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Did you know that playwright A.R. Gurney promised his parents that his play The Cocktail Hour would not be produced in their hometown of Buffalo, New York , during their lifetimes?
Did you know that James L. Swauger continued his archaeological work with petroglyphs for fifteen years after his nominal retirement?
Did you know that Dick Button performed the first triple jump in competition at the men's figure skating event at the 1952 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Krohn Air was started by a local businessman to continue servicing the route from Molde to Trondheim , Norway , after Scandinavian Airlines terminated its service?
Did you know that Frank Perls , who found a copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler , also uncovered a series of forgeries attributed to Degas and Picasso ?
Did you know that catcher Rocky Gale made his professional baseball debut with the Eugene Emeralds , a team he watched while growing up in the area?
Did you know that Iraqi television presenter Riad al-Saray was assassinated the same day that Reporters Without Borders announced the Iraq War had killed more journalists than any since the Second World War ?
Did you know that Jerusalem 's Beit Hadfus Street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the printing houses that were established there?
Did you know that descendants of Wigglesworth Dole included a missionary to Hawaii , a governor of Hawaii , an attorney general of Hawaii , and a "pineapple king" ?
Did you know that Don Graham developed the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu , the largest outdoor shopping mall in the United States ?
Did you know that Colonia Guerrero in Mexico City was part of an old colonial-era indigenous neighborhood?
Did you know that Chicago native Scotty Moylan , who became one of Guam 's most prominent businessmen , introduced the first Volkswagen automobiles to the island in the 1960s?
Did you know that, in a storyline, several referees attacked Jim Korderas at the World Wrestling Federation 's Unforgiven 1999 event for not joining them in their strike ?
Did you know that Deborah and John Coleman Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey followed ancient caravan trails to discover a 3,500-year-old site at the Kharga Oasis in the middle of Egypt 's Western Desert ?
Did you know that the $30 million renovation of Proctor's Theatre in 2007 has been seen as the catalyst for the revival of downtown Schenectady ?
Did you know that Alex Caceres ' nickname "Bruce Leeroy" is inspired by the character of the same nickname in The Last Dragon ?
Did you know that in the 1970s the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was one of the few organisations that could arrange visits from the United Kingdom to China ?
Did you know that as civil defense director at the height of the Cold War in 1961, Frank B. Ellis pushed for the adoption of fallout shelters to protect civilians from nuclear attack?
Did you know that Antardwand , an Indian film that was based on the practice of groom kidnapping , won a National Award for Best Film on Social Issues ?
Did you know that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard , making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in Norway ?
Did you know that while still the sitting Governor of Alaska Territory , Mike Stepovich appeared on the game show What's My Line?
Did you know that Tanymastix stagnalis is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Ireland ?
Did you know that former professional footballer George Catleugh suffered a broken leg on two different occasions?
Did you know that the Wetumpka State Penitentiary was the first state prison established in Alabama ?
Did you know that due to his pale complexion and resemblance to a character from the Blade films, Aaron Wilkinson 's coaches nicknamed him "The Daywalker"?
Did you know that M. C. Burton, Jr. of the 1958–59 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first player to lead the Big Ten Conference in scoring and rebounding for a season?
Did you know that the Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain condemned the Int'l Cricket Council 's suspension of the three Pakistani cricketers charged with spot-fixing in the 4th Pakistan-England Test ?
Did you know that in 1133, the English economy received a major boost when huge silver deposits were discovered near Carlisle ?
Did you know that the family of Oskar Höcker , a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater , included three more writers: his brother Gustav , his son Paul Oskar , and his granddaughter Karla ?
Did you know that the Inland Customs Line stretched across more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of British India and was compared to the Great Wall of China ?
Did you know that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva ?
Did you know that upon completion, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station was called "a pearl of Soviet water-power engineering" and 349 of its workers were awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour medal?
Did you know that the film Who's That Girl? features a live cougar , which one day escaped from the set before shooting started?
Did you know that former world snooker champion Shaun Murphy reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time at the 2004 British Open ?
Did you know that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle 's keep has a different dimension?
Did you know that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
Did you know that during his 60-year career, character actor Leon Belasco appeared in films with the Marx Brothers , Bob Hope , James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart , Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire ?
Did you know that The World of Strawberry Shortcake , the first television special to feature American Greetings ' popular character , was rejected by the major U.S. networks and premiered in syndication instead?
Did you know that Satch Davidson was plate umpire when Hank Aaron hit his record 715th home run, and also when Carlton Fisk hit his 12th-inning home run to win Game 6 for the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series ?
Did you know that Arthur Eaglefield Hull invented the term " mystic chord " to describe the music of Russian composer Scriabin ?
Did you know that due to a copy-editing error, The Washington Post inadvertently suggested that Public Enemy 's 1990 song " 911 Is a Joke " referred to the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
Did you know that fans threw silver coins onto the field to celebrate Bobby Lowe hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball game , the first player to accomplish that feat?
Did you know that in 1927, at the same time as the Norwegian Labour and the Social Democratic Labour parties reunited, a competing Unified Party of the Working Class was founded?
Did you know that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including gas meters , dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
Did you know that Princess Margaret stayed at Fort Belan for the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969?
Did you know that for his book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass , Theodore Dalrymple interviewed over 10,000 people who had attempted suicide ?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt called Medicine Rocks in Montana "as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen"?
Did you know that Tony Clunn , a British Army Major looking for Roman coins with a metal detector , discovered the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ?
Did you know that the front porch on the John Shelp Cobblestone House in West Shelby, New York , was probably built as a result of a heating stove fire in the dining room?
Did you know that within hours of its publication, A Journey , the memoir of Tony Blair , became the fastest-selling autobiography of all time?
Did you know that The Bravo is James Fenimore Cooper 's first novel set in Europe and was largely disliked by contemporary American critics ?
Did you know that Ken Livingstone , the Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, is running to regain the office in the 2012 London mayoral election ?
Did you know that the Action of 9 November 1822 , fought between the USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners , saw the death of Lieutenant William Howard Allen after he stood up to rally his men?
Did you know that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 ?
Did you know that Michael Johnson has signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck ?
Did you know that Norid manages two unused top-level domains , .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen , and .bv for Bouvet Island ?
Did you know that art historian Andrew Ladis has described Domenico di Bartolo 's Madonna of humility , painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance ?
Did you know that every year, a narrow land pass opens for a few hours between the Modo and Jindo Islands in the Yellow Sea ?
Did you know that Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Kitwana Jones was nicknamed " Batman " after chasing down and apprehending a purse snatcher ?
Did you know that the Amantaka hotel in Luang Prabang , Laos , used to be a hospital until 2005?
Did you know that John Phillips returned victoriously to mixed martial arts at Cage Rage 28 after being the first Cage Rage fighter to test positive for a banned substance?
Did you know that in April 1952, five Norwegian seal hunting ships disappeared in the West Ice of the Greenland Sea ?
Did you know that Earl K. Long in 1956 used humor to derail the candidacy of gubernatorial opponent Fred Preaus , a scrupulously honest, small-town automobile dealer from Farmerville, Louisiana ?
Did you know that former World Champion and record holder in weightlifting , Ymer Pampuri , was an acrobat of the Tirana Circus before and after his athletic career?
Did you know that the title of " Darling It Hurts ", a top 20 Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls , was based on a piece of infamous Sydney graffiti ?
Did you know that the Banglabandha inland port is aimed at increasing trade between Bangladesh and Nepal , India , and Bhutan ?
Did you know that of his internment in Sachsenhausen , Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?
Did you know that constable William Piers received a reward for bringing the head of Shane Ó Neill , "pickled in a pipkin ", to Sir Henry Sidney ?
Did you know that the 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team finished the season ranked in the AP Poll , but unranked in the Coaches' Poll ?
Did you know that Henri Gascar painted portraits of many leading ladies at the court of King Charles II of England , including several of the king's mistresses?
Did you know that Jerry Lawler and Ultimate Warrior 's match at the World Wrestling Federation 's 1996 King of the Ring resulted from an argument over artistic abilities?
Did you know that a song by the 16th c. Bengali Vaishnava padavali poet Govindadasa was included in an opera written under a disguised name by Rabindranath Tagore ?
Did you know that for many decades, the schoolhouse in Mississippi known as the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star housed a segregated school for African Americans ?
Did you know that on Swedish runestone Sö Fv1948;295 , the R rune is represented by the shape of the tongue of a serpent?
Did you know that Tamora, Nebraska , was named for the day after today?
Did you know that Colorado cowboy artist Arthur Roy Mitchell created more than 160 cover paintings for western pulp magazines ?
Did you know that in 1942, seven commandos captured during Operation Musketoon were executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ?
Did you know that after seeing a map of the U.S. showing higher cancer rates in Northern states , Frank C. Garland did a study which found that increased Vitamin D from sun exposure can reduce colon cancer risk?
Did you know that the executive chef of the Colony in Central London is Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar ?
Did you know that the 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Michigan Wolverines men's basketball single-game rebound record?
Did you know that illustrator of children's literature Mark Burgess has been noted for his ability to reproduce the style of dead artists such as Allan Curless and E. H. Shepard ?
Did you know that the first Klingon language opera, ’u’ , premiered at The Hague on 9 September 2010?
Did you know that the LucyPhone service was inspired by the frustration of waiting lengthy periods of time when placed on hold by call center operators ?
Did you know that in 958 the Muslim caliph of Cordoba Abd-ar-Rahman III hosted his grandmother Onneca Fortúnez 's Christian daughter, Toda of Pamplona , so his Jewish doctor could cure her grandson of obesity ?
Did you know that John Tidwell of the 1960–61 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to average 20 points per game for his career?
Did you know that the design of Amankila , a coastal Balinese hotel, was inspired by the palaces of Ujung and Tirtagangga ?
Did you know that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC will be defending their U.S. Open Cup title in their home stadium, Qwest Field , in the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against the Columbus Crew ?
Did you know that Alice of Champagne , the widowed Queen Consort of Cyprus , married Bohemond V of Antioch on Palm Island , offshore of Tripoli in 1224?
Did you know that Gabriele von Lutzau , the "Angel of Mogadishu ", sculpts wooden "guardian figures" using chainsaws and flamethrowers ?
Did you know that the 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season rebounding record?
Did you know that Italian tenor Vincenzo Calvesi created the role of Ferrando in the world premiere of Mozart 's Così fan tutte at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790?
Did you know that a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn 's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter 's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology ?
Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Three was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to make an overseas deployment with a Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) as part of its embarked air wing?
Did you know that Michigan linebacker Marty Huff intercepted three passes thrown in one game by Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Phipps ?
Did you know that for music concerts held at the Millennium Stadium , 12 drapes can vary the audience size from over 73,000 down to between 12,000 and 46,000, depending on where they are hung?
Did you know that Alaska Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman proposed dividing the territory in two and granting statehood to only one section?
Did you know that Bògòlanfini , a traditional Malian fabric, is dyed with fermented mud?
Did you know that Italian tenor Nicola Zerola began his professional operatic singing career in 1898 performing in Ruggero Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , but as a baritone ?
Did you know that the 1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set a record 17-game home winning streak that stood for the next 11 years?
Did you know that Tyonajanegen , a woman from the Oneida tribe , fought in the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that Bing Crosby was a key backer in the development of Longitudinal Video Recording in the 1950s?
Did you know that Sartaj Aziz was the Finance Minister when Pakistan conducted its 1998 nuclear tests , and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil War with India in 1999?
Did you know that unlike other Eocene crocodilians found in Zamora , Spain , the extinct genus Duerosuchus was primarily a fish eater?
Did you know that the Amanjiwo hotel in Central Java , Indonesia , is built from local limestone ?
Did you know that in his first two games as a starter, Denard "Shoelace" Robinson achieved the two highest single-game total offense totals in Michigan Wolverines history—and did so with his shoes untied?
Did you know that Gail Koff , one of three partners in Jacoby & Meyers , had her prenuptial agreement with attorney Ralph Brill invalidated, with Koff granted 65% of marital assets?
Did you know that the Indian film Mithya marked the singing debut of Sanchita Bhattyacharya in the Hindi cinema industry ?
Did you know that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of antinomianism by his congregation in Truro , and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
Did you know that the 1963–64 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team earned the University of Michigan its first trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four ?
Did you know that interior designer Michael S. Smith is responsible for the 2010 makeover of the Oval Office at the White House ?
Did you know that the Clyde Refinery located in Clyde , New South Wales , is Australia 's longest operating oil refinery ?
Did you know that at 354 metres (1,161 feet) long and 60 metres (200 feet) high, the Dabar Bridge carries the Croatian A1 motorway across a flash flood gully ?
Did you know that the brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos overthrew their father, the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos , only to be themselves removed from power by Constantine VII after a few weeks?
Did you know that fullback Ed Shuttlesworth became Michigan 's all-time leader in rushing attempts while playing for teams that finished 30–1–1 from 1971 to 1973?
Did you know that the Italian operatic tenor Giuseppe Siboni founded the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen?
Did you know that in the Norwegian 1906 election second round of voting , Torgeir Vraa was endorsed by the Liberal Party , which he left in 1897 together with Christopher Hornsrud ?
Did you know that according to Minuscule 782 , Jesus wrote sins of his opponents on the ground?
Did you know that Elton John had a number one in the 1980s with " Nikita "?
Did you know that the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service 's first tests at dropping torpedoes from aircraft were carried out with Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3 floatplanes?
Did you know that Jim Wilkinson helped sell the idea that Al Gore claimed to have "invented the Internet "?
Did you know that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Haben has nearly died four times, surviving a black widow bite, a sinking boat, a plane crash, and a bad case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis ?
Did you know that the Mesa Oil Field is within the Sespe and Vaqueros Formations , which together form the second-most-prolific oil-producing geologic unit in Southern California ?
Did you know that Niels Ødegaard of Gjøvik , with 40 years of total mayoral service, is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality ?
Did you know that the Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro struck two mines on 2 September 1866 , during the War of the Triple Alliance , and sank instantly with the loss of 53 of her crew?
Did you know that 39.2% of Schenectady, New York 's Bellevue neighborhood is zoned industrial, but excluding the General Electric plant it is only 1%?
Did you know that the cat statues atop the Cat House in Riga have their backside with raised tails turned to the house of the Great Guild to seek retribution?
Did you know that fragrant sachets were used by Queen Isabella of Spain ?
Did you know that one species of the extinct wasp Palaeovespa fed caterpillars to its larvae?
Did you know that when asked his profession in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee , poet George Hitchcock responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?
Did you know that Mexico City 's first formal horse racing track was built in Colonia Exhipódromo de Peralvillo ?
Did you know that the common name Emu-wren of the Southern , Rufous-crowned and Mallee Emu-wrens comes from their emu -like tail feathers?
Did you know that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?
Did you know that Italian operatic soprano Angiolina Bosio portrayed Gilda in the UK premiere of Verdi's Rigoletto and Lady Macbeth in the US premiere of Verdi's Macbeth ?
Did you know that the proposed design of the Albany Convention Center in Albany , New York , includes saving the city's oldest building , which was built in 1728?
Did you know that the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Parishad was created in 1958, abolished in 1985 and re-created in 2007?
Did you know that Charles "Buffalo" Jones , the first game warden at Yellowstone National Park , once roped an unruly bear and spanked the animal on its behind?
Did you know that portions of an 1820s mill race may remain underneath Main Street in Medina, New York ?
Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment brought back the King of the Ring tournament in 2006 for the first time since discontinuing it in 2002?
Did you know that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
Did you know that Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
Did you know that Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg had two sons with his mistress, the Berlin Opera star Mafalda Salvatini ?
Did you know that the engines of the Brazilian ironclad Tamandaré broke down while she was passing in front of the Paraguayan guns at Curupaity during the War of the Triple Alliance and she had to be towed to safety by the ironclad Silvado ?
Did you know that actor Paul Rudd appears as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare 's Henry V , opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest ?
Did you know that the missing wife of William Trickett Smith II was discovered in a suitcase that surfaced after the 2007 Peru earthquake ?
Did you know that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II ?
Did you know that Romstrade is the largest construction company in Romania ?
Did you know that Katukurunde Nanananda Thera was the first to point out a unique grammatical shift in a controversial Buddhist Pali passage?
Did you know that, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice in the 1977 case Bates v. State Bar of Arizona , the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers was the first in the United States to advertise on television?
Did you know that, after a 15-year career as a principal with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , Peggy Ann Jones moved to musicals , including in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera ?
Did you know that Dawid Baziak began his professional mixed martial arts career with five consecutive technical knockout victories?
Did you know that every round-robin tournament either has a set of players who win all games against players outside the set, or its graph of wins and losses is pancyclic , having directed cycles of all lengths?
Did you know that, as president of U.S. Trust , Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?
Did you know that contralto Sonia Prina performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi 's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Frankfurt Opera , staged as a rocker ?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler that the use of the word " blackmail " in an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher did not constitute libel ?
Did you know that Gene Englund won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and National Basketball League championship in back-to-back seasons?
Did you know that the 2008 thriller Proyecto Dos is the feature film debut of Spanish television director Guillermo Fernández Groizard?