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Did you know that the Government Cable Office in Seward, Alaska , provided the first telegraph service to the town from the continental United States ?
Did you know that the Super Falcon Submersible , which cost $1.5 million, is the world's fastest personal submarine ?
Did you know that the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates ?
Did you know that Trần Quang Khải was not only grand chancellor of Trần Dynasty for many years but also a famous poet and the creator of a traditional dance?
Did you know that "Moses," the first solo single by Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser , is a tribute to ex- Echo & the Bunnymen keyboardist Jake Drake-Brockman , who had been a close friend?
Did you know the P'urhépecha people of Santa Clara del Cobre , Mexico, have been producing hand-hammered copper products since pre-Hispanic times ?
Did you know that John Baldwin Neil served as Rutherford B. Hayes ' personal secretary before President Hayes appointed him Governor of Idaho Territory ?
Did you know that the Saw series has grossed more than one billion dollars, making it one of the highest-grossing fright franchises ever?
Did you know that as the mayor of Baton Rouge , Louisiana , W.W. Dumas called a curfew in 1969 to halt riots after the fatal shooting of a fleeing black suspect by a white police officer?
Did you know that during the latter part of the 20th century, Heekin Can was one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of food cans ?
Did you know that the Italian ambassador to the United States offered in the 1920s to disband the Fascist League of North America ?
Did you know that after Eleanor Evans was appointed as Stage Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1949, a large number of performers, including Martyn Green , Ella Halman and Radley Flynn , left in the following years?
Did you know that the poppy seed test is a simple, accurate, and inexpensive medical test for vesicointestinal fistula ?
Did you know that Idaho Territory Governor Mason Brayman negotiated the agreement which allowed the Mormons to leave Illinois following the Illinois Mormon War ?
Did you know that the 1905 silent film Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
Did you know that sports car racer , yachtsman and rower Robert Hichens was also the most highly decorated officer of the RNVR during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Rohr, Inc. 's ROMAG personal rapid transit system used a unique arrangement of linear induction motors to provide both traction power and act as a magnetic levitation suspension ?
Did you know that chemist Lester Shubin has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of police officers?
Did you know that the only known specimen of the early crocodile relative Stegomosuchus was kept in the discoverer's yard for several years before being given over for study?
Did you know that Phil Vassar 's high school art teacher painted the cover of his 2009 album Traveling Circus ?
Did you know that "elegant, witty and amusement-loving" Bulgarian physician, politician and diplomat Georgi Valkovich was assassinated by people dressed in carnival costumes?
Did you know that royal visitors to Worthing , West Sussex , have included Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia , who lived in a seafront hotel as a refugee?
Did you know that Danish whaler Christian Klengenberg opened trade routes to Copper Inuit territory?
Did you know that American entertainer Eve was asked to guest-star in the Glee episode " Hairography " after Whitney Houston declined to appear?
Did you know that the Alden staRRcar was originally designed as a high-speed four-passenger intercity electric car but emerged in the Morgantown PRT as a bus-like system for short distance travel?
Did you know that the Prince Chiêu Văn Trần Nhật Duật of the Trần Dynasty spoke foreign languages so well that he was once mistaken as a Chinese by a Yuan ambassador?
Did you know that carmaker Audi used the South Korean miniseries You're Beautiful to introduce their new Audi S4 ?
Did you know that Waldo Hunt , "King of the Pop-Ups ," could "make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries"?
Did you know that after the attack on Pearl Harbor , director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department , and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
Did you know that Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama ’s winning 2008 presidential campaign ?
Did you know that cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales , the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain ?
Did you know that upon its discovery, the Newark Torc was called "probably the most significant find of Iron Age Celtic gold jewellery made in the last 50 years"?
Did you know that Holocaust survivor Rudy Kennedy led the campaign for compensation to British survivors who had worked for German companies under the Nazi policy of extermination through labour ?
Did you know that English -born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina , Alabama , and Mississippi in the early 19th century ?
Did you know that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass ?
Did you know that the song " Speechless ", by Lady Gaga , was written as a plea to her father to receive the open-heart surgery he needed for a bad aortic valve ?
Did you know that the 47-gun galleon Elizabeth Bonaventure carried 51½ tons of weaponry against the Spanish Armada ?
Did you know that Memorial Park Site in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania , contains prehistoric cultural deposits up to 8,000 years old?
Did you know that a new railway station was built in six days in Workington to enable residents north of the river to access the town centre following floods which split the town in two ?
Did you know that in Ancient Egypt , servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?
Did you know that in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln , Nebraska ?
Did you know that when Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park in Arizona was a U.S. Army post from 1864 to 1877, up to 900 mules were kept there to help deliver supplies to five U.S. states ?
Did you know that in 1987, American blues pianist Whistlin' Alex Moore became the first African American Texan to be awarded the National Heritage Fellowship ?
Did you know that the captain of U-607 justified the sinking of the neutral Irish merchant vessel Irish Oak by claiming it was a Q-ship ?
Did you know that actor and satirical illustrator Thoralf Klouman was among the pioneers of animated film in Norway ?
Did you know that the Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building had a tunnel allowing the proprietor to ignore a law prohibiting entrance to a brewery after sunset?
Did you know that Laura Kirkpatrick placed second in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, but was ranked fan favorite in a poll conducted by the show?
Did you know that square root biased sampling was originally developed as a way to sample long sequences of DNA ?
Did you know that Winifred Carney was the only woman present during the initial occupation of the GPO in the Easter Rising , entering the building armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver?
Did you know that the Philippine government unsuccessfully auctioned the decommissioned Manila Thermal Power Plant three times before it was sold to a Malaysian company?
Did you know that Sugar Blue , the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist , took his stage name from Sidney Bechet 's track, "Sugar Blues"?
Did you know that the Jakub Wujek Bible served as the main Catholic Bible translation into Polish for more than three centuries?
Did you know that the outbreak of Ebola in Bundibugyo District in Uganda in 2007 was caused by a novel strain of the Ebola virus?
Did you know that after litigation filed by former Scientologist Bonnie Woods reached the High Court of Justice , the Church of Scientology admitted it had made false claims about her?
Did you know that decades after its discovery in 1955 in Turkey 's Bursa Province , bursaite was officially discredited as a mineral in 2006?
Did you know that The Legarde Twins are a country act from Australia consisting of two twins, Tom and Ted, who left home in 1945 to become cowboys, then started playing country music, and are still performing—64 years later?
Did you know that Kate Nesbitt , the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross for bravery in Afghanistan while attached to 3 Commando Brigade , is just 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) tall?
Did you know that rotating radio transients are among the brightest astronomical sources of radio waves , yet are generally detectable for less than one second a day?
Did you know that U.S. birth control advocate Dr. Bessie Moses gave up her practice as an obstetrician because she became emotionally attached to the outcome of every birth she attended?
Did you know that in 1997 the Law Commission called the Trustee Investments Act 1961 too "cautious and restrictive", suggesting some trusts were under-performing due to difficulty in complying with its terms?
Did you know that the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren decided to research the Australian religious group after discovering its close access to Prime Minister John Howard ?
Did you know that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket , later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England ?
Did you know that during the CU project controversy "bolt weevils" destroyed 14 transmission towers of a power line under construction in Minnesota ?
Did you know that the talkshow Skavlan marked the first time ever that Sveriges Television and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation worked together on a television production?
Did you know that after being kicked out of his Michigan Militia , Norman Olson moved to Alaska to attempt to start a militia there?
Did you know that the outdoor sculpture Zephyr is dedicated by its artist to today's youth?
Did you know that the book Blown for Good describes the author's experiences practicing the Scientology technique auditing with actor Tom Cruise ?
Did you know that a valid computer program supplied with correct data may still exhibit unspecified behavior ?
Did you know that Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett ?
Did you know that the Battle of Wawon is considered to be Turkey 's first real combat action since the end of World War I ?
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Did you know that Bill Inman was the first medical graduate of University of Cambridge and delivered fifty babies from his adapted wheelchair ?
Did you know that among the dead interred at the Calvert Vaux -designed Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, New York , are three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients?
Did you know that the members of the Council of Keble College, Oxford had power to move the college away from Oxford?
Did you know that Uruguayan Isabelino Gradín won South American championships in both football and track and field athletics ?
Did you know that a Franco-Hungarian alliance was formed in October 1528 between Francis I of France and Zapolya of Hungary ?
Did you know that the Kirkland Hotel in Kingston, New York , is a rare surviving example of a wood- frame urban hotel?
Did you know that of the varieties of retained surgical instruments , the most common item left in the patient after surgery is a sponge ?
Did you know that LA 's St. Cecilia Church , built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
Did you know that Holby City hospital's disabled CEO Vanessa Lytton is played by Leslie Ash , whose own disability resulted from a hospital stay?
Did you know that Đại Việt Emperor Trần Thuận Tông was forced to cede the throne to his three-year old son Trần Thiếu Đế and thus held the title Thái thượng hoàng (Retired Emperor) at the age of 20?
Did you know that the oldest complete document in the National Archival Services of Norway is from 1189?
Did you know that former Louisiana Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle has joined a new company trying to rebuild Six Flags New Orleans , which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that under Jewish views of moral agency a deaf-mute could even commit murder with impunity, as Jewish law forbids legal cases without verbal communication between the involved parties?
Did you know that " the wrong kind of snow " delayed British Rail services during the winter of 1990–1991 ?
Did you know that John W. Reynolds was admitted to practice law in Oregon before he graduated from law school ?
Did you know that except for bats , nearly 90% of the native land mammals of the Caribbean , including all sloths and monkeys , are now extinct?
Did you know that Bryant Hammett resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2006 to oversee disaster recovery for infrastructure impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ?
Did you know that the Ventura Oil Field is the seventh largest oil field in California , and was at one point the 12th most productive oil field in the United States ?
Did you know that despite being only the son of Hát tuồng actors, Dương Nhật Lễ was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt by his impotent predecessor Trần Dụ Tông ?
Did you know that one part of Mendelssohn’s operetta Son and Stranger comprises only a few bars, all on the note F, because the composer’s brother-in-law, Wilhelm Hensel , had no ability as a singer?
Did you knowthat the name Alexandra was considered unlucky by the Romanov family because so many Alexandras in the family, including Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia , died young?
Did you knowthat law professor Ralph Aigler , once known as the "dominant figure in Michigan's athletics," negotiated the Big Ten 's exclusive contracts with the Rose Bowl in 1946 and 1953?
Did you knowthat in Test cricket , Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar , with 39 centuries , leads the list of batsmen making centuries ?
Did you knowthat immunologist Robert A. Good documented the importance of the thymus gland and tonsils in the immune system and performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant ?
Did you knowthat Savanna Portage State Park preserves a historic portage trail used by Native Americans , fur traders , and explorers to cross between the watershed of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River ?
Did you knowthat Mretebi Tbilisi was the first openly professional football club to be founded in the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
Did you knowthat Independent Learning Centre started the Railway School Car Program in 1926, in which a teacher lived in a train car that traveled to students in isolated Northern Ontario communities?
Did you knowthat the Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the Japanese force defending the island?
Did you knowthat Dr. Frederick Madison Allen prescribed a "starvation diet" for patients at his Physiatric Institute, the leading way of prolonging lives of diabetics in the days before the isolation of insulin ?
Did you knowthat Dell Comics issued contemporaneous comic books featuring the ABC network 's 1961 TV series, Follow the Sun ?
Did you knowthat so far, 350,000 people have been relocated in Turkey by dam projects carried out by the State Hydraulic Works , and 250,000 more will be affected in the future?
Did you knowthat Barry Coe , the winner of the Golden Globe award for "most promising" actor , missed out on becoming the fourth Cartwright brother on the television series Bonanza because of reported friction on the set?
Did you knowthat Jerry Dybzinski's baserunning error in game four of the 1983 American League Championship Series ultimately cost the Chicago White Sox both the game and the series?
Did you knowthat the Japanese destroyer Matsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission?
Did you knowthat newly crowned Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund ' s grandmother competed at Miss America 1944?
Did you knowthat the boundary between Sudan and Ethiopia was defined for the region near the Pibor River in 1899 by Major H.H. Austin and Major Charles W. Gwynn of the British Royal Engineers?
Did you knowthat Marie Roethlisberger placed seventh at the 1984 United States Olympic gymnastic trials (making her the alternate for the six-woman team) despite being almost completely deaf ?
Did you knowthat according to an Iroquois legend, a woman eating roasted acorns intimidated an evil spirit of the tribe known as The Flying Head so much he never returned?
Did you knowthat the United States Navy 's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?
Did you knowthat Unsinkable Sam was a ship's cat of both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War who survived the sinking of all three ships on which he served?
Did you knowthat Beaufort Island in Antarctica 's Ross Sea was named for Sir Francis Beaufort in 1841?
Did you knowthat before coaching gymnastics at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1983, Newt Loken was the NCAA all-around gymnastics champion in 1942?
Did you knowthat the K-1000 class was a hoax class of battleship made up by the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War as propaganda ?
Did you knowthat the city of San Francisco contributed a large proportion of the funds for constructing the extension of Junipero Serra Boulevard beyond the city limits?
Did you knowthat the 1937 Hal Roach / MGM musical short Our Gang Follies of 1938 features an appearance by future jazz star Annie Ross ?
Did you knowthat at Winter X Games XII , skier Tanner Hall set a record with his seventh career gold medal, only to be tied by snowboarder Shaun White on the last day of competition?
Did you knowthat track and field athlete Anne Bersagel was a member of Team USA Minnesota while studying full time in Oslo, Norway as a Fulbright Scholar ?
Did you knowthat prolific American music publisher George E. Blake printed the first edition of George Frideric Handel 's Messiah in the United States?
Did you knowthat the Australian Ambassador to Chile , Crispin Conroy , once proposed marriage to Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala ?
Did you knowthat Son Goku , a German rock band, is named after the protagonist of the anime series Dragon Ball Z ?
Did you knowthat both Augustus and Eleftherios Venizelos exiled opponents to the Cyclades ?
Did you knowthat with little prior experience, South Korean actress Kim Ok-bin was given a leading role in her first film, Voice , and was nominated for "Best New Actress" at the Blue Dragon Film Awards ?
Did you knowthat through the opening of the Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line by 2020, Singapore 's rail network density will rise from 31 km per million residents today to 51 km per million, surpassing what Hong Kong and Tokyo currently have?
Did you knowthat Half-Breed Tracts were set aside for people of Mixed Blood descent in several U.S. states , including Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin?
Did you knowthat the Mattancherry Palace , known popularly as Dutch Palace, in Kochi , India , was built by the Portuguese and renovated by the Dutch ?
Did you knowthat the Walter Byers Scholarship is considered the highest academic honor for National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes?
Did you knowthat the Los Angeles attorney Bobby Diamond became nationally known a half century ago through his role as the orphaned Joey Newton in the NBC television series Fury ?
Did you knowthat concert organist John Walker was  to teach in Taiwan on a Fulbright Fellowship , but wound up playing benefit concerts for 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake victims?
Did you knowthat Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero ?
Did you knowthat Catherine Dolgorukov had a premonition that her morganatic husband , Tsar Alexander II , would be assassinated?
Did you knowthat The Sea Island Mathematical Manual or Haidao suanjing (海岛算经) was written by mathematican Liu Hui of the Three Kingdom era (220–280) as an extension of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art ?
Did you knowthat Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels ran in the wrong direction after recovering a fumble , which led to a safety that proved to be the winning margin in Georgia Tech's 8-7 win at the 1929 Rose Bowl ?
Did you knowthat tourists flocked to Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, California , to see "Ramona's Marriage Place" even though Ramona was a work of fiction?
Did you knowthat the 1967 general election in Sierra Leone saw the first defeat of a ruling party in an election held under universal suffrage in sub-Saharan Africa ?
Did you knowthat Mohammed al-Shahwani was a talented general in Saddam Hussein 's Republican Guard , and is now the head of Iraq's new intelligence service ?
Did you knowthat with the testing of the PAD missile , India became the fourth country to have successfully demonstrated an anti-ballistic missile system?
Did you knowthat W.C. Fields' straightman Tammany Young was a renowned gatecrasher who managed entry to the Jack Dempsey - Georges Carpentier prize fight by claiming to be an ice man ?
Did you knowthat during World War II , the Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze survived four major fleet actions against the American, British, Australian and Dutch fleets, but was sunk after colliding with a Japanese cruiser ?
Did you knowthat Scotland 's North West Highlands Geopark contains some of the oldest rocks in Europe and the site of a famous geological controversy ?
Did you knowthat British MP Ronnie Campbell accidentally supported National Fetish Day due to his thinking that the word " fetish " meant " worry "?
Did you knowthat Cliff Keen ' s tenure as Michigan ’s wrestling coach (1925-1970) was the longest of any coach in any sport in NCAA history as of 1991?
Did you knowthat Séon Carsuel , Scottish Protestant reformer, Bishop of the Isles and author of the first book to be printed in any Goidelic language , was over seven foot tall?
Did you knowthat Salisbury Cathedral School was founded over 900 years ago by a saint ?
Did you knowthat Dorothy Canning Miller was the first professionally trained curator of the Museum of Modern Art ?
Did you knowthat historic memorabilia from the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil , Switzerland were shipped in 1927 to the newly independent Poland , only to be largely destroyed during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Robert Bray ( forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS 's Lassie ), turned down a role in director Joshua Logan 's 1958 hit film South Pacific , much to Bray's longstanding regret?
Did you knowthat the Armenian oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian once sued his father for $10 million after his company refused him $4.50 for a meal?
Did you knowthat Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat the 1928–29 Boston Bruins season marked the ice hockey team's first Stanley Cup championship and their first season in the Boston Garden ?
Did you knowthat Gerald Ford threatened to quit the Michigan football team when African-American player Willis Ward was kept out of a 1932 game in response to Georgia Tech 's refusal to play an integrated team?
Did you knowthat the Castle Cary Cut-Off reduced the 325½ mile distance between London Paddington and Penzance railway stations by 20¼ miles?
Did you knowthat, according to Herodotus , Rhodopis was a fellow-slave with the poet Aesop ?