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Did you know that after the declaration of martial law in 1981, Kornel Morawiecki became one of the most wanted people in Poland?
Did you know that the world's largest brown diamond was found in discarded rubble from a mine by a young girl?
Did you know that Albert Levitt was involved in the drafting of the ERA , challenged the appointment of Justice Hugo Black , and ran against Nixon for Senate ?
Did you know that the Irish triad Cambrai Homily , which outlines three categories of martyrdom , each designated by a different colour, is the oldest single example of an extended prose passage in Old Irish ?
Did you know that, after noticing that white teenagers in his Cleveland, Ohio record store were increasingly listening to rhythm and blues records, Leo Mintz was one of the first to call the music " rock and roll "?
Did you know that Diego von Bergen , who was the ambassador to the Holy See for the Kingdom of Prussia until 1918, continued to serve in this position for the Weimar Republic as well as Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that in 2008 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jared Burton pitched in a career high 54 games despite missing about a month and a half due to injury?
Did you know that Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
Did you know that Shafiq al-Hout , former head of the Palestine Liberation Front , resigned from the PLO Executive Committee following Yasser Arafat 's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993?
Did you know that writer , suffragist, and feminist Emily Newell Blair has been described by Senator Carter Glass as "go[ing] down so smooth and easily but has an awful kick afterwords"?
Did you know that Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate was the home of William Wallace 's uncle, and it was here that he set off on the day that ended in the burning of the Barns of Ayr as an act of revenge?
Did you know that a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia , called The Spiritual Harmonizers , made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent ?
Did you know that after the settlement of the Shen-kuang-szu Incident in 1851, Fuzhou became the first Chinese treaty port where missionaries were given official permission to reside within the walled city?
Did you know that the melody of the title track of Neil Innes ' album How Sweet To Be An Idiot was plagiarised by Oasis for their 1994 single " Whatever " and Innes now receives royalties and a co-writing credit?
Did you know that The Infomatics have been called "the loudest voice in Irish hip hop "?
Did you know that one of Kam Chancellor ' s coaches called him possibly "the greatest safety in Virginia Tech history"?
Did you know that The Chapters entertained two hundred people on a train as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations of the DART ?
Did you know that Confidence Hall in Placerville, California , was named after a fire truck?
Did you know that Polish pilot Władysław Turowicz moved to Pakistan , became a citizen, and has since become known as the "Rocket-Missile Man of Pakistan"?
Did you know that President Woodrow Wilson 's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted to Europe from New Jersey 's New Brunswick Marconi Station in 1918?
Did you know that the Dutch intervention in Bali in 1906 caused a "fight to the death" by the Balinese , resulting in mass ritual suicide ?
Did you know that the owner of KFMR , forced off the air for financial reasons, is selling the Utah radio station and New Mexico sister station KPSA-FM to his own father?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Ameliella have been found in the Skibotn area in central Northern Norway , a hotspot of lichen species diversity ?
Did you know that Ras Ibn Hani , a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia , Syria , was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?
Did you know that King Sigismund I the Old built a castle for his Italian wife Bona Sforza in the Lithuanian town Maišiagala during the Jagiellon dynasty ?
Did you know that Britney Spears ' guest appearance in the Will & Grace episode " Buy, Buy Baby " was her first acting performance on prime-time television?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb season two premiere was the most watched cable telecast on Friday, March 13, 2009?
Did you know that the tallest building in Bucharest is the 110-metre (361 ft) Bucharest Tower Center located in Sector 1 ?
Did you know that current NFL player Terrance Knighton received only two scholarship offers coming out of high school ?
Did you know that collective punishment meted out to mostly innocent Ukrainian peasants by Polish authorities during the Galicia Pacification campaign resulted in increased bitterness and encouraged extremists on both sides?
Did you know that despite significantly reforming the law relating to indictments , the Indictments Act 1915 does not actually define what an indictment is?
Did you know that following her service in the Mexican–American War , laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors ?
Did you know that of three churches in Shoreham held by the Lord of Bramber in the 11th century, one partly collapsed in a storm, another is now part of a barn , and the other has carvings of King Stephen , his wife , and a cat?
Did you know that Pakistan Hindu Party's flag, which bears two ancient Hindu symbols, Om and Trishool , was designed by the party's founder, Rana Chandra Singh ?
Did you know that General Jakob von Washington , a distant relative and contemporary of US President George Washington , became a Baron of the Kingdom of Bavaria ?
Did you know that Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper was the first publication to regularly sell one million copies an issue?
Did you know that between 1992 and 2002, more than 60 million people became obese in China ?
Did you know that Panapasa Balekana co-wrote God Save Our Solomon Islands , the national anthem , as a prayer for the country after receiving inspiration in a dream?
Did you know that the medical ethicist and tutor Maurice Henry Pappworth (1910–1994) was instrumental in the establishment of stricter codes of practice for human experimentation?
Did you know that the anti-government August 31, 1982 demonstrations in Poland ended with four demonstators killed and unknown number wounded?
Did you know that W. Harry Vaughan founded the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1934 with a budget of $5,000?
Did you know that the sapropelic mud from Lake Amara contains around 40% organic and 41% mineral substances?
Did you know that Lyman Hall established the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States in 1899 while president of the Georgia Institute of Technology ?
Did you know that a visit by Che Guevara sparked 50 years of ties between Cuba and Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
Did you know that 14 American fugitives showed up at the phony Puño Airlines counter to claim their prize, after authorities sent phony congratulations on winning a free trip to the Bahamas?
Did you know that the 1987 Hipercor bombing was Basque paramilitary group ETA 's deadliest attack?
Did you know that Acintya is the Supreme God according to Balinese Hinduism ?
Did you know that construction of the Natron Cutoff was delayed for 11 years while the U.S. Department of Justice decided whether to allow the Southern Pacific Company to remain in control of its owner, the Central Pacific Railway ?
Did you know that Japanese pink film / sexploitation producer-director Kan Mukai gave Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita his first work in the film industry?
Did you know that the battleship Bayern was the first German warship to mount 15 inch guns?
Did you know that after crashing in the same event in 1992 , John Kah was the reserve in the short track relay and watched on as teammates Steven Bradbury , Richard Nizielski , Kieran Hansen and Andrew Murtha won Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the website Like.com allows users to highlight a part of a product image and search for similar-looking products based on the pattern , shape , and color of the highlighted part?
Did you know that Infinity Broadcasting , sold for nearly $4 billion in 1996, was started in 1972 when co-founder Michael A. Wiener bought FM station KOME with $5,000 from the sale of his father's stamp collection?
Did you know that a square metre patch of Phylactolaemata , a freshwater class of Bryozoa , can produce 800,000 statoblasts, "survival pods" withstanding freezing and drying that get carried long distances?
Did you know that Robert Cushman expanded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ' photo archives through donations from United Artists ' studios and Katharine Hepburn ?
Did you know that the Limitation Act 1963 was described by Lord Reid as having "a strong claim to the distinction of being the worst drafted Act on the statute book "?
Did you know that Gladys Bustamante became a leading Jamaican trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante ?
Did you know that The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition broke all Guggenheim Museum attendance records and kicked off a wave of blockbuster museum shows?
Did you know that English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott , who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria , learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child?
Did you know that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names : "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"?
Did you know that the 1937 peasant strike in Poland was the largest anti-government demonstration in the Second Polish Republic ?
Did you know that Lynn Pressman , while president of the Pressman Toy Corporation , promised not to create "any of the dreadful weapons that can destroy life as playthings for children"?
Did you know that the Ninth Circuit ruled in Alperin v. Vatican Bank that property claims by Holocaust survivors did not constitute a political question , while human rights and international law claims did?
Did you know that toxic puffball Agaricus praeclaresquamosus can be distinguished from its close relative Agaricus perobscurus by a stipe base which turns yellow immediately when injured?
Did you know that Albrecht von Wallenstein 's series of victories was ended by the Scots Alexander Seaton and Alexander Leslie in the Battle of Stralsund (1628) ?
Did you know that The Raw Sessions is Ireland 's first ever rockumentary series?
Did you know that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding , the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
Did you know that the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort ?
Did you know that the show There Goes the Neighborhood built a 20 feet (6.1 m) tall wall around a Kennesaw, Georgia , neighborhood for its filming?
Did you know that William "King" Cole played for a national championship team at Michigan and coached Nebraska to two championships?
Did you know that in 1939, Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Umansky was the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions allowed the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck in New York , which lasted for over two centuries?
Did you know that when the New Redmond Hotel opened, it was billed as Oregon 's finest hotel east of the Cascade Mountains with rooms from $1 per day?
Did you know that the Japanese animated television series Last Exile uses terms from chess in its episode titles?
Did you know that a key differentiator between rotors and propellers is disk loading ?
Did you know that in 1747, Aulay Macaulay , the last chief of Clan MacAulay , invented a system of shorthand in an unsuccessful attempt revive his clan 's fortune?
Did you know that the Urban Transportation Development Corporation was formed to build a version of the Transrapid maglev train , but instead designed a completely new system known today as the Bombardier ART ?
Did you know that Ted Nierenberg formed Dansk International Designs to sell Scandinavian-style items in the U.S. after seeing Jens Quistgaard's handcrafted fork and knife on display in a Copenhagen museum?
Did you know that the largest water slide in the U.S. state of Oregon is Thrill-Ville USA in the city of Turner ?
Did you know that Yishan Yining , a Zen master who pioneered Gozan Bungaku literature in 14th-century Japan , was originally a Buddhist monk on a diplomatic mission from China ?
Did you know that Renée Asherson made her first stage appearance in John Gielgud 's 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet ?
Did you know that Ned Hanlon managed the Baltimore Orioles to three consecutive National League pennants?
Did you know that the Mexican government offers rewards of 30 million pesos for information leading to the arrest of the leaders of various drug trafficking cartels , such as the Beltrán-Leyva brothers ?
Did you know that although the Soviet Union recognised Swaziland in 1968, it wasn't until 1999 that Swazi relations with Russia were officially established?
Did you know that the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior"?
Did you know that the two German Scharnhorst -class armored cruisers were both sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
Did you know that two county attorneys were sued for not reporting the plot by a jealous ophthalmologist to murder another ophthalmologist , who later lost his eyesight in prison?
Did you know that as of 1981, New York City 's Toy Center was the site of 95% of the toy business transacted in the United States ?
Did you know that in 1918 the UK hospital ships HMHS Rewa and HMHS Glenart Castle were sunk by German U-boats within two months of each other?
Did you know that professional wrestler Olímpico ' s ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Film & Kino , which organizes municipal -owned cinemas in Norway , also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund ?
Did you know that fish diseases and parasites can result in mass fish die offs , particularly if the ambush predator Pfiesteria piscicida is involved?
Did you know that the Mexican Green Party has run an advertising campaign to promote the restoration of capital punishment in Mexico ?
Did you know that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester , Cheshire , England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?
Did you know that renalase is an enzyme that breaks down stress hormones and decreases blood pressure ?
Did you know that studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project ?
Did you know that the Australian cicada Psaltoda plaga is commonly known as the "black prince"?
Did you know that with 125 Scottish clans in attendance, The Gathering was the world's largest clan meeting and Highland games ?
Did you know that federal judge Paul Jones sentenced a pregnant mother of ten to jail for selling a quart of liquor, lectured her on birth control, and asked, "Doesn't this woman know how to stop it?"
Did you know that the title of Robbie Williams ' upcoming album Reality Killed the Video Star is a reference to 1979's The Buggles hit Video Killed the Radio Star ?
Did you know that during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), aquaculture in China of the common carp was banned because the Chinese word for common carp sounded like the family name, Li (李) , of the emperor?
Did you know that the coldest temperature in south-west England on record was −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) at Yeovilton , Somerset , in January 1982?
Did you know that recruiting analysts thought Da'Rel Scott was too small for a college running back , but in 2008 he ran for more than 1,000 yards and led his conference in rushing for most of the season?
Did you know that secretions from the placenta prevent the maternal immune system from recognizing the fetus as a foreign object, partly explaining immune tolerance in pregnancy ?
Did you know that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin' , Relaxin' , Workin' and Steamin' ?
Did you know that the Mexican land grant Rancho Las Juntas was given to Irishman William Welch, who was listed as "Guillermo Welch" on official land documents?
Did you know that the government of Griqualand East destroyed £10,000 in currency shortly after printing it?
Did you know that the Dallas Hilton , built in 1925 for Conrad Hilton in Downtown Dallas , Texas , was the first highrise hotel to be branded a " Hilton "?
Did you know that John Waltz managed the Baltimore Orioles for eight games despite lacking any qualifications for the job?
Did you know that Three-Mile Hog Ranch was a center for prostitution for soldiers at Fort Laramie ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Virus once worked in the Minis division until he won the right to wrestle regular sized wrestlers?
Did you know that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits ?
Did you know that Michigan fullback Everett Sweeley set a college football record in 1902 when he kicked the ball 86 yards?
Did you know the New York Court of Common Pleas was established in 1686 by Thomas Dongan as a successor to the New Netherlands ' Worshipful Court of the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens ?
Did you know that in December 1998 the host of The Gay Byrne Show , a favourite of Kenmare housewives, was greeted by a surprise audience which included the President and Taoiseach ?
Did you know that the San Francisco Art Association used the expansive Palace of Fine Arts to show a small collection of public art, and lost money each year from 1915 to 1922?
Did you know that the US Army 's Signal Corps built the MOBIDIC semi-trailer mounted computer to route battlefield information, but put it to good use as a logistics system instead?
Did you know that upon coming in contact with an alkali solution, the hairs of the fungus Microstoma floccosum will swell and then dissolve?
Did you know that Filipino basketball player Gec Chia ' s walk-off buzzer beater in the 2002 UAAP semifinals brought his coach Joel Banal to his knees, and he later described the shot as "a miracle"?
Did you know that the original plans for the Laurence Harbor New Jersey Transit station included a large commercial and residential development?
Did you know that quarterback Jarrett Brown replaced injured starter Pat White and led West Virginia to defeat Rutgers in 2008, having done the same thing in the 2006 game after three overtime periods?
Did you know that on Africa ’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde ), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands ?
Did you know that the French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville smuggled valuable cochineal insects out of Oaxaca to Port-au-Prince and wrote a dramatic account of his adventure?
Did you know that the 2002 documentary Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death , alleging U.S. involvement in the Dasht-i-Leili massacre , was viewed by the European Parliament , but received no coverage in U.S. media?
Did you know that in 1804 The Siege of Gibraltar , an aqua drama at the Sadler's Wells Theatre , used 117 floating model ships capable of firing their own guns?
Did you know that professional wrestler Mike Segura earned the nickname "Suicida" because of his risky dives out of the ring?
Did you know that I Anzac Corps suffered 6,300 casualties during the Battle of Mouquet Farm in 1916 and as a result had to be withdrawn from offensive operations on the Western Front for the next two months?
Did you know that Clayton Hill , who played the "sweater zombie" in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead , was described by a member of the film's crew as "one of the most convincing zombies of the bunch"?
Did you know that Lujan-Fryns syndrome is often associated with failure of a major brain structure to develop?
Did you know that Only Clouds Move the Stars has received more international film awards than any other Norwegian film ?
Did you know that Bruce Shorts , head football coach at Nevada and Oregon , was described in 1904 as "the best coach west of the Mississippi River "?
Did you know that according to a 1977 book, the 1905 sentimental ballad " Nellie Dean " "must surely be the song most often sung in pubs during the present century"?
Did you know that an unnamed member of the extinct order Hupehsuchia exhibited an unusual form of polydactyly that is similar to that of some early tetrapods of the Devonian period?
Did you know that Wilma Scott Heide grew NOW to 50,000 members and an annual budget of $750,000 during her four-year term as president, having taken office in 1971 with 3,000 members and spending of $28,000?
Did you know that a total of 441 military and civilian personnel of the Turkish Naval Base Gölcük , among them a rear admiral , were killed by the 1999 İzmit earthquake ?
Did you know that in 1973, U.S. District Judge Orrin G. Judd issued an injunction prohibiting the United States ' continued bombing of Cambodia , but a higher court stayed the ruling before it could take effect?
Did you know that when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket , he was the first player to do so in an international match?
Did you know that the community of Old Glory in Texas used to be known as "New Brandenburg" until residents petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a name change in 1918 due to anti-German sentiment ?
Did you know that Canadian Sandy Hott 's result in 2005 was the highest placement ever at the World Orienteering Championships by a competitor from the North American continent?
Did you know that Pure Mule upset "a lot of people" and caused a politician to comment on the "ticking time bomb" of teenage sex , cocaine and sexual promiscuity in rural Ireland ?
Did you know that tight end Dennis Pitta put his college football career on hold for two years to serve in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints mission in the Dominican Republic ?
Did you know that Native Americans in the West Indies used an extract from Fishfuddle to sedate fish, making them easier to catch?
Did you know that it was not realized for 70 years that the Brazilian False Rice Rat was described twice under two different names?
Did you know that following the war in August , Russia and South Ossetia signed a treaty in September 2008, guaranteeing Russian intervention in the event of an attack on South Ossetia ?
Did you know that Frederick Van Voorhies Holman is credited with giving the nickname "Rose City" to Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that the Chapel of St Non in Pembrokeshire is unusual in that it is aligned north / south rather than the usual east / west?
Did you know that Harry Hawkins won the U.S. national collegiate hammer throw championship in 1926 and was rated by Fielding Yost as the best football lineman of 1925?
Did you know that the "anti-energy" drink Slow Cow is a parody of Red Bull ?
Did you know that in 1907 French photographer Léon Gimpel became the first photographer to have his work published in color?
Did you know that all Allied pilots shot down over Poland in World War II are laid to rest at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków ?
Did you know that Khan al-Harir , built by Darwish Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Damascus , was the first great caravanserai to be built inside the old city walls of Damascus?
Did you know that Indian sarod player Brij Narayan composed music for the 1988 movie The Bengali Night ?
Did you know that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?