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Did you know that Charles Singleton wrote the lyrics for " Strangers in the Night ", a song Frank Sinatra initially called "a piece of shit"?
Did you know that Birmingham's bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics was to have had the venues centered around the National Exhibition Centre ?
Did you know that American astronomer Mark R. Showalter has discovered five moons and three planetary rings in our solar system?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Salhab is identified with "Bezeq" in the Book of Samuel where Saul gathered his army to defend Jabesh-Gilead ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic diver Rachel Bugg quit diving in 2008 after an injury and worked on a diploma in beauty therapy?
Did you know that the rum ration was abolished because the Royal Navy 's leadership was concerned that it made sailors less capable?
Did you know that Johnny Evers alerted an umpire to Merkle's Boner ?
Did you know that projects of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities include the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , classical inscriptions ( IG , CIL ), and dictionaries of Ancient Egyptian and German ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic lightweight double sculls rower Bronwen Watson retired from rowing twice?
Did you know that the Charolais horse was one of the types used to create the Selle Français , a successful sport horse breed?
Did you know that a University of Michigan gymnast dubbed the " Golden Syque " won the first gold medal in international competition for Bangladesh and was chosen to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
Did you know that although fishing for stocked trout is allowed in Oregon's Antelope Reservoir , eating the catch is not advisable?
Did you know that " Survival ", a single by the English rock band Muse , is the official song of the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Norman Sas invented electric football ?
Did you know that Latvian-born Sanita Pušpure is the only rower to compete for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the Norwegian politician Paul Steenstrup Koht threatened to withdraw the Skien Labour Party from the central party, should the latter exclude universal suffrage from its party programme?
Did you know that Turkish swimmer Derya Büyükuncu is participating at the Summer Olympics for the sixth consecutive time?
Did you know that the ruined town of Miedzianka in Poland was a site of a secret Soviet uranium mine?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic sailor Krystal Weir sailed in the 2008 Summer Olympics because she took the place of another sailor who got injured in a mountain biking accident?
Did you know that the insect Jacobiasca formosana helps create the unique flavor of dongfang meiren tea by sucking the juices from the tea plant's stems and leaves?
Did you know that Dominique Allen , daughter of Birmingham Bullets "legend" Clive Allen , has been called up to the senior British basketball team for the first time at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that while the Gibraltar Aerobeacon does not strictly meet its criteria for a lighthouse , The Lighthouse Directory indicates that it merits an exception?
Did you know that in 1958, while working for a CIA front organization in Taiwan, William Beale flew the aircraft that bombed several Indonesian cities and sank KRI Hang Tuah off the coast of Borneo?
Did you know that the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland recovers and restores Jewish synagogues that had been nationalized under totalitarian rule ?
Did you know that Lucinda Whitty , Olivia Price and Nina Curtis became a team in 2011 when they heard the Elliott 6m boat would be required for an Olympic sailing event ?
Did you know that the student-led Shifang protest successfully derailed construction of a $1.7 billion copper smelting plant in southwest China?
Did you know that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics , he was paraded through Hull on the back of a fire engine?
Did you know that She Has a Name is a Canadian play about child prostitution in Thailand ?
Did you know that after winning the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics , Finn Yrjö Saarela won the gold medal in heavyweight wrestling at the 1912 Games ?
Did you know that a fatal shooting on July 22 was the sixth shooting incident in less than a year involving Anaheim, California, police officers ?
Did you know that Annie Lush and sisters Kate and Lucy MacGregor , the Elliott 6m crew for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics , are known as the "Match Race Girls"?
Did you know that the BBC likened Chasing After Ghosts , the debut album by The Crookes , to Morrissey , The Housemartins and Aztec Camera ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Carli Renzi represented Australia in wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that science educator Goéry Delacôte became interested in theoretical physics because being moved up two years at school meant he "wasn't mature enough to really appreciate the literature and poetry"?
Did you know that the Madrid Codex , one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books , contains almanacs and horoscopes that were used to assist Maya priests in their ceremonies?
Did you know that 2012 women's eights Olympic rowers Renee Chatterton , Tess Gerrand , Alexandra Hagan , Sally Kehoe , Elizabeth Patrick , Phoebe Stanley , and Hannah Vermeersch are part of a team nicknamed the " Motley Crew "?
Did you know that Ole Hannibal Sommerfelt succeeded his brother Christian Sommerfeldt as County Governor of Christians Amt ?
Did you know that the director of Pareh engaged in a car chase with the film's star before casting him?
Did you know that Jade Neilsen and Brittany Elmslie were selected for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics as members of swimming relay teams?
Did you know that Sheffield 's Supertram system runs on a route initially selected for the Minitram automated guideway transit system?
Did you know that Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz were selected for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics after Piggy French was forced to withdraw?
Did you know that 2012 Australian equestrian eventing competitor Chris Burton moved to England to increase his chances of making the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Frank Chee Willeto , a Navajo code talker with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II , became the Vice President of the Navajo Nation in 1998?
Did you know that Beaminster Tunnel , one of the earliest road tunnels built in the United Kingdom, partially collapsed in July 2012, killing two people?
Did you know that 1976 Yugoslav Olympic rifle shooter Miro Sipek is the Australian 2012 Summer Paralympic rifle coach and has coached Australian Olympic rifle teams?
Did you know that chemicals in Korean Barberry might have antibacterial and antitumor properties?
Did you know that John Garcia Thompson and Steve Grotowski are the first male beach volleyball players selected to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games ?
Did you know that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama , J. K. Rowling , and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized diver Anabelle Smith became Sharleen Stratton 's partner following the retirement of Briony Cole ?
Did you know that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named " Turn on the News " by Hüsker Dü one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll ?
Did you know that swimmer Joseph Roebuck missed out on qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics by a quarter of a second, but is set to compete in three events for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the 2012 SCO summit brought Afghanistan and Turkey into the supranational union as observer and dialogue partner respectively?
Did you know that painter Mathias Stoltenberg , who died in poverty in 1871, was rediscovered following the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania?
Did you know that Jodie Schulz made her Hockeyroos debut in 2011, captained two games that year and is set to represent Australia in field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that during World War II , British special forces developed an explosive rat booby trap?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic beach volleyball player Becchara Palmer of Australia won 20 of 31 matches going into the Olympics?
Did you know that, in the Battle of San Juan Bautista during the French intervention in Mexico , more Imperialist soldiers were wounded by machete cuts than gunshots?
Did you know that in 2008 Chloe Magee became the first Irish badminton player to win a match in the history of the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that if crushed, the fruits of the wild carrot Bill's neoparrya smell like fresh peaches when cured?
Did you know that Brittany Broben will be sixteen when she competes for Australia in diving at the 2012 Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Michelin starred restaurant The Box Tree is part owned by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White ?
Did you know that American football placekicker Lou Groza laid down a piece of tape to line up field goals before doing so was outlawed by the Lou Groza Rule in 1950?
Did you know that 2012 Olympian Claire Donahue set five school records in swimming during college?
Did you know that the Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Straße includes a reconciliation chapel on the site of a church in Ackerstraße that was destroyed because it stood in the border strip?
Did you know that Bermuda 's entrants in the 49er sailing event at the 2012 Summer Olympics are a pair of brothers, Jesse and Zander Kirkland ?
Did you know that in 1207 the Palestinian village Nisf Jubeil was a possession of the Knights Hospitaller called "Casale Seingebis"?
Did you know that Hilde Rössel-Majdan , for decades a contralto with the Vienna State Opera , recorded with Hermann Scherchen music by Bach including his solo cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde , BWV 54 ?
Did you know that Gnathia marleyi was named after Bob Marley ?
Did you know that Britain's 2012 Olympics women's beach volleyball team of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin formerly had QR codes on the back of their bikini bottoms?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic shooter Georgina Geikie is nicknamed "Britain's Lara Croft "?
Did you know that the Body of Proof episode " Letting Go " was about the fictional murder of an interracial couple in Fairmount Park , Philadelphia ?
Did you know that Olympic road cyclist Shara Gillow of Australia is following in the path of her father, who represented Zimbabwe in cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that May Justus ' 1963 book New Boy in School , a departure from her usual thematic focus on rural Appalachia , was "probably the first" book on racial desegregation for young readers?
Did you know that it was at Tasitolu that East Timor declared its independence in 2002?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic weightlifter Yuderqui Contreras became Pan American Champion and a Dominican Army officer in the same year?
Did you know that Alaskan Inupiat bush pilot Ellen Paneok said an airstrip had to be cleared of polar bears before her airplane could land?
Did you know that 2012 Australian table tennis Olympian Vivian Tan quit the sport in 1997, moved from China to Australia in 2003 and took up the sport again in 2007, the year she became an Australian citizen ?
Did you know that chemical analysis by Larry Robinson , Florida A&M University 's new interim president, helped determine that U.S. President Zachary Taylor did not die of arsenic poisoning?
Did you know that Domaine Ponsot produces the only 1 er Cru Burgundy wine made entirely from the Aligoté grape?
Did you know that rower Amy Clay was born and schooled in the United States but is set to compete in the quadruple sculls for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Abdelaziz Thâalbi was one of the founding members of Destour , a Tunisian nationalist political party?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic road cyclist Amanda Spratt spends eight months a year training in Italy?
Did you know that Paul Hindemith composed the Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the well at 7 in the morning ?
Did you know that the Olympic Stadium in Manchester's bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics was later redesigned and used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that in its first six weeks of operation, No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF assembled 123 P-39 Airacobra fighters and a dozen B-26 Marauder medium bombers?
Did you know that John R. Tunis , who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
Did you know that as of 2011, Catequilla is said to be "the only important pre-Inca site in Ecuador to have been commercially exploited"?
Did you know that American archer Miranda Leek , who is competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics , first learned to shoot at age five?
Did you know that Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD ?
Did you know that 2012 Indian Olympic archery coach Purnima Mahato was an Indian national champion in archery?
Did you know that the French battleship Diderot briefly participated in the occupation of Constantinople after the end of World War I ?
Did you know that William & Mary women's soccer, coached by John Daly , is one of two NCAA Division I women's soccer programs that have never had a losing season?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Museum houses the remains of a 14th-century Moorish bath house , once the private baths of the Governor of Gibraltar during the Marinid dynasty ?
Did you know that in 2008, Edwin Ekiring became the first badminton player to compete for Uganda at the Olympics ?
Did you know that Australia's 2012 Summer Olympic archer Elisa Barnard is double majoring in psychology and law ?
Did you know that Russian poker players Konstantin Puchkov and Viacheslav Zhukov both won World Series of Poker bracelets in their first World Series of Poker in the money finish?
Did you know that Ellen Pompeo was eight and a half months pregnant while filming "Give Peace a Chance" ?
Did you know that Malian archaeologist Téréba Togola 's excavation of Djenné-Jeno was documented by National Geographic ?
Did you know that the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration operated as a link between the Dutch East Indies Government in exile and the Allied high command in the Southwest Pacific Area ?
Did you know that baseball player Rob Ellis took out a newspaper advertisement apologizing to the fans for his performance?
Did you know that between 1591 and 1611, Garhwal repelled seven incursions by Kumaon , eventually defeating King Laxmi Chand of Kumaon and taking his capital?
Did you know that French pilot Adrienne Bolland was the first woman to fly across the Andes , doing so after only 40 hours of flight experience?
Did you know that Christina's rootshank was named by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries after his wife?
Did you know that Tan's Film released three films entitled Njai Dasima in four years?
Did you know that the government was unaware that stonemason John Barr had been in the country for only five years when they appointed him to the New Zealand Legislative Council ?
Did you know that 2012 Olympian Tia Brooks was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 2009 and advised to give up the shot put ?
Did you know that capital punishment in Gibraltar was last enforced in 1944 when British hangman Albert Pierrepoint travelled undercover to the territory to hang two young Spanish spies?
Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow discovered Honus Wagner , converted Babe Ruth into an outfielder , and pioneered the first uniform numbers?
Did you know that bovine tuberculosis costing £100 million per annum is leading to badger culling in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that in 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a parachute jump?
Did you know that so-called bath salts , a class of designer drug that became popular in the last decade, often contain mephedrone , which was first synthesised in the 1920s?
Did you know that the German architect Hermann Muthesius noted in 1904 that it was "considered downright inadmissible" for the toilet to be in a British bathroom , rather than a room of its own ?
Did you know that the Valour Cross is the highest Danish military decoration and is comparable to the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that John Wilson Crawford , a Brigadier in the Australian Army , was nicknamed "cake eater" because of his strict adherence to formal protocols for official social functions?
Did you know that " Diwali ", a 2006 episode of The Office , was credited with helping introduce American audiences to Indian customs ?
Did you know that the three original members of the British pop group Sugababes have reformed, and are known as Mutya Keisha Siobhan ?
Did you know that the cream nut fruit may trap an inexperienced monkey ?
Did you know that critics denounced Indonesian Muslim leader Fakih Usman as the "Dutchman with the black ass"?
Did you know that the character Slackbridge from Dickens ' novel Hard Times was based on strike leader Mortimer Grimshaw ?
Did you know that the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management co-manages a national park with the Forest Department of Belize ?
Did you know that ensemble recherche , an ensemble of nine soloists founded in 1985 and based in Freiburg , has premiered some 500 works of contemporary music ?
Did you know that Arsenal 's Highbury Stadium in London was redeveloped into Highbury Square ?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force leased McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft from the United States Air Force between 1970 and 1973?
Did you know that Milo Yiannopoulos arranged a moonwalking flash mob at Liverpool Street station as a tribute to Michael Jackson shortly after his death ?
Did you know that Ivan Strez Balšić was recognized by the Republic of Venice as Skanderbeg 's successor?
Did you know that Albert C. Baker was the only person to serve on both the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court and the Arizona Supreme Court ?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Gosforth , Cumbria , is associated with "a unique Viking-age assemblage" of carved stones?
Did you know that if Seattle Sounders FC wins the 2012 U.S. Open Cup final on August 8 , 2012, they will be the first club in the tournament's 99-year history to win four consecutive titles?
Did you know that Lengberg Castle has a vault which contained 600-year-old brassieres described as a " 'missing link' in the history of women's underwear"?
Did you know that the Tiverton fire of 1731 resulted in an increased incidence of smallpox ?
Did you know that the Vegetarian Finch has a disproportionately large gizzard and a long intestine to help it digest the leaves and buds which it regularly eats?
Did you know that Slovenian actor Polde Bibič played over 150 theatre and over 30 film roles?
Did you know that LaCrosse Footwear was founded in La Crosse, Wisconsin , is based in Portland, Oregon , and is being bought by a Tokyo-based company?
Did you know that Andrew Heaney led all college baseball pitchers in strikeouts during the 2012 season ?
Did you know that one of the reasons the vocals in " Louie Louie " are so slurred is because singer Jack Ely wore braces ?
Did you know that several memorials and monuments of Arlington National Cemetery in the U.S. have been removed or destroyed?
Did you know that the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes -winning racehorse Aureole earned £30,092 in 1954, helping its owner, Queen Elizabeth II , become the leading owner in Britain that year?
Did you know that Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad , who is featured in the award-winning film Encounter Point , espouses Gandhi 's doctrine of nonviolent resistance called satyagraha ?
Did you know that US Highway 24 in Michigan follows Telegraph Road, which is named for the mid-19th-century telegraph lines it followed?
Did you know that the Indonesian television series Alang-Alang was sponsored in part by Johns Hopkins University ?
Did you know that the Andalucian based San Nicasio company caused controversy in the UK due to their £ 4 ( $ 6.24) gourmet potato chips ?
Did you know that Ludwig Hoffmann designed the fountain of fairy tales in the Volkspark Friedrichshain which features sculptures of fairy tale characters?
Did you know that on January 15 , 1861, Florida militia colonel William Henry Chase demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida , which he had designed and constructed as a U.S. Army captain?
Did you know that the Col de la République featured in both the first and second Tours de France but was the scene of notorious violence in 1904 ?
Did you know that Alimuddin was the first batsman to score an international century at National Stadium, Karachi ?
Did you know that the Drexel Collection , a collection of over 6,000 volumes of books about music and musical scores owned by The New York Public Library , was donated by Joseph W. Drexel ?
Did you know that the InterContinental Hotel 's Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental is being built inside an abandoned, partly water-filled quarry and is mostly underground?
Did you know that the aggressive sponge Cliona delitrix grows on massive corals while the encrusting coral, Parazoanthus parasiticus , uses the sponge as a host ?
Did you know that while Vladimír Vondráček was a "legendary head physician" at the Psychiatric Clinic in Prague , Antonín Heveroch left it and established a second psychiatric clinic that closed after his death?
Did you know that according to lawyer Asma Jahangir, up to seventy-two percent of women in police custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually abused ?
Did you know that Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart performed the first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey in 1988, and returned in 2012?
Did you know that although the Castillonnais horse breed has its roots in antiquity, it wasn't officially recognized until 1996?
Did you know that Henry Piggott's gravestone at St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes , West Sussex , states that he was born on 30 December 1715 and died on 7 March 1715?
Did you know that a Neolithic mass grave discovered in 1996 in the German town of Herxheim contains many human skulls that were split into symmetrical halves, as well as evidence of cannibalism ?
Did you know that the Ballarat Miners introduced a women's team to the club in 2000?
Did you know that the Spanish secretly supported the Mexican Republicans against the French at the Battle of Barranca Seca ?
Did you know that Idaho State Highway 50 provides access to Twin Falls from Interstate 84 over the Snake River ?
Did you know that before award-winning author and poet Peter Spiegelman started writing, he spent 20 years on Wall Street and was a vice president of J.P. Morgan ?
Did you know that the Cameron Suspension Bridge nearly collapsed under the weight of a herd of sheep ?
Did you know that anthropologist Alice G. Dewey was dissertation advisor for Barack Obama 's mother Ann Dunham at the University of Hawaiʻi ?
Did you know that Serbia's first known "čelnik", Gradislav Vojšić , served King Milutin in 1284 and King Uroš III in 1327?
Did you know that Helen Desha Beamer and Sam Kapu made the first commercial recording of the Hawaiian Wedding Song in 1928?
Did you know that Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman alerted world Jewry to the start of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camps in a coded message referring to "Mr. Amos "?
Did you know that EthicalWiki advises public relations professionals to engage with Wikipedia's editors in the same way they do with journalists?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Esther Overton once broke her arm trying to get into a swimsuit?
Did you know that the Vinkovci Treasure , consisting of 48 items of 4th-century Roman silverware found in March 2012 , has been called one of Croatia 's most important archaeological finds?
Did you know that on the penultimate lap of the 2007 Detroit Indy Grand Prix , second-placed Buddy Rice ran out of fuel, and was hit by Scott Dixon ?