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Did you know that the Independent Film Channel 's list of the 25 scariest moments in non-horror movies includes Large Marge , a role played by Alice Nunn in Tim Burton 's film Pee-wee's Big Adventure ?
Did you know that the Tarporley Hunt Club , founded in 1762, is the oldest surviving hunt club in England ?
Did you know that Hyron Spinrad discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars , and was the first astronomer to identify a galaxy with a redshift greater than one?
Did you know that the Habeas Corpus Parliament succeeded the Cavalier Parliament ?
Did you know that Lady Gaga 's song " Dance in the Dark " is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off because she is embarrassed about her body?
Did you know that Tonda Wildlife Management Area is the largest protected area in Papua New Guinea ?
Did you know that Roman Emperor Majorian issued a law that imposed a minimum age of 40 years to women who wanted to take religious vows?
Did you know that HMS Centurion pretended to be HMS Anson during Operation Vigorous ?
Did you know that Vesla Vetlesen became a government minister for Norway's Labour Party in 1986, thirty years after renouncing communism and joining the party together with her husband Leif Vetlesen ?
Did you know that apart from being a folk musician and painter, Heber Bartolome was an active lobbyist for the rights of Filipino composers?
Did you know that two of the eight German Type IXA submarines , U-37 and U-38 , were to eventually become the 6th and 10th most successful U-boats in World War II?
Did you know that during the 1988–89 NBA season, the Washington Bullets had both a center named Charles Jones and a forward named Charles Jones ?
Did you know that the pictured rove beetle lives in the intertidal zone and feeds on beach hoppers ?
Did you know that Epenow , the Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII ?
Did you know that when not in use, a Halkett boat 's hull could be worn as a cloak or used as a blanket, its oar used as a walking stick and its sail as an umbrella?
Did you know that after the death of Sangamitta , the daughter of Emperor Ashoka , observances were held in her honor throughout Sri Lanka for one week?
Did you know that Antony Grey , who died at the end of April, became Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
Did you know that JCall , a new Middle East advocacy group along the lines of J Street , is founded to lobby the European parliament for a resolution to the Middle East conflict ?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District found the district could expel a student for making a website mocking his teacher, even though he made it outside school?
Did you know that police sergeant Ole Barman served two years as theatre director at Det Norske Teatret ?
Did you know that the former Ouvrage Vélosnes of the Maginot Line , a French fortification constructed in the 1930s, is now a protected habitat for bats ?
Did you know that " Telethon " was the first episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation to be written by star Amy Poehler ?
Did you know that Estonia attempted to re-establish independence before the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944?
Did you know that before becoming senior editor at Reason magazine, Michael C. Moynihan was a fellow at the free-market think tank Timbro ?
Did you know that despite heavy European and other influences, Mexican pottery and ceramics still retain indigenous elements?
Did you know that Thomas John McDonnell consecrated Marist College 's altar with the relics of two martyrs ?
Did you know that the currently operating railway lines in Norway have 2487 bridges and 695 tunnels?
Did you know that the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon , was once owned by a timber products company and later by Arnold Palmer ?
Did you know that the World War II novel Cry Slaughter! by Filipino author Edilberto K. Tiempo was described by Robin Winks and James R. Rush as "one of the few books that mingle melodrama and style"?
Did you know that in 2009 Linda King sold 60 letters from her former lover, author Charles Bukowski , for $69,000?
Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-21 was rejected by the Soviet Air Force because it was not armed with recoilless rifles ?
Did you know that the final episodes of New York: A Documentary Film aired just weeks after the September 11th attacks , prompting director Ric Burns to produce an additional three-hour episode focusing on the World Trade Center ?
Did you know that almost 2,500 gullgubber have been found at Sorte Muld, on the island of Bornholm in Denmark ?
Did you know that the GCHQ case was the first case to hold that exercises of the Royal Prerogative were subject to judicial review ?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Azalia Snail was dubbed the "Queen of lo-fi "?
Did you know that seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll "?
Did you know that Lectionary 232 , a manuscript of the New Testament , was variously dated in the past?
Did you know that Helge Hansen , a WW2 sabotage leader in the Stavanger district in 1944, also took part in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine in 1945?
Did you know that the branched shanklet is a mushroom that grows on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
Did you know that the aerodynamic work of Hans Multhopp on lifting bodies assisted in the design of the Space Shuttle ?
Did you know that Hylli i Dritës is regarded as one of the most important Albanian magazines of the early 20th century?
Did you know that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"?
Did you know that Majbølle Mølle was officially opened in 1988 by Prince Henrik of Denmark after its restoration?
Did you know that Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB ?
Did you know that shells of Amphidromus were among the first Indonesian land snails brought to Europe?
Did you know that the Lhuentse Dzong suffered serious damage during a 2009 earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter scale ?
Did you know that "Happy Jack" Fellows , a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War , was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
Did you know that former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos used the Filipino term Maharlika as a nom de guerre until his World War II exploits as a guerrilla soldier were proven false in 1985?
Did you know that the hull of the Russian imperial yacht Livadia was compared to a pancake, a turtle, and a pair of soup plates?
Did you know that 17-year-old Selena Gomez replaced 42-year-old Nicole Kidman as the lead in the film Monte Carlo ?
Did you know that De Bullemolen , Lekkum , was one of the first windmills in Friesland fitted with sails that had leading edges using the Fok system ?
Did you know that MASA , formed in 1959, was the second-largest manufacturer of buses in Mexico when it was acquired in 1998 by Volvo ?
Did you know that Sports Illustrated described the Jewish Sports Review as "tireless in its service mission" to report on the activities of Jewish athletes?
Did you know that Edward Francis Small was the first Gambian to be elected to the country's legislative council?
Did you know that the name of the liverwort genus Ptilidium comes from the Greek word ptilidion for "small feather", a reference to the plant's "feathery" appearance?
Did you know that in Edgar Degas ' painting Young Spartans Exercising , the four women in the foreground share ten legs?
Did you know that both the textile mills and residence of Nathan Wild, a prominent local figure in Columbia County, New York , are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that British skier Russell Docker has competed at the Winter Paralympics on three occasions after being paralysed in a 1995 accident?
Did you know that the Neely-Sieber House in Lima, Ohio , changed hands after the violent death of its oil baron owner?
Did you know that " 94 Meetings ", an episode of NBC 's comedy Parks and Recreation , featured the return of several actors who had previously appeared in the series, such as Alison Becker and Susan Yeagley ?
Did you know that Thomas Edison hailed George de Bothezat ' s rotorcraft, the " Flying Octopus ", as "the first successful helicopter "?
Did you know that eruptions from Mahogany Mountain , a caldera volcano , produced rock formations in Leslie Gulch over 15 million years ago?
Did you know that General Charles Gordon believed that the Coco de Mer nut was the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ?
Did you know that Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International , making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20 ?
Did you know that Bulgarian music television channel MM Television , which operated between 1997 and 2010, was managed by comedian Kamen Vodenicharov ?
Did you know that Sewall Pettingill studied the last three Heath Hens , and later assisted in filming four Walt Disney nature films, one of which won an Academy Award ?
Did you know that Herculine Barbin , a collection of memoirs written by a hermaphrodite , inspired Jeffrey Eugenides to write Middlesex , which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ?
Did you know that the U.S. Army Air Corps cancelled the Douglas XP-48 because its performance figures seemed to be too good to be true?
Did you know that the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" took place during a Major League Baseball tie-breaker ?
Did you know that British track cyclist Barney Storey won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympics within an hour of his wife Sarah winning one?
Did you know that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies ?
Did you know that Pavant Butte in Utah probably formed in an eruptive sequence similar to the 1963 eruption of Surtsey ?
Did you know that before Michael Fingleton became CEO of the Irish Nationwide Building Society , he was the chairman of Irish aid agency Concern ?
Did you know that Matt Kilroy struck out more batters in a season than anyone else in Major League Baseball history, yet does not hold the single-season strikeout record ?
Did you know that the dwarf cabbage tree ( Cordyline pumilio ) was consumed by the Maori as a relish ?
Did you know that in 1974 the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's criminal libel law in a case involving controversial Sharp County newspaper editor Joseph H. Weston ?
Did you know that the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashgabat has the world's largest hand-woven carpet, recognized by Guinness World Records ?
Did you know that during the Balkan Wars , Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane?
Did you know that Bob Valesente has coached football for the Kansas Jayhawks , Baltimore Colts , Pittsburgh Steelers , Green Bay Packers and Frankfurt Galaxy ?
Did you know that the Kuri Chhu river in hilly Bhutan provides opportunities for both kayaking and rafting ?
Did you know that Pill Hill, Chicago , is the setting of the play Pill Hill that debuted at the 1990 Yale Repertory Theatre Winterfest?
Did you know that in the mid-1700s, inns made up an estimated one-third of the buildings in Tvrđa , a Habsburg fort that forms part of the city of Osijek in Croatia ?
Did you know that the long-finned goby is a tropical , demersal and amphidromous fish that is found in the waters of the Indo-West Pacific and Western Pacific regions?
Did you know that British World War I hero Gilbert MacKereth was almost removed from his grave in San Sebastián due to unpaid burial taxes?
Did you know that Norway 's 93 km (58 mi) long Numedal Line was built to aid the construction of hydroelectric power stations?
Did you know that the snail Bathynerita naticoidea lives in oil seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico ?
Did you know that Thomas Greenhill , surgeon to the 7th Duke of Norfolk , was the last of his mother's 39 children?
Did you know that in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations , suggesting it has always been an open square ?
Did you know that Francis Ley is credited with introducing baseball to England with the Derby County Baseball Club ?
Did you know that Jedward dream of performing alongside Eminem , Muse and Arcade Fire at Oxegen 2010 ?
Did you know that Patrick Manogue was a miner '49er and sat on a bishop's chair ?
Did you know that the 1909 Grand Isle hurricane , which killed more than 370 people, is the eleventh deadliest tropical cyclone in US history?
Did you know that the historic Samson Pit silver mine in the Harz Mountains of Germany was, for a long time, the deepest mine in the world?
Did you know that Lady Gaga loaned her costume designer to the American television series Glee for the episode " Theatricality "?
Did you know that the manhwa Recast was published not just in Korean , but also in German , French , and American English ?
Did you know that al-Mazar , a village depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War , was the burial site of many fallen soldiers in a 1260 battle in which Egyptian forces halted the Mongol raids into Palestine ?
Did you know that The Burnett Center academic building at Washington & Jefferson College is adorned with cast iron fleur-de-lis balusters that were salvaged from the former Hays Hall dormitory?
Did you know that the 1982 play Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn includes 31 scenes, 16 possible endings, 10 characters, and 8 major plot variations, all performed by only 2 actors?
Did you know that following his death in 1943, Ch. My Own Brucie , an American Cocker Spaniel , was described as the most photographed dog in the world?
Did you know that Hulda Shipanga , the first black Namibian nurse promoted to the rank of matron , attended to the wounded at the Old Location Uprising in 1959 when white doctors refused to treat them?
Did you know that the Kapchagay Reservoir in Almaty Province , Kazakhstan , was responsible for reducing the water level of Lake Balkash by roughly 7 feet (2.2 metres) in depth?
Did you know that Barbara Hammer 's Tender Fictions , one of a documentary trilogy on LGBT histories, focuses on the "constructedness" of the self ?
Did you know that Teluk Cenderawasih National Park is the largest marine national park in Indonesia ?
Did you know that the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters was a showcase for the company's aluminum products, using aluminum thread in carpets and drapes?
Did you know that the builder of the Hugh T. Rinehart House was a county commissioner of Auglaize County, Ohio ?
Did you know that Arnaud Gonzalez was a member of the France team that won the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in 1996?
Did you know that the Grumman XTSF was the only aircraft design ever designated as a torpedo scout by the U.S. Navy ?
Did you know that acoustic paramagnetic resonance was independently predicted by Semen Altshuler and Alfred Kastler in 1952?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Joe LeSage was a quarterback for the LSU Tigers and at the age of 27 was named to the LSU Board of Supervisors?
Did you know that when Mazra'a was one of the Viftlik estates of the Galilee governor Daher al-Omar , it was exempt from paying taxes to the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that one of Sir Henry Firebrace ' s escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?
Did you know that the Bronzeville Children's Museum is the only African American children's museum in the United States?
Did you know that Yevgeny Zavoisky discovered electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944, but missed nuclear magnetic resonance three years earlier?
Did you know that Shirley Davidson , an ice hockey player who had won the Stanley Cup three times in the 1890s, was alleged to have committed suicide with his fiancée after his father refused them permission to marry?
Did you know that in 1961 snack manufacturer Verkade , to attract female workers, was one of the first Dutch companies to open its own day care facility?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Troubridge lost his right leg and left foot at the Battle of Inkerman , but refused to leave the field until the battle had been won?
Did you know that millions have visited the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame , including one who knelt in front of the flame, fell, and burned to death?
Did you know that Capitol Records initially refused to release Merle Haggard 's song " Irma Jackson " , which is about an interracial relationship, because they felt it would hurt Haggard's image?
Did you know that members of the Philo Literary Society at Canonsburg Academy would cover the windows with their cloaks to prevent onlookers, because secret societies were presumed to be tied to freemasonry or witchcraft ?
Did you know that after appropriate treatment for limb infarction , approximately 70 percent of infarcted arms and legs remain alive and vital after six months?
Did you know that the name of 14th century Scotsman Paul Mactire probably means "Paul the Wolf " rather than "Paul, son of Tire "?
Did you know that the engine of the Capella Javelin ultralight aircraft was controlled using a motorcycle -type throttle?
Did you know that the only Japan Series MVP to also win a World Series MVP is Hideki Matsui ?
Did you know that Fred Thompson , who wrote the book for many hit musical comedies between World War I and World War II, once had three shows running on Broadway simultaneously?
Did you know that as a wedding present, Pedro Romero de Terreros , the first Count of Regla, gave his bride two dresses covered with diamonds?
Did you know that on his 75th birthday Sir D'Arcy Power was presented with a record of 609 of his "selected writings" by a special committee of the Osler Club ?
Did you know that the 1970 New Guinea earthquake killed fifteen people on Halloween ?
Did you know that Malik Zulu Shabazz , the leader of the New Black Panther Party , was given the "Young Lawyer of the Year" award by the U.S. National Bar Association ?
Did you know that a Dunne D.8 flew from Eastchurch to Villacoublay , crossing the English Channel , in August 1912?
Did you know that the Battle of Rafah was the last major military engagement in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ?
Did you know that the reality television series Junior Apprentice was delayed until after the 2010 United Kingdom general election because of the BBC 's political impartiality regulations?
Did you know that some solids can reversibly transform between the covalent and molecular forms ?
Did you know that Kenn Kaufman was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Ludlow Griscom Award by the American Birding Association ?
Did you know that the lake sediments at Thomsons Lake are 30–40,000 years old, the oldest found in Western Australia ?
Did you know that on September 9, 1949, Albert Guay blew up a Douglas DC-3 over Sault-au-Cochon in Quebec , Canada , killing 23 people, in order to kill his wife and collect insurance money?
Did you know that as the first Governor of American Samoa following World War II , conversion of the Samoan economy to a pre-war state was Ralph Hungerford ' s top priority?
Did you know that Texas A&M football coach Harry Stiteler resigned in 1951 after admitting he had misrepresented the facts about being beaten by a stranger near a Houston hotel?
Did you know that the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona was built on the site of four columns representing Catalan nationalism ?
Did you know that Åge Hadler won the first individual World Championship title in men's orienteering , in 1966?
Did you know that the Babcock-Macomb House was the first built in Washington, D.C. 's new Massachusetts Heights neighborhood, and later became the embassy of Cape Verde ?
Did you know that where the legal maxim of iura novit curia applies, the parties to a legal dispute do not need to plead or prove the law that applies to their case?
Did you know that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
Did you know that William Wingfield was Chief Justice of Brecon Circuit before becoming Master in Chancery ?
Did you know that the song " 42 " by Coldplay took its name from one of Chris Martin 's favourite numbers?
Did you know that Elmer H. Inman married the daughter of the warden of his first prison?
Did you know that the artist Arthur Nahl was the first elected Leader of the San Francisco Olympic Club ?
Did you know that Boronia imlayensis is found only on one ridgetop in Mount Imlay National Park in far southern New South Wales?
Did you know that the Cameron Ram-type Blowout Preventer was the first successful blowout preventer for oil wells ?
Did you know that at the United Kingdom general election on 6 May 2010 Helen Grant became the first black female candidate to be elected as a Conservative MP?
Did you know that the Museum of Vuk and Dositej is the oldest preserved residential building in Belgrade , Serbia ?
Did you know that about one million people were affected by floods in the Kamala and other rivers in northern Bihar in India in 2003?
Did you know that for the last two decades of his artistic career, American abstract painter John McLaughlin did not use curves in his paintings?
Did you know that the tenor Kurt Huber sang the Evangelist in Bach 's Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 , composed for the feast of the Ascension of 275 years ago?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with the sons of two former National Basketball Association players, one of whom is the younger brother of a current one?
Did you know that Portbury Ashlands is a new nature reserve on the site previously used to dump the waste from Portishead power stations ?
Did you know that the B-side of Jimmy Buffet 's single " The Great Filling Station Holdup " did not air on country radio because of the word "screw"?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Crippled Summer " featured several mentally handicapped children meant to resemble Looney Tunes cartoon characters?
Did you know that the Royal Columbian Hospital , the oldest hospital in British Columbia , was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang ?
Did you know that although Sally Wister's Journal was written as a series of letters in 1777–78, the addressee of the letters did not receive them until 1830?
Did you know that for the year 2004, Kaare Frydenberg was the highest paid leader of a Norwegian fully state-owned company ?
Did you know that if an election court in the United Kingdom finds someone guilty of a corrupt practice , they are prevented from voting or holding elected office for five years?
Did you know that the Basilica of San Albino was established in Mexico , but is currently located in New Mexico ?
Did you know that the New York Central 's engines 1290 and 1291 operated for more than 55 years on a single 62-mile (100 km) branch line in southwestern Ontario ?
Did you know that Dutch painter Willem Thibaut made the cartoons for the two stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk in 1570?
Did you know that two ships of the German Type 1936B destroyer class, Z35 and Z36 , both sank after hitting " friendly " mines on the same day in the Gulf of Finland ?
Did you know that Morganna, the Kissing Bandit , originally wanted to be a nun but ran away from school at the age of 13 to become an exotic dancer and legendary kisser of baseball players?
Did you know that the Romanesque Revival St. John's Catholic Church fills an entire city block in Delphos, Ohio ?
Did you know that Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed at age 21 while he was a zhiqing ?