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Did you know that L. Ron Hubbard 's book Dianetics influenced Scientology ' s views of abortion ?
Did you know that Academy Award nominated screenwriter Ivan Moffat was the grandson of Victorian actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ?
Did you know that the London Underground 's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?
Did you know that Darvin Moon , a self-employed Maryland logger , had never played in the World Series of Poker before winning US$5.18 million as the 2009 main event runner-up?
Did you know that flags at the University of Iowa were flown at half-mast following the death from peritonitis of Jim Trickey , one year after he became the first Hawkeye to win All-American honors in 1912?
Did you know that the Slingsby T.53 was the first all-metal sailplane designed and built in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that former pro wrestling announcers, and real life husband and wife, Joe Pedicino and Boni Blackstone , often referred to themselves humbly as "wrestling fans who got lucky"?
Did you know that " Ron and Tammy ", an episode of NBC 's Parks and Recreation , features comedienne Megan Mullally playing the ex-wife of a character played by her real-life husband, Nick Offerman ?
Did you know that Eigenmannia vicentespelaea is the only known South American knifefish that exclusively inhabits caves ?
Did you know that World War II air ace Johnny Gibson formed Bechuanaland National Airways and Botswana National Airways in the 1960s?
Did you know that Argleton appears on Google Maps as a settlement in West Lancashire , England , even though no such place exists?
Did you know29, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry was disbanded in 1824, five years after Hugh Hornby Birley led the regiment's bloody charge on unarmed voting rights demonstrators in the Peterloo Massacre ?
Did you know that the documentary film Collision spotlights several days of debate between prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens and conservative theologian Douglas Wilson ?
Did you know that the prototype Yak-210 bomber trainer carried a camera that could tilt 15° aft to photograph the bomb impacts?
Did you know that the Hawaiian settlement Kainaliu was named after an ancient canoe bailer who worked for King Keawenuiaʻumi in the 16th century?
Did you know that C. Vijayaraghavachariar , former President of the Indian National Congress , also served as President of All India Hindu Mahasabha in 1931?
Did you know that British sitcom pilot Campus , which was written by six of the same writers who wrote Green Wing , is set in a red brick university whose motto is "With wings"?
Did you know that Meadow is believed to be the first bovine calf fitted with double prosthetics?
Did you know04, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football offensive lineman Stephen Schilling was unable to play organized youth football due to his large size?
Did you know that Prince Vijaya , the founder of the Kingdom of Tambapanni , landed at Tambapanni on the day of the death of Gautama Buddha ?
Did you know that Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine ?
Did you know that the Sankeien garden in Yokohama , Japan, which houses ten Important National Cultural Properties, was created by a man who collected old buildings?
Did you know that 1930s Federal Theatre Project director Hallie Flanagan considered Seattle 's Playhouse Theatre to be the project's best " Negro unit"?
Did you know that aged just 13, Eileen Hurly scored the first recorded century in South African women's cricket ?
Did you know that the next Bishop of Peterborough , Donald Allister , hit the headlines in the UK in 2001 when it was reported that he had banned a couple from having the hymn " Jerusalem " at their wedding?
Did you know that Swiss equestrian Gustav Fischer won a medal in every team dressage event held at the Summer Olympics between 1952 and 1968?
Did you know that the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-140 fighter was denied permission to begin flight tests by the Ministry of Aviation Industry, which favored competing designs from Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich ?
Did you know that the Soviet documentary Salt for Svanetia was originally planned to be a fictional feature film ?
Did you know that the name serotonin comes from its effect in blood serum upon smooth muscle tone, a process involving serotonylation ( protein change) rather than serotonin receptor activation?
Did you know that after unseating long-term incumbent Sixty Rayburn for the Louisiana State Senate in 1995, Republican Phil Short resigned in 1999 to return to the United States Marine Corps ?
Did you know that the Vercors Cave System contains the largest cave entrance in Europe ?
Did you know that the Moscow International House of Music is topped by an enormous treble clef that rotates like a weathervane ?
Did you know14, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the period from 1999 to 2002 in Britain , when gold prices were the lowest for 20 years, has been dubbed as the Brown Bottom ?
Did you know that CCR5 receptor antagonists are drugs that inhibit the entry of the HIV virus into cells of the immune system ?
Did you know that the 1534 Ottoman embassy to France was composed of janissaries who travelled to Châtellerault and Paris to meet King Francis I ?
Did you know that press releases for the Phineas and Ferb episode " Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror " detailed a cut subplot where the character Lawrence Fletcher searches for a rare bottle cap ?
Did you know that the Socialist League of the New East , founded by émigré Socialist-Revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia in 1927, called for splitting up the Soviet Union into separate national states?
Did you know that there are 165 dams in Syria , with a total storage capacity of 19,599 million m 3 ?
Did you know that the industrial web theory was originally based on the conviction by Air Corps Tactical School instructors that a fleet of heavy bombers was invincible?
Did you know that the White Hart , a coaching inn on Crawley High Street , England, had stabling accommodation for 180 horses?
Did you know that Margaret Chin is the first Asian American to represent New York City 's Chinatown district on the city council ?
Did you know that the South American knifefish Pariosternarchus amazonensis has a wide, flat-bottomed head and almost no body pigmentation ?
Did you know that the Leeuwarder Courant , founded in 1752, is the oldest still-existing newspaper in the Netherlands ?
Did you know that director Aram Avakian was fired from working on the 1962 film Lad: A Dog for refusing to make a sentimental dog story?
Did you know that footballer Billy Ingham , whose nickname was "the Ginger Pelé ", worked as a bus driver after retiring?
Did you know that the army of Dutthagamani captured Vijithapura after a four month siege by attacking it simultaneously from four directions?
Did you know that Sweden , present in Stralsund since 1628 , lost the town in 1807 to Napoleon Bonaparte ?
Did you know that Charlotte, North Carolina mayor-elect Anthony Foxx is the youngest man to be elected as mayor of the city?
Did you know that according to the 2008 public tax records, Johan H. Andresen jr. is Norway 's richest man?
Did you know that after being signed by record producer Kay Gee to his record label Divine Mill, American musical group Next recorded their debut album, Rated Next , in Gee's home recording studio ?
Did you know that Denise Annetts and Lindsay Reeler hold the highest wicket partnership for women's Test cricket with 309 runs?
Did you know that Jason Sadler, the founder of I Wear Your Shirt , earned US,000 in 2009 by being a "human billboard"?
Did you know that Ruiz v. Estelle , originally a handwritten civil suit filed by a prisoner against the Texas Department of Corrections in 1972,  became the most far-reaching prison lawsuit  in American history?
Did you know that Chloë Moretz , Mary Mouser , and Ariel Winter all auditioned for the role as the vampire in Let Me In , portrayed by Lina Leandersson in the original Swedish film ?
Did you know that the entire Częstochowa massacre , in which hundreds of Poles and Jews were murdered by the Wehrmacht , was captured in narrative form by a German photographer?
Did you know that Bob Storer , captain of Harvard 's undefeated, untied 1913 football team, was cited for bravery for saving a French officer during World War I ?
Did you know that Argentoratum was an important military Roman outpost on the Rhine , and was rebuilt six times?
Did you know that in 1957, solar energy pioneer George Lof completed a solar-heated home that he lived in for more than 50 years?
Did you know that after just two months as Bishop, Jakob Sverdrup Smitt was replaced by his cousin at the appointment of his uncle, Norwegian Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup ?
Did you know14, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that journalist Albert Londres was one of the 54 people killed in the fire onboard the French ocean liner Georges Philippar on 15 May 1932?
Did you know that the Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance could raise university tuition fees in the United Kingdom to over £7,000 per year?
Did you know that Constant Lambert regarded Summer's Last Will and Testament (1936) as his magnum opus , but it was not recognized as a masterpiece until its premiere recording in 1992?
Did you know that in the New Jersey General Assembly , Steven P. Perskie was an advocate of casino gambling, and was later named chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission , the industry's chief regulator?
Did you know that the Kondapalli Fort built in the 14th century was initially  used as a business centre, but after the British took control in 1766 it was converted to a military training base?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Representative Suzanne Mayfield Krieger of Slidell has encouraged the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in local schools?
Did you know that " Greg Pikitis ", an episode of NBC 's comedy series Parks and Recreation , featured actress Rashida Jones dressed as Raggedy Ann ?
Did you know that the 1958 mid-air collision of United Airlines Flight 736 and a U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre , with no survivors, is the deadliest crash in the history of Las Vegas ?
Did you know that the U2 song " Moment of Surrender ", recorded in a single take, contains an uneven hi-hat part because Larry Mullen Jr. 's drum kit malfunctioned?
Did you know that Republican New York City City Councilman Dan Halloran is also the leader of the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief, a neopagan religious group?
Did you know that Namkha village, established by the Lao Lom people in 1906, is the oldest village in Pha Oudom District , Laos ?
Did you know that secret bombing priorities drawn up by the Air War Plans Division were compromised by Senator Burton K. Wheeler three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that the Brabants Dagblad , a regional Dutch newspaper , was founded in 1771 and is one of the oldest papers in the country?
Did you know that during a pioneering 54 day crossing of the Canadian Cordillera , explorer John Dunn lost 14 kilograms (31 lb) of body weight ?
Did you know that Violeta Dinescu composed the children's opera Der 35. Mai based on The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas by Erich Kästner ?
Did you know that in the attack on Hrubieszów partisans of the Polish anti-communist underground cooperated with Ukrainian nationalists , even though the two groups had previously often fought each other?
Did you know that Robert M. Webster studied New York City utilities in the 1930s to determine the best way to bomb an enemy's industrial base?
Did you know that the 1935 500cc Vincent Meteor British motorcycle was powered by Vincent Motorcycles ' first in-house developed engine?
Did you know that American political scientist Daniel Lev participated in the Golden Gloves competitions for amateur boxing as a youth?
Did you know that two decades after its release, the U2 song " Running to Stand Still " remains strongly associated, in different and sometimes unwanted ways, with the Ballymun Flats tower block in Dublin ?
Did you know that cricketer John McMahon once used an ornamental sword to behead gladioli at a public house at Nottingham ?
Did you know that Wolfgang Stumph ' s first film Go Trabi Go was a major box-office hit shortly after the German reunification ?
Did you know that Dan Fefferman was director of a group organized by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon to support Richard Nixon when the U.S. President faced impeachment ?
Did you know that former professional footballer Spike Rawlings , winner of a 1976 edition of TV talent show Opportunity Knocks , began his entertainment career after being asked to provide the half-time entertainment during a game?
Did you know that there are 20 international co-productions of Sesame Street , seen in over 140 countries?
Did you know that historian and biographer Hans Olav Lahlum is also an International Arbiter in chess ?
Did you know that the 1533 Ottoman embassy to France was sent by Barbarossa to visit the French king Francis I in the Auvergne city of Le Puy-en-Velay ?
Did you know that British comedian Tim FitzHigham was the first man to cross the English Channel in a bathtub ?
Did you know14, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that after Basque writer Jesús Galíndez was kidnapped from the streets of New York , his body was never found?
Did you know that Ivan Naumovich , a major Ukrainian pro-Russian cultural and political figure, as a youth supported the Polish national movement?
Did you know that the Chittenango ovate amber snail lives only in Chittenango Falls State Park , New York?
Did you know that Harold Gourley was injured by the 1951 Weedon rail crash and received £47,720 in damages?
Did you know that " My Best Friend's Girl ," a 1978 hit single for The Cars , was performed by Nirvana during their final concert in Munich ?
Did you know that Romanian euro millionaire businessman and politician Relu Fenechiu was reportedly responsible for the appointment of Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu and two other cabinet members in 2007?
Did you know that Ready Georgia can help people determine exactly how much food, water, and other essential supplies they need to have in their survival kit in the event of a natural disaster ?
Did you know that Yale 's two-time All-American "Bo" Bomeisler , called "King of the Hard Luck Players," had his foot crushed by a trolley car on Brooklyn 's Flatbush Avenue in 1914?
Did you know that the Zamojski Academy , the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in Poland, was founded in 1594 at Zamość by Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski ?
Did you know that former State Senator Tom Greene , originally an electrical engineer , subsequently became a veterinarian ?
Did you know that the little-known South American knifefish Tembeassu marauna has large, fleshy extensions at the tips of its jaws?
Did you know that at Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania , the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation signed Route 415 on two highways around the lake?
Did you know that the works of French artist James Gabriel Huquier included a portrait of an 18th century transgender spy?
Did you know that the Solway Firth Spaceman is a photograph taken in 1964 in Cumbria , England , which appears to show a background figure in a white space suit ?
Did you know that the chemist Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs proposed a periodic table of elements as early as 1855?
Did you know that Eduardo Úrculo ' s brass sculpture Culis monumentalibus of a 4 m (13 ft) high female bottom is displayed in a square in Oviedo , Spain ?
Did you know that Alf R. Bjercke , paint company executive, consul and Norwegian Olympic Committee member, was not allowed to submit a doctoral thesis in Oslo because he lacked formal higher education ?
Did you know that information retrieval has been applied to legal text ?
Did you know that Troy Smith established the Sonic Drive-In chain in the 1950s after stopping at a Louisiana drive-in restaurant that used an intercom-based ordering system ?
Did you know that Teddy Tail was a cartoon mouse featured in The Daily Mail and was the first daily cartoon strip in a British newspaper?
Did you know that Jack E. Anderson ' s 300,000 pound sculpture Iron Man was a not only a tribute to iron ore miners , but is also the third largest statue in the United States?
Did you know that Ontario 's Film Classification Act, 2005 not only governs motion picture ratings , but also legally enforces ESRB 's video game ratings?
Did you know that Ree Drummond 's Confessions of a Pioneer Woman , the 2009 Bloggies "Weblog of the Year", is known for its "How to Cook a Steak" tutorial with photos in "ridiculous detail"?
Did you know that Fusion Energy Foundation was a proponent of fusion energy and the Strategic Defense Initiative before it was closed down for fraudulent fundraising practices?
Did you know that Go Trabi Go was one of only three films released shortly after, and dealing with, the German reunification that enjoyed box office success?
Did you know that before he switched to the GOP , Gerald Theunissen , a Democrat , won a special election in 1996 to the Louisiana Senate by defeating Republican state chairman Mike Francis ?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, Ila was cursed to change his/her gender every month?
Did you know14, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that as of 2005, theories of foul play still have not been ruled out in the 1976 death of jockey Michael Hole ?
Did you know that the impeachment of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer during the Good Parliament of 1376 is the earliest recorded in the Parliament of England ?
Did you know that "Moose" Englehorn , who played for Washington State and Dartmouth College , was the oldest living All-American football player when he died in 1993 at age 103?
Did you know that the ancient Bronze Age site of Ulug Depe in modern day Turkmenistan was once a flourishing agricultural town in the foothills of the Kopet Dag mountains?
Did you know that John Metcalf 's opera Tornrak features Inuit throat singing ?
Did you know that DeWitt Clinton 's 1798 deed of land to New York's Hartford Baptist Church was not recorded with Washington County until 1932?
Did you know that until 1981 the Municipality of La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas in Canada had one of the longest place names in Quebec history, namely "La Visitation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge-de-l'Isle-du-Pads"?
Did you know that Dartmouth football halfback Dave Morey was given the nickname "David the Giant Killer" by American sportswriter Grantland Rice ?
Did you know that the Bishop of Mondoñedo Saint Gonzalo defied the authority of the Archbishop of Toledo ?
Did you know that the Whiz Kids , led by Robin Roberts , won the National League pennant in 1950 , but never won another with the same players?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Representative Vic Stelly 's 2002 Stelly Plan tax-shifting amendment was repealed in 2008 because it led to higher state income taxes ?
Did you know that the Nicolaus Copernicus Monument erected in 1853 at Thorn in Prussia , his native place, bears a Latin inscription drawn up by Alexander von Humboldt ?
Did you know that American artist Thomas Bigelow Craig is known for his paintings depicting cows in summer landscapes?
Did you know that Laguna Ojo de Libre is a World Heritage Site that combines the ecosystems for species such as the grey whale with industrialisation ?
Did you know that HaEmes , the organ of the 1876 Hebrew Socialist Union in London , was the first Jewish socialist periodical?
Did you know that Brown 's All-American 135-pound quarterback "Kid" Crowther played with an elastic band around his head in lieu of a helmet?
Did you know that in the Battle of Stralsund (1678) , two days of bombardment forced Sweden to surrender her last major Pomeranian fortress?
Did you know that shelter in place is a strategy emergency authorities use in case of release of biological, chemical, or radiological contaminants?
Did you know that the Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand , Uzbekistan enabled astronomers to work out the time of a single year to within 1 minute of modern electronic calculations back in 1437?
Did you know that the local English political party the Devizes Guardians was formed after five trees were felled in a marketplace ?
Did you know that in Inuit mythology , an Angakkuq , or shaman , is told to be able to fly with the assistance of a spirit companion, or tuurngaq?
Did you know that What Leave Behind is a concerto for electric guitar and toy orchestra performed by Toychestra and Fred Frith ?
Did you know that Philip Elman wrote the U.S. Government 's brief in the case of Brown v. Board of Education ?
Did you know that on his death in 1727, antiquary and historian Thomas Madox 's unpublished notes ran to ninety-four volumes, which his wife later left to be added to the British Museum 's Sloane library ?
Did you know that the Latvian government decided to cancel its contract with Tele2 following the 2009 Latvian meteorite hoax ?
Did you know that Jaromir Jagr became the first Czechoslovakian to be drafted in the NHL without defecting when he was selected in the first round by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990?
Did you know that the South American rodent Irenomys , which has teeth similar to those of an African elephant , was named after the Ancient Greek word iren ("peace") to commemorate the end of World War I ?
Did you know14, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Harvard All-American Sam Felton averaged between 60 and 70 yards (55 to 64 meters) on football punts in 1912?
Did you know that when the rodent genus Nephelomys was first described in 2006, N. childi , N. maculiventer , N. moerex , N. nimbosus , N. pectoralis , and N. pirrensis were reclassified as separate species in addition to the previously recognized N. albigularis , N. auriventer , N. caracolus , N. devius , N. keaysi , N. levipes , and N. meridensis , almost doubling the known diversity of the genus?
Did you know that after the death of Nikolai Polikarpov in 1944, the Polikarpov TIS fighter program was canceled and his group disbanded?
Did you know that in England in the 1200s the Exchequer of the Jews had to be informed of all financial transactions involving the Jewish community ?
Did you know that the charity KaBOOM! builds playgrounds in a single day all over the U.S.A.?
Did you know that author W. S. Gilbert encouraged actress May Fortescue in her successful breach of promise case against Lord Garmoyle in 1884?
Did you know that when Ricky Ponting toured India with the Australian cricket team in 2008–09 , a swarm of bees interrupted the third Test, causing on-field players and officials to lie on the ground?
Did you know that female karateka Yıldız Aras holds more World, European, and Mediterranean Games champion titles than any other Turkish sportsperson?
Did you know that the Hawaiian Newcomb's snail is at significant risk from the introduced Rosy Wolfsnail ?
Did you know that on a clear day it is possible to see more than 100 named peaks across the Scottish Highlands from the summit of Beinn Sgritheall ?
Did you know that the Wine Museum in Pleven , Bulgaria , has 7,000 old wines and is housed in a natural cave?
Did you know that Edward Kossoy represented about sixty thousand Jews , Roma and Poles in cases for reparations from Germany for Nazi terror?
Did you know that The Kinks ' 1970 album featured the hit "Lola", which combined the clangy sounds of a National Steel and Martin guitar?
Did you know that in a scientific paper, Equasy , David Nutt compared the risk of taking the drug ecstasy with the risk of horse riding ?
Did you know that the Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford , Oregon , receives patients from as far as 200 miles (320 km) away?
Did you know that the Georgian actress Nato Vachnadze was one of the first film stars of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Asturian magnate Pedro Alfonso had vast landholdings in the Asturias, the province of León , and the subkingdom of Toledo , including in the cities of León and Toledo ?