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Did you know that the pilot episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man features Robert Englund -- best known for playing Freddy Krueger -- as the voice of supervillain Vulture ?
Did you know that linebacker Quincy Monk nearly had a football helmet drop kicked into his head during the 2003 NFL playoffs ?
Did you know that the manager of Oasis has described Republic of Loose as the most exciting band since Oasis?
Did you know that on 13 August 2009, Egyptian fishermen taken hostage by Somali pirates overpowered their captors and escaped , taking along four prisoners?
Did you know that Dr Malik Dohan al-Hassan was an octogenarian when he was appointed Justice Minister of Iraq in 2004?
Did you know that blue cake , a flaky pastry from the Bernese Oberland , Switzerland , is not blue?
Did you know that the 1997 video game Ballblazer Champions is a remake of the 1985 Ballblazer that was released for the Commodore 64 and Atari consoles?
Did you know that BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt was born in Australia and adopted by a British diplomat ?
Did you know that the first violin concerto by Philip Glass was composed in honor of his father Ben, who died some sixteen years before the work's conception?
Did you know that 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs , and stuffed birds ?
Did you know that in 1904, gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals, including gold in the vault , even though he had a wooden prosthesis for a leg?
Did you know that the Battle for Lake Tanganyika involved an expedition dragging two motor boats through Africa, led by a man who was "court-martialled for wrecking his own ships, an inveterate liar and a wearer of skirts"?
Did you know that the largest concentration of the parasitic plant species Buckleya distichophylla can be found in the Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve of Roanoke County , Virginia , USA ?
Did you know that British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poem " Education for Leisure " was removed from study at GCSE level due to concerns about teenage knife crime?
Did you know that the Blue Bell in Chester , Cheshire , England, contains a chamber separated from the rest of the building which has been a ticket office for stage coach operators, a soda fountain bar and a barber 's shop?
Did you know that Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill is a chain of 120 restaurants serving Jamaican patties , jerk chicken and curried goat?
Did you know that Australian troops fought their last battle of the Korean War just hours before the ceasefire, fighting off numerous Chinese attacks during the Battle of the Samichon River ?
Did you know that when Sir Edward Atkinson was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions he refused to believe it was true and walked out of the Home Office ?
Did you know that as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz , Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?
Did you know that Simon & Garfunkel did not know that Bobby Gregg was the drummer on their #1 single " The Sounds of Silence "?
Did you knowthat in August of 1948 the Labour Party of Indonesia merged with the Communist Party ?
Did you know that the former library of Kingston, New York , has been used as the offices for the janitors at the neighboring high school ?
Did you know that the BBC radio producer R.D. Smith , husband of Olivia Manning and model for a character in her Fortunes of War novels, was identified as a Soviet spy by MI5 ?
Did you know that the Keller Ferry , which operates as part of Washington State Route 21 was taken over by the Washington Department of Highways on September 1, 1930, although a cable ferry was operated during the early 1890s?
Did you know that Franciszek Przysiężniak led partisan units into the largest battles of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance ?
Did you know that the Will & Grace episode " Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More " was the first time that a prime-time sitcom showed a Jewish protagonist marrying inside the faith?
Did you know that infestation by Halofolliculina corallasia leads to Skeletal Eroding Band , the first coral disease known to be caused by a protozoon or by any eukaryote ?
Did you know that female professional wrestler Ann Casey won the USA Women's Wrestling Championship in 1974 from The Fabulous Moolah and was never defeated for the title?
Did you know that the founders of the Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) included a group of Indonesians who had participated in the anti-fascist resistance in the Netherlands during World War II ?
Did you know that Jadwiga of Żagań bore no sons to her husband, Casimir III the Great , which spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland ?
Did you know that the Interim Government of India , which was formed on 2 September 1946, established diplomatic relations with the United States ?
Did you know that the Fairy Flag is traditionally thought to have been a gift from the fairies to the chiefs of Clan Macleod ?
Did you know that John Heriot , a late-eighteenth-century British journalist , was secretly funded to publish two pro-government newspapers?
Did you know that in the first 15 years of its logging in New Caledonia , 8,000 tonnes of sandalwood , especially Santalum austrocaledonicum , was harvested?
Did you know that Kenneth Bacon , a former spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense , served as president of Refugees International until his death in 2009?
Did you know that the former Palestinian Arab village of Khiyam al-Walid is believed to be a reference to the tents of Khaled ibn al-Walid 's army which conquered the Levant in the 7th century?
Did you know that after his death William Johnson Sollas was implicated in the Piltdown Man hoax by his assistant, J.A. Douglas?
Did you know that the script for the 1943 Hepburn – Tracy motion picture Keeper of the Flame includes information from the U.S. Office of War Information , a propaganda agency of the U.S. government?
Did you know that the Japanese Buddhist monk Nichiji attempted to walk to Xanadu ?
Did you know that scholars believe that Secacah was the ancient name of Khirbet Qumran, the archaeological site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered?
Did you know that George "Snatchem" Leese was a member of the Slaughter House Gang who was known for being the official "bloodsucker" at prize fights in New York ?
Did you know that Freeheld is an Academy Award-winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner ?
Did you know that Romanian artist Eugen Taru contributed to the Soviet–Yugoslav propaganda war with large posters depicting Josip Broz Tito as a butcher?
Did you know that the Australian Supermarine Aircraft company make the only aluminum reproduction Supermarine Spitfire currently in production?
Did you know that Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen , and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr. ?
Did you know that Yale University Press expunged all of the cartoons from The Cartoons that Shook the World ?
Did you know that John Edward Marr spent 45 years at the University of Cambridge ?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode " The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein " has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Animated Programs"?
Did you know that Clive Ponting was found not guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury even after the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan , summed up strongly in favour of the prosecution?
Did you know that during the Roman Empire in Palestine , the road that connected Lydda to Jerusalem passed through Barfiliya ?
Did you know that during the Holocaust , of the four Jews rescued by Stanisław Jasiński and his daughter from Kostopol in Eastern Poland , only Szmuel Liderman survived the massacres ?
Did you know that Layforce was a brigade -sized British commando force named after their commander Robert Laycock ?
Did you know that Filipino comedian Tado ' s screen name is derived from a Tagalog cuss word?
Did you know that Michael Jackson 's " Gone Too Soon " was dedicated to the memory of Ryan White , a teenager who died following a battle with HIV / AIDS ?
Did you know that Englishman James McFarlane was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav for his eight-volume work Oxford Ibsen ?
Did you know that Sequalitchew Creek was the location of the original Fort Nisqually trading post established in 1833 by the Hudson's Bay Company ?
Did you know that the Byzantine general John Kourkouas , supreme commander of the Byzantine armies in the East for 22 years, was hailed by his contemporaries as "another Trajan or Belisarius "?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt contracted Cuban fever during the Spanish–American War , and had recurring symptoms before, during, and after his time as President of the United States ?
Did you know that during his lifetime, geologist William Noel Benson published over 100 academic papers?
Did you know that the island of Orosay overlooks Traigh Mhòr , reputedly the only beach in the world used as a runway for scheduled aircraft flights?
Did you know that Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon ?
Did you know that the Bayerischer Rundfunk caused a scandal in 1986 for refusing to relay the broadcast signal of the political cabaret show Scheibenwischer ?
Did you know that Indian communist politician K.P. Prabhakaran was in the forefront of a trade union of toddy tappers in Kerala for 55 years?
Did you know that the Ninth Fort massacres November 1941 were the first organized mass murders of Reich Jews ?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Lee donated Chequers , a country house in Buckinghamshire , for use as the official country residence of the British Prime Minister ?
Did you know that, starting with the episode " The Ex-Girlfriend ", filming of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld moved from Desilu Cahuenga in Hollywood, California , to CBS Studio Center in Studio City ?
Did you know that the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site in Orkney includes the remains of a large building described as a Neolithic "cathedral"?
Did you know that John Earls , the chief writer and editor of Teletext 's Planet Sound music section, used to write reader music reviews during his teenage years for Blue Suede Views on ORACLE , the predecessor to Teletext?
Did you know that the first major battle to involve Australian soldiers in the Korean War was the Battle of the Apple Orchard in October 1950?
Did you know that an eternal flame burns at Triyuginarayan Temple , believed to be the venue of the marriage of Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati ?
Did you know that Markus Brunnermeier won the Germán Bernácer Prize for his work in financial economics on bubbles and crashes ?
Did you know that the Spanish cruiser Baleares was commissioned into service without one of its four main turrets ?
Did you know that historian Jack T. Kirby decried popular media depictions of Southerners that used "clichés of racists, graceful landed gentry, poverty, homespun rural values, stock-car racers and moonshiners"?
Did you know that Curious George made his literary debut in H.A. Rey 's 1939 children's short story, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys ?
Did you know that the first Australian soldiers to die in the Korean War were killed in action during the Battle of the Broken Bridge in October 1950?
Did you know that Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is the only person to have won the general, points and king of the mountains classifications in the same tour?
Did you know that Otomi grammar , the grammar of the indigenous Otomi language of Mexico has traits of active/stative alignment , but has no adjectives ?
Did you know that Japanese electrical engineer Hisashi Kobayashi was appointed the founding director of the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory in 1982?
Did you know that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was given the unusual name at the request of India ?
Did you know that in 1992, the crews of USS Baton Rouge and K-276 Kostroma failed to detect each other until the two nuclear submarines collided in the shallow waters of the Barents Sea ?
Did you know that when large numbers of the sap-feeding redeye cicada gather on a tree their waste products may fall in a constant shower?
Did you know that the 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 guns aboard the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) are believed to have fired the United States' first and last 16-inch shells of World War II ?
Did you know that the Baekryulsa temple located in Gyeongju , South Korea , which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom, is believed to be associated with Ichadon , the first martyr for Buddhism in Korea ?
Did you know that the British officer James Scurry was held captive for ten years by Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan at Seringapatam ?
Did you know that the offices at Stogumber railway station are on the east side of the line, but the platform is on the west?
Did you know that despite entering the finals of 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 unbeaten, Basnahira South collapsed from a strong position of 133 for 1, losing their last nine wickets for just eleven runs?
Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett , the RAAF's senior engineer from 1935 to 1959, was nicknamed " Punch " for his prominent chin and nose?
Did you know that magnetic tapes afflicted with sticky-shed syndrome are unplayable, but they can be treated by baking ?
Did you know that Perinpanayagam Sivaparan opposed the nomination of Selvarasa Pathmanathan to lead the Tamil Tigers ?
Did you know that the Milton Odem House is one of the best examples of a Streamline Moderne style residence found in the state of Oregon ?
Did you know that Chieftain's Salute , composed by Graham Waterhouse , is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra ?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Night of the Dead Living ", takes place entirely within the set of the homicide detectives' squad room?
Did you know that a U.S. Senate committee once claimed that Joseph Glimco ran "the nation's most corrupt union "?
Did you know that the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church , affiliated with Ian Paisley 's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel?
Did you know that Mumbai has the world's second largest number of Art Deco buildings after Miami ?
Did you know that despite never obtaining a university degree, Taiwanese historian Ts'ao Yung-ho was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his scholarly work on Dutch Formosa ?
Did you know that a scene in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ", in which detectives convince a suspect that a copy machine is a lie detector, was based on real-life events within the Baltimore Police Department ?
Did you know that Le Van Duyet , the last viceroy of the Nguyen Dynasty 's Cochinchina , was a eunuch ?
Did you know that the variety of places of worship in the district of Lewes , England, reflect its long tradition of Protestant Nonconformism ?
Did you know that the first home versions of the Sega video game Jambo! Safari are set to be released, ten years after the game first appeared in arcades ?
Did you know that Qaisar Bagh of Wajid Ali Shah , the last Nawab of Awadh , was ordered demolished by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 , but his queens' residence is still standing in Lucknow today?
Did you know that professional poker player Dan Harrington sometimes finds himself the victim of the poker strategies that he teaches in his Harrington on Hold 'em book series when playing poker tournaments ?
Did you know that the Toi gold mine in Japan houses the world's largest pure gold bar , weighing 250 kilograms (550 lb)?
Did you know that the designers from the second season of Project Runway Philippines include a registered nurse , a call center agent, an accountant , and a Physical Education teacher?
Did you know that Jan Pol , a smock mill in Dalen , is the tallest remaining windmill in Drenthe ?
Did you know that according to LGBT interpretations , the Hindu fire god Agni 's role in accepting sacrifices is paralleled by his accepting semen from other gods like Shiva and Soma ?
Did you know that country music performer Roger Miller included his own recordings of two songs that he had written for Jim Reeves in the 1950s, on his 1966 album Words and Music ?
Did you know that the owners of the Cray Mansion and neighboring Hubbard House competed to see who could add the better home improvement?
Did you know that character actor Billy House once continued performing in a play immediately after suffering a heart attack ?
Did you know that the Mir diamond mine is so large that its natural downward air flow can crash helicopters?
Did you know that according to Jewish customs , a yahrzeit candle is lit in memory of the dead on the anniversary of the death on the Hebrew calendar ?
Did you know that The Murderer Lives at Number 21 was director Henri-Georges Clouzot 's first feature film for the Nazi -owned company Continental Films?
Did you know that the Coyote Gold Mine in the remote Tanami Desert of Australia was opened in 2006 by the then Governor-General of Australia , Michael Jeffery ?
Did you know that Hassard Short was born into the English landed gentry but moved to New York as an actor in 1901 and later became one of Broadway 's greatest musical theatre directors and lighting designers ?
Did you know that the Large Mindoro Forest Mouse , first described as a distinct species in 1995, is known from only 16 individuals from a single mountain on the Island of Mindoro , Philippines ?
Did you know that Preston Henn , owner of the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop , won the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona sports car race and after retiring refused to discuss his racing career?
Did you know that New Yorker Marcey Jacobson had planned to visit Chiapas for 10 days in 1956, but ended up staying there for most of the next 50 years, taking 14,000 photos of daily life in Southern Mexico?
Did you know that the National Center for Atmospheric Research 's Mesa Laboratory was I. M. Pei 's first rural project?
Did you know that Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh ran in the 1964 Democratic primary just to prevent segregationist George Wallace from winning the state?
Did you know that the cicada Abricta curvicosta of eastern Australia is known as the floury baker from its appearance of being dusted with white powder?
Did you know that in 1960 , country music artist Claude Gray bought the song "Family Bible" from Willie Nelson for $100?
Did you know that the modern Mexican state of Tlaxcala was born when the chief of the old Tlaxcala kingdom struck a deal with Hernán Cortés?
Did you know that in the 51 Major League Baseball seasons for which the Rawlings Gold Glove Award has been presented, pitchers Greg Maddux and Jim Kaat have won the award 34 times?
Did you know that despite having severely paralyzed hands, William B. T. Trego painted some of the most iconic images of the American Revolution and Civil War in the 19th century?
Did you know that the 2011 Pro Bowl and the 2012 Pro Bowl are contracted to return to Aloha Stadium due to a backlash from players and coaches?
Did you know that recovery of the oil in Spraberry Trend , an oil field ranked third in the U.S. by total proven reserves , is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?
Did you know that a branch of Exeter City Supporters' Trust members helped finance James Norwood ' s contract at the football club, paying £ 19 per month?
Did you know that neuroscientist Ira Black expressed frustration with U.S. federal restrictions on stem cell research, as it could lead to therapies that would "get patients out of bed and out of wheelchairs"?
Did you know that the German 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was featured in the main batteries of 16 of the 26 capital ships built by the Kaiserliche Marine before the First World War ?
Did you know that after English rugby international forward Denys Dobson was killed by a charging rhinoceros , he was reportedly said to always have had "a weak hand off "?
Did you know that the second deepest spot in the world, the HMRG Deep , was discovered by a team of scientists from Hawaii even though it is located by Guam ?
Did you know that in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar , Indonesia , was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa , where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape ?
Did you know that No. 3 Commando was the first British commando unit raised during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Japanese pop R&B singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki 's 2009 album, Touch Me! became her first album in five years to top the Japanese album chart?
Did you know that Justin Fashanu was the first professional association football player to come out as gay ?
Did you know that Schwartz Communications , the largest PR agency in Massachusetts , started by making campaigns for baby food before specializing on counseling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
Did you know that a riot broke out between English and Irish labourers who had consumed 1000 gallons of strong beer following the completion of the New Cut waterway in Bristol in May 1809?
Did you know that the Lake Linden Historic District was rebuilt largely of brick after property insurance companies with heavy losses in an 1887 fire threatened to pull out of the area?
Did you know that John Durnford-Slater was the first British Commando ?
Did you know that The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D! On Ice! , a documentary about The Simpsons , will most likely not be filmed in 3-D or take place on ice?
Did you know that Branchinecta lynchi , a vulnerable species of fairy shrimp , can be found in vernal pools around Agate Lake ?
Did you know that Sir Patrick Hastings approved the prosecution of the Campbell Case which was instrumental in the fall of the first Labour government?
Did you know that Summer Wars was the first Japanese animated film to be included for competition at the Locarno International Film Festival ?
Did you know that Sockington , a cat on the microblogging site Twitter , now has over a million followers since starting there in 2007?
Did you know that James Brady and his gang, the Yakey Yakes , forced their rivals, the Eastman Gang and the Five Points Gang , to "do their fighting north of Catherine Street" in New York City ?
Did you know that at one point the Clerks of Assize in England and Wales were earning more than the Assize Judges themselves?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " A Shot in the Dark " erroneously refers to Detective Pembleton 's kids, even though he does not have children until later in the series?
Did you know that the only survivor of the 1944 killing of 10 civilians ordered by Josef Scheungraber testified against him at his war crimes trial, where Scheungraber received a life sentence in August 2009?
Did you know that the American Florida -class battleships were the first U.S. battleships equipped with a steam turbine propulsion system?
Did you know that the Australian bushfood plant and black pepper substitute Tasmannia lanceolata is poisonous to fish?
Did you know that the creation of napkin holders has been a project featured in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics ?
Did you know that baseball manager Bill Watkins managed the Detroit Wolverines to their only World Series championship?
Did you know that the theme of pederasty in the 1977 German film Die Konsequenz was so controversial that one regional broadcaster refused to relay the transmission signal?
Did you know that professional wrestling promoter Emile Dupré has said that the Cormier wrestling family ( Yvon , Jean-Louis , Leonce , and Romeo ) "were to New Brunswick what the Hart family was to Calgary "?
Did you know that St. Mary's , the first village planned in the Township of Bexley , was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone ?
Did you know that Sean Munsanje became the first ever male presenter of Xposé upon winning the reality television show Total Xposure ?