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Did you know that a BSA Lightning fitted with a working missile launching system featured in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball ?
Did you know that Robert Elliott-Cooper lived for 12 more years after the journal Nature described him as "among the oldest of English engineers"?
Did you know that Catch My Soul , a rock musical adapation of Othello set in a late 1960s commune in New Mexico , USA , was the only film directed by the late Patrick McGoohan ?
Did you know that Australian photographer Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend, photographer Max Dupain , in Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills , and married him in 1937?
Did you know that Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio , USA , is home to both Little Beaver Creek , a National Scenic River , and a restored 1837 mill ?
Did you know that the Pysähdy ajoissa - Stanna i tid ("Stop in time") traffic campaign was the result of the public response to a road death of a nine-year-old girl in Finland ?
Did you know that Mark Donaldson became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia , for his gallant actions under enemy fire in Afghanistan in September 2008?
Did you know that the Madhu church shelling affected the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu , the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka ?
Did you know that poppy seed , harvested from the opium poppy seed head, has had its use dated back to the Sumerians ?
Did you know that before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin , he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell 's forces as a suspected Royalist spy ?
Did you know that in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania , hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln , Grant , and Buchanan ?
Did you know that both parents of the Cryptoheros septemfasciatus fish care for their fry intensively?
Did you know that Joseph Yuill and his wife Margaret operated Ontario 's first travelling dairy ?
Did you know that the Sunday Magazine Editors Association gives out journalism awards recognizing work in writing, investigative journalism , and design in Sunday newspaper magazines?
Did you know that Said al-Shawa was the first mayor of Gaza , appointed in 1906?
Did you know that before the chancery records began around 1200, the Pipe rolls were the only continuous records kept by the English government?
Did you know that Harlington Wood Jr. is credited with helping to negotiate a truce between federal officers and Native Americans during the Wounded Knee incident in 1973?
Did you know that the extinct coral Coelosimilia is the first known example of a scleractinian coral to have a skeleton not composed of the mineral aragonite ?
Did you know that Wisconsin Highway 131 crosses nine bridges in 7.3 miles (11.7 km) between the communities of Rockton and Ontario ?
Did you know that at different times Phnom Voar (Vine Mountain) in southern Cambodia was a B-52 target, a rebel base, a killing field , a kidnapping site, and finally a peaceful mountain?
Did you know that Rose Byrne said that filming the opening scene of Damages episode " Get Me a Lawyer " on a winter's morning in only underwear and a coat was "very traumatic"?
Did you know that the earliest Roman glass found in China comes from a 1st-century-BC tomb in Guangzhou , dated to the Han Dynasty ?
Did you know that Thomas Robbins , the Connecticut Historical Society 's first librarian , owned the 385 volume Journal des sçavans , the earliest published scholarly periodical ?
Did you know that world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood won the 1965 Hutchinson 100 Production race at Silverstone on a BSA Lightning Clubman ?
Did you know that Francis Mallison was elected to the New York State Assembly after being held as a Union prisoner of war during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the private company Gråkallbanen reopened the Trondheim Tramway in 1990, two years after it had been permanently closed by the city council?
Did you know that wrestling manager Lou Albano 's part in a Cyndi Lauper music video inspired storylines for World Wrestling Federation shows The Brawl to End it All and The War to Settle the Score ?
Did you know that when NBC pulled " Steve Burdick ", an AIDS -themed episode of the medical drama Lifestories , gay and AIDS activists accused the network of fearing advertiser backlash?
Did you know that the Port of Piraeus is the largest passenger port in Europe and one of the largest in the world with total traffic of 21,522,917 people in 2007?
Did you know that Harold Snyder said that the 1985 New York Stock Exchange listing of Biocraft Laboratories, which he founded, was the first such listing for a generic pharmaceutical company?
Did you know that Kalvar is a type of photographic film that can be developed simply by heating it?
Did you know that British actor Norman Lumsden , who played J. R. Hartley in the popular 1983 Yellow Pages Fly Fishing advert, was originally an opera singer who created roles for Benjamin Britten ?
Did you know that " Girls on Film " by Duran Duran served as the opening theme for the Japanese anime Speed Grapher though FUNimation was unable to obtain its license for US release?
Did you know that in 1865, a party led by Captain Franklin B. Sprague of the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry descended an 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to become the first explorers to reach the shore of Crater Lake ?
Did you know that Magnolia Park was the first park in Hillsboro, Oregon , to include a recreational water fountain ?
Did you know that Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India and also first of any highest judiciary of a nation in Asia?
Did you know that radio station WLIQ (now WMOB ) broadcast from the historic Battle House Hotel in Mobile, Alabama , from 1964 to 1971?
Did you know that amateur photographer George Caddy 's 70-year-old lost negatives that surfaced in 2007 are the only documents of an historic Bondi beach acrobatic troupe?
Did you know that, in his 2000 book The Ingenuity Gap , Thomas Homer-Dixon argues the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to implement solutions is not keeping pace?
Did you know that Trondhjems Omnibus Aktieselskab started the first scheduled coach route in Trondheim , Norway , in 1893?
Did you know that consuming the elfin saddle mushroom would result in the harmful formation of monomethylhydrazine , a component of rocket fuel , in your body?
Did you know that before entering politics, Guro Fjellanger studied to be a goldsmith ?
Did you know that the fungus Humaria hemisphaerica is commonly known as the "hairy fairy cup"?
Did you know that, upon being hired by the WWF , professional wrestler Lanny Kean was told to base his persona on Jethro Bodine from The Beverly Hillbillies ?
Did you know that the Port of Thessaloniki in Greece will double its container terminal capacity after an investment of US$600 million made by the Hutchison Port Holdings company based in Hong Kong ?
Did you know that the interactive fiction Lost Pig won four XYZZY awards and took first place in the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition ?
Did you know that The New York Times credited the success of promoter Gary Kurfirst 's 1968 New York Rock Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , and The Doors as inspiring the 1969 Woodstock Festival ?
Did you know that Shire Brook in Sheffield , England , was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years?
Did you know that Frank Vandiver received his high school diploma while serving as Acting President of Rice University ?
Did you know that the 13th-century French romance Palamedes describes the adventures of the fathers of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
Did you know that a 42–3 win by the North Carolina Tar Heels in the 1998 Gator Bowl was the worst loss for the Virginia Tech Hokies college football team since a 45–0 shutout in 1983?
Did you know that the popular Calypso Carol was written by an Englishman, Michael Perry , while still a student, and only became famous by accident?
Did you know that the proposed Rampart Dam on the Yukon River in Alaska would have created a man-made reservoir larger than Lake Erie ?
Did you know that the Bank of Issue in Poland , created by the Nazis to support the Nazi economy , was penetrated by the Polish resistance which used it as a source of falsified documents?
Did you know that Edmund W. Wells , a delegate to Arizona 's constitutional convention , refused to sign the final document due to its radical features?
Did you know that the Meråker Line railway of Norway branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell ?
Did you know that Scuderia Ferrari factory driver Peter Sutcliffe was also a textile manufacturer?
Did you know that in July 1905, during the Theriso revolt , three insurgent leaders met the consuls of the European Great Powers at a monastery surrounded by rebels, and that martial law was declared after the talks failed?
Did you know that college football cornerback Kevin Barnes of Maryland delivered a tackle hard enough to cause Heisman Trophy prospect Jahvid Best to vomit on the field, footage of which became a viral video ?
Did you know that the Jastrzębie-Zdrój 1980 strikes forced the government of the People's Republic of Poland to sign the last of three agreements establishing the Solidarity trade union?
Did you know that after Kent Williams was elected speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives , his party expelled him from its caucus ?
Did you know that the extinct fish Santanichthys is the oldest known member of Order Characiformes , which includes the tetras and the piranha ?
Did you know that Oklahoma historian Angie Debo won numerous honors for her books on Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department?
Did you know that a Soviet P-19 radar (Flat Face B) was captured in the 1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict and reviewed by French experts?
Did you know that child actor Laura Ann Kesling , who made her film debut in Adam Sandler 's 2008 film Bedtime Stories , is the daughter of LPGA golfer Danielle Ammaccapane ?
Did you know that according to legend, Anandibai led to the assassination of the 13-year-old king Narayanrao Peshwa by changing one letter dha to ma , thus changing the order "capture him" to "kill him"?
Did you know that the NSB Class 66 was the first Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
Did you know that Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz , webmasters for Harry Potter fansites , were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released?
Did you know that Teedyuscung , known as the King of the Delawares , lost much of his territory to colonial Pennsylvania in the Walking Purchase and later sought retribution for the massive land loss?
Did you know that The Visitors is the only opera Mexican composer Carlos Chávez ever scored?
Did you know that ACLU director Aryeh Neier , a refugee from Nazi Germany , supported the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party of America in its efforts to march in Skokie, Illinois , an area with many Holocaust survivors?
Did you know that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald , the earliest books of the New Testament are responses to the Homeric Epics , thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?
Did you know that a pipeline exploded in Nigeria on October 18, 1998, killing a total of 1,082 people and injuring hundreds more?
Did you know that college football tailback Mikell Simpson of Virginia ran for a 96-yard touchdown in the 2008 Gator Bowl , which is the longest rush by a running back in an NCAA bowl game ?
Did you know that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum (UK) is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
Did you know that Thomas D. Brock discovered Thermus aquaticus , an extremophile living at greater than 70 °C in hot springs at Yellowstone which became the source of the enzyme used in PCR ?
Did you know that the film All About Eve (1950) gained Barbara McLean a record seventh nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing , and that this record remains unbroken?
Did you know that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single German pillbox ?
Did you know that Group Officer Clare Stevenson was the first Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)?
Did you know that in the 1894 case Schillinger v. United States , the Supreme Court ruled that a patent infringement suit can't be pursued against the U.S. because it held sovereign immunity for intentional torts ?
Did you know that Sir Abdur Rahim KCSI was President of the Central Legislative Assembly of India for ten years?
Did you know that Air and Simple Gifts , performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was the first classical music quartet ever performed at a United States presidential inauguration?
Did you know that Jerome Murphy-O'Connor , the Dominican priest and Bible scholar , is a cousin of Cormac Murphy-O'Connor , the Archbishop of Westminster ?
Did you know that thanks to its fluorescence , α-parinaric acid has been used to analyze the stability of beer foam ?
Did you know that in light of the Nazi Germany attempt to destroy Polish culture , the Secret Teaching Organization created an underground education system with over a million students?
Did you know that Brian Hill is the only head coach for the Orlando Magic to serve during two non-consecutive periods?
Did you know that while in the service of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I , Polish Legionnaires decided to mutiny, fighting their former master at the Battle of Rarańcza ?
Did you know that post-black artist Rashid Johnson had multiple works in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago before the age of 25?
Did you know that Kanthirava Narasaraja I was the first ruler in the Kingdom of Mysore to create symbols associated with Mysore royalty, such as the coins (Kanthiraya) that he named after himself?
Did you know that Philip De Witt Ginder won the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Germany during World War II and became the youngest American general to command a combat division in the Korean War ?
Did you know that there are 115,200 solutions to the ménage problem of permuting six couples at a twelve-person table so that men and women alternate and are seated away from their partners?
Did you know that, shortly after breaking Donn Lewin 's nose during a professional wrestling match, Danny McShain was introduced to Lewin's sister, who he later married?
Did you know that because the Indo-Pacific sea urchin Diadema setosum has been found in Turkish waters, it is the first invasive echinoid in the Mediterranean ?
Did you know that Marcus Schrenker , after committing pseudocide , may face charges from the Coast Guard , the Federal Aviation Administration , as well as Indiana , Alabama , and Florida law enforcement?
Did you know that German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C. , who also played in those colours?
Did you know that William K. Jones , awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan , was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II ?
Did you know that a "lively controversy " occurred at the 1902 International Congress of Americanists over the word " Amerind "?
Did you know that Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for Jimmy Carter as President?
Did you know that the Carnegie Library in Runcorn , Cheshire , England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building ?
Did you know that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League ?
Did you know that between 20,000 and 80,000 Filipinos live illegally in Italy ?
Did you know that the Ames-Florida House is one of a few houses in Minnesota built with timber framing before balloon framing and dimensional lumber were well-known in that U.S. state ?
Did you know that following TV3 's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty , was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"?
Did you know that the Lipari Landfill in New Jersey , where nearly 3 million gallons and 12 thousand tons of hazardous waste were dumped, was called the worst toxic dump in the United States?
Did you know that Hans Jørgen and Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen , sons of industrialist Lauritz Jenssen , both served as Norwegian Minister of Labour ?
Did you know that Marra Farm is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle , Washington , city limits that retains an agricultural use today?
Did you know that, in 2008, college football quarterback Rodney Landers of James Madison became the first player from an FCS school to win the Dudley Award for most outstanding player in Virginia since 1998?
Did you know that until recent XMM-Newton images, the supernova remnant G350.1-0.3 was mistakenly thought to be a distant galaxy ?
Did you know that Nigel Hamilton 's biography of the young John F. Kennedy , JFK: Reckless Youth , was turned into a television miniseries of the same name starring Patrick Dempsey as JFK?
Did you know that the whorl snail Nesopupa turtoni , previously known only as a fossil , was discovered alive in 2003 in the Prosperous Bay Plain area of Saint Helena ?
Did you know that Bob Francis is the only Phoenix Coyotes head coach to have won the Jack Adams Award , having won it in the 2001–02 NHL season ?
Did you know that the T2000 stock of the Oslo T-bane , Norway , is equipped with both a pantograph and a third rail shoe so they can operate both east and west of the city center?
Did you know that in 1923, Charles Scott Haley conducted California 's first statewide comprehensive study of tertiary fluvial placers , dredge fields, and dry placers?
Did you know that relations between Japan and The Netherlands date back 400 years when the first formal trade relations were established in 1609?
Did you know that Noella Marcellino , a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese , was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut 's Abbey of Regina Laudis ?
Did you know that "pig's ears", fungal species Gomphus clavatus , are the only Gomphus species in North America?
Did you know that as a junior officer Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz served as beachmaster on Sword Beach from D-Day until he was severely wounded 19 days later, and was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross ?
Did you know that the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in Chennai , India , which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
Did you know that composer Michael Arne 's obsession for alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone led him into serious financial problems resulting in his arrest and confinement in a Dublin sponging-house ?
Did you know that the War of 1812 battle Spur's Defeat was so named due to the survivors having to spur their horses in order to escape?
Did you know that due to the Arab League boycott of Israel , McDonald's did not open in Israel until 1993 when they opened their first branch in Ramat Gan ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Susan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad checks ?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Jostein Grindhaug scored the first league goal for the club FK Haugesund ?
Did you know that during the Battle of New Haven , the fort the Confederate howitzer aimed at was not damaged, but the town's only hotel and bar were?
Did you know that intercepted by a larger French force on 6 November 1794 , Captain Richard Bligh of HMS Alexander chose to stay and fight, allowing his companion ship, HMS Canada , to safely retreat?
Did you know that glucuronidation of hyodeoxycholic acid by the UGT2B4 and UGT2B7 isoforms is an example of redundancy in the natural protection against harmful endogenous compounds?
Did you know that college football coach Don Brown led the UMass Minutemen to their best five-year record in school history?
Did you know that the mushroom Lactarius glyciosmus smells strongly of coconuts ?
Did you know that in a 1967 television interview, David Frost compared Welsh nationalist activist Dennis Coslett to Israeli general Moshe Dayan , because both wore eyepatches ?
Did you know that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora , a town in Saskatchewan , Canada ?
Did you know that the first steamship in the Mediterranean Sea basin, Real Ferdiando I , was launched on September 27, 1818, from the Port of Naples ?
Did you know that the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before Obama officially launched his presidential campaign ?
Did you know that the olive cultivar Bosana makes up more than half the olive production of Sardinia ?
Did you know that Norwegian historian Tore Linné Eriksen has published several books about Namibia , including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century ?
Did you know that the day when Exxon canceled its Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado is known by locals as " Black Sunday "?
Did you know that Anthony , Charles , Cecilia , Isabella, Sr. , Isabella, Jr. , Esther , Elizabeth , and Polly Young were part of an English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Did you know that Chōji Suitengu , a character from the anime Speed Grapher , rolls his cigarettes with 10,000 yen bills?
Did you know that soon after understudy Eric Lewis left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in frustration that George Grossmith rarely took a day off, Grossmith fell gravely ill?
Did you know that venture capitalists committed US$ 25,000 to the Next Big Sound after a group of Northwestern University students presented it as their entrepreneur class assignment?
Did you know that George Miller Bligh was present at Nelson's death at Trafalgar , and was subsequently incorporated into Arthur William Devis 's painting of the event ?
Did you know that Kentucky 's Cherokee State Park , now part of Kenlake State Resort Park , was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States ?
Did you know that Jon Tvedt took up competitive mountain running in his late thirties, his career in orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
Did you know that B.Day, Bakery Music ' s tenth-anniversary and parting concert, was performed at Rajamangala Stadium to an audience of 50,000 and was the largest concert ever held in Thailand at the time?
Did you know that the poor grade sandstone used in the original U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts required them to undergo a complete restoration in 1938?
Did you know that rabbits that were introduced as food for arctic foxes still populate Anangula Island in the Aleutian Islands , although the foxes were removed in the 1940s?
Did you know that Bhausaheb Kolte was the first to edit Leela Charitra , the first written biography in the Marathi language?
Did you know that Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O ?
Did you know that Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield hosts around 30,000 music fans every September for the annual Rock'n Coke open air music festival ?
Did you know that anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?
Did you know that the book Outliers , written by Malcolm Gladwell , claims that the key to success in any field is practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours?
Did you know that college football coach Jim Tatum secured a national championship without a single losing season in his nine years at Maryland , but was called a "parasitic monster" by one student newspaper?