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Did you know that Patricia Van Cleve Lake , rumored daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst , performed in the radio sitcom Blondie for five years alongside her real-life husband Arthur Lake ?
Did you know that Isis and her devotees are often depicted carrying a bucket ?
Did you know that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi , a Buddhist monk , a Greek Orthodox priest , and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists ?
Did you know that Albert Clinton Horton was the first Lieutenant Governor of Texas ?
Did you know that Bloc Party 's remix album Silent Alarm Remixed contains a version of the single " Banquet " by the original album 's producer, Paul Epworth ?
Did you know that medievalist art historian Walter Horn was the special intelligence officer who recovered the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire when they were hidden by Nazis during World War II ?
Did you know that the Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant is expected to provide up to 12% of the total energy output of Tajikistan ?
Did you know that cornerback Syd'Quan Thompson of California , a preseason All-America prospect, played his first game with a broken wrist and was outrun for two touchdowns by the wide receiver he was assigned?
Did you know that in Serbian legend old people who had outlived their usefulness were ritually slain by their children in a custom known as lapot ?
Did you know that Sir Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple , chief of Clan MacAulay , was an ally of the MacGregors , and that he feuded with the Buchanans , Campbells , and the Galbraiths ?
Did you know that the Bare-faced Bulbul , the only songbird in Asia to lack feathers on the face, is the first Asian bulbul to be described in over 100 years?
Did you know that W. H. Weeks designed the plans for hundreds of buildings in California including the Yolo County Courthouse and Yolo Branch Library ?
Did you know that according to Blind Harry , the Scottish patriot William Wallace was warmly greeted at Faslane Castle , after he had sacked Dumbarton and laid waste to the castle of Rosneath ?
Did you know that evidence from Gerald Gardner , a man who served as president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Organization for Women , led to a ban on sex-segregated help wanted ads, a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1973 ruling ?
Did you know that the Bear and Billet , now a public house in Chester , Cheshire , England, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury ?
Did you know that when Henry John Whitehouse was elected Episcopal bishop of Illinois he refused to take up his seat for nine years, until his salary demands were met?
Did you know that Jonny Diaz , brother of Major League Baseball player Matt Diaz , abandoned his college baseball career to become a Christian musician ?
Did you know that the Capitulation of Franzburg forbade the rape of decent women and frivolous use of arms?
Did you know that Abraham Barak Salem was the first Black Jewish lawyer in India ?
Did you know that the cast of Home Movies completely improvised the show's pilot episode ?
Did you know that Fernando Ansúrez II , Count of Monzón , sent four embassies to the court of al-Hakam II , Caliph of Córdoba , during his reign?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen wrote " She's the One " before recording Born to Run , but was originally unsure whether to include it on the album?
Did you know that President Benjamin Harrison 's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa , Iowa , was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall ?
Did you know that NYU professor Lionel Casson built a view of ancient maritime history by studying classical texts and archeological studies of ancient shipwrecks and the contents of the amphorae they carried?
Did you know that the English Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was concerned by the morality of silver-gilt ?
Did you know that Marcia McNutt , nominee for director of the United States Geological Survey , studied underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team ?
Did you know that a British Army major was awarded one of the FBI Honorary Medals , the FBI Star?
Did you know that Nirupama Rao , the present Foreign Secretary of India , was the first woman spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry in 2001–2002?
Did you know that Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head football coach, John Heisman , by offering a US$450 pay increase?
Did you know that professional wrestler Bam Bam used the name of his favorite cartoon character, Bamm-Bamm Rubble , as his ring name ?
Did you know that during the English Civil War , Charles I was staying in Gamul House , Chester , Cheshire , when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor ?
Did you know that during his 31 years as a federal judge in New York , Henry W. Goddard heard cases including William James Sidis 's invasion of privacy suit against The New Yorker and the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss ?
Did you know that after the French defeat at the Battle of Muong Khoua during the French Indochina War , the four surviving soldiers trekked 80 kilometres (50 mi) through the jungle of Laos to safety?
Did you know that English poet Mary Jones , called "the Chantress" by Samuel Johnson , did not consider publishing her efforts until pushed to do so by her friends?
Did you know that muscles of patients with neuromuscular diseases such as Lou Gehrig's Disease have electrical abnormalities that can be detected by electrical impedance myography ?
Did you know that Polish partisan leader Władysław Łukasiuk , despite his paralyzed leg, always marched at the head of his unit, using his carbine as a crutch?
Did you know that Kelly Clarkson fought to prevent her record company, RCA , from releasing her song " Already Gone " as a single?
Did you know that tree ring analysis of Swaggerty Blockhouse 's logs indicate a cutting date circa 1860, well after the posted construction date for this nationally-recognized historic structure?
Did you know that the blotched catshark exhibits fluorescence , with spots that glow yellow under blue light?
Did you know that one type of GM V-8 engine requires five cores per mold to create one casting ?
Did you know that Geoff Henke , founding chairman of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia , was succeeded as the head of Australia's Winter Olympics team by Ian Chesterman , under whom the country won three gold medals?
Did you know that Hamida Banu Begum , wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun , gave birth to the future Emperor Akbar the Great in 1542, while taking refuge at a fortress?
Did you know that Congregation Shaarey Zedek constructed five new synagogue buildings in fewer than 100 years as it followed its congregants toward the Detroit suburbs?
Did you know that the Brumbrella was a motorised rain cover for the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham ?
Did you know that when The Mountaineers opened at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1909, The Times declared that "it forms one of those instances of respectable mediocrity"?
Did you know that Jadwiga of Pomerania might have been a daughter of a Polish king , but scholars are uncertain as to her lineage?
Did you know that Mike Lantry , a Vietnam veteran and walk-on place-kicker , broke the University of Michigan record for the longest field goal twice in the same quarter?
Did you know that Cyclone Rona of 1999 uprooted trees that survived a 1934 cyclone that hit the same area in Queensland , Australia ?
Did you know that Way to Heaven is a play about a 1944 visit to Theresienstadt during which the Nazis duped the Red Cross into reporting that rumors of mass murder were untrue?
Did you know that multi-platinum selling artist Harry Connick, Jr. , is scheduled to release his new album Your Songs on vinyl , a whole month before its CD release?
Did you know that the palatability of foods and drinks depends upon an " opioid -eating site" in the brain's nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum ?
Did you know that of the 60+ First Nations in British Columbia (BC) only a few have signed treaties with the BC and Canadian governments?
Did you know that electro-hydrostatic actuators can replace the hydraulic plumbing of an aircraft with electrical wiring, leading to a "power-by-wire" design?
Did you know that in the final phase of its existence, the Soviet Union deprioritized relations with Laos for the sake of achieving a settlement in the Cambodian Civil War ?
Did you know that the Kraków City Council has forty-three elected members, including the mayor ?
Did you know that The Californian , California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper , with English on one side and Spanish on the other?
Did you know that the hurricane database HURDAT contains information about every tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean since 1851?
Did you know that Dănuţ Borbil 's left arm is more successful than his right?
Did you know that the Dean of Barnard College and Teddy Roosevelt's grandson founded an organization that lobbied the Truman administration to prevent the creation of the State of Israel ?
Did you know that the Qayqayt First Nation , of New Westminster , British Columbia , was thought to be extinct until 1994 when Rhonda Larrabee became the only member?
Did you know that baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater ?
Did you know that the Eritrean Independent Moslem League was persuaded to support a union between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after receiving Ethiopian assurances on Arabic schooling and respect for Islamic traditions?
Did you know that water from the Little Applegate River was used in the mine in Sterlingville , the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon and possibly the entire western United States ?
Did you know that Pinchas Lapide 's Three Popes and the Jews controversially claims that Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews from The Holocaust ?
Did you know that lyric soprano Lois Hunt was introduced to then Vice President Lyndon Johnson while he was wearing a pair of green silk pajamas embroidered with his initials?
Did you know that Rudolf Caracciola once drove a car on public roads at 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph)?
Did you know that a mummy was found in a cave in Wyoming ?
Did you know that " King Richard " lost his ear in a car accident, but still scored 24 times for his country ?
Did you know that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?
Did you know that in 1967 Kōji Seki directed Perverted Criminal , Japan's first 3-D film and the world's first 3-D sex film?
Did you know that " A slumber did my spirit seal " is the only poem in William Wordsworth 's Lucy poem series that does not mention the dead Lucy by name?
Did you know that Richard Leroy Walters , a homeless man who managed his money from the billiards room of a senior center in Phoenix, Arizona , converted to Catholicism on his deathbed and left $4 million to charity?
Did you know that Abdel Hamid Sarraj , at age 35, was the minister of interior in the United Arab Republic and the most powerful Syrian official in the UAR?
Did you know that the Ersatz Yorck -class battlecruisers , although not completed, served as the basis for the Scharnhorst class battleships of the Kriegsmarine ?
Did you know that Guilian Gary , a former college wide receiver , says he has few "fond football memories" of the season in which he made a conference championship -winning reception ?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations?
Did you know that Filipino revolutionary leader Daniel Tirona was almost shot at twice by Philippine National hero Andrés Bonifacio ?
Did you know that The Addams Family , an upcoming musical by Andrew Lippa , features an original story based solely on the cartoons of Charles Addams , rather than the subsequent television series and films?
Did you know that Alexander Valentine , Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965, published a book Tramping round London ?
Did you know that " A Chorus Lie ", the Will & Grace episode in which Matt Damon appeared, had the highest viewing figures in the show's history?
Did you know that the river Vaitarani that flows near the Rudranath Hindu shrine is identified with the "river of salvation", where souls of the dead cross to the other world?
Did you know that professional wrestler Juan Aguilar Leos was not revealed to be the son of El Texano until he was unmasked, after which he adopted the ring name "El Texano, Jr."?
Did you know that Percival C. Pope 's Marine Corps Brevet Medal , at the Navy Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is the only known original Marine Corps Brevet Medal on public display?
Did you know that the Softwarepark Hagenberg has also been called the "miracle of Hagenberg" for its success?
Did you know that George Burgess , the first Episcopal Bishop of Maine , died at sea in 1866 while traveling to Haiti on Church business?
Did you know that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 's flamboyant former director, Thomas Krens , was at the forefront of the 1990's trend of worldwide museum expansion?
Did you know that US Highway 10 crosses the Wisconsin – Michigan border via a privately-owned carferry ?
Did you know that the station for the town of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou is served by up to 40 TGV trains every day?
Did you know that in 1969, Côte d'Ivoire severed its relations with the Soviet Union , following accusations that the Soviet ambassador had supported Ivorian student protests?
Did you know that when the Vigeland Museum was created in 1947 to showcase Gustav Vigeland 's works, it was partially funded by a budget surplus from Oslo 's municipal cinema company ?
Did you know that in the Douglas Treaties the Chewhaytsum Indian Tribe of Vancouver Island signed away the land rights for the city of Sooke, British Columbia , for £45.10?
Did you know that in 1953, the Eritrean Moslem League of the Western Province proposed the creation of an independent Beja state out of parts of Eritrea and Sudan , but failed to secure British support for the idea?
Did you know that the remains of at least 55 individual mammoths have been excavated at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs in South Dakota , discovered in 1974 by a construction worker at a prospective subdivision ?
Did you know that physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz found R. akari , the source of the disease rickettsialpox , in mites so numerous that the "wallpaper appeared to be moving"?
Did you know that in July 2009, GERB politician Tsetska Tsacheva became the first ever Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria ?
Did you know that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian , published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly ?
Did you know that the National Union of Algerian Farmers , one of the six main mass organizations of the FLN period, enjoyed less political autonomy than the other mass organizations in Algeria at the time?
Did you know that astronaut-politician John Glenn 's 1964 run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio was criticized as an "undesirable precedent in astronauts' capitalizing on their fame to enter political roles"?
Did you know that the shape of recession varies greatly between different economic downturns ?
Did you know that in 1955, pressure from the Catholic Church and Conservatives forced the Colombian military government of Rojas Pinilla to close down the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo trade union centre?
Did you know that Bahadur Shah Zafar II who wished to be buried at a burial ground in Zafar Mahal precincts in Delhi was deported to Rangoon after the Sepoy Mutiny where he died without honour?
Did you know that by 1870, "New Departure" Democrats stopped opposing Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans to improve their electoral fortunes?
Did you know that Dr. Thomas Dao was an early advocate for breast self-examination , mammography and conservative alternatives to radical mastectomy in which patients can take time to consider treatment options?
Did you know that the Danube Delta and Retezat National Park are part of the seven natural wonders of Romania ?
Did you know that, as a result of the Pennsylvania government 's seventh consecutive budget impasse , most state employees are working without pay?
Did you know that Michigan 's "chunky fullback ," "Bullet Bob" Westfall , known for his "spinner play," was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987?
Did you know that the largest specimens of the sandy stiltball fungus have been found growing in floodplains with halophilic vegetation?
Did you know that William Smalley, the first settler in the area of Cowan Lake State Park in Ohio, was held captive by the Lenape twice, for a total of 6 years and 7 months?
Did you know that the nasal infix , which was used in the Proto-Indo-European language to express the present tense , can still be traced in word pairs like convince / conviction ?
Did you know that the decision of Pope Pius XII to appoint German apostolic administrators to occupied Poland during World War II was labelled "one of his most controversial decisions"?
Did you know that St John's Hospital in Bath was founded around 1180, by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin beside the hot springs of the Cross Bath ?
Did you know that the Ioan Slavici National College in Satu Mare , Romania , has a 200-seat chapel on its campus?
Did you know that Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad ?
Did you know that while working as a children's entertainer in the 1980s, actress Fay Ripley was set up as a jewellery thief in an insurance fraud attempt?
Did you know that Dean Holness , who starred in football television drama Dream Team and film Mike Bassett: England Manager , played professional football for Southend United ?
Did you know that Roman commander Gaius Considius Longus was killed by his own men during the Roman civil war as he attempted to escape Caesar 's victorious forces?
Did you know that John Marsh , the first Anglo owner of Rancho Los Meganos , was murdered in 1856 by employees who thought he was cheating them?
Did you know that a June 5, 1981, report by Dr. Joel Weisman in MMWR about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the AIDS pandemic and "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature"?
Did you know that in 1957, the Wycombe Repertory Theatre presented the English-speaking premiere of The Threatening Storm written by Basil Ashmore ?
Did you know that Hasan Nuhanović is a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide who is suing the Dutch state for its failure to protect his family from being killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995?
Did you know that God's Providence House in Chester , Cheshire , probably gained its name because the owners survived the plague of 1647–48?
Did you know that Gamal Salem was chief judge of the court that sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death for participating in an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ?
Did you know that the historic N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend , Oregon ?
Did you know that in the Skins episode " Pandora ", comedian David Baddiel guest-starred as the lover of his real-life girlfriend 's character?
Did you know that the Mihai Eminescu National College in Satu Mare , Romania , was established in 1634 when Jesuits received approval to open a college in the city?
Did you know that Jesse N. Funk was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War I for running through no man's land to rescue wounded men?
Did you know that Henry Swinburne was the first canon law writer to write his works in English?
Did you know that the ornamental houseplant Asparagus densiflorus is toxic to dogs and cats?
Did you know that Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina ?
Did you know that the old rank of mate was revived in 1913 as part of the Selborne-Fisher scheme for the accelerated promotion of promising enlisted personnel to become engineering officers?
Did you know that " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian ?
Did you know that the single "Hot" by Romanian singer Inna was posted on YouTube and reached 2 million views in under one year?
Did you know that the undefeated 1940 Stanford Indians were coached by Clark Shaughnessy , whose record at the University of Chicago had caused that school to discontinue its football program ?
Did you know that in the Dutch children's book Pluk van de Petteflet , a group of grown-ups get intoxicated from eating mysterious berries , a scene praised by educators?
Did you know that the Hindu god Shiva is worshipped in form of a navel-shaped lingam at Madhyamaheshwar temple?
Did you know that All-Pro linebacker Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich , a rodeo rider before joining the NFL , reported that no end or back ever threw a block like a wild pony "when he feels the first touch of a saddle"?
Did you know that although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom , it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada ?
Did you know that Abdel Latif Boghdadi resigned his position as vice president of Egypt because Nasser adopted a more Soviet Union -style system for Egypt rather than closer United States relations?
Did you know that the four Mackensen -class battlecruisers were canceled according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
Did you know that in the mid-1980s, Burger King offered customers $5,000 for finding a nerd ?
Did you know that a plot on the American soap opera One Life to Live featuring sexually confused police officer Oliver Fish invited controversy when an actress objecting to the storyline was replaced?
Did you know that in the fiscal years 2001 to 2003, the oil tanker MV Montauk made over 125 voyages in and about South Korea and Japan ?
Did you know that despite a poor economy, a record number of people anted up $1,000 in a "Stimulus Special" ?
Did you know that in 1961, the Soviet ambassador to Guinea Daniel Solod was accused of being involved in an anti-government plot, and was expelled from Guinea?
Did you know that on Reek Sunday , in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick , some barefoot?
Did you know that Leo Paquin , one of the Seven Blocks of Granite on the 1936 Fordham University football team, was nicknamed "Twinkletoes"?
Did you know that Geastrum triplex is considered the largest of the earthstar fungi ?
Did you know that Münchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior where people feign illnesses in online forums to gain attention and sympathy?
Did you know that Alan Garnett Davenport , a Member of the Order of Canada , was the wind engineer on the World Trade Center , the Sears Tower , and the Tsing Ma Bridge ?
Did you know that New Zealand and Australian soldiers massacred the adult males of a village in Palestine during the Surafend affair of 1918?
Did you know that Wyatt Durette, co-writer of Zac Brown Band 's " Toes ", called Brown at 6:00 in the morning to give him the idea for the song?
Did you know that chronically indebted Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania wanted to sell the island of Rügen to Denmark ?
Did you know that the Azores Bullfinch is the most threatened passerine bird in Europe?
Did you know that Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates , has taught a course entitled " Racial Profiling "?
Did you know that Washington, D.C. Chief of Police Richard H. Sylvester is credited with having coined the term " third degree " to refer to harsh means of extracting confessions from suspects?
Did you know that Kalpeshwar is the only temple in the Panch Kedar circuit, a group of five sacred Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalayas , accessible throughout the year?