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Did you know that Jordy Mercer and Matt Hague have been baseball teammates in college and the minor leagues since 2008, as both attended Oklahoma State and were drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates?
Did you know that Rhodesian soccer captain Bobby Chalmers, a white man, was assisted in his leadership of the mostly black national team by his proficiency in both Ndebele and Shona?
Did you know that Theological College, a Roman Catholic seminary in Washington, D.C., educates seminarians from over 30 dioceses around the world?
Did you know that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the Maccabees, heroes of the Hanukkah story?
Did you know that according to The New York Times, the "overwhelmingly young" Local Coordination Committees of Syria are starting to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syria?
Did you know that in 1784, the racehorse Serjeant had to run half a mile more than the previous winner, Saltram, in order to win the Derby Stakes?
Did you know that the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake caused Hebgen Lake, near Yellowstone National Park, to recede 22 feet (6.7 m), leaving a wide gravel beach along the lakefront of Lonesomehurst Cabin?
Did you know that the 2012 special election in Zambales' 2nd district was contested by members of three political families in the Philippines?
Did you know that Animal Justice Party, federally registered in May 2011, is the first Australian political party dedicated to animal rights issues?
Did you know that New Jersey Assemblyman Gregory P. McGuckin is the son of the first directly elected mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey?
Did you know that Sir Peter Lely's depiction of naval officer Sir Jeremiah Smith has been called "one of the finest portraits of the age"?
Did you know that William Hiseland, the last survivor of the Battle of Edgehill, also fought at Malplaquet sixty-seven years later?
Did you know that Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou's first book of essays, has been called one of her "wisdom books"?
Did you know that a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court was removed from office for not removing a granite monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama?
Did you know that findings of Cylindroteuthis and other belemnites in Greenland suggest that an early form of the Gulf Stream existed as early as the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous)?
Did you know that prosimian primates like lemurs and slow lorises have a "second tongue" called a sublingua, which they use to clean their toothcomb?
Did you know that small shells of Trigonoconcha are triangular?
Did you know that the Beirut-based actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué had to premiere a piece in Tokyo because it was banned at home?
Did you know that the racehorse Sir Peter Teazle was the first winner of the Derby Stakes to sire another winning colt of the race, siring Sir Harry, Archduke, Ditto and Paris?
Did you know that the second ship of the Japanese Ibuki class of heavy cruisers was scrapped less than a month after she was laid down in order to clear her slipway for an aircraft carrier?
Did you know that the tragic end of Raj Kapoor's film Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release?
Did you know that unlike all modern Thoroughbreds, the 1785 Derby winner Aimwell was not descended in the male line from either the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, or the Byerley Turk?
Did you know that Bonfire helped Anky van Grunsven win three Olympic gold medals?
Did you know that British midwife and bestselling author Jennifer Worth criticized Mike Leigh's 2004 film Vera Drake for depicting an "invariably fatal" method of abortion as quick and painless for women?
Did you know that Bruno Braquehais' photography of the 1871 Paris Commune (example pictured) is considered an important early example of photojournalism?
Did you know that Hungarian Realist painter Tivadar Zemplényi was awarded a silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
Did you know that Jacksonville's Catholic-affiliated St. Vincent's HealthCare merged with Baptist Health in 1995 to cut costs by $100 million, but the organizations separated in 2000?
Did you know that Negro league baseball stars Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Oscar Charleston each played in Cuba for the Leopardos de Santa Clara?
Did you know that Sinan Reis, a Sephardi Jewish pirate and Barbary corsair whose family was expelled from Spain in 1492, helped Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa defeat the Spanish at the 1538 Battle of Preveza?
Did you know that Sjumandjaja was the first Indonesian to attend the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography and the first non-Russian to graduate summa cum laude?
Did you know that The Doobie Brothers' single "Minute by Minute" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year but lost to the band's prior single, "What a Fool Believes"?
Did you know that pitcher Justin Pope broke Roger Clemens' college baseball record of 35 consecutive scoreless innings?
Did you know that silleros carried European travelers across the Quindío pass in the Colombian Andes in wickerwork chairs mounted on their backs?
Did you know that the masterpiece painting Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko was among the most wanted artifacts that Nazi Germany planned to destroy?
Did you know that the theft of the Sforza Hours is one of the earliest recorded examples of art theft in the Italian Renaissance?
Did you know that the village of Poljance was mentioned in the Dečani decree, dating to 1330, issued by Serbian King Stephen Uroš III?
Did you know that Alcock's Arabian, an Arabian horse imported to England in the 18th century, is putatively the ancestor of all grey Thoroughbred horses?
Did you know that Colorado's Redstone Inn, originally a 1900s dormitory for unmarried male Colorado Fuel and Iron workers, had indoor plumbing, electricity and telephone when it was built?
Did you know that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form?
Did you know that Paul Kelly's song "Dumb Things" was used on the soundtrack, for the Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein after Kelly's wife Kaarin Fairfax acted in a scene with Serious' wife Lulu Pinkus?
Did you know that Pulitzer-winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the King David Hotel bombing?
Did you know that a fossil of the Middle Permian therocephalian Blattoidealestes represents the oldest record of multicuspid teeth among theriodonts, the ancestors of mammals?
Did you know that comedian Nick Swardson first performed stand-up comedy at the age of 18 "as a goof" and was selected to perform at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado just two years later?
Did you know that in the "Pilot" for The Cosby Show Bill Cosby's character taught his son a lesson using Monopoly money?
Did you know that near the hamlet of Barkip in North Ayrshire, the largest anaerobic digestion power plant in Scotland was completed in June 2011?
Did you know that nearly half of all of the championships won by the William & Mary Tribe football team have occurred during current head coach Jimmye Laycock's tenure?
Did you know that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger, livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and Mayor of Dunedin?
Did you know that the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has donated over 60,000 corneas for transplantation in 57 countries, including those of the late President of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene?
Did you know that the University Times, a newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, was threatened with closure when it covered a heated dispute among the faculty and administration in 1979?
Did you know that the music video of the title track in AKB48's single Give Me Five is 34 minutes long?
Did you know that there are several ruins of Serbian Orthodox churches in Dvorane?
Did you know that Australian former Paralympian Alison Quinn was brought to gymnastics as a child in the hope that it would improve her coordination and symmetry?
Did you know that Brigitte, who plays the French Bulldog Stella on the TV show Modern Family, has been called the most famous dog on television since Frasier's Eddie?
Did you know that Die Freundin, a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government?
Did you know that Double Fine Productions raised more than $1 million in under 24 hours in a record-breaking, crowd-sourced Kickstarter funding drive for their upcoming adventure game?
Did you know that European welterweight champion Johnny Basham faced a manslaughter charge after killing an opponent in a boxing match?
Did you know that French general Hubert Lyautey described his defensive tactics in the Zaian War as analogous to hollowing out a lobster?
Did you know that Iowa golden-saxifrage is sometimes considered to be a variety of Chrysosplenium alternifolium?
Did you know that Michael Hart failed to get elected to the New Zealand Parliament, but was chosen as Mayor of Christchurch 13 years later?
Did you know that Zennor Head, Cornwall, is named after a woman who was reputedly washed up there after being thrown into the sea in a barrel by her husband?
Did you know that actor John Abraham's first production Vicky Donor deals with the concept of sperm donation?
Did you know that construction of the Vianden Pumped Storage Plant began after a treaty was signed between Luxembourg and the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate?
Did you know that four Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players have been drafted first overall in the WNBA Draft, including Maya Moore in 2011?
Did you know that in 1936, Mahmoud set a course record at Epsom and became the third of four grey racehorses to ever win the Derby Stakes?
Did you know that in the 1991 PBA First Conference Finals, Ginebra San Miguel became the first team in Philippine Basketball Association history to win a championship series coming from a 1–3 deficit?
Did you know that the life of Wenlock Christison, who was condemned to death for being a Quaker while in Massachusetts Bay Colony by  Governor John Endicott, was spared by King Charles II?
Did you know that the plot of the adventure game Undercover: Operation Wintersun focuses on a nuclear physicist trying to destroy Nazi German prototype nuclear weapons during World War II?
Did you know that Gangavataran was the first sound film, and the last film, to be directed by Dadasaheb Phalke?
Did you know that Gemma Beadsworth and her brother Jamie both represented Australia in water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, released in January 2009, was Rihanna's first remix album?
Did you know that Hostess Brands has claimed that the Hostess CupCake was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market," but that claim has been disputed by rival Tastykake?
Did you know that Old Carthusians F.C. is one of only two football clubs to have won both the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup?
Did you know that a steel works and a shipyard form major components in the economy of Galați, Romania?
Did you know that during World War II, the multi-national Alsos Mission captured and dismantled a German experimental nuclear reactor?
Did you know that following a cold case review, police arrested a suspect for the 1961 murder of Jacqueline Thomas 46 years after the crime was committed?
Did you know that hundreds of Polish coal miners spent two weeks underground in the 1981 strike at Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń?
Did you know that in 1914 Prince Obolensky thought his peasants were enthusiastic about a war to defend Belgrade, later learning they had understood him to mean Belgorod, home of the relics of St Ioasaph?
Did you know that in 1943, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashed in Astwell, Northamptonshire, near the Silverstone bomber station which was built in the same year?
Did you know that in his award-winning string quartet Chinese Whispers, Graham Waterhouse has phrases gradually morph as they pass from player to player, as verbal phrases do in the whispering game?
Did you know that the Union Watersphere in Union, New Jersey, was formerly the tallest sphere-topped water tower in the world?
Did you know that the antagonist of the Millennium episode "522666" represents "an indictment upon the modern obsession with celebrity"?
Did you know that Admiral Jonathan Faulknor's grandfather, father, son, two brothers, nephew and grandson were all naval officers?
Did you know that American baseball players Brett Jackson, Jeff Beliveau, James McCann, Tuffy Gosewisch, Matt Clark, Pete Andrelczyk, Matt Shoemaker, Justin Cassel, Chad Tracy and Andrew Garcia won silver at the 2011 Pan American Games?
Did you know that Duke's, a Mumbai-based soft-drink brand, was bought by PepsiCo in 1994 and withdrawn from most segments in 2004 before being relaunched in 2011?
Did you know that Rock Sand won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes to claim the English Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1903, and later became a stud in Kentucky?
Did you know that among long-term prisoners held at Akershus Fortress in the 19th century were Norwegian career criminals Gjest Baardsen and Ole Høiland, and Sami rebel Lars Hætta?
Did you know that it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay, depicting the Eritrean War, led to the disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
Did you know that rather than being most closely related to other West Indian legumes, the Greater Antillean endemic genus Pictetia is closest to species found in Africa and Mesoamerica?
Did you know that six Rossetti paintings, including Monna Rosa, Mnemosyne, and Veronica Veronese (detail pictured), were all displayed together in the drawing room of Frederick Leyland, who called them "stunners"?
Did you know that the large Baroque pilgrimage church complex in Mariánská Týnice served its religious purpose for only eight years?
Did you know that third-generation stock car driver Ryan Blaney, who will compete in NASCAR for Tommy Baldwin Racing this year, won his first race at age nine?
Did you know that Friendship and Freedom, published in 1924, was the first gay-interest periodical in the United States?
Did you know that Itō Chūta was the leading architect of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan?
Did you know that New Zealand peace campaigner Owen Wilkes had his mail monitored?
Did you know that Rihanna's Rated R: Remixed received mixed reviews?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer Charles Phipps combined a parliamentary career with commanding ships in the American War of Independence?
Did you know that Sanusi Pane has been called the most important Indonesian dramatist prior to the national revolution?
Did you know that U.S. Air Force weather officer J. Murray Mitchell investigated the Arctic haze and became an eminent climatologist commemorated by the Mitchell Glacier?
Did you know that U.S. Navy destroyer John Finn (DDG-113) is named in honor of John William Finn, the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II?
Did you know that a new twin pyramid complex (east pyramid pictured) was built at the Maya city of Tikal every twenty years to celebrate the end of a Maya calendrical cycle?
Did you know that because Drew Crawford's father, Dan, was a referee in the National Basketball Association, Drew was exposed to elite players like LeBron James and Reggie Miller?
Did you know that during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre, a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of life?
Did you know that funding for the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator prompted a Government Accountability Office reprimand in the United States?
Did you know that international cannabis smuggler Howard Marks took on the alias of "Mr. Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice?
Did you know that surangas are horizontal, tunnel-like structures dug into laterite hill slopes to supply water in the Kasaragod district of Kerala and Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka?
Did you know that the Ray Butts EchoSonic gave live slapback to Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, and Carl Perkins?
Did you know that the blast furnaces at the Hunedoara steel works in Hunedoara, Romania, were shut down 115 years to the day after the first such units were inaugurated there?
Did you know that the deadliest accident Aeroflot experienced in the 1980s occurred in July 1985 (1985-07), when a Tupolev Tu-154B-2 stalled en route and crashed near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, killing all 200 people aboard?
Did you know that Orland Kurtenbach was the Vancouver Canucks' first captain and first member of their Ring of Honour?
Did you know that Pat Hawkins from Perth, Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2,489 km (1,547 mi) in seven days in 1940?
Did you know that according to Shakespeare, Henry V, who was born in Monmouth, approved of Welshmen wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps?
Did you know that although St Peter's Church in Monmouthshire is a Welsh church, in 1920 its congregation decided to join the Church of England?
Did you know that an entire print run of Svetlana Kalinkina's newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police?
Did you know that by acquiring the commercial division of the Norwegian Mapping Agency, the company now called Nordeca became a market leader in leisure maps in Norway?
Did you know that the 126-acre Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens, which opened November 15, 2008, contains 13 separate and distinct ecosystems?
Did you know that the Coimbatore bypass included construction of a 32.2 metres (106 ft) toll bridge over the Noyyal River in India?
Did you know that the Philippe Starck-designed A has been described as both "the most extraordinary yacht launched in recent memory" and "one of the ghastliest megayachts ever created"?
Did you know that the Thomas Cook European Timetable, in publication since 1873, was called "the most revered and accurate railway reference in existence" by travel guide-book editor Stephen Birnbaum?
Did you know that the largest credit union merger in Michigan history took place in 2008, resulting in the creation of Genisys Credit Union?
Did you know that the mint plant largeflower false rosemary has the largest flowers of the genus Conradina?
Did you know that the victory by Minoru at the 1909 Epsom Derby made his owner Edward VII the first reigning British monarch to win a Derby?
Did you know that Abidin Bey was the first governor of Egyptian Dongola?
Did you know that Australian Stingers Ashleigh Southern, Glencora Ralph, Zoe Arancini, Rowena Webster and Nicola Zagame are five of seventeen water polo players trying to make the 2012 Summer Olympics squad?
Did you know that Caroline Birley's lifelong love of geology started with stones she collected as a child on family holidays?
Did you know that Charles Rolls and early members of the Royal Aero Club used to go ballooning from Vauxhall Fields in Monmouth?
Did you know that Colorado Fuel and Iron banned residents of its company town at Redstone (pictured in present) from treating each other to drinks?
Did you know that Druid's Lodge in the parish of Woodford, Wiltshire was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II?
Did you know that Erkki Kourula was the first Finn to be elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court?
Did you know that Rémi Ochlik, who was killed in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs, won the 2012 World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a Libyan rebel fighter?
Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts?
Did you know that only Reginald Owen, Carleton Hobbs, Jeremy Brett, and Patrick Macnee have portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson professionally, with Macnee portraying Holmes in The Hound of London?
Did you know that painter Henri-Edmond Cross (self-portrait pictured) changed his name twice, each time to avoid confusion with a similarly named artist?
Did you know that the Limestone Corner area of Hadrian's Wall is not made from limestone?
Did you know that the Swedish Asatru Assembly, now the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly, held a blót at Gamla Uppsala to celebrate the Church of Sweden no longer being the state church?
Did you know that there has been a 33% decrease in cars entering Milan's city center since the Area C congestion charge was introduced?
Did you know that "We Belong Together" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media?
Did you know that Bentworth Hall was built in 1832 to replace the former 14th-century hall, now called Hall Place?
Did you know that John King's win in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' 2012 event at Daytona International Speedway was only the third victory of his racing career?
Did you know that Meyer Kestnbaum led a business with a long record of peaceful labor relations, and after he died the company and its labor union collaborated on a memorial to him?
Did you know that Millennium's "Dead Letters" ventures into "Lynchian nightmare territory"?
Did you know that Sandra Laing was legally declared "coloured" largely on the basis of a pencil test, despite being born of two "white" parents?
Did you know that Sean Combs' Revolt, Robert Rodriguez' El Rey and Magic Johnson's Aspire are upcoming U.S. ethnic minority-owned television networks that Comcast agreed to promote in order to secure the NBCUniversal acquisition?
Did you know that Toby Litt's novel Journey into Space takes place on board a generation ship?
Did you know that William Carter, the first mayor of Hobart, was especially distinguished for his aversion to slander and backbiting?
Did you know that a document from the 1960s STRAT-X US nuclear deterrent study was composed from a Soviet perspective, disapproving of capitalism and glorifying socialism?
Did you know that academic publishers often ask authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement before printing their work?
Did you know that the 19th-century Fort Widley was later reused as an emergency civil control centre?
Did you know that the Lost World at the ancient Maya city of Tikal was the first architectural complex to be built at the city?
Did you know that the gray-leaf willow is a rich source of calcium and phosphorus for its browsers?
Did you know that the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel, like the sig-runes worn on SS uniforms, stood for Nazi values but were actually inspired by the neopagan occultism of mystic Guido von List?
Did you know that the work of ornithologist Chandler Robbins helped inspire Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic swimmer Teigan Van Roosmalen is legally blind and deaf?
Did you know that Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting Le Sommeil, depicting a lesbian relationship, was inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Delphine et Hippolyte"?
Did you know that Italian Renaissance portrait styles reached England through the medium of Brussels tapestry?
Did you know that Jennifer Worth wrote her bestseller Call the Midwife in response to an article in the British Midwifery Journal, criticising the lack of midwives in literature?
Did you know that Thomas Tyldesley was knighted for bravery shown at the Battle of Burton Bridge in 1643?
Did you know that dubstep musician James Blake released the three extended plays The Bells Sketch, CMYK, and Klavierwerke in only one year?
Did you know that in August 2000, 37 people were banned from attending matches at Arsenal F.C.'s stadium because of their involvement in the Battle of Copenhagen?
Did you know that one reviewer found several scenes in Millennium's "The Well-Worn Lock" to be as horrifying as anything he had seen on television?
Did you know that the French military used the "Mikado strategy" during Operation Septentrion in the Uzbin Valley of Afghanistan?
Did you know that the New Stables, a building complex in central Berlin, Germany, that had housed the Imperial horses and carriages, later housed revolutionaries in the Christmas Crisis of 1918?