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Did you know that Swan's Landing on the Ohio River in southern Indiana is one of the most important Late Archaic archaeological sites in North America?
Did you know that Khor Virap monastery, where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years by King Tiridates III , is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Armenia ?
Did you know that, in 2010, Major General Colin Boag served as Chief of Staff to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that the video for Queen 's song " Bicycle Race " featured several dozen nude women racing at Wimbledon Stadium ?
Did you know that the Samedi division of the Royal Court, one of the Courts of Jersey , sits on a Friday, rather than a Saturday as the name suggests?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1988 film I... Dreaming features Stephen Foster song lyrics scratched directly onto the film emulsion?
Did you know that the fruits of Ficus yoponensis are one of the preferred foods of the Mantled Howler Monkey and contain more vitamin C than any other possible foods?
Did you know that Time magazine described the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood , Los Angeles , as "an old rock 'n' roll hotel", due to its association with rock stars?
Did you know that Benjamin Burns played in the first-ever international rugby union match, between England and Scotland in 1871?
Did you know that in 1960, the founders of a Cafe church wondered, " Would Jesus want to hang out with folks at a traditional institutional church? Or would he want to hang out over a beer in a bar, or coffee in a restaurant?"
Did you know that the Pueblo Lands Act (1924) was passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court 's reversal of its position on whether the Nonintercourse Act applies to New Mexico ?
Did you know that Zoni Weisz , a Dutch Sinto survivor of the Porajmos , has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's largest flower arrangement ?
Did you know that, between 1970 and 2006, 306 fatalities occurred in the Western Australian mining industry ?
Did you know that Al-Wasat Party , officially established in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution , is the first legal party in Egypt with an Islamic background?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's 1981 film The Garden of Earthly Delights was created by pasting montane zone vegetation directly onto strips of clear film leader ?
Did you know that the ruins of St Andrew's Church, Covehithe in Suffolk are threatened by coastal erosion ?
Did you know that racing driver Glen Kidston was the only survivor of the crash of a Luft Hansa Junkers G 31 in 1929?
Did you know that before Amanda Staveley reportedly turned down a marriage proposal from Prince Andrew , she was a model and Cambridge student, and later became a self-made multi-millionaire?
Did you know that during the Siege of Güns , Captain Nikola Jurišić and his garrison of 800 Croats held out against 19 full-scale assaults and incessant bombardment by the Ottomans ?
Did you know that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the Harriman Erie Railroad station after the cops shot his leg?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hostile had to be scuttled on 23 August 1940 by her sister ship , HMS Hero , after striking a mine off Cap Bon which broke her back?
Did you know that in the roof of the chapel of St Michael's Church, Berechurch , Essex , are carvings of the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon ?
Did you know that German-born U.S. soldier John Schnitzer received the Medal of Honor along with First Lieutenant Wilber Wilder for rescuing a wounded comrade during battle with the Apache Indians in 1882?
Did you know that the eucalyptus El Grande , Australia 's largest tree, was accidentally killed by forest officials?
Did you know that German conductor Fritz Lehmann left a recording of Bach 's Christmas Oratorio unfinished when he died during a concert of the St Matthew Passion ?
Did you know that actor Richard Armitage was subjected to waterboarding while filming Spooks episode " The Tip-Off "?
Did you know that the Schoenau ultimatum contributed to the ability of the Egyptian and Syrian alliance to successfully launch a surprise attack against Israel during the Yom Kippur War ?
Did you know that there is no direct discussion in the New Testament of the dual nature of the Person of Christ as being both divine and human?
Did you know that the Argentine " San Lorenzo march " was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II , then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city ?
Did you know that Cholesbury Camp , an Iron Age hill fort in Buckinghamshire , England , was once thought to have been built by Danes ?
Did you know that physical chemist Sir Eric Keightly Rideal was depicted in the novels The Search and Strangers and Brothers written by his former student, C. P. Snow ?
Did you know that the PERISCOP made it possible to retrieve live fish from over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) deep, despite the extreme pressure at that depth?
Did you know that 19-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Albert Sale received the award for killing an Apache warrior in hand-to-hand combat and taking his war pony?
Did you know that St Gallgo's Church, Llanallgo , Wales , was used as a temporary mortuary following the 1859 wreck of the Royal Charter , which claimed over 400 lives?
Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Sentayehu Ejigu won medals at World , African and Continental -level competitions in 2010?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Grenade tied up to the French destroyer Bison on 3 May 1940 to rescue 36 survivors after the latter's forward magazine was bombed by a Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber and exploded?
Did you know that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium ?
Did you know that Frederick Merriman was the first Chairman of Committees in New Zealand ?
Did you know that among the WWI dead commemorated at the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge was one enemy soldier, the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Békássy ?
Did you know that the adventure based holiday centre at Caythorpe Court , Lincolnshire , was originally a hunting lodge , and has also been a military hospital and agricultural college?
Did you know that Nepal Transport Service , founded in 1959, was the first Nepalese public bus line?
Did you know that French actor Sebastian Roché replaced German actor Thomas Kretschmann in the Fringe episode " Momentum Deferred ", as Kretschmann was unable to be a recurring character?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius C. Smith later led U.S. troops during the Philippine Insurrection ?
Did you know that Sir Richard Herbert was the illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke , and Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt?
Did you know that the 1641 edition Selva morale e spirituale by Claudio Monteverdi is considered his "most significant anthology of liturgical works since the Vespers in 1610 "?
Did you know that Charles Lapworth worked closely with both Eugene V. Debs and Charlie Chaplin ?
Did you know that the 1980 Ispaster attack was the Basque separatist group ETA 's deadliest of 1980, the year in which they killed more people than any other?
Did you know that Reed Hadley starred in two 1950s CBS drama television series , including The Public Defender in the role of an attorney for the indigent?
Did you know that the Love Tester , created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components?
Did you know that pottery boat models found at Tell Mashnaqa , northeastern Syria , suggest that people of the Khabur region had already made use of boats for transport and fishing by c. 5000 BC, if not before?
Did you know that Philadelphia organist Leonard MacClain debuted an instrument called the “Photona" on CBS Radio in 1935?
Did you know that automotive manufacturing is a significant industry in Russia , directly employing around 600,000 people and supporting 2–3 million people in related industries?
Did you know that it was reported that Australian cricketer Michael Swart was called up to represent the Netherlands at the 2011 Cricket World Cup , but he didn't make the final team?
Did you know that the legal basis for the largest casino in the world derives in part from a violation of the U.S. federal Nonintercourse Act (1790) and a state statute lobbied for by Mothers Against Drunk Driving ?
Did you know that devotions to the Holy Name of Jesus exist both in Eastern and Western Christianity ?
Did you know that until Sony introduced a competitor in 1968, every color television in the world used RCA 's shadow mask tube design?
Did you know that Edward L. Kessel assembled the world's most comprehensive collection of Platypezidae flat-footed flies?
Did you know that the 14th-century Church of St Mary in Barton Bendish , Norfolk , contains a 12th-century doorway moved from a nearby church when that was demolished?
Did you know that commanding prices up to $400,000, pre– World War II versions of the Martin D-45 guitar (first made for Gene Autry ) are the most expensive production-model guitars in the United States?
Did you know that the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ramad , located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Damascus in Syria , is considered one of the few sites fundamental to our understanding of the origin of agriculture ?
Did you know that Sean Hughes MP got Scottish MPs to give him their free tickets to the 1986 English FA Cup Final so his constituents could watch the Everton – Liverpool Merseyside derby ?
Did you know that the three mine policy , in place from 1984 to 1996, restricted the number of active uranium mines in Australia to three?
Did you know that St Dona's Church, Llanddona , Wales, was rebuilt in 1873 with the rector at the time acting as the architect?
Did you know that many readers credited Deborah Tannen 's bestselling 1990 book on language and gender , You Just Don't Understand , with helping to save their marriages?
Did you know that in 1918, terrorists opened fire on Lenin 's car after he gave a speech at Saint Petersburg 's Mikhailovsky Manege , but Lenin escaped unscathed?
Did you know that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit , an ancient city-state in northwest Syria , by Hittite king Mursili II , who had forced his brother, Arhalba, to abdicate?
Did you know that Major League Baseball 's Baltimore Orioles have never selected a player at first base in the first round of the MLB Draft ?
Did you know that with over 40,000 citations in scientific literature, Polish-American polymer chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most cited chemists in the world?
Did you know that a steam-powered cannon , the Architonnerre , was described by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but he attributed it to Archimedes of the 3rd century BC?
Did you know that the westbound lanes of Interstate 470 in Missouri were closed for a month due to a landslide which caused the roadway to collapse?
Did you know that Jarvis Hall , a former chapel in Steyning , West Sussex , has housed a bottling plant, a gym, a dance school, and four Nonconformist congregations—including Methodists who moved out and built a larger church nearby?
Did you know that actor Kirk Acevedo suggested his real-life wife play his character 's spouse in the Fringe episode " Unleashed "?
Did you know that Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan is the largest single natural source of walnuts on Earth?
Did you know that the Belitung shipwreck was an Arabian dhow which was sewn together, and held the " Tang treasure", including the largest gold Tang cup ever found?
Did you know that the two largest Gettysburg Battlefield monuments " Pennsylvania State Memorial " and " Eternal Light Peace Memorial " were dedicated, respectively, on the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg , at battlefield reunion encampments ?
Did you know that the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust , a charity founded in 1996, looks after redundant Church of Scotland churches and currently has five buildings under its care?
Did you know that Gerhard Taschner recorded the Violin Concerto dedicated to him by Wolfgang Fortner , with both Wilhelm Furtwängler and Hans Rosbaud ?
Did you know that Nels Nelsen , at the time holder of the world's longest ski jump set at Big Hill , was not allowed to participate in the 1928 Winter Olympics because officials thought it inappropriate for an athlete to work for his fare on a freighter?
Did you know that in 1984, while Queen 's song " I Want to Break Free " charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US?
Did you know that the beach at Kiryat Sanz in Netanya was the first in Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women?
Did you know that in order to save David Nowakowsky 's music from destruction by the Nazis , thousands of pages of his work were buried under a dung heap at a farm in France ?
Did you know that Rosie's Diner , featured in the Bounty paper towel commercials in the U.S., was sawed in half and moved from Little Ferry, New Jersey , to Rockford, Michigan , in 1990?
Did you know that the magnetochemistry of gadolinium compounds makes them the most suitable contrast agents for MRI scans ?
Did you know that Howard Arman conducted Handel's opera Tolomeo in 1996 for the Handel Festival in Halle , where the composer was born on 23 February 1685?
Did you know that a dachshund named Lump once ate a work by Pablo Picasso ?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Nikephoros Melissenos proclaimed himself emperor, but submitted to his brother-in-law, Alexios I Komnenos , in exchange for the title of Caesar ?
Did you know that the Glee episode " Comeback " was originally rumored to be a Justin Bieber tribute, but his music only served as "a small plot point"?
Did you know that Lauritz Weidemann served as a county governor in Norway for almost 35 years?
Did you know that the LoDaisKa Site in Colorado was occupied for 7,500 years, starting in the Paleo-Indian period ?
Did you know that Dutch American biochemist Donald Van Slyke discovered the amino acid hydroxylysine , and was the first recipient of the American Medical Association 's Scientific Achievement Award ?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Greyhound initiated the night phase of the Battle of Cape Matapan on 28/29 March 1941 when her searchlight illuminated an Italian cruiser ?
Did you know that GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind 's victory at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year beat odds of 60–1?
Did you know that works by German artist Georg Muche were confiscated by the Nazis and displayed in their 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition?
Did you know that St. Louis, Missouri , has the most slave freedom suits available to researchers in the United States , and 301 cases are searchable online ?
Did you know that Thomas W. Stivers was issued the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn , but he was murdered in a business dispute before he could receive his medal?
Did you know that although it can be difficult to define, some signs of surface bargaining include reneging on agreements already reached during collective bargaining or raising new issues late in negotiations?
Did you know that according to Victor Gardthausen , Codex Sinaiticus is younger than Codex Vaticanus by at least 50 years?
Did you know that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian , Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants?
Did you know that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay , painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County ?
Did you know that the location of BHP Billiton 's Yeelirrie uranium project is referred to by the local Aborigines as a "place of death"?
Did you know that British Major General Richard Barrons , who led efforts to incentivise Taliban soldiers to surrender in exchange for civilian jobs, was hand-picked for the role by U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal ?
Did you know that Uncial 0321 , thought to be the same as Uncial 067 for 164 years, was recently recognized as being a separate manuscript?
Did you know that Khabur ware pottery was named after the Khabur River region in northeastern Syria , where large quantities of it were found by archaeologist Max Mallowan at the site of Chagar Bazar ?
Did you know that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery 's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
Did you know that Ann Preston was the first female dean of any medical school ?
Did you know that the Iranian legend of Haftvad has parallels in dragon slayer stories in the folklore of many other countries?
Did you know that sections of state highway M-37 in Michigan have been named for a Civil War general , a governor , and the road's "divine scenic and recreational delights"?
Did you know that the Japanese pop music female duo ClariS have not released photos of themselves to the public, and instead have employed illustrators to draw their likenesses?
Did you know that German-born U.S. soldier Christian Steiner was one of 32 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for battling against Cochise and the Apache Indians in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1869?
Did you know that a humorous solution for the Buridan's bridge sophism is that Plato should let Socrates cross the bridge and then throw him into the river on the other side?
Did you know that Croatian mountaineer Stipe Božić is the second European, after Reinhold Messner , to climb Mount Everest twice?
Did you know that César Franck wrote his Violin Sonata as a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe ?
Did you know that the 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado , ranked F5 on the Fujita scale , was the costliest tornado in United States history?
Did you know that the first Iannotta San Francesco ultralight aircraft was built in a Capuchin Friary in Naples and named after the Capuchins' patron saint, St Francis of Assisi ?
Did you know that Swiss -born Medal of Honor recipient Julius H. Stickoffer was the only U.S. soldier to receive the award for actions during the Black Hawk War in Utah ?
Did you know that there was intense volcanic activity in Uruguay during the Cretaceous period about 130 million years ago?
Did you know that when the Ottomans entered the castle gates during the Siege of Gvozdansko , they met no resistance because the defending Croatian soldiers were already dead of wounds, hunger and cold?
Did you know that Myotis vivesi is a species of bat that hunts marine fish and crustaceans ?
Did you know that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
Did you know that the exoplanet Kepler-9b 's " year " becomes four minutes longer every time it completes an orbit around its star ?
Did you know that Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat 's 1989 exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris brought him a death threat from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ?
Did you know that composer Gian Carlo Menotti bought the Scottish 18th-century Yester House near Gifford because of the acoustics in the ballroom?
Did you know that in 1805 Marguerite was the first slave to file a freedom suit in St. Louis , and she gained an end to Indian slavery in Missouri?
Did you know that the lowest stage of the tower of St John the Baptist's Church, Stanton , Suffolk , was left open to allow processions around the church?
Did you know that Arthur Cheetham 's film of children playing on the beach at Rhyl is recognised as the first film of the Cinema of Wales ?
Did you know that the Crawford Library was called the greatest philatelic library in the world when its owner died in 1913?
Did you know that Saleh al-Ali led one of the first Syrian rebellions against the French mandate , and was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court-martial ?
Did you know that atmospheric models were not able to outperform statistical models in forecasting tropical cyclone tracks until the 1990s?
Did you know that the Mexican state of Sonora lost about half its territory in the mid-19th century to the United States ?
Did you know that The Daily Telegraph ' s Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?
Did you know that the Indian Claims Limitations Act of 1982 was the first statute of limitations imposed on claims arising from aboriginal title in the United States by Congress?
Did you know that the spire of North Church has been called Portsmouth, New Hampshire 's "landmark of record"?
Did you know that under Anton Mosimann , the restaurant of the Dorchester Hotel became the first hotel restaurant outside France with two Michelin stars ?
Did you know that megaphone can be crystallized from an ether - chloroform solution?
Did you know that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market ?
Did you know that the 1995 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships was hosted in Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall , the world's largest cavern hall for public use?
Did you know that NBC only ordered four episodes for the second season of Homicide: Life on the Street because the network had not decided whether to cancel or renew the series?
Did you know that Theodosius Dobzhansky was the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association ?
Did you know that in September 1864, Sitting Bull was shot in the hip while leading an attack on a wagon train commanded by Captain James L. Fisk ?
Did you know that in 1999, a giant planet was hypothesized to exist in the outer Oort cloud of the solar system , but most astronomers are skeptical of its existence?
Did you know that Tony Burrello 's single "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?
Did you know that the Marshall JTM 45 was based on the Fender Bassman , but had different harmonic content because of increased feedback ?
Did you know that in 1143 the Byzantine - Norman nobleman John Rogerios plotted to usurp the throne of his brother-in-law Manuel I Komnenos , but was betrayed by his own wife?
Did you know that TIGER grants are contributing to the construction of the Gateway Project , a high speed rail corridor between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station ?
Did you know that the Polish Pomeranian anti-Nazi Pomeranian Griffin resistance organization was persecuted by the Soviets due to its strongly Catholic character?
Did you know that the city of Sulphur , Louisiana , once placed a memorial light on its water tower to honor Dr. Alvan Lafargue for having delivered 5,000 babies?
Did you know that at Isha Home School in Coimbatore , India , origami is used to teach mathematics ?
Did you know that Patrick Sheltra , the 2010 ARCA Racing Series champion, was the first owner-driver to win the series title since Benny Parsons in 1969?
Did you know that exoplanet Kepler-9c has an orbit that decreases by 39 minutes every time it circles its star?
Did you know that Andrew L. Sevier , a Louisiana state senator from 1932 to 1962, was the scion of a family that traces its lineage to John Sevier of Tennessee ?
Did you know that mass strandings of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years ?
Did you know that the opening of the Italian Spring Offensive against Greek positions, in March 1941 , was personally observed by Benito Mussolini ?
Did you know that The Dante Quartet , an eight-minute experimental film , took six years to produce?
Did you know that the Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic Church and since 1865 a Masonic Hall ?
Did you know that replicas of the Harley J. Earl Trophy , named after NASCAR's second commissioner , are sculpted by John Lajba and awarded to the winners of the Daytona 500 ?
Did you know that the first game to be considered a Yoshi game is the 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System game, Yoshi , which was developed by GameFreak ?