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Did you know that Maxine Hong Kingston 's novel Tripmaster Monkey is named after a fictional monkey king from the Chinese epic novel Journey to the West ?
Did you know that Emil "Liz" Liston , founder of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and organizer of the NAIA college basketball tournament , was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975?
Did you know that the County of Dannenberg was founded by Henry the Lion during the Ostsiedlung , or colonisation of the East, in order to protect the borders of his expanding territory?
Did you know that Professor Ivor Browne was denounced as antagonistic towards the Catholic Church after he came out in support of the mistress of Fr. Michael Cleary ?
Did you know that the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode " Chill of the Night! " has characters voiced by people from both Batman: The Animated Series and the 1960s live-action version of Batman ?
Did you know that current Arsenal F.C. reserve player Emmanuel Frimpong began his international career with Ghana before switching to England and then back to Ghana?
Did you know that Lake Scott State Park is home to El Quartelejo Ruins , the northernmost Indian pueblo in the United States and the only one known in Kansas ?
Did you know that microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?
Did you know that the 13th government of Sri Lanka was known as the Jumbo Cabinet due to the high number of ministers ?
Did you know that in 1946 the University of Texas at Austin regent Orville Bullington worked to dismiss the president Homer Rainey on grounds of communists and homosexuals operating within the university?
Did you know that John Canon helped found Jefferson College and constructed the Stone Academy Building ?
Did you know that the name "regular Fronthall" was used to refer to brave soldiers in honor of the courage of Max Fronthall of the 16th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers?
Did you know that the U.S. Secretary of the Army 's investigation into burial mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery was prompted in part by a year-long series of articles on Salon.com ?
Did you know that in Berghuis v. Thompkins the United States Supreme Court ruled that failing to claim the right to silence means police can use any voluntary statements regardless of length of interrogation?
Did you know that all of the panelists of the Beverage Testing Institute are professional guest tasters who are retailers, restaurateurs, or prominent writers?
Did you know that the Odyssey tanker spilled 43 million gallons of oil off the coast of Nova Scotia , Canada , in November 1988?
Did you know that Sheila Varian of California is an Arabian horse breeder who is also a horse trainer in the vaquero tradition, and was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2003?
Did you know that Dillard's opened a store at Bowling Green, Kentucky 's Greenwood Mall in 1996, then moved to another store in the mall less than three years later?
Did you know that the playable character of video game Seymour Goes to Hollywood was described as an "albino mutant lardball" by one reviewer?
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 Israel Vázquez – Rafael Márquez rivalry produced two Ring Magazine fights of the year ?
Did you know that Let's Yoga includes yoga poses to complete in office chairs during times the player might be relegated to a desk?
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 Donald Russell from 1964 to 1970 accumulated the highest winning percentage (.661) of any Wesleyan football coach with more than two years as head coach?
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 in the film Horror of Dracula , actress Melissa Stribling played the victim of a vampire in an erotic role?
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 the hamlet of Wigratzbad in Germany was home to Marian apparitions in the early 20th century, and today houses a shrine visited by approximately 500,000 pilgrims every year?
Did you know that the Brinje Tunnel was declared to be the safest tunnel in Europe by an FIA and ADAC EuroTAP survey?
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 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 political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
Did you know that despite his aristocratic background, Claude Poullart des Places requested to be buried in a pauper's grave?
Did you know that Ireland's "Willy Wonka" provided confectionary for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II ?
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 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 during the Bardia raid in April 1941, seventy British Commandos became prisoners of war after getting lost?
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 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 Warren Antoine Cartier was a neighbor of Thomas Edison , Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone ?
Did you know that populations of Actinoporus elegans were thought to be restricted to the western Atlantic until they were collected at the east Atlantic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in 2004?
Did you know that aged 16, Ellyse Perry was the youngest person, male or female, to represent Australia in cricket, and debuted for the national football team a month later?
Did you know that through the Trade Union Propaganda League Swedish leftwing socialists sought to win the Swedish Trade Union Confederation over to a revolutionary line?
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 Napoleonic Wars military historian Ramsay Weston Phipps helped to blow up the docks at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) when he was a young Royal Artillery lieutenant?
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 despite being panned for exceptionally poor acting and special effects, the 2010 film Dinoshark was also considered likely to become a classic of the "awesomely awful" movie genre?
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 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 Classic Period Maya city of Ixtutz in the Maya Mountains of Guatemala was lost for more than a century after its discovery in 1852?
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 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 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 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 under a bill proposed by Assemblymember Joel Weingarten , religious headwear cannot be banned in New Jersey public schools?
Did you know that until the 19th century, Blackwell Hall in the City of London controlled England's main commercial activity—the cloth trade?
Did you know that the church of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was destroyed during the French Revolution and all its contents sold?
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 the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in Canada is one of the largest Proterozoic magmatic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain?
Did you know that the Western Silvereye is a declared pest of agriculture in Western Australia ?
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 the Polish Glider Experimental Works , created after World War II , became the main Polish centre for designing gliders?
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 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 football coach Jake High has both the highest winning percentage (.778) in the history of Wesleyan football and the lowest percentage (.000) in the history of NYU football?
Did you know that costume designer Peter J. Hall dressed David Bowie and Mick Jagger on tour, calling Bowie "serious, intellectual, wonderful to work with" while Jagger was "exactly the opposite"?
Did you know that whilst the Mexican People's Party was unable to obtain national registration as a political party, it was recognized in Baja California Sur and won a seat in the state legislature?
Did you know that the name of the Montreal nightclub Les Foufounes Électriques means "electric buttocks " in English?
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 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 when Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen sustained fatal heart failure, there were numerous doctors present ?
Did you know that a radio ad in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known radio commercial in history?
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 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 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 the Somerset Women cricket team finished as County Championship Division Two champions in 2004 and 2005?
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 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 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 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 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, depending on classification, there are anywhere from 20 to 40 cheeses produced in Mexico ?
Did you know that footballer Stephen Brackstone had an operation to remove his appendix after being taken to hospital following his substitution in a game for York City in December 2002?
Did you know that GRB 030329 provided the definitive link between gamma-ray bursts and supernovae ?
Did you know that Guy Talarico sponsored a bill that would require involuntary commitment for those with mental health issues if it is determined that it is likely that they will commit future crimes?
Did you know that the single known population of the Ecuadorian rodent Lagidium ahuacaense may contain only a few dozen individuals?
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 the last remaining mail delivery boat in the United States delivers with mail jumpers ?
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 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 pioneer British aviator Alec Ogilvie was only the seventh person to qualify as a pilot in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Jonah Lomu failed to score a try against South Africa despite facing them 13 times?
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 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 paraplegic handcyclist Edward Maalouf is the only person to have won medals for Lebanon at the Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that it is speculated that Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus were commissioned by Constantine I ?
Did you know that current Wesleyan football coach Mike Whalen led the Williams College "Ephs" to four consecutive Little Three football championships and a undefeated record against Wesleyan?
Did you know that the cloth fibers in the casing of most bicycle tires are oriented diagonally, forming a bias ply?
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 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 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 the three lookouts , Gvulot , Beit Eshel and Revivim , served as a springboard for Jewish settlement in the Negev desert?
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 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 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 a bill proposed by Carol Murphy passed in the New Jersey General Assembly to allow hunters to contribute venison to food banks to help feed the needy?
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 the Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus , Indiana , is constructed on an old railroad yard?
Did you know that cricketer Lisa Sthalekar took five wickets in her 100th One Day International match for Australia ?
Did you know that Polish aviator Józef Lewoniewski planned to fly the PWS-52 monoplane prototype around the world?
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 the German submarine U-376 only sank two merchant ships in eight patrols before it went missing on 13 April 1943?
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 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 fashion designer Maria Grachvogel created a dress adorned with 2,000 diamonds worth £250,000 for her London Fashion Week show?
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 Daniel Nava of the Boston Red Sox is the fourth player in Major League Baseball history to hit a grand slam in his first at-bat and the second to do so on the first pitch?
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 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 German submarine U-371 made a total of 19 war patrols in her career?
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 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 during the Great Depression , attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas ?
Did you know that Arlington National Cemetery Superintendent John C. Metzler, Jr. lived at the cemetery between the ages of 4 and 19?
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 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 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 as of May 2010, Akrapovič exhaust systems have been used in a total of 38 motorsport world championships?
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 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 the small Maya city of Itzan in the Petén region of Guatemala featured an unusually large quantity of sculpted monuments?
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 in 1976 socialist Jorge Cruickshank García became the first opposition senator of Mexico since the emergence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party as the ruling party?
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 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 the 1950 film The Bandit Queen starred Barbara Britton in the title role as a bullwhip -wielding avenger?
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 Scene It? Twilight has no questions about New Moon even though the movie version of the book was released at the same time as the game?
Did you know that in 1978, 21-year-old Walter Muma set a record for moped trips with a three-month, 11,500-mile ride from Toronto to Alaska and back?
Did you know that the German Type IXB submarines were the most successful class of submarines in World War II in terms of the total amount of tonnage sunk?
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 Arena was the first web browser to support background images, tables, text flow around images, and inline mathematical expressions?
Did you know that the back-illuminated sensor improves on conventional digital camera sensors by moving wiring so it does not interfere with light entering the front of the detector?
Did you know that Ircinia strobilina produces a substance which causes paralysis and loss of balance when ingested by fish?
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 author Debbie Renner claimed to have once competed in professional wrestling as the "Tasmanian Devil" prior to becoming a full-time writer?
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 tert -butanesulfinamide is used as a chiral auxiliary in the asymmetric synthesis of amines ?
Did you know that Oscar Eduardovich Lemm , Russian Coptologist , published the text of Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I ?