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Did you know that the San Diego Padres ' first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma , who received a win against the Houston Astros in 1969 ?
Did you know that William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles ' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
Did you know that Odd Karsten Tveit , foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2005?
Did you know that in 1969, Major League Baseball player Kevin Collins was traded by the New York Mets with three other players for Donn Clendenon , who would be the World Series MVP that season?
Did you know that although having no formal medical training Anne Margrethe Strømsheim served as a nurse during the 25-day Battle of Hegra Fortress in 1940, gaining national fame in Norway?
Did you know that Nirvana 's 1994 song " Heart-Shaped Box " was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards , winning two of them?
Did you know that the SS -physician Alfred Trzebinski , who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm , was executed by hanging in 1946?
Did you know that the Larmer Tree Festival has made the shortlist for three UK Festival Awards , including Best Toilets?
Did you know that despite failing health, American racer Joe Shear won four of his last five races?
Did you know that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama ?
Did you know that retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor ?
Did you know that David Drake wrote his first novel, The Dragon Lord , after another author declined to develop the plot Drake had written?
Did you know that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind ?
Did you know that the popular statement that USS Arizona (BB-39) 's 14"/45 caliber guns were never fired in anger is a myth?
Did you know that the English of Selim Aga , a former slave from Sudan , was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton ?
Did you know that more than a million NSU Quickly mopeds were sold between 1953 and 1963?
Did you know that Admiral Naokuni Nomura , WW2 Japanese naval attache to Berlin , returned home on U-511 , a submarine that had been presented by Adolf Hitler to Japan in 1943?
Did you know that Courtland Center in Burton, Michigan had three separate JCPenney stores until a new one opened in March 2008?
Did you know that between 1874 and 1884, Hans Mustad co-owned the industrial company O. Mustad & Son with his father Ole Hovelsen Mustad ?
Did you know that Empire , a 1962–1963 NBC Western dramatic series set on a New Mexico ranch , provided the first recurring role for future film star Ryan O'Neal ?
Did you know that Royce Pollard , the mayor of Vancouver, Washington , bought and destroyed Starbucks coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence?
Did you know that Edward Jardine , after commanding 200 Union troops in an attempt to quell the New York Draft Riots , only escaped the rioters by wearing civilian clothes?
Did you know that Betsy , a border collie , has intelligence greater than that of the great ape which is regarded as humans' closest relative?
Did you know that George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud , his young companion while in Greece, £ 7,000, but later changed his mind?
Did you know that the jeep problem is a mathematical problem in which a jeep must maximise the distance it can travel into a desert with a given amount of fuel ?
Did you know that Ruatara , chief of the Ngā Puhi , hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?
Did you know that the Overman Committee , led by Senator Lee Slater Overman , investigated allegations that groups such as the United States Brewers Association were promoting "un-American activities"?
Did you know that Eli Hurvitz , Chairman of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries , joined the company in the early 1950s as a dish washer?
Did you know that Czeslaw Lejewski , Polish philosopher and logician, who studied under Jan Lukasiewicz and Karl Popper , became one of the members of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic ?
Did you know that Margaret Kelly Leibovici , a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France ?
Did you know that 10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act ?
Did you know that the liberal Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government , but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
Did you know that Court Avenue , Ohio , was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete ?
Did you know that the Catedral de San Nicolás in Rionegro, Antioquia , Colombia was built because the original church was believed to have been possessed by evil spirits ?
Did you know that carotene can be used to alter the optical properties of carbon nanotubes ?
Did you know that Ntare Mwine is a Ugandan - American actor, playwright and documentarian who has appeared in Heroes and interviewed Idi Amin 's brother?
Did you know that the Teatro del Silenzio is an open air amphitheatre in Italy which remains silent for 364 days of the year?
Did you know that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines ?
Did you know that Swiss lawyer Georges Brunschvig was first to prove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be false in court?
Did you know that Meinong's jungle is the name given to the ontological realm in which non-existent objects such as unicorns , square circles, and golden mountains subsist?
Did you know that after Dale Earnhardt 's first win, his crew chief Jake Elder said, "Stick with me, kid, and we'll win diamonds as big as horse turds "?
Did you know that the death of Captain Henry T. Waskow in WWII was the subject of one of Ernie Pyle 's most famous columns and the basis for the Oscar-nominated film The Story of G.I. Joe ?
Did you know that Borgarting Court of Appeal dates back to at least 1047, at the time organized as a thing ?
Did you know that Henry Compton ran away from home three times before his family finally accepted his wish to become an actor?
Did you know that Cloudland Canyon State Park , situated on Lookout Mountain in Georgia , contains many unusual sandstone boulder formations?
Did you know that the enmity between Tang Dynasty general Li Sheng and chancellor Zhang Yanshang began over a military prostitute ?
Did you know that during the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake , over 60,000 reports of the earthquake were received?
Did you know that The New York Times moved in 1858 to a building at 41 Park Row , making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use?
Did you know that, in his first season as a baseball player, Brian Barber 's age of 22 was the youngest on an aging St. Louis Cardinals team?
Did you know that a brutal rape of a Bengali child by her 35-year-old husband served as a catalyst for increasing the age of consummation to 12 in British India ?
Did you know that the media of the Mortal Kombat franchise not only includes the video game series which has sold 26 million copies but also two feature films, a television series, two books, and several comics books?
Did you know that after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars , Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus ?
Did you know that impeachment in Norway was used six times in 1814–1845, but only twice since?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Kirsten of 1966 did $35.18 million (2008 USD ) in damages and caused heavy rain all the way to Phoenix, Arizona when it made landfall?
Did you know that historic Sleddale Hall , the filming location for Crow Crag in the 1986 cult film Withnail and I is derelict and has faced demolition in the past?
Did you know that offset agreements are one of the methods used to ensure a country's balance of trade ?
Did you know that after being rejected from HaShomer , a Jewish defense organization in Ottoman Palestine , Yosef Lishansky founded a rival group called HaMagen, operating in the south of the country?
Did you know that Our Man Higgins , a 1962–1963 ABC sitcom , featured Stanley Holloway of My Fair Lady as an emphatic English butler to a suburban American family?
Did you know that Zola Maseko was the first South African filmmaker to receive the top prize at FESPACO , the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in 2005?
Did you know that when the Church of St Demetrius was built in Veliko Tarnovo , Bulgaria , a rumour was spread that the saint would come to the city?
Did you know that Rettamalai Srinivasan , Dalit leader from the Madras Presidency , was a brother-in-law of famous Dalit activist Iyothee Thass ?
Did you know that County Route 41 in Onondaga County, New York , was once part of two state highways and one turnpike ?
Did you know that Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz , Polish Righteous among the Nations , hid 15 Jews on their farm during World War II undeterred by public execution of their Ghetto liaison?
Did you know that over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War , though only 35 were killed in action ?
Did you know that Orson Welles originally planned to end his film Don Quixote by having Don Quixote and Sancho Panza survive an atomic cataclysm ?
Did you know that Dipor Bil reportedly provides its natural resources for the livelihood of 14 indigenous villages (1,200 families) located in its wetland ecosystem in Assam , India ?
Did you know that the Alice Springs Reptile Centre has the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory , and has twice had its animals attacked by humans?
Did you know that Ensign O'Toole , a 1962–1963 NBC military comedy series starring Dean Jones , was filmed aboard the USS Frank E. Evans , which was thereafter destroyed following a collision ?
Did you know that Bruce Voeller coined the term " acquired immune deficiency syndrome "?
Did you know that Kazakhstan and Turkey have sought to promote closer bilateral relations and foster close ties between Turkic nations of Central Asia ?
Did you know that all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia ?
Did you know that " The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World " won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969?
Did you know that Jason Dozzell is the youngest player to have scored in the Football League First Division when he scored for Ipswich Town aged 16 years and 57 days?
Did you know that growing relations between Kazakhstan and People's Republic of China help China avert the establishment of U.S. military bases in Kazakhstan and harness its oil resources?
Did you know that alternative rock band The Strokes has been nominated for Best International Band three times from the NME Awards , winning it in 2006?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil , near Jerusalem , is regarded by Muslims , Jews and Christians alike as a holy site for containing the tomb of Samuel ?
Did you know that protests at the 2002 meeting of the World Bank in Oslo , Norway saw the police prepare for large riots, but turned out to be peaceful?
Did you know that the Amrita Club is one of only two brick Colonial Revival buildings in Poughkeepsie, New York ?
Did you know that cancer specialist Julian Aleksandrowicz , a Polish Jew , joined Polish resistance Armia Krajowa after being aided in the Kraków ghetto by one of the Polish Righteous ?
Did you know that former places of worship in Brighton and Hove , England , have been converted into a pub , a screen-printing factory, an art gallery and a sheltered housing complex, among other things?
Did you know that Pre-Raphaelite English artist John Wharlton Bunney painted a picture including the entire western facade of St. Mark's Basilica over six hundred early morning sessions?
Did you know that both the first forensic pathologist and the first female pediatrician in Maine used to live in the Skolfield-Whittier House , now a museum in Brunswick, Maine ?
Did you know that until the 1990s, the Short-beaked Common Dolphin and the Long-beaked Common Dolphin were considered the same species ?
Did you know that mountaineer William Woodman Graham had to abandon an expedition to Kanchenjunga when a porter accidentally burned his boots ?
Did you know that the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya , Uganda and Tanganyika ?
Did you know that Olivia Colman bonded the cast of Beautiful People by arranging a visit from a mobile blood donor unit ?
Did you know that the dumbbell -shaped devices commonly seen on overhead power lines are Stockbridge dampers , used to suppress wind-induced vibrations ?
Did you know that the Jewish Socialist Workers Party in the Russian Empire mobilized 3,000 of its cadres in self-defense militias during 1906?
Did you know that footballer Peter Stringfellow suffered a dramatic decline in form, which ultimately ended his professional career, after being involved in a car crash in which a team-mate died?
Did you know that after his son was murdered during a study abroad program, entrepreneur Tom Petters formed a foundation to provide endowments that would benefit future students at several universities?
Did you know that the first person to learn what is in the United Kingdom Budget, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget Day , is the Queen?
Did you know that South Liberty Street in Poughkeepsie, New York , was renamed Garfield Place after the assassination of U.S. President James A. Garfield ?
Did you know that the Celts were animists who believed that all aspects of the natural world contained spirits ?
Did you know that New Zealand Police Commissioner Howard Broad successfully completed rewriting the policing law and the introduction of tasers to the New Zealand Police?
Did you know that Spiraea japonica , an invasive plant native to East Asia , was introduced in the United States as an ornamental plant ?
Did you know that unique versions of Percy Bysshe Shelley 's poems " Mont Blanc " and " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty " were rediscovered in a notebook 160 years after they were originally composed?
Did you know that France has strengthened bilateral ties with India by signing agreements allowing it to purchase French-made nuclear reactors , the Mirage 2000 fighters , and the Scorpène submarines ?
Did you know that despite a 600-year long tradition of being the back garden of the Zagreb cathedral , the Ribnjak neighborhood in Zagreb , Croatia is a focal point of gang violence in the city?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson called the captains who fought with him at the Battle of the Nile his " Band of Brothers "?
Did you know that Georgia Tech professor Jeff S. Shamma and his MIT Ph.D. advisor Michael Athans both received the Donald P. Eckman Award , one of the most prestigious awards in control theory ?
Did you know that All Saints' Church, Childwall is the only medieval church in the metropolitan borough of Liverpool , England ?
Did you know that American singer Becca provided the closing theme "I'm Alive!" for the episodes of the 2008 Japanese anime Kuroshitsuji ?
Did you know that Friston Windmill is the tallest surviving post mill in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Ronn Reynolds spent parts of six seasons as a Major League Baseball catcher , despite a career batting average of just .188?
Did you know that the 1943 German Donbas Operations led to the destruction of 52 Soviet divisions, and the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod from the Red Army ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Huaiguang saved Fengtian, where Emperor Dezong of Tang was at the time, from falling to the rebel Zhu Ci ?
Did you know that the only print of Orson Welles ' 1938 film Too Much Johnson was destroyed in a 1971 fire at Welles' home outside of Madrid, Spain ?
Did you know that army officer and M.P. William Hacket Pain was involved in planning and organising the Larne Gun Running operation, which helped to arm the Ulster Volunteers during the Home Rule crisis of 1912 ?
Did you know that Haruka Tomatsu , who provides two pieces of theme music for the episodes of the Kannagi anime , is also the seiyū of one of the series' titular characters, Nagi ?
Did you know that William Tresham was elected as a Knight of the Shire for 12 successive parliaments?
Did you know that Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy , an Australian domestic science college for women, was officially opened on April 27, 1927 by Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ?
Did you know that William Trueheart was the acting U.S. ambassador to Saigon during the Vietnam Conflict, because his superior, Frederick Nolting , wanted a break from duties?
Did you know that cold weather kept the Montreal Expos on the road for their first 19 Opening Day games, until 1988 when Dennis Martínez became the starting pitcher of the team's first opening day home game ?
Did you know that Empress Wang , the wife of Emperor Dezong of Tang , was empress for only three days prior to her death in 786 AD?
Did you know that the Universal Edit Button is a Firefox add on supported by many websites that informs users when the web page they are viewing contains editable content?
Did you know that Sir Davidge Gould , who served during the American Revolutionary , French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars , was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
Did you know that the Australian hard rock band AC/DC has never won a Grammy Award despite receiving four nominations during their career?
Did you know that Framsden Windmill was raised by 18 feet (5.5 m) in 1836, and worked for another 100 years?
Did you know that the replacement of stale chewing gum , by a sales representative, led to the U.S. Supreme Court case of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co. ?
Did you know that Bob McLean , who is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame , also played first-class cricket and scored a double century in the Sheffield Shield ?
Did you know that the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana was once so great its Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson claimed "I am the law in Indiana "?
Did you know that before he became Chief Scout of South Africa , Nkwenkwe Nkomo was an anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela ?
Did you know that in Saskatchewan , Oban was known for having the last Interlocking tower at the CNR and CPR level crossing , until it was closed in 1990?
Did you know that Jock Wilson , who died at the age of 105 in September 2008, was Great Britain 's oldest D-Day veteran?
Did you know that India has supported Kazakhstan 's bid to create a Caspian Sea naval fleet despite Russia 's opposition?
Did you know that Carson Parks , who wrote the hit song " Somethin' Stupid ", was the brother of Beach Boys ' collaborator Van Dyke Parks ?
Did you know that Dick Trickle , billed as the winningest short track driver in history, won his first race outside of his home region at the 1966 National Short Track Championships at Rockford Speedway ?
Did you know that Jasper Goodwill , later a mayor in Louisiana , was given the middle initial "K" by the U.S. Army during World War I as a way to enhance identification of the soldiers?
Did you know that the Tugboat Spence and its barge Guantanamo Bay Express deliver cargo twice-monthly from Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville , Florida to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba ?
Did you know that during the World War II , English footballer Jimmy Boswell served in the same army unit as four other future Gillingham F.C. players?
Did you know that the day that British East India Company acquired a sliver of land to build Fort St. George is celebrated as Madras Day in Madras , India ?
Did you know that the Victorian painter William Shakespeare Burton was said to have dug a hole in the ground to stand in, so that he could paint the grass and ferns at eye level?
Did you know that Zac Brown Band 's single " Chicken Fried " was previously recorded by The Lost Trailers , whose version was withdrawn after Brown changed his mind about licensing the song to that record label?
Did you know that Georg J. Lober ′s sculpture of Hans Christian Andersen in New York City 's Central Park was funded in part by contributions from Danish and American schoolchildren?
Did you know that despite being of common birth, the marriage of Falkes de Breauté made him "the equal of an earl "?
Did you know that Germany helped India establish the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and their bilateral trade is expected to reach €30 billion by 2010?
Did you know that John Harber Phillips , the legal counsel who defended Lindy Chamberlain , later became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria , Australia ?
Did you know that the Bain Commercial Building is the only intact Second Empire - style building in Wappingers Falls, New York ?
Did you know that the penitential tone of John Audelay 's poetry may have been influenced by his sense of responsibility for his lord 's involvement in a fatal brawl?
Did you know that Spain , which placed second at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with " Su canción ", was rumored to have given high marks to a competitor so it would not have to host the contest the following year?
Did you know that Dave Levine , the president of an e-commerce company, was featured in the inaugural episode of Millionaire Matchmaker where he described the type of wife he sought?
Did you know that Australian politician Charlie Lynn held the New South Wales 24-hour Ultra Marathon record in 1985 and 1986?
Did you know that the 2008 teen comedy film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was Lorene Scafaria 's ninth screenplay but first novel adaptation?
Did you know that unlike their peers in other Australian states , physiotherapists in New South Wales are subject to discipline by a special Physiotherapists Tribunal ?
Did you know that having lost his father early, Norwegian Parliament member Nils Landmark was raised by Jens Stub , a founding father of the Norwegian Constitution ?
Did you know that among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song " Marching Through Georgia "?
Did you know that the British late night satire show Up Sunday was described by one of the cast members as "aimed at dirty-minded insomniacs"?
Did you know that John J. Leonard , a professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , developed a vision -based simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm for mapping the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement , Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice , leading to violent riots spreading all across India ?
Did you know that Arthur Wimperis , after a career as a songwriter and librettist for British musical comedies , became an Academy Award -winning screenwriter in Hollywood , surviving a torpedo attack to get there?
Did you know that pollution has risen in the Sundarijal reservoir in Nepal due to large numbers of tourists who crowd the area every weekend?
Did you know that Queensland lawyer Mostyn Hanger said it was "a chore" to be Chief Justice ?
Did you know that the SS Schenectady , an oil tanker , broke in two while sitting at the dock in calm weather?
Did you know that the 5th-century Palace of Lausus in Constantinople housed a vast collection of classical statues, including that of Zeus at Olympia , one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ?
Did you know that Jack Montgomery , a Louisiana state senator from 1968 to 1972, was preceded and succeeded in the post by Harold Montgomery , and they were unrelated?