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Did you know that in 1935, baseball player Snipe Hansen was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Washington Senators, on to the St. Louis Browns where he faced Washington, and then back to the Senators?
Did you know that the Rocky Mountain monkeyflower rarely produces flowers outside of a greenhouse?
Did you know that the Wings song "Beware My Love" includes melodies based on a descending tetrachord?
Did you know that the cap of the mushroom Lactarius rupestris is not cracked enough for section Edules?
Did you know that the string sections on MercyMe's 2006 album Coming Up to Breathe were recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the London Session Orchestra?
Did you know that Australia's first Winter Paralympics medallist, Michael Milton, gave one of the gold medals he earned at the 1992 Winter Paralympics to his coach, Steve Graham?
Did you know that Behind the Mosquito Net received six Citra Awards?
Did you know that Dorothy Mayhall was the first director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum?
Did you know that Hal Foster's first book was a children's book, and his second was a seminal text in postmodernism?
Did you know that John Stewart, a regular tenor with the New York City Opera and then the Frankfurt Opera, recorded the part of Oronte in Handel's Alcina opposite Cristina Deutekom in Carnegie Hall in 1974?
Did you know that Maurice Wilks, who invented the Land Rover, is buried at St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd in Wales (grave pictured)?
Did you know that Paralympic shooting medallist Ashley Adams is a cattle grazier who owns a 64,000-acre (26,000 ha) station near Blackall, Queensland?
Did you know that a media conspiracy calling itself the Order of the Occult Hand has infiltrated The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Times?
Did you know that during the Siege of Portsmouth, Southsea Castle was captured from a drunken commander?
Did you know that the Lawson Adit, a tunnel on UC Berkeley's campus, was intentionally dug through the Hayward Fault?
Did you know that the foliage of the coast myall can produce cyanide when cut?
Did you know that the melody of the closing chorale in Bach's cantata Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim, BWV 89, is doubled by the horn, two oboes and the first violin?
Did you know that the video game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a successor to Age of Chivalry, but while the latter was in Source, the new game will be Unreal?
Did you know that works of art such as The Proscribed Royalist by John Everett Millais have been accepted in lieu of tax by the British Government?
Did you know that Bubba Monroe, son of Memphis wrestler Sputnik Monroe, was featured in Texas regional and independent promotions during the 1990s?
Did you know that D. J. Smith was the first player at Appalachian State University to have more than 500 tackles in a career since NFL Pro Bowler Dexter Coakley?
Did you know that T3 was a process for extracting oil from oil shale in Morocco?
Did you know that a flying scene in the music video for Eminem's song "Not Afraid" has been compared to The Matrix?
Did you know that professional baseball player Chuck Rose was a league-leader in both hits and pitching wins?
Did you know that professional wrestlers Mark Shrader and Corporal Punishment established the first permanent wrestling school in Maryland?
Did you know that the Long-tailed Ground Roller, a species of bird endemic to Madagascar, digs a tunnel in the sand as an entrance to its underground nest?
Did you know that the Obedient Wives Club is the publisher of a book called Islamic Sex, Fighting Against Jews To Return Islamic Sex To The World?
Did you know that the church Michaelion was a model for hundreds of other churches in Eastern Christianity?
Did you know that the ruby red beverage called hibiscus tea (flowers pictured) in English-speaking countries is called "water of Jamaica" in Mexico, where it is widely available?
Did you know that uplift data and tsunami wave heights indicate that the 1703 Genroku earthquake was probably caused by the rupture of three separate segments of the Eurasian–Philippine Sea Plate boundary?
Did you know that when Lady Mary Calverley built Oddfellows' Hall in Chester, England in 1676, she was fined £20 because it caused the loss of a portion of the Chester Rows?
Did you know that Huaihai Road, one of the most famous shopping streets in Shanghai, was formerly named after the French general Joseph Joffre?
Did you know that James McCormack was the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission?
Did you know that Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is a Japanese visual novel video game that was the No. 1 best-selling PC game in Japan in October 2010?
Did you know that NASCAR "road course ringer" Chris Cook was the youngest chief instructor ever hired by the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving?
Did you know that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Albany, New York, has a Roman brick from the site of its model, St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire?
Did you know that although his high school basketball career was nearly ended by an accident with piranhas, Kit Mueller is second in Princeton basketball history in points and assists?
Did you know that judge Beth Grimes dismissed lawsuits against Keanu Reeves and Ari Emanuel, ordered Jon Voight to pay attorney fees, and was appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger to a California Court of Appeal?
Did you know that the 1980s "Gang of Four" consisted of Democratic critics of the Vietnam War who advocated Congressional funding for the Nicaraguan Contras?
Did you know that the Blacktail triplefin blenny's species name, bahasa, refers to the official language of Indonesia?
Did you know that the Bugaboos were apparently named by disgruntled prospectors?
Did you know that the Pulangi IV Hydroelectric Power Plant provides Mindanao's electrical grid with 23% of its hydropower?
Did you know that the largest political faction in the Frankfurt Parliament was called the Casino?
Did you know that the three-day Wiki Conference India (logo pictured) is running from 18 to 20 November at the University of Mumbai?
Did you know that with The Half Brother, Lars Saabye Christensen became the first novelist to win the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize twice?
Did you know that Hawaiian chief Boki accused Queen Kaʻahumanu of scheming to place her adoptive son, David Kamehameha, on the Hawaiian throne?
Did you know that MercyMe's independent album The Worship Project sold over 60,000 copies and helped them gain a contract with INO Records?
Did you know that Nag Hammadi Codex XIII is the only surviving copy of the Trimorphic Protennoia, an early Christian Gnostic text?
Did you know that New Jersey governor Chris Christie lost electric power at both his own house and the governor's mansion during the 2011 Halloween nor'easter (snow in Walden, New York, pictured)?
Did you know that RPS Rajah Soliman was sunk by a typhoon with two names?
Did you know that Thomas Eyles's service in the invasion of France brought his promotion to post-captain, despite the expedition's ultimate failure?
Did you know that Welsh goalkeeper Tony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing handstands?
Did you know that Yale history professor John Morton Blum, besides editing the Morgenthau Plan and teaching George W. Bush and John Kerry, appeared in Woody Allen's film Zelig?
Did you know that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford, where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team?
Did you know that in 1983 Brian Reid was the first rider to average over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) during the Southern 100 motorcycle races on the Isle of Man?
Did you know that musicologist Erich Katz, a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in Dachau, had a long friendship with Carl Orff, despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
Did you know that production of kits of the Robertson B1-RD, a homebuilt ultralight aircraft, was stopped by their manufacturer due to concerns about product liability?
Did you know that reefs formed by the developing plume worm are sometimes broken apart by the activity of the red boring sponge?
Did you know that the TV ad "Second Generation" features young basketball players recreating Michael Jordan's most famous moves from memory?
Did you know that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix?
Did you know that when Manasse ǃNoreseb, chief of the Red Nation in Namibia, was to be reburied at his home settlement of Hoachanas, the remains did not contain a skull?
Did you know that Boston mayor Thomas Menino called Clover Food Lab's soy bacon sandwich the "best BLT in Boston"?
Did you know that Kobe Bryant once claimed that Rashad Phillips was the "best player" never selected in an NBA Draft?
Did you know that former basketball guard Stefon Jackson, who played for the UTEP Miners, is Conference USA's all-time scoring leader with 2,456 points?
Did you know that the African Wildlife Foundation is helping feed the only remaining West African Giraffes in Niger?
Did you know that the Fringe episode "And Those We've Left Behind" marked the first time actors and real-life husband and wife Stephen Root and Romy Rosemont had worked together on a creative project?
Did you know that the Hyde Park – Kenwood Historic District in Chicago includes the home of President Barack Obama?
Did you know that the U.S. Forest Service warns hikers in Montana's Beartooth Mountains not to follow the many cairns on the way to  Froze-to-Death Mountain because they are useless for routefinding?
Did you know that the composition by Graham Waterhouse Der Handschuh (The Glove) for cello and speaking voice, after Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh, is designed for one performer?
Did you know that the extinct maple section Torada is only known from the three Eocene species A. stonebergae, A. toradense, and A. washingtonense?
Did you know that the mistletoe species Amyema congener of eastern Australia can grow on non-native peach, plum and pear trees?
Did you know that the plot of the Battlestar Galactica episode "Sacrifice" was influenced by Dog Day Afternoon?
Did you know that the starvation pricklypear is eaten by pronghorn and the black-tailed prairie dog?
Did you know that veteran NASCAR promoter Humpy Wheeler is an advisor to the Grand Prix of America, a Formula One race to be run in New Jersey (planned track layout pictured) starting in 2013?
Did you know that Australian rules football is sometimes referred to as "aerial ping-pong"?
Did you know that Mary Tyler Moore made her feature film debut in X-15, which was also the first film to be directed by Richard Donner?
Did you know that Nag Hammadi Codex II is the only complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas?
Did you know that Solonei da Silva was a garbage collector in Brazil in 2009, but went on to win the gold medal in the marathon at the 2011 Pan American Games?
Did you know that St Michael and All Angels' Church in Felton, Northumberland, has a window cut from a single stone that features eight petal flower patterning with geometrical tracery?
Did you know that a world map by Gerardus Mercator attributes the Earth's magnetic field to a magnetic mountain above the Arctic Circle?
Did you know that during the Spanish–American War, German admiral Otto von Diederichs was ordered to attempt the acquisition of colonial concessions in the Philippines, using SMS Kaiserin Augusta as his flagship?
Did you know that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpf batted .405 in the Northwestern League, higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
Did you know that tectonic subsidence, the sinking of the Earth's crust, can be caused by extension, cooling, or loading?
Did you know that the University of Central Florida's men's soccer team won their first match by a score of 8–0?
Did you know that the University of Central Florida's women's soccer team has had a winning record in 27 of the 30 seasons the team has played?
Did you know that the disastrous Air Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1939 led to the development of the fast-acting computerized Mark XIV bomb sight?
Did you know that the psychoactive mushroom Psilocybe pelliculosa resembles P. washingtonensis so closely that a microscope is needed to reliably distinguish between them?
Did you know that to escape burning at the 1393 Bal des Ardents Charles VI of France huddled under the gown of the Duchesse de Berry, while a lord leaped into a wine vat?
Did you know that Leederville Oval was built on part of a series of wetlands north of Perth, Western Australia?
Did you know that Paralympian Cobi Crispin was the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team's top scorer in all but the last two matches of the 2011 U25 Women's World Championship of Basketball?
Did you know that Paralympic gold medallist Brendan Burkett is the director of the Centre for Healthy Activities, Sport and Exercise at the University of the Sunshine Coast?
Did you know that Peter Percival collaborated with Arumuka Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, to translate the Bible into Tamil?
Did you know that Punta Brava, Cuba, has been the site of a number of notable deaths, including those of Antonio Maceo Grajales (1896) and Quentin Bandera (1906)?
Did you know that St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen, is one of the few churches in Wales to be lit only by candles?
Did you know that according to legend, Saint Boniface chased away a Germanic god named Stuffo from the Hülfensberg in Thuringia, Germany?
Did you know that during controlled burns of wooded areas, the Japanese climbing fern can inadvertently become a fuel ladder that brings flames into the canopy?
Did you know that less than six weeks after winning the 2011 National Rugby League premiership, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles sacked their head coach, Des Hasler?
Did you know that state highway K-143 (shield pictured) near Salina, Kansas, uses three different types of pavement on its 4.6 miles (7.4 km)?
Did you know that the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team won the NCAA Division I Tournament in Jerry Lyne's first season as an assistant coach?
Did you know that the Laura Street Trio of buildings in Jacksonville, Florida, includes a building that was Florida's tallest when it was built?
Did you know that the armored cruiser Admiral Makarov was one of the ships that represented the Russian Empire at the coronation of Nicholas I of Montenegro in August 1910?
Did you know that the interlocking at the Harris Switch Tower in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, still simulates train movements using timetables from the early 1940s?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalists Karen Farrell and Cameron de Burgh, both seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents, were sponsored by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority?
Did you know that Jessica Gallagher, the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics, has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
Did you know that Tom Fitzgerald has the most wins among Columbus Crew head coaches, with 70?
Did you know that Yogo sapphires are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch, Montana?
Did you know that a lake in the Langwieder lake district originated as a pit from which more than 2,000,000 cubic metres of gravel were excavated for highway construction was once voted the cleanest lake in Munich?
Did you know that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave, in Coahuila, Mexico, recovered over 950 fibre sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
Did you know that before it moved into the Old House of Keys, the Isle of Man's lower house of parliament met in a pub?
Did you know that on the first day of World War I, the German light cruiser SMS Breslau bombarded the port of Bône in French North Africa?
Did you know that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
Did you know that the plot of Sophocles' lost play Tereus incorporates rape, mutilation and infanticide?
Did you know that American painter Frederick Carl Frieseke said he got "much pleasure in shocking the good Church people with the nudes" (example pictured)?
Did you know that Australian dual swimming Paralympic gold medallist Sam Bramham once told the media that his leg had been "chomped off by a kangaroo"?
Did you know that Azwar Abubakar was acting governor of Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98, begins with the same stanza as the earlier chorale cantata, BWV 99, but continues differently and even seems to lack the regular closing chorale?
Did you know that Barbados won its first Pan American medals during the 1963 Pan American Games, held in São Paulo, Brazil?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen's song "Point Blank" is one of several songs on The River that deal with the disappointments of working-class family life?
Did you know that Corporal Punishment went professional in 1993?
Did you know that Hall of Famer George Kelly was nearly suspended by Major League Baseball for playing basketball with Jimmy O'Connell?
Did you know that Jacqueline Moss guided tours of Joseph Hirshhorn's sculpture garden in Greenwich, Connecticut, before he had the art moved to his museum in Washington?
Did you know that Native Americans used various parts of the purple prairie clover for food and to make tea, medicine, and brooms?
Did you know that Toward the Unknown featured storylines involving both test pilots and brainwashing?
Did you know that Werner Hartenstein was the U-boat commander responsible for the Laconia incident?
Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-41 torpedo bomber was designed to be flown either with conventional landing gear or as a floatplane?
Did you know that the gonads of jellyfish Bathykorus bouilloni have not been observed?
Did you know that 1932 Olympic racewalking champion Tommy Green was unable to walk for the first five years of his life because he was afflicted with rickets?
Did you know that Armijn Pane wrote more idealistic works after the Japanese occupation of Indonesia?
Did you know that Brad Ness, Justin Eveson, Shaun Norris, Michael Hartnett, Brendan Dowler, Tristan Knowles and Brett Stibners were all members of the gold medal winning Australian 2008 Summer Paralympics wheelchair basketball team coached by Benjamin James Ettridge?
Did you know that Captain Edward Sneyd Clay lost his ship when his pilot and master mistook a burning lime kiln for a signal light?
Did you know that John Jenkinson rescued a woman from a burning house in The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand, whilst 13 others died?
Did you know that P. Oxy. 654 and P. Oxy. 655 are two of only three Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas?
Did you know that Sickle-billed Vangas have a polyandrous breeding system, with several males helping a single female raise a clutch of eggs?
Did you know that baseball player Fred Fussell was nicknamed "Moonlight Ace" after he pitched a no-hitter?
Did you know that during a decade of the interbellum, Poland and Germany suffered from a customs war?
Did you know that the Mother Zion church, New York City's first African-American congregation, was also an Underground Railway refuge?
Did you know that the People's Library was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in Zuccotti Park, New York?
Did you know that the Tory Member of Parliament Henry Thynne taught French and Italian to the poet Elizabeth Singer?
Did you know that Auckland's Grafton Volcano was only identified last year, having been buried by a neighbouring volcano soon after it was created?
Did you know that Christen Pram is regarded as the first Norwegian novelist?
Did you know that a Sinclair ZX81 inspired Eric van der Kleij, CEO of Tech City, to go into technology?
Did you know that both of American singer Romeo Santos' first two singles, "You" and "Promise", reached the top of the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
Did you know that both the Justice Party and the Indian National Congress lent their support to the 1921 Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Strike?
Did you know that hindgut fermenters such as horses extract more nutrition out of smaller quantities of feed than do ruminants such as cattle?
Did you know that in his two elections as councillor for Christchurch City Council, and four successful elections as Mayor of Christchurch, Charles Louisson was always returned unopposed?
Did you know that it has been suggested that John Thornton Augustine Washington would have succeeded his great uncle George Washington as "king" if the United States had been a monarchy?
Did you know that nobleman and diplomat Michał Radziwiłł Rudy was described as a psychopath by his own cousin, politician Krzysztof Radziwiłł?
Did you know that the "wedding" of the Miami Maniac, the mascot of the Miami Hurricanes baseball team, was televised nationally on ESPN in a ceremony attended by Bud Man, Grimace and McGruff the Crime Dog?
Did you know that the Michigan–Michigan State ice hockey rivalry includes The Big Chill at the Big House, the highest attended ice hockey game ever?
Did you know that the Tamar–Tavy Estuary, on the Cornwall–Devon border in the UK, attracts over 20% of the British wintering population of the uncommon Pied Avocet?
Did you know that the first Chinese player in the NBA was a Maverick?
Did you know that the pilgrimage site (cross pictured) on the mountain Hülfensberg, popular since the Middle Ages, survived the Reformation, the dissolution by Jérôme Bonaparte, Bismarck's Kulturkampf, and the division of Germany?
Did you know that Constantinos A. Patrides, the author of Milton and the Christian Tradition, earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation?
Did you know that Sir Edward Ford donated 2,200 of his own books to the library of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians?
Did you know that although St Cynfarwy was active in Anglesey, Wales, in the 7th century, the age of the church dedicated to him cannot be ascertained due to extensive rebuilding?
Did you know that during the Second World War, what became the Battle of Britain House in Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
Did you know that the 21er Haus, located in Vienna, was originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels?
Did you know that the use of fireworks has been investigated as a possible cause of the recent 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 motorway (accident site pictured) in Taunton, Somerset?
Did you know that "Cherish" became Madonna's sixteenth top-five single, a record in the Billboard Hot 100 history?
Did you know that Jacque LaPrarie, Eric Hochberg, Tom Tarver, Mike Stephans, and Chas Dodd all led the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team in passing yards?
Did you know that Russian scientist Mikhail Golant, a sapper during World War II, pioneered the Soviet approach to design of backward-wave tubes?
Did you know that Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik was the 50th Massey Lecture and occurred on the 75th anniversary of the CBC?
Did you know that an English translation of the Hindi hymn "Jaya Ho" has been included in the North American hymnals Voices United and The United Methodist Hymnal?
Did you know that at least two of the four Scott Viking 1 gliders built were impressed into Royal Air Force service during World War Two?
Did you know that despite failing to defend a convoy (engagement pictured), and having one of his ships wrecked, Robert Linzee still rose to be an admiral in the Royal Navy?
Did you know that the Belgian Landrace, a breed of domestic pig, is known for its musculature and high quality of pork?
Did you know that the Congo Serpent Eagle may be one of the few known examples of avian mimicry?
Did you know that the Pioneer Youth League of British Guiana was banned by the British colonial authorities in December 1953?
Did you know that the Yale Union Laundry Building, built in Portland, Oregon in 1904, includes the Italian Revival and Egyptian Revival architectural styles?