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Did you know that Tropical Storm Ignacio of August 1997 caused unprecedented rainfall in San Francisco, California, which typically receives only a trace of precipitation during the month?
Did you know that Weidmann's Restaurant, established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi?
Did you know that college lacrosse coach Bud Beardmore led Maryland to the 1975 NCAA tournament championship, despite the fact that the team lost two of its six NCAA games and almost failed to qualify?
Did you know that during Maurice W. Long's directorship of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Engineering Experiment station set a new record of $5.2 million in grants and contracts?
Did you know that editor Willi Eichler's 1932 Urgent Call for Unity to thwart the Nazi Party's rise to power was signed by 33 leading German intellectuals including Albert Einstein, Erich Kästner and Käthe Kollwitz?
Did you know that in 2003, the Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania became the first religious group granted official state recognition since just after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
Did you know that in 2009, direct Chinese investment in Ethiopia reached approximately $900 million?
Did you know that on 28 August 1920, Peter Ronald scored Watford Football Club's first ever Football League goal?
Did you know that the Dissenters' Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, was the first purpose-built Nonconformist chapel to be built in a public cemetery in England?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team's records in years such as 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 include those in field goals, school completion percentage, single-game receptions, and the largest comeback among others?
Did you know that the Stanchester Hoard, which was found by metal detectors, is remarkable because the hundreds of Roman coins are not clipped?
Did you know that the football club Ulf-Sandnes altered its name to Sandnes Ulf to accommodate the merger partner Sandnes FK?
Did you know that the rare and endangered Broad Leaved Whitewood of eastern Australian rainforests is a member of the soapberry family?
Did you know that when Danish socialist pioneer and former prisoner Poul Johansen Geleff emigrated to the United States, Danish police helped pay for his travel costs?
Did you know that when asked if he would be willing to direct all 10 plays in August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle, Israel Hicks replied "Hell, yeah" and accomplished the feat over 20 years of directing?
Did you know that when first opened, Glenville School in Greenwich, Connecticut, included a community medical clinic?
Did you know that 18 commercial coffee plantations were established in 1926 in Sangara, Papua New Guinea, paving the way for commercial production from 1928?
Did you know that Andrew J. Weaher was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1869 at one of the US Army's largest-ever presentations of the medal at the time?
Did you know that Frederick Arthur Whitaker, Civil Engineer-in-Chief to The Admiralty, was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the French Legion of Honor?
Did you know that Hope Mills Dam in Hope Mills, North Carolina, failed in 2010 just two years after being reconstructed due to a 2003 failure?
Did you know that Irish stage actor Enda Oates' theatrical career includes roles such as Macduff in the play Macbeth and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice?
Did you know that James H. Turpin was among 23 U.S. cavalrymen awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in actions with Apaches" in the winter campaign of 1872–1873?
Did you know that Jeffrey A. Warsh proposed banning the use of photo radar systems, calling them an "assault on the system of American jurisprudence" that would replace "the tradition that we are innocent until proven guilty"?
Did you know that Laurence S. Weiss was a key supporter of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax hike, but later pushed for its repeal after losing his re-election bid in the 19th Legislative District?
Did you know that MEP Ryszard Czarnecki thought fellow Polish MEP Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein might harm the Civic Platform in the 2009 elections because of her German-sounding name?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient First Lieutenant Lewis Warrington III is the grandson of American naval hero Lewis Warrington?
Did you know that Shinan District, Qingdao, China, is the site of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre, a sailing marina constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Shorty Green led the first players' strike in National Hockey League history as the Hamilton Tigers' players refused to participate in the 1925 playoffs unless they received C$200 bonuses?
Did you know that Todmorden Unitarian Church in West Yorkshire was built in memory of "Honest John" Fielden, and paid for by his three sons?
Did you know that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, "The Three Bells" by The Browns, and had to splice two takes together to fix it?
Did you know that during World War II, Fort McGilvray sat 650 feet above Alaska's Resurrection Bay to defend against a possible Japanese invasion?
Did you know that early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska, its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?
Did you know that in the years 1998, 2000 and 2001, the Michigan Wolverines football team led the Big Ten Conference in different areas including total defense, passing efficiency and turnover margin?
Did you know that on April 5, 1933, the Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh sent President Roosevelt a case of low point beer to celebrate the passing of the Cullen-Harrison Act?
Did you know that only 9.5% of voters turned out in a Slovak referendum in 1997, due to an opposition boycott?
Did you know that originally described as the Lord of thieves, Kubera is now worshipped as the Hindu god of wealth and the regent of the North?
Did you know that the "dougie" dance referred to in Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How to Dougie" actually originated in Dallas, Texas?
Did you know that the 2010 Coke Zero 400 was the first NASCAR race broadcast in 3D?
Did you know that the Dzungarian Gate, the only gateway through the 3,000-mile (4,800 km) mountain-wall from Manchuria to Afghanistan, has been linked to griffins and the legendary Hyperboreans?
Did you know that the Fonthill vase is the earliest documented example of Chinese porcelain to have reached Europe, in the middle of the 14th century?
Did you know that the Petitcodiac River once held some of the world's highest tidal bores, before a causeway was built in 1968?
Did you know that the State Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler, particularly known for his outspoken opposition to illegal immigration, is a candidate for Speaker of the Texas House in 2011?
Did you know that the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the American Red Cross?
Did you know that while John Fawcett was minister of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, he wrote the words of the hymn Blessed Be the Tie that Binds?
Did you know that Bach composed in Leipzig his cantata Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186, for the seventh Sunday after Trinity expanding his cantata written in Weimar for Advent?
Did you know that Claude Bracey, know as "the Texas Flyer," won the 100- and 220-yard sprints at the 1928 NCAA Track Championships and tied the world record in the 100-meter race in 1932?
Did you know that Edward L. Rowan is a retired sex therapist and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award?
Did you know that Enrique Pérez Santiago was the first Puerto Rican hematologist?
Did you know that George Shepherd (sample painting pictured) was one of the founding members of what is now the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours?
Did you know that KANUKOKA is an association that facilitates cooperation between the four municipalities of Greenland—including the largest and the second largest municipalities in the world by area?
Did you know that Remy Hamilton established the current Big Ten Conference single-season record for successful field goals at 25 during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season?
Did you know that Robert Riefling, who debuted as a classical pianist in 1922, was appointed Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music more than fifty years later?
Did you know that Ward's Castle, on the state line between Rye Brook, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, is believed to be the first reinforced concrete building in the United States?
Did you know that as a New Jersey State Senator, John J. Fay, Jr. proposed a bill creating the Office of the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, and was later appointed its first ombudsman?
Did you know that by the Treaties of Cölln and Mewe, the Teutonic Order first pawned, then sold, Neumark to Brandenburg to pay its mercenaries?
Did you know that countertenor Patrick Van Goethem has taken part in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia to record the complete works of Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War the Swedish FNL movement used to attack U.S. diplomats with eggs, tomatoes and, occasionally, surströmming?
Did you know that in 1675 bones of five Christian saints and one Hungarian monarch were discovered at the Pula Cathedral in Croatia?
Did you know that it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference, held in Calcutta, marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries?
Did you know that professional baseball player Joe Hague replaced profane language in his everyday speech with the word mullet?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Ceratobasidium cause economically important plant diseases such as sharp eyespot of cereals and black rot of coffee?
Did you know that the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47?
Did you know that the E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge is the only bridge crossing of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska?
Did you know that the Requiem of Max Reger is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem, but of a poem Requiem written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel?
Did you know that the Shapwick Hoard, found by metal detecting cousins in 1998, contained the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Great Britain and was equivalent to ten years' pay for a Roman legionary?
Did you know that the common soft bracken of eastern Australia is not actually a bracken, but a member of a tree fern family?
Did you know that the ferry from Godbout to Matane, Quebec, is Godbout's main employer?
Did you know that the first find by amateur metal detectorist Nick Davies was the Shrewsbury Hoard, which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins?
Did you know that the rufous candy cap mushroom has been used by San Francisco Bay Area chefs in various desserts?
Did you know that there is a monument in Colonia Obrera, Mexico City, to the seamstresses who died here during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
Did you know that urban renewal led to only one side of Lake Street in Bergen, New York, being designated a historic district?
Did you know that "milkcaps" can be orange, bright yellow, golden, woolly, downy, northern, sticky, smoky, velvety, deceptive, or vulgar?
Did you know that Belarus contains large, but undeveloped reserves of oil shale?
Did you know that Burmese communist leader H. N. Goshal was executed in an inner-party purge in 1967, after having been denounced as "Burma's Liu Shaoqi"?
Did you know that Béla Bartók's Suite, Op. 14 originally featured five movements until Bartók discarded the second planned movement before publication?
Did you know that Captain Aub Koch of G-AEUH, a Qantas airliner shot down by Japanese fighter planes in 1942, also survived being shot down again in 1943?
Did you know that Charles-Amable Lenoir received a bronze medal at the 1900 World's Fair for a painting of his wife?
Did you know that Chet D. Traylor, a former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, has entered the 2010 Republican primary to challenge U.S. Senator David Vitter?
Did you know that Hugh Main, an Australian politician, was a member of the Progressive Party's rural "True Blues" faction that evolved into the Country Party?
Did you know that Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals" and "Street of the Consuls"?
Did you know that Minneapolis' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
Did you know that Miroslav Tichý is a photographer who took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes and tin cans?
Did you know that Private James Pym won the Medal of Honor for carrying water to wounded soldiers while under heavy fire during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Did you know that Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg contained the graves of mathematician Leonhard Euler and Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko?
Did you know that Sylvia Salvesen, a member of Oslo's high society, testified in 1946 about her experiences as a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp?
Did you know that Takayutpi, who reigned from 1526 to 1539, was the last sovereign king of Hanthawaddy Pegu?
Did you know that at its peak, the historic James Cant Ranch in Oregon occupied 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) and sent 500–600 cattle to market each year?
Did you know that critics found Lula 3D's "Bouncin' Boobs Technology" unrealistic?
Did you know that footballer Andy Leaning was named man of the match following York City's 3–1 extra time defeat at Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round in 1986, with his performance being described as "heroic"?
Did you know that from the 1880s to the early 1930s there was a significant Chinese immigrant population in Mexico?
Did you know that in 1975, Julie Ann Brown became the first American woman to win the World Cross Country Championships?
Did you know that in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right to boycott peacefully?
Did you know that in his book The Feather Men, Sir Ranulph Fiennes claimed to have survived a series of assassinations of SAS officers by a hit squad known as "The Clinic"?
Did you know that in the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Stephen A. Mikulak sponsored a bill, later signed into law, that would impose the death penalty for terrorists who kill anyone in New Jersey?
Did you know that it has been suggested that the shepherds in Mantegna's The Adoration of the Shepherds are facing Joseph rather than Jesus?
Did you know that prior to releasing her first EP, a song by singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva was featured on the Josh Groban album Awake?
Did you know that the 1999 Michigan Wolverines football team, featuring 2007 NFL MVP and Athlete of the Year Tom Brady, holds the all-time NCAA single-season attendance record?
Did you know that the All Burma Trade Union Congress was banned in the wake of the March 1948 crackdown on the Communist Party of Burma?
Did you know that the American Classic Arcade Museum located at Funspot has been called "the Louvre of the '8-bit' world"?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team won five consecutive Big Ten Conference championships from 1988 to 1992, with six players of the 1991 team being selected in the 1992 NFL Draft?
Did you know that "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" was the first release by the Japanese J-pop music group Supercell to feature a human singer?
Did you know that Al Heagy, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee and Maryland head coach, also served as a university professor and the mayor of University Park, Maryland, during his coaching tenure?
Did you know that Fort Defiance in Iowa was built to protect a gristmill and sawmill during the Dakota War of 1862?
Did you know that Google Personalized Search, a feature of Google Search, returns search results based on previous search queries made by the same person, and which results they clicked on?
Did you know that Hinduism allows voluntary fasting to death, known as Prayopavesa, for a person who has no desire or ambition left and no responsibilities remaining in life?
Did you know that Inderjit Singh, member of the Parliament of Singapore, started six businesses?
Did you know that Rose Van Thyn, a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana?
Did you know that a professional wrestler broke his leg at Ring of Honor's pay-per-view, The Big Bang!, but was still able to win his match?
Did you know that although he was expelled by the Jesuit order for supporting the ordination of women, William R. Callahan insisted he was just "following the example of Jesus, who was never willing to shut up"?
Did you know that between the Reformation, when it became redundant, and the mid-19th century, when it was restored, Longworth Chapel in Herefordshire was used for cider making?
Did you know that in 1946 the Red Flag Communist Party initiated a guerrilla insurgency against British rule in Burma?
Did you know that in 1958, Army lacrosse coach Jim Adams fielded 33 different players against Duke to prevent running up the score, but his team still won 21–2?
Did you know that in 2000, porters at Sotheby's auction disposed of a box in a crushing machine, accidentally destroying a painting worth about US$157,000 inside?
Did you know that no train ever stopped at the depot built for the Hawthorne Mill in Greenwich, Connecticut, because the planned rail line was never built?
Did you know that on 3 July 1877 the French ironclad Thétis rammed her sister ship Reine Blanche, which had to be run ashore to prevent her from sinking?
Did you know that only a few manuscripts have fallen into such unworthy hands as Codex Boreelianus?
Did you know that the Dusky Robin was known as "Stump Robin" by early settlers in Tasmania due to its penchant for perching on fenceposts and stumps?
Did you know that the Landing Ship, Infantry HMS Invicta took part in Operation Jubilee and Operation Overlord?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines football team's many high-achievers include Tyrone Wheatley in 1993, Mike Hart in 2004, and records breaker John Navarre of the 2002 team?
Did you know that the Oak Circle Historic District was the first historic district to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmette, Illinois?
Did you know that the Ribbon Creek incident at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island resulted in the relief "without prejudice" of Major General Joseph C. Burger?
Did you know that the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool, Lancashire, was built as a thanksgiving for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster being relatively undamaged in the Second World War?
Did you know that the U.S. Justice Department tried to cite the merger of Detroit-based chains Cunningham Drug and Kinsel Drug as a violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act?
Did you know that the largest landslide triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake, the Yasman valley flowslide, had a volume of 245 Mm3 and killed about 4,000 people?
Did you know that the largest social graph, which represents the relationships between online users, is owned by Facebook, the world's largest social networking service?
Did you know that the redundant Umberslade Baptist Church near Hockley Heath, Solihull, West Midlands, is the sole survivor among grand chapels associated with the rise of Birmingham Nonconformity?
Did you know that two British monarchs took the crown at Baynard's Castle, a medieval palace in central London?
Did you know that , in 2010, American professional wrestler Scott C. Despres twice defeated Antonio Thomas in the space of a month?
Did you know that Clara Claiborne Park was credited with writing one of the first books to allay the blame that so-called "refrigerator mothers" were made to feel at having caused their child's autism?
Did you know that Crime and Punishment is a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky′s classic novel, performed by just three actors, with each playing multiple roles?
Did you know that Geyuan Temple's Wenshu Hall is the earliest extant wooden building dating from 966 CE during China's Liao Dynasty?
Did you know that Interurban Press, a former publisher of books about streetcars and railways, also published the railfan-oriented magazines, Pacific RailNews and Passenger Train Journal?
Did you know that John Howard explained his failed attempt at establishing a new sport at DePauw University by saying, "Either I'm a lousy teacher or kids in Indiana just didn't like lacrosse"?
Did you know that R. V. Truitt, a World War I fighter pilot, studied Chesapeake Bay oysters for 30 years?
Did you know that Steamtown, USA was a steam locomotive museum that ran excursions out of North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls, Vermont, from the 1960s until 1983?
Did you know that according to a legend, Bachorza manor is haunted?
Did you know that after Henry Ciccarone called his 1979 squad "the greatest Johns Hopkins lacrosse team ever", Sports Illustrated wrote, "It might be easier to name the most beautiful Miss America"?
Did you know that after the French ironclad Atalante was condemned in Saigon in 1887, she fell into such a state of disrepair that "she foundered one night and gradually sank into the mud"?
Did you know that an exhibition of the work of the Glasgow Girls including Norah Neilson Gray (self-portrait pictured) is on display this month in Kirkcudbright?
Did you know that at first light in 1987, the William Herschel Telescope was the third largest single optical telescope in the world, and is still the second largest in Europe?
Did you know that by the early 19th century, trett, an allowance of 4 pounds per 104 of commodities imported to Great Britain for dust, sand, and other waste, had fallen into disuse?
Did you know that during 2002 and 2003, professional wrestler Justin McIsaac would make three-hour drives from New Hampshire to Massachusetts so he could compete in Yankee Pro Wrestling?
Did you know that in the 1970 presidential election in DR Congo, Joseph Mobuto received more votes than the number of registered voters?
Did you know that the French ironclad Armide served as the flagship of the French Levant Squadron in 1874–75?
Did you know that the French ironclad Belliqueuse once served as the China Station flagship but was later used for target practise by the French Navy?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines, hosting the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2003, set the Big Ten Conference single-game attendance record?
Did you know that the States of Maryland and Colorado have laws specifically prohibiting newspaper theft, including the taking of free newspapers, with the intent of preventing another from reading the newspaper?
Did you know that the United States men's volleyball team won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, after not competing at the three previous Games?
Did you know that the buffalo jump at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana was used for approximately 2000 years by various Native American tribes?
Did you know that the luxury apartment building 1049 5th Avenue is not actually on Fifth Avenue?
Did you know that the newly spreading practice in East Africa of flashblood, injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV"?
Did you know that with 16.33 million American viewers, "Warning, It's Dirty" is the highest-rated episode of Two and a Half Men since "David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie", which had 16.52 million viewers?
Did you know that "little white", a mushroom in the fungal genus Trogia, has been implicated in the deaths of about 400 people in Yunnan, China?
Did you know that Alanngorsuaq, a mountain in Greenland, has reservoirs providing 882,000 m3 of water?
Did you know that Earache got Wormrot in January 2010?
Did you know that Fulham player Maurice Cook scored the first ever goal in the Football League Cup?
Did you know that Garrett Rivas, a placekicker, is the all-time leading scorer in Michigan Wolverines football history?