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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?