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Did you know...
- ...that convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character "C. Montgomery Burns"?
- ...that the Los Angeles Lakers (pictured, in gold and white jerseys) and San Antonio Spurs (black jerseys) had an intense rivalry, during which the two teams won a total of six NBA championships in seven seasons?
- ...that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror, Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
- ...that the 1932 Pre-Code film Laughter in Hell drew praise for its open depiction of the lynching of African Americans?
- ...that the New York Giants of the NFL won the first Super Bowl in their franchise history during their 1986 season?
- ...that the NFL's first championship game was won by Chicago over New York via a successful hook and ladder play run by the Bears with less than two minutes remaining?
- ...that author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
- ...that retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks?
- ...that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression?
- ...that former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups up the street and proclaimed he was God?
- ...that even though it was released in 1932, the Pre-Code film The Devil is Driving deals openly with sex and violence?
- ...that during the 1990 New York Giants season, the NFL American football team set a league record for fewest turnovers in a season?
- ...that American college basketball player Javaris Crittenton (pictured) is projected by major media outlets such as ESPN to be a potential first round draft pick in the 2007 NBA Draft?
- ...that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Halberstam's book The Breaks of the Game was listed as one of the best sports books ever written by Sports Illustrated?
- ...that Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets American college basketball player Thaddeus Young was a McDonald's All-American and graduated high school with a 4.3 grade point average?
- ...that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932 Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
- ...that it was so cold during the 1962 NFL Championship Game that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite?