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Did you know that actor Jason Lee will star as a detective who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator in the upcoming American television series Memphis Beat?
Did you know that as point man for the Kennedy administration on the August 1963 March on Washington, John W. Douglas was given "historic credit for the orderliness and smoothness and joy of that day"?
Did you know that in 1896, a flooding disaster occurred at River Level Colliery in the Welsh village of Abernant, killing six colliers?
Did you know that late Roman office-holder Sossianus Hierocles was one of the more fervent supporters of official persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire?
Did you know that more than 1000 rivers flow into Seversky Donets?
Did you know that the 1878 constitution of San Francisco's Congregation Beth Israel prohibited members from praying out loud?
Did you know that the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada, hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid?
Did you know that the ChristChurch Cathedral has a western porch and a memorial window to commemorate Alfred Creyke and John Watts-Russell, respectively, paid for by their widow Elizabeth?
Did you know that the Eastern Great Egret has a neck one and a half times as long as its body?
Did you know that the German submarine U-343 managed to shoot down two Wellington bombers?
Did you know that the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar, an environmental award given by the Government of India to organizations, carries a cash prize of 500,000 Indian rupees?
Did you know that the Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane was powered by an engine originally intended for use in airships?
Did you know that the Megaria, a historic movie theater in Jakarta, Indonesia, is the city's largest remaining Art Deco building?
Did you know that the United Public Workers of America was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1950 for being communist-controlled, and its president convicted of contempt of Congress?
Did you know that the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous-class carrier HMS Furious?
Did you know that the pilot of the Aichi F1A sat in an open cockpit, while the observer's position was enclosed?
Did you know that Alfred Sinding-Larsen, who wrote folk songs with the Vika dialect, was one of the first writers to use a dialect from Norway's capital?
Did you know that Augie Schmidt won the Golden Spikes Award, an award given to the top amateur baseball player in the United States, in 1982?
Did you know that Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
Did you know that C/2009 R1, one of more than fifty comets known as "Comet McNaught", has been noted for its "impressive green coma and long ion tail", lending it the appearance of an "apple on a stick"?
Did you know that Elias Martin has been described by Nationalencyklopedin as Sweden's "first big landscape painter"?
Did you know that John Henning's miniature models of the Parthenon Frieze and Bassae Frieze took twelve years to complete?
Did you know that Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I?
Did you know that Prvić near Krk is the windiest Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea?
Did you know that Rafael Fraguela was elected to the N.J. Assembly 33rd District as a Democrat, became a Republican to run for the N.J. Senate, and returned to the Democrats to vote for a stem cell research bill?
Did you know that Thimphu is the capital city of Bhutan?
Did you know that after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old, New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Kramer pushed bills requiring sex offender registration, saying "Megan Kanka would be alive today" if his bills were law?
Did you know that in English law, resulting trusts work based on the equitable maxim that "equity abhors a vacuum"?
Did you know that in English trusts law, constructive trusts are used for things as varied as land transfers, bribery and murder?
Did you know that only fourteen complete examples of Hedwig glass are known?
Did you know that people have reportedly witnessed the ghosts of Roman legionnaires passing through Maesmawr Hall in Powys, Wales, site of an ancient Roman road?
Did you know that playwright Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! was made partly in response to a bill amendment banning the National Endowment of the Arts from granting funds for "obscene or indecent art"?
Did you know that the 16th-century chancel window of the Welsh church of St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus, has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall?
Did you know that the British steam-powered submarine HMS Swordfish's performance underwater was so unsatisfactory that she was converted to an anti-submarine patrol boat in 1917–18?
Did you know that the German submarine U-104 went missing on her first war patrol?
Did you know that the Lothair Crystal, an engraved gem now in the British Museum, was once sold for ten pounds?
Did you know that the Motherwell v Hibernian football match on 5 May 2010, which ended in a 6–6 draw, is the highest scoring match in Scottish Premier League history?
Did you know that the Tanganyikan Spiny Eel was one of the species that was photographed as part of a FishBase mission which had the primary objective to document and photograph the rich fish diversity of Lake Tanganyika?
Did you know that the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield displays two of Britain's rarest makes of automobile, the three wheel LSD and the Valveless which had an engine with only six moving parts?
Did you know that the UConn Huskies won the 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl to end a year marked by five games lost by 15 total points, a double-overtime victory at Notre Dame, and the murder of cornerback Jasper Howard?
Did you know that the film Let the Devil Wear Black is a modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet that is set in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the manufacturer of the Polish SHL brand of motorcycles (model SHL 98 pictured) was nationalized after World War II and closed in the 1970s?
Did you know that when a fifteen-year-old girl garlanded Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the inauguration of India's Panchet Dam, she was considered to have "married" him?
Did you know that when in danger of predation, the harvestman Leiobunum rotundum can self-amputate its legs, but they will not regenerate?
Did you know that Brandon Gormley, Mikael Granlund, Derek Forbort and Ryan Johansen are projected to be among the top selections at the 2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft on June 25–26?
Did you know that First Presbyterian Church 1793 is the de facto college church of Washington & Jefferson College, a nearby nonsectarian liberal arts college?
Did you know that Jim "the Darp" Ostendarp, Amherst College football coach for 33 years, refused to allow ESPN to televise a game saying, "We're in education. We aren't in the entertainment business"?
Did you know that Leonard Sanford persuaded Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her children to buy Lord Rothschild's bird collection for the American Museum of Natural History?
Did you know that Oscar Eduardovich Lemm, Russian Coptologist, published the text of Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I?
Did you know that Paul Lo Duca has the most MLB All-Star selections, but Jason Varitek has the most World Series championships from the 1993 College Baseball All-America Team?
Did you know that Phymanthus crucifer has bright red suckers on its column, to which debris can attach for camouflage?
Did you know that Sir Percy Cradock was manhandled by the Red Guards when he was stationed at the charge d'affaires office, Peking, during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Ulpian's life table predicted a life expectancy of 19 to 23 years for citizens of the Roman Empire?
Did you know that an article she wrote about boar hunting in Brittany led to Kate Betts' career as a fashion journalist?
Did you know that cricketer Steph Davies, who made four appearances for England in 2008, made her county debut for Somerset aged just 13?
Did you know that footballer Michael Basham played in the Swansea City team that won the 1994 Football League Trophy Final?
Did you know that in 1949 the Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak socialist parties founded the Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe as a common centre for work in exile?
Did you know that on March 22, 2003, the treacherous reefs around Land's End claimed yet another ship, the RMS Mulheim?
Did you know that tert-butanesulfinamide is used as a chiral auxiliary in the asymmetric synthesis of amines?
Did you know that the 1950 film The Bandit Queen starred Barbara Britton in the title role as a bullwhip-wielding avenger?
Did you know that the Laguna Madre in Texas is one of the earth's six hypersaline bays?
Did you know that the Pithole Stone Arch Bridge is unusual for being surprisingly well built for only a rural backroad, but was initially thought to be of inferior quality and was not expected to last?
Did you know that the bark of the Himalayan Birch was once used as paper for writing Sanskrit texts?
Did you know that the collapse of the Showa Bridge after the 1964 Niigata earthquake was a result of liquefaction rather than ground motion?
Did you know that there were an estimated 8,000 members of Sam's Army in the stands at the U.S. men's soccer team's opening game of the 2010 World Cup in group play against England?
Did you know that Alvin Greene is the first African American since Reconstruction to win a major party's nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina?
Did you know that Chinese porcelain in European painting is known from at least 1514 with Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods?
Did you know that Highlands Coffee was both the first private company and the first joint stock company within Vietnam to be registered to an Overseas Vietnamese?
Did you know that Juan José Carbó was an award-winning cartoonist who drew for both adult entertainment and children's magazines while working as a civil servant?
Did you know that Kerry-Ann Booth, the girlfriend of footballer Greg Young, did not see him on the losing side of a game for Halifax Town for the first four years of their relationship?
Did you know that Lillian Heath, the first woman doctor in Wyoming, was given the sawed-off skull cap of lynched outlaw Big Nose George, which she used as a doorstop?
Did you know that Louis Romano, a four-term member of the New Jersey General Assembly, lost to Albio Sires in the 1999 Democratic primary, making him the only one of 80 incumbents to lose a primary bid that year?
Did you know that Mexico's National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts or FONART directly assisted 26,600 Mexican artisans in 2006?
Did you know that Rick Mahorn was selected second in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, but he refused to report to the team and was traded prior to the start of the following season?
Did you know that Travis Kvapil received one of the largest NASCAR penalties by using improper modifications to the valve stems during the 2010 Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500?
Did you know that Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski, a trained aviator, took part in the Warsaw Uprising of World War II and later headed an automobile repair bureau in Poznań?
Did you know that although Paul Legrand's physique was considered unsuited for pantomime, he had a distinguished 48 year career as a performer around the world?
Did you know that azoospermia affects about 1% of the male population?
Did you know that cricketer Lisa Sthalekar took five wickets in her 100th One Day International match for Australia?
Did you know that during the Great Depression, attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas?
Did you know that during the construction of Fairfield Bridge a burial cave was found with the heads of several dead Māori people?
Did you know that in Operation Sharp Guard, warships from 14 countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia, challenged 73,000 ships, and boarded and inspected almost 6,000 of them?
Did you know that in an effort to protect tax revenue from casinos in Atlantic City, Assemblyman Kenneth LeFevre sought to block the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma from opening a casino in Wildwood, New Jersey?
Did you know that the Battle of the Ice between Teutonic Knights and Novgorodians was fought on top of the frozen Lake Peipsi-Pihkva?
Did you know that the Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus, Indiana, is constructed on an old railroad yard?
Did you know that the Harpy Tomb from ancient Xanthos was originally mounted on a stone pedestal seventeen feet above the ground?
Did you know that the Welsh church of St Peulan, Llanbeulan, is said to have been founded by St Peulan, the son of St Paulinus?
Did you know that the earliest record of St James' Church, Longborough, Gloucestershire, is in 1192 when a priest was murdered in the church?
Did you know that the phenomenon of Icing, called by The New York Times "the nation's biggest viral drinking game", has led to a spike in sales of Smirnoff Ice?
Did you know that the three lookouts, Gvulot, Beit Eshel and Revivim, served as a springboard for Jewish settlement in the Negev desert?
Did you know that "locked-in syndrome", in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of most muscles except for the eyes, was coined by neurologist Dr. Fred Plum?
Did you know that 74-time champion Ken Jennings may be one of the human challengers to face IBM's artificial intelligence software Watson in a special challenge match on Jeopardy!?
Did you know that Charles Domery ate 174 cats in a year?
Did you know that French track and field athlete Teddy Tamgho became the third best triple jumper of all-time three days before his 21st birthday?
Did you know that GRB 030329 provided the definitive link between gamma-ray bursts and supernovae?
Did you know that Hong Kong's Goddess of Democracy statue was the subject of three major political rows in Hong Kong over freedom of expression in the space of one week?
Did you know that Peter Keefe's 1980s series Voltron "helped prepare the way for other Japanese-style animation in the United States" such as Pokémon and Power Rangers?
Did you know that a hoax electric guitar inspired version of the Welsh national anthem was credited to both Jimi Hendrix and Tich Gwilym, when it was 'unearthed' in 2006?
Did you know that according to Ramayana adaptations, Mandodari – the wife of the ten-headed demon Ravana – was the mother of Sita, whose kidnapping by Ravana would lead to his doom?
Did you know that bored by a game of Scrabble, 76-year-old Abraham Nathanson said "we need an anagrams game so fast, it'll drive you bananas" and created the game Bananagrams?
Did you know that hospitals in Iraq reported 6,530 cases and 459 deaths as a result of the 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster?
Did you know that in 1899 the Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia became the first ship in the world to be fitted with a radio – an installation designed by A. S. Popov that had a range of about 3 miles (4.8 km)?
Did you know that in England and Wales, legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the Hale Commission?
Did you know that in Operation Maritime Guard, warships from Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., and four other countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia?
Did you know that it is speculated that Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus were commissioned by Constantine I?
Did you know that paraplegic handcyclist Edward Maalouf is the only person to have won medals for Lebanon at the Paralympic Games?
Did you know that the Brenthurst Foundation sent a number of its staff abroad to help solve the problem of there not being enough lecturers at the National University of Rwanda?
Did you know that the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars are the only teams to have not selected any Texas Tech Red Raiders in the NFL Draft?
Did you know that the death of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who tried to become the youngest to fly an aircraft across the US, led to a law prohibiting record-seeking children from touching the flight controls?
Did you know that the last remaining mail delivery boat in the United States delivers with mail jumpers?
Did you know that the mayfly Rhithrogena germanica can emerge from a river, moult and fly off in 30 seconds?
Did you know that the small French Communist Group in Russia was able to play a role in fomenting mutinies amongst French interventionist troops during the Russian Civil War?
Did you know that while the 19th-century writer Samuel Lewis described the Welsh church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated listed buildings in the country?
Did you know that Alex Rowe, rejected by the British Army because of a detached retina, became a highly decorated sniper for the French Foreign Legion?
Did you know that American League MVP and Cleveland Indians baseball manager Lou Boudreau hit two home runs in the 1948 American League tie-breaker game to bring the Indians to the 1948 World Series?
Did you know that Ella Anker, decorated with the Order of the British Empire, founded a Norway-based version of the Anglo-Norse Society?
Did you know that Gary Stuhltrager criticized efforts to delay the imposition of capital punishment in New Jersey, saying "if you're going to have it, do it"?
Did you know that Mayo hurler Adrian Freeman played in England, Scotland, North America and the Middle East before his recent death in an Australia car crash?
Did you know that Rock Band 3, a "disruptive title" to revitalize the rhythm video game genre, includes a Pro mode for near-accurate playing of real guitars, drum and keyboard instruments?
Did you know that Susan L. Taylor, the former editor-in-chief of Essence, was the first African-American woman to receive the Magazine Publishers of America's prestigious Henry Johnson Fisher Award?
Did you know that after the restructuring of New Zealand Rugby League there were seven zonal teams in the 2010 New Zealand rugby league season?
Did you know that artist Orovida Camille Pissarro preferred to be known simply as Orovida to distinguish herself from the many other artists in her family, including her renowned grandfather Camille Pissarro?
Did you know that during World War II the United States Army Art Program was canceled by Congress, then resumed by Life magazine?
Did you know that during an 1864 expedition to resupply Army posts in eastern Oregon, Captain John M. Drake discovered fossils in the area that is now the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument?
Did you know that even though Arvid Kramer had not played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the 1979–80 season, he was selected first in the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft?
Did you know that even though the Association of Religion Data Archives estimated that there are only 50 Bahá'ís in Mongolia, more than 1700 Mongolian Bahá'ís turned out for a regional conference in 2009?
Did you know that in the 19th century, part of Wykeham Terrace—a "charming Gothic confection" in Brighton—was used as an institution for reformed prostitutes?
Did you know that in the medieval Irish satire The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, the Connaught champion Cet mac Mágach is unbeaten in a bragging contest, until being slapped in the face with the head of his dead brother?
Did you know that outriggers allow a fishing vessel to tow multiple trolling lines in the water in a way that can simulate a school of fish?
Did you know that soprano Edith Selig recorded the early Bach cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, performed in Weimar in 1714 on the third Sunday after Trinity?
Did you know that the Polish Glider Experimental Works, created after World War II, became the main Polish centre for designing gliders?
Did you know that the Western Silvereye is a declared pest of agriculture in Western Australia?
Did you know that the first of Denmark’s Galathea expeditions had a budget of nearly half a million Rixdollars, equivalent to 3% of the state’s annual revenues at the time?
Did you know that the name of the Montreal nightclub Les Foufounes Électriques means "electric buttocks" in English?
Did you know that the original owner of Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket in Willowbrook, Illinois, would hire local youths to ice skate on the roof during winter?
Did you know that the ruined Cill Chriosd, also known as Kilchrist or Christ's Church, was the parish church of Strathaird, Skye, until 1840?
Did you know that under a bill proposed by Assemblymember Joel Weingarten, religious headwear cannot be banned in New Jersey public schools?
Did you know that when Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen sustained fatal heart failure, there were numerous doctors present?
Did you know that 9 Mill Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, dates from 1736, and has been a house, a bank, a political club and a restaurant?
Did you know that Antoine Ephrem Cartier can trace his family history line back 400 years to Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed Canada for France?
Did you know that Ireland's "Willy Wonka" provided confectionary for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Knight, Death and the Devil is a large 1513 copperplate engraving, one of the three master prints by Albrecht Dürer?
Did you know that Richelieu Foods produces over 50 million frozen pizzas and more than 20 million crusts annually—for other companies to market under their own private labels?
Did you know that Warren Antoine Cartier was a neighbor of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone?
Did you know that for their peculiar shapes australites were once thought to be glass meteorites?
Did you know that in the action at Néry on 1 September 1914, during the retreat from Mons in the First World War, three Victoria Crosses were awarded to the crew of a single British field gun?
Did you know that in the film Horror of Dracula, actress Melissa Stribling played the victim of a vampire in an erotic role?
Did you know that indie rock band Klaxons were forced to re-record parts of second album Surfing the Void, after record label Polydor deemed it "too experimental for release"?
Did you know that legislation proposed by Barbara Wright would impose jail terms up to 10 years and fines of as much as US$100,000 for filing false car- or health-insurance claims in New Jersey?
Did you know that playwright Alan Bennett's definition of a classic book is "a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have read themselves"?
Did you know that the 17th-century church built by the Tacatacuru, a Timucua chiefdom on Cumberland Island, Georgia, was said to be as big as the one in the Spanish colonial capital of St. Augustine?
Did you know that the Black-eyed Susans of Eastern and Western Australia are members of the tropical Elaeocarpaceae and unrelated to their namesakes of Europe and North America?
Did you know that the Israel Vázquez – Rafael Márquez rivalry produced two Ring Magazine fights of the year?
Did you know that the New York Mini 10K, first held in Central Park in 1972, was the world's first women-only road running event?
Did you know that the Welsh church of St Iestyn, Llaniestyn, contains a 12th-century font and a 14th-century memorial effigy to St Iestyn?
Did you know that the delayed conclusion of the Russo-Ottoman Treaty of Constantinople (1700) caused Russian forces to arrive late in the war with Sweden?
Did you know that the former French Convalescent Home on Brighton seafront is the only such institution in England, and also had the country's earliest known double glazing?
Did you know that when it closed in 2008, Osterville Bay Elementary School was the oldest operating school building on Cape Cod?
Did you know that Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport manager James G. Howes was lampooned using signal flags to direct air traffic from atop the control tower in a Boy Scout uniform?