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Did you know that in 1891, Gus Weyhing won 31 games pitching for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association, the third of his four consecutive 30-win seasons in baseball?
Did you know that in 1937, Bangladeshi film director Khan Ataur Rahman won the first prize of Dhaka Zilla Music Competition, when he was in third grade?
Did you know that in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur?
Did you know that in 2009, triple jumper Fabrizio Donato set a new championship record for the European Indoor Championships at 17.59 metres?
Did you know that in 519, Roman statesman Cassiodorus published his Chronicle to congratulate the Visigothic prince Eutharic who had risen to the position of consul?
Did you know that in traditional Plains hide painting, Native American women painted abstract, geometric designs while men painted representational, narrative images?
Did you know that many 16th-century faculty members at the University of Baeza were of Jewish ancestry and came under the suspicion of the Spanish Inquisition?
Did you know that nine Mayan languages are spoken in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango?
Did you know that scholar Gérard Prunier states that Major General John Numbi is a member of a ruling clique running the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that the 1536 edition of Swenske songer eller wisor is the first preserved hymnal published in the Swedish language?
Did you know that the Exchequer of Ireland had exclusive jurisdiction over all Irish cases involving money owed to The Crown?
Did you know that the Ionian volcano Pele, encircled by its own reddish plume deposit, was named after a volcano goddess in Hawaiian mythology?
Did you know that the North American Newspaper Alliance, a major news syndicate, hired Ernest Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1937?
Did you know that the former District 10 School outside Margaretville, New York, was demolished in the mid-19th century only to be rebuilt from the same stones three years later?
Did you know that the porbeagle has been known to "play" with kelp fronds, pieces of wood, and fishing floats?
Did you know that when U2 played a concert in Sarajevo in 1997 (concert stage pictured), they attempted to include all the conflicting ethnicities of the region in the audience?
Did you know that 21st Century Slave is a concept album with a narrative inspired by William Gibson's series of Cyberpunk novels?
Did you know that Irish meteorologist Gerald Fleming has been noted to wink while giving weather forecasts?
Did you know that Myglaren, a social satire, was the first made-for-television film produced in Sweden and aired in 1966?
Did you know that Ngô Sĩ Liên compiled Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, the oldest remaining historical record of a Vietnamese dynasty?
Did you know that Richard Allen, a Dublin draper, raised £20,000 for Irish famine relief efforts by writing letters to America?
Did you know that Richard Coughlan has been called "one of art rock's longest tenured musicians"?
Did you know that Robert Scholl, the father of White Rose members Hans and Sophie Scholl, was imprisoned for 18 months in 1943 for listening to a "Feindsender"?
Did you know that Ron Swanson builds a harp in the Parks and Recreation episode "Sweetums", which was inspired by actor Nick Offerman's real-life carpentry skills?
Did you know that The Wolves in the Walls, a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean that went on to become an off-Broadway musical, was inspired by a nightmare had by Gaiman's youngest daughter?
Did you know that Wales wartime international footballer Taffy Davies spent his entire 20-year professional career at Watford Football Club?
Did you know that William C. McInnes, one of the first Jesuits to study business administration, simultaneously served as the president of both Fairfield University and the University of San Francisco for four months?
Did you know that a crowd of 20,000 rioted in an attempt to secure the release of the mutinous crew of the battleship SMS Helgoland in November 1918?
Did you know that actor and acting teacher Bryan O'Byrne is credited with launching the acting career of Nick Nolte, whom he discovered while coaching Nolte's college roommate?
Did you know that between 5,000 and 180,000 Burmese pythons are estimated to be loose in the Everglades?
Did you know that even though it is known primarily for Sauvignon blanc wines, Sancerre can also be a red wine made from Pinot noir?
Did you know that in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
Did you know that in 2002, the dice throw was used as a journalistic method of review in 41 daily newspapers in Norway?
Did you know that in the 19th century, Ganoga Lake in Pennsylvania had a hotel, its own ice cutting company, and a branch railroad line to serve both?
Did you know that once established, Labrador's Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve will be the largest National Park in Atlantic Canada?
Did you know that social bookmarking service AddThis, combined with its parent company Clearspring, reach an online audience of more than 200 million monthly viewers?
Did you know that speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, currently competing in her fifth Olympic Games, is the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat?
Did you know that the concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival include Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg and Lorch?
Did you know that the first gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics was won by Simon Ammann of Switzerland in the normal hill ski jump?
Did you know that the mediaeval Gaelic manuscript MS 1467 contains the earliest known pedigree which gives Clan Campbell a "British" ancestry, from Uther Pendragon, and King Arthur?
Did you know that the world's tallest concrete-faced rockfill dam is Shuibuya Dam on the Qingjiang River in China?
Did you know that uranium hydride was investigated as a promising bomb material in 1943 during the early phases of the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that Clara Hughes, who led the Canadian athletes in the parade of nations during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, is the only athlete to have won multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Franz Anton Knittel  deciphered the Gothic text of the palimpsest Codex Carolinus in 1762?
Did you know that Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great was originally written in Zulu and compiled from the Zulu oral tradition?
Did you know that Papantla, Mexico, is home to vanilla, the El Tajín World Heritage site and the Voladores?
Did you know that S Ori 70 is a mid-T type astronomical object, discovered in 2002 in the direction of the Sigma Orinis cluster?
Did you know that Tanums store rettskrivningsordbok, the dictionary of choice for solvers and makers of Norwegian crossword puzzles, was edited by Marius Sandvei for more than five decades?
Did you know that a class action suit was filed in US Federal Court against R2C2, a company that sells term papers online, alleging copyright infringement for reselling papers written by other authors?
Did you know that about a million birds were banded at the Rossitten Bird Observatory between its establishment in 1901 and the end of the Second World War?
Did you know that four months after a mass resignation, which caused a loss of 22 jobs, Major League Baseball umpires voted to form a new union?
Did you know that glazed black mathematical tiles, as seen at Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley, are a characteristic 18th-century architectural motif in Brighton, England?
Did you know that in Francisco Goya's painting Carlos IV in his Hunting Clothes the artist showed his debt to Titian's 1533 Charles V by showing a dog sniffing at the royal crotch?
Did you know that in September 1924, Jack Fowler scored five goals in a football match for Swansea Town against Charlton Athletic, which remains the club record for most goals in a match?
Did you know that prior to joining Motown, The Jackson 5 recorded songs such as "You've Changed", "We Don't Have To Be Over 21 (to Fall in Love)", and "Big Boy" at Steeltown Records?
Did you know that prominent sociologist Nathan Glazer has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a Marxist, a neoconservative, and an espouser of "armchair intellectual liberalism"?
Did you know that the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan produced world record-breaking marathon runs in both 1963 and 1978?
Did you know that the Burmese–Siamese War of 1548–49 saw the legendary death of Ayutthaya's Queen Suriyothai during elephant-mounted combat (statue pictured)?
Did you know that the French fast minelaying cruiser Pluton exploded in Casablanca Harbor, French Morocco, on 13 September 1939 while disembarking fuzed mines?
Did you know that the Plains Garter Snake is one of the most cold-tolerant snakes and often emerges from hibernation to bask on sunny winter days?
Did you know that the architecture of Agudas Achim Synagogue  in Livingston Manor, New York, reflects both the Eastern European origins of its founders and the older Protestant churches in the area?
Did you know that the intended occupant of the empty throne (example pictured) may have been Alexander the Great, Buddha, Julius Caesar, or Jesus Christ?
Did you know that the sawmill of Mitford, Alberta, failed partly because most of the good quality lumber to be found in the area was used in the construction of the railway designed to haul said lumber to market?
Did you know that , according to the hotel's owner, before Marshall's Hotel opened in 1880 in Yellowstone Park, a visiting U.S. Interior Secretary had to sleep outdoors, and it rained that night?
Did you know that Big Butte Springs, located in the Big Butte Creek watershed, produces 26,000,000 US gallons (98,000,000 L) of drinking water a day that serves 115,000 residents 30 miles (48 km) away in the Rogue Valley?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson described Captain George Elliot as one of the best officers in the navy?
Did you know that Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?
Did you know that Jean Charpentier, press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état?
Did you know that Minuscule 614 is one of the very few witnesses of the Western text-type with complete text of the Acts of the Apostles?
Did you know that Pedro Matias typed a 264 character text message in 1:59, beating the existing Guinness Book of World Records record in the LG Mobile World Cup?
Did you know that Pope John Paul II placed rosary devotions (example pictured) at the very center of Christian spirituality and called them "among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation"?
Did you know that We Are Scientists' fourth studio album, Barbara, is their first recorded with drummer Andy Burrows and the band's debut release with PIAS Recordings?
Did you know that YouTube artist Beckii Cruel from the Isle of Man has become popular in Japan?
Did you know that antique bisque dolls are collectible, and dolls from French companies like Jumeau can be worth over US$20,000?
Did you know that architect H. Neill Wilson designed massive summer cottages in Massachusetts' Berkshire County, including Shadowbrook where Andrew Carnegie died?
Did you know that before Sir Edward Moon, 2nd Baronet, was a baronet, he was a rower?
Did you know that diplomat Ted Lipman, the current Canadian ambassador to North Korea and South Korea, is married to Chinese singer Dadawa?
Did you know that in 1960, 33 years before Dick Van Dyke began Diagnosis Murder, CBS ran the similarly titled series, Diagnosis: Unknown, with Patrick O'Neal as a crime-solving pathologist?
Did you know that in 2001, Wolfgang Ilgenfritz, along with several other Members of the European Parliament, declared his personal financial interests online?
Did you know that marathon races only receive IAAF Gold Label Road Race status if organisers have taken steps to preserve the environment?
Did you know that singer Janet Jackson appeared on the Will & Grace episode "Back Up, Dancer" nine months after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy?
Did you know that some of the tallest trees left in West Africa are found in Bia National Park?
Did you know that stage and film actor Bruno Barnabe studied mime under Theodore Komisarjevsky?
Did you know that the Beaverkill Bridge near Roscoe is one of only two extant Town lattice truss covered bridges in New York to have additional diagonals at the ends?
Did you know that the Gonâve Microplate originated as part of the Caribbean Plate, but is expected to end up accreted to the North American Plate?
Did you know that the Myitsone Dam being built by the Burmese government and the China Power Investment Corporation is planned to provide 3,600 to 6,000 megawatts of electricity for Yunnan, China?
Did you know that the Rhône producer Chapoutier was the first winery to feature Braille script on their wine labels?
Did you know that the evacuation of its base at Žatec, Czechoslovakia, in August 1948 allowed the Israeli Air Force to bring over 2,000 tons of supplies to the besieged Negev in Operation Avak?
Did you know that the first copyright act, the Statute of Anne or "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning", became law almost 300 years ago?
Did you know that the sports arena Wesley Brown Field House at the United States Naval Academy is named after Wesley A. Brown, the first African American to graduate from the academy?
Did you know that "Motorway man" is reluctant to cook, rarely has children, and may decide the next United Kingdom general election?
Did you know that Facebook polls asking whether Barack Obama should be assassinated have been investigated by the government as possible felonious threats against the President of the United States?
Did you know that Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, owned a safari  business in Tanzania during the 1950s?
Did you know that Paul M. Herzog's grandfather-in-law, Oscar Straus, and his step-son, Alexander Trowbridge, were both United States Secretary of Commerce?
Did you know that Peter Clarke was head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command from 2002 to 2008?
Did you know that Phelps Dodge bought the El Paso and Northeastern Railway and its associated properties to secure access to superior coke for their smelters?
Did you know that Stewart Scullion played alongside Pelé and Bobby Moore in the 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup, scoring their team's only goal of the tournament?
Did you know that a Coade stone statue built at Brighton's Royal Crescent in 1802 to impress the Prince of Wales had to be removed after excessive weathering made its arm drop off?
Did you know that after his arrest in 1940, Norwegian Army officer Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was referred to by the Germans as Reichskommissar Josef Terboven's personal prisoner?
Did you know that despite writing multiple hits such as "Sticks and Stones," "Tell Me Why", and "Leave My Kitten Alone", the American R&B singer Titus Turner only recorded one album?
Did you know that directing the film Holy Lola made Bertrand Tavernier fall in love with Cambodia?
Did you know that during the January 1961 nor'easter on the eve of John F. Kennedy's presidential inauguration, thousands of abandoned cars led to massive traffic jams, including on the inauguration parade route?
Did you know that fossils from the Paleocene-age Cerrejón Formation in Colombia are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforests?
Did you know that future sugar beet processing executive Henry Arthur Benning was a "rotten stenographer", then failed at selling tobacco, since he didn't partake in tobacco?
Did you know that in France, the Picardy Spaniel is used for hunting snipes?
Did you know that many of the Paterson, New Jersey, textile mill workers who struck in 1835 demanding shorter working hours were children?
Did you know that several karaoke bars in the Philippines had banned the song "My Way" due to the deaths attributed to it?
Did you know that the 1998 Merlin Miller film A Place to Grow starred country singer Gary Morris and also featured appearances by Boxcar Willie, Wilford Brimley, and John Beck?
Did you know that the British battlecruiser Princess Royal fired 271 13.5-inch shells during the Battle of Dogger Bank, but only scored three hits?
Did you know that the Honda CB900F, known as the Hornet 900 in Europe and the 919 in North America, was out of production for 19 years before returning in 2002?
Did you know that the South Ball Court of El Tajín, Mexico, has a panel showing a ballplayer being beheaded?
Did you know that the capture of the French frigate Modeste by the British in the neutral port of Genoa in 1793 created a diplomatic incident?
Did you know that the discovery of the shipwreck SS Ellengowan in 1991 off Channel Island, made it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin harbour?
Did you know that the draughtsboard shark has been known to bark like a dog?
Did you know that the first-ever paid youth soccer coach in the United States was an Englishman named Derek Armstrong?
Did you know that the frontman of the band Ignite, Zoltán Téglás, saves injured pelicans in his free time?
Did you know that the longest obscenity trial in English legal history partly concerned a cartoon of Rupert Bear ravaging a granny?
Did you know that the tragic romance of Tristan and Iseult is the subject matter of the Tristan Quilt, a rare survival of medieval trapunto quilting?
Did you know that Anthony R. Cucci, the 40th Mayor of Jersey City, threatened to foreclose on the Statue of Liberty and sell it at auction for an overdue water bill?
Did you know that Austrian court painter Peter Fendi, known for his erotic paintings, was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period?
Did you know that Bernhard Heiliger was regarded as "West Germany's foremost sculptor"?
Did you know that Cleopatra's Barge, built for the Crowninshield family in 1816, became the Royal Yacht of King Kamehameha II and the first American pleasure craft to sail across the Atlantic?
Did you know that Culham Bridge  has twice been an important defensive position on the River Thames?
Did you know that Horagolla National Park is the only urban park in the Western Province of Sri Lanka?
Did you know that Johnny Spillane's silver in the individual normal hill/10 km at the 2010 Winter Olympics is the first medal won by an American in Nordic combined?
Did you know that Kurao Hiroshima was a two-time Olympian, two-time Japanese marathon champion, and two-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon?
Did you know that Martie Maguire and Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks will be releasing an album as the  Court Yard Hounds?
Did you know that Mo Tae-Bum,  a South Korean long track speed skater, won a 2010 Olympic gold medal on his 21st birthday?
Did you know that Stephen Crane's novella The Monster is thought to have been inspired in part by the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York?
Did you know that Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men was the first number one of the Billboard's Independent Albums chart, and would later go on to be the biggest selling independent album of 2001?
Did you know that according to the National Geographic Society, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva found the richest unlooted pre-Columbian tomb in the Western Hemisphere?
Did you know that country music songwriter Chris Waters, who has written songs for Tim McGraw, Terri Clark and Rhett Akins, is the older brother of singer Holly Dunn?
Did you know that director and writer Juanita Wilson spent time in "the most radioactive place on earth" while working on her debut Academy Award-nominated short film?
Did you know that in 2003, Austrian Member of the European Parliament Daniela Raschhofer was conferred a Grand Decoration of Honour?
Did you know that of the twenty-three species of bustard found in the world, the Great Indian Bustard, found in Kutch Bustard Sanctuary in Gujurat, is the only one listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List?
Did you know that the Beaverkill Valley Inn, near Lew Beach, New York, is the only remaining fishing lodge on the upper Beaver Kill from the early days of dry-fly trout fishing in the Catskills?
Did you know that the grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Boer general Ben Viljoen, and future Hollywood Western star Tom Mix fought for the rebel army in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez, part of the Mexican Revolution?
Did you know that the oldest association between Trypanosoma, which causes Chagas disease, and its vector, the assassin bug Triatoma, is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus?
Did you know that the title Mai the Black  Emperor (Mai  Hắc Đế) of Mai Thúc Loan came from his distinctively dark  complexion?
Did you know that Đại Việt sử lược is considered the oldest remaining annals of the history of Vietnam?
Did you know that Arthur Stayner, an English horticulturist who was important in the founding of the sugar industry in Utah, died in 1899 of lead poisoning from a lead pellet embedded in his heel?
Did you know that Björn Ferry, winner of the Men's pursuit biathlon event at the 2010 Winter Olympics, has suggested that athletes who use banned substances be given the death penalty?
Did you know that Bulgarian graphic artist Stefan Kanchev, the author of 1,600 logos, has been called the "father of Bulgarian graphic design" and the "master of the trademark"?
Did you know that Captain Phil Harris, best known from the Discovery Channel's reality TV series Deadliest Catch, developed a line of coffees called "Captain's Reserve"?
Did you know that Galentine's Day, an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, had a story so romantic, its characters said it made The Notebook look like Saw V?
Did you know that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, trained Iran's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion?
Did you know that Paul Harrington, inventor of the Harrington implant, once tried out for the United States Olympic team?
Did you know that Presidential Medal of Freedom winner J. Warren Madden was the first Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and said of his service on the Board, "It was all very frustrating"?
Did you know that Stephen Crane based the 1898 short story "The Open Boat" upon his personal experience of having survived a shipwreck off the coast of Florida?
Did you know that Vespula flaviceps larvae are considered a delicacy in Japan?
Did you know that at the Osborne House, Lonicera nitida shrubs were clipped to form stags that rise from beds of Felicia amelloides, Festuca glauca, and scarlet pelargoniums?
Did you know that despite being the oldest covered bridge in Lane County, Oregon, the Mosby Creek Bridge still remains open to traffic?
Did you know that during the "Christmas coup" at radio station WBAI, Utrice Leid changed the locks on the doors?
Did you know that former Governor of American Samoa Gatewood Lincoln  was the first cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as rosewood trees and lemurs?
Did you know that in 1749, London newspapers advertised that at the Haymarket Theatre, and in full view of the audience, the Bottle Conjuror would climb into a wine bottle?
Did you know that in 2004, MEP Hans Kronberger unsuccessfully contested his fellow Freedom Party of Austria candidate's election to the European Parliament in the Constitutional Court of Austria?
Did you know that in the Treaty of Labiau, Charles X Gustav of Sweden released Frederick William I of Brandenburg from the vassalage he had imposed on him in the Treaty of Königsberg?
Did you know that most of the world's pure bred Holstein cattle descend from the herd of 20th century Canadian actuary Thomas Bassett Macaulay?