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Did you know that the Fire Nation , from the Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender , was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean ?
Did you know that Welcome to Macintosh , a documentary focusing on Apple Inc. and its Macintosh line of computers, was praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for being the most accurate film about the company?
Did you know that in 1993, an officer in New Zealand 's Diplomatic Protection Squad accidentally discharged a pistol on a VIP aircraft while in flight?
Did you know that William McAloney was awarded the Albert Medal for his attempted rescue of a pilot trapped in a burning aircraft?
Did you know that Craig Stevens 's CBS series , Mr. Broadway , featured Liza Minnelli in her first television dramatic role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale"?
Did you know that Sir Alan Muir Wood worked on the 80 km (50 mi) Orange–Fish River Tunnel , the second-longest water supply tunnel in the world?
Did you know that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road ?
Did you know that in 1945, footballer Doug McGibbon scored six goals in one match, one of which was timed at under five seconds from the second half kick-off?
Did you know that actor and broadcaster Dean Miller , who played the son-in-law on CBS 's December Bride , later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio ?
Did you know that communities of the Dagaaba people of Ghana in the 1990s still used cowrie shells as an alternate currency, long after they had been replaced elsewhere by the Ghanaian cedi ?
Did you know that on January 22 Barack Obama issued an executive order requiring interrogations by any U.S. agency to comply with the Army 's Human Intelligence Collector Operations field manual ?
Did you know that Alexandru Callimachi was Dragoman of the Sublime Porte before becoming Prince of Moldavia in 1795?
Did you know that Rascal Flatts ' 2009 single " Here Comes Goodbye " was co-written by American Idol season 6 finalist Chris Sligh ?
Did you know that unlike the queens of other eusocial species, a queen of the paper wasp Ropalidia marginata is docile and maintains her reproductive monopoly in her colony without physical aggression?
Did you know that former fashion model Gail O'Neill refused to appear in advertisements for cigarettes or for sponsors with substantial investments in South Africa ?
Did you know that the Dayton Triangles , a traveling team , folded after their 1929 season , losing their final seventeen games as a National Football League franchise by a combined score of 301–22?
Did you know that Australian Frederick Hamilton March was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal for his conduct during the assassination of the Governor-General of Sudan , Sir Lee Stack ?
Did you know that detection of fungal infection by the wood-decay fungus Fuscoporia torulosa can be performed in six hours using the polymerase chain reaction ?
Did you know that Joe Dini , the owner of Dini's Lucky Club , a casino in Yerington , Nevada , was the longest serving member of the Nevada State Assembly ?
Did you know that Apartment Building 63 located in Bucharest is the largest single residential building in Romania with a total of 950 apartments and over 1,600 residents?
Did you know that Luke Smith left video game journalism to work for game developer Bungie , after he had called their game Halo 2 "broken"?
Did you know that, unusually for an eighteenth-century novel , the heroine of Charlotte Turner Smith 's Emmeline does not meet the man she marries until half-way through the story?
Did you know that English barrister Joseph Keble went to the Court of King's Bench every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a brief for a client?
Did you know that Jack Kramer was the St. Louis Browns' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1944, the only season the Browns played in the World Series ?
Did you know that the new Prime Minister of Somalia , Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke , has Canadian citizenship and his family is based in Virginia , USA ?
Did you know that the top of the Chapel of Saint-Michel at Parc naturel régional d'Armorique is the highest point in Brittany , France ?
Did you know that musician and Presbyterian minister Isaiah Jones, Jr. was named "best songwriter of the year" in 1973 by the Gospel Music Academy?
Did you know that the Permanent University Fund ' s US$8.8 billion and 2.1 million-acre (840,000 ha) land assets help fund public higher education in Texas ?
Did you know that rolling meth labs used for the illegal production of methamphetamine have been known to explode , endangering motorists and police officers ?
Did you know that refugee mathematician Emil Grosswald 's first three scientific papers were published under a pseudonym ?
Did you know that the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon , is the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Qi paid his best archers and soldiers of Xiongnu and Xi ancestry ten times as much as other soldiers, to garner their loyalty?
Did you know that William Close , the physician father of actress Glenn Close , played a pivotal role in stemming the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976?
Did you know that Cambodia 's Prime Minister Hun Sen was born in a small village on the banks of the Mekong in Stueng Trang District ?
Did you know that after scoring six touchdowns for Michigan against Ohio State in 1902, Albert Herrnstein became the winningest coach in Ohio State football history up to the time he retired?
Did you know that acqua pazza , an Italian herbed broth used to cook seafood , is literally translated as "crazy water"?
Did you know that upon entering the Stadio Olympica at the opening ceremonies of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , the torch bearer tripped over a cable and fell, nearly extinguishing the Olympic flame ?
Did you know that Phoebe Omlie , the first licensed female transport pilot , was considered by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing"?
Did you know that while most beers are vegetarian , some—like British cask ales which use fish parts to clear the finished product—are not?
Did you know that Monroe Sweetland was the first Democrat elected to represent Clackamas County, Oregon , in the Oregon House of Representatives in 20 years?
Did you know that in 114 years of existence the Constanţa Shipyard in Romania constructed 432 ships with a total of over four million metric tons deadweight (DWT)?
Did you know that in January 2009, Mark Pollock became the first blind person to reach the South Pole ?
Did you know that applying potassium hydroxide to the blue and yellow Australian mushroom Cortinarius rotundisporus will turn it pinkish-purple?
Did you know that most buildings damaged in the 1848 Marlborough earthquake in Wellington, New Zealand were rebuilt with wood, reducing the damage and loss of life in the more powerful Wairarapa earthquake of 1855?
Did you know that in 1920, Henrik Ameln became the first Conservative Party politician to serve as mayor of Bergen since Christian Michelsen in 1893?
Did you know that despite the fact that self-described alligator farms have existed since the 1890s, true commercial farming of crocodilians did not begin until the mid-20th century?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty 's Princess Taihe , who became the Kedun (empress) of its ally Huigu , suffered through Huigu's collapse before she was able to return to the Tang?
Did you know that the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung , published in Chicago , played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?
Did you know that Bobby Atherton was the last Hibernian captain to win the Scottish Cup , in 1902 ?
Did you know that Timetoget bought diesel trains to operate on the Bratsberg Line , despite it being electrified ?
Did you know that Polish historian, army officer, and independence activist Wacław Lipiński joined the anti-communist resistance , was arrested by communist secret police in 1947 and died in prison two years later?
Did you know that an outburst by Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation inspired the band The Mae Shi to write the song " R U Professional "?
Did you know that 800 metres runner Andrew Hart was the fastest non- African in his event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that Sanggung was an official title of the senior fifth rank, the highest attainable for gungnyeo , a lady-in-waiting during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea ?
Did you know that following his rescue of a swimmer during a shark attack in 1922, Jack Chalmers was awarded the Albert Medal and gifted £3000?
Did you know that the discography of Lisa Hannigan includes collaborations with Mic Christopher , Mick Flannery , Cathy Davey and members of Snow Patrol and Bell X1 , plus her well-known work with Damien Rice ?
Did you know that Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel became the first Indians to sign Major League Baseball contracts after throwing a baseball for the first time a year earlier?
Did you know that the extreme points of Norway include Rossøya , at 80° North, and arguably the South Pole ?
Did you know that Allama Prabhu , the mystic-saint of 12th century Karnataka , India , was also an accomplished Vachana poet?
Did you know that in 2008 a Vincent Black Lightning sold for £221,500 becoming  the most expensive motorcycle sold at auction in the UK ?
Did you know that former newspaper editor John W. Grace became the first Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 1983?
Did you know that Grassroots , an organization formed by block club leaders, has had members elected to the Buffalo Common Council , New York State Senate and New York State Assembly ?
Did you know that while long jumper László Szalma won six medals in total at the European Indoor Championships , his best result at both the Summer Olympics and the World Championships was fourth place?
Did you know that Mule Bone , a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston , had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?
Did you know that Eslanda Goode Robeson , wife of Paul Robeson , was the first black to head the Surgical Pathology Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital ?
Did you know that Surtshellir , named for the fire giant Surtr , is the longest lava cave in Iceland ?
Did you know that Isaac D. Barnard fought at the Battle of Plattsburg in the War of 1812 , and later became Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Prey Chhor District , Cambodia , is home to an ancient temple built more than a thousand years ago?
Did you know that Wictor Esbensen , a manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca , is the namesake of Esbensen Bay off South Georgia island?
Did you know that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office estimates that 80% of Filipinos in Palau are undocumented immigrants ?
Did you know that Mira Rostova , Montgomery Clift 's acting coach, was sent off the set of the 1960 film Wild River by director Elia Kazan after a single day of filming?
Did you know that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale ’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army ?
Did you know that catastrophic flooding in 2000 destroyed 95% of the annual rice crop in Srey Santhor District , Cambodia ?
Did you know that film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames , she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?
Did you know that early favorites in the 2009 Kentucky Derby include the filly Stardom Bound ?
Did you know that Hans Kristian Seip , the father of Jens Arup Seip , also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the Nazi occupants in Norway in 1941?
Did you know that a radio station in Evergreen, Alabama , made national headlines in 1992 when the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that state law allowed a disc jockey to be fired just because she is a woman ?
Did you know that Dr Charles White , co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary , kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years?
Did you know that the Great Mosque of Al-Zaytuna , the oldest mosque in Tunis , Tunisia , was partly built using materials from the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage ?
Did you know that Ralph Regenvanu has been described as Vanuatu 's first anthropologist ?
Did you know that the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party was the sole Zionist party in Mandate Palestine to advocate national rights for Palestinian Arabs ?
Did you know that NASCAR described its 2008 Crew Chief of the Year Steve Addington as the "complementary ice to driver Kyle Busch 's fire"?
Did you know that the Special Boarding Unit was created by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in response to the alleged presence of North Korean spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999?
Did you know that Tom Brumley ' s performance on " Together Again " for Buck Owens was called "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music "?
Did you know that the Maasai common name for the plant Salvia merjamie is Naingungundeu , which means "smells of rats"?
Did you know that although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal , his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
Did you know that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis ?
Did you know that actor and environmentalist Ron Hayes worked to establish the first Earth Day in 1970 and to preserve the Grand Canyon National Park ?
Did you know that Ponhea Kraek District was the home of Sek Yi, who died aged 120 years, claiming the title of Cambodia ’s oldest man?
Did you know that Joan Baez had a #8 hit single with " There but for Fortune " the same week her album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 reached #8?
Did you know that ice hockey coach Janne Karlsson has won two Swedish Championships , one World Championship , and one Olympic gold medal?
Did you know that the Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky , was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?
Did you know that merchants from ancient India brought Roman goods of styrax and frankincense to Han Dynasty China ?
Did you know that during World War II , Kasper Idland was one of the four saboteurs who entered the Vemork heavy water facility to conduct heavy water sabotage ?
Did you know that as Governor of Madras , John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland , had Annie Besant arrested in 1917 for advocating home rule for India ?
Did you know that John McFarland was taken first overall in the 2008 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection?
Did you know that Kerry Kohansky Roberts attended New York University 's film school at the same time as Peter Sollett , but did not meet him until they collaborated on Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ?
Did you know that the RTÉ television series The Great Escape follows families as they relocate to countries such as South Africa , Australia , Austria , Italy , France and Spain ?
Did you know that Bo Molenda played professional football , baseball and basketball and was the "workhorse" for the Green Bay Packers teams that won three consecutive NFL championships from 1929 to 1931?
Did you know that the first reported sighting of the bird's nest fungus Cyathus helenae was on mountain scree in the Canadian Rockies ?
Did you know that Bonnie Newman , a former chief of staff to Judd Gregg , had been named to replace him in the United States Senate until Gregg withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce ?
Did you know that Jangipara , a block in the Indian state of West Bengal , includes a mosque built in 1375?
Did you know that American composer Danny Elfman was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1990 for creating " The Simpsons Theme " and in 2005 for the Desperate Housewives theme?
Did you know that Walter of Albano , a papal legate to England in 1095, helped secure the recognition of Pope Urban II by King William II of England ?
Did you know that the Irish student group Free Education for Everyone has blockaded prominent politicians in protests over tuition ?
Did you know that after their 1951 marital breakup, popular Old Mother Riley actor Kitty McShane filmed her last scenes with husband Arthur Lucan on separate days?
Did you know that Ou Reang Ov District , Cambodia , was one of the 2008 sites for Operation Pacific Angel , a humanitarian mission of the U.S. Navy , Air Force , and Marines ?
Did you know that model Jessica Hart , who was selected to appear in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , is known for her gap tooth smile?
Did you know that the British band Echo & the Bunnymen 's eighth studio album , What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? , was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart ?
Did you know that Yohannan Sulaqa , to oppose the hereditary patriarchal succession, took a step unprecedented in the Church of the East : traveled to Rome and was there consecrated patriarch in 1553?
Did you know that the Zen rock garden in the grounds of Zuisen-ji temple, near Kamakura , Japan , is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?
Did you know that Sir Donald Luddington was the last person in history to be appointed High Commissioner for the Western Pacific ?
Did you know that an anomalocaridid , a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
Did you know that Christ Bongo was one of only three Congolese footballers to score in final qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup ?
Did you know that Akanthosuchus , an extinct crocodilian from the Paleocene , is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed armor ?
Did you know that after King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch , Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?
Did you know that Ernie Vick was an All-American football center while enrolled at the University of Michigan medical school even though his schoolwork did not allow him to practice with the team?
Did you know that Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on " Unplayed Piano ", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?
Did you know that Li Ning was made a crown prince of the Tang Dynasty , but his mother, a consort , had to settle for a much lesser honour?
Did you know that Nancy Cartwright wrote an autobiography , later adapted into a one-woman play , called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy ?
Did you know that Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants ?
Did you know that when called by the opposition to quit after the Kauhajoki school shooting , Finnish politician Anne Holmlund refused and compared resigning her post as Interior Minister to " desertion "?
Did you know that the World War Memorial , built in 1928 in Kimball, West Virginia , was the first memorial to African-American veterans of World War I in the United States?
Did you know that Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Hamilton originally published Memoirs of Modern Philosophers in 1800 under a pseudonym because "even the sex of a writer may unwittingly bias the reader’s mind"?
Did you know that the architect Maxwell Ayrton co-designed the old Wembley Stadium of 1923 with his partner John William Simpson ?
Did you know that, in the Faroe Islands , one way of preparing puffins as food is to stuff them with sweet cake dough , raisins, and spices?
Did you know that although Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham Abbey was known for his loyalty to William the Conqueror , he had an uncle who died fighting for King Harold , the man William deposed?
Did you know that the short-lived Republic of Biak-na-Bato ended after a pact was signed by Emilio Aguinaldo and Fernando Primo de Rivera ?
Did you know that Charles Darwin 's final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms ?
Did you know that Orlando Antigua survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first Hispanic and first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years?
Did you know that in 2005 UNESCO proclaimed the Moravian male recruit dance verbuňk as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind?
Did you know that, according to architectural historian Neil Levine, Frank Lloyd Wright agreed to hold the 1930 Kahn Lectures for the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him"?
Did you know that fishing for giant clams in the Maldives was banned by the island's government in 1991, just one year after the fishery was established?
Did you know that the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper " Non-Darwinian Evolution "?
Did you know that Tim Cole was the first person in Texas history to have his conviction posthumously overturned based on DNA evidence ?
Did you know that Herbert Spencer , secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society , first suggested the term " survival of the fittest " after reading Charles Darwin 's idea of evolution ?
Did you know that the Hechal Yehuda Synagogue in Tel Aviv is often referred to as the Seashell Synagogue due to its unusal shape, inspired by the seashells on the shores of Thessaloniki ?
Did you know that Consort Zheng , concubine of Emperor Xianzong of Tang , was originally a servant girl for his wife Consort Guo ?
Did you know that two species of bird's nest fungi , Cyathus olla and Cyathus stercoreus , have been researched for use in agriculture ?
Did you know that Paul Galloway and Bob Greene co-wrote Bagtime , a serial published in the Chicago Sun-Times about a fictional supermarket bagger , which was made into a stage musical and a pilot for a TV series ?
Did you know that Charles Darwin conducted a psychological study of his son William Erasmus Darwin where he compared the child to orangutan babies?
Did you know that the T4 rII experimental system enabled biologist Seymour Benzer to map a gene down to the level of one or two base pairs before the invention of DNA sequencing ?
Did you know that Emperor Xuānzong of Tang , the son of Emperor Xianzong by a concubine , suspected Xianzong's wife Consort Guo of being complicit in Xianzong's murder?
Did you know that the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham covers the history of Evesham Abbey from 714 to 1539?
Did you know that Joe M. Rodgers , who spent six hours a day for four months learning French after being named U.S. Ambassador to France , later became CEO of language school operator Berlitz International ?
Did you know that to help promote their single " Showdown ", drum and bass band Pendulum released a Space Invaders themed video game ?
Did you know that during the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad ' s last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private vehicle ?
Did you know that India 's imports fell by 47% and exports by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the Great Depression ?
Did you know that on its first day of open beta testing , 20,000 players created 100,000 player characters in the free online video game Runes of Magic ?
Did you know that because of the strict sex segregation of the era based on Confucianism , Korea 's Joseon Dynasty created a class of specialist female physicians known  as Uinyeo ?
Did you know that Tsarong Dzasa was regarded by officials in British India as "the most powerful friend of His Majesty's Government in Tibet "?
Did you know that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper " Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease " became the basis for Linus Pauling 's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics ?
Did you know that coaches of the Great Western Railway were built up to 13 feet (4 m) longer than most other British railway carriages of the time?
Did you know that Lucian Piane created a satirical techno remix , " Bale Out ", utilizing a verbal rant actor Christian Bale made on the set of Terminator Salvation ?