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Did you know that the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies , such as vegetable-powered vehicles , solar vehicles , and organic farming exhibits?
Did you know that World War II flying ace Franz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft?
Did you know that The Metros , a five-piece punk pop band from Peckham , London , were formerly known as The Wanking Skankers?
Did you know that a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney , a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman , was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman ?
Did you know that a 2007 treaty significantly modified Indo-Bhutanese relations by reducing India 's guiding role over Bhutan 's foreign policy ?
Did you know that the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh , New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?
Did you know that Zygmunt Rumel , a Polish poet and soldier of the Bataliony Chlopskie , was tied to four horses and ripped apart in 1943 during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ?
Did you know that The Locusts , an early 19th-century house in New Paltz, New York , has no fireplaces ?
Did you know that British Army officer Sir William Horrocks confirmed Sir David Bruce 's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat 's milk ?
Did you know that during Hossain Mohammad Ershad 's rule, chiefs of Bangladeshi intelligence agencies were amongst his closest advisers?
Did you know that a film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen?
Did you know that Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man is a Korean action comic that combines the styles of Mad Max , Dune and The Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that the Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade has five forewords , each by an expert in the field of information security ?
Did you know that the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997?
Did you know that the 9th century Navalinga temple in Karnataka , India , is a cluster of nine Hindu temples , each containing a Shiva linga ?
Did you know that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointed lighthouse keeper at Bluff Point Light on Valcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
Did you know the British MI6 tried to hire the Austrian - German physicist Josef Schintlmeister as a spy in the Soviet Union , where he had worked for ten years?
Did you know that a collection of 247 tiles illustrating children's books are installed on the Story Book Wall at the Alamogordo Public Library in New Mexico ,  U.S.?
Did you know that the first regular British light infantry regiment, the 52nd Regiment of Foot , awarded the title "Valiant Stormer" to those who survived the Forlorn Hopes at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz ?
Did you know that after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?
Did you know that Antwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flowerpot motifs ?
Did you know that the 1945 loss of German U-boat U-864 during Operation Caesar , a secret mission to deliver technology to Japan , is the only known incident of one submerged submarine sinking another?
Did you know that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball , a forerunner of modern softball ?
Did you know that the Jabalpur and the Mandla districts in Madhya Pradesh were the worst affected districts in the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake ?
Did you know that the percussion instruments the txalaparta and kirikoketa originated as pieces of equipment from a Sagardotegi ?
Did you know that famous Hispanics in the United States Navy include the country's first full admiral , David Glasgow Farragut ?
Did you know that the population dynamics of fisheries is a discipline used by fisheries scientists to determine sustainable yields ?
Did you know that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company 's fleet during World War II ?
Did you know that the Nootka Crisis of 1789–90 marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire ?
Did you know that Maharajbagh zoo in Nagpur , India , has been built on the garden of Bhonsle , Maratha rulers of the Nagpur kingdom ?
Did you know that future Admiral John Moore joined the Royal Navy when he was just 11 years old?
Did you know that in the primaries for the 2002 Oregon gubernatorial election , candidates included one who called himself the "flying governor"?
Did you know that Nona L. Brooks , a founder of the Church of Divine Science and leader in the New Thought religious movement, was the first woman pastor in Denver ?
Did you know that Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC ?
Did you know that on September 23 , 1868 , the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico led a revolt in Lares , declaring it the "Republic of Puerto Rico"?
Did you know that according to one account, after Thomas Attwood accused fellow composer Charles Edward Horn of plagiarizing a song, Horn helped clear himself in court by singing his version and that of Attwood's?
Did you know that the church of St. Barlock at Norbury has a monument to the "lewd and vile" wife of its thirteenth Lord?
Did you know that Aston Villa 's Bob Chatt scored an FA Cup Final goal 30 seconds after kick-off?
Did you know that the Catalan municipality of Alcanar is officially stated as being founded in 1252, despite having a charter signed in 1239?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell built the opera house where James Earl Jones started his career?
Did you know that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham , largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824?
Did you know that former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset Shlomo Hillel was in charge of an underground ammunition factory disguised as a laundry facility during the British Mandate of Palestine ?
Did you know that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I ?
Did you know that caste -based communal reservations in Tamil Nadu were introduced by the government of the Raja of Panagal in August 1921 ?
Did you know that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast?
Did you know that Time magazine covers have featured self-portraits of film director and artist Matt Mahurin , who has portrayed himself as Sigmund Freud , a caveman and an Abu Ghraib prisoner ?
Did you know that the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was surprised to learn of the existence of Buckland Windmill , the only wind sawmill in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Clan Campbell of Cawdor is a Scottish clan which currently does not have a recognised clan chief ?
Did you know that the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. is located inside a National Historic Landmark building that was patterned after the Roman Temple of Jupiter ?
Did you know that the First Congress of Vienna was held three hundred years before the more famous 1815 Congress ?
Did you know that Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that between 1920 and 1929 the Canadian Pacific Steamships vessel SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm bore six different names, but sailed under only four of them?
Did you know that computer security expert Dan Kaminsky demonstrated a security vulnerability by setting up Rickrolls on Facebook and PayPal ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame basketball coach Clarence "Big House" Gaines originally planned to become a dentist before taking on a temporary coaching job that lasted 47 years?
Did you know that Action Hyacinth was an operation of the Polish communist police , carried out in the years 1985–1987, whose purpose was to create a national database of Polish homosexuals ?
Did you know that Narciso Bassols founded Mexico 's first systematic sex education program while Secretary of Public Education ?
Did you know that " Uncommon Sense " by Hal Clement received a Hugo Award for Best Short Story 51 years after it was first published?
Did you know that Len Boyd , captain of Birmingham City F.C. in the 1950s, once played four games with a fractured leg?
Did you know that actor Buck Taylor , though he still appears in mostly Western films , is also a prolific artist of the American West ?
Did you know that Troubled Island is an opera about the Haitian revolution leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines , who crowned himself emperor after independence was declared?
Did you know that the Section of Painting and Sculpture , a New Deal federal art program operated by the United States Department of the Treasury , commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S. post offices ?
Did you know that the famine of 1873–74 in Bihar , India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons of grain was left unused at the end of the relief efforts?
Did you know that the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America , represented by the American Civil Liberties Union , were plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking the removal of the Mount Soledad cross ?
Did you know that the Frieze of Parnassus on the Albert Memorial was inspired by Hippolyte Delaroche 's Hémicycle des Beaux Arts ?
Did you know that the supreme god of the southern African Bushmen is Cagn , a trickster who shapeshifts into a praying mantis ?
Did you know that an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis 's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association 's website?
Did you know that 1944 film Haridas was the last completed work of Kollywood icon M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar prior to his arrest in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case?
Did you know that the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books?
Did you know that Margie ( ABC , 1961 – 1962 ) is one of the few network programs set during the Roaring Twenties , complete with jalopies , raccoon coats , period music, and references to flappers ?
Did you know that the two-inch-tall people of The Teenie Weenies were a Chicago Tribune comic strip written by William Donahey for over 50 years?
Did you know that the Northern Irish marilyn Slieve Gallion is a volcanic plug ?
Did you know that Page Cortez , a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives , gained vital name recognition in part from television ads promoting his furniture store?
Did you know that Ashby's windmill in Brixton worked by steam rather than wind power after 1902?
Did you know that Russian writer and activist Zoya Krakhmalnikova 's baptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from the USSR Union of Writers , which effectively banned her from publishing?
Did you know that Henriade , an epic poem by French Enlightenment writer Voltaire , was written in honour of the life of Henry IV ?
Did you know that much of the interior of the 19th-century St Patrick's Church, Hove has been rebuilt as a night shelter which includes a variation on the 1970s " sleep capsule " concept?
Did you know that a Brazilian music expert noted Caetano Veloso 's uncertain sexual orientation in his 2006 album cê ?
Did you know that California v. Byers was the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that providing one's own information in a vehicle accident does not violate the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment ?
Did you know that the Palestinian town of Tuqu' is the birthplace of the Hebrew prophet Amos ?
Did you know that Radha Ramana is the only image of Krishna that remained in Vrindavana during the 17th-century raids by Islamic king Aurangzeb ?
Did you know that Camille Le Mercier d'Erm and his colleagues formed the Breton Nationalist Party in 1911 to advocate the independence of Brittany from France ?
Did you know that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky ?
Did you know that nine riparian countries along River Nile launched the Nile Basin Initiative in 1999 to better manage their common water resources ?
Did you know that 19th-century English architect John Foulston was responsible for the construction of Union Street across marshland ?
Did you know that the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka , Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan joined the Tamil Tigers as a child soldier at the age of fourteen?
Did you know that Victoria Hotel in Darwin , Australia , has survived three major cyclones and Japanese air raids during World War II ?
Did you know that Blonde lace was made out of two different thicknesses of thread to create greater contrast between the pattern and the ground?
Did you know that U.S. First Lady Laura Bush serves as ambassador of The Heart Truth awareness campaign?
Did you know that Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt was the first British Member of Parliament to be killed in World War II ?
Did you know that the ancient Greek city of Psophis was said to have been ravaged by the Erymanthian Boar ?
Did you know that Hazel Dolling , the châtelaine of Lissan House , always kept a chainsaw in her car while driving, in case trees had fallen on her mile-long avenue?
Did you know that Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory 's Australian of the Year in 2006?
Did you know that the Atlantic bumper is only found in the Atlantic Ocean because its ecological niche is filled by the only other member of its genus elsewhere?
Did you know that director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters ?
Did you know that after a chest injury , air can escape from the lungs and travel to the subcutaneous tissue of the skin , causing subcutaneous emphysema ?
Did you know that Oladevi , a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization , was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal ?
Did you know that Reigate Heath Windmill is the only windmill in England that has been consecrated as a church ?
Did you know that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge , along the Muscatatuck River , by selling waterfowl stamps ?
Did you know that the Seaway Trail Discovery Center is one of the few attractions in the North Country, New York , that is open year-round?
Did you know that German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions in 1909 and 1921?
Did you know that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters?
Did you know that British Conservative MP Alan Gomme-Duncan , despite being strongly unionist , did not want the Stone of Scone returned to Westminster Abbey after Scottish nationalists stole it in 1951?
Did you know that the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus was the first elected socialist municipal government in Mexico ?
Did you know that Malinda Cramer , a founder of the Church of Divine Science and an early influence in the New Thought movement, died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ?
Did you know that Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that the Polish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of struggle between Poland and Russia over Central and Eastern Europe ?
Did you know that the colonial ghost town of Brunswick, North Carolina was named after Braunschweig , Germany , the birthplace of Great Britain's King George I ?
Did you know that a large part of the first vintage from the Spanish winery Dominio de Pingus was lost in 1997 when the transporting ship disappeared?
Did you know that Nathan Daboll wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools during the first half of the 19th century?
Did you know that the forced removal of 700,000 people from slums in Zimbabwe in 2005 was called "a crime against humanity " by the UN ?
Did you know that Juniper Valley Park in New York City used to be a swamp owned by Arnold Rothstein , who in the 1920s tried to sell it to the city for use as an airport?
Did you know that Indo-Iraqi relations improved considerably after Iraq supported India 's 1998 nuclear tests and its stand on the Kashmir dispute ?
Did you know that Sir William Edge , a Liberal MP , once raced against a flock of homing pigeons from London to Leicestershire by car and train, but lost the race by two minutes because the train was delayed?
Did you know that the 1964 CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns featured character actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitious California department store ?
Did you know that New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia , Singapore , Thailand , Brunei , Chile and China ?
Did you know that Harvard Japanologist Susan Pharr was recently awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government ?
Did you know that the town of Melattur in Tamil Nadu , India is famous for its Bharatanatyam , a classic South Indian dance ?
Did you know that the Wallingford Tornado of 1878 was the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and the second-deadliest to strike New England ?
Did you know that Fidler Point on Lake Athabasca is named for Peter Fidler , a map-maker , fur trader and explorer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company ?
Did you know that Bolton Hall , the community center for a Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of Los Angeles , was later used as a jail?
Did you know that the 1948 Tamil film Chandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in any Indian film ?
Did you know that Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity ?
Did you know that English musician and composer Charles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor to Queen Charlotte ?
Did you know that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins , known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ?
Did you know that international airport project MIHAN in Nagpur is the biggest economic development project currently underway in India in terms of investment?
Did you know that ATF undercover agent William Queen infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter?
Did you know that the new Maoist -led government seeks to scrap Nepal 's 1950 treaty with India , which sought to build strong Indo-Nepal relations to counter perceived threats from China ?
Did you know that water supply and sanitation in Uganda are recognized as key issues under the government's 2004 national " Poverty Eradication Action Plan"?
Did you know that Kentucky 's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County , but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?
Did you know that The Town Talk , the principal newspaper of Central Louisiana , was established by Irish immigrants on St. Patrick's Day in 1883 ?
Did you know that the only items found in the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Neferefre upon excavation were mummy fragments and broken canopic jars ?
Did you know that eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel , a Queen Anne-style , Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland , Oregon in 1890?
Did you know that the game between FC Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945 in the Gauliga Bayern , ending 3–2, was the last official football game played in Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?
Did you know that the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines , which are rare within the United States?
Did you know that Outwood is the oldest working windmill in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before the Great Fire of London ?
Did you know that US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies ?
Did you know that sociology was banned as a bourgeois science by the Polish government in the Stalinist period 1948–1956?
Did you know that Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland , Oregon with only five dissenting votes?
Did you know that Thomas Garrigus of Oregon was a silver medalist for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team at the Summer Games in Mexico City ?
Did you know that the armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector was in the process of being decommissioned when she was sunk in the Easter Sunday Raid ?
Did you know that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky ?
Did you know that the Saharan silver ant has several unique adaptations that led it to be called "one of the most heat-resistant animals known"?
Did you know that Edmund Graves Brown , a member of the Louisiana Ewing newspaper family, was a U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944?
Did you know that G1.9+0.3 is the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way ?
Did you know that the only peacetime George Cross won by a woman was awarded to Barbara Jane Harrison as a result of her actions during the fire on board BOAC Flight 712 in 1968?
Did you know that the WF01, the first racing car built by Embassy Racing , was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son?
Did you know that Haley Barbour became only the second Republican Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction after winning the 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that 22-year-old Ling Ling was the oldest panda in Japan at the time of his death in April 2008?
Did you know that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House features an indoor well pump , but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway ?
Did you know that John Benjamin Murphy was an early advocate of appendectomies as an intervention for signs of appendicitis ?
Did you know that the Gauliga was a German football league system introduced by the Nazis after they took over the country in 1933?
Did you know that the Oregon Korean War Memorial was not built until nearly 50 years after the Korean War began?
Did you know that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
Did you know that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania , Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
Did you know that by the end of the Second World War 60,968 ratings had passed through the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Ganges ?
Did you know that Run, Buddy, Run , a 1966 CBS sitcom , featured Jack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears a gangster during a steam bath plotting a murder?
Did you know that for 25 years, Jack O'Brien conducted two parallel directing careers: Broadway musicals in New York City and Shakespeare in San Diego ?
Did you know that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey ?
Did you know that the ethnic population of Omaha, Nebraska , including new and first generation immigrants , comprised fifty percent of that city's population in the 1920s ?
Did you know that in 1876, British historian Edwin Pears , as correspondent of The Daily News , sent letters home describing Ottoman atrocities in Bulgaria during the April Uprising which aroused demonstrations in England led by William Gladstone ?
Did you know that a 2003 medical study by Peter Pronovost , an intensive care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital , on the use of simple checklists helped save 1500 lives and US$100 million?