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Did you know that the Irish in Omaha, Nebraska were singled out by the American Protective Association for exclusion from public office in the 1890s?
Did you know that music printer Robert Birchall published the first English edition of Johann Sebastian Bach 's Well-Tempered Clavier in 1810?
Did you know that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to form Cardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
Did you know that although an engineer's report proposing the draining and development of the Everglades in 1912 was riddled with errors, it was still promoted by real-estate developers?
Did you know that Project Runway Australia will air on Arena , which was recently re-branded to the American Project Runway 's first station, Bravo ?
Did you know that Malcolm Baker won a national championship in rowing as a freshman at Brown University although he never rowed in high school?
Did you know that a year after conducting rival nuclear tests , India and Pakistan issued the 1999 Lahore Declaration , committing to develop safeguards to prevent nuclear conflict ?
Did you know that Aaron Lopez , who was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish , later became Newport 's wealthiest resident?
Did you know that before 1 January 2008 , milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded a children's charity in his native Jacksonville which ran for two decades?
Did you know that the Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process of demutualization after 140 years as a co-operative ?
Did you know that the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle ?
Did you know that William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster ?
Did you know that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky 's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
Did you know that British Major-General Eric Cole , who helped plan the invasion of Normandy , was born in Malta and once played cricket with the Egypt national cricket team ?
Did you know that the New York Times wrote that W. S. Gilbert 's play Creatures of Impulse was a " burletta of the stamp that was in vogue a hundred years ago, resembling Midas "?
Did you know that Kuxa Kanema is a documentary about the Mozambique government’s first attempts to create a national cinema ?
Did you know that Kentucky 's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
Did you know that Whitney Ellsworth became associated with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson 's fledgling company National Allied Publications , later known as DC Comics ?
Did you know that 6 of the Top 8 players at the 2002 Magic: The Gathering World Championship used Psychatog decks?
Did you know that by 1901, £ 4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000?
Did you know that during World War I , aerial warfare expert Philip Roosevelt , first cousin once removed of Theodore Roosevelt , helped the United States Army plan its first air-land battle?
Did you know that Brussels lace is made in pieces, with the design made separate from the ground, unlike Mechlin lace or Valenciennes lace , and is known for its delicacy and beauty?
Did you know that the Soviet Union won a medal at every single Ice Hockey World Championships competition in which it participated?
Did you know that Are you a True Scotsman ? is part of Scottish military ritual determining that a kilted soldier is not wearing undergarments?
Did you know that Verna Arvey got her first break as an opera librettist after poet Langston Hughes left his libretto for the production Troubled Island unfinished?
Did you know that although the first Callawayasaurus fossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separate genus ?
Did you know that Ayesha Omar sparked controversy in Pakistan when she painted two semi- nude self-portraits?
Did you know that Operation Facelift unified the United Kingdom's co-operative retailers with a single logo in 1968 , reinforcing The Co-operative brand ?
Did you know that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode " The Doctor's Daughter ", but not because her father is Peter Davison , the Fifth Doctor ?
Did you know that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers ?
Did you know that the African mustard Subularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake on Mount Elgon at 4,150 meters (13,620 ft) high?
Did you know that the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as " The Mystery of Marie Roget " by Edgar Allan Poe ?
Did you know that the town of La Balize, Louisiana , at the mouth of the Mississippi River , was rebuilt several times after 1699 because of hurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860?
Did you know that Erik Möller , Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation , helped to develop both Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons ?
Did you know that the St. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of two North Carolina governors and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ?
Did you know that Pythagoras , a sculptor from Samos in the 5th century BCE, was credited with the innovation of sculpting athletes with visible veins ?
Did you know that serial killer Nathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene in RoboCop 2 ?
Did you know that Ichitaro Kanie grew Japan 's first tomatoes in 1899, founding the ¥ 157 billion Kagome tomato empire?
Did you know that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War ?
Did you know that the Gottlieb Storz House in Omaha, Nebraska is home to the Astaire Ballroom, which is the only memorial to Adele and Fred Astaire in their home city?
Did you know that the 1999 Chamoli earthquake in India , in which 103 people died, was also felt in the Baitadi , Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts in Nepal ?
Did you know that former Detroit Red Wings head coach Jacques Demers is the only coach in the National Hockey League to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team?
Did you know that Hoi Khanh Temple in Thu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, including Ho Chi Minh 's father?
Did you know that A Bayou Legend by William Grant Still was the first opera composed by an African American to be broadcast on television?
Did you know that Israeli actress Hanna Maron lost her leg after a grenade was thrown at her airplane, but resumed her acting career a year later?
Did you know that Jordan 's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
Did you know that Harold Clapp 's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways ' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Yotsunoha allows the player to navigate in a top-down perspective similar to a console role-playing game ?
Did you know that before Homer Plessy challenged the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson , Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?
Did you know that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina , was attacked by Native Americans , used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
Did you know that Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome , as actor Oswaldo Louzada , who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela , Mulheres Apaixonadas ?
Did you know that scholars disagree on whether the name of the Viking chieftain Jakun means either "blind" or "the handsome one"?
Did you know that Safi Faye 's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?
Did you know that six governments have jurisdictional boundaries at Four Corners ?
Did you know that French top-ten single " Nuit " by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones was penned in just a few hours?
Did you know that the Nashville Predators actually increased their team payroll by 44.30% between the 2003–04 NHL season and 2005–06 season , despite a league-wide drop of −22.73% after a salary cap was implemented?
Did you know that Speaking in Strings is a 1999 documentary film about classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg , whose emotional concert performances have alienated some critics?
Did you know that CMKC Group will construct and retain 30-year management rights over 1500 km of new and 512 km of renovated railway in the Republic of the Congo ?
Did you know that although she was born in Argentina , Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater , film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil ?
Did you know that while the New York Vauxhall Gardens drew in colonial New Yorkers with a wax museum and outdoor theater , a copycat competitor attracted them with ice cream ?
Did you know that the khutbah is the sermon delivered before the Muslim congregational Friday prayers and after the congregational prayers on each of the two annual Muslim festivals ?
Did you know that the second major land reform in Romania took place in 1921, following a promise made by King Ferdinand to the troops during World War I ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Dom Zanni was once knocked unconscious in the seventh inning , yet went on to finish pitching the game and earn the win for the Chicago White Sox ?
Did you know that the Tamil film Nam Iruvar featured songs written by Indian nationalist Subramania Bharati ?
Did you know that San Diego 's El Cortez Hotel , site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk , became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
Did you know that in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?
Did you know that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple having sex as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?
Did you know that railway transport in Nagpur started in 1867 when the Nagpur railway station was constructed using locally found pink sandstone ?
Did you know that the track "Hell's Angels" from Roy Harper 's 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk features an acoustic guitar played through a wah-wah pedal ?
Did you know that the theory of camouflage led the Special Air Service to use pink as the primary color on the desert camouflaged Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nickname The Pink Panthers ?
Did you know that the assembly location Arkils tingstad may have been made to Christianize the Vikings who lived in its vicinity?
Did you know that the first roadside park in the world was in 1919 at Iron River, Michigan ?
Did you know that the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people ?
Did you know that the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters in Cologne at the beginning of the sixteenth century ?
Did you know that astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmets that acts as a nose scratcher and that the manufacturing process used to create silent velcro for the U.S. Army is a military secret?
Did you know that a timber in Nutley Windmill , an open trestle post mill in Sussex , England , has been dated by dendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70?
Did you know that former University of Texas at Austin President William S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs ?
Did you know that The Janus Man , a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
Did you know that the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television?
Did you know that Gilberto Gil describes his 2006 album Gil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is an agnostic ?
Did you know that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
Did you know that Sam Cowan is the only footballer to have represented Manchester City in three FA Cup finals?
Did you know that after writing Confederates in the Attic , Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin 's husband a deserter in the book?
Did you know that DePauw Avenue Historic District , New Albany, Indiana , was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States ?
Did you know that a report criticizing senior Pakistani leaders—including General Abdul Hamid Khan —over their conduct during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War , was long suppressed by the Pakistani government?
Did you know that Harley Parker , in 1973 , was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology , in Rochester, New York ?
Did you know that the cargo ship MV Virginian , now under contract to Military Sealift Command , was accidentally hit by an Exocet missile while unloading cargo in Iraq in 1986?
Did you know that the Madhu school bus bombing was one of a number of attacks on civilian buses in Sri Lanka in early 2008?
Did you know that prior to his election to the Oregon State Senate , Rick Metsger was best-known as a sportscaster for a Portland, Oregon television station?
Did you know that the idiopathic inflammatory lung disease diffuse panbronchiolitis has the highest incidence among Japanese , Korean , Chinese and Thai cases, indicating a genetic predisposition among East Asians ?
Did you know that Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite 's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians ?
Did you know that Daddy Cool’s 1971 single " Eagle Rock " remained at #1 on the Australian National charts for a record ten weeks before being replaced by the single "Daddy Cool" by another band cashing in their success?
Did you know that Italy 's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, Mara Carfagna , used to be a showgirl and a glamour model ?
Did you know that the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates , the worst Pirates team of the 20th century , were so bad that their catcher Joe Garagiola later said "In an eight-team league , we should've finished ninth"?
Did you know that the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland , where the climate is temperate oceanic , was 33.3ºC (91.9ºF) at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June , 1887 ?
Did you know that the Kaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000 bottles ?
Did you know that S.A. Swaminatha Iyer protested the British salt tax in India at the first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885 ?
Did you know that after months of work, future Canadian impresario Samuel Gesser made only $200 from his first production, a 1953 Pete Seeger concert?
Did you know that Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States ?
Did you know that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa ?
Did you know that England 's Auditor of the Imprests , an office responsible for auditing the accounts of public officials such as the Paymaster of the Forces , became a lucrative sinecure before being abolished in 1782?
Did you know that after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband, Mary Leonard became the first woman in Oregon allowed to practice law?
Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
Did you know that The Reverend John H. Taylor served as post- Chief of Staff for former United States President Richard Nixon from 1979 to 1994?
Did you know that association footballers Jimmy Willis and Steve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions of English league football ?
Did you know that Lakshmisha 's 16th century Kannada writing, the Jaimini Bharata , focuses on the horse sacrifice chapter of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata ?
Did you know that in addition to providing cargo service to Ascension Island , the freighter MV Ascension also helped researchers study its green sea turtle population?
Did you know that in 1838, Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold the chair of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that American manufacturing executive Chris J. Lee left the business of making air springs , elastomers , rate controls , rope isolators and solenoid valves to run for Congress ?
Did you know that the largest post mill in Sussex received the largest Heritage Lottery Fund grant for an individual windmill in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that J. Evetts Haley , the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas , told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
Did you know that in a VFL game against North Melbourne , Fitzroy player Frank Curcio famously stated "hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers"?
Did you know that Gibraltarian degree-level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar ?
Did you know that Omaha pioneer Andrew J. Hanscom started a large-scale fight in the Nebraska Territory House of Representatives over the location of the territorial capital?
Did you know that Van Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team of Buddhist scholars who are producing a Vietnamese translation of the Pali Canon ?
Did you know that the effects of tides can affect ice sheet dynamics up to 100 km (60 miles) inland?
Did you know that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 " Marching Song of the First Arkansas " has only recently been determined?
Did you know that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop ?
Did you know that Heinrich Barbl , an SS - Rottenführer , helped install piping for the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp ?
Did you know that in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert ?
Did you know that Sac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used by Vietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the 1916 Cochinchina uprising ?
Did you know that the Tinh Xa Trung Tam Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition?
Did you know that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record -setting 502 consecutive-games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Black Hawk during the 1962–63 season ?
Did you know that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos ?
Did you know that the Kh'Leang Temple in Soc Trang is a Khmer Theravada building from 1533—predating Vietnamese settlement—which incorporates Greek architecture ?
Did you know that screenwriter Allan Loeb 's agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?
Did you knowthat fire is one of the most important forming processes of the geography and ecology of the Everglades ?
Did you knowthat the barrack at Aghavannagh , which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the 1798 rebellion , became a youth hostel during the 1900s?
Did you knowthat sportswriter and Green Bay Packers employee Lee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first forty Super Bowls ?
Did you knowthat to preserve national unity, Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city of Danzig 's economic and religious privileges after an uprising ?
Did you knowthat the Silver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally by astronauts ?
Did you knowthat Israeli writer Eli Amir called for more Israeli literature to be translated into Arabic to promote understanding?
Did you knowthat Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season ?
Did you knowthat the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?
Did you know that as a college athlete, Detroit Tigers outfielder Matt Joyce played in an exhibition game against the Tigers three years before his Major League debut with them?
Did you know that Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis , who became famous for his wildlife documentaries with his wife Michaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
Did you know that the rural settlement of Mount Mee, Queensland , gets its name from the local Indigenous Australian word mia-mia , meaning "lookout"?
Did you know that a young black aspiring actor by the name of James Earl Jones had his beginnings at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan ?
Did you know that Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism was a concept adapted by the same people who earlier thought that this concept was suicidal?
Did you know that Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?
Did you know that sanfedisti irregulars, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo , toppled the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ?
Did you know that Barzillai Quaife has been described both as " New Zealand 's first public anti- racist " and " Australia 's first philosopher "?
Did you know that the Pond Eddy Bridge , built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that because it reflects Hungarian phonology , the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian -issued birth certificate ?
Did you know that Devil's Den gully , located within the Heber Down Conservation Area , was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?
Did you know that Chris Garneau 's debut album Music For Tourists has a hidden track that is a cover of an Elliott Smith song?
Did you know that the Reverend Henry Tibbs was accused of calling Winston Churchill a drug addict in 1940?
Did you know that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post- Civil War slump?
Did you know that Odd With , member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party , was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With ?
Did you know that the US Navy 's Casco -class monitors , long delayed due to the exacting standards of Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers , proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
Did you know that the Vondelpark in Amsterdam , Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
Did you know that the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin 's namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district ?
Did you know that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party ?