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Did you know that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California" in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?
Did you know that K-B-D, a triliteral root meaning "heavy" that is common to all Semitic languages, appears in the Old Testament 376 times?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to the United States in 1957 was only the second time that Dwight D. Eisenhower had greeted a guest in person at the airport?
Did you know that Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington?
Did you know that Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai wrote the Malayalam biography of Karl Marx, which is the first Marx biography in any Indian language?
Did you know that Uskmouth Power Station has been described as one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Worthy Streator never set foot in the city of Streator, Illinois, the town named for him, even though it was founded 36 years before his death?
Did you know that after serving in U.S. embassies in Egypt and Lebanon, Edward Sheehan wrote his debut novel Kingdom of Illusion about the playboy king of a fictional Middle Eastern country?
Did you know that by the time he graduated from medical school, Patrick David Wall had already published three papers in prominent scientific journals?
Did you know that even though they were five points ahead of 1. FC Saarbrücken, SV Alsenborn were not promoted to the higher level 2nd Bundesliga Süd, due to their financial position?
Did you know that in 1905, Fred Odwell led the National League in home runs with nine, but hit only one home run in the other three seasons he played in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that in The Stages of Life, German painter Caspar David Friedrich depicted his son holding a Swedish flag because Friedrich considered himself half-Swedish?
Did you know that local legend in Lajjun, a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids, held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?
Did you know that the Community Services Appeals Tribunal was the first tribunal in Australia to use alternative dispute resolution?
Did you know that the Navy Midshipmen discontinued the football series with the Maryland Terrapins for forty years after a Terrapins' linebacker twice "flipped the bird" to the Brigade of Midshipmen during the 1964 game?
Did you know that the Sclerodermataceae, a family of fungi, contains species with common names such as "hard-skinned puffballs", "earthstars" and "prettymouths"?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium?
Did you know that the food shortages during the winter of 1946–1947 saw British farmers using pneumatic drills to harvest parsnips?
Did you know that the initial ransom demand by Somali pirates to release the MT Stolt Valor, hijacked September 15, 2008, was US$6 million?
Did you know that the presence of indoleic acid in one's urine may indicate a pathological accumulation of the amino acid tryptophan in the blood?
Did you know that Áed Ua Crimthainn, abbot of Terryglass, Ireland, was the compiler and principal scribe of the Book of Leinster, a Middle Irish illuminated manuscript?
Did you know that American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale?
Did you know that Captain William Hoste captured the French-held fortifications of Kotor in 1814 by hoisting cannons from the HMS Bacchante onto the higher ground of the surrounding mountains?
Did you know that Caspar David Friedrich's 1824 painting The Sea of Ice was seen as too radical in composition, and went unsold until after his death in 1840?
Did you know that Dalberg Global Development Advisors developed a ranking system to assess the quality of 20,000 NGOs and UN agencies?
Did you know that Emperor Dezong of Tang ordered the former chancellor Dou Can to commit suicide as Dou was heading to his exile in Vietnam?
Did you know that Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair, telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school, to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?
Did you know that Hittin was a Palestinian village located near the site of the Battle of Hattin, where Saladin defeated the Crusaders in 1187?
Did you know that Mieczysław Jagielski negotiated the agreement which recognized Solidarity as the first independent trade union within the Eastern Bloc?
Did you know that Uncial 0212 is the first manuscript of Greek Diatessaron, a Gospel harmony, to be discovered in modern time?
Did you know that during the Great Bombay Textile Strike of 1982, nearly 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai, India?
Did you know that during the War of 1812, Grenadier Island, Canada, housed a small military installation?
Did you know that in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant, in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York?
Did you know that in a kiss scene with Kirk Cameron in Fireproof, Erin Bethea was replaced by Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble, and the scene was shot in shadows?
Did you know that in the Sino-French War, Presbyterian missionary George Mackay refused to leave during the French bombardment of Tamsui (sketch pictured) because he could not take his Formosan converts with him?
Did you know that singer Robb Johnson based the album Gentle Men on the experiences of his two grandfathers during the First World War?
Did you know that the German merchant ship SS Uhenfels was captured at sea during the Second World War, and subsequently became a British merchant?
Did you know that the Lava River Cave in Newberry National Volcanic Monument is the longest known uncollapsed lava tube in Oregon, U.S.?
Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation's first coffin match took place at Survivor Series 1992 between The Undertaker and Kamala?
Did you know that the bell tower of the Bărboi Church in Iaşi, Romania, is over a century older than the present church, and once contained a private library?
Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora poeli is a parasite that is found in the heart or aorta of various species of cattle?
Did you know that there are four types of spinning, a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers—wet, dry, melt, and gel?
Did you know that traditionalist American art critic Royal Cortissoz denigrated the work of modern masters such as Vincent van Gogh as being the product of "egotists"?
Did you know that validation of ocean surface wave models through hindcasts and forecasts is important to the shipping industry, which relies on them for tactical seakeeping?
Did you know that when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite?
Did you know that when Wales national rugby union team beat Scotland in the 1952 Five Nations Championship, Rex Willis played a large proportion of the match with a broken jaw bone?
Did you know that when it was completed in 1976, the 32-storey Allendale Square in Perth, Western Australia, was one of the largest fully aluminium-clad skyscrapers in the world?
Did you know that Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur-themed artwork?
Did you know that Jerry Ziesmer, who delivered the line "Terminate with extreme prejudice" in Apocalypse Now, was also the film's assistant director?
Did you know that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini were awarded the 2000 Crafoord Prize for identification of TNF blockade as an effective therapeutic principle in rheumatoid arthritis?
Did you know that Nabi Shu'ayb, Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro", is used in English to refer to the site where Druze tradition holds he was buried?
Did you know that Order of the Builders of People's Poland was the highest civilian decoration in the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that Rosetta Reitz, whose Rosetta Records focused on the women of jazz, was behind the 1980 Newport Jazz Festival tribute called "Blues is a Woman", featuring Adelaide Hall and Big Mama Thornton?
Did you know that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines?
Did you know that Swedish scientist Per-Ingvar Brånemark’s discovery of osseointegration led to the development of titanium dental implants?
Did you know that according to the U.S. copyright law, musicians who accuse others of plagiarising their work must prove "access" and "similarity", in the absence of a confession?
Did you know that before serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, James M. Goggin worked as a cotton broker?
Did you know that former Detroit Tigers pitcher Pat Underwood's first game in the major leagues was a 1-0 victory against his brother Tom?
Did you know that historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II, but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
Did you know that in 1903, a toll of 10 pennies (equivalent to £10.00 today) was levied to take a flock of twenty sheep across Maidenhead Bridge?
Did you know that more than a million tourists visit the wine-producing regions in Argentina annually?
Did you know that the 1943 sinking by Allied aircraft of the Hurtigruten passenger ship SS Sanct Svithun led to protests by the Norwegian resistance movement?
Did you know that the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 reorganised the reserves of the British Army, creating the Territorial Force?
Did you know that the cat gap is a period in the fossil record (cat illustration pictured) of approximately 25 to 17 million years ago in which there were few cats or cat-like species?
Did you know that the character Seo Hell from the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus tells Satan to leave her dwelling, and has been compared to the female being Hel of Norse mythology?
Did you know that the majority of the more than 90 stage works composed by Thomas Arne are now lost, probably destroyed in the disastrous fire at Covent Garden in 1808?
Did you know that the tower located at 100 McAllister St in San Francisco used to be a Methodist church, a hotel and an IRS office building before it was refurbished for residential use by students at UC Hastings?
Did you know that ATIC, a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica, recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles?
Did you know that Abell 2142, a galaxy cluster, is one of the most massive objects in the universe?
Did you know that Donald Finkel, a poet who had aspired to be a sculptor as a youth, created sculptures out of found items that he called "dreckolage"?
Did you know that Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport?
Did you know that Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde?
Did you know that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times, which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.?
Did you know that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
Did you know that Plymouth Cathedral experienced subsidence after a Royal Navy officer fired new Turkish man-of-war guns in Plymouth Sound?
Did you know that Vivaldi's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron?
Did you know that William Herschel's 40-foot telescope was the largest telescope in the world for 50 years?
Did you know that according to Hindu legend, the yogi Visoba Khechara taught his disciple Namdev the omnipresence of God by magically filling a whole temple with lingas—the symbols of god Shiva?
Did you know that although Antonio Maria Bononcini's 1718 opera Griselda was successful, his older brother, Giovanni Bononcini, composed a more popular version in 1722?
Did you know that former Princeton Tigers Will Venable and Chris Young were the first players named first-team All-Ivy League in both basketball and baseball?
Did you know that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
Did you know that in The Abbey in the Oakwood German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich symbolically depicted "the burial of Germany's hopes for resurrection"?
Did you know that seven Caltrain stations have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the 30-storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
Did you know that the 350-acre (140 ha) Mar Y Cel estate, built in the early 1900s in the foothills of California's Santa Ynez Mountains, included an aqueduct, water works, arches, and statues?
Did you know that the chaplain of the Regiment de la Rey (badge pictured) of the South African Army once convinced two German soldiers that World War II had ended and then captured them with his officer's cane as his only weapon?
Did you know that the cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons?
Did you know that the fungus Podaxis is often used as face paint by the Australian Aborigines?
Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora elaphi is a parasite that infests the hepatic blood vessels of Red Deer in Spain?
Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa?
Did you know that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus, a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy?
Did you know that Bobby Leonard, Jack McKinney, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA?
Did you know that Charles Thomas Campbell, who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, helped found the town of Scotland, South Dakota?
Did you know that Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?
Did you know that General Charles G. Boyd, United States Air Force, is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank?
Did you know that Hilary Teague served as Liberia's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that Howard Pyle's 1883 children's novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood had a vast influence on portrayals of Robin Hood through the 20th century?
Did you know that Irwin Gunsalus discovered lipoic acid, an enzyme cofactor which has been proposed as a dietary supplement to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
Did you know that Jacques Rabemananjara, former Vice President of Madagascar, was also an important negritude poet and playwright?
Did you know that John Stuart Skinner and Francis Scott Key were on a mercy mission to get back Dr. William Beanes from British hands, when Key was inspired (painting pictured) to write "The Star Spangled Banner?"
Did you know that Snarøya, a peninsula in Bærum, Norway, was an island until the 19th century?
Did you know that Vatalanib, an anti-cancer drug currently in clinical trials, inhibits the growth of new blood vessels by selectively blocking receptors of vascular endothelial growth factors?
Did you know that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel, sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
Did you know that almost all documentation of PZL.49 Miś, a development of advanced Polish medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś, was destroyed during the siege of Warsaw to prevent it from falling into Nazi German hands?
Did you know that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress, she worked as a model, starting when she was only two and a half years old?
Did you know that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Francis Catterson practiced medicine in Rockville, Indiana?
Did you know that mokomokai, the preserved heads of Māori people with facial tattoos, were traded for firearms during the early 19th century in New Zealand?
Did you know that perfluorononanoic acid, an environmental contaminant, has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?
Did you know that the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis vexillaria was discovered in 1867 by plant collector David Bowman and introduced from Colombia to England in 1873 by a fellow Veitch employee, Henry Chesterton?
Did you know that the first episode of the third season of 30 Rock is currently the most watched episode of the series?
Did you know that the larvae and pupae of African beetles in the genus Diamphidia are used by Bushmen to prepare arrow poisons?
Did you know that the oldest known text of the Martyrology of Tallaght is in a 12th-century manuscript now at University College, Dublin?
Did you know that the rebuilding of the Kumusi Bridge in Papua New Guinea, destroyed by the flooding of the Kumusi River during Cyclone Guba, will cost upwards of K70 million?
Did you know that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?
Did you know that Aaron Edlin, an expert in law and economics, co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press?
Did you know that Byron Brown was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Buffalo, New York, even though six African-Americans had been the nominee before him?
Did you know that Exchange Plaza, the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange, is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club?
Did you know that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle?
Did you know that Ilse Stanley, a German Jewish actress, secured the release of 412 prisoners in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938?
Did you know that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln's first choice for Secretary of War, but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
Did you know that Phil Ochs described "Power and the Glory" as "the greatest song I'll ever write"?
Did you know that Pulicat Lake, a 450 km2 (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary, adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, launch site of India's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1?
Did you know that a parasitic worm of the family Mermithidae has been found in a spider preserved in Baltic amber for 40 million years?
Did you know that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture?
Did you know that at least five mutations are known to cause diplopodia in chickens, resulting in the development of extra toes or other structural abnormalities in the hind limbs?
Did you know that during the War of the Castilian Succession, the Order of Calatrava supported Isabella even though its Grand Master sided with Isabella's opponent, Juana?
Did you know that following his team's loss in the 1965 Rose Bowl, Oregon State Beavers football coach Tommy Prothro was hired as head coach at UCLA, where he led the team to victory in the following year's Rose Bowl?
Did you know that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series, NBA Finals, NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
Did you know that in Japan during the Muromachi era, the shogun's representative would go to  Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?
Did you know that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma, and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide?
Did you know that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis?
Did you know that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba?
Did you know that singer Christina Milian's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern, except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
Did you know that the Bar-winged Prinia is a common passerine bird endemic to western Indonesia?
Did you know that the Pied Tamarin, an endangered primate of the Amazon basin, is being gradually displaced by the Red-handed Tamarin?
Did you know that the Woodland Opera House was the first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley?
Did you know that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639?
Did you know that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals?
Did you know that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless, Tennessee?
Did you know that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey?
Did you know that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams?
Did you know that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James, and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia?
Did you know that Frank Tepedino, former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Hillary Rodham Clinton may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
Did you know that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey, and later served as the university's second chancellor?
Did you know that Jacques-Désiré Laval, a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
Did you know that Megalictis ferox, a species of extinct predatory mustelid, resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?
Did you know that Punch founding editor Mark Lemon had to sit in the gallery when he worshipped at St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley  because no pews in the nave were large enough to accommodate him?
Did you know that Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives?
Did you know that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker, a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school, took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
Did you know that Tom Gish's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining?