did you know that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas ?
Did you know that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth , South Yorkshire , were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
Did you know that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II , professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag ?
Did you know that, despite her party's policy of secularism , Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed had created an alliance with the Islamist Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish ?
Did you know that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship , head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
Did you know that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
Did you know that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols ' " God Save the Queen " at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
Did you know that Prince Nikolaus of Thurn and Taxis renounced his princely rights and title to marry actress Carola Reichenberger in 1913?
Did you know that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?
Did you know that the Milk Pail Restaurant , formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster ?
Did you know that Walter Pilliet was a popular Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa , where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
Did you know that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack! , have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
Did you know that, for protesting the Trial of the Four , Russian academic Grigory Pomerants was barred from defending his thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies ?
Did you know that, when completed, the Deriner Dam will be the tallest in Turkey ?
Did you know that Michael Puntervold , Magnus Nilssen , Arne Magnussen and Olav Kringen were the Norwegian delegates at the Labour and Socialist International founding congress in 1923?
Did you know that there are five different ways to earn the Scouter's Training Award ?
Did you know that the Aboriginal Memorial contains 200 coffins, but not a single dead person?
Did you know that the Taurus-Littrow valley , the landing site of Apollo 17 on the Moon , is deeper than the Grand Canyon ?
Did you know that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that Eugène Olaussen , a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin , shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles ' " Long and Winding Road "?
Did you know that Dutch illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mair published her first book Premières Rondes Enfantines in Paris, in 1904, at the age of fifteen?
Did you know that Star Wars Uncut is a fan film made up of 473 15-second clips, submitted by Internet users, that amount to a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ?
Did you know that, in 2009, the Haus des Meeres attracted a record-high number of visitors while attendance at other tourist attractions in Vienna abruptly dropped?
Did you know that after John Cullen 's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?
Did you know that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine , Bear , and Cardinal , and a coach of Billikens ?
Did you know that Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer won the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist at age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
Did you know that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
Did you know that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitza in 1789?
Did you know that Jackson Gillis , a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo , watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
Did you know that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting ?
Did you know that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo , Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal deposit in Norway?
Did you know that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco , the largest such shipment to that date?
Did you know that E. Normus Johnson is a fictional advertising mascot depicted in comic art on Big Johnson T-shirts that use double entendres ?
Did you know that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?
Did you know that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s ?
Did you know that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University ?
Did you know that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index -based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
Did you know that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham , as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding "?
Did you know that Kensington (Olympia) station lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy , the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London , who introduced the Chilean fuchsia , Fuchsia magellanica , to English gardens in 1788?
Did you know that the socialist -oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?
Did you know that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant , the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species ?
Did you know that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II , the line was usable once again by late 1945?
Did you know that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation 's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
Did you know that the Milford Oyster Festival , billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut , draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
Did you know that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
Did you know that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire ?
Did you know that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?
Did you know that Kai G. Henriksen , CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet , is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
Did you know that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions ) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park , Kent , in 1796?
Did you know that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe , Air Marshal Norman Walsh , resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
Did you know that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
Did you know that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore ?
Did you know that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
Did you know that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society "?
Did you know that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?
Did you know that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church , Stretham , is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire , the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
Did you know that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills ?
Did you know that the 11 provinces of Bắc Giang , Bắc Kạn , Cao Bang , Ha Giang , Lang Son , Lao Cai , Phu Tho , Quang Ninh , Thai Nguyen , Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam ?
Did you know that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
Did you know that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
Did you know that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States ?
Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868 , during the War of the Triple Alliance ?
Did you know that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil , such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
Did you know that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars , commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse , helped pacify the Marquesas Islands , conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
Did you know that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City 's Little Syria , the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex ?
Did you know that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland , which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
Did you know that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
Did you know that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?
Did you know that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland , and was noted for its harsh conditions?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley , North Yorkshire , contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries ?
Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Santa Catharina sank at her mooring in 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
Did you know that Michigan tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonauts and was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
Did you know that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
Did you know that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley 's The Water Babies ?
Did you know that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ?
Did you know that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$ 300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?
Did you know that the Manila Police District , with the motto " Manila 's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis ?
Did you know that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará -class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
Did you know that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson ?
Did you know that Palasë , on the Albanian Riviera , is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
Did you know that Sarcoscypha dudleyi was named after the botanist William Russell Dudley ?
Did you know that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club 's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
Did you know that Vuno , a village in the Albanian Riviera , was reported to have shown sympathy for the 1997 rebellion in Albania ?
Did you know that Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall , but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?
Did you know that Mickell Gladness once recorded 16 blocks which set the NCAA Division I men's basketball single game record?
Did you know that Southland Corp. v. Keating was described as "perhaps the most controversial case in the Supreme Court 's history of arbitration jurisprudence"?
Did you know that Ryan Boyle , who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
Did you know that the father of Oklahoman folk singer Woody Guthrie attended the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence in May 1911?
Did you know that Edward Kean coined the word " cowabunga " and tried to put a puppet President in the White House ?
Did you know that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire , including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House , was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
Did you know that the town of Tlayacapan , Morelos , Mexico , is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
Did you know that King of France Louis XIV (1638–1715) used toilet water for his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?
Did you know that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity , Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 ?
Did you know that the owners of MV Mariam intend to use it to cross the blockade of the Gaza Strip ?
Did you know that young specimens of the mushroom Coprinellus impatiens have a powdery stem that eventually sloughs off to leave a smooth surface?
Did you know that Dale Warren was a conservatory -trained violinist whose work as an arranger for Stax Records and others has been a fruitful source of breakbeats ?
Did you know that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners ?
Did you know that a British rider at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
Did you know that the Carnegie , a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
Did you know that in 1861, a local Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?
Did you know that lacrosse goaltender Trevor Tierney has won an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship , a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championship gold medal?
Did you know that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180 , making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
Did you know that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
Did you know that the number-one song " Abrázame Muy Fuerte " performed by Juan Gabriel was featured as the theme song of a telenovela of the same title ?
Did you know that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition ?
Did you know that the Metamora sank near Pointe au Baril in 1907 and that part of the wreck is still visible above the water?
Did you know that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park , which only held 4,000?
Did you know that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour ?
Did you know that Newton Hills State Park in South Dakota holds an annual pumpkin chunking competition?
Did you know that radio station KRMS in Osage Beach, Missouri , was once partly owned by then- U.S. Senator John Danforth ?
Did you know that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia ?
Did you know that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice , and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football "?
Did you know that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake ?
Did you know that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins , had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg "?
Did you know that two men, Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson , wrestled in evening gowns at the WWF 's 2000 King of the Ring event?
Did you know that Jurek Wilner , who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , left his notebook of poems with the Dominican nuns in Wilno , where he hid during the early part of Nazi occupation of Poland ?
Did you know that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria , which left 12 people dead?
Did you know that the garden of Caerhays Castle is home to the largest collection of magnolias in England?
Did you know that Major-General Humphrey Atherton 's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
Did you know that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy , collections of essays about theatre , have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
Did you know that Matt Striebel ranks eighth on the Princeton Lacrosse career assists list and eleventh on the Princeton soccer career assists list?
Did you know that the Brazilian river monitor Pará was so badly damaged after passing the Paraguayan fort at Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
Did you know that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race , Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
Did you know that Cornish Saint Endelienta , a hermit , is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?
Did you know that Emmanuel Rodríguez ' s boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico 's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee ?
Did you know that the first two chairmen of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City were Frederic Delano (uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt ) and Owen Roberts , U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice ?
Did you know that the gulls of Seymour Island breed on raised beaches unlike other Canadian Ivory Gull colonies?
Did you know that cartoonist Suzy Spafford , creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo , has been drawing since she was three years old?
Did you know that exploration for geothermal power in Indonesia dates back to the Kawah Kamojang test borings of 1926?
Did you know that in June 2010, a Ming -era tomb near Nanjing was identified as that of Hong Bao , one of the admirals of Zheng He 's fleet?
Did you know that Triple-A fill-in umpire Scott Barry ejected three Major League Baseball All-Stars within one week in August, 2010?
Did you know that Arab geographers described the Little Zab and the Great Zab as "demoniacally possessed"?
Did you know that B. J. Prager has scored overtime game-winning goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship lacrosse games?
Did you know that soon after the creation of the Heu-Aktion , the systematic kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany began?
Did you know that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge ?
Did you know that California cult wine producer Scarecrow is named for its founder's connection to The Wizard of Oz ?
Did you know that the term " the war to end war " was first used to describe World War I ?