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Did you know that theater impresarios Shelly Gross and Lee Guber , creators of the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair , met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school?
Did you know that following the revelation of the Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German death camps?
Did you know that Robert Keable 's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby ?
Did you know that holocaust denier David Irving accidentally referred to the judge as 'Mein Führer' in his libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt ?
Did you know that the Cheltenham Synagogue still has a prayer for the health of Queen Victoria and her family on its wall?
Did you know that P. Chr. Andersen , a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment ?
Did you know that the fire at Lakanal House , Camberwell , London was described as "one of the most significant fires in some time in terms of lives lost" by the Assistant Commissioner of the local Fire Brigade ?
Did you know that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument?
Did you know that the California -based donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health -themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?
Did you know that federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States ?
Did you know that during World War II , Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand , Egil Reksten , Sverre Midtskau , Einar Johansen , Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service ?
Did you know that Kenny Tate , one of college football 's top wide receiver recruits in 2008 , was ultimately switched to the position of strong safety ?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Sydney Fremantle was assigned to guard the German High Seas Fleet , but had taken his ships out on exercises when the German fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow ?
Did you know that in the penalty shootout during the London Senior Cup final 2009, Serge Makofo was the only player to score for Croydon Athletic ?
Did you know that the motivation behind the assassination attempt against Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene in 1987 was his signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord a few weeks before?
Did you know that oil extracted from the common prickly-ash Zanthoxylum americanum has been used to treat "chronic rheumatism , typhoid and skin diseases and impurity of the blood"?
Did you know that the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?
Did you know that passengers mourned the closure of the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line so much that they poured a bucket of water over a double dressed as Richard Beeching , associated with closure of British railway lines in the 1960s?
Did you know that British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon served as consultants to political research company Parliamentary Monitoring Services ?
Did you know that Frithjof Sælen was known for the book Snorri the Seal , banned during the German occupation of Norway for being a subtle satire on Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that Charles Dickens used his father John Dickens as his inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in his novel David Copperfield ?
Did you know that Maiden Castle , an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire , is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?
Did you know that The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall ?
Did you know that although a row of six houses was built in 1870 at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York , ten years later the census recorded only two?
Did you know that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?
Did you know that a modern hippodrama , featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?
Did you know that film and television producer Alan Mruvka , founder of E! Entertainment , is now a real estate developer in Southern California ?
Did you know that the Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible ?
Did you know that the Janata Morcha had defeated Indira Gandhi 's Congress (R) in the elections in Gujarat , 15 days before the start of the Indian Emergency on June 26, 1975?
Did you know that Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill , and that each mill could drive the other's machinery?
Did you know that the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon , has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon ?
Did you know that Augustus Dickens , the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens , abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?
Did you know that the 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team ' s Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song " The Victors "?
Did you know that the pro- communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party ?
Did you know that Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall?
Did you know that medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post- Conquest monastic histories"?
Did you know that the Norwegian coastal steamer SS Barøy replaced a vessel sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm the next year?
Did you know that producer Anna Turner , co-host of Hearts of Space as "Annamystic", reportedly communicated with a spirit named Lazaris?
Did you know that the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel 's status as Norway 's "king of pop"?
Did you know that Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Brain Damage held the CZW Iron Man and the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championships simultaneously?
Did you know that Sir George Coldstream , the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office , was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain "?
Did you know that the setting of John Greenleaf Whittier 's poem Snow-Bound , a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing?
Did you know that William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton 's hotels?
Did you know that Indian musician Ram Narayan 's album Rāg Lalit was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes?
Did you know that the 1982 Washington Metro train derailment resulting in three fatalities was the deadliest accident involving the Washington Metro until the 2009 collision resulting in nine?
Did you know that the Samarkand clan ' s main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan ?
Did you know that Alec Gallup , co-chairman of The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup , was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data"?
Did you know that the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician ?
Did you know that the catchphrase " To Infinity and Beyond " from Toy Story helped to save an autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida ?
Did you know that John G.F. Francis , who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later?
Did you know that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's X Division , which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling , has been praised by Kevin Nash ?
Did you know that a reed is a comb -like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is?
Did you know that Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics ?
Did you know that more than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace , making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show?
Did you know that the Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club ?
Did you know that German-American saboteur Richard Quirin was described as a "cool, cruel man who would not hesitate to kill anyone to accomplish the mission's objectives?"
Did you know that Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route ?
Did you know that William E. Simkin , longest-serving head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service , first got involved in arbitration when a professor asked him to assist with a hosiery industry dispute?
Did you know that officers of the Sarsfield Grenadier Guards were traditionally elected by the men?
Did you know that William Michael Rooke 's opera Amilie, or the Love Test enabled New Yorkers of 1838 to appreciate "a broad new repertoire "?
Did you know that the electric drill was invented in 1889 by Arthur James Arnot ?
Did you know that the 1890 College Football All-America Team was composed entirely of players from Harvard , Yale and Princeton , including Ralph Warren , John Cranston , Billy Rhodes , Frank Hallowell and Jesse Riggs ?
Did you know that some prints of the Mass of Saint Gregory claimed to offer indulgences of up to 45,000 years?
Did you know that Stanley R. Jaffe , who resigned as president of Paramount Television in 1971, returned to become president of Paramount Communications in 1991 and president of Paramount Pictures in 1992?
Did you know that the earliest example of humans having the skill to manufacture artifacts with a compound glue was found in Sibudu Cave , South Africa ?
Did you know that White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the largest geyserite cones in Yellowstone National Park ?
Did you know that the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia , a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school ?
Did you know that the Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby was the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper 's novel The Spy ?
Did you know that the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany is only the second delisted UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
Did you know that Currambena School student David Heilpern went on to become one of New South Wales ' youngest magistrates and Southern Cross University 's Alumnus of the Decade?
Did you know that an extreme derecho that struck the southern portions of the Midwestern United States on May 8, 2009, is considered the worst in at least a decade?
Did you know that on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation ?
Did you know that Fancy Nancy parties are held throughout the United States ?
Did you know that in 1864, René Dagron produced a stanhope which enabled the viewing of a microphotograph that included the portraits of 450 people in an area of 1 mm 2 ?
Did you know that since its release in 1978, Space Invaders and its many sequels have been remade for numerous video game platforms ?
Did you know that under UNESCO 's new biosphere reserve concept, Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first urban biosphere reserve ?
Did you know that Stephen van Rensselaer III is considered the tenth richest American in history because of his ownership of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck during the 19th century, which he inherited at the age of five?
Did you know that though the Raša River in Croatian Istria is less than 30 km (19 mi) long, it has formed a political boundary for much of the last two millennia?
Did you know that the bus for Australian jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell , had groupies posing as band member's wives?
Did you know that Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist ?
Did you know that Washington State Route 113 was given to Clallam County in 1955, only to be given back to the state in 1991?
Did you know that Irv Hall ' s 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that the American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley ?
Did you know that Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial?
Did you know that the spermaceti beam press exhibited at the Nantucket Whaling Museum is the only one in the world still in its original location?
Did you know that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
Did you know that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?
Did you know that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to " life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness "?
Did you know that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?
Did you know that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode " Gone for Goode "?
Did you know that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly ?
Did you know that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley ?
Did you know that the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York , because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts ?
Did you know that Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb described theater as a profession easiest to start at the top, noting "All you need is chutzpah. You call all the agents and say, 'Here I am — a producer!'"?
Did you know that an East German , upon finding a deer shredded by the SM-70 antipersonnel mine , reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?
Did you know that the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu , written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma , compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
Did you know that Red Dog, California , now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector ?
Did you know that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?"
Did you know that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father ?
Did you know that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta , in northern Guatemala , is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?
Did you know that the book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America?
Did you know that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song " Queen Jane Approximately ", is a man?
Did you know that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
Did you know that the first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth?
Did you know that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love , marriage sex , a French invasion , a bad childhood , depressed birds , a fever , burning his foot , and a better poet ?
Did you know that the Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel?
Did you know that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris ?
Did you know that Gay Bowel Syndrome , currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific , confined to the bowel , nor a syndrome ?
Did you know that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe ?
Did you know that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia ?
Did you know that the British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services?
Did you know that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family ) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia , the northern supercontinent ?
Did you know that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman , her classics professor at Exeter University ?
Did you know that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?
Did you know that while training to become a mountain guide , former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc ?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " From a Buick 6 " borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
Did you know that following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council , Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent?
Did you know that the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property?
Did you know that the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office?
Did you know that American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?
Did you know that the house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten , was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944?
Did you know that George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence ?
Did you know that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration ?
Did you know that Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder before publishing his first novel?
Did you know that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City , with Friday as the most popular day?
Did you know that Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities?
Did you know that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley , who died of myelodysplastic syndrome , and Geraldine Ferraro , who has multiple myeloma ?
Did you know that the killers of Aladi Aruna , former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu , were sentenced to death?
Did you know that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing " It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry " during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ?
Did you know that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei 's Dialogo from Italian into Latin ?
Did you know that the Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed?
Did you know that John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket?
Did you know that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL 's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?
Did you know that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway ?
Did you know that architect Wilfrid Lacroix , designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec , later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons ?
Did you know that in 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies , and sell them into slavery ?
Did you know that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb ?
Did you know that while with the Edmonton Eskimos , Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?
Did you know that Frank J. Low , an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?
Did you know that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial ?
Did you know that the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas , Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft , but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL , the team traded the pick?
Did you know that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs ?
Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer ?
Did you know that even after Germany lost its colonies during WWI , colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office ?
Did you know that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto , members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?
Did you know that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers , four unelected people became ministers , the highest number since 1936?
Did you know that Ham Hill , a nature reserve managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust , is one of only two confirmed sites in the county where Musk Orchid grows?
Did you know that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season , Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?
Did you know that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?
Did you know that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication ?
Did you know that in 1992, the Naval Reserve of Canada created a reenactment group of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine , a colonial military force of New France ?