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Did you know that Tam Spiva , from a family of small-town newspaper publishers , wrote scripts for such television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben ?
Did you know that the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language ?
Did you know that the Oregon State Bar was the first bar association in the U.S. to provide complete access to all attorney records it keeps, but only after a lawsuit?
Did you know that Ole Hovelsen Mustad , namesake of the company O. Mustad & Son , also served one term in the Norwegian Parliament ?
Did you know that King's Mill on the River Trent was used to grind flints for the pottery industry?
Did you know that Swaminarayan 's biography, Satsangi Jeevan , comprises of 19,387 Shlokas among 360 chapters, in 5 volumes?
Did you know that virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008?
Did you know that Kang Hye-jeong made her feature film debut in the 2001 science fiction film Nabi , winning Best Actress at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival ?
Did you know that the Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon , but has been on campus longer than all but one other building?
Did you know that Captain William Mounsey , in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne , captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Karina is currently the shortest-lived storm in the 2008 Pacific hurricane season ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Chang Gun was demoted over Emperor Dezong 's erroneous belief that Chang had falsified signatures from his colleagues Guo Ziyi and Zhu Ci ?
Did you know that Future Primitive and Other Essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan is regarded as an underground classic by anarchists and technophobes alike?
Did you know that Cubbon Park in Bangalore , India , has indigenous and exotic botanical species of 68 genera and 96 species with about 6,000 plants?
Did you know that Bolivian Mollo culture drinking cups included a built-in straw?
Did you know that Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a C.P.A. and lawyer whose first job assignment was the delinquency of then-owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck ?
Did you know that in Shinto , a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation?
Did you know that two companies with the name Oregon Central Railroad both claimed the same federal land grants ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Yang Wan declined a customary stipend as a senior official of his rank and distributed the stipend to his colleagues?
Did you know that Eduardo Galeano 's 1978 revolutionary chronicle Days and Nights of Love and War inspired anarchist collective CrimethInc. to write their manifesto Days of War, Nights of Love 22 years later?
Did you know that Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial article titled " Is Google Making Us Stupid? " in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic Monthly ?
Did you know that South African Jean-Michel d'Avray played football in England and Holland before becoming the last ever National Soccer League Coach of the Year in Australia ?
Did you know that M-67 , a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , has remained essentially unchanged but the highways connecting to it have changed three times since 1919?
Did you know that Jens Landmark , Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel and director of Kongsberg Weapons Factory , also served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament ?
Did you know that Julie Couillard's memoir My Story reveals confidential opinions that Canadian member of Parliament Maxime Bernier allegedly shared with her and was released eight days before Bernier is seeking re-election ?
Did you know that architect Sidney Eisenshtat designed a futuristic synagogue that was later a filming location for the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ?
Did you know that anyone who has loaned or borrowed money has participated in the hypothetical loanable funds market that brings savers and borrowers together?
Did you know that the Welsh inventor Edwin Stevens devised the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid ?
Did you know that the Zionist Socialist Workers Party broke with the World Zionist Organization after the 1905 WZO congress had rejected the proposal to resettle Jews in East Africa ?
Did you know that an oil painting by Ryūsei Kishida was auctioned for 7.731 billion yen , the highest price ever achieved for a Japanese painting ?
Did you know that MTA Regional Bus Operations consolidates all bus operations formerly maintained by MTA New York City Bus , MTA Long Island Bus , and MTA Bus ?
Did you know that Hungarian István Réti travelled to Turin , to paint 1848 revolutionary Lajos Kossuth , who had died there recently?
Did you know that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?
Did you know that William Long , Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles , later became the skipper of a fishing boat?
Did you know that only a few English churches celebrate the ancient custom of " clipping the church "?
Did you know that Ontario has more universities , with 22, than any other Canadian province ?
Did you know that Clarence D. Wiley , already a 40-year public official in Louisiana , was to have joined his parish governing council when he died in 1976 of a sudden stroke ?
Did you know that the 2008 Bangkok gubernatorial election campaign saw candidates bathing in a canal and punching a journalist?
Did you know that as Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip , Yitzhak Pundak planned to relocate the Palestinian refugees there to a new city in the Sinai Peninsula , but met with opposition from Ariel Sharon ?
Did you know that unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley , the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?
Did you know that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto , California to work on Facebook full-time?
Did you know that in 1793, Admiral John Gell captured a Spanish ship that contained two million dollars and goods worth over 200,000 pounds?
Did you know that Bümpliz-Oberbottigen , a district of Berne , Switzerland , contains rural hamlets, Baroque estates and modernist highrise satellite towns ?
Did you know that One Night the Moon , a 2001 Australian film depicting the search for a missing child, was inspired by indigenous police tracker Alex Riley's work in the 1930s?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Hongjian , immediately prior to his death, undertook tonsure and formally became a Buddhist monk ?
Did you know that according to a survey by Reader's Digest , the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is New Zealand 's second most trusted charity ?
Did you know that Owen Thomas , managing editor of New York City -based gossip and news blog Valleywag , writes most of the website's articles?
Did you know that the National Debt Clock in Manhattan ran out of digits on 30 September 2008, when the United States public debt passed the $10 trillion mark?
Did you know that a medallion awarded by the city of Hamburg to honor "those—both Jewish and non-Jewish—who have contributed to Jewish life in Germany" is named for the Jewish First Mayor Herbert Weichmann ?
Did you know that Orson Welles took the role of Hastler in his 1962 film The Trial after comic actor Jackie Gleason turned down the part?
Did you know that, as a teenager, American Civil War Confederate brigadier general Richard Waterhouse ran away from home to fight in the Mexican–American War ?
Did you know that presenters Jay Burridge and Mark Speight created all of the art projects for the children's television show SMart ?
Did you know that after Captain George Blagdon Westcott was killed at the Battle of the Nile , Horatio Nelson gave his own medal from the battle to Westcott's family?
Did you know that Jack Womack 's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York ?
Did you know that Baltic Finns are considered to be among the early indigenous inhabitants of Europe according to the Settlement Continuity Theory?
Did you know that Hulk Hogan lost the WWF Championship at King of the Ring 1993 after a ringside photographer's camera exploded in Hogan's face?
Did you know that the constitution of Cyprus broke down in 1963 when Turkish Cypriots withdrew from the government?
Did you know that the Adriatic LNG terminal is the world's first offshore liquid natural gas terminal ?
Did you know that Norwegian piano manufacturer Karl Hals was also active in politics for the Conservative Party ?
Did you know that British National (Overseas) was a British nationality specially created for British Dependent Territories citizens of Hong Kong in 1985?
Did you know that English footballer Glen Thomas came close to losing an eye in 1996 when he stumbled into a tree during a training session and was hit in the face by a branch?
Did you know that after six years as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation , Mary Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe , a book critical of air safety practices at the Federal Aviation Administration ?
Did you know that in 2007, the New Zealand initiative eDay saw 415 tonnes (915,000 lb) of electronic waste collected?
Did you know that British WWII prisoner of war John Fancy dug eight tunnels with a table knife and escaped a total of 16 times, but was always recaptured?
Did you know that Adobe Systems made its largest acquisition ever by purchasing rival company Macromedia for over US$ 3.5 billion?
Did you know that the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes revolves around Holmes and Watson , played by Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law , stopping a conspiracy to destroy Britain ?
Did you know that Modernisme architect Enrique Nieto not only designed the main synagogue in Melilla , but also the Central Mosque and several Catholic church buildings?
Did you know that Tate gallery director Sir Norman Reid was the son of a shoemaker ?
Did you know that alpine Lake Wakatipu has a unit of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard ?
Did you know that Hurricane Rosa caused 100-year floods at 19 locations in Texas ?
Did you know that analgesic nephropathy was a major cause of kidney failure until the analgesic drug phenacetin was banned from markets?
Did you know that the medieval motet Sub Arturo plebs has the name of its composer along with those of 14 fellow musicians, plus instructions on how to perform the piece, written into its own lyrics?
Did you know that the House character Detective Michael Tritter has been compared to Inspector Javert in Les Misérables ?
Did you know that Nonghyup , the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of South Korea , provides 48 percent of the country's rural food marketing?
Did you know that General William C. Chase was awarded the Bronze Star for his successful defense against Japanese counterattacks during the Admiralty Islands campaign in World War II ?
Did you know that Hans Prydz came to Nittedal as a physician, but eventually served as mayor of that municipality as well as representing the district in the Norwegian Parliament ?
Did you know that a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland " museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville , Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley ?
Did you know that BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The Media Show , which looks at the current state of the media , is seen as a replacement to The Message , a similar programme axed by the BBC earlier in 2008?
Did you know that only twelve examples survive of the Bosom of Abraham Trinity , a uniquely English subject in late medieval religious art?
Did you know that the 106-kilometre (66 mi) Voss Line was converted from narrow to standard gauge in one night?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member and priest Søren Georg Abel was the father of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ?
Did you know that after Moscow mayor Nikolay Alekseyev was mortally wounded by an insane gunman, he bequeathed 300,000 rubles of his personal money to a psychiatric hospital he had built?
Did you know that Charles Frederick Holder invented the sport of big-game fishing and was also a founder of Pasadena 's Tournament of Roses ?
Did you know that one of John Romney 's etchings which sold well was of The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bridge Accident which occurred in 1847?
Did you know that Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi , with two built-in cameras?
Did you know that Krishnammal Jagannathan , one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award , began her struggle for the rights of the landless after an incident in which 44 people were burnt alive by landlords ?
Did you know that Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Oregon , was built when the city had only 750 residents?
Did you know that, when Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei was set to be punished for having joined the rebel state Yan under duress, his brother Wang Jin successfully interceded for him by offering to resign as an imperial official?
Did you know that the Egyptian Geological Museum , established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa ?
Did you know that although Carl Emil Krarup was originally a civil engineer , he was responsible for the first ever continuously loaded submarine telecommunication cable ?
Did you know that the publication of his Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn led to Angus McDiarmid being called "the world's worst author"?
Did you know that the website Techmeme , created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology -related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity?
Did you know that a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil 's path to stardom?
Did you know that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities , including the University of King's College , the oldest university in British North America ?
Did you know that at Henry Parkyns Hoppner 's court martial , he received "no blame whatever" for his actions while commanding the HMS Fury , ice-damaged and left on Somerset Island in 1825?
Did you know that according to Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson 's poem " Hay and Hell and Booligal ", the town of Booligal, New South Wales is regarded as being worse than Hell?
Did you know that former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood holds the record for the biggest-selling American Idol album?
Did you know that the Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI is considered the most reliable source for those events?
Did you know that Nic Waal , who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust , started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?
Did you know that Meralco 's John F. Cotton Corporate Wellness Center was the first implementation of a corporate wellness program in the Philippines ?
Did you know that after Robert Bealknap offended the people of London before the coronation of Richard II they placed a model of his head on a water fountain so that it would vomit wine when the king walked past?
Did you know that the Nerepis River in New Brunswick was exposed to dioxins from the use of Agent Orange and Agent Purple during secret tests in 1966 and 1967?
Did you know that Mexico 's largest pawnbroker , Nacional Monte de Piedad , is legally recognized as a charity ?
Did you know that in 1967, Ray Miller , a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas ?
Did you know that the existence of a Stroke Belt in the southeastern United States was recognized as early as 1962, but the causes of high stroke incidence in this region have not been determined?
Did you know that 1970 Italian crime thriller film Città violenta was only picked up for distribution in the United States after the success of Death Wish established star Charles Bronson as a leading man ?
Did you know that the outback town of Tilpa, New South Wales claims to have the only cemetery in Australia with no burials?
Did you know that Bob Miller , signed as a " bonus baby " by the Detroit Tigers , was the youngest of three 17-year-olds to play in Major League Baseball in the 1953 season?
Did you know that Eelam , a Tamil name for Sri Lanka , could also mean toddy , spurge , or gold?
Did you know that the St. John's Lodge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire is one of the oldest continuously operating Masonic Lodges in the Americas ?
Did you know that during the Catalonian Civil War , three different pretenders were proclaimed against John II of Aragon ?
Did you know that Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War , before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum ?
Did you know that Typhoon Jangmi was upgraded to a category five super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ?
Did you know that architect Stiff Leadbetter 's house Elvills was the first completely new house of the Georgian Gothic revival in England ?
Did you know that upcoming film The Marc Pease Experience has been dubbed "the next Rushmore " as the two films share both similar character traits and Jason Schwartzman in the lead role?
Did you know that the song " Steal My Sunshine " by Len was almost not released because its master recording was hidden under the producer's bed?
Did you know that the Campbell's Covered Bridge , built in 1909, is the last remaining covered bridge in South Carolina ?
Did you know that Matthew T. Mason , a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University , developed the first origami -folding robot in 2004?
Did you know that the United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada , Mexico , New Zealand , South Korea , Northern Ireland and Brazil ?
Did you know that in addition to teaching underprivileged youth, Giovanni Buscaglione designed such architectural works as Colombia 's Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora del Carmen?
Did you know that the butterfly Argynnis hyperbius has been threatened in New South Wales by the draining of swamps containing its natural foodplant Viola betonicifolia ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Yan had, as a child, impressed Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by writing a song dedicated to his sacrifices at Mount Tai ?
Did you know that after Milt Davis was rejected by the Detroit Lions because they did not have a black roommate for him, Davis won two championships in four seasons with the Baltimore Colts ?
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino , a longtime fan of Australian cinema , helped put together 2008 documentary film Not Quite Hollywood , examining the "Ozploitation" B movies of the 1970s–'80s Australian New Wave ?
Did you know that Bogdan Saltanov , the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia , was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow ?
Did you know that Drinkstone Post Mill is the oldest surviving windmill in Suffolk , England , having been built in 1689?
Did you know that comedian and actor Asi Cohen performed in Mesudarim , an Israeli television show purchased by the Fox Entertainment Group ?
Did you know that Roy Oswalt has been the starting pitcher on six consecutive Opening Days for the Houston Astros from 2003 to 2008?
Did you know that after Li Xilie , who had rebelled against the Tang Dynasty , grew ill after eating beef, his general Chen Xianqi induced his physician to poison him to death?
Did you know that the 2004 Cairns Tilt Train derailment was the result of excessive speed which may have been caused by the driver leaving his seat?
Did you know that the LoPresti Fury sports plane was built based on the design of aeronautical engineer Roy LoPresti ?
Did you know that Anastasiu di Iaci wrote Vinuta di lu re Iapicu in Catania shortly after 1287, making it one of the earliest narrative sources for the War of the Vespers ?
Did you know that, according to Afrikaner nationalistic ideology, Afrikaners were seen as a chosen people ?
Did you know that Reuben Noble-Lazarus became the youngest footballer in the Football League when he came on as a substitute in Barnsley 's 3–0 defeat to Ipswich Town in 2008?
Did you know that the distinctive rustic porch trim of the Fish and Fur Club in Nelsonville, New York , which earned it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places , has since been replaced?
Did you know that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory Strømmens Værksted ?
Did you know that southern African vine Acetosa sagittata is a weed in Australia and New Zealand , and may smother vegetation it grows upon?
Did you know that Tove Strand , Norwegian government minister in 1986–1989 and 1990–1992, was formerly married to fellow Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen ?
Did you know that Cress Williams portrayed a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in the Deep Space Nine episode " The Jem'Hadar "?
Did you know that the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow prison?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Twinkle Crusaders received three manga adaptations before its release?
Did you know that Oregon State Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson is a first cousin of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening ?
Did you know that Sir Robert Charleton was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas despite having no previous experience in that court?
Did you know that writer - director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school ?
Did you know that the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton hosts an annual event honoring girls and women named "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth Ann"?
Did you know that Nakamura Yoshikoto , director of the South Manchurian Railway , sponsored his childhood friend, the famed author Natsume Sōseki on a publicity jaunt to Manchuria ?
Did you know that the historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a Civil War Powder Magazine , a World War I coastal artillery battery , and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser ?
Did you know that according to John Foxe and Raphael Holinshed , the fate of Lady Jane Grey drove Richard Morgan insane?
Did you know that Aerosteon , a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?
Did you know that Korean composer and violinist Hong Nan-pa is best known for his song Bongseonhwa written in 1919 which was widely sung during the Japanese occupation of Korea ?
Did you know that the Great Mosque of Aleppo , built by the Umayyads in 717, is the oldest mosque in Aleppo , Syria ?
Did you know that the opening theme of the eighth season of the Bleach anime , " After Dark ", was provided by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation ?
Did you know that in 1947, Thelma Dewitty became not just the first African American hired to teach in the Seattle Public Schools , but one of the first married women as well?
Did you know that a Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre- WWII Estonia ?
Did you know that in 878, the Byzantines lost Syracuse in Sicily to the Arabs because the imperial fleet was occupied with transporting marble for the construction of the Nea Ekklesia cathedral?
Did you know that the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial commemorates the 1951 protests started by 16-year-old Barbara Johns which helped bring about school desegregation in Virginia ?