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Did you know that Robert E. A. Lee was executive producer of A Time for Burning , a cinéma vérité documentary about efforts to bridge race relations among Lutherans in Omaha, Nebraska ?
Did you know that R29 , an R23X class airship , recorded the only success by any British wartime rigid airship when she took part in the sinking of German submarine UB-115 in 1918?
Did you know that New York City rapper Coke La Rock is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop ?
Did you know that due to widespread censorship and control of media in the Eastern Bloc , underground distribution of clandestine information became common ?
Did you know that in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P. Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult in Louisiana ?
Did you know that when footballer Morten Knutsen left Odd Grenland due to persistent injury problems, he joined FK Arendal , only to immediately sustain another injury?
Did you know that most of the 156 episodes of the 1950s series The Cisco Kid were filmed in color, more than a decade before color television became common?
Did you know that having suffered a stroke in 1972, neuroanatomist Alf Brodal published the article Self-Observations and Neuro-Anatomical Considerations After a Stroke in the journal Brain in 1973?
Did you know that in the last 50 years, 17 championships have been retired by current professional wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainment ?
Did you know that Australian Second World War flying ace Virgil Brennan shot down 10 Axis aircraft over Malta in a five month period during 1942?
Did you know that New Jersey 's Pigeon Swamp State Park , named for 18th-century landowner Ann Pidgeon,  was a nesting place for passenger pigeons before they became extinct in the early 20th century?
Did you know that according to Sextius Niger the salamander was an aphrodisiac if served in honey , but its power to extinguish fires was a myth?
Did you know that six idols from the Sivagurunathaswamy temple in Sivapuram , India ,  were secretly smuggled out of the country in the 1950s?
Did you know that from 1963 to 1991, only four nations— Canada , Czechoslovakia , Sweden and the Soviet Union —won medals at the Ice Hockey World Championships ?
Did you know that Frederick Stokes captained the England rugby team in the first ever international rugby match in 1871?
Did you know that Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church in South Carolina has one of the oldest congregations in continuous service?
Did you know that when cut, the poisonous mushroom Lactarius chrysorrheus bleeds white milk which quickly turns sulphur-yellow?
Did you know that in 1892, future I.C.C. commissioner Henry C. Hall was journeying to California for his health, but stopped off in Colorado and liked it so much he settled there?
Did you know that the cult of Kukulkan , the Yucatec Maya feathered serpent deity , was the first Mesoamerican religion to transcend earlier linguistic and ethnic divisions?
Did you know that Australian thriller Incident at Raven's Gate was an early film by director Rolf de Heer , who would go on to make the AFI Award-winning Ten Canoes ?
Did you know that the twenty-four Liebherr T282B trucks at Barrick Gold 's Cortez Gold Mine account for 10% of that model's sales worldwide?
Did you know that the brownsnout spookfish is the only vertebrate known to use a mirror to focus an image in its eye?
Did you know that the Saginaw Trail 's name comes from the Ojibwe word for "where the Sauk were"?
Did you know that in 1697 French Huguenot refugee Élie Bouhéreau brought church records from La Rochelle to Ireland to save them from destruction, and they remained there for nearly 200 years?
Did you know that Barry Bonds has won 12 Silver Slugger Awards in his career as an outfielder in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that over time, comets expel most of the volatile material from their nuclei and become extinct comets , small asteroid -like lumps of rubble?
Did you know that the Wild Rugby Academy , formed in 2007, aims to enable Germany to participate in the 2015 Rugby World Cup ?
Did you know that Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs covered the Jape song " Floating " , from the album The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me , without the band's permission?
Did you know that the three drunken Wierix brothers of Antwerp influenced Ethiopian iconography ?
Did you know that for the first four decades of its existence, the altar of the Reformed Dutch Church in Bloomingburg, New York , was on the same end as the main entrance?
Did you know that Groucho Marx wanted to play the title role of an embittered Holocaust survivor in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker ?
Did you know that Sara Christian had the highest female finish in the history of NASCAR 's top series at the 1949 Heidelberg Raceway event?
Did you know that the Performing Garage , an off-Broadway theater, was never actually a garage ?
Did you know that Major General George F. Hopkinson was the only British airborne general to be killed during the Second World War ?
Did you know that Junkie XL 's Booming Back at You was released by a joint venture between game developer EA and music company Nettwerk ?
Did you know that in 1996, the Kinjo family sued Lori Padilla for ¥ 62 million (US$580,000) blood money after a car Padilla was driving killed three of their family members in Okinawa ?
Did you know that the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program searched Florida 's Lake Crescent for the wreckage of Alligator , a paddle steamer used by archeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore ?
Did you know that Hew Pike was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his "cool example and inspiring leadership" during a fierce battle in the 1982 Falklands War ?
Did you know that the Centre College Praying Colonels participated in the first game of American football played south of the Ohio River in 1880?
Did you know that when refused leave to go to London with the order that he could only travel as far on land as he could get in his barge , Captain Henry Paulet put the barge on a cart and went anyway?
Did you know that Adolph Diesterweg , a German educationist, is sometimes credited as originating the maxim "learn to do by doing"?
Did you know that the viral video Saturday Morning Watchmen portrays Watchmen character Rorschach as a friend to the animals?
Did you know that Desiderius Erasmus knew three unrelated people called Jacob Faber ?
Did you know that Bengaluru Pete , established by Kempegowda I in 1537 with roads laid in cardinal directions with entrance gates at the end of each road, is an integral part of the present-day Bangalore , India ?
Did you know that Chris Mullin was named the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year three consecutive times from 1983 to 1985?
Did you know that the Oslo Tramway reached its greatest length with the opening of the Sinsen Line in 1939?
Did you know that when the German U-boat UB-13 sank the neutral Dutch ocean liner Tubantia in March 1916, one of the German excuses was that the torpedo had been fired ten days before and just happened to hit the ship?
Did you know that the New York Philharmonic featured cellist Lorne Munroe as a soloist more than 150 times?
Did you know that L-form bacteria are regarded either as insignificant laboratory curiosities, or important but unappreciated causes of disease?
Did you know that triple quartets from Finland 's oldest choir Akademiska Sångföreningen helped raise funds to build the Old Student House in Helsinki ?
Did you know that the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering awarded Raymond Damadian the 2009 Honorary Fellow Award for discovering the concept of MRI ?
Did you know that the Secretary of State of Texas from 1870 to 1874, James Newcomb , was a scout for the longest desert trek by U.S. military ?
Did you know that the album Ritual by Jape recently won the Choice Music Prize ?
Did you know that Moggy Hollow Natural Area was where Glacial Lake Passaic overflowed as the Wisconsin Glacier expanded in New Jersey ?
Did you know that the primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson 's film Assassination ?
Did you know that the British Council sponsored a "Rock the Referendum" concert for the 2005 Armenian constitutional referendum ?
Did you know that the "dancing doctor", pediatric toxicologist Michael Shannon , starred in a 2008 production of the Urban Nutcracker , his eighth year appearing in the annual performance?
Did you know that the Boulton and Watt steam engine preserved in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia , is the oldest surviving rotative steam engine ?
Did you know that American historian Constance McLaughlin Green won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 ?
Did you know that British heavy metal band Iron Maiden was nominated in the Best Live Return category at the 2008 Vodafone Awards , but disagreed with their nomination and asked to be withdrawn?
Did you know that university founder Andrew White prevented the Cornell Big Red football team from playing Michigan , saying "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind "?
Did you know that Russian politician Vladimir Nikolayev became mayor of Vladivostok , Russia , after his opponent  was killed by a grenade left outside his office?
Did you know that the science fiction novel Typewriter in the Sky by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century?
Did you know that Galen T. Porter was a New York City police captain who led the defense of the NY Draft Office when it was attacked by angry firefighters and mobs during the 1863 New York Draft Riots ?
Did you know that in Advanced Banter , the QI book of quotations , Alan Davies wrote the following proverb: "A small pie is soon eaten"?
Did you know that medievalist Knut Helle led the editorial committee of the ten-volume encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon ?
Did you know that Operation Cockade , a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War II , was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being “at best a piece of harmless play acting”?
Did you know that Siward , the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to have been descended from a polar bear ?
Did you know that Einar Sverdrup , CEO of a Svalbard -based coal mining company , died during World War II during an attempt to secure Svalbard?
Did you know that Wilmette , Illinois 's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
Did you know that Romanus , the second Bishop of Rochester , drowned in the Mediterranean Sea ?
Did you know that Kathryn Erbe , who had previously played a murderer in Oz , was cast as Det . Alex Eames in the first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent because producers thought she "just looked like a real cop"?
Did you know that 17th-century Hungarian painter Jakob Bogdani highlighted his paintings with exotic red-coloured birds such as the Scarlet Ibis , Red Avadavat and Northern Cardinal ?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Navy 's Kanimbla class ships can carry two Australian Army LCM2000 Landing Craft Mechanised on their bow ?
Did you know that in 1952, after giving the Checkers Speech , Richard Nixon dictated a telegram resigning as Eisenhower 's running mate, but his campaign manager Murray Chotiner ripped it up unsent?
Did you know that the black swallower can swallow fishes over twice its length and ten times its weight?
Did you know that the U.S. Senate confirmed Winthrop M. Daniels as an I.C.C. commissioner by 36–27 after some opposing Democrats voted in favor so as not to offend President Woodrow Wilson by rejecting his friend?
Did you know that the operation of malthouses in the UK were once strictly regulated to comply with the malt tax ?
Did you know that American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"?
Did you know that the founder of the artists' group Les Nabis , Paul Sérusier , spent long visits painting in the Breton village of Châteauneuf-du-Faou ?
Did you know that traditional performers, the Mulkerrin Brothers from the Aran Islands , won The All Ireland Talent Show two days ago?
Did you know that Australian flying ace Russell Foskett was credited with 6½ aerial victories during the Second World War , before he was killed over the Aegean Sea in October 1944?
Did you know that Damien Dempsey 's critically-acclaimed 2005 album, Shots , contains a track called "Saint Patrick's Day"?
Did you know that Slovenian graphic designer Miljenko Licul designed two national currencies, the tolar and (with others) the Slovenian euro coins ?
Did you know that the 1780 Atlantic hurricane season is the only season to date that had three hurricanes that caused at least 1,000 deaths each?
Did you know that John Penn , the engineer famed for introducing wood bearings for screw-propeller shafts in steam-powered ships, was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on two occasions?
Did you know that Fat Cupid died on St. Patrick's Day ?
Did you know that the small farming community of Laurelwood, Oregon , was the site of four execution-style murders in the 1970s ordered by the Hells Angels ?
Did you know that the Irish TV series Garda ar Lár focused on an incident which preceded Minister for Defence Paddy Donegan 's "thundering disgrace" remarks and President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh 's resignation?
Did you know that Yuki Kataoka , a character from the Japanese manga Saki , seems to play better at mahjong if she eats tacos ?
Did you know that Brodir and Ospak of Man were two 11th-century Danish brothers who fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014?
Did you know that despite attracting the highest ratings ever for a comedy show debut on BBC Three , Horne & Corden was described by one critic as, "about as funny as credit default swaps "?
Did you know that " Tomorrow Never Dies ", Sheryl Crow 's theme song to the James Bond film of the same name , received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song ?
Did you know that archaeologist Luigi Pernier , who found the Phaistos Disc , has been accused of having forged it?
Did you know that the TV documentary series On the Street Where You Live featured contributions from locals, historians and the Grand Marshall of the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day parade in Kilkenny , Ireland ?
Did you know that the Butler's frogfish can hold onto objects with its finger-like pectoral fin rays ?
Did you know that though actors James Whitmore and Audra Lindley were divorced in 1979, the two starred in Tom Cole's 1990 production of About Time , as an elderly couple identified only as Old Man and Old Woman?
Did you know that The Simpsons episode " In the Name of the Grandfather ", scheduled to debut on Sky One , will be the first episode of the show to air in Ireland before airing in the United States?
Did you know that research by Mark H. Beers on drug interactions in the elderly led to creating the eponymous Beers Criteria , listing prescription medications that may have negative side effects in older patients?
Did you know that during the campaign for the 2007 Bermudan general election a bullet was mailed to the Premier of Bermuda , Ewart Brown ?
Did you know that in 1453, John Norman was the first Lord Mayor of London to travel by water to swear his oath at Westminster , a tradition that continued until 1856?
Did you know that Street News , sold by homeless individuals in New York beginning in 1989,  became the prototype for street newspapers worldwide?
Did you know that Alfred Madsen , a high-ranking politician in the Norwegian Labour Party , started his career as a lithographer ?
Did you know that Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Pictures over a short clip they placed in front of Death of a Salesman , a film based off of his play of the same name ?
Did you know that in the indie video game Clean Asia! ,  the eyes of all humans leave their bodies, fly to the moon , develop weapons , and attack the human race, taking over several countries?
Did you know that the South Park episode The Ring parodies the Jonas Brothers and the marketing tactics of Walt Disney Company in using the band to pledge abstinence ?
Did you know that Jules De Martino of The Ting Tings was once in an indie band called "Babakoto" who played as a backing group for Bros ?
Did you know that logarithmic differentiation is a technique used in differential calculus to differentiate complicated functions by taking the natural logarithm of both sides of the equation y = f ( x ) {\displaystyle y=f(x)} ?
Did you know that the medieval citizens of the English town of Oxford called William de Chesney their alderman before such honorific was in common use?
Did you know that at least 212 drawings by Douglas Hamilton illustrate his big game hunting experiences, forestry operations and Army surveys of new hill stations in Tamil Nadu , South India , in the mid 1800s?
Did you know that Odd Langholm , who started out as a researcher of business administration , later won recognition for his studies of mediaeval economic thought ?
Did you know that the whitefin dogfish has light-producing organs on its upper eyelids?
Did you know that singer Katie White named her group The Ting Tings after a Chinese girl who worked with her in a boutique ?
Did you know that the Haldane Reforms of 1906–1912 included the creation of the British Expeditionary Force and the Territorial Force ?
Did you know that George Keverian won election as a 21-year-old to the Common Council of Everett, Massachusetts , in 1954 using a new MIT high-speed camera to create individualized fliers for each voter?
Did you know that voters in the 2005 Egyptian constitutional referendum could get free public transport in Cairo ?
Did you know that Prussian general Friedrich August Peter von Colomb commanded the Prussian forces throughout the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 ?
Did you know that Northern Canada ’s Rivière La Roncière had its existence disputed since its discovery in 1868 by Émile Petitot until J. Keith Fraser determined in the 1950s that it was actually the Hornaday River ?
Did you know that the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show featured models Stephanie Seymour , Beverly Peele and Frederique van der Wal ?
Did you know that Richard Pankhurst , founder of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, is the son of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst ?
Did you know that a 175-year-old shagbark hickory tree next to the Masten-Quinn House in Wurtsboro, New York , has helped to date its construction?
Did you know that Robert Gentilis graduated from the University of Oxford aged 12 and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , aged 17, below the minimum fellowship age of 18?
Did you know that Plasmatron television screens combined rows formed from liquid crystals with columns formed from plasma cells ?
Did you know that in the 1770s, Thaddeus Dod became the second minister to settle west of the Monongahela River and the first to establish a presbytery west of the Allegheny Mountains ?
Did you know that the flesh of the mushroom Russula fragilis tastes hot, while its smell is fruity?
Did you know that Ernest Trova was best known for Falling Man , a series of works "about man at his most imperfect" depicting an armless human figure that appeared in sculptures, paintings, prints and wristwatches?
Did you know the Golden banded goby was originally differentiated from similar species by the structure of its anal fin ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Jaime Cocanower set an unofficial record in 1985 by throwing a wild pitch in eight straight appearances?
Did you know that with the financial crisis of 2008–2009 the small house movement has attracted more attention?
Did you know that Gabriel Goldney , M.P. for Chippenham , is commemorated in a stained glass window of The Foundling Hospital ?
Did you know that Leptotrombidium is a genus of harvest mites that are able to infect humans with scrub typhus ( Orientia tsutsugamushi infection) through their bite?
Did you know that John D. Boon 's former store and former home in Salem, Oregon , are both on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that Operation Sundevil , a seizure of boards by the United States Secret Service , was named after the football stadium of Arizona State University ?
Did you know that Barack Obama met his future speechwriter Jon Favreau while rehearsing his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention ?
Did you know that according to the Zizhi Tongjian , the Tang Dynasty general Li Su launched a surprise attack to defeat the warlord Wu Yuanji in a heavy snowstorm?
Did you know that the Bay Street Emeryville mall was built on a Native American burial ground and a former toxic waste contaminated site?
Did you know that editor Hedley Donovan was responsible for redirecting TIME from a conservative magazine to one "more toward the middle"?
Did you know that Pitomnik Airfield was the primary German airfield within the city during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II ?
Did you know that Eline Berings won the 60 metre hurdles event at the 2009 European Indoor Championships ahead of Lucie Škrobáková ?
Did you know that the stoplight loosejaw is the only known animal that uses chlorophyll to see?
Did you know that the Prussian general Karl Wilhelm von Willisen was forced out of the Grand Duchy of Posen only two weeks after his arrival?
Did you know that Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise 's 1857 Minhag America , an effort at a prayer book for American Reform Jews , was supplanted by the Union Prayer Book in the 1890s, which in turn was replaced by Gates of Prayer in the 1975 and then Mishkan T'filah in 2007?
Did you know that according to the Zizhi Tongjian , Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Yuanji painted an archery range with the blood of a family he had executed ?
Did you know that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote The Discovery of India – a book on Indian history – while he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort during the Quit India Movement ?
Did you know that Oregon politician Medorem Crawford 's son was the first white American male born on the west side of the Willamette River ?
Did you know that adult and juvenile snake mackerels both make daily vertical migrations , but in opposite directions?
Did you know that Dan & Dave both won Olympic medals , but lost their endorsement deal?
Did you know that Clement O. Miniger , founder of the Electric Auto-Lite Company , lost $5 million in 1931 due to the economic effects of the Great Depression ?
Did you know that the Toronto Women's Bookstore is the largest nonprofit , feminist bookstore in Canada ?
Did you know that T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar was responsible for the creation of the first encyclopedia in Tamil ?
Did you know that revenue from trading cards was one of the key issues, and among the last to be resolved, during the 1992 NHL players' strike , the first such labor stoppage in National Hockey League history?
Did you know that Isabella Gilmore reestablished the female diaconate in the Anglican Communion ?
Did you know that the relationship between two gay men at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in Robert Chesley 's erotic and emotional play Jerker takes place entirely over the telephone?
Did you know that despite being Member of Parliament for Chippenham , Wiltshire , for nearly 24 years, Joseph Neeld never spoke in the House of Commons ?
Did you know that Anthony Deane-Drummond , a British Army officer, made two parachute drops , was taken prisoner after both, and escaped each time?
Did you know that the 1935 Disney cartoon Three Orphan Kittens was later censored for having negative portrayals of African Americans ?
Did you know that James Allan scored 12 goals in one match, when Sunderland beat Castletown 23–0 in an exhibition football game?
Did you know that the expression of HMGA2 in cancer cells is linked to poor prognosis in cancer patients , but also with these cells' sensitivity to some forms of treatment ?
Did you know that when Barbara Parker left a law career to take a master's, her thesis went on to be short listed for an Edgar Award as a best first mystery novel?