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Did you know that when the German TV film Das Millionenspiel aired in 1970, some viewers thought they were watching a real manhunt and called the fictitious telephone number to register to participate?
Did you know that according to Cornish legend, the mermaid Saint Senara fell in love with the chorister of the church in Zennor , and that the church is now dedicated to her?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Robert Stephenson threw back-to-back no-hitters in his senior season of high school?
Did you know that under the criminal statutes in force during US Chief Justice John Marshall 's tenure, slave trading was a misdemeanor but insurance fraud was punishable by death?
Did you know that John Bonham copied Charles Connor 's drumming on Little Richard 's 1957 hit " Keep A-Knockin' " for the introduction to Led Zeppelin 's " Rock and Roll "?
Did you know that the army of the Duchy of Warsaw was able to field almost 100,000 men, more than the larger Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ever could for its army ?
Did you know that the go bus is a system of bus rapid transit in New Jersey ?
Did you know that the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco has a child that is over 400 years old ?
Did you know that the first known use of the phrase out of left field in its idiomatic sense was by the American music industry ?
Did you know that journalist Alice E. Gillington lived with Gypsies but didn't want them to know she was writing about them?
Did you know that the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land was called for by the 1198 papal bull Post Miserabile ?
Did you know that Jason Hartmann was the only male non-Kenyan runner to finish in the top six in this year 's Boston Marathon ?
Did you know that the Russian Ministry of Defence sued Energia Corp over delays to the EKS early warning satellites ?
Did you know that baseball executives thought that Toe Nash was a hoax, similar to Sidd Finch ?
Did you know that the First International Silent Games , in 1924, were the first ever international games for athletes with a disability?
Did you know that soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Senta , Brünnhilde , Ortrud and, with "intensity, ... freshness and spontaneity", as Kundry in Parsifal ?
Did you know that Soapy Castles and Tiny Lund were the only drivers ever to win the NASCAR Grand National East Series season championship?
Did you know that female director Upi Avianto created Last Wolf , a film about gangsters, drugs, betrayal and revenge?
Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution 's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is ninety-six percent underground?
Did you know that the extinct Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Kenya was the largest true crocodile and may have eaten early human ancestors?
Did you know that up to 167 small bivalve molluscs , Entovalva nhatrangensis , have been found living inside the oesophagus of a brown sandfish ?
Did you know that 21-year-old Danny Duffy 's abrupt retirement from the Kansas City Royals organization in 2010 reminded many of when Zack Greinke left the baseball club in 2006?
Did you know that the critical and commercial flop Ballad of a Man was later called one of the ten best Indonesian films of all time?
Did you know that Margaret Powell 's 1968 memoir, Below Stairs , has inspired three television series: Upstairs, Downstairs , Beryl's Lot and Downton Abbey ?
Did you know that the 2010 excursion of the Clifton Antiquarian Club to the Gower Peninsula led to the discovery of what may be the oldest rock art in the British Isles ?
Did you know that Martha Wise said she poisoned seventeen family members with arsenic , killing three, because she was irresistibly drawn to funerals and there weren't enough in her town?
Did you know that Viktor Bondarev was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force by President Dmitry Medvedev on the latter's last day in the Kremlin?
Did you know that the 2011 drama film When the Night , written and directed by Cristina Comencini , was based upon her novel by the same name?
Did you know that more than 8000 trees were planted in Backmuir Wood to celebrate the 2000 millennium?
Did you know that zoologist Charles Manning Child was described by a National Academy of Sciences biographer as "unmarred by personal ambition or striving for fame and position"?
Did you know that Adinegoro stopped writing literature after his second novel, Asmara Jaya ?
Did you know that at a 1999 Singapore Parliament debate, opposition MP J.B. Jeyaretnam 's motion that the Government should comply fully with the rule of law was amended to commend the Government for doing so?
Did you know that Harcourt Morgan , who was later University of Tennessee president and TVA chairman, camped out in pastures and cotton fields to study cattle ticks and boll weevils ?
Did you know that in the Bach cantata Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen , BWV 87 , the bass as the vox Christi sings the opening and "In der Welt habt ihr Angst" ("In the world you have fear")?
Did you know that the 1481 return of Nicholas Dukagjini and Gjon Kastrioti II to Albania, and their subsequent military campaigns, indirectly contributed to the defeat of the Ottoman forces in Otranto ?
Did you know that How to Start a Revolution , a 2011 BAFTA award-winning film that profiled the " Machiavelli of Nonviolence ", was described by the New York Times as a "noble documentary"?
Did you know that 186 victims of human sacrifice were discovered in the 2,500-year-old tomb of Duke Jing of Qin , an ancestor of the First Emperor of China?
Did you know that Dial soap was originally created and marketed by the Armour and Company meat-packing firm?
Did you know that Pakistani General Ghulam Jilani Khan founded Chand Bagh School , which was inspired by his own alma mater , the Doon School of India?
Did you know that a scene in the television series Fringe received praise for featuring two versions of the same character conversing together?
Did you know that Duke Xiang succeeded his father Duke Zhuang as ruler of the ancient state of Qin after his older brother refused to take the throne?
Did you know that Calico Joe is a baseball novel by John Grisham about the implications of a nearly fatal beanball ?
Did you know that, with a depth of 170 metres (560 ft), Hoverbergsgrottan is the largest rock cave in Scandinavia ?
Did you know that 73-year-old Nyi Ageng Serang led her troops in a war against Dutch colonists from a stretcher?
Did you know that Eberhard Wolfgang Möller originally intended Adolf Hitler to be revealed as the supreme judge in his Thingspiel , the Frankenburger Würfelspiel ?
Did you know that by 1974 at the height of the Mexican barbasco trade , 125,000 mostly indigenous peasants depended on collecting wild yam in the jungle and selling it to the pharmaceutical industry ?
Did you know that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
Did you know that the main tourist attraction in Agkistro , northern Greece , its steam bath complex , dates from the 10th century Byzantine period?
Did you know that Darrell Wallace, Jr. was the first African American to win a NASCAR Rookie of the Year award?
Did you know that the Millennium episode " Lamentation " features a kidney sent to an investigator's wife, as a reference to Jack the Ripper 's " From Hell " letter?
Did you know that like William Bligh of the Bounty , naval officer John Bligh experienced a mutiny during his time in command?
Did you know that Steven Curtis Chapman 's song " Yours " was the 45th number-one single of his career?
Did you know that in 1457 Pope Callixtus III criticized the bishop of Krujë for the unjustified excommunication of Pal Dukagjini and his subjects?
Did you know that the Dutch children's book Frog and the Birdsong by Max Velthuijs is frequently used to teach young children how to cope with death?
Did you know that Ørn-Horten avoided relegation from the 2001 Norwegian First Division with a match-winning goal from the goalkeeper five minutes into stoppage time in the decisive match against Vålerenga ?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Oerip Soemohardjo attended a girls' school as a child to improve his temperament?
Did you know that the plot of the novel Mothers and Other Liars , about a teenage runaway raising a baby found in a trashcan, was inspired by author Amy Bourret 's work in child advocacy?
Did you know that a song included on the album El Ejemplo released by Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte in 1995 was nominated for an award in 2011?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Nick Perry broke the Michigan record for sacks as a senior in high school?
Did you know that Helen Keller interceded with the US government on behalf of Japanese anma practitioners?
Did you know that performance calligraphy is a modern form of Japanese calligraphy that combines J-pop music and dance with traditional calligraphy?
Did you know that Vasile Pogor , a Romanian Buddhist scholar and co-founder of the Conservative Party , appeared to be "missing something upstairs"?
Did you know that cognitive psychologist Eldar Shafir has concluded that people who believe they are being rational often are not ?
Did you know that Gillian Anderson 's minimal involvement in The X-Files episode " The Gift " allowed her to spend more time with her daughter?
Did you know that Jersey will compete in the 2012–13 RFU Championship after three consecutive promotions?
Did you know that the Chinese political cartoon Hexie Farm , critical of the government, is written by someone identified only as "Crazy Crab"?
Did you know that the Music for Our Mother Ocean ( MOM ) series of benefit albums featured a wide array of popular musicians, including Paul McCartney , Snoop Dogg , the Beach Boys and the Beastie Boys ?
Did you know that Leontina Albina Espinoza of Colina, Chile , claimed to have given birth to 58 children and was cited for a time by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific mother?
Did you know that John de Rantau 's 2011 film The Universe Supports details a boy's search for his mother through the Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team?
Did you know that Jeffrey Hammonds received the largest signing bonus of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft ?
Did you know that the Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a thorium-rich hotspot on the back of the moon?
Did you know that Phoebe Buffay 's childbirth scenes in the Friends episode " The One Hundredth " were created using actual childbirth footage, dolls, and real-life triplets coated with grape jelly ?
Did you know that the only FIFA recognised matches Anguilla women's national football team have played in were against Antigua and Barbuda , US Virgin Islands , Barbados and Grenada ?
Did you know that a Klingon bat'leth was used in two Colorado robberies?
Did you know that A. P. Nagarajan , who played the main lead in Naalvar , also provided the script for the film?
Did you know that mathematician Ioan Mire Melik was a member of the Romanian literary society Junimea , and recommended it invest in a salt mine to improve its finances?
Did you know that a newspaper quipped that the 1911 Michigan football team , featuring "Bottles" and "Bubbles" , could claim the world championship for having players injured?
Did you know that in his Requiem , composer Frederick Delius mingled "Hallelujahs" with "Allah II Allah"?
Did you know that pitcher B. J. Wallace set an Olympic baseball record with fourteen strikeouts in one game?
Did you know that the father of aircraft pioneer William Boeing threatened to block the Duluth Ship Canal by tying a rope across it?
Did you know that Jumbo King , a branded fast food chain company marketing Maharashtrian speciality vada pav , was inspired by McDonald's and Burger King ?
Did you know that a nine-image series by Nadar may be the first medical photographic documentation of an intersex person?
Did you know that in 1965, Barbara Robbins became the first female CIA employee to die in action in the agency's history and the first American woman to die in the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that the vulnerable shrub Acacia pubescens , once grown at the Château de Malmaison , is threatened by housing development around Sydney ?
Did you know that the Millennium episode " Maranatha " connects the Chernobyl disaster to events in the Book of Revelation ?
Did you know that milonguero-style tango is danced with a close embrace ?
Did you know that Rambhadracharya believes that Tulsi Peeth stands at the place where Rama gave his sandals to Bharata , as described in the Ramayana ?
Did you know that due to the strength of The Dismemberment Plan album The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified , the band was able to sign with major record label Interscope ?
Did you know that Hungarian-born Endre Nemes was a pioneer in Sweden in the use of enamels in public art?
Did you know that when John Ollivier contested the Lincoln electorate in New Zealand in an 1889 by-election , he was praised by his opponent for his good-humoured campaign?
Did you know that the onion-eye grenadier is often caught unintentionally when the Greenland halibut is being fished?
Did you know that the Danish theological movement Tidehverv , represented in parliament from 2001 to 2011, published combined pamphlets by Martin Luther under the title "Against the Turk and the Jew" in 1999?
Did you know that the Bozeman National Fish Hatchery was instrumental in rebuilding the endangered population of the greenback cutthroat trout ?
Did you know that Highway 95 and Highway 96 were the only King's Highways in Ontario not connected to the rest of the network by a fixed link ?
Did you know that Scheduled Castes leader Sukumar Barman served as Tripura state minister for transport and fisheries?
Did you know that Horse ebooks is a Twitter spam account best known for the amusing non sequiturs it tweets to evade spam detection?
Did you know that in the 2007 children's book Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch , a duck and Death discuss the afterlife?
Did you know that the roundnose grenadier is projected to be fished to extinction unless actions are taken to conserve it?
Did you know that Adéodat Compère-Morel published a socialist encyclopedia and dictionary?
Did you know that when filming " Walkabout ", Millennium star Lance Henriksen wanted it to be clear his character was not reckless with medicine?
Did you know that two years after winning the 2,000 Guineas Stakes , the British racehorse Gang Forward was sold for 4,000 guineas and became a stud in Australia?
Did you know that the Atwood-Blauvelt mansion in Oradell, New Jersey , was built for Kimball Atwood, whose Florida grapefruit plantation was the birthplace of the pink grapefruit?
Did you know that the original publication of Eve's Ransom by George Gissing was delayed by Fred Barnard 's drunkenness?
Did you know that Tricana poveira are Portuguese girls known for a characteristic style of dressing, based on folk costume, and way of walking?
Did you know that Tunisian police officer and whistle-blower Samir Feriani became known as "the first 'Prisoner of Conscience' in post-revolutionary Tunisia"?
Did you know that Lindsay Lohan is one of three celebrity judges appearing in the " Nationals " competition episode of Glee ?
Did you know that Romanian politician Nicolae Penescu was seriously wounded in two assassination attempts thirty-five years apart, dying as a result of injuries sustained the second time?
Did you know that a large aftershock following the 1966 Toro earthquake caused more deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo than the original earthquake?
Did you know that at the age of 92, Marius Moutet was the oldest member of the Senate of France and the French Assembly ?
Did you know that Chad Mottola was the first University of Central Florida athlete to be selected in the first round of a professional sports draft ?
Did you know that the endangered butterfly Karner blue prefers the perennial subshrub Rubus flagellaris as a source of nectar ?
Did you know that artist Tina Mion , of Winslow, Arizona , grew up visiting the museums of her birthplace, Washington, D.C. , whose National Portrait Gallery now holds two of her works in its permanent collection?
Did you know that the head of King Badu Bonsu II , who was hanged in 1838 during the Dutch–Ahanta War , was rediscovered in the Leiden University Medical Center in 2005?
Did you know that the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority in Afghanistan was modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States?
Did you know that singer Hetty Koes Endang and her duet partner were the first Indonesians to win the World Popular Song Festival ?
Did you know that Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. is scheduled to posthumously receive the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama 42 years after he was killed in the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that "the mill and trysting thorn" in Robert Burns 's poem "The Soldier's Return" are located in the Scottish hamlet Millmannoch ?
Did you know that Suttle Lake , a natural lake on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range of Oregon , has brown trout weighing up to 10 pounds (4.5 kg)?
Did you know that Bangkok hosted the 1978 Asian Games after Singapore and Islamabad dropped their plans to host for financial and political reasons, respectively?
Did you know that a letter from Charles McEwen Hyde prompted Robert Louis Stevenson to publicly express his belief that Father Damien would one day achieve sainthood?
Did you know that the Bergen Greenland Company colonized Greenland thinking it was a peninsula still inhabited by the old Norse settlers ?
Did you know that four of the twentieth-century Parkfield earthquakes had similar intensities to the dawn foreshock of the great 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake ?
Did you know that while football is the most popular women's sport in Gambia and the U-17 has played in a World Cup qualifier , the Gambia women's national football team has not played a FIFA sanctioned game?
Did you know that the Algerian communist leader Larbi Bouhali went into exile after the 1965 coup d'état ?
Did you know that the top of Bear Seamount , an underwater volcano, is covered by sediment and boulders that may have fallen from icebergs ?
Did you know that Argentine general Lucio Norberto Mansilla died during the 1871 epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Jennings of the Miami Marlins has been mistakenly thought to be the son of team vice president Dan Jennings?
Did you know that MP Thomas William Booker , son of the poet Luke Booker , was raised at Melingriffith Tin Plate Works by his uncle, the High Sheriff Richard Blakemore ?
Did you know that casino operator Caesars World began as a hot dog stand in Miami Beach ?
Did you know that the Central African Republic faced difficulties in playing in the Women's U-19 World Cup semi-final against South Africa because the country initially refused to grant players visas?
Did you know that Robert Kirkman 's method for co-writing the Thief of Thieves comic book series was influenced by his work on The Walking Dead TV show?
Did you know that voluntary disclosure in accounting benefits investors, companies and the economy, and is carried out extensively by many companies?
Did you know that Rufus Youngblood used his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy ?
Did you know that the anti-cancer drug polyestradiol phosphate was discovered accidentally when scientists experimented with a compound found in apple tree leaves?
Did you know that the 6th Summit of the Americas was boycotted by Presidents Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua ?
Did you know that Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan erected a Koranic school and an elementary school near the Ese Kapi Mosque in Istanbul?
Did you know that the cremated remains of Romanian communist politician Alexandru Drăghici were smuggled into his native country and, refused burial, lay uninterred for a decade?
Did you know that the B3306 road in Cornwall passes at least four Bronze Age or Neolithic sites?
Did you know that prior to his long coaching career, Hank Crisp was a member of the football , basketball , and baseball teams at Virginia Polytechnic Institute despite not having a right hand?
Did you know that protesters have occupied and started to farm a tract of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley ?
Did you know that while filming the episode " Props ", many Glee actors had to swap roles with another actor in the cast?
Did you know that the founder of handbag company Radley originally started in the industry by selling bags on a market stall in 1984?
Did you know that Ed Samples took up stock car racing because he deemed the sport to be safer than moonshine-running ?
Did you know that the Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport Tramway was the only one of three independent tramways in Plymouth to be built to the British standard gauge ?
Did you know that the group theatre of Kolkata is a theatre tradition that arose contrasting with the commercial theatre in the 1940s?
Did you know that the name of the racehorse Ela-Mana-Mou , the beaten favourite for the 200th Epsom Derby , means "Come on, my darling" in Greek?
Did you know that Mahdi Abu Deeb was arrested, allegedly tortured, and sentenced to 10 years in prison due to his role in the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising ?
Did you know that Mike Graham , the son of Eddie Graham , opened the Eddie Graham Memorial Battle of the Belts with a tribute to his father and officially introduced the FIP Florida Heritage Championship ?
Did you know that bowlers have taken thirteen five-wicket hauls in Tests and one five-wicket haul in One Day International cricket matches played at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai ?
Did you know that Consul General Eb Gaines organized two Bermuda summits between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.K. Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major ?
Did you know that " Dance with Somebody ", Glee 's tribute episode to the late Whitney Houston , features an a cappella version of " How Will I Know "?
Did you know that the Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul, built in the Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road?
Did you know that University of Hawaii softball player Kaia Parnaby is trying to make the Australian squad that will play in the 2012 World Championships ?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler was so hopelessly in love with Stefanie Isak when he was a teenager that he planned to kill both her and himself in the Danube ?
Did you know that the film Shodo Girls is based on the true story of a group of high school girls who organized a performance calligraphy competition to revive their hometown?
Did you know that India has the highest frequency of traffic collisions in the world, with frequency of accidents in its capital New Delhi being 40 times more than in London ?
Did you know that botanist Allen Lowrie wrote three volumes dedicated to the carnivorous plants of Australia ?
Did you know that the main theme of the 1994 Asian Games was to promote peace and harmony among Asian nations, which was emphasized because the venue was the site of the first atomic bomb attack?
Did you know that the "most famous signature in rock 'n' roll " – the opening riff to Chuck Berry 's 1958 hit " Johnny B. Goode " – was actually a jazz riff played 12 years earlier by Carl Hogan ?
Did you know that the first secular Bulgarian book of the modern era was an 1824 children's encyclopedia?
Did you know that Sherina's Adventure featured a young girl going against Sadam, then joining forces with him, in a story inspired by Grease ?
Did you know that in 678 BCE Duke Wu started the practice of funeral human sacrifice in Qin , which continued in the ancient Chinese state for nearly three centuries till Duke Xian abolished it in 384 BCE ?
Did you know that the Pebble smartwatch failed to interest traditional investment groups, and then became the most successful project in the history of Kickstarter ?
Did you know that German general Hermann von Kuhl is one of only five recipients to be distinguished with both the "military class" and "peace class" of the Pour le Mérite ?
Did you know that Buenos Aires besieged and captured Montevideo during the Second Banda Oriental campaign ?