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Did you know that Saturday Night Live comedian Ana Gasteyer appeared in a serious role as a judge in " Fleas ", an episode of the CBS drama, The Good Wife ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Billy Sunday and musician Wayne King lived in the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa , even though neither were actual orphans?
Did you know that migralepsy is a rare condition where a migraine is followed by an epileptic seizure ?
Did you know that Joseph Goebbels called Hitler Youth Quex a successful "first large-scale attempt" to transmit Nazi ideology via movies?
Did you know that according to one contemporary source, Barbara Strozzi showed off a bejeweled necklace she received from Anna de' Medici by placing it between her "two darling, beautiful breasts"?
Did you know that the name for the Texas stream Cibolo Creek comes from the Native American and Spanish word for Buffalo , who were hunted along its steep banks?
Did you know that Thomas Herbst , the current manager of Tennis Borussia Berlin , won the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship before making his professional footballing debut for FC Bayern Munich ?
Did you know that Bristol Diamonds were popular souvenirs for visitors to the spa at Hotwells, Bristol , in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
Did you know that James Long , an Anglican missionary in India, was jailed for publishing the play Nil Darpan ?
Did you know that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?
Did you know that Laura Spurr enjoyed a long career in nursing before becoming chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi of Michigan ?
Did you know that the 1980s German television series The Black Forest Clinic was so popular that it was once dubbed "the epitome of German television bliss"?
Did you know that Harold Pogue , Perry Graves and Ralph Chapman became the University of Illinois ' first first-team College Football All-Americans in 1914 ?
Did you know that doctors must regulate the blood pressure of a beating heart cadaver to keep the organs alive?
Did you know that Henry Blogg's first rescue as coxwain of the Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell was that of the crew of the barque Alf ?
Did you know that Whitney Avenue Historic District in New Haven, Connecticut , includes "locally outstanding" collections of Queen Anne , Shingle , Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival architecture?
Did you know that Alan Cumming guest-starred in " Bang ", an episode of the CBS drama series The Good Wife , as a political consultant commentators said mirrored Rahm Emanuel ?
Did you know that Haqqi al-Azm , a former prime minister of Syria , was also the first governor of the State of Damascus under the French mandate ?
Did you know that the art student scam is a confidence trick in which scammers sell cheap paintings as original art by up-and-coming talents?
Did you know that 6.9 M w Chile earthquake of March 2010 took place shortly before president Sebastián Piñera was sworn in?
Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode " Woman of the Year " mocked the meaninglessness of awards, which some critics saw as a jab about the show's failure to win major industry awards?
Did you know that despite his international success, Tunisian - Swiss 1500 metres runner Ali Hakimi only became Tunisian champion three times?
Did you know that the wreck of the British battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary has been designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 ?
Did you know that film composer Nathan Scott , who arranged the music for Dragnet , scored almost all episodes of Lassie between 1963 and 1974?
Did you know that what is thought to have been the first ever properly floodlit association football match in the United Kingdom took place between two non-league teams, Ashton National and Hyde United , in December 1932?
Did you know that according to legend, New York Assemblywoman Ida Sammis ' first act in the legislature was to polish the brass spittoon assigned to her, and to place it on her desk as a flower vase?
Did you know that Lena Horne won six awards for her 1981 one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music ?
Did you know that an Alaska Aces fan suffered a heart attack at Game 2 of the 2009–10 PBA Philippine Cup Finals ?
Did you know that upon completion, the Port of Hambantota will be the largest port constructed on land in the 21st century?
Did you know that the Codex Arundel , which contains notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci , was reunited online with the similar Codex Leicester ?
Did you know that actor Samuel Page of the AMC drama series Mad Men started a string of ongoing guest appearances in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives , starting with the episode " The Chase "?
Did you know that the 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team set school records for best season start, longest conference winning streak, and most conference wins?
Did you know that an excerpt of Nick Bertozzi 's The Salon containing a nude depiction of Picasso caused a comic book store owner to be charged with distributing obscene material to a minor?
Did you know that more than 25,000 people have applied to take part in the Dublin Bikes scheme?
Did you know that West Jewellers of Grafton Street , Dublin , had Queen Victoria 's royal warrant to make her watches and she once bought two replicas of the Tara Brooch from the company?
Did you know that a species of specklebelly lichen is only found in old growth forests and is being threatened in Scandinavia by increased predation from snails ?
Did you know that veteran Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne recognised Brian Jennings ' ability to pronounce words well?
Did you know that the Bayonne Statute , intended to be the basis for Joseph Bonaparte 's rule of Spain , was never truly in effect because of a continual state of war ?
Did you know that after purchasing three shares for $180 in 1935 and living a frugal lifestyle, Grace Groner donated seven million dollars to her alma mater Lake Forest College upon her death?
Did you know that the Friends of Cathedral Music was formed in 1956 after the Provost of Southwell Minster abolished Saturday choral services to allow the choir men to watch local Association football matches?
Did you know that General Vernon Prichard , commander of the "Old Ironsides" armored division during the Italian Campaign in World War II , was Dwight Eisenhower 's quarterback at West Point ?
Did you know that Adrian Crowley 's album Long Distance Swimmer was recorded in his sister's home in Foxrock , County Dublin , and features contributions from James Yorkston ?
Did you know that Carl Jeppesen organized the female match workers' strike in Kristiania in 1889 ?
Did you know that despite being a magnitude 8.7 event, the 1730 Valparaiso earthquake led to only a few deaths, because people had left their homes after a strong foreshock ?
Did you know that Pat Fanning , who died last weekend, was President of the Gaelic Athletic Association when the organisation repealed its ban on "foreign games"?
Did you know that the Act of Parliament establishing the post of Postmasters General of Ireland was not repealed until 31 years after the Act of Union had united the countries in 1800?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin 's May Day Eve is a short story about a couple who got  married because of an incantation recited in front of a mirror ?
Did you know that archaeologist Senarath Paranavitana described the ancient statue of Parakramabahu I as "the very embodiment of strength, majesty and dignity"?
Did you know that the Communist -led Frente Popular polled just 1.82% votes in the 1963 Goa elections, largely due to the Catholic Church 's backing of the rival United Goans Party ?
Did you know that Ireland Triple Crown -winning rugby player Paddy Reid was born on Saint Patrick's Day ?
Did you know that the Ghab valley swamp in northwest Syria was drained between 1953 and 1968, providing an extra 41,000 hectares (160 sq mi) of irrigated lands?
Did you know that Overseas Scandinavian Airlines System was created in 1946 by six national airlines to coordinate their transatlantic flights?
Did you know that the Les Inrockuptibles journalist who reviewed the album Season of the Sparks sent a letter of thanks to its creator?
Did you know that Francis James Garrick and James Francis Garrick , MPs in New Zealand and Queensland respectively, were brothers?
Did you know that the Gemini Planet Imager is an adaptive optics instrument being developed to directly image extrasolar planets that will see first light in early 2011?
Did you know that in the Orkneyinga saga , after Olvir Rosta failed to gain a portion of the Earldom of Orkney , his grandmother was burned to death?
Did you know that Frank Dekum , a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon , and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes , starlings , nightingales , and other German songbirds to Oregon?
Did you know that the 1938 Art Deco styled and heritage listed Piccadilly Cinema is the only cinema still operating in the Perth CBD ?
Did you know that in the 1960s, Yōji Kuri was regarded as the creator of Japanese animation most known to the West?
Did you know that the symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", colored red, blue and green?
Did you know that Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker , the 1991 sequel to 1939 crime novel The Big Sleep , takes its title from Hamlet's soliloquy ?
Did you know that English independent children's television producer Kindle Entertainment ' s first film, Dustbin Baby , won both an International Emmy and a Children's BAFTA ?
Did you know that Ferdinand Poulton , a Jesuit missionary in the Province of Maryland , had his life and mysterious death fictionalized in the 1995 book Mary's Land ?
Did you know that Leptofoenus pittfieldae is the only species of Leptofoenus documented from the West Indies and the only member of Leptofoenus in the fossil record?
Did you know that Duchess Sophie of Alençon died in a fire at a French charity bazaar , but some hotel visitors escaped through the kitchen window of the adjoining hotel with the help of the cook?
Did you know that a housebarn , a combined house and barn, is more costly to insure than a house because of a higher fire risk?
Did you know that following his retirement from professional football , Bobby Bell managed car manufacturer Rolls-Royce's football team?
Did you know that while training in 1944, the German U-804 shot down a Norwegian Mosquito ?
Did you know that Sylvester C. Simpson was the first Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oregon and worked to get a book authored in part by his brother selected as the state's reader ?
Did you know that Saltford Manor House is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England?
Did you know that Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist Fernando Krahn had to leave his country in order to escape from the 1973 coup d'état ?
Did you know that the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball program was abolished by the University Senate immediately following a perfect season ?
Did you know that Abū Muḥammad al-Rāmahurmuzī was one of the first authors to write a comprehensive book of hadith terminology ?
Did you know that the Outer Trial Bank , a nature reserve in East Anglia , UK , was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir ?
Did you know that Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus did not want to receive Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko at the Battle of Stalingrad , yet ended up being received by him?
Did you know that Andrew Birch was sent by the king of Denmark, Christian VII , to examine books all over Europe?
Did you know that the 1 Ilica Street skyscraper in Zagreb was the first building in Yugoslavia to feature an aluminum facade?
Did you know that during the 1824–1842 term of Richard Charlton as the first British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii , he was involved in a military occupation and controversial land claim?
Did you know that the development of the Marker degradation chemical synthetic route between 1938 and 1940 established Mexico as a world center for steroid production?
Did you know that Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships , including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
Did you know that the ancient Bible text, British Library Manuscript, Add. 14448 , is lacunose ?
Did you know that Tuanaitau F. Tuia , the longest serving legislator in the American Samoa Fono , served a combined 49 years in both the House of Representatives and the Senate ?
Did you know that Academic All-America teams, which are now presented by ESPN The Magazine , have been selected by College Sports Information Directors of America since 1952?
Did you know that painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina ?
Did you know that the Chicago Sun-Times purchased the Mirage Tavern in 1977 to document city officials seeking bribes?
Did you know that the Danish Tegnestuen Vandkunsten were the first team of architects to be awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal ?
Did you know that Mary Elliott Flanery was the first female state legislator south of the Mason–Dixon Line when she took her seat in the Kentucky General Assembly in January 1922?
Did you know that Canadian coxswain Lesley Thompson has competed at six different Olympics, and won medals in four of them?
Did you know that Glen Moreno persuaded Man Group to sponsor the Man Booker Prize ?
Did you know that Edmund Chipp performed all six of Felix Mendelssohn 's Organ Sonatas, op. 65 from memory in 1848?
Did you know that St. Remy's Catholic Church in Russia, Ohio , has been designated a historic site despite extensive modifications?
Did you know that footballer Edward King was honored for heroism in the Philippines and tactical skill in France and later became Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College ?
Did you know that at least twelve different nomenclatures have been proposed for features of the molar in muroid rodents ?
Did you know  that in Greene v  Associated Newspapers Ltd ,  the Court of  Appeal of England and Wales held that the test for granting interim injunctions in defamation cases  was inflexible but applied it anyway?
Did you know that according to oral history, the Kingdom of Rwanda was founded in the 14th or 15th century on the shores of Lake Muhazi ?
Did you know that from 1965 to present, Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi has written over 4000 song lyrics, more than 2400 of which have been recorded?
Did you know that the Vizsoly Bible , the first complete Hungarian translation of the Bible, was published in 1590?
Did you know that brothers Hayes Jenkins and David Jenkins won gold and bronze in the men's figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that all of the buildings on Pomander Walk in Manhattan are replicas of a Broadway stage set?
Did you know that children's physician Alex Brinchmann chaired the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1941 to 1945, during the German occupation , but was eventually imprisoned from January 1945?
Did you know that the Admiral Apartments , built in 1909, had "sporting girls" (prostitutes) operating out of it by 1913?
Did you know that Harvey Pekar described his collaboration with Heather Roberson on the comic book Macedonia as one of the best working relationships he has ever had?
Did you know that the scope of the English case of Pepper v Hart , at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?
Did you know that the family of William Harris changed churches during the American Revolution because the church they had been attending continued to say prayers for the king ?
Did you know that Norwegian MP Tønnes Andenæs died in the Tretten train disaster ?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin 's short story The Summer Solstice is about the fertility ritual known as the Tatarin?
Did you know that thalidomide causes birth defects by inactivating the protein cereblon ?
Did you know that the original Atikamekw village of Obedjiwan and its archaeological sites in Quebec , Canada , were flooded during the construction of the Gouin Reservoir ?
Did you know that no one is sure why, despite his victory at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces in 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla retreated from Mexico City ?
Did you know that British painter Alessandro Raho , commissioned to portray Judi Dench for the National Portrait Gallery in London, imagined her as a wealthy housewife?
Did you know that Jesuit Donald Merrifield , the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ?
Did you know that Dashiell Hammett helped Lillian Hellman write the 1951 Broadway play The Autumn Garden ?
Did you know that Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue in Fleischmanns, New York , is unique among Catskill synagogues in having an exposed truss ceiling in its sanctuary ?
Did you know that Hall of Fame tackle Harold Ballin was "the hardest-hitting player" ever faced by fellow Hall of Famer Charles Brickley and the last Princeton player to play without a helmet ?
Did you know that the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever has patented several antifreeze proteins produced by a species of kidney lichen , due to their ability to modify ice formation in frozen foods ?
Did you know that when a teenager tore up a photograph of Canadian Prime Minister St. Laurent as the PM spoke, the ensuing fracas was seen as a turning point in the 1957 Canadian election ?
Did you know that the couple Mette and Philip Newth have made picture books for blind and for deaf children?
Did you know that at least twenty horses were needed to transport a kartouwe ?
Did you know that Football Hall of Famer Huntington "Tack" Hardwick was called "a big, fine-looking aristocrat from blue-blood stock" who "loved combat – body contact at crushing force – a fight to the finish"?
Did you know that the spring inside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth served as the local water supply for some 3,000 years?
Did you know that Dr. Ronald Levy became the first Jew to be awarded with the King Faisal International Prize , which is popularly called the "Arab Nobel Prize"?
Did you know that Portland, Oregon 's Tanner Springs Park was described as "a sort of cross between an Italian piazza and a weedy urban wetland with lots of benches"?
Did you know that Frederic de Hoffmann helped develop the hydrogen bomb and later organized a project to propel a spaceship with nuclear bombs ?
Did you know that resentment of the sales tax called the alcabala triggered several revolts in Spain's colonies , even though rates there were lower than in Spain itself?
Did you know that Frederick Josiah Bradlee was a Boston Brahmin , an All-American halfback and the father of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee ?
Did you know that the building in Mexico City currently housing the Museo de Charrería , a museum for Mexican rodeo , was originally a 16th-century monastery dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat ?
Did you know that Wyandanch , the sachem of the Montaukett , in 1659, sued Jeremy Daily in the colonial court in one of the first trials in North America with an English defendant and a Native American plaintiff ?
Did you know that Kennaquhair was an Australian -bred Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Sydney Cup and the AJC Metropolitan Handicap ?
Did you know that George Peek was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the first President of the two banks that would become the Export-Import Bank of the United States ?
Did you know that rapid construction of an earlier building of Holy Family Catholic Church in Frenchtown, Ohio , won its builders two gallons of whisky ?
Did you know that Boeing is submitting an updated OV-10 Bronco for the US Air Force Request for a slower support plane, or Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance aircraft?
Did you know that author Ola Bauer wrote a novel about his involvement with the Provisional IRA , to correct what he felt was a slanted view of The Troubles in the Norwegian press?
Did you know that He Zhuoyan is the youngest person to win an award in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 in 2007 at the age of 18?
Did you know that the South Park Blocks have been called the "extended family room" of Portland , as Pioneer Courthouse Square is known as the city's "living room"?
Did you know that Margaret Greville bequeathed Polesden Lacey in Surrey to the National Trust in 1942 in memory of her father, Scottish brewer William McEwan ?
Did you know that Nebraska 's first All-American Vic Halligan was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"?
Did you know that Wilfred Wong, BevMo! ' s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain?
Did you know that upon arrival at Fort Conger in 1899, several of Robert Peary 's toes broke off due to frostbite ?
Did you know that the 2010 T in the Park music festival is to be headlined by Muse , Eminem , and Kasabian , marking Eminem's first performance at a festival in the United Kingdom since 2001?
Did you know that during his career Herman Phaff collected 6400 strains of yeast creating a collection containing 400 of the 700 identified species of yeast?
Did you know that counter-reformation in Silesia was stopped by the Treaty of Altranstädt in 1707?
Did you know that 1914 College Football All-Americans Burleigh Cruikshank of Washington & Jefferson and Haps Benfer of Albright College went on to become Presbyterian and United Evangelical ministers?
Did you know that the Oak Hill Railroad Depot is the only surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia ?
Did you know that one species of Dictyonema lichen is a powerful hallucinogen that is traditionally used by the Huaorani of the Amazon jungle of Ecuador to cast curses on their enemies?
Did you know that the captain of the cargo liner SS Beaverburn was given a gold-headed cane for commanding the first ship in 1947 to reach the port of Montreal ?
Did you know that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the British Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries , not confirmed ones?
Did you know that the 80-acre refuge at Wolf Haven International shelters 47 wolves that would otherwise have no homes and is visited by over 20,000 people a year?
Did you know that Rufus Wainwright 's album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu contains three adaptations of Shakespeare's sonnets ?
Did you know that ' The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand ', with more than ninety knock-outs, was one of the greatest Welsh boxers ?
Did you know that John Virginius Bennes ' s architectural work included the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, Oregon , and at least 35 buildings on the Oregon State University campus?
Did you know that an unknown burglar—exhibited in a coffin at the Red Lion Inn in Shoreham , West Sussex , in the 1850s after being shot dead—was identified by his dog?
Did you know that two high school students used the automated telescope at Leuschner Observatory to record the earliest images of supernova SN 1994I ?
Did you know that Elżbieta  Sieniawska was one of the most powerful women in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Augustus II the Strong ?
Did you know that crayfish of the Madagascan genus Astacoides have fewer gills than any other crayfish?
Did you know that Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Doukas was proclaimed emperor in the Hippodrome of Constantinople , but was killed on the same day by supporters of the legitimate emperor, Constantine VII ?
Did you know that the Buffalo Bills ' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first National Football League regular-season game played in Canada ?
Did you know that Jürgen Wattenberg twice escaped from captivity, at first after the scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee , and then after the sinking of U-162 ?