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Did you know that Wyoming's Secretary of State Max Maxfield won an award for 'Outstanding Achievement in Web Development' from WebAwards in 2009?
Did you know that Tadeusz Wrona , who safely landed LOT Flight 16 from New York to Warsaw after the landing gear failed to deploy, was awarded one of Poland's most prestigious awards ?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of South Ossetia annulled the 2011 presidential election and barred its winner from running again?
Did you know that although award-winning Indonesian director Hanung Bramantyo is "intrigued" with the left , his most successful films have been to the right ?
Did you know that Marco Melandri became the 2002 250cc World Champion after a 0.007 second win over Fonsi Nieto at Phillip Island ?
Did you know that the role of football coach Shannon Beiste was created for actress and 15-time world arm wrestling champion Dot-Marie Jones after she ran into Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk while shopping?
Did you know that the 2000 concert recorded for Ravi Shankar 's live album Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 occurred 62 years after his first performance at Carnegie Hall ?
Did you know that the 1971 Łódź strikes were the only industrial action in pre-1980 Communist Poland that ended with workers' success?
Did you know that a junior officer on the USS Ancon refused King George VI entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no-one told him the King "was a Bigot "?
Did you know that between 1887 and 1888 Alexandre Delcommune explored 12,000 kilometres ( 7,500 mi ) of water routes in the Congo Basin ?
Did you know that a 2004 glitch in TriTech emergency-response software rendered Austin, Texas dispatchers unable to locate their patrol cars on the street?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Basilisk evacuated a total of 695 men on 31 May 1940 from Dunkirk before she was sunk by German aircraft the next day?
Did you know that ablastin, a rat antibody, prevents the parasite Trypanosoma lewisi from reproducing, yet keeps it in adult form?
Did you know that Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro received his nickname "Happy Jack" while working in a psychiatric facility?
Did you know that Papon appeared on music documentary TV series The Dewarists with Rabbi Shergill and recorded a song "Khule Da Rabb"?
Did you know that the newly discovered Puhinui Craters form the only cluster of three small maars in the Auckland volcanic field ?
Did you know that numerous Polish formations fought in Russia from the First World War , through the Russian Revolution of 1917 up to the Polish–Soviet War ?
Did you know that Alexis Bachelot , who led the first Catholic mission to Hawaii, was suspected of being a covert agent of the French government by some Hawaiian chiefs?
Did you know that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song " Oh Father ", was inspired by singer Madonna 's memory of her mother's funeral?
Did you know that after earning the Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?
Did you know that Jermain Street in Albany has the largest contiguous group of Lustron houses in New York state?
Did you know that eating seeds of the asparagus flower sacahuista can cause a chukar partridge to have diarrhea?
Did you know that Tonya Butler , while playing for the University of West Alabama under head coach Randy Pippin , became the first female to score a field goal in a NCAA college football game?
Did you know that the electoral system for the 1883 elections in Egypt was said to have been based on the design of a pyramid ?
Did you know that the just-world hypothesis is a cognitive bias that has negative social effects but positive mental health effects?
Did you know that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
Did you know that when Mitch McGary committed to be a member of the 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team their recruiting class jumped from below 25th to 5th?
Did you know that The Who songs " Getting in Tune ," " Going Mobile " and " Love Ain't for Keeping " were all originally conceived for Pete Townshend 's abandoned Lifehouse project?
Did you know that the first words of the first radio broadcast in Swedish history, transmitted from Boden Fortress Radio Bunker , were the profanity "jävlar anamma"?
Did you know that the song " Another Nail in My Heart " has a "McCartneyesque" melody and peaked at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart ?
Did you know that the COEX Aquarium in Gangnam district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's largest aquariums with over 40,000 creatures from over 650 species on display?
Did you know that Heinrich Wiegand refused an appointment as State Secretary for the Colonies to remain head of the Norddeutscher Lloyd ?
Did you know that 94 known Category 4 hurricanes have occurred in the Pacific Ocean since 1900?
Did you know that the 10,000 year old Pesse canoe , the world's oldest known boat , was found in a Dutch peat bog ?
Did you know that the 2011–12 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team was the first Harvard men's basketball team ever ranked in the AP Poll , leaving only seven schools that have never been ranked in it?
Did you know that the 1975 Kinnaur earthquake was a result of west–east extension within the NW Himalayas?
Did you know that Ed Walker , who reenlisted in the U.S. Army specifically to go to Alaska , was the last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats ?
Did you know that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as Fanø , Læsø , and in parts of Western Jutland local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
Did you know that in 1972, foggy conditions meant rescue crews at O'Hare International Airport were unaware a second aircraft had been involved in a crash until 28 minutes after the accident?
Did you know that the granite gilia can grow in lava -based soils?
Did you know that the builder of Chirton Hall received a gift from the Countess of Northumberland of materials from the demolished Warkworth Castle to build it?
Did you know that Hieronim Ossoliński , a 16th-century Polish politician who helped to unite Poland and Lithuania , also wanted to establish a Protestant national church ?
Did you know that Paris Mountain was named for the Indian trader Richard Pearis ?
Did you know that East German politician Gustav Sobottka lost both of his sons; one died in a Communist prison and one shortly after liberation from a Nazi concentration camp ?
Did you know that the Gazi Race , named in honor of Gazi Mustafa Kemal , the founder of the Turkish Republic , was won by racehorses owned by succeeding presidents İsmet İnönü and Celâl Bayar ?
Did you know that during the 1960s, some women opted to circumvent restaurant restrictions on women's clothing by wearing palazzo trousers or culottes as evening wear?
Did you know that Florence Violet McKenzie , Australia's first female electrical engineer , taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge?
Did you know that Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball ?
Did you know that an airliner version of the supersonic B-58 bomber was expected to carry 52 passengers at over Mach 2 ?
Did you know that a study conducted by the BBC series Son of God concluded that the skin of Jesus Christ would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy"?
Did you know that controversial American entomologist Alexandre Arsène Girault once described a new species of wasp from the planet Jupiter ?
Did you know that West Alabama football head coach Will Hall won the Harlon Hill Trophy in 2003 as the top player in NCAA Division II college football ?
Did you know that the "unassuming" villain of The X-Files episode " 2Shy " has been compared to those from the earlier episodes " Squeeze " and " Irresistible "?
Did you know that American composer William Arms Fisher was called "a worthy pupil and disciple of Antonín Dvořák " in the February 1927 issue of The Crisis ?
Did you know that in 1938, the Soviet Union secret police executed 40 teenagers and adults in pursuit of an alleged Hitler Youth Conspiracy , which was later found baseless?
Did you know that the roots of the bean flower alpine sweetvetch are edible and taste like young carrots?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Ibrahim Khaleel recently set a record for the number of wicket-keeper dismissals in a first-class match, taking 14 of his team's 20 wickets ?
Did you know that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about animal rights ?
Did you know that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act , which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
Did you know that William Hazlitt was an influential Irish Unitarian minister who defended American prisoners of war from abuse at the hands of their British captors?
Did you know that the Arab governor of Safed offered money to persuade rabbi Joseph Saragossi not to leave the town?
Did you know that Dick Attlesey set two world records in the 110-meter hurdles in 1950 and was the gold medalist in this event at the first Pan American Games ?
Did you know that one pair of tickets for Children in Need Rocks Manchester was auctioned by BBC Radio Jersey for £2010?
Did you know that, in 1986, Charles Liteky renounced his Medal of Honor before embarking on the Veterans Fast for Life , to protest against the U.S. policies in Central America ?
Did you know that point guard Craig Lathen helped his high school set a record for 100- point performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
Did you know that according to ancient rhetorician Athenaeus , in Sophocles ' satyr play Amphiaraus , a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?
Did you know that the 1693 Sicily earthquake caused about 60,000 deaths and prompted an architectural revival described as "the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe"?
Did you know that although the Michigan–Michigan State basketball rivalry has had 167 games, the two teams have never played while both were ranked in the top 10?
Did you know that when you can see a person speaking, sometimes you hear something different than what is being said because the brain cannot tell whether it is seeing or hearing speech?
Did you know that Lance Dunbar led the North Texas Mean Green football team in rushing yards in 2009 and 2010?
Did you know that Bart Millard intended the music to the song " Word of God Speak " to mirror its overall lyrical theme?
Did you know that the red sheep of the Maasai have been studied for their potential to save farmers hundreds of millions of dollars?
Did you know that four judges were chosen in the 2011 election for the International Court of Justice , but the UN General Assembly and Security Council deadlocked on the fifth?
Did you know that engineer and inventor William Mason worked for Remington , Colt , and Winchester in the 19th century and patented 125 inventions?
Did you know that TAT Technologies Ltd. was established in 1969 in response to a French arms embargo that principally affected Israel ?
Did you know that the black velvet bolete is not the false one ?
Did you know that Vice President Garret Hobart not only advised President William McKinley , but also invested part of his salary for him?
Did you know that Rabbi Nachum Dov Brayer became the Rebbe of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty more than 13 years after the death of the previous Rebbe?
Did you know that " Talk That Talk " is the third musical collaboration between Rihanna and Jay-Z ?
Did you know that Denis Law , the all-time top goalscorer for the Scotland national football team , played for the Italian League against the Scottish League XI ?
Did you know that ultrahigh energy gamma-rays can be detected by MAGIC ?
Did you know that Confederate brigadier general Alfred E. Jackson was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the Civil War ?
Did you know that Melville Lyons of the New Zealand National Party unsuccessfully contested by-elections in 1935 , 1939 and 1943 ?
Did you know that adolescents with Excessive Internet video Game Play (EIGP) addiction have high reward dependence scores?
Did you know that the bicolor lespedeza and Chinese bushclover are invasive species that can suppress growth of native plants in some areas of the United States?
Did you know that Peaches Golding , the first black High Sheriff of Bristol , England, is the daughter of Charlie Brady Hauser , who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in North Carolina ?
Did you know that Yehuda Tzadka started learning at Porat Yosef Yeshiva after his bar mitzvah , and remained there for nearly 70 years?
Did you know that baseball historian John Thorn has credited Doc Adams with inventing the concept of the shortstop position?
Did you know that Chrisye faced accusations of plagiarism due to similarities between the title song of his album Hip Hip Hura and " Footloose "?
Did you know that Rajinikanth was given the "Superstar" title through the film Bairavi ?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy's Sparoair sounding rocket could be launched by any aircraft capable of launching the Sparrow air-to-air missile?
Did you know that the Great Fire of Pittsburgh in 1845 destroyed a third of the city, including a bank that was thought to be fireproof?
Did you know that Navajo cradleboards are made with a Ponderosa pine frame with buckskin laces?
Did you know that Red Moor in Cornwall , UK, was likely to have been named for the loose tin -bearing gravels found and mined in the area?
Did you know that Timmy Hill won the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year award, despite being too young to compete at the start of the season?
Did you know that the Glee episode " Extraordinary Merry Christmas " shares its title with an original song performed in the episode?
Did you know that Roger Craig holds the record for largest one-day winnings on the regular version of Jeopardy! and is thought to have won the largest single Daily Double prize in the show's history?
Did you know that the use of īhām in Persian poetry means that a text may have a surface meaning different from the one actually intended?
Did you know that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa ?
Did you know that Hans Krieger , an award-winning German essayist , influential in papers such as Die Zeit , wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today?
Did you know that while normally associated with rockets and jet engines , shock diamonds can also be produced by artillery , volcanoes , and quasars ?
Did you know that an anime music video was produced for the song "Perfect Day" on Supercell 's album Today Is A Beautiful Day ?
Did you know that 49 people died and 135 were injured in the 1979 Warsaw gas explosion ?
Did you know that Eng Foong Ho v. AG held that the Singapore Constitution was not breached when a Chinese temple was compulsorily acquired and an Indian mission and a Christian church nearby were not?
Did you know that the extinct Eocene maple species Acer rousei is a possible ancestor to the vine maple ?
Did you know that after HMS Porcupine was nearly split in two by a torpedo, the halves were nicknamed HMS Pork and HMS Pine ?
Did you know that a critic's calling The Clash a "garage band" that ought to be "returned to the garage ... with the motor still running" prompted the band to write the song " Garageland "?
Did you know that the false toadflax has an orange drupe ?
Did you know that when Jimmy Iovine asked will.i.am who he wanted to collaborate with on " T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) ", will mentioned Mick Jagger because he felt it would never happen?
Did you know that One of Our Thursdays Is Missing , called "the funniest book you will see this year", has references to works by Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys ?
Did you know that Peter Harburn was named in the Great Britain football squad for the 1956 Olympic Games , for which, as a professional, he was ineligible?
Did you know that anarchists from the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon , played a key role in organizing black bloc tactics during the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization Conference ?
Did you know that 211 hectares (520 acres) of woodland near Peterborough , UK, has recorded 462 species of plants?
Did you know that a 2007 analysis of tsunami deposits from the Sendai and Ishinomaki plains gave a 99% chance in 30 years of a great tsunami striking the coast that was devastated in 2011 ?
Did you know that the late Miocene whale Joumocetus shimizui is the third oldest Cetotheriid known?
Did you know that Maria Teresa de Filippis , the first female driver in Formula One , finished in a career best of last place despite being told by five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio that she was "too fast"?
Did you know that the acoustics at Tarrytown Music Hall in Westchester County, New York , are so good that the Canadian Brass did not need amplification for a 2009 concert?
Did you know that Josh Romanski 's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer the same day he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team?
Did you know that the stone fireplace that Mary Jane Colter designed for the Bright Angel Lodge incorporates the rock strata of the Grand Canyon in correct order?
Did you know that, in supporting peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War and opposing a U.S. withdrawal, AFL–CIO President George Meany stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?
Did you know that Prostoma jenningsi , a ribbon worm found in a recreational fishing pond in Lancashire , England, is the county's only endemic species?
Did you know that upon the death of Chief Rabbi Sholom Rivkin of St. Louis, Missouri , in October 2011, the institution of Chief Rabbi of a city in the United States came to an end?
Did you know that the extinct Eocene maples Acer hillsi and Acer stewarti are distinguished by how inflated the nut is?
Did you know that the Bishop of Ilagan described the 4th district special election of 2003 as the most fraudulent in the history of the Philippines ' Isabela province ?
Did you know that Martell Bailey stole the basketball from his brother, David , and made a layup with 13 seconds left to put his team ahead in the 2002 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament championship game?
Did you know that the earnings from Isha Life 's Chennai Wellness Centre are channeled into supporting education in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that in the first phase of the defunct drug rehabilitation program Straight, Incorporated , teenage clients were led around by their belt loops?
Did you know that otium , a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?
Did you know that Charles Richards , the designer of the Colt Peacemaker , later became chair of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University ?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalist Elizabeth Wright published a paper about her prosthesis ?
Did you know that Ruth von Mayenburg was born into an aristocratic German family, became a spy for the Soviet Union during World War II, and in the 1960s, wrote the first history of Hotel Lux ?
Did you know that " Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) ", described as one of Squeeze 's catchiest songs, is based on a band member's experiences at a holiday camp?
Did you know that in 506 BCE , Chu general Shen Yin Shu , wounded battling against Wu general Sun Tzu , author of The Art of War , asked an officer to kill him and bring his head home?
Did you know that the key inspiration for Palestinian-American performance poet Remi Kanazi was seeing Def Poetry Jam on Broadway ?
Did you know that during the Battle of Moon Sound on 17 October 1917, the Russian armoured cruiser Bayan was hit by a shell from the dreadnought SMS König , starting a fire that was not extinguished until the next day?
Did you know that the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953 banned native Africans from taking strike action ?
Did you know that Dude Harlino 's given name is derived from his birthdate, 2 December ?
Did you know that the 1936 movie Speed was the first film in which James Stewart had a major starring role?
Did you know that the periwinkle plant from which indigenous Carib in Dominica made tea to treat diabetes also provides ingredients for modern pharmacology ?
Did you know that Russell J. Rickford moved into his parents' garage to write a biography of Betty Shabazz ?
Did you know that the Christchurch suburb of Brooklands will effectively be wiped off the map?
Did you know that, according to activist Nichita Smochină , Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin promised self-determination to the Romanians of Transnistria , provided they "drown the hell out of the Romanian king"?
Did you know that Australian Paralympians Karni Liddell , Branka Pupovac and Hamish MacDonald were all photographed for a nude calendar?
Did you know that, according to Ho v. Taflove , ideas are not subject to protection under the copyright law of the United States ?
Did you know that Samoilă Mârza took the only photographs of the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia that proclaimed the Union of Transylvania with Romania on this day in 1918?
Did you know that You Are the Apple of My Eye is the directorial debut of Taiwanese author Giddens Ko, who also wrote the story on which this film is based?
Did you know that Sam Nujoma , first president of the Republic of Namibia , spoke at the funeral of Michael Hishikushitja ?
Did you know that a year after the Romanian Volunteer Corps was being forced out of Kiev , some of its troops were reluctantly holding the Trans-Siberian Railway for the Whites ?
Did you know that Jeff Koons ' giant Banality sculptures feature Michael Jackson , Odie , Saint John the Baptist , The Pink Panther , and a porn star ?
Did you know that, when Bukovina was united with Romania, the Democratic Union Party was the only local group to campaign for the abolition of regional autonomy?
Did you know that Mark Antony aided Herod the Great 's siege of Jerusalem ?
Did you know that Rodion Markovits became "the best-known Transylvanian writer" with his account of World War I captivity and survival in the Russian Far East ?
Did you know that although Glen Rice, Jr. scored 20 points six times during the 2010–11 college basketball season , he also scored 0 points three times?
Did you know that Gherman Pântea , who facilitated Bessarabia's union with Romania in 1918, protected Odessan Jews targeted by Romanian troops during the 1941 Massacre ?
Did you know that a cardboard box in Kurt and Sid , about Sid Vicious trying to convince Kurt Cobain not to kill himself, was said to have more empathy than the script?
Did you know that HMS Blanche was the first British destroyer sunk by the Germans during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Nicolae Fleva , who helped prepare Romania's independence in 1877, allegedly sold his loyalty to the Central Powers in 1915?
Did you know that Lee Patterson portrayed newspaper editor Joe Riley as a member of the original cast of the American soap opera One Life to Live ?
Did you know that the 1949 MacRobertson Miller Aviation DC-3 crash was, at the time, the worst civil aviation accident in Western Australia and the third-worst in Australia?
Did you know that the Cathedral of the Unity of the People in Alba Iulia was built to commemorate the Union of Transylvania with Romania , in the city where the union was proclaimed?
Did you know that Australian wheelchair racer Angie Ballard was named the Female Athlete of the Games for the 1999 Australia Junior Wheelchair Nationals?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalist Marayke Jonkers won Cosmopolitan 's "fun fearless female award" in 2007?
Did you know that publisher and collector George Arthur Plimpton is the namesake of " one of the world's most famous mathematical artifacts "?