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Did you know that Virginia Shehee , Louisiana 's first woman state senator , once bought a pig at a 4-H show, the proceeds of which helped a boy with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk?
Did you know that the residents of England 's Butt Hole Road raised £ 300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
Did you know42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Finnish soldiers nicknamed the 20 ITK 40 VKT "Vekotin", or " gadget "?
Did you know that William Chaloner was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter, and agent provocateur , who was convicted by Isaac Newton , sent to Newgate Prison , and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn ?
Did you know that Montana 's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
Did you know that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the " singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music 's rebirth?
Did you know that the Ryūkyū Shimpō , founded in 1893 by former royal prince Shō Jun , was the first newspaper in Okinawa ?
Did you know that the Oregon Geographic Names Board was established by Governor George Chamberlain in 1908 to assist the United States Board on Geographic Names in naming geographic features within the state of Oregon ?
Did you know that the lollipop catshark is shaped like a tadpole and has an almost gelatinous body?
Did you know35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that as Clarenceux King of Arms , Robert Cooke arranged the state funeral of Sir Philip Sidney ?
Did you know that the prototype of the Soviet Il-22 jet bomber made the first ever Soviet jet-assisted take-off on 7 February 1948 with a pair of SR-2 boosters?
Did you know that the Louisiana oral historian Hubert D. Humphreys was a charter member of the faculty at Louisiana State University in Shreveport ?
Did you know that University College London Union is the oldest students' union in England ?
Did you know that Burkinabè politician and revolutionary ideologue Valère Somé was forced into exile to Congo-Brazzaville after the overthrow of Thomas Sankara ?
Did you know that Chrysler vehicles won 34 races in the 1966 NASCAR season , after winning only six in the previous season?
Did you know that somebody jumped 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high on a pogo stick at Pogopalooza this year?
Did you know28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that after the German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the civil resistance ?
Did you know that William Sharman , a finalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics , is also a classically trained pianist and has a master's in banking and finance?
Did you know that in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis , the Indonesian Murba Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba ?
Did you know that the Louisiana short story writer Ada Jack Carver Snell had a French grandmother who encouraged her literary and intellectual pursuits?
Did you know that the first time the Soviet prototype of the Ilyushin Il-40 ground-attack aircraft fired its guns in the air its pilot was temporarily blinded and both jet engines flamed out ?
Did you know that after a failed jail escape, anarchist Harold Thompson had 31 years added to his life sentence ?
Did you know that the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator generates complaint letters that are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to mean something"?
Did you know that Dennis Gorski sponsored legislation in the New York State Assembly that preserved the right to declare "loss of fetus " as a serious injury in automobile accidents?
Did you know that the first airborne lifeboat carried by bombers converted to air-sea rescue service was designed in the UK by Uffa Fox ?
Did you know that The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut "?
Did you know that according to 1996 research into sexuality in music videos , hip-hop and R&B scored highest in an analysis of sexual content?
Did you know that part of Audenshaw , Greater Manchester and a section of an ancient ditch that according to folklore was the site of a bloody battle between Saxons and Vikings , was destroyed in the 19th century by the construction of Audenshaw Reservoirs ?
Did you know that Syrian political activist Faeq al-Mir was arrested and potentially faced life in prison for a phone call?
Did you know that Maltman Barry , a British political activist, was a friend of Karl Marx , but stood for election as a Conservative ?
Did you know28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that staff members of the Maria Mitchell Association conduct research into topics as varied as exoplanets and the American Burying Beetle ?
Did you know that SMS Weißenburg , a German pre-dreadnought battleship , was sold to the Ottoman Navy , and later came to the rescue of the battlecruiser Goeben , another former German warship in Ottoman service?
Did you know that Southern Miss Golden Eagles quarterback Austin Davis broke 15 different school records his redshirt freshman season?
Did you know that the song " Voices Carry " was originally written and sung by 'Til Tuesday 's lead singer, Aimee Mann , as to a woman?
Did you know that the distinctive "na-na-na-na" sound found in the music of the Katamari Damacy series was created by sound director Yū Miyake as an experiment in creating memorable video game music ?
Did you know that the convicted killers known as the Scissor Sisters dismembered and beheaded their mother's partner, chopped off his penis and dumped most of his body in the Royal Canal ?
Did you know that at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision in Communications Workers of America v. Beck is a dispute over a US$10-a-month agency shop fee?
Did you know that the first peace-time air-sea rescue unit equipped entirely with helicopters was No. 275 Squadron RAF in 1953?
Did you know that halfback Andy Hastings led the 1916 Pitt football team to a national championship and was also elected president of Pitt's University Glee Club?
Did you know that after being driven mad, some survivors of the Brazilian cruiser Bahia jumped off of their rafts and were eaten by sharks?
Did you know that two of the three daughters of the Louisiana real estate developer and Springhill mayor Jesse L. Boucher became Hollywood actresses ?
Did you know that Vickers Viscount G-ALWE crashed on approach to Ringway Airport, Manchester when a bolt on the starboard flap mechanism failed?
Did you know that the Battle of San Marino was fought between Allied and German forces inside a neutral country ?
Did you know that after being reported as dead in LIFE magazine, Don Bell was greeted with "Hello, Lazarus " by General MacArthur ?
Did you know that when the Vladimir Dudintsev novel Not by Bread Alone was published in the Soviet Union in 1956, it was so popular that copies sold for five times the cover price?
Did you know that the Romanian–American Refinery was one of several refineries bombarded by the allied powers in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II ?
Did you know that " Kicks ," a 1966 hit single by Paul Revere & the Raiders , was called "a dumb anti-drug song" by singer-songwriter David Crosby ?
Did you know that Cut , a 2009 ad designed to promote domestic violence awareness, was deemed too violent to appear on British television ?
Did you know that the 19th century New York City saloon Hole-in-the-Wall employed two female criminals as bouncers ?
Did you know that Shirley Huffman , the first female mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon , worked to change the city's charter to allow her more time in office?
Did you know that while racing in the 2009 World Orienteering Championships gold medalist Thierry Gueorgiou rescued an injured competitor?
Did you know that Caroline Moore was 14 years old when she discovered supernova 2008ha ?
Did you know that the Scolanova Synagogue , one of four synagogues confiscated and turned into churches in Trani , Italy in 1380, is now a synagogue again?
Did you know that in 1729, when his plantation Corotoman was destroyed, Robert "King" Carter I lamented in his diary about the total destruction of his wine cellar ?
Did you know that David Snell , who was the first person to allege that Japan had tested its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki , later became a writer for Life Magazine ?
Did you know that in the legal case Werner Erhard and Associates v. Christopher Cox for Congress the plaintiff claimed charges of libel and slander for being referred to as a " destructive cult "?
Did you know that the film based on the novel Names in Marble is the most successful Estonian film in terms of box office profits?
Did you know28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that forensic techniques in antiquity included pulling donkey tails and filling the mouths of suspects with rice?
Did you know that director Frank Capra cast street people from Downtown Los Angeles as extras in the 1933 film Lady for a Day ?
Did you know that a sotie is different from a farce in that it uses allegorical protagonists , rather than real people?
Did you know that the list of alumni of Union College in Schenectady, New York , includes one President of the United States , a Secretary of State from both the Union and the Confederacy , and numerous Congressmen ?
Did you know that in 2007, Jon Willis became the first British fencer to win a World Cup since 1981?
Did you know that Fighter Wing 71 is the sole unit in the Luftwaffe still operating the F-4 Phantom II fighter?
Did you know that the 2007 drama The Memory Thief made use of interview footage of actual Holocaust survivors?
Did you know21, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the video sharing website Trilulilu is one of the most visited websites in Romania , with an average of 2.2 million unique visitors per month?
Did you know that in the lawsuit Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation and Werner Erhard , a default judgment of over US$500,000 was entered against Erhard ?
Did you know that the Tasmanian Masked Owl is threatened by competition for nest hollows by feral bees , kookaburras and possums ?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , based Beyond Words Publishing ' s first book retailed for over US$2,000, with one copy presented as a gift to the Japanese Emperor ?
Did you know that the Montreal Gazette of November 18, 2008, included the Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve in the 10 hot spots of Quebec 's wilderness that "you should experience before you die"?
Did you know that the 1964 British BSA Thunderbolt motorcycle was capable of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
Did you know that Arsenal Park Transilvania , one of Europe 's few military-themed amusement parks , has villas named after Douglas MacArthur , Julius Caesar , and Eremia Grigorescu ?
Did you know that Yaakov Bodo played the character "Moishe Ventilator" more than 1,000 times?
Did you know that the author of the American book How the Scots Invented the Modern World is from the Midwestern United States and has no Scottish in his ancestral background?
Did you know that the F.N.B.P.B. bakery workers' union , founded in 1960, is the oldest member of the Confédération générale du travail du Burkina trade union centre in Burkina Faso ?
Did you know that the one off Winton Train commemorates Sir Nicholas Winton , the "English Oskar Schindler "?
Did you know that CFL rookie Bobby Keyes won a $1,000 player pool for grabbing the Edmonton Eskimos ' first interception of the 2009 season ?
Did you know that Carletonomys , a rodent related to modern rice rats , is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina ?
Did you know that Fred Allison erroneously claimed to have discovered new chemical elements he called alabamium and virginium in 1930?
Did you know21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Australian singer Lana Cantrell , a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist , later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City ?
Did you know that Tawang Monastery in northeastern India is said to be the largest Buddhist monastery in the world outside of Lhasa , Tibet ?
Did you know that Miranda Lambert 's new album Revolution is slated to include songs co-written by Blake Shelton as well as Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum ?
Did you know that, in his 1765 work A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World , theologian Jonathan Edwards argued that God's purpose in creating the world was not human happiness but His own glory ?
Did you know that Fred McQueen , the son of Steve McQueen , is in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope , one of the most expensive Japanese films ever made?
Did you know that in the 1950 confidence vote for the Indonesian Natsir cabinet , the National People's Party was the sole party without ministers of its own to support the government?
Did you know that Leonid Rogozov had to perform an appendectomy on himself because he was the only doctor stationed at the Soviet Antarctic research station Novolazarevskaya ?
Did you know that Ridge A in Antarctica has been identified as the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth?
Did you know that, at seventeen years old, Charles L. Gilliland was the youngest Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean War ?
Did you know that the declared purpose of the Texas Psychological Association is to advance the field of psychology as a science, profession, and means of promoting human welfare?
Did you know that Albert Pape scored a goal for Manchester United against Clapton Orient in 1925, despite only completing a transfer from Orient to United an hour before kick-off?
Did you know that singer Myriam received a gold certification in México for an album that included a cover version of the number-one song " Simplemente Amigos "?
Did you know that the Yibir are a Somali clan of itinerant magicians who give blessings to newborns and newly married couples?
Did you know that the daggernose shark can adjust the timing of events in its reproductive cycle by several months?
Did you know that at the 2000 Camp David Summit , Yasser Arafat denied that a Jewish Temple ever existed in Jerusalem?
Did you know that Pavel Argeyev , a Russian flying ace , fought on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front for both Russia and France during the First World War ?
Did you know that the Indonesian Murba Women's Union ran programmes to help women start batik and weaving household industries?
Did you know that while heading the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage , Harry Fett worked for the preservation of the site Bryggen in Bergen , and the mining town Røros ?
Did you know that the then Crown Prince of Austria Karl I praised Galicia 's Jews for their patriotism during the Russian occupation of 1914–15?
Did you know that Chamchuri Square , an office/residential/retail building complex in Bangkok , Thailand , stood uncompleted for almost ten years due to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis ?
Did you know that after leading Illinois to "the greatest football upset of all time," Bart Macomber left school for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit?
Did you know that decltype can be used to "clean up function syntax mess" in C++ programming ?
Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Alma was once the biggest centre for growing olives in the District of Safad ?
Did you know that Buffalo 's "Ockie" Anderson scored more points in the 1920 NFL season (the league's first) than four entire teams?
Did you know that the pilot in the Soviet Il-20 ground attack aircraft prototype sat on top of the engine, directly behind the propeller?
Did you know that Martha Wollstein became the first female member of the American Pediatric Society in 1930?
Did you know that Judge Richard Posner 's 2009 book, A Failure of Capitalism , moves away from his past advocacy of free-market capitalism and criticizes the Bush administration 's policies?
Did you know that Eddie Gillette led the Wisconsin Badgers football team to an undefeated season and in baseball "beat some of the best pitchers in the ' Three-Eye League '"?
Did you know21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that before 1977, hundreds of wild elephants in North-East India were captured each year by mela shikar , a traditional method involving a lasso ?
Did you know that Sir John Henry Pelly was Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Governor of the Bank of England ?
Did you know that although he failed to win the office himself in 1883, Thomas Z. Morrow ' s brother-in-law and son were both elected governor of Kentucky in 1895 and 1919, respectively?
Did you know that the HAWAII MR1 mapping system was used to find the USS Yorktown , a shipwreck 17,000 feet underwater?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon , native Rick Dancer announced he was running for Oregon Secretary of State while on air working for KEZI ?
Did you know that the murder of 17-year-old Raonaid Murray has still not been solved ten years after it occurred?
Did you know that iPod Touch / iPhone game Doodle Jump has been the top paid downloaded app in five countries including the US ?
Did you know that Pope Constantine , in 711, was the last pope to visit Constantinople for over 1250 years?
Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Wendy of 1999 was labeled "the most serious storm of the century" by the local government in Wenzhou, China , where it killed 133 people?
Did you know that Charles of Lorraine-Commercy was the one of the most trusted lieutenants of Prince Eugene of Savoy ?
Did you know that the CSCT is the largest container terminal in the Black Sea basin, having an annual traffic capacity of 1,500,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEUs)?
Did you know that No Jacket Required is highest selling release from the discography of Phil Collins , having been certified diamond for sales of over 10 million copies in the United States ?
Did you know that between studying maths at Cambridge University and becoming a highly cited neuroscientist , Stephen Dunnett was a social worker in the London Borough of Southwark in the mid- 1970s ?
Did you know that U.S. President Herbert Hoover was once the manager of the Gwalia Gold Mine in Western Australia ?
Did you know that the Nyack, New York , post office has been renamed in memory of two local police officers and a security guard slain in the 1981 Brinks robbery ?
Did you know that Wilhelm Munthe served four years as president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)?
Did you know that Faith Bible High School in Hillsboro, Oregon , closed for a day after a student received a threatening message on AOL Instant Messenger ?
Did you know that Fred Griffiths , who played twice for the Wales national football team , was killed in action during the First World War ?
Did you know that the Indonesian Dayak Unity Party was dissolved in 1959 when President Sukarno issued a ban on ethnic political parties ?
Did you know that Carrie Underwood 's single " Cowboy Casanova " was rush-released on YouTube after an unfinished mix of the song leaked online?
Did you know that after losing both arms in a coal mining accident, Vladislav Titov wrote several books by holding a pen with his teeth?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard 's Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron uses .50-caliber rifles to shoot out the engines of fleeing drug runners?
Did you know that Tore Gjelsvik headed the Norwegian Polar Institute for more than twenty years?
Did you know that Francisco Goya 's series of etchings The Disasters of War was not published until 35 years after his death, when there was no risk of political repercussions?
Did you know that the ILO 's Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention neither authorizes nor prohibits union security agreements , "such questions being matters for regulation in accordance with national practice"?
Did you know that Samuel Clucas was offered a soccer scholarship in the United States after studying sports development at Lincoln College ?
Did you know that the owners of the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts in Alamogordo, New Mexico , gave the building away to local government so that state funding could be used to renovate the building?
Did you know that the songs on Ferdinand Richard ' s solo album En Avant are sung in eight different languages?
Did you know21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during World War II , she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene , together with her husband Halfdan Christensen ?
Did you know that in Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc , the mortal remains of the last Aztec emperor are on public display?
Did you know that in 1949, a monument in recognition of Dr. Niels Ebbesen Hansen and his contributions to the Horticultural Department was erected on the campus of South Dakota State College ?
Did you know that 94% of the Members of Parliament elected in the 1992 election in Burkina Faso were male?
Did you know that Dr. Wacław Olszak , Polish physician and former mayor of Karviná , Czechoslovakia , was murdered by Nazis just ten days after the war started?
Did you know that the religious Vision Interfaith Satellite Network evolved into the Hallmark Channel ?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology , god Shiva proposed to his consort Parvati at Guptakashi ?
Did you know that 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners at the Chinese Jiabiangou labor camp died within three years, mostly from starvation?
Did you know that the recently discovered Speleonectes atlantida is an eyeless crustacean equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and poisonous fangs that function as hypodermic needles ?
Did you know that while filming Counsellor at Law , director William Wyler had to resort to placing cue cards around the set because lead actor John Barrymore kept forgetting his lines?
Did you know that Christopher Elrington , general editor of the Victoria County History , was a professor at the University of London even though he never taught there?
Did you know that in 1770, James Cook named two landmarks near Cook Island, New South Wales , Mount Warning and Point Danger because he nearly shipwrecked there?
Did you know that most of the exhibits at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg are from the private collection of Peter Tamm , who started collecting when he was six years old?
Did you know that Georgia Tech halfback and College Football Hall of Fame inductee "Stroop" Strupper used lip-reading to overcome deafness ?
Did you know that a Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 was the first plane to land at Oslo Airport, Fornebu in Norway, nine months before it opened?
Did you know that Norman Luxton sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a 100-year old Nootka dugout canoe for five months before being forced to stop from injuries?
Did you know that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams of Oslo , Norway , were ordered until all units were in service?
Did you know that the 122 miles (196 km) Dorcheat Bayou in Arkansas and Louisiana was once navigable for several months a year to access the Red River ?
Did you know that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the Norwegian Parliament , the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad , ten years earlier?
Did you know that in Taxco during Holy Week some perform penance walking with 50 kilograms (110 lb) bundles of thorned blackberry canes on their backs?
Did you know that Yummy Dough is modelling clay that can be eaten as well as played with?
Did you know that several Armillaria species are bioluminescent ?
Did you know that Clarence Cazalot quadrupled Marathon Oil 's net income during his first year as chief executive ?
Did you know that the Election Commission of Nepal oversaw approximately 10,000 polling places, 10,000 candidates, and 234,000 election workers during voting for the Nepalese Constituent Assembly ?
Did you know that William of Pagula ' s book Oculus Sacerdotis , intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it?