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Did you know that Craig Stevens's CBS series, Mr. Broadway, featured Liza Minnelli in her first television dramatic role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale"?
Did you know that Fennemore Craig, founded in 1885, is the oldest law firm in Arizona?
Did you know that French botanist Jacques Labillardière's Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen, published in 1804–1806, was the first major scientific study of Australia flora?
Did you know that Histria Perla was the 500th ship to receive Emergency Response Service classification from the German company Germanischer Lloyd?
Did you know that Pinkie Road, a part of the Global Transportation Hub intermodal port authority facility, will link the Trans Canada Highway 1 and Highway 11 as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative?
Did you know that Sir Alan Muir Wood worked on the 80 km (50 mi) Orange–Fish River Tunnel, the second-longest water supply tunnel in the world?
Did you know that Welcome to Macintosh, a documentary focusing on Apple Inc. and its Macintosh line of computers, was praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for being the most accurate film about the company?
Did you know that William Sudell coined the name "Football League"?
Did you know that a London Clubs International casino hosted the World Series of Poker Europe event in which Annette Obrestad became the youngest person to win a WSOP bracelet?
Did you know that according to National Geographic, La Maratona (2008 race pictured), an annual competition held in the Dolomites of the Italian Alps, is "one of the biggest, most passionate, and most chaotic bike races on Earth"?
Did you know that attorney Bill MacFarland had a dislocated knee and six broken teeth after playing 11 seasons of professional ice hockey?
Did you know that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road?
Did you know that in 1993, an officer in New Zealand's Diplomatic Protection Squad accidentally discharged a pistol on a VIP aircraft while in flight?
Did you know that the Fire Nation, from the Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that the Red Bull RB5 is among the first generation of Formula One cars to feature a Kinetic Energy Recovery System, which traps energy expelled while braking for later use?
Did you know that the Rylands Papyri held by Manchester University in the UK contain P52, believed by many scholars to be the oldest extant fragment from the Gospel of John?
Did you know that the comedy film Skills Like This, created by a first-time director, won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 South by Southwest film festival?
Did you know that the first discovery of oil off the Texas coast came in 1941?
Did you know that the mushroom Cortinarius triumphans has a cap which is slimy in wet weather and sticky in dry?
Did you know that the never-completed Design 1047 battlecruisers were intended to be the first line of defense for the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that thousands of grooves have been found carved into rock in Northern Europe, but no one knows how or why they were made?
Did you know that under Pigford v. Glickman, the United States government paid nearly US$1 billion to African American farmers to compensate for 1980s and 1990s racial discrimination?
Did you know that Anderson Ruffin Abbott, the first licenced Black Canadian physician, attended Abraham Lincoln's death bed?
Did you know that Australian Stanley Frederick Gibbs was awarded the Albert Medal in 1927 for his rescue of a boy during a shark attack, during which he punched and kicked the shark until it released the youth?
Did you know that Henry Weinhard, a brewer in Portland, Oregon, offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain when it was dedicated?
Did you know that Humphrey Toy financed the publication of the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer?
Did you know that José Francisco de Peralta was elected to represent Costa Rica to the Constituent Congress of the Mexican Empire, but it was dissolved before he was able to participate?
Did you know that Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar in San Diego, California, made famous after scenes in Top Gun were filmed there?
Did you know that Kenneth Gandar-Dower introduced cheetah racing to England?
Did you know that Mark Shepherd, who served as CEO of Texas Instruments where he spearheaded development of the firms' integrated circuits, constructed a vacuum tube at the age of six and a radio a year later?
Did you know that Marshall Loeb, managing editor of Fortune, called his colleague Daniel Seligman, author of 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness"?
Did you know that Norwegian long jumper Nils Uhlin Hansen was killed as a saboteur in World War II?
Did you know that Wendy Henry, one of the first female newspaper editors on Fleet Street, later became a full-time dog re-socialiser for the Battersea Dogs' Home?
Did you know that a study of lichen growth in the Canadian Rockies showed that Xanthoria elegans expands at a rate of 0.5 mm per year for the first century before slowing down?
Did you know that children's novel Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter, set in Nordy Bank on Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire, was awarded the 1964 Carnegie Medal in Literature?
Did you know that in 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the Republic of Pisa launched a crusade against the Muslim Balearic Islands?
Did you know that in 1863, the U.S. gave Russia plans to build ten Passaic class monitors, partly because of the fear that the American Civil War would escalate into war between Britain and Russia?
Did you know that matador Diego Mazquiarán once used his overcoat as a cape to fight a bull that was running wild on the Gran Via of Madrid?
Did you know that members of metal band Slipknot found the masks that they wear on stage to be particularly uncomfortable during their Tattoo the Earth concert tour?
Did you know that prior to the mid 19th century, the tannic Italian wine Barolo was made as a sweet wine?
Did you know that six World War I  German Type UB II U-boats—UB-42, UB-43, UB-44, UB-45, UB-46, and UB-47—were built in Bremen but cut apart and shipped by rail for reassembly at the Austro-Hungarian port of Pola?
Did you know that the Morison equation, an equation in fluid dynamics introduced in 1950, is used in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures?
Did you know that the Morse U.S. Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon, was the first new federal courthouse to earn a LEED Gold certification and the first U.S. courthouse featured at the Venice Biennale of Architecture?
Did you know that the National Review called David Mendell's biography Obama: From Promise to Power "the single best source of background information on our new president"?
Did you know that the Orange Mycena mushroom is bioluminescent?
Did you know that the Sideling Hill Tunnel is one of the two tunnels that make up the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike?
Did you know that the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich?
Did you know that the dedication of St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer, England—commemorating twin Christian martyrs from Syria—occurs on only two other extant churches in England?
Did you know that the original mission of the Cini Foundation included the rehabilitation of its homebase, the island of San Giorgio Maggiore of Venice?
Did you know that Ed Schock earned an annual salary of just $7,000 as mayor of Elgin, Illinois?
Did you know that French Roman Catholic archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's father René Lefebvre died in a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that Hugh de Mapenor was elected Bishop of Hereford in 1216 even though he was not on King John of England's list of candidates?
Did you know that Jaime Fonalledas is the President and CEO of Empresas Fonalledas, which owns the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean?
Did you know that Prairie Bluff, Alabama, is a ghost town whose only remaining physical feature is a cemetery with marked graves dating from the 1830s to the 1860s?
Did you know that Sir Charles Knowles successfully sued Tobias Smollett for libelling him in Smollett's magazine The Critical Review?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty eunuch Tutu Chengcui was killed after Emperor Xianzong's death over his refusal to support the crown prince Li Heng as the emperor's successor?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Liu Pi, who rebelled against the authority of Emperor Xianzong, was described by the chancellor Du Huangshang as an "insane civilian" as Du urged military action?
Did you know that after ceasing operations in New Jersey, the West Jersey Railroad operated in Michigan for several months before being renamed West Michigan Railroad?
Did you know that after long-standing racketeering allegations, the FBI raided Chicago's Pui Tak Center, then known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, in 1988?
Did you know that chocolate covered bacon is sold as "Pig Lickers" at the Minnesota State Fair, "Pig Candy" in New York City and "Mo's Bacon Bar" in Chicago?
Did you know that heavy metal band Lamb of God was banned from performing in Los Angeles, for The Subliminal Verses World Tour because their former name was Burn the Priest?
Did you know that sculptor Cyprian Godebski lost the commission for the Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków to a newcomer, Teodor Rygier, but erected his statue ten years later in Warsaw for 50,000 rubles?
Did you know that some of the 12"/45 caliber Mark 5 naval guns, which were first deployed on the 1906 pre-dreadnought USS Connecticut, may still be in service in Brazil today?
Did you know that the 1881 Michigan Wolverines football team is credited with playing the first intersectional football games against Harvard, Yale and Princeton?
Did you know that the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania, trained four Olympic swimmers and sponsored both one of the 1890s' best football clubs and a baseball team with Hall of Famer Rube Waddell?
Did you know that the Church of the Assumption in Uzundzhovo, Bulgaria, was initially built as a mosque and was probably commissioned to famous architect Sinan?
Did you know that the Democratic Movement for National Liberation was the sole communist faction in Egypt that supported the 1952 Revolution?
Did you know that the Elm City Resident Card was the first municipal identification card in the United States?
Did you know that the European Commission declared the creation of the Folkestone White Horse unlawful?
Did you know that the Family Guy episode "Ocean's Three and a Half" includes the actual audio  of Christian Bale's outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation, making it appear to be directed at Peter Griffin?
Did you know that the Holiday Bowl in Los Angeles was a popular gathering place for the Nikkei community and African Americans, with the coffee shop serving grits, udon, chow mein, and hamburgers?
Did you know that the Luxembourg Palace, the meeting place of the French Senate, used to be the residence of Princess Élisabeth Marguerite of Orléans, who gave it to the King of France in 1694?
Did you know that the largest Hindu temple in South East England is being built in Crawley, where 3.4% of residents are Hindu compared to 1.1% in England as a whole?
Did you know that the mushroom Lactarius quietus is found exclusively under oak trees in Europe?
Did you know that tornadoes have passed through Washington, D.C., on at least seven occasions, and have damaged such landmarks as the United States Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Arboretum?
Did you know that when Henry McCardie was a barrister, he often worked so late that his chambers were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?
Did you know that , although she was born in South Africa, Kate Dennison now holds the indoor British record for the pole vault?
Did you know that Babe Ruth reportedly signed one of his most lucrative New York Yankees' contracts at Jacob Ruppert's Eagles' Rest estate in Garrison, New York, now Saint Basil Academy?
Did you know that Beverly Eckert died in the crash of Flight 3407 while on her way to award a scholarship in honor of her husband, who was killed in the events of 9/11?
Did you know that Cambodia's "Romeo and Juliet" story, Tum Teav, is set in Tbong Khmom District?
Did you know that Clothes-Line, aired in 1937, was the first television programme on fashion history and also probably the first to feature a heavily pregnant female presenter?
Did you know that John Windet published composer Tobias Hume's First Part of Ayres, which contains what may be the earliest examples of pizzicato and col legno?
Did you know that Josh Gibson Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is named for Negro League star Josh Gibson, who has been called the "black Babe Ruth?"
Did you know that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the second video game based on the Olympics to star Nintendo's and Sega's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog?
Did you know that Martin Kolberg will retire as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party to run in the 2009 parliamentary elections?
Did you know that University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Dave Debol, known in the 1970s as "the Guy LaFleur of college hockey", set an NCAA record by scoring three goals in less than one minute?
Did you know that although Robert of Melun disagreed with some of Peter Abelard's teachings, he still defended Abelard against heresy charges?
Did you know that despite claims that Pakistan made the Anza locally, it is believed the MANPAD was created with Chinese assistance via technology transfers?
Did you know that internet hunting is the practice of hunting via remotely controlled firearms that can be aimed and shot using online webcams?
Did you know that taxidermist Walter Potter's diorama, "The Death and Burial of Cock Robin", created when he was 19, features 98 stuffed British birds?
Did you know that the Emu Brewery in Perth, Western Australia, traced its history to the town's first standalone brewery, which was founded less than a decade after settlement?
Did you know that the Tekkiye Mosque, built by the architect Sinan, has been described as "the finest example in Damascus of Ottoman architecture"?
Did you know that the Versailles Cuban restaurant is part of actress Helen Mirren's ideal weekend in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the woodlouse Trichoniscus pusillus has some populations that reproduce sexually and others that reproduce clonally?
Did you know that thousands of illegal Filipino immigrants are deported from Malaysia every year?
Did you know that with the Minas Gerais, Brazil became the third country to have a dreadnought under construction, ahead of traditional powers like France and Russia?
Did you know that , with an oil-processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year, the Petromidia Constanţa Refinery is the largest Romanian refinery?
Did you know that 18th-century English historian William Rider's 50-volume A New History of England was later described by William Thomas Lowndes as one of the vilest Grub Street compilations ever published?
Did you know that Jennifer Granholm became the first female governor of Michigan after winning the 2002 Michigan gubernatorial election?
Did you know that LaVelle Smith Jnr has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography five times, including one for Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream"?
Did you know that Quake III Arena's fast inverse square root code uses a "magic number" to generate a quick first approximation to Newton's method of computing roots?
Did you know that Rod Cameron's syndicated crime drama City Detective was sold in 1955 for distribution to a then record 171 television stations?
Did you know that Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is a live album recorded from Rufus Wainwright's June 2006 tribute concerts to legendary singer Judy Garland?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty warlord Wang Chengzong, fearing reprisals after the defeat of his ally Wu Yuanji, offered his sons as hostages and two of his six prefectures to Emperor Xianzong?
Did you know that Willow Prairie Cabin in Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, built by a Forest Service crew in 1924, is a popular horse camp?
Did you know that an important identifying feature of the Imposter trevally (Carangoides talamparoides, pictured) is its white or pale grey tongue?
Did you know that as part of the Canterbury-York dispute in medieval England, Gerard, an Archbishop of York, once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury's?
Did you know that at an expected cost of US$1 billion, a 3.15-kilometre (1.96 mi) long suspension bridge linking Vladivostok with Russky Island is due to be built in time for APEC Russia 2012?
Did you know that besides delivering electric shocks, the characteristic defensive behaviour of a giant electric ray when threatened by a predator includes performing a "somersault" in the water?
Did you know that dangui was an upper garment worn by the royal women and court ladies for ceremonial occasions during the Korean Joseon Dynasty?
Did you know that from 14th to 17th century, the Tęczyński family from Lesser Poland had a major influence in the Kingdom of Poland?
Did you know that it took William Edwards four attempts to build the Old Bridge at Pontypridd in Wales?
Did you know that several species in the mushroom order Pezizales, such as Geopyxis carbonaria, Peziza violacea, Peziza praetervisa, and Rhizina undulata, grow on burned-over ground?
Did you know that the 1955–56 NBC series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television, preceded by Death Valley Days?
Did you know that the Florida State Fair, which includes the Cracker Country living history museum, offers food oddities like chocolate covered bacon?
Did you know that the Hare Indian dog, now extinct, was not known to bark, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Navy's Haruna was one of the first vessels in the world to be equipped with 14-inch naval guns?
Did you know that the Tilted Kilt is a bar and restaurant chain in the United States described as "Hooters with a Scottish twist"?
Did you know that the career of association football player Mark Maley was ended after he was accidentally shot in the eye by teammate John Oster with an air gun?
Did you know that the death of Libby Zion resulted in an eponymous law that regulates working hours during medical residency in New York State?
Did you know that the manor at Austrått harbored a pretender to the Swedish throne during the Reformation in Norway as the Protestant Lady Inger of Austrått battled the last Norwegian Catholic Archbishop?
Did you know that tree-ring dating has linked the building of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford to 1179, during the episcopate of Robert Foliot?
Did you know that 18th-century bookseller Thomas Cadell refused to publish Charlotte Turner Smith's novel Desmond because it was too radical?
Did you know that 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?
Did you know that Hugh Foliot took custody of Hereford Castle in 1223 as part of Hubert de Burgh's takeover of power from Peter des Roches?
Did you know that John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was set for demolition until its listing on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Margo Sappington received a Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet?
Did you know that Moorhuhn, a series of German computer games that has spawned much merchandise, a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement?
Did you know that Norman Marjoribanks, later acting Governor of Madras, headed a commission to investigate the plight of indentured Tamil labourers on plantations in Ceylon?
Did you know that Ralph Carpenter's restoration of Hunter House, a historic building in Newport, Rhode Island that had been scheduled for demolition, was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?
Did you know that The French Democracy is an ironically titled political film about the 2005 civil unrest in France?
Did you know that Yehoshua Cohen, the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte, later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion?
Did you know that a song about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo was sent into space in 1977 as part of the Voyager Golden Record?
Did you know that as a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords?
Did you know that during the Korean Joseon period, royal physicians squeezed milk from cows to make tarakjuk, a milk porridge, which was served only for the king and royalty?
Did you know that five members of the Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 world championship team, including Pat Burrell, were also first-round draft picks of the franchise?
Did you know that in 1971, half the houses in Noel Park, London, were still lacking basic facilities such as baths, internal toilets and hot water?
Did you know that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement?
Did you know that suffragette Norah Elam campaigned in 1918 for the internment of enemy aliens but in 1940 was interned herself as an 18B detainee due to her membership in the British Union of Fascists?
Did you know that the 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth, Western Australia, was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
Did you know that the 1988–89 Swift Current Broncos was the first Western Hockey League team to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup without losing a playoff game?
Did you know that the Equus Survival Trust is the only conservation organization in the world that specializes in equines?
Did you know that the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi) highway route through northern Canada, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba?
Did you know that the first discovery of the remains of Dorset culture, Paleo-Eskimo people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on Dorset Island in Nunavut, Canada?
Did you know that , although it is traditionally classified as a transition metal,  in forming compounds the element zinc has similarities to the alkaline earth metals?
Did you know that Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica's four native monkey species can be found?
Did you know that Flying Officer (later Air Commodore) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF when it was formed in 1921?
Did you know that Gospel music station WNUZ in Talladega, Alabama, has been off-the-air since its transmitter was destroyed by lightning?
Did you know that Jens-Anton Poulsson was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his actions in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage?
Did you know that John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize?
Did you know that Kenelm Hubert Digby was the proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union?
Did you know that United States Senator Jim Bunning threw the only perfect game out of the nine no-hitters in Philadelphia Phillies history?
Did you know that Wales Triple Crown winner Norman Biggs was killed after being struck by a poison arrow while on military duty in Northern Nigeria?
Did you know that a lithograph of Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke's painting of the new bungalow at Sispara in India was published nine years after the Sispara ghat mountain trail was completed in 1838?
Did you know that a wonsam was a female ceremonial  robe  for the queen, royalty, and nobility during the Korean Joseon Dynasty, though commoners could wear it for their weddings?
Did you know that following a number of recent banking controversies, Irish ruling party Fianna Fáil was overtaken in opinion polls by the country's Labour Party for the first time in history?