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Did you know that March 13, 2001, was named "Ronnie McCollum Day" in Shreveport, Louisiana , to honor the basketball player of that name?
Did you know that Canadian pioneer Susan Louisa Moir Allison was the first European to report a sighting of Ogopogo , a cryptid lake monster ?
Did you know that Polly Rosenbaum 's accomplishments in her 45 years in Arizona 's state legislature included eliminating spittoons and miniskirted pages from the state House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the Blair-Dunning House in Bloomington was the home of the only politician to hold every elected legislative and executive office in Indiana's government ?
Did you know that scholars have recommended that " Clara cell " and other medical eponyms associated with Nazi doctors or medical experiments should be replaced?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano opera singer Martha Lipton performed 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that after Black Panther Party members Michael Tabor and Richard Moore fled to Algeria while on trial for an alleged bomb plot, party leader Huey P. Newton called them "enemies of the people"?
Did you know that the 1915 film The Incorrigible Dukane is the oldest surviving movie starring John Barrymore ?
Did you know that during the Yom Kippur War , the Israeli Air Force carried out the Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid after northern Israel had been struck by FROGs ?
Did you know that Bach used the first movement of his Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 as a Sinfonia for his cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52 ?
Did you know that the death of a zebra , while under the care of Sir Fleetwood Edwards , was said to greatly annoy Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that B.B. King and Eric Clapton won a Grammy Award in 2000 for their collaborative album Riding with the King ?
Did you know that when former International Lenin School worker Just Lippe fled to neutral Sweden during World War II , he was imprisoned there for a year and a half?
Did you know that Willie Jackson is the Atlantic Sun Conference 's all-time leading scorer in men's basketball?
Did you know that Chamaegigas intrepidus ("intrepid dwarf giant") is a tiny aquatic plant that can thrive in the desert ?
Did you know that World War II aviator William Atkinson is the highest scoring fighter ace of the Royal Canadian Navy and the last ace from The Commonwealth ?
Did you know that the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville , Kentucky , was frequented by Al Capone , who is said to have once avoided police by escaping through secret tunnels in the hotel?
Did you know that the first automobile in Canada was first operated by parish priest Georges-Antoine Belcourt in 1866?
Did you know that soon after the ocean liner SS Utopia collided with the battleship HMS Anson , resulting in 564 deaths near Gibraltar in 1891, the partially submerged wreckage was involved in another collision?
Did you know that the recently restored Wara Wara (1930) is the only known surviving Bolivian silent feature film?
Did you know that Battle of Britain pilot Francis Dawson-Paul was the leading Fleet Air Arm fighter ace on the Spitfire but was shot down in July 1940 after 25 days of combat and died of his wounds five days later?
Did you know that one year after Bahrain 's State Security Law was abolished in 2001, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa pronounced Bahrain a constitutional monarchy and changed his title from amir to king?
Did you know that Lai Pak-Hoi founded the first Chinese-owned film production company in Hong Kong , the Minxin Film Company ?
Did you know that the new search engine Blekko will use what The New York Times described as " Wikipedia -style policing" to weed out pages created by content farms and focus on results from trusted websites?
Did you know that Anglo-Saxon nobleman Ælfric Cild married into the powerful family of the ealdorman of Mercia , and succeeded him in office before being expelled by the end of two years?
Did you know that after finishing his National Football League career with the Atlanta Falcons , Bob Adams became a Church of Scientology vice president and spokesperson?
Did you know that Sir Nicholas Fuller was imprisoned for heresy after describing the Court of High Commission as "under jurisdiction not of Christ but of anti-Christ "?
Did you know that The Mark Levin Show is the fourth most-listened-to radio program in the United States , with over 8.5 million listeners?
Did you know that the most massive known neutron star is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in diameter, but has a mass twice that of the Sun ?
Did you know that Kenyan runner Benjamin Kiptoo set a course record of 2:07:54 at the 2010 Chuncheon Marathon ?
Did you know that in 1962, Texas A&M University professor J. Milton Nance wrote a regional history of Bryan , Texas ?
Did you know that the Diggers & Dealers conference is so popular that hotel rooms in Kalgoorlie, Australia , are booked up two years in advance?
Did you know that two Soviet speed skaters tied for first place and won gold in the same event at the 1956 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that actor Dax Shepard received strong reviews for both his comedic and dramatic performance in " No Good Deed ", an episode of the NBC series Parenthood ?
Did you know that the autobiographical film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure (which is about an intersexed woman) won a 2010 ATOM Award for Best Documentary (General)?
Did you know that the "strategy New Haven itself had pioneered to fight North Haven's mall " was used against the New Haven Galleria by the neighboring city of Milford 20 years later?
Did you know that in the 2008 Nunavut general election , candidate Allan Rumbolt achieved the lowest winning plurality of any candidate in any electoral district ?
Did you know that United States security assistance to the Palestinian Authority for the 2010 fiscal year was US$ 100 million ?
Did you know that the Pittsburg State Gorillas have won more games than any other American football program in NCAA Division II history?
Did you know that Reinhard Mohn took what was left of his family's publishing company (its premises demolished by Allied bombing in World War II ) and turned it into the sixth-largest media conglomerate in the world?
Did you know that the Murray State Racers men's basketball program had its last losing season in 1987–88?
Did you know that even though Simeon I of Bulgaria burned the Church of St. Mary of the Spring near the Byzantine capital Constantinople , his son Peter married the daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos there three years later?
Did you know that juvenile balloon sharks are preyed upon by the coelacanth ?
Did you know that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde ?
Did you know that All-Star pitcher Oral Hildebrand led Butler University to the 1929 national championship in basketball ?
Did you know that voice artist P. C. Ramakrishna acted in the 1969 Madras Players theatre production The Crucible ?
Did you know that upon being elected Mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan , Douglas R. Archer moved to eliminate the city's business tax ?
Did you know that the collection of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum includes a specimen of native copper that is 8 ft ( 2.4 m ) long?
Did you know that Samangan (Aybak) , the capital of Samangan Province , lies on the Khulm River ?
Did you know that Alexei Kudrin was declared "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" by Euromoney magazine?
Did you know that several MPs have signed an Early Day Motion to stop hunters from killing wild animals in Britain after the supposed death of the Emperor of Exmoor , a red stag ( Cervus elaphus )?
Did you know that Welsh bantamweight champion Tosh Powell died from a brain hemorrhage after a boxing match in Liverpool, at the age of 20?
Did you know that Second World War aviator Ronald Cuthbert Hay is the only Royal Marine fighter ace ?
Did you know that Henry Holt and Company discontinued the printing of The Last Train From Hiroshima after members of the 509th Composite Group questioned the authenticity of the book?
Did you know that Wallace Wilkerson declined to be executed by decapitation in Utah Territory , and instead took up to 27 minutes to die because the firing squad missed his heart?
Did you know that a 1994 hoax suggesting that Microsoft had acquired the Catholic Church was considered to be the first Internet hoax to reach a mass audience?
Did you know that at M-1 Global 's Challenge XXI event, Artiom Damkovsky defeated Mairbek Taisumov to become their inaugural Lightweight MMA Champion and Guram Gugenishvili defeated Kenny Garner (who was replacing the injured Maxim Grishin ) for their inaugural Heavyweight Championship?
Did you know that Emery Point Light , an active lighthouse at Larrakeyah Barracks , near Darwin , Northern Territory , Australia , was the only navigational aid to remain functional in the path of Cyclone Tracy ?
Did you know that various authors speculate that the Byzantine aristocratic Phokas family are of Arab , ancient Roman , Armenian or Georgian origin?
Did you know that Charles Darwin experienced the 1835 Concepción earthquake , describing the effects of both the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami ?
Did you know that soprano Myrna Sharlow once upstaged acclaimed opera singer Mary Garden in a performance of a minor role at the Boston Opera House ?
Did you know that prior to becoming Commissioner of the Northwest Territories , George Tuccaro anchored the first daily current affairs television show in Canada's north?
Did you know that historian Gary Clayton Anderson describes the white man's advance into Texas in the 19th century as ethnic cleansing of the American Indians ?
Did you know that politician James R. Lewis was involved in plans to build a laser gun "designed to blind people", sell it to a Guatemalan colonel, and use the proceeds to build a laetrile factory in South America?
Did you know that soprano Christiane Kohl appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as the Rhinemaiden Woglinde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung ?
Did you know that no northern-born Canadian Aboriginal had been appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories until the appointment of Daniel L. Norris in 1989?
Did you know that despite having to teach out of a poorly converted hotel building, Mary Adams transformed the Wesleyan Female College into a highly regarded institution?
Did you know that " The Ballad of Molly Mogg " was "writ by two or three men of wit" – John Gay , Alexander Pope and Dean Swift – while sheltering from a storm?
Did you know that Scott Ashjian faced a legal challenge prior to the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Nevada as he changed parties after submitting his candidacy?
Did you know that Torstein Grythe started the boys' choir Sølvguttene in 1940, and retired as conductor of the choir as late as 2004?
Did you know that the New York Times described Dick Miles as "perhaps the greatest table tennis player the United States has ever produced" after Miles won 10 national championships in the sport?
Did you know that Chilean journalist Pamela Jiles announced her presidential candidacy using the slogan "We are millions, the idiots"?
Did you know that the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin houses the world's fastest supercomputer ?
Did you know that Sandrine Salerno , current mayor of Geneva, Switzerland , is the daughter of a French mother and an Italian father?
Did you know that Nick Leggett , the Mayor of Porirua who succeeded Jenny Brash , is currently the youngest mayor in New Zealand ?
Did you know that the Wittenberg Tigers from Springfield, Ohio , have won more games than any other Division III college football team?
Did you know that St Peter's Church, Wolfhampcote stands isolated in a field, surrounded by mounds remaining from a deserted medieval village, disused canal workings, and a redundant railway?
Did you know that Troughman is mythically famous in Sydney , Australia , for lying down in urinals ?
Did you know that following a sexist joke by a political opponent, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Lisa MacLeod wrote the cookbook I’d Rather Be Baking Cookies ?
Did you know that the phonomotor , patented by Thomas Edison in 1878 and powered only by the human voice, could drill a hole in a board?
Did you know that Apple introduced Game Sprockets in 1996 to improve game development on the Mac OS , but cancelled development only a year later?
Did you know that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War , a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International ?
Did you know that the idea behind " Pavor Nocturnus ", a second season episode of the Canadian television series Sanctuary came from the 2007 film I Am Legend ?
Did you know that in 1979 Taunton Town F.C. moved from the Southern section of the Southern Football League to the Midlands section due to the opening of the M5 motorway ?
Did you know that a Leo Cullum cartoon published in the first illustrated issue of The New Yorker printed after the September 11 attacks had the caption "I thought I'd never laugh again. Then I saw your jacket"?
Did you know that Robert Wilson was a principal tenor with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1930s before beginning a 25-year concert, variety and radio career?
Did you know that Peter Bossman , born in Ghana , has been elected by the people of Piran to become Slovenia 's first black mayor ?
Did you know that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara first met in Colonia Tabacalera , Mexico City ?
Did you know that in 1859, ex- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California David S. Terry killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in a duel ?
Did you know that Frankism , an 18th-century movement derived from Judaism , maintained that the best way to emulate God—and one's most important personal responsibility—was to transgress every taboo?
Did you know that Thomas Barrie , found guilty in 1538 of spreading rumours about Henry VIII of England , had his ears cut off while in the pillory and later died from shock ?
Did you know that Betty S. Murphy was the first woman to serve on and the first woman chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board , and the first woman to lead the Dept. of Labor's Wage and Hour Division ?
Did you know that Joseph Tehawehron David was a Mohawk artist who became known for his role as a warrior during the Oka crisis in 1990?
Did you know that Detroit mayor William G. Thompson was considerably pummeled in a sensational public fight with his brother-in-law, who accused him of talking about his wife in barrooms?
Did you know that a typhoid outbreak was caused by a church meeting in Monark Springs, Missouri ?
Did you know that Holland Island , currently underwater at high tide, used to be one of the largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay ?
Did you know that Olga Ivinskaya , the mistress of Boris Pasternak , was the inspiration for the heroine of Dr. Zhivago ?
Did you know that a large fragment of the Northumbrian Easby Cross was over 1,000 years old when it was found built into a wall in a field?
Did you know that the two earliest aboriginal title cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall were examples of collusive litigation ?
Did you know that the first church service in the village of Alliance, Alberta was held in a pool hall , with most of the congregation seated on pool tables ?
Did you know that clarinetist Margot Leverett started a band that fuses bluegrass music with the traditional Jewish musical style called klezmer ?
Did you know that before departing from Kraków for his victorious Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Empire , king Jan III Sobieski said his final prayers at the Carmelite Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary ?
Did you know that the drawings of Violette Lecoq from her experiences in the Ravensbrück concentration camp were used as evidence at the trials in 1946?
Did you know that the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta has variously been considered a thrush , a starling and a honeyeater ?
Did you know that some leading botanists believe that Afghanistan is the birthplace of pomegranate cultivation ?
Did you know that Belgian soldiers continued to defend Fort de Tancrémont even after Belgium had already capitulated to Nazi Germany on 28 May 1940?
Did you know that despite suffering from an injured fist, Indian boxer Shiva Thapa won a silver medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ?
Did you know that by 2001, there were over 1,000 research studies regarding the children's television show Sesame Street 's efficacy, impact, and effect on American culture?
Did you know that R&B singer Tobi Lark 's most successful recording was issued under a different name, became very popular in Wigan , and has recently been compared to a Shakespeare sonnet ?
Did you know that the largest ethnic group in Makambako , Tanzania , is the Kinga ?
Did you know that Washington State Route 220 was one of twelve highways removed from the Washington state highway system in 1991?
Did you know that industrialist and inventor William Edenborn once tried to use monkeys to harvest cotton on his experimental farm in Louisiana ?
Did you know that graphic designer S. Neil Fujita created iconic covers for such books as Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood and Mario Puzo 's The Godfather ?
Did you know that alternative rock band Klaxons ' records have charted in multiple countries worldwide?
Did you know that American boogie-woogie pianist Booker T. Laury appeared in two films, but did not record his debut album until he was almost eighty years of age?
Did you know that over 110 people were killed when SS Vestris sank in 1928?
Did you know that Wendall Woodbury was the first television anchor in the United States to report on the unfolding Three Mile Island accident in 1979?
Did you know that the venue for the 1960 Summer Olympic marathon event included the Appian Way , finished at the Arch of Constantine , and was lit at night by Italian soldiers holding torches ?
Did you know that catcher Harry Bemis once beat Ty Cobb over the head with a baseball after a home plate collision?
Did you know that the children's book Don't Forget the Bacon! was used in an education case study teaching students about reliability of spoken language ?
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe 's 1952 live rendition of the George Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva song " Do It Again " before thousands of marines at Camp Pendleton caused a "near riot"?
Did you know that Austroplatypus incompertus forms colonies in the heartwood of some Eucalyptus trees and was the first beetle recognized as eusocial ?
Did you know that Ogden H. Hammond , the father of New Jersey congresswoman Millicent Fenwick , survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania , though his wife did not?
Did you know that one of the earliest driving clubs in Britain, the Bensington Driving Club, was also called the Black and White Club, after the Black Dog and White Hart public houses where it met?
Did you know that the succulent plant Frerea indica was once on a list of the twelve most endangered plants on earth?
Did you know that Mary J. Rathbun described over 1000 new crustacean taxa, but never attended college, and received a Ph.D. only after she retired?
Did you know that the Sanctuary of Atotonilco in Guanajuato , Mexico , has been called the Sistine Chapel of Mexico?
Did you know that the 1964 BSA A65 Rocket motorcycle had a top speed of 108 mph and was sold as the fastest motorcycle being produced by BSA ?
Did you know that the Matengo people are believed to have lived in southern Tanzania 's Matengo Highlands since the Iron Age ?
Did you know that the Antlia Dwarf galaxy may have distorted the shape of its neighbour NGC 3109 one billion years ago?
Did you know that newly hatched Aylesbury ducks were traditionally fed on toast , boiled eggs , rice , beef liver , greaves and boiled horses or sheep ?
Did you know that between 1933 and 1935, American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer Walter Roland recorded around fifty songs for Banner Records ?
Did you know that Empire Conveyor was the only ship sunk by U-122 ?
Did you know that Phallus calongei is a pink-tipped phallic mushroom covered with greenish slime ?
Did you know that Otto Schimming wrote the first letter to the United Nations protesting Namibia 's incorporation to South Africa ?
Did you know that the first Principal of Federico Errázuriz Regional Institute was José Kuhl, a Pallottine priest from Limburg , Germany ?
Did you know that three of the venues used for the 1956 Winter Olympics went on to appear in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only ?
Did you know that, in the 1880s, stage actress Pauline Hall performed Erminie a record-breaking 800 times in the United States ?
Did you know that a Bristol Scout from the British aircraft carrier Vindex made the first interception of an airship by a carrier-based aircraft on 2 August 1916 when it attacked a Zeppelin with explosive Ranken darts ?
Did you know that Justus Smith Stearns built the first all electric sawmill in the United States?
Did you know that the porch of St Swithun's Church, Brookthorpe , Gloucestershire , contains a wall plate with a chronogram hiding the date of the execution of Charles I ?
Did you know that due of a lack of an official UK Singles Chart before 1969 the BBC averaged four different charts in the early 1960s, none of which are now regarded as the canonical source?
Did you know that the organ case in St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover , Warwickshire , was originally made for St John's College, Cambridge ?
Did you know that despite numerous proposed changes to the Constitution of American Samoa , voters in today's constitutional referendum cannot vote on each of them individually?
Did you know that conservative theologians believe the Confession of 1967 radically changed how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) interpreted the Bible ?
Did you know that American football player Bryant Moniz , who began the 2009 season as a walk-on for Hawaii delivering pizzas to pay his expenses, currently leads the NCAA in both passing yards and total offense ?
Did you know that the NSB Class 72 trains could at first not be used on the high-speed Gardermoen Line because their electronics interfered with the signaling system?
Did you know that Annie Meinertzhagen spent part of her honeymoon studying birds at Walter Rothschild ’s ornithological museum ?
Did you know that Bronx judge Burton B. Roberts , known for his no-nonsense manner and stentorian voice, was the model for the character Myron Kovitsky in Tom Wolfe 's 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities ?
Did you know that the British Engineerium , created by a steam enthusiast who started with £ 300, was later bought for £3 million by another enthusiast?
Did you know that the Piccolo Quintet , composed by Graham Waterhouse , was performed in a lecture concert of the first Sergiu Celibidache Festival in Munich?
Did you know that nine athletes managed to win more than one medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics despite there only being 17 events?
Did you know that in the Cincinnati Riots of 1884 many soldiers from the Ohio National Guard refused to report for riot duty, and some even joined the rioters?
Did you know that prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh , imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin Prison , went on a month-long hunger strike to protest her ill-treatment?
Did you know that Norway 's train radio system Scanet was replaced by GSM-R after only 13 years of operation?
Did you know that the Benton City – Kiona Bridge is believed to be the first steel box girder bridge in the United States, and still carries Washington State Route 225 today?
Did you know that Gervase Bennet , MP for Derby during the Commonwealth , originated the name "Quakers" for members of the Religious Society of Friends ?
Did you know that the traditionalist Italian wine producer Giacomo Conterno has long held the motto that at the time of bottling, their barolos should be "undrinkable"?
Did you know that the Maya city of La Blanca in northern Guatemala features an unusually well-built palace complex for such a small city?
Did you know that Louisiana Highway 975 is a gravel state highway along the banks of the Atchafalaya River ?
Did you know that editor Hans Aarnes established the first formal education program for journalists in Norway?