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Did you know that Gene Schoor , the author of more than forty "juvenile" sports biographies, was awarded US$ 5000 damages in a suit against boxing champion Rocky Marciano for being punched by him?
Did you know that Steve Vai plays the sitar on "Moroccan Roll", a track from Mike Stern 's Grammy -nominated album Big Neighborhood ?
Did you know that Michel and Albert Roux were the first chefs in the UK to gain three Michelin stars ?
Did you know that " That Dress ", worn by Elizabeth Hurley at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994, has been voted the greatest red carpet dress of all time and is perhaps Gianni Versace 's best-known creation?
Did you know that during the invasion of Narvik on 9 April 1940, the Norwegian coast defense ship Norge fired 13 shells at the German destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim at 600–800 meters (660–870 yd) range and missed?
Did you know that Teresa de Jesús , an eight-hour television/DVD mini-series about St. Teresa of Ávila , won the 1985 Spanish TP de Oro for Best National Series?
Did you know that the community of Frontera Corozal, Chiapas , Mexico , is the main access to the Maya site of Yaxchilan ?
Did you know that Fay Wray played the mother of Natalie Wood in a forgotten sitcom , The Pride of the Family , which aired on ABC from 1953 to 1954 ?
Did you know that the Battle of the Echinades in 1427 was the last naval victory in the history of the Byzantine Empire ?
Did you know that you can improve your maximum a-vO 2 diff through aerobic exercise ?
Did you know that Pima County, Arizona Supervisors ordered Sheriff Robert H. Paul to bring his friend Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday back from Colorado after they killed four outlaw Cowboys , but he returned empty-handed?
Did you know that newly appointed Commissioner of the Israel Police Yohanan Danino was involved in investigations against the Prime Minister , Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel?
Did you know that during the Battle of Kos a British Parachute Company captured the airfield, despite there being 4,000 defenders?
Did you know that Philippe Saisse 's Grammy -nominated album At World's Edge was dedicated to his father Maurice?
Did you know that according to the authors of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle , Israel has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country except the United States?
Did you know that during the Ghanaian 2011 New Patriotic Party Primaries , candidate Musa Superior canvassed for votes through Twitter and Facebook whilst living in the UK ?
Did you know that Sir George Gibb , head of the British government's former Road Board, was accused of having delayed the construction of new roads because he had been a railwayman ?
Did you know that the 14 workers that constructed Wyborn Reef Light in 1938 had to live in tents on a 50 by 50 feet (15 m × 15 m) wooden platform, 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 m) above tiger shark infested water?
Did you know that Cambodian women have been described as comparable to the Apsaras on the walls of the temples of Angkor Wat ?
Did you know that during the bombing of Darwin in World War II , Gunner 's hearing was so acute that he detected approaching Japanese aircraft before they showed up on radar ?
Did you know that on 6 June 1944 during Operation Mallard , Tetrarchs became the first tanks to be flown into battle?
Did you know that not long after the Elizabethtown station opened in 1915, the Liberty Bell visited the station on its way to San Francisco ?
Did you know that a 17th-century copy of the diwan that 13th-century Hebrew language poet Todros Abulafia made in Castile was rediscovered in Hong Kong in the 19th century ?
Did you know that the scarcity of female participants in Armenian politics makes Armenia's women among the most underrepresented in the world?
Did you know that the 1948 comedy No Minor Vices was one of the only four films made by Dana Andrews for director Lewis Milestone ?
Did you know that the ship's mascot of HMS Sainfoin , a baboon named Mortimer, took a fancy to the rescued ship's cat of the hospital ship Takliwa ?
Did you know that Amangalla was originally named the "New Oriental Hotel" from 1865 and is located within the premises of the Galle Fort UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
Did you know that armoured trains of Poland proved to be surprisingly successful during the Polish Defensive War of 1939?
Did you know that the O'Donnell Heritage Museum contains a Dan Blocker display dedicated to the Bonanza star who was reared in rural O'Donnell in West Texas ?
Did you know that there are three paradoxes confronting career women in Singapore ?
Did you know that the fruit bodies of the Australian secotioid fungus Gymnogaster boletoides will turn bright blue when injured or bruised?
Did you know that Leoš Janáček dedicated his opera Jenůfa and the cantata Elegy on the Death of Daughter Olga to the memory of his daughter?
Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge spelled William Shakespeare 's last name as " Shakspere "?
Did you know that at 46.5 metres (153 ft), the longest Foucault pendulum in Poland is suspended inside the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in the Old Town district of Kraków ?
Did you know that more than 120 family members of a founder of Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel are buried in its graveyard?
Did you know that the ASME describes the Oneida Street Station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , as the "first central power station in the United States to be equipped and successfully operated with pulverized coal ?"
Did you know that it was at the wheel of the Brabham BT3 that Jack Brabham became the first driver ever to score Formula One World Championship points in a car of his own manufacture?
Did you know that Osama bin Laden 's hideout compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan is known locally as the Waziristan Haveli mansion?
Did you know that after the surge of multinational investments into Indonesia during the 1970s, many Indonesian women became the primary and cheap workforce in manufacturing businesses?
Did you know that socialist politician Arvid Olsson was among the first Swedes to receive political training in Soviet Russia ?
Did you know that Banksia candolleana shrubs have been estimated at 1000 years old?
Did you know that the Throne Room of the Bronze Age Palace of Knossos , in Greece , is claimed to be the oldest in Europe ?
Did you know that the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias worked together to build the Palace Lodge in Winslow, Indiana ?
Did you know that shot putter Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez has the record for most national athletics selections for Spain , but is now a film actor ?
Did you know that it's possible to receive a wireless internet signal almost anywhere in Minneapolis , except on the city's numerous lakes ?
Did you know that women in Oman live in the Persian Gulf country that is considered to be one of the most advanced in terms of women's rights ?
Did you know that The Red Onion , the oldest restaurant in Aspen, Colorado , wasn't formally named that until more than 50 years after it was built?
Did you know that Norman Hartnell designed both the wedding dress and the coronation gown of Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that the mistletoe Dendrophthoe vitellina has been found growing on 66 Australian plant species of 16 families?
Did you know that Wiki-Watch is a free software tool to automatically assess the reliability of Wikipedia articles?
Did you know that the Motley County Historical Museum in Matador , Texas , was formerly a hospital equipped with an iron lung , once used to treat polio ?
Did you know that George Edmund Butler‎ was an official war artist for New Zealand during World War I even though he lived in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Cincinnati Public Schools used the Cummins School , an ornamented brick building, as a model for later school construction?
Did you know that the band Blue , who will represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 , appeared naked in British gay magazine Attitude in May 2011?
Did you know that in Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google Inc. , if a Gmail user had viewed a particular email, Google was ordered to disclose to a bank the user's real name?
Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg was a nineteenth century German-Dutch sculptor who built church interiors in the Gothic Revival style?
Did you know that the Altec Lansing 604 coaxial speaker became the standard U.S. studio monitor after 1945?
Did you know that conductor Herbert Grossman collaborated with his wife on a popular English language translation of Puccini 's Gianni Schicchi ?
Did you know that deforestation in the surrounding rainforest has led to howler monkeys being seen on the streets of modern Palenque, Chiapas , Mexico ?
Did you know that the wedding dress of Grace Kelly , characterized as "one of the most-beloved of all time", was designed by Helen Rose , a leading costume designer of the era for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) ?
Did you know that since being drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1982 , Greg Legg has worked continually for the franchise as a minor leaguer , a major leaguer , a manager , and a coach ?
Did you know that former Croatian Member of Parliament Ruža Tomašić appeared in television series The X-Files and Millennium as a stuntwoman ?
Did you know that after the Battle of Arnhem , the British 156th Parachute Battalion was reduced to only 68 men?
Did you know that during the terms of Governor Jeb Bush , the Republican-dominated Florida Council of 100 began taking an activist role, funding studies and proposing solutions to critical issues?
Did you know that " Jerry's Painting ", an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation , features a painting with a topless centaur Greek goddess that resembles the lead character, played by Amy Poehler ?
Did you know that the octagonal Church of St Mary in Hartwell , Buckinghamshire , has no roof?
Did you know that opera singer Maria di Gerlando created the role of Carmela in the 1954 world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti 's The Saint of Bleecker Street ?
Did you know that abstract expressionist painter Jay Meuser painted two portraits for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ?
Did you know that RideShare Delaware forms carpools from a database that grew to include 15,000 commuters in 2009?
Did you know that the Roman settlement at Gatcombe , in the modern English county of Somerset , may be the site of Iscalis described by Ptolemy ?
Did you know that the Tecopa pupfish was the first animal delisted under the Endangered Species Act because of its extinction?
Did you know that GJ 3634 b , a recently discovered Super-Earth in orbit around a red dwarf star , is estimated to be over eight times more massive than Earth?
Did you know that New York Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara has five sisters named Passionate, Peace, Precious, Princess, and Promise?
Did you know that the Teufelsturm , a prominent rock tower and climbing rock about 40 metres (130 ft) high in Saxon Switzerland , is referred to as the "Symbol of Saxon Climbing"?
Did you know that the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs predates the founding of Saudi Arabia ?
Did you know that Henry Norlande Ruttan , an Empire Loyalist , was the project engineer for a Winnipeg pumping station considered in 1906 to be the most modern such institution in the world?
Did you know that the Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album was presented in 2000 to an album deemed "unremarkable" by a critic?
Did you know that Richard Phipson 's Victorian church spire at Great Finborough in Suffolk has been nicknamed " Thunderbird One " after the Supermarionation space rescue vehicle?
Did you know that a frog battery can decompose potassium iodide ?
Did you know that Captain Władysław Raginis is known as a modern Leonidas for facing Nazi German forces which outnumbered the Poles 40:1 at the Battle of Wizna ?
Did you know that Bach set the theme of the Good Shepherd in his cantata for the second Sunday after Easter , Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 , as a pastorale , a trio of oboes playing triplets to pedal points ?
Did you know that Lisa Head was the second British servicewoman killed on active service in the War in Afghanistan since 2001?
Did you know that the Rabboni was the first regular tugboat to work the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River ?
Did you know that after soprano Gianna Galli 's opera career ended at the age of 40 due to problems with her vocal cords , she had a second successful career as a talent manager of singers in Italy?
Did you know that Phaeacius , a very lazy jumping spider , waits motionless until prey walks almost into its jaws?
Did you know that baritone Richard Torigi created the role of Silvio de Narni in the world premiere of Alberto Ginastera 's Bomarzo in 1967?
Did you know that the small Land Yeo river in Somerset , England, has powered at least ten watermills in the last 1,000 years?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory has been cited as having the best ice cream in New York City?
Did you know that English shipwright James Beeching invented a self-righting lifeboat in 1851, which became the standard model for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution 's new fleet?
Did you know that at its peak in the early 20th century , the Matador Ranch had 90,000 head of cattle on nearly 900,000 acres in parts of four West Texas counties?
Did you know that the owner of the prehistoric Tell Ezou in Syria has expressed an interest to turn it into an olive plantation?
Did you know that Cath Kidston started her shopping chain after surviving breast cancer ?
Did you know that Dr. Richard Spademan invented the Spademan binding after seeing 150 fractures in a single long weekend at Squaw Valley ?
Did you know that the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger attributed the deaths of 600 sheep in the AD 62 Pompeii earthquake to the effects of poisonous gases?
Did you know that the 2008 California Statewide Truck and Bus Rule is expected to save 9,400 lives and over US$ 48 billion in health-care costs?
Did you know that the only surviving example of subdivision gates in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada, built by property owners instead of a real estate developer are located at Armstrong’s Point ?
Did you know that Samuel Paull Andrews was the first working class man to be elected to the New Zealand Parliament ?
Did you know that Italy's Carabinieri maintain a unit dedicated to fighting art and antiquities crimes?
Did you know that the title Baron Carrickfergus was given to Prince William as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II for his wedding ?
Did you know that the Nava System ski binding used a plastic arm to control the ski, instead of a stiff ski boot?
Did you know that Charles Bemies organized the first college basketball team in the 1890s and later became a Presbyterian minister and evangelist?
Did you know that Pulvermacher's chain battery was used in experiments by dentists in an attempt to anaesthetise patients with electric shocks?
Did you know that Barney Gibson became the youngest-ever English first-class cricketer when he played for Yorkshire aged 15 years and 27 days?
Did you know that the precursors to the White House Press Secretary and White House press corps both formed during the presidency of Grover Cleveland ?
Did you know that the tomb of Robert Ingylton in St Michael and All Angels' Church in Thornton , Buckinghamshire , was re-assembled from a grotto ?
Did you know that Kate Middleton ' s wedding dress for her marriage to Prince William was designed by Sarah Burton ?
Did you know that Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a nunsploitation thriller film that is the subject of a copyright lawsuit against torrent users involving 5,865 IP addresses ?
Did you know that within six months of opening The Kitchin restaurant in Edinburgh , chef Tom Kitchin became the youngest-ever recipient of a Michelin star ?
Did you know that Radhakrishnan 's Dhammapada was recommended reading for victims of the "annihilation-extinction" theory of nirvana ?
Did you know that Captain Cedric Holland was sent with the British terms for the surrender of the French fleet prior to the attack on Mers-el-Kébir ?
Did you know that the Kunming–Singapore Railway will be 3,900 km (2,400 mi) long when completed?
Did you know that Italian athlete Roberto Marson was proclaimed the outstanding athlete of the Games after winning 10 gold medals at the 1968 Paralympics ?
Did you know that Queen Victoria has been credited with starting the western tradition of white bridal gowns by wearing one at her 1840 wedding?
Did you know that the first time Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers starred together in a film was in Lewis Milestone 's 1940 comedy romance drama Lucky Partners ?
Did you know that Virginia rabbi Jack Moline helped write President Bill Clinton 's famous 1995 "Shalom, Haver" eulogy for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ?
Did you know that for the first time in 11 years, the 2010 budget passed by the 15th Congress of the Philippines was signed by President Benigno Aquino III before the calendar year ended?
Did you know that basketball player Othyus Jeffers and his two older brothers, Gerome Allen and Edmund Allen, were all shot during three separate shooting incidents in their hometown , but only Jeffers survived?
Did you know that the earliest history of Alishang in Afghanistan is traced to the Mughal Emperor Babur , when in the 1520s he hunted wildlife in the mountains there before returning to India ?
Did you know that Sufjan Stevens has released four versions of " Chicago ", including the " Multiple Personality Disorder Version"?
Did you know that a fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana has been released along with a parasitic wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi in the US as a biological control agent of the emerald ash borer ?
Did you know that Mongolia 's top Olympic marathon runner Ser-Od Bat-Ochir trains with Morpeth Harriers in Gateshead , England ?
Did you know that tantalum hafnium carbide is believed to have a melting point as high as 4,215 °C (7,619 °F)?
Did you know that George Jessel and Arlene Francis hosted a 1953–54 ABC reality show , The Comeback Story , in which guests discuss how they overcame great adversity in their lives?
Did you know that at 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi) long, the Great Wall of Vietnam is the longest monument in Southeast Asia?
Did you know that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad by singing the Jewish prayer for the dead ?
Did you know that GeoCenter Møns Klint on the island of Møn in Denmark was designed by PLH Architects , the winners of an international design competition ?
Did you know that in the men's decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics , British athlete Daniel Awde set a personal best in the pole vault and had the fastest time of anyone in the 400 metres, but finished 21st?
Did you know that Esad Mekuli is considered the father of modern Albanian poetry in Yugoslavia ?
Did you know that during the Battle of Arnhem the 4th Parachute Brigade suffered 78 per cent casualties?
Did you know that it was Jerry Shipp who led the United States men's national basketball team in scoring at the 1964 Summer Olympics , even though its roster included two future Hall of Famers ?
Did you know that an extremophile bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans , has been found to grow even under 400,000 times Earth's gravity, a fact having implications on the feasibility of panspermia ?
Did you know that Sanjak of Montenegro was joined to the Sanjak of Shkodra in 1514 as a unique administrative unit with a certain degree of autonomy?
Did you know that timber from the Ruislip Woods was used in the construction of the Tower of London , Windsor Castle , the Palace of Westminster , and the manor of the Black Prince in Kennington ?
Did you know that Debedeavon , the Laughing King of the Accawmacke Virginia Indian tribe, and an Englishman whom he adopted named Thomas Savage, warned the settlers at Jamestown of the impending 1622 Massacre ?
Did you know that host country West Germany won the most gold medals at the 1972 Summer Paralympics , but the United States won the most total medals?
Did you know that more than 120 archaeological sites have been found in the Econfina Creek watershed ?
Did you know that Russell and Sigurd Varian , who played childhood pranks on family guests by giving them minor electric shocks, went on to invent the klystron and become pioneers of microwave technology?
Did you know that Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum has won Paralympic medals for Israel in athletics , swimming and table tennis ?
Did you know that the Burmese were "on the brink of victory" in the Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760) when they suddenly withdrew from their siege of Ayutthaya because their king Alaungpaya had fallen ill?
Did you know that Dinochelus ausubeli , a deepwater lobster discovered during the Census of Marine Life expedition, was named in honour of its sponsor, Jesse H. Ausubel ?
Did you know that policies promoting wireless broadband plan to bring the Internet to 98% of Americans?
Did you know that Tekalif-i orfiye , Resm-i çift , Rav akçesi , Nüzül , İspençe , Avariz , Adet-i ağnam , Resm-i arusane , Tuz resmi , Resm-i bennâk , Bedl-i askeri , Gümrük resmi , Sursat , Müskirat resmi , Temettu , Adet-i deştbani , Damga resmi , Resm-i mücerred , Öşür , Ihtisab , Resm-i donum and Tapu resmi were Ottoman taxes , whilst Muafiyet were exemptions, and Emins were tax collectors?
Did you know that solar panels provide part of the power for electric vehicle charging stations at Hillsboro, Oregon 's Intermodal Transit Facility ?
Did you know that the British Colonial Hilton Nassau is located on the site of the Old Fort of Nassau ?
Did you know that until the Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina was amended in 2007, North Carolina had very few health and safety regulations for migrant farmers' housing?
Did you know that the tadpole of the Vampire flying frog Rhacophorus vampyrus has two fang-like hooks in its mouth?
Did you know that Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist, prohibitionist, and activist, lectured at the Cornish Library in Winnipeg ?
Did you know that Gustav Elfving invented the optimal design of experiments , and so minimized the cost of a cartographic survey , while trapped in his tent in storm-ridden Greenland ?
Did you know that Heather Knight was the first woman to be selected President of Pacific Union College and the first African American woman to lead an Adventist College in North America?
Did you know that Footes Lane is the main sporting venue in Guernsey ?
Did you know that in 1852 Franz Johann Joseph Bock founded the first large exhibition of ancient masterpieces of Christian art?
Did you know that St Lawrence's Church in Broughton , Buckinghamshire , is listed Grade I because of its "remarkable series" of medieval wall paintings?
Did you know that Curry Hicks was the head football coach for the Michigan State Normal Normalites in 1910 and the athletic director at UMass from 1911 to 1949?
Did you know that the buildings in Jižní Město , the Czech Republic's largest housing estate, were color-coded to facilitate orientation?
Did you know that the ancient custom of ringing the curfew bell each evening from St Peter's Church in Sandwich , Kent , still continues?
Did you know that an artificial lake near the Lebanese village of Qaraoun has become a seasonal home for about 20,000 migratory birds each year?
Did you know that members of the Brisbane -based Women's National Emergency Legion served as drivers for United States military units in Australia during World War II ?
Did you know that Twicket , the first ever village cricket match to be live-streamed around the world, was played in Wray, Lancashire , on Easter Monday 2011?
Did you know that women in Burma wore a skirtcloth known as the htamein during the Konbaung Dynasty ?
Did you know that although Earth, Wind & Fire 's song " Reasons " has never charted, it is included on several dozen albums including most of the group's greatest hits compilation albums ?
Did you know that Eddie Wilcoxen, morning show host on radio station KWHW , is the current Poet Laureate for the state of Oklahoma ?
Did you know that next-generation DDR4 computer memory, developed since 2005, is the first of its family to discard multi-channel architecture , and the first to include 3D silicon stacking in its specification?