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Did you know that Kermit the Frog asked Sesame Street adviser Gerald S. Lesser "when you get back to Harvard, how are you going to explain that you spent all day in New York talking to a frog"?
Did you know that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first motorcycles, the steam-powered, penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
Did you know that Prenkë Jakova wrote Mrika, the first Albanian opera, which premiered in 1958?
Did you know that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of Venosa, owner of Italian wine estate Fiorano, considered the white mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Nora W. Tyson became the first woman to command a United States Navy aircraft carrier task group when she was chosen to command Carrier Strike Group Two?
Did you know that St Mary's Church in Wilton, Wiltshire, was restored by Robert Bingham, the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, whose ancestor Robert de Bingham was consecrated there in 1229?
Did you know that Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare is expected to become the largest bicycle sharing system in the U.S. when fully deployed, offering 1,100 bicycles and 110 stations?
Did you know that Wheatland, the former home of the 15th US President, James Buchanan, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966?
Did you know that although the 1971–72 and 1974–75 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams did not win the Ivy League, they both played in the postseason in the National Invitation Tournament, and were champions in 1975?
Did you know that chemical analysis of remains from Herod the Great's Royal Stoa supports Josephus' account of the Roman destruction of the Temple Mount in a great conflagration?
Did you know that due to his intense fear of flying, Bill Green was never able to play for the NBA's Boston Celtics?
Did you know that four-time NFL All-Pro safety Rick Volk spent two days in an intensive-care unit after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Jets fullback Matt Snell in Super Bowl III?
Did you know that in the 1970s Pete Carril led two Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament – the 1975–76 and 1976–77 teams?
Did you know that in the week that "When It Rains, It Pours" originally aired, 30 Rock was the only Thursday program whose ratings did not fall from its season premiere?
Did you know that the Benson raft was a huge sea-going log raft designed to transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Neptune was deemed "a white elephant, being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
Did you know that the Edward Salyer House, one of the few remaining wood frame Dutch Colonial houses in Rockland County, New York, is believed to be the oldest house in Pearl River?
Did you know that the Fifth Dalai Lama was installed as supreme ruler of Tibet in the 17th century at Shigatse Dzong by Mongol ruler Güshi Khan?
Did you know that the Taft Homes of Peoria, Illinois, were originally built in 1952 as a temporary means of shelter for veterans returning from the Korean War?
Did you know that the apex organisation of Hindu saints, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, has welcomed the 2010 Ayodhya verdict, saying it will prevent further political exploitation of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple issue?
Did you know that the dog Old Jock, born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern Fox Terrier?
Did you know that the extinct Protosialis casca is one of only two known alderflies from the West Indies?
Did you know that the rock garden in Indira Park, Hyderabad, India, is an award-winning design of 2001 by the then commissioner of customs and excise duty?
Did you know that the summer truffle and the burgundy truffle are varieties of one species of truffle, Tuber aestivum, which is found across Europe?
Did you know that when Elisha Winfield Green, an elderly African American Baptist leader, won a case for assault by a white minister in 1883, the effect was to increase pressure for segregation?
Did you know that Élie Barnavi, an Israeli historian and a former Israeli ambassador to France, has called for an independent inquiry into the controversial Muhammad al-Durrah incident?
Did you know that Barton Kay Kirkham was the last prisoner to be hanged by the state of Utah?
Did you know that Encosta De Lago's service fee rose to AUD$302,500 in the 2008 season, during which he served 227 mares who produced 166 live foals?
Did you know that Fleet Air Arm squadrons on the Attacker class escort carriers sank six U-Boats during the Second World War?
Did you know that High Court Justice Thomas Dickson Archibald  was one of 19 children?
Did you know that Hyderabad-based Snow World was India's first and the world's biggest snow themed park at the time of its opening in 2004?
Did you know that Kremlin adviser Georgy Arbatov acknowledged that the Soviet Union had lost the Cold War, but insisted that the United States had suffered too by losing "The Enemy"?
Did you know that Mark Friedman, founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in Warminster, Pennsylvania, as the hardest job he ever did?
Did you know that Nansen was the ship's cat on board Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99?
Did you know that a porcelain plate by Mikhail Adamovich features a Russian worker stamping on the forces of "Kapital"?
Did you know that a spontaneous strike in Oslo in 1941, due to lack of milk, led to martial law, court-martial, executions, and mass arrests?
Did you know that despite its general accuracy, Carnegie Mellon's Never-Ending Language Learning semantic learning tool came to the conclusion that Internet cookies were a kind of baked good?
Did you know that during the 18th century, St Gregory's Church, Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, was regarded as "the Gretna Green of the Midlands"?
Did you know that during the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (ca. 1518–1687), water from Hyderabad's Durgam Cheruvu lake was supplied to the residents of Golconda Fort?
Did you know that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused for the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in 2004, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated a dedicated stem cell research center at Hyderabad's L. V. Prasad Eye Institute?
Did you know that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass panels illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur?
Did you know that the 1980–81, 1982–83, and 1983–84 Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams all went to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
Did you know that the 1986–87 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team led the nation in field goal percentage?
Did you know that the Kurobe Dam is the tallest dam in Japan and its construction claimed the lives of 171 people?
Did you know that the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive broke the siege of Leningrad?
Did you know that the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned four consecutive invitations to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where the 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92 teams lost by a combined total of 15 points?
Did you know that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas was founded by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad in 1993 to oversee the construction of a Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was the flagship of Admiral Rozhestvensky at the Battle of Tsushima?
Did you know that the centrepiece of the Messner Mountain Museum, established by Italian mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, is at Sigmundskron Castle near Bolzano, and focuses on man's encounter with the mountains?
Did you know that Alms and Doepke was once the leading dry goods company in the region of Cincinnati, Ohio?
Did you know that Archaeomarasmius, Aureofungus, Coprinites, Palaeoagaracites, and Protomycena are the only five genera of agaric mushrooms known from the fossil record?
Did you know that Bill Andriette was 15 years old when he joined the pedophile organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)?
Did you know that Bryant Fleming's 1927 renovations to the Keeney House in Le Roy, New York, made it a more purely Federal-style building?
Did you know that Charles Joseph Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall were founder-shareholders in the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. along with Pre-Raphaelite artist William Morris?
Did you know that Holly Madison's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
Did you know that John Thompson III led the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team to postseason tournaments in his first two seasons as head coach in 2000–01 and 2001–02?
Did you know that Kalaallit Jørgen Brønlund was a member of the 1902–1903 Danish Literary Greenland Expedition, along with Knud Rasmussen, Harald Moltke, and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen?
Did you know that Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science?
Did you know that Sean Morton claims that, while in India, Nepalese monks taught him the secret of time travel?
Did you know that a deadly anti-Semitic riot involving approximately 10,000 people erupted in Warsaw in 1922 in response to a planned concert of Yiddish song by soprano Isa Kremer? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Isa Kremer and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Archive 7#Did you know? 18:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC), as well as at WT:DYK#Printing corrections and apologies.)
Did you know that before her death in 2007, Nevenka Urbanova was the oldest living Serbian actor?
Did you know that by taking the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 Princeton Tigers basketball teams to the National Invitational Tournament, coach Bill Carmody achieved the Ivy League record for career winning percentage?
Did you know that coach Pete Carril led the 1995–96 Princeton Tigers to an upset in the 1996 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and successor Bill Carmody led the 1996–97 and 1997–98 teams back to the Tournament?
Did you know that even though it was outside the city at the time, the medieval Church of St George in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, was Kyustendil's cathedral until 1816?
Did you know that in 1418 Margery Kempe was tried for Lollardy in All Saints Church, Leicester?
Did you know that in All Saints Church, Kedleston, Derbyshire, are 35 monuments to the Curzon family of Kedleston Hall?
Did you know that in Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker asks why the number of Americans disabled by mental illness nearly doubled since 1987 (chart pictured)?
Did you know that jazz musician Phil Moore arranged and worked on the scores of over 30 films?
Did you know that one of the venues of the 1904 Summer Olympics was Forest Park, the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition?
Did you know that the 1979–80 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team of the Ivy League played seven games against participants in the 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, although they did not play in the tournament themselves?
Did you know that the Girl Scout National Center West outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, was one of the largest encampments in the world, covering 14,600–15,400 acres of rugged wilderness?
Did you know that the Lombardy Apartment Building has been named one of the Cincinnati region's best examples of late 19th century urban Victorian architecture?
Did you know that the Spanish warship that fought in the Action of 13 June 1898 would later serve in the Venezuelan Navy?
Did you know that the Superintendent of the Otago Province, John Hyde Harris, would have played an even more important role in New Zealand politics but for his difficult financial situation?
Did you know that the character Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars was inspired after George Lucas suggested that the bounty hunter in the series should go Western?
Did you know that the first Orthodox Christian service ever held in Canada was conducted by the Russian Church and took place in 1897 in the tiny hamlet of Wostok, Alberta?
Did you know that the hamlet of Trefasser, Pembrokeshire, is said to be named either after Asser, a friend and biographer of Alfred the Great, or Asser's nephew, Asser Meneventsis, a Benedictine monk?
Did you know that the land around the St. Johns River Light in Jacksonville, Florida, has been raised 7 feet (2.1 m), burying the door and making the tower accessible only through a window 8 feet (2.4 m) off the ground?
Did you know that Alan Pastrana played as a linebacker in his first season at Maryland, but was switched to quarterback and set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for passing touchdowns in 1966?
Did you know that Albanian Grand Vizier Davud Pasha built the largest public baths in the Balkans?
Did you know that Jack Parkinson passed up a Major League Baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds to play for Adolph Rupp and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team?
Did you know that John Douglas conducted more than 50 opera productions at Temple University?
Did you know that Len Garrison's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
Did you know that Redline, Madhouse's latest anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
Did you know that St Wilfrid's Church and its rectory in Ribchester, Lancashire, were constructed in the 13th century of sandstone rubble?
Did you know that Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey, as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
Did you know that The CW Television Network plans to develop an adaption of the hit German sitcom Danni Lowinski, marking the first time a German TV series is adapted for American audiences?
Did you know that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch, aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
Did you know that a "temporary" regent of Nigeria's Idoani Confederacy ended up ruling the state for over 14 years, as the chiefs couldn't agree on the succession?
Did you know that a student-run high school station is the only oldies radio station in the market of Knoxville, Tennessee?
Did you know that a tributary of the Chusovaya River naturally dives underground for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
Did you know that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
Did you know that despite using clean coal, Prairie State Energy Campus, due to go online in August 2011, may become the largest source of carbon dioxide built in the United States in a quarter-century?
Did you know that in 1883, after Robert Russ was persuaded to donate 600 acres (240 ha) of land for a new townsite in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, the town was called Russ Town—today the city of Ruston and the parish seat?
Did you know that in his final season as Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coach, John Thompson III led the 2003–04 team to the 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
Did you know that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?
Did you know that one of the 15 bridges in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, is the Bridge of Love, enclosed by love padlocks?
Did you know that the Central Market in Ljubljana was designed by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik?
Did you know that the Dutch Ter Apel Monastery, founded by the Croziers, used to make money by selling loam, dug from land owned by the neighboring hamlet of Weerdinge, to the hamlet of Roswinkel?
Did you know that the Hero's Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal are currently the highest and second-highest military decoration in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that the only exit from a Tett turret could expose a soldier trying to leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy?
Did you know that the southernmost section of the Wellington Fault in North Island, New Zealand, has moved at a rate of 6.0–7.6 mm (0.24–0.30 in) per year for the last 140,000 years, shown by the offset of dated river terraces?
Did you know that the world's littlest skyscraper, located in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)?
Did you know that when Helmut de Boor taught at the University of Bern, his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
Did you know that Bailey's Hotel, founded by British politician James Bailey, attracted many wealthy and foreign guests – including Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor, who lived out his last days in the hotel in 1895?
Did you know that Brian Rose was Somerset County Cricket Club's most successful captain, leading the side to five one-day trophies in as many years?
Did you know that Herb Wilkinson, a devout Mormon, quit his professional basketball job with the Minneapolis Lakers because they made him play on Sundays?
Did you know that Jim Tuck named his pioneering fusion power system the Perhapsatron, reflecting his skepticism that it would actually work?
Did you know that Lake Amaramba is a shallow lake in Mozambique near the border with Malawi, located in the Nyasa plateau?
Did you know that Nevada politician Sharron Angle serves as a legislative chairwoman for the National Foundation for Women Legislators?
Did you know that Ralph A. Loveys left an Assembly seat from the 26th Legislative District to chair the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, but quit after Governor James Florio would not support his toll increase plan?
Did you know that St Nicholas of Myra's Church, Ozleworth, has one of the only two hexagonal towers in Gloucestershire?
Did you know that Texas Republican politician Jack Cox lost important races to two better-known candidates, John Connally and George Herbert Walker Bush?
Did you know that according to studies published by The Alliance for Safe Children, in Bangladesh every day an estimated 46 children die from drowning?
Did you know that at the helm of United Artists, Andy Albeck oversaw production of Raging Bull, a film considered one of the greatest ever, and Heaven's Gate, the biggest box office bomb at the time?
Did you know that five players from the 1969–70 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team were selected in the NBA Draft?
Did you know that opera singers Marguerite Bériza and Orville Harrold appeared in 1917 at the Ravinia Festival in both Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Massenet's Manon?
Did you know that the French ironclad Richelieu, cast loose by her tugboat during a storm in the Bay of Biscay while being towed to the ship breakers in 1911, survived the storm and was recovered near the Scilly Isles?
Did you know that the Gwich'yaa, easternmost of the Gwich’in groups in Alaska, derive income from trapping and from selling handicrafts?
Did you know that the Kebbi Emirate in Nigeria is one of the "seven bastard kingdoms" whose rulers trace their lineage back to a Hausa king's concubine?
Did you know that the animal characters in ABC's 1986 primetime special, The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure, were based on biblical figures?
Did you know that the mushrooms Mycena clariviolacea, M. fonticola, M. fuscoaurantiaca, M. intersecta, M. lanuginosa, M. multiplicata, M. mustea, and M. nidificata, newly described in 2007, are only known from Kanagawa, Japan?
Did you know that the type species of the fungal genus Boletellus is the pineapple bolete?
Did you know that the wood frame and clapboard in the apexes of the gambrel roof on the Michael Salyer Stone House in Orangetown, New York, may reflect Huguenot building traditions?
Did you know that there is a 9 ft bronze statue of the founder of the American SPCA, Henry Bergh, petting an injured dog, standing in Milwaukee since 1891?
Did you know that to honour Jaguar Cars' 75th anniversary, the carmaker developed the Jaguar C-X75, a plug-in hybrid two-seat concept car which debuted at the 2010 Paris Motor Show?
Did you know that Creation Records, Superdry and Viz magazine were all started with funding from the Enterprise Allowance Scheme?
Did you know that Edentulina moreleti is the only known herbivorous streptaxid?
Did you know that Edward Elgar may have played on the organ of the now-redundant Pendock Church?
Did you know that English courtier Isabella Markham, the love object and muse of poet John Harington, was the daughter of his former jailer?
Did you know that Hyalella azteca is the most abundant amphipod in North American lakes?
Did you know that James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky, once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations?
Did you know that Javorova Kosa Tunnel caved in during construction, requiring removal of 400 cubic metres (14,000 cubic feet) of rock and soil before the work could resume?
Did you know that Kenneth North was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War for almost six years?
Did you know that St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, has been the chancel of a medieval church, the south aisle of a 19th century church, and is now a free-standing structure?
Did you know that a Washington, DC, legend states that a Demon Cat lives in the basement crypts at Capitol Hill?
Did you know that a bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven was unveiled in 1845 to coincide with his 75th birthday?
Did you know that after recovering from polio as a 12-year old, Leo Byrd went on to win a gold medal with the United States men's basketball team at the 1959 Pan American Games?
Did you know that at the end of the first game of the 2005 UAAP men's basketball finals, a De La Salle University-Manila assistant team manager ran onto the court and hit opposing player Arwind Santos in the back of the head?
Did you know that baritone Georges Baklanoff created the title role in Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1906?
Did you know that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to tablet devices?
Did you know that from the late 1860s, Danish photographer Kristen Feilberg captured many of the earliest images of the landscapes and peoples of Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore?
Did you know that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of Jarrow?
Did you know that in 1997, Marko Račič became the only Slovenian to receive the Gold Badge of the European Athletic Association?
Did you know that shots fired by Johnny Edgecombe into the door of the flat where his girlfriend was visiting led to disclosure of the Profumo Affair, a scandal which brought down UK War Secretary John Profumo?
Did you know that the 1994 College Baseball All-America Team included four future Major League Baseball All-Stars: Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Danny Graves and Mike Hampton?
Did you know that the 2009–10 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned the first postseason college basketball victory for Princeton since the 1999 National Invitation Tournament?
Did you know that the Military Engineering-Technical University in Saint Petersburg was the alma mater of author Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
Did you know that the anonymous 6th-century treatise About the Mystery of the Letters interpreted the three Greek numeral signs Digamma (6), Koppa (90) and Sampi (900) as mystical symbols of the Holy Trinity?
Did you know that the deciding game of the 2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals was played a day before the 29th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila at the same venue?