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Did you know that Los Angeles Lakers point guard Nick Van Exel was fined $25,000 and suspended seven games by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for shoving referee Ron Garretson into the scorer's table?
Did you know that the Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia ?
Did you know that the first class of United States Navy destroyers were designated torpedo boat destroyers ?
Did you know that the University of Oregon 's Pacifica Forum hosted a lecture in which the speaker referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as a "moral leper and a communist dupe"?
Did you know that the British lion tamer and politician John Smith Clarke cured Lenin 's dog of an illness?
Did you know that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
Did you know that Greg Monroe was the sixth Georgetown Hoya to win the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year award?
Did you know that the Polish literary critic Ostap Ortwin would wake up the people of Lwów by loudly threatening futurism in the middle of a night and then abuse the policemen who’d ask him for identification?
Did you know that the Nevada Brewery ’s storage cave, used for aging casks of ale , was originally connected to other parts of Nevada City, California , via tunnels?
Did you know that quarterback Scott Zolak was a waterboy at Ringgold High School as a boy when Hall of Famer Joe Montana was the quarterback?
Did you know that Trustom Pond in Rhode Island , United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
Did you know that former USAF officer David P. Cooley who was the chief test pilot for the F-117 Nighthawk died in March 2009 while testing the F-22 Raptor ?
Did you know that " One Rainy Wish " was one of Jimi Hendrix 's many songs inspired by dreams?
Did you know that American football wide receiver Jaymar Johnson became the first player from Jackson State University to be drafted by the NFL since Sylvester Morris in 2000?
Did you know that HMS Pique's service with the Royal Navy lasted for just three years after her capture in 1795 by HMS Blanche ?
Did you know that Gunnar Heiberg advocated dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden , but was dissatisfied that Norway subsequently became a monarchy ?
Did you know that the New York City government purchased the once-luxurious Concourse Plaza Hotel in The Bronx in 1974 and turned it into a senior citizens' residence?
Did you know that when a member of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England in 1966–69, Derek Senior wrote a memorandum of dissent as long as the report itself?
Did you know that Scott Lost , while teaming with Joey Ryan , won the PWG World Tag Team Championship , but lost the championship to himself and Chris Bosh ?
Did you know that after winning the 2008 Atlantic Championship , Brooks Associates Racing sold both its cars to Primetime Race Group and will not compete in 2009?
Did you know that the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 , which was signed into law on May 20, gives an additional 165 million USD in funding to the Justice Department to detect and prosecute fraud ?
Did you know that actress Helen Ernstone appeared in stage adaptations of Charles Dickens novels?
Did you know that most staff in the Australian Government's Department of Post-War Reconstruction were young economists who had been conscripted into the Australian Public Service during World War II ?
Did you know that Mrs. Pack was selected as wet nurse for William, Duke of Gloucester by his father because of her breasts, which were "gigantic"?
Did you know that Sir Henry Benson was the first living non-American to be inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Davey Richards ' PWG World Tag Team Championship reign with Super Dragon holds the record for most defenses, while his reign with Roderick Strong is tied with seven other teams for least?
Did you know that Teresa Saporiti , the soprano who created the role of Donna Anna in Mozart 's opera Don Giovanni , lived to be 106?
Did you know that after 14 years above an ambulance company, KDCQ in Coos Bay, Oregon , relocated its radio studios to a former buffet restaurant ?
Did you know that Matthew Mullineux , captain of the 1899 British Lions rugby team, was immortalised in verse by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson , famed author of " Waltzing Matilda "?
Did you know that Italian architect Donato Bramante was nicknamed il Ruinate for the destruction of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica ?
Did you know that while fleeing from Greece to Egypt during World War II , a frustrated Olivia Manning used a chamberpot to crush a fellow refugee 's Parisian hats?
Did you know that Devin Britton won the 2009 NCAA Men's Tennis singles national championship as a freshman and is the only University of Mississippi tennis player to win the championship?
Did you know that Buxhall tower mill was built in 1860, incorporating the base of an earlier smock mill , which was itself built in 1815?
Did you know that pioneer Morris Moss caused an international incident between the United States and Canada by seal hunting along the British Columbia Coast in the 1870s?
Did you know that according to medieval French legend, guivres were dragon-like creatures with venomous breath, known to prowl the French countryside?
Did you know that Mickey Morandini turned the first regular-season unassisted triple play by a second baseman in National League history?
Did you know that Washington State Route 203 originally was split into four roads, later combined in 1937?
Did you know that, in nine years of professional gridiron football , Jacoby Shepherd has played for eleven teams in three leagues?
Did you know that the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 passed both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate unanimously ?
Did you know that the translation of The Lord of the Rings by Andrey Kistyakovsky and Vladimir Muravyov is the first official Russian language translation of the novel ?
Did you know that in 1993 almost 10 per cent of Canada 's GDP was made up of municipal government spending?
Did you know that despite not playing as a high school junior in 1999, American football cornerback Brock Williams still led Notre Dame defenders in playing time in 2000?
Did you know that the Roşia Poieni copper mine represents the largest copper reserve in Romania and the second largest in Europe ?
Did you know that Operetta: A Theatrical History , written by operetta scholar and historian Richard Traubner was described as the "ultimate love letter to operetta"?
Did you know that ship's doctors were originally termed surgeons in the Royal Navy and were paid £5 for every 100 cases of venereal disease they treated?
Did you know that 1996 Yukon election candidate Lois Moorcroft received less than a third of the votes, but still won her seat in the Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that the inscriptions in Hieronymus Bosch 's Ecce Homo are used to convey their conversation like speech balloons in comics?
Did you know that the father-and-son architects Amon and Amon Henry Wilds —leading figures in Brighton 's development—used the ammonite capital as their signature device as a pun on their first names?
Did you know that before the Revolutionary War , Fenwick Hall on Johns Island, South Carolina , was called Johns Island Stud because of its thoroughbred horses?
Did you know that in 1901, after the death of John Flint Kidder , president of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad , his widow took over, becoming the first female railroad president?
Did you know that an illustration for Hans Christian Andersen 's " The Most Incredible Thing " was published during the Nazi occupation of Denmark that depicted a rabbi striking a semi-naked Aryan ?
Did you know that although the Quarter Horse Lightning Bar is known as a racehorse and father of racehorses, he won a roping contest once?
Did you know that in 1969, Ivar Orgland was the first foreigner to take a doctorate at the University of Iceland ?
Did you know that news director Brad Boyer of Missouri radio station KIRK received a Distinguished Service Award from the MSHSAA in 2008 for his "lifelong contributions to the ideals of interscholastic activities "?
Did you know that the pirate Henry Strangwish had his image recorded by Flicke in 1554?
Did you know that Steve McQueen 's posthumous popularity led to the reintroduction of the TAG Heuer Monaco chronograph watch in 1998 and again in 2003?
Did you know that Yehoshua Zettler organized the September 1948 assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte , who had been sent by the U.N. Security Council as its mediator following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
Did you know that famo is a type of music from Lesotho , named after the action of female dancers exposing their naked rear?
Did you know that Afghani parliamentarian and Islamic feminist Shukria Barakzai began to campaign against multiple marriages when her husband took a second wife without telling her?
Did you know that screenwriter John Briley won an Academy Award for Gandhi and was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery ?
Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the design for a new elementary school in his native Hyde Park, New York ?
Did you know that 2009 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Miss Meyers was the mother of the first American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Supreme Champion, fathered by fellow AQHA Hall of Famer Three Bars ?
Did you know that the Hanuman Temple, Connaught Place , in New Delhi , is unusual in having the Islamic symbol of a crescent moon fixed on its spire instead of a Hindu symbol like Aum or the sun?
Did you know that in 1875 actress Kate Bishop created the role of Violet Melrose in Our Boys , which was by far the longest-running work of theatre up to that time?
Did you know that despite being armed en flûte as a troopship , HMS Wilhelmina still engaged and drove off a more heavily armed privateer to protect the merchant she was escorting?
Did you know that during the term of Governor of Indiana Isaac P. Gray , a dispute arose that led the entire Indiana General Assembly to break into a fist fight, with Democrats and Republicans threatening to kill each other?
Did you know that 19th-century actor Henry Neville was the twentieth child of a twentieth child?
Did you know that of the eleven wrestlers who have held the PWG World Championship , Low Ki is the only to have lost the title outside the ring?
Did you know that Georgette Sanchez won the silver medal in the 9th Paris International Dance Competition?
Did you know that the Japanese American internment during World War II cost Seattle 's Lincoln High School the presidents of its two service clubs and the editor of its school newspaper?
Did you know that Marcus Favonius , in attempting to imitate the manner of Cato the Younger , frequently descended into rudeness ?
Did you know that the album cover artwork of Behemoth 's Evangelion is a depiction of " The Great Harlot of Babylon ", the figure of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible ?
Did you know that, while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice , David Friedland went scuba diving , faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops?
Did you know that after leaving Global TV after founding it three months earlier, Al Bruner became one of the first broadcasters to consider local insertion on television?
Did you know that the legal reforms that came about as a result of the Glanville Davies affair were far weaker than those initially proposed?
Did you know that recently deceased photographer Luke Smalley 's earlier collections were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks circa 1910?
Did you know that Cam'ron filed a lawsuit against R. Kelly as he did not receive credit for his remix of " Snake "?
Did you know that George Nicholas Hardinge served as a midshipman aboard HMS St Fiorenzo in 1793, a ship he would die commanding fifteen years later?
Did you know that the headquarters of the Inquisition in Mexico has been converted into a museum dedicated to the history of medicine in Mexico?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Sir James Willis was the last head of the Royal Australian Navy to be knighted ?
Did you know that Kyell Gold , a furry homosexual erotic literature author, has won six Ursa Major Awards , equaling Usagi Yojimbo author Stan Sakai ?
Did you know that the 1915 Triumph Model H was the first Triumph not fitted with pedals, so it was their first true motorcycle ?
Did you know that at age 22, Captain Jose M. Portela of the United States Air Force was the youngest C-141 Starlifter aircraft commander and captain?
Did you know that remaining papal tombs in the Catacomb of Callixtus were emptied in the ninth century because of a feared Lombard invasion ?
Did you know that country music singer Buck Owens ' son Buddy Alan is also a country music singer?
Did you know that Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves ?
Did you know that George Grosz's The Funeral is in part a depiction of the madness induced by syphilis ?
Did you know that listeners in the Klamath Falls, Oregon , area know radio station KRAT as "The Rat"?
Did you know that Ontario -based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history?
Did you know that beta males of Paracerceis sculpta mimic females and gamma males mimic juveniles, allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising?
Did you know that when ill health rendered George Orwell incapable of caring for his son Richard, the child was placed in the care of anarchist Lilian Wolfe at the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony ?
Did you know that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"?
Did you know that in 1948, Dr. William Glenn and medical student William Sewell used ordinary laboratory components and an Erector Set to create one of the world's earliest artificial hearts ?
Did you know that privateer racing team Primetime Race Group is the only team to race a Dodge Viper Competition Coupe in the American Le Mans Series ?
Did you know that Kenneth St Joseph , who pioneered the use of aerial photography for archaeology, persuaded the Royal Air Force to take photos for him without charging?
Did you know that having led Saint Lucia to independence in 1979, John Compton became Prime Minister again at the age of 81 after his party won the 2006 Saint Lucian general election ?
Did you know that Andrew Carpenter and Sergio Escalona earned the first back-to-back victories by rookie pitchers for the Philadelphia Phillies since 2007 ?
Did you know that the sleep K-complex is the largest electroencephalographic (EEG) event that happens to the normal human brain ?
Did you know that American artist Tony Sisti (1901–1983) traveled with Ernest Hemingway and was also a New York State boxing champion?
Did you know that the Twaddle Mansion in Reno, Nevada , served as lodgings for divorce seekers waiting out Reno's comparatively short mandatory residency period, before it became a Baha'i religious center?
Did you know that James J. and James A. Galdieri each served one term in the New Jersey Legislature , the father in the Assembly and the son in the State Senate ?
Did you know that the first annual diary with printed daily sections for notes was published in 1812?
Did you know that in 1909 Étienne Lombard found that people automatically adjust their voice in noise to keep it audible, a finding known as the Lombard effect ?
Did you know that the marine fish Pacific crevalle jack is usually not found north of the Gulf of California , but may appear in San Diego Bay due to El Niño events?
Did you know that John Douglas was an architect responsible for the 19th-century black-and-white revival in Chester , Cheshire ?
Did you know that the album Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) , by the American Kronos Quartet , features Tuvan throat singers , a Swedish bagpipe and nyckelharpa , and Chinese ruans ?
Did you know that after selecting Sean Brewer in the 2001 NFL Draft , the Cincinnati Bengals discovered that he suffered from a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit?
Did you know that the first vampire story written by a woman was The Skeleton Count , by Elizabeth Caroline Grey , in 1828?
Did you know that during his 1950 U.S. Senate race , Richard Nixon was so angered by his opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas , that he threatened to castrate her?
Did you know that Gillingham Football Club 's supporters donated £2,500 in an attempt to fund a month's extension to loanee defender Mick Bodley ' s contract?
Did you know that on Floodplain , San Francisco -based string quartet the Kronos Quartet plays instruments built by Walter Kitundu , including the beguèna maridhia , which is based on an Ethiopian 10-string lyre?
Did you know that the Frisian kingdom came to an end after their king was killed in the Battle of the Boarn where they  were defeated by the Frankish Empire ?
Did you know that during World War II , Brigadier General Alberto A. Nido (USAF), a native of Puerto Rico , fought for three different countries?
Did you know that Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka , released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka , was the first " talkie " animated film in Japan?
Did you know that Canadian politician Louis Deniset only served a term of nine months and 21 days before losing his seat?
Did you know that after 60 years of service to Greenville, Alabama , the FCC is allowing radio station WGYV to move to Aurora, Indiana , a suburb of Cincinnati ?
Did you know that actress Kate Terry , grandmother of John Gielgud , had a very successful acting career until she left the stage at age 23?
Did you know that heavy metal band Destroy Destroy Destroy played their first show in a pizzeria as the opening band for Mastodon ?
Did you know that James Annesley , an Irishman , was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America to work as a slave in the plantations , before returning in 1741 to try to claim the title " Earl of Anglesey "?
Did you know that the battle of Ancona was the only independent operation of the Polish II Corps in World War II?
Did you know that press agent Lee Solters had Pope John Paul II made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter , represented Frank Sinatra for decades and claimed to have known client Dolly Parton "since she was flat-chested"?
Did you know that about 12 plays into his NFL career Charles Fisher tore three ligaments in his knee and never played in another game?
Did you know that the turret of the LT vz. 34 light tank could be disconnected from its gearing and rotated using the commander's shoulder?
Did you know that " Company Picnic ", which aired on NBC on May 14, 2009, was the 100th episode of the comedy series, The Office ?
Did you know that since Zaynab bint Khuzayma died shortly after her marriage, less is known about her than any of Muhammad 's other wives?
Did you know that the 2003 Armenian presidential election was the first in the Commonwealth of Independent States where an incumbent president had failed to be re-elected in the first round?
Did you know that the NYPD has charged four men with attempting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military aircraft?
Did you know that French artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux and his son Paul created a cyclorama of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg that drew over half a million viewers within a year of its premiere?
Did you know that an American consul in Riga examined Russian-American mathematician Jacob Tamarkin in analytic geometry in order to verify his identity?
Did you know that a population bottleneck among Finns about 4,000 years ago may be the origin of the Finnish disease heritage that affects 1 in 500 children born in Finland today?
Did you know that Dwaine Carpenter ' s first interception in the CFL came in a semifinal game?
Did you know that the French Boirault machine built in early 1915 during WWI is considered as an ancestor of the tank , but was ultimately abandoned and nicknamed Diplodocus militaris ?
Did you know that despite his pronounced nationalism , Czech composer Bedřich Smetana was distrusted by his country's conservatives due to his close ties with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt ?
Did you know that the third season of USA Network 's Burn Notice will focus on the backgrounds of the main characters?
Did you know that 19th-century actor Lionel Brough played the character Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer 7,777 times?
Did you know that American football coach Wayne Howard retired from the University of Utah for "no real reason" after his team nearly won a conference title?
Did you know that the ancient Yogmaya Temple , Mehrauli is believed to be one of five surviving temples from the Mahabharat period in Delhi ?
Did you know that a "think piece" written by Graham Fuller was instrumental in leading to the Iran-contra affair ?
Did you know that an Anglo-Moroccan alliance , developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur , had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare 's plays?
Did you know that American theatre director Jonathan Alper directed the New York premieres of works by Brian Friel , Terrence McNally and Beth Henley ?
Did you know that the General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument and the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset were built due to a young girl decorating a white oak tree each Memorial Day ?
Did you know that Coby Miller is the only track athlete to have run 100 meters in under ten seconds at Olympic Trials and not make the Olympic team?
Did you know that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese ?
Did you know that Newt Heisley designed the POW/MIA flag in 1971 for the National League of Families , which Congress requires be flown at federal and military buildings on six days annually, including Memorial Day ?
Did you know that actor Sterling Hayden admitted his shame at having co-operated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1983 documentary film Leuchtturm des Chaos ?
Did you know that Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker , a military officer whose highest rank was Major General , presided over the Norwegian Order of Freemasons ?
Did you know that according to her groom, when the racehorse Chicado V stood in the starting gate , she looked like a rabbit because all you could see above the gate were her ears?
Did you know that Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes , a Lubbock , Texas , radio talk show host, and a colleague, Bud Andrews , produced the first albums of the country comedian Jerry Clower ?
Did you know that in 1955, the Glass Age Development Committee proposed to demolish the whole of London 's Soho district and rebuild it entirely in glass ?
Did you know that All-American Beaton Squires wrote an editorial in 1905 against turning football into a "parlor game" after Harvard 's president criticized its violent nature?
Did you know that the red Pinot noir wines of the Côte Chalonnaise villages Givry and Mercurey were reportedly the favorite wines of King Henri IV of France and his mistress, Gabrielle d'Estrées ?
Did you know that jockey Bill Passmore , winner of 3,531 races, described fellow riders as "the worst touts at the track" and said that "the track makes a big mistake not installing a mutuel window in the jocks' room"?
Did you know that the United States Lebanese cuisine restaurant chain Aladdin's Eatery has grown to more than 20 sites from an initial $ 10,000 in 1994?
Did you know that Jørgine Boomer , born and raised in a remote valley in Norway, rose to prominence as an executive at the Waldorf-Astoria , befriending a generation of celebrities?
Did you know that the giant pulses of PSR B1937+21 , the first discovered millisecond pulsar , are the brightest radio emission ever observed?