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Did you know that according to legend, Saint Palladius of Embrun made prophecies , knew angels , and defeated the Devil by crossing himself ?
Did you know that the football game between Offenburger FV and the SC Freiburg on 28 March 1920 lasted for over three hours?
Did you know that Nat Williams is the first ever African American sheriff elected in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana , where the last three elected sheriffs had been sent to jail?
Did you know that Boris Kovač ’s folklore music is influenced by the twenty nationalities of the Pannonian Plains ?
Did you know that the spray pool on Boston Common doubles as an ice-skating rink in winter?
Did you know that Flora Danica , a comprehensive botanical collection containing pictures of all known wild plants native to Denmark , was initiated by Georg Christian Oeder ?
Did you know that the Chianan Plain , the largest plain of Taiwan located at the central-southwestern region of the island, has three harvests of rice crops annually?
Did you know that Jason Castro , who was recently signed by the Singapore Slingers , is slated to become the first Filipino player in Australia 's National Basketball League ?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Freedom featured on the Slovene 0.10 € Euro coins was a parliamentary building proposed in 1947 that was never built?
Did you know that WWE 's The Great American Bash (2004) pay-per-view ended with The Undertaker burying his manager in cement?
Did you know that Carl Johan Cronstedt increased the efficiency of wood-burning stoves in the 18th century by a factor of eight?
Did you know that wine can be made from substances other than grapes , including marijuana ?
Did you know that Jurgis Bielinis and his organizations smuggled about half of all Lithuanian books printed in East Prussia during the Lithuanian press ban ?
Did you know that a 73- yard run during the 1949 Rose Bowl by Frank Aschenbrenner of the Northwestern Wildcats was the longest run from scrimmage in Rose Bowl history?
Did you know that Cardinal Lodovico Trevisan , who won several battles as Captain General of the papal army, was known as the "angel of peace"?
Did you know that Terling Windmill in Essex, England was featured in the film Oh, Mr. Porter! ?
Did you know that the German-American confectioner Charles F. Gunther claimed to own the remains of the serpent from the Garden of Eden ?
Did you know that Michael Ferreira was the first amateur billiards player to break the 1,000 points barrier when he scored a break of 1,149 in 1978?
Did you know that the first peacekeeping force, the UNEF , was approved at the first emergency special session of the UN General Assembly with 57 supports, 0 opposes, and 19 abstains?
Did you know that according to legend, a spring came up on all three spots where the severed head of Catholic martyr Saint Baudilus bounced after his martyrdom in Nîmes ?
Did you know that the excavation at Norton Priory , Cheshire , in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation?
Did you know that petitions called for the firing of Ohio State athletic director Dick Larkins when he hired little-known football coach Woody Hayes in 1951 instead of Paul Brown ?
Did you know that Charlie Waitt was taunted and called a " sissy " by fans and teammates because he was one of the first to wear baseball gloves to protect his hands?
Did you know that at the Battle of Bov , Schleswig-Holstein 's senior commander did not arrive until two hours after the fighting had started?
Did you know that the insolvency law of Switzerland is codified in a statute that is nearly 120 years old?
Did you know that John Huston quit his directing job on the 1971 action film The Last Run after fighting with George C. Scott , the film’s star?
Did you know that the 1891 Martinique hurricane was considered to be the worst on the island since 1817?
Did you know that Edward P. Hurt , who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Han Chinese Emperor Jing had Imperial Secretary Chao Cuo executed to appease various subordinate kingdoms ?
Did you know that the Irish Greyhound racing regulator Bord na gCon includes Viagra on its list of banned substances?
Did you know that Josiah and William Forster , early members of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , visited U.S. President Franklin Pierce to promote their cause?
Did you know that archaeological evidence suggest that the history of French wine began with the Celts , long before the Greeks and Romans settled the area?
Did you know that while working on Lipstick and Dynamite , a 2005 documentary about women's professional wrestling , Neko Case found out Ella Waldek in the film was her great-aunt?
Did you know that Arnaud de Pellegrue , a cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement V , led the papal army in a 1309 war against Venice ?
Did you know that Salvador Toscano Barragán was Mexico 's first filmmaker ?
Did you know that Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid– 19th century in search of the source of the Nile ?
Did you know that Louis-Adolphe Paquet was one of the most vocal opponents of both mandatory public education and women's suffrage in early 20th-century Quebec ?
Did you know that the Ashtabula Harbor Light in Lake Erie was encased in ice by a storm in 1928, trapping its keepers inside for two days?
Did you know that the remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong in Western Australia was the venue for the world premiere of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence ?
Did you know that Nick Vitucci is the first goaltender inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Faker 's debut studio album Addicted Romantic includes a track written by lead singer Nathan Hudson eight years earlier?
Did you know that Massera's lemma , a result in stability theory and nonlinear control , can be used to construct common Lyapunov functions for switched systems?
Did you know that after John Huston filmed a scene from Moby Dick in front of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford, Massachusetts , the increase in tourism spurred the creation of the New Bedford Historic District ?
Did you know that Wanda Hjort Heger showed up uninvited every week at the gate of Sachsenhausen during WWII with two jars of potato salad for the Norwegian prisoners?
Did you know that an adrenergic storm can be caused by a cocaine overdose, use of the MAOI class of antidepressants , or a subarachnoid hemorrhage ?
Did you know that Maya Angelou wrote one of her characters in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to demonstrate how she survived her childhood as a black in a white-dominated world?
Did you know that 25 percent of the population of Ecuador is of indigenous heritage , while another 65 percent is of mixed indigenous and European heritage ?
Did you know that part of the 1975 comedy film Linda Lovelace for President was shot on the campus of the University of Kansas ?
Did you know that according to The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend , had the plot succeeded, it would have created more persecution of English Catholics rather than less?
Did you know that the National Conference Center , formerly known as Xerox Document University, is one of the largest corporate training facilities in Northern Virginia ?
Did you know that despite being outnumbered by more than two to one, Denmark defeated Schleswig-Holstein in the Battle of Fredericia in 1849?
Did you know that after several gold and platinum hits, Neil Diamond and Lee Holdridge collaborated on the film score for Jonathan Livingston Seagull ?
Did you know that Kazakhstan-South Korea relations are strengthened by the presence of 100,000 Koryo-sarams in Kazakhstan ?
Did you know that former WLS-TV news anchor Joel Daly and his co-presenter Fahey Flynn popularized " Happy Talk "?
Did you know that the 1958 Operation Chico was the first mass evacuation in United States history in which residents were quartered away from their homes overnight?
Did you know that the exploration problem in robotics is that of maximizing knowledge over an area by the use of a robot ?
Did you know that a number of physicians and nurses at the tuberculosis sanitorium founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau in Saranac Lake, New York in 1882 were patients themselves and served without pay?
Did you know that Dewan Seshayya Sastri ruled the kingdom of Pudukkottai as regent from 1886 to 1894?
Did you know that the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was the first Canadian unit on the ground in France in the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day , 1944?
Did you know that Bette Sussman and Whitney Houston 's version of the Dolly Parton classic, " I Will Always Love You " has sold over 17 million copies?
Did you know that civil engineer Robert Wynne-Edwards was the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers to be elected while still working as a contractor ?
Did you know that the most common victims of barodontalgia , a dental pain evoked by a change in barometric pressure , are SCUBA divers and military pilots ?
Did you know that Sarah Thompson was the first American countess ?
Did you know that Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Sea Songs is due to be played at the 2008 Last Night of the Proms to commemorate 50 years since the composer's death?
Did you know that the Presidio La Bahía was moved twice before being permanently located near Goliad, Texas ?
Did you know that Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romaní was made a priest, bishop, and cardinal —in the opposite order—by his grand uncle Pope Alexander VI ?
Did you know that the Istanbul landmark Mihrimah Mosque was constructed in the 16th century for Suleiman the Magnificent 's daughter?
Did you know that whether prosections are as effective as dissections in the teaching of medicine is an unsettled aspect of medical education ?
Did you know that the Greenfield Lane segment of the decommissioned New York State Route 273 is no longer part of the highway's new designation?
Did you know that the global media alliance Project Klebnikov is dedicated to investigating the July 2004 murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov ?
Did you know that the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?
Did you know that Walter Jackson Bate called Samuel Johnson 's Life of Mr Richard Savage , included in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets , "one of the innovative works in the history of biography"?
Did you know that when constructed in 1906, the Baku-Batumi pipeline was the world's  longest kerosene pipeline ?
Did you know that American journalist Alan Cabal was one of the luminaries of New York City 's occult movement during the "occult renaissance" started in the 1960s?
Did you know that for many years, kibbutz Mizra 's store was the only place in Israel that sold non- kosher meat?
Did you know that the 1953 film Striporama features the only color footage of pin-up model Bettie Page in a speaking role?
Did you know that Polish poet Adolf Fierla survived Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps ?
Did you know that two former species of Oioceros , O. grangeri and O. xiejiaensis , have been recently identified as separate genera ?
Did you know that as a Winchester schoolmaster, Robert Lock Graham Irving introduced George Mallory to mountaineering in the Alps ?
Did you know that the Staten Island Peace Conference of September 11 , 1776 , only lasted three hours?
Did you know that John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford took part in both the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers – the two main battles of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War ?
Did you know that only five Australians have led the general classification in the 95 editions of the Tour de France to date?
Did you know that Samuel Newhouse offered a US$ 50 prize to the first couple to have a baby in the silver mining town of Newhouse, Utah ?
Did you know that psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz publicly accused psychologists at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay of developing and applying torture techniques on detainees ?
Did you know that the Nuremberg Transport Museum originally opened as a royal Bavarian railway museum in 1899 and is now the oldest railway museum in Germany ?
Did you know that in 1913, Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Boehling finished the season with 18 complete games , three shutouts , and an earned run average of 2.14?
Did you know that the extended Kalman filter is often considered the de facto standard in nonlinear state estimation ?
Did you know that while Fr. Benedict Groeschel was recovering from injuries after being hit by a car in 2004, he co-authored the book There Are No Accidents: In All Things Trust in God ?
Did you know that in 1986, after about 60 years of darkness, a lamp was again activated in the Haig Point lighthouse ?
Did you know that an Indianapolis architect was sent to Château de Malmaison to replicate a copy of it in Indianapolis' Washington Park neighborhood ?
Did you know that Henry Fielding praised Jane Collier , author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting and The Cry , for her "understanding more than female, mixed with virtues almost more than human"?
Did you know that the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company ?
Did you know that in 1976, an 8.0 M w earthquake in Moro Gulf in the Celebes Sea in the Philippines killed at least 5,000 people and triggered tsunamis that reached as far as Japan ?
Did you know that Victoria Jackson-Stanley recently became the first woman and first African American mayor of Cambridge , a Maryland town devastated by race riots in the 1960s?
Did you know that musician Matthew West was inspired to title his album History after seeing the news headline "Matthew West Makes History"?
Did you know that agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for the majority of the population of Bhutan ?
Did you know that the Clark Memorial Home , built in 1913 as a home for single working women, has been a shooting location for Rocketeer , Twins , and Mr. Saturday Night ?
Did you know that the noble house of Ibelin was the primary beneficiary of the War of the Lombards , a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem ?
Did you know that the Virginia Tech Hokies football team has played more than 1,100 games during its 116 years of existence ?
Did you know that Luna 2 was the first of several spacecraft to use on-board magnetometers to discover that the Moon has almost no magnetic field ?
Did you know that the Fair Complex MAX station in Hillsboro, Oregon , has a weather vane made with five model airplanes ?
Did you know that AFL club the Fitzroy Lions ' former best and fairest winner Norm Johnstone is the grandfather of current Brisbane Lions player Travis Johnstone ?
Did you know that there are nine known trans-Neptunian detached objects in our Solar System ?
Did you know that the first airmail of the United States was a personal letter from George Washington carried on an aerial balloon flight from Philadelphia by Jean Pierre Blanchard ?
Did you know that Willem IV van den Bergh was Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen until being arrested in 1583 by Elbertus Leoninus for treason?
Did you know that in his 2004 book The End of Oil , Paul Roberts cautioned that the price of oil might climb to US$ 60 a barrel within five years, but it took only thirteen months?
Did you know that journalist and art museum curator Erastus Brainerd led the publicity campaign that established Seattle 's role as the gateway to the Yukon Gold Rush ?
Did you know that although the Siege of Mahdia in 1390 was a military failure, the subsequent ten year armistice reduced piracy from the Barbary coast ?
Did you know that South American Coati males were originally considered a separate species from females due to different social habits?
Did you know that the 1989 New Jersey School Report Card was the first report to make statistics such as standardized test scores , student-teacher ratio , and cost of public schools available to all taxpayers in the United States?
Did you know that Pieter van den Broecke was one of the first Dutchmen to drink coffee when he visited Mocha, Yemen in 1614?
Did you know that miners living in Sego, Utah bought out the coal mine they worked for?
Did you know that the lob bomb is a newly developed form of airborne improvised explosive device made from a propane tank, and used by insurgents in Iraq against U.S. forces ?
Did you know that the work of Martin Rota as engraver to the Imperial court in Vienna included a portrait of Emperor Maximilian II ?
Did you know that in 2007, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund provided deposit insurance for nearly 87 million accounts at 8,101 credit unions in the United States?
Did you know that former American Geological Institute president Samuel S. Adams was son of New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams ?
Did you know that the Taipei Metro Xiaonanmen Station was a target of serial vandalism in March 2006?
Did you know that the Vector Field Histogram (VFH) algorithm used in robotic motion planning received two major updates after its original creation in 1991, which were renamed as VFH+ and VFH*?
Did you know that Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu , introduced in 1802, is offered by the Czech brewery in Europe as "Budweiser Bier", while in North America , is called "B. B. Bürgerbräu"?
Did you know that an owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States ?
Did you know that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone ?
Did you know that the Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island ?
Did you know that the Sigtuna box has a runic poem that threatens thieves, but in a metre that was usually reserved for Viking lords and kings?
Did you know that Temple Sinai , a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California , grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875?
Did you know that the red mushroom Russula sanguinaria , known as the "bloody brittlegill", smells fruity but is hot tasting?
Did you know that Hendrik van den Bergh founded the South African Bureau of State Security in 1969 to coordinate intelligence gathering and suppress anti- apartheid dissidents ?
Did you know that Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis ' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning ?
Did you know that the Rum Swizzle is often called " Bermuda 's national drink "?
Did you know that McDonald Clarke , known as the "mad poet of Broadway ", drowned in prison after being subjected to an elaborate prank ?
Did you know that omnidirectional cameras have a 360-degree field of view and have been used in robotics to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem visually?
Did you know that Greek band ONIRAMA ’s name comes from the Greek phrase "Onira Mas" meaning "Our Dreams "?
Did you know that the first Protestant church in Korea was founded in 1884 at Sorae in present-day Ryongyon county in South Hwanghae , North Korea ?
Did you know that radio collars for animal tracking were first tested at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve ?
Did you know that an eclectic castle in a small village of Moszna in Poland has exactly 99 turrets and 365 rooms?
Did you know that the Croaking Tetra is a tropical fish that "chirps" when it comes to the surface to gulp air?
Did you know that the poem Płyniesz Olzo po dolinie , by Polish poet and educator Jan Kubisz , became the unofficial anthem of Cieszyn Silesia ?
Did you know that the German Mine Sweeping Administration , a naval mine sweeping organisation made up of former members of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany , was under command of the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that notable residents of Colonnade Row included John Jacob Astor IV , Washington Irving and Cornelius Vanderbilt ?
Did you know that in 2003, Chinese scientists invented a way of producing yarn from bamboo fibre ?
Did you know that Dr David Moor admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 ill patients to die ?
Did you know that dozens of congressional candidates have endorsed " A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq " ?
Did you know that the Iraiyanar Akapporul ("Study of Stolen Love") contains the first major prose work written in the Tamil language ?
Did you know that although chaotic , the Solar System is stable enough that its planets will not collide with each other for a few billion years?
Did you know that the highest point on Cape Cod is not Scargo Hill in Dennis as is commonly believed,  but Pine Hill in Bourne ?
Did you know that the Boreray is the most critically endangered breed of sheep in the United Kingdom , according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust ?
Did you know that infielder Mike Cervenak spent so much time as a member of the Norwich Navigators that residents of the town dubbed him the "Mayor of Norwich"?
Did you know that Watts Station was the only structure to remain intact along "Charcoal Alley" during the Watts Riots ?
Did you know that according to legend, water from a holy well in Penrhys , Wales , can be used to cure rheumatism and poor eyesight ?
Did you know that G. S. Khaparde earned the moniker " Nawab of Berar " because of his personal and political influence in the central Indian province?
Did you know that the Ziegler Polar Expedition was stranded in the arctic for two years until it was rescued in 1905?
Did you know that "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia ?
Did you know that the Cleveland Indians traded Bob Allen to the Pittsburgh Pirates in December 1963, only to take him back four months later?
Did you know that Agile Mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus , similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
Did you know that when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies ?
Did you know that the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic ?
Did you know that HMT Bedfordshire was one of 24 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels sent to assist the United States after its entry into World War II ?
Did you know that Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field ?
Did you know that the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars , Arabs , and Rus ?
Did you know that in 1837, Nathaniel Parker Willis won $1,000 from Josephine Clifton by writing Bianca Visconti for her to perform?
Did you know that the ABC documentary television program Our World was often assigned to students as homework, with ABC distributing 39,000 study guides a month?
Did you know that conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta 's works include a hoax exhibition of bizarre animals such as winged monkeys and snakes with 12 feet, incorporating fieldnotes , photographs and X-rays?
Did you know that Bill Stoneman , who pitched two no-hitters for the Montreal Expos and later ran the Major League Baseball club as the general manager , first joined the franchise in the 1968 expansion draft ?
Did you know that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen ?
Did you know that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee 's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that in 1382, Jogaila arrested and imprisoned his 80-year old uncle Kęstutis when he arrived for negotiations during the Lithuanian Civil War ?
Did you know that Therefore Repent! is a 2008 graphic novel set in a post- Rapture world where fundamentalist Christian eschatology has come true?
Did you know that Pleistodontes froggatti , the fig wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig , was intentionally introduced into Hawaii in 1921?
Did you know that the 2008 ILF Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships included three first-time participants Bermuda , Finland , and Scotland ?