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Did you know that on the very same day that baseball player Hector Mercado was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies , he was traded to the New York Mets for Mike Welch ?
Did you know that the Fujairah power and desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates is one of the largest operational hybrid desalination plants in the world?
Did you know that early 20th-century immigrants to the United States are said to have seen New York for the first time from the decks of the ferryboat Yankee ?
Did you know that Jacob Kielland , one of the richest persons in Norway in the 1860s, was also the grandfather of novelist Alexander Kielland ?
Did you know that the Harwich Force , under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt , oversaw the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the First World War ?
Did you know that in 1992, baseball player Steve Rodriguez was named one of the West Coast Conference 's top fifty athletes of all time?
Did you know that the dark purple-brown mushroom Russula caerulea is edible and mild-tasting, although the cap skin is bitter if chewed?
Did you know that in the early 1990s, Surət Hüseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister ?
Did you know that Buffalo Gap Historic Village contains fifteen outdoor structures and other artifacts which document West Texas life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Did you know that non-heterosexual is an umbrella term , describing people who do not or no longer identify as heterosexual ?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member, Minister of the Navy and Counter Admiral Henrik Steffens Hagerup was also the father of later Norwegian Prime Minister Francis Hagerup ?
Did you know that in the 1981 Nepalese national election , one candidate was elected with just 3,137 votes, less than ten percent of what the top candidate received?
Did you know that the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina ?
Did you know that ice hockey goaltender Hap Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams, in four different leagues?
Did you know that Elaine Stritch 's appearance as Colleen Donaghy , in the 30 Rock episode " Hiatus ", earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series ?
Did you know that in 2003, North Korea became the first state to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since it came into force in 1970?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel , a Conservative synagogue in Lebanon, Pennsylvania , was designed by Percival Goodman to mirror the barns of nearby Pennsylvania Dutch farmers?
Did you know that Francisco de Borja , a cardinal-nephew of Pope Alexander VI , died before learning of his excommunication by Pope Julius II ?
Did you know that the margin of victory in the 1994 Alaska gubernatorial election was the smallest in Alaska's history ?
Did you know that the design of the flag of Tunisia was altered slightly in its 1999 codification ?
Did you know that abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana , when they were attacked?
Did you know that exhaled nitric oxide can be measured in a breath test for asthma and airway inflammation ?
Did you know that Mason County, Michigan 's courts used an old farmhouse until the county courthouse was built?
Did you know that though first deemed too young for the part, Aksel Hennie won a "Best Actor" Amanda Award in the title role of the Norwegian film Jonny Vang ?
Did you know that the papal conclave of 1294 was the only papal conclave celebrated during the lifetime of the preceding Pontiff ?
Did you know that the 2008 film Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on an autobiography by British secret agent Marty McGartland , who was later shot six times in an assassination attempt by the IRA ?
Did you know that the Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida and the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the screenplay for the upcoming film Maya , starring Tamil actress Namitha , was written by Indian film historian Randor Guy ?
Did you know that Royal Marine Matthew Croucher was awarded the George Cross for diving on a live hand grenade ?
Did you know that pioneer aviator Bill Lancaster died in the Sahara desert exactly one year after the death of the man he was accused of murdering?
Did you know that cerebral vasculitis , an inflammatory condition of the blood vessels in the brain, is so rare that there are disagreements on how it should be diagnosed ?
Did you know  that Polish writer Gustaw Przeczek was a member of the Cultural Committee of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s?
Did you know that Seattle, Washington 's  3.7-mile (6.0 km) Queen Anne Boulevard is designated as a city landmark , but no street sign carries that name?
Did you know that Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados ?
Did you know that Quang Nhuong Huynh 's autobiography The Land I Lost won seven awards and was translated into four languages other than English ?
Did you know that two games after returning from injury in 2000 , Reggie Taylor became the second-ever Scranton baseball player to collect five hits in a game?
Did you know that Sphodromantis viridis , the Giant African Mantis, is kept worldwide as a pet ?
Did you know that The Bryson , featured in Raymond Chandler 's The Lady in the Lake and the neo-noir film The Grifters , has become a symbol of LA 's film noir past?
Did you know that Noel Moore was the civil servant responsible for managing the decimalisation of the United Kingdom 's currency?
Did you know that " Fart Proudly " is an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin ?
Did you know that in Burkina Faso , Bwa people use masks made of leaves to represent their god Dwo in performative rituals?
Did you know that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton , may have been used as a hagioscope by lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building?
Did you know that the semi-arid , mostly agricultural Cuyama Valley was once one of the most productive oil regions of California ?
Did you know that a Bulgarian choir and the Irish singer Joanne Hogg contributed to the soundtrack of the video game Xenogears ?
Did you know that former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack began his US presidential campaign in November 2006, nearly two years before the 2008 presidential election ?
Did you know that in the 1920s and '30s, various countries such as Mexico , Brazil and Chile issued Art Deco stamps ?
Did you know that film director Jens Lien said he was unable to sleep after first reading the script for the dystopian film Den brysomme mannen ?
Did you know that while the 2003 Norwegian film Buddy was described as "simple" in the Norwegian press, a U.S. reviewer called it "overly plotted"?
Did you know that Nevada City 's Nevada Theatre is the oldest existing theater building in California ?
Did you know that William Hayter was secretary of the UK delegation to the Potsdam Conference , later Ambassador to the Soviet Union , and then Warden of New College, Oxford ?
Did you know that the residents of Kasungu , Malawi , live in houses made from handmade bricks and straw roofing?
Did you know that John Liston 's portrayal of the character Paul Pry was so popular, the image was stamped into butter ?
Did you know that Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor , the first of ten cardinal-nephews of Pope Alexander VI , crowned Alfonso II of Naples , the future father-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia ?
Did you know that Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos , Texas , financier Billie Sol Estes ?
Did you know that almost the entirety of the Australian stout whiting catch is exported to various Asian countries?
Did you know that Lithuanian artist Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas designed interiors for over sixty churches in the United States , Europe and Australia ?
Did you know that according to the official English account of the Battle of Skerries in 1316, the English army suffered only one casualty , yet lost the battle?
Did you know that Laila Goody has been called " Norway 's most awarded young actress"?
Did you know that the Crawford-Gilpin House is alleged to have once changed owners due to being lost as a wager in a poker game?
Did you know that Merten de Keyser printed the first complete French and English Bibles in Antwerp ?
Did you know that the Stephen Downing case , also known as the Bakewell Tart murder , has been described as the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history ?
Did you know that MLB player Jim Adduci was traded to the San Francisco Giants by the Milwaukee Brewers , only to be returned one week later?
Did you know that Martynas Jankus , Lithuanian journalist and "Patriarch of Lithuania Minor ", was penalized around forty times by Prussian authorities for his public activities?
Did you know that the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home , founded by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky , is the oldest Masonic Home foundation in North America ?
Did you know that India 's Defence Attaché Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta was killed in the suicide bombing on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and is being considered for the Kirti Chakra ?
Did you know that in August 1934, Dillinger gang member Homer Van Meter was gunned down by police officers in Frogtown ?
Did you know that the Blade of the Immortal manga authored by Hiroaki Samura was adapted into an anime series by Bee Train , Production I.G and Pony Canyon ?
Did you know that the 30 Rock episode " Somebody to Love " was the first scripted series, which aired during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike , to actually make reference to the strike?
Did you know that 29 percent of the population of Birds Landing, California can speak Spanish ?
Did you know that Herman Bagger , a Danish immigrant to Norway , became a member of the Norwegian Parliament and mayor of Gjerpen and Skien ?
Did you know that the Purple-crowned Lorikeet is colloquially known as the "Zit Parrot" from its shrill tsit call?
Did you know that the 17th-century Chinese world map Shanhai Yudi Quantu was derived from the work of Father Matteo Ricci of the Jesuit China missions ?
Did you know that Viktor Nogin , mayor of Moscow during the Bolshevik Revolution , is buried in the Kremlin in Red Square , Moscow?
Did you know that in the Texas Revolution battle of Lipantitlán , Texian insurgents captured in 30 minutes a Mexican fort they described as a "second-rate hog pen"?
Did you know that aviator Jack De Garis faked his own suicide by drowning before being the subject of an Australia -wide search in 1925?
Did you know that a 15th-century bell from the Gokoku-ji Buddhist temple in Japan was sent to the U.S. in 1854 and rung when the Naval Academy at Annapolis won the annual Army-Navy football game ?
Did you know that John Palmer instigated a major reform of the British postal system in 1784, when his experimental mail coach run from Bristol to London took only 16 hours instead of 38 hours?
Did you know that South Ockendon Windmill had a pair of millstones powered by a waterwheel ?
Did you know that Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth ?
Did you know that comedian Al Madrigal ’s first television series , The Ortegas, was dropped from the Fox Network schedule in 2003 before any episodes were broadcast?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Christian Birch-Reichenwald was brought in as a government minister by then- Crown Prince Charles in 1858, only to be provoked by the same person to resign three years later?
Did you know that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg , due to both being Freemasons ?
Did you know that architect / engineer Sir Owen Williams returned part of his design fee for the Dollis Hill Synagogue because the congregation was unhappy with the finished structure?
Did you know that the buildings with the sign Silver Dew Winery described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book The Water is Wide were once part of the Bloody Point Range Lights on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina ?
Did you know that Mark Christensen was a dancer, a pilot, a skateboarder, and a musician before making his filmmaking debut with Box Head Revolution in 2002?
Did you know that Quang Nhuong Huynh was the first Vietnamese to write fiction and non-fiction in English ?
Did you know that Riley Hern was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to play on a Stanley Cup -winning team?
Did you know that the College of Letters and Science is the largest college of the University of Wisconsin-Madison ?
Did you know that Pierre Abraham Lorillard was the first man to make snuff in North America ?
Did you know that Ukrainian Cossack Grégoire Orlyk was a spy of the French king Louis XV , fought in the Seven Years' War , received a title of a comte and was promoted to the general's rank of Maréchal de camp ?
Did you know that monocopters can have one rotating wing or have only one fixed wing and rotate entirely?
Did you know that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School , where her chauffeur - architect - engineer slept in her bathroom?
Did you know that the Condon Committee report into the Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident in 1956 concluded it was likely that at least one genuine UFO was involved?
Did you know that following Australia's failure to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup , British pie retailer Square Pie produced a "humble pie" filled with kangaroo meat?
Did you know that the sixth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly ended with a call for the total withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan so its people could freely choose their political system?
Did you know that the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky , who debuted as a socialist realist , came to depict the communist regime as an " anti-utopia " shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake ?
Did you know that a grand jury found Arizona Territory 's "Thieving Thirteenth" legislature exceeded a US$ 4,000 legal limitation for operating expenses by US$46,744.50?
Did you know that Reinhard von Werneck gave Munich 's Englischer Garten much of its current form by almost doubling its area and by creating a new lake, the Kleinhesseloher See?
Did you know that the world's first successful demonstration of laser surgery was held at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose , Massachusetts ?
Did you know that when playing at the 2008 NME Awards in support of their triple-nominated single " Flux ", indie rock band Bloc Party were stunned by the scale of the gig?
Did you know that 30-year Seattle City Council member David Levine served as Seattle 's acting mayor on over 250 occasions?
Did you know that diaphragmatic rupture can allow abdominal organs to herniate into the chest cavity and interfere with breathing?
Did you know that lobbyist Stephen Payne was caught on hidden camera in July 2008 offering access to senior U.S. officials in return for a US$250,000 donation to the George W. Bush Presidential Library ?
Did you know that in 2005, 20-year-old Kevin Nee became the youngest person to reach the finals in the World's Strongest Man championships?
Did you know that the Srizbi botnet of 300,000 infected computers is responsible for sending 60 billion spam e-mails per day?
Did you know that seven-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Otto Vincent Lange later served as Minister of Finance and Customs on four non-consecutive occasions between 1855 and 1863?
Did you know that social interface is a term used in social sciences both in a theoretical literature, and in a practical design of computer user interfaces ?
Did you know that the pharmacy of former Welsh rugby union player Willie Llewellyn was saved from rioters during the Tonypandy Riot because of his past services to his country?
Did you know that Jean Mohr has photographed Palestinian refugees for the U.N. and International Red Cross since 1949, yet also published two books on L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ?
Did you know that a memorial to "Unknown Confederate Dead" at the Fort Smith National Cemetery also commemorates James McIntosh and Alexander Steen , even though neither Confederate general was unknown?
Did you know that Henry Moore 's Nuclear Energy sculpture was erected and dedicated to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction ?
Did you know that Rachel Dratch lost the role of 30 Rock character Jenna Maroney to Jane Krakowski , but later appeared as a maid in the 30 Rock episode The Aftermath ?
Did you know that Peter Lorillard may have been the first American publicly referred to as a " millionaire "?
Did you know that the sinking of the SS Königin Luise (pictured) was the first German naval loss of the First World War ?
Did you know that in his 2005 book Race Against Time , the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis claimed the spread of AIDS across Africa is partly due to a succession of disastrous economic policies promoted by international financial institutions ?
Did you know that Prince Mihail Sturdza accepted 33 of 35 demands made by the leaders of the Moldavian Revolution of 1848 , and when the leaders stood firm proceeded to crush the revolution?
Did you know that Washington 's Union Station was turned into the short-lived National Visitor Center in 1976, but so few tourists used it that it closed two years later?
Did you know that the Quatama Station light rail stop in Hillsboro, Oregon , includes a piece of art based on an arrangement created by a Japanese Macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center ?
Did you know that the Rev. William Plenderleath 's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death?
Did you know that attacks by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, led by Nigerian rebel Henry Okah , are believed to indirectly raise the price of oil ?
Did you know that British actor Terence Stamp 's brother Chris , a New York City psychodrama therapist, co-managed and produced rock band The Who from 1964 to 1975?
Did you know that after a painted garage door was destroyed, the Precita Eyes muralists salvaged it and merged it into a new one, said to be one of their most beautiful in San Francisco ?
Did you know that a picture of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Lee Grissom rowing a boat inside Crosley Field ran nationwide after the worst flood in the city 's history?
Did you know that Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago , Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
Did you know that Mike Ayers coaches the smallest school in the highest division of NCAA college football ?
Did you know that Muphry's law states that "if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading , there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written"?
Did you know that Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford was allegedly killed by a spear through the anus at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322?
Did you know that Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago , Illinois ?
Did you know that Polish poet Paweł Kubisz was sentenced in 1928 by Czech authorities for 13 months in prison for alleged transport of illegal literature to Slovakia and conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic ?
Did you know that in rugby union , New Zealand has only lost four Test matches at Carisbrook stadium in over one hundred years?
Did you know that the state of emergency , enforced by the enactment of Emergency Powers Act 1939 to help maintain Irish neutrality during World War II , was not rescinded until 1 September , 1976 ?
Did you know that 90 percent of the United Kingdom 's pig and dairy production is sold under the Red Tractor farm assurance mark?
Did you know that when the Congolese village of Bogoro was attacked in 2003, survivors were imprisoned in a room filled with corpses, and women and girls were sexually enslaved ?
Did you know that, despite its name, the soft drink Grapico , first sold in 1914, did not contain any grape juice and used deceptive advertising to promote the product?
Did you know that Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
Did you know that the 7.9 M w Denali Fault earthquake on November 3 , 2002 was the strongest shock ever recorded in the interior of Alaska ?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin 's letter Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress was cited in a 1973 United States Supreme Court opinion by justice William O. Douglas ?
Did you know that T. Muthuswamy Iyer was the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court ?
Did you know that Ray Combs , host of Family Feud , was the guest announcer for a "family feud" match at the World Wrestling Federation 's 1993 Survivor Series event?
Did you know that Miron Merzhanov was a personal architect to Joseph Stalin from 1933–1941?
Did you know that Madeline Kahn made her screen debut in De Düva , an Academy Award -nominated short comedy that parodied the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman ?
Did you know that the Pseudo-Bonaventura is a name given to the authors of several medieval devotional books once wrongly attributed to Saint Bonaventure ?
Did you know that the United Kingdom 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 , Cry Baby , earned no points from any of the voting countries?
Did you know that sociologists distinguish between general social movements and specific social movement organizations ?
Did you know that the parish church of Thurning, Norfolk , contains many furnishings of a destroyed chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ?
Did you know that Mike Karakas was the first American-born and trained professional ice hockey goaltender to play in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that 209 people were killed and 41,000 houses were damaged or totally destroyed in the 1970 floods in Romania , with over a million arable acres inundated, and more than 100,000 animals drowned?
Did you know that transwoman actor Judiel Nieva was once sought out as a healer and visionary ?
Did you know that the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station is the second largest employer in Clark County, Idaho ?
Did you know that in 1999, the JKNC expelled Saifuddin Soz , India's current Minister of Water Resources , when he voted against the Government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee defying the party whip ?
Did you know that nearly 60 years after surviving a lynching attempt, and being convicted as an accessory to murder, James Cameron founded America's Black Holocaust Museum ?
Did you know that the residents of Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1860 built a new school right next to a preexisting cemetery?
Did you know that Ivan Pyryev was the winner of six Stalin Prizes and was the Director of Mosfilm studios?
Did you know that 18th-century poet Christopher Smart spent seven years in mental asylums for madness but may have been imprisoned out of revenge or actions resulting from drinking too much?
Did you know that Rosabelle Sinclair , a native of Scotland , established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States in 1926 ?
Did you know that Nikolay Likhachov collected medieval coins and manuscripts , Byzantine seals , Russian icons , and cuneiform tablets?
Did you know that C.W. Bergstrom was the last professional wrestler to ever hold the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship ?
Did you know that the container ship Atlantic Causeway was refitted with a ski-jump to enable her to operate Sea Harriers during the Falklands War ?
Did you know that Sun Prairie, Wisconsin is the birthplace of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe ?
Did you know that Akwamu slaves in the Danish West Indies revolted in 1773 , taking control of most of the island of Saint John in the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands ?
Did you know that Withington Community Hospital was, at its height, the largest teaching hospital in Europe ?