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Did you know that after he retired from professional baseball , Preston Larrison opened a youth baseball academy?
Did you know that the subjects of Marjorie Senechal 's books include quasicrystals , Albania , and silk ?
Did you know that Honey Creek State Park , located in Iowa, is 828 acres (335 ha), 45% of which is a fish hatchery ?
Did you know that drug lord Aurelio Cano Flores worked for a drug trafficking organization while still serving as a police officer ?
Did you know that historians once believed that King John's Palace, Southampton , was the residence of John, King of England ?
Did you know that Benjamin Hanks is considered to be the first to make bronze cannons and church bells in America?
Did you know that at the 2013 World Series of Poker , Christian Harder and Ronnie Bardah tied the record for most consecutive World Series of Poker main event in the money finishes?
Did you know that current Ohio State softball coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly was twice named Big Ten Pitcher of the Year while playing for Michigan ?
Did you know that Alistair Hinton persuaded composer Kaikhosru Sorabji to relax the ban he had placed on performance of his music, including the four-hour Opus clavicembalisticum ?
Did you know that Inspector Morse was often portrayed listening to a Xerxes ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines softball player Sara Driesenga compiled a 31–9 record in 2013 and pitched a complete-game shutout in the 2013 Women's College World Series ?
Did you know that Douglas Dayton , who was the first president of Target Corporation , said that he found donating money more satisfying than making it?
Did you know that the death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot was the first on-stage fatality in the 30-year history of the Cirque du Soleil ?
Did you know that the Get Reading festival had celebrities such as Boris Johnson and Warwick Davis reading to the public?
Did you know that " Slow Train " was called both "possibly the most irresponsible song" Bob Dylan had written and "nothing less than Dylan's most mature and profound song about America"?
Did you know that the Magnificent Seven and Fierce Five are the only Olympic female gymnasts for the United States to have won the team gold medal?
Did you know that a Pennsylvania county court ruled in 1978 that forcing someone to donate bone marrow to save someone else's life is unacceptable?
Did you know that the three Michelin star restaurant Sushi Saito is located on the first floor of a multi-storey car park in Tokyo?
Did you know that Hammet Street in Taunton was built as a result of an Act of Parliament ?
Did you know that Jessica Merchant was captain of Michigan Wolverines softball 's 2005 national championship team and National Pro Fastpitch Offensive Player of the Year in 2006?
Did you know that the Qaisracetus , a genus of extinct early whales , was named after a tribe in Pakistan?
Did you know that the Tujue wanted a princess, and got an invasion ?
Did you know that a plant can be grown into two individual plants by simple layering ?
Did you know that Alice Candy was only the second woman academic at Canterbury College, now the University of Canterbury ?
Did you know that the murder of Darren Ng has been described as one of "Singapore's most gruesome murders"?
Did you know that Sara Griffin was thrice named a first-team All-American and compiled a 106–19 record as a pitcher for the Michigan Wolverines softball team?
Did you know that Yianni Papoutsis gave up his job at the English National Ballet to become a " street food pioneer"?
Did you know that The Monk As Man: The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda is one of the many books written on Swami Vivekananda ?
Did you know that Dodi Princess was first called Grains Maid ?
Did you know that Juan Antonio Yanes was inducted into the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum sixteen years after his death?
Did you know that The Verge called Terry Myerson "the most important man at Microsoft " after the company's July 2013 executive reorganization?
Did you know that the Belgian Government in London during World War II was described as a "rump"?
Did you know that Samantha Findlay led the Michigan softball team to a national championship with a home run in the 10th inning of the championship game at the 2005 Women's College World Series ?
Did you know that the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance was created in 1993 in order to consolidate the decentralized health care system that had been inherited from SFR Yugoslavia ?
Did you know that Riverside Park Dance Pavilion is one of the few remaining dance halls of its type in Nebraska ?
Did you know that Vegard Lysvoll scored 30 goals in the same season that his club set a new Norwegian record when he scored their 100th goal?
Did you know that Pol-ka rushed the production of the Sos mi hombre Argentine telenovela because of the low rating of their previous productions?
Did you know that The Times of London described French ballet dancer Adèle Dumilâtre as "so ethereal ... that she almost looked transparent"?
Did you know that Baranagar Math was the first monastery of the Ramakrishna Order, where Narendranath Datta and his brother disciples took refuge after their Master's death ?
Did you know that SS Gallic was the last surviving cargo vessel of the White Star Line when scrapped in 1956?
Did you know that Haylie Wagner , a Michigan Wolverines softball player, was unanimously selected as the 2012 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year after compiling a 32–7 record and 1.53 ERA as a freshman?
Did you know that King & Maxwell is a television show based on David Baldacci 's novels?
Did you know that the Grenada National Museum is situated in a building which at various times served as a barracks , prison, hotel, and warehouse?
Did you know that New York photographer Murray Korman was known for his portraits of strippers and socialites?
Did you know that a single meal of fish blood will last the isopod Aega antarctica for several months?
Did you know that Second Harvest North Florida was selected as a favorite charity by the Jacksonville Jaguars ?
Did you know that the title role of Boris Blacher's last opera, Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund , is performed by a mute dancer?
Did you know that Kefaya activist Mahmoud Badr is the co-founder and lead spokesman of Tamarod , the grassroots movement which organized mass demonstrations that led to Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi 's ouster?
Did you know that the fastest spreading ocean ridge is the East Pacific Rise at 15 cm/yr, located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean , while the slowest is the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean at 2.5 cm/yr?
Did you know that the starting command for the 2005 Advance Auto Parts 500 was given from Iraq?
Did you know that the Toquepala Caves of Peru have ancient rock paintings depicting guanacos (cameloids)?
Did you know that according to the Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model of probability distribution , a deck of playing cards should be riffled seven times in order to thoroughly randomize it?
Did you know that the size of the Soviet Union's population in the 1950s was overestimated by most Western experts?
Did you know that New York Mets mascot Mrs. Met debuted in the 1960s, shortly after Mr. Met , making her one of Major League Baseball 's oldest mascots?
Did you know that Bachata #1's contains themes which according to Allmusic "are perfect for quieter moments on the dance floor"?
Did you know that Olga, a British police horse, won a Dickin Medal for bravery despite initially running away from a bomb blast?
Did you know that in order for organisms to adapt their membrane's fluidity to their environment, they can change the lipid composition of their cell membrane ?
Did you know that Josh Clayton-Felt 's album Spirit Touches Ground was released two years after his death?
Did you know that Sir Frederick Ashton called ballet designer Sophie Fedorovitch "not only my dearest friend but my greatest artistic collaborator and adviser"?
Did you know that the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne in Paris contains a collection of about three million volumes?
Did you know that Gloria Soluk was the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines softball team and the third coach of its women's basketball team?
Did you know that chef Jason Atherton was keen to prevent the menu from being "too scary" at his London-based restaurant Pollen Street Social ?
Did you know that the failure of the Slavic siege of Patras c. 805/807 marked the end of independent Slavic rule in the Peloponnese ?
Did you know that Bartlesville, Oklahoma , was officially renamed Bootsville for one day—honoring Boots Adams on his 66th birthday?
Did you know that the SS manager of Ostindustrie complained about his businesses becoming valueless through the " withdrawal " of Jewish slave labor in 1943?
Did you know that All-American second baseman Tiffany Haas did not commit an error in her last 60 games for the Michigan Wolverines softball team?
Did you know that in 2010, Bangladesh became only the second country after Malaysia , among the developing nations , to have successfully sequenced a plant genome ?
Did you know that a heated on-air debate between Nico Pitney and Dana Milbank resulted in the hashtag #Dickwhisperer?
Did you know that the inaugural Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was given by former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar ?
Did you know that the Carsaig Arches are a natural formation to the west of Carsaig Bay on the Isle of Mull ?
Did you know that former Michigan Wolverines softball player Amanda Chidester hit a grand slam to lead Team USA to a victory over Brazil in the 2012 World Cup of Softball ?
Did you know that the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial of Hyde Park, London , was the first public memorial in Great Britain dedicated to the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the lyrics to Bob Dylan 's 1979 song " Man Gave Names to All the Animals " were turned into a children's book 20 years later?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines softball 's freshman shortstop Sierra Romero was named the 2013 Big Ten Player of the Year after compiling a .527 on-base percentage ?
Did you know that the 2013 film C/O Sir tells a fictional story of a blind school teacher's life?
Did you know that the Barony of Chalandritsa was a Frankish fiefdom established in the Greek Peloponnese after Crusaders conquered the peninsula?
Did you know that the 2013 album Extol marks the reunion of the band of the same name after a five-year hiatus?
Did you know that Bulgarian footballer Boris Nikolov was the Turkish club Galatasaray S.K. 's first captain and manager?
Did you know that Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino in Bonaire is reputedly the "world's first barefoot casino"?
Did you know that Sankari Prasad Basu , an Indian scholar, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for his research work Vivekananda o Samakalin Bharatbarsha ?
Did you know that Typhoon Longwang was the deadliest tropical cyclone to impact China during the 2005 Pacific typhoon season ?
Did you know that after the Japanese lighthouses on Saipan and Poluwat were attacked during World War II, neither was ever used again?
Did you know that Joey Clinkscales was a Pittsburgh Steelers replacement player during the 1987 NFL players' strike and stayed on the roster after the strike ended?
Did you know that phones belonging to Turkish journalist Mehmet Baransu and his wife were illegally tapped by the Turkish Gendarmerie , which falsely represented the phones' owners as militant members of the PKK ?
Did you know that St Mungo's sheltered the homeless in a Marmite factory?
Did you know that Nundkol Lake lies at the foothills of Mount Haramukh ?
Did you know that the runaway train in the Lac-Mégantic derailment involved 72 DOT-111 tank cars ?
Did you know that hosts for the parasitic isopod Aega psora include the Atlantic cod , sharks and skates ?
Did you know that the ten tracks from Matt and Kim 's fourth album Lightning were actually pared down from 25 or 26 songs the group originally wrote for the album?
Did you know that the A82 in Glasgow was described by Tam Galbraith as "the most noble entry to any city in Europe"?
Did you know that in 2011, the teaching ministry of Christian pastor Chip Ingram was broadcast to 100 million households in Arab countries?
Did you know that William de Courcy , a 12th century Anglo-Norman baron, not only gave land to Abingdon Abbey but also a fishery named "Sotiswere"?
Did you know that actress Verna Hillie got her first movie contract when she lost a contest to be the Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls ?
Did you know that the Plaza de Armas of Manila may have been the exact site where Rajah Sulayman 's palisade once stood?
Did you know that in 2007, ONCE named Maximiliano Óscar Rodríguez Magi the Sportsman Lucense do Ano and Disability Sport winner?
Did you know that the recent popularity of Amish romance novels has been seen as a reaction to the increasing popularity of erotic fiction such as Fifty Shades of Grey ?
Did you know that Duke Ellington praised pianist Maurice Rocco 's sophisticated performance style?
Did you know that the film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami showed the 1945 painting The Temptation of St. Anthony by Max Ernst on-screen?
Did you know that in 2012, Alberto Suárez Laso won the Asturian Sports Press Association award for best male athlete?
Did you know that despite a 1985 law mandating its creation in every town and city, by 2006 only one city in the Philippines had an official freedom park before the Supreme Court ruled on its constitutionality?
Did you know that the groom for the first wedding in Prescott, Arizona , W. Claude Jones , abandoned his bride less than six months after the event?
Did you know that in a 1989 promotional stunt, Bar/None distributed deprecated, irrelevant 8-track tapes with labels advertising They Might Be Giants ' single " Purple Toupee "?
Did you know that despite remaining offshore, the outer bands of Hurricane Erick brought extensive flooding to the Mexican state of Nayarit ?
Did you know that Richard Orsini arranged the marriage of his son, John I Orsini , to a daughter of Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas , ruler of Epirus , without the latter's permission?
Did you know that tourism led to both the opening and the discontinuation of service at the passenger rail depot in Tower, Minnesota ?
Did you know that Pete Hamilton won the 1970 Alabama 500 after Buddy Baker 's car caught fire?
Did you know that St Peter's Church, Ropsley , built in the 11th century, had a stained glass window erected in 1949 in honour of a Royal Air Force fighter pilot?
Did you know that although Olympic tennis player Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten was banned from competing many times in his career for on-court misconduct, he taught tennis etiquette to children?
Did you know that Richard de Courcy was one of the few nobles to witness charters from both of the warring brothers Robert Curthose , Duke of Normandy , and King William II of England ?
Did you know that the Wirgman Building in Romney , West Virginia , housed three banks and a newspaper office, and served as a military prison during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that And Still I Rise , Maya Angelou 's third volume of poetry, contains two of the author's most famous poems?
Did you know that Andrée Howard created over 30 ballets, mostly for Ballet Rambert and The Royal Ballet , of which little now remains?
Did you know that the two men's parking spaces in Triberg, Germany , have drawn accusations of sexism?
Did you know that Théodore Steeg strongly opposed Jewish settlement in Madagascar ?
Did you know that Abbot's Wood , a large country house near Barrow-in-Furness , Cumbria , was built between 1857 and 1859 for Sir James Ramsden , and demolished in 1961?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , court clerk John Baker White salvaged records from destruction by Union Army forces who later turned the Hampshire County Courthouse into a stable?
Did you know that the First Lady of Colombia symbolizes national unity, according to the Constitutional Court of Colombia ?
Did you know that upon Swami Vivekananda 's arrival in South India in 1897, a 40-foot (12 m) high monument was built by the king of Ramnad to celebrate his achievements in the West ?
Did you know that the star cluster NGC 6811 has been described as looking like "a jeweled mask a woman might wear at a masquerade ball"?
Did you know that if the embryo of the blue bat star is split into its constituent cells , they can recombine into a viable starfish larva ?
Did you know that Emperor Wudi of Han launched a military campaign against the kingdom of Dian in 109 BC and established the Jianwei commandery in Yunnan ?
Did you know that the H.M. Coastguard Long Service and Good Conduct Medal was originally known as the Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus Long Service Medal?
Did you know that in the 2013 Milwaukee IndyFest , Takuma Sato led 109 laps, but fell behind a lap after pitting before a caution occurred?
Did you know that " Where's Captain Kirk? " by punk/new wave band Spizzenergi was the first number one single on the UK Indie Chart ?
Did you know that Kate Garvey managed Tony Blair 's diary with a "grip of iron"?
Did you know that half of the candidates who contested Gibraltar's 2013 parliamentary by-election are children of former Gibraltarian political leaders?
Did you know that Hyrule Historia reveals the official timeline of fictional events in The Legend of Zelda series, following years of speculation by fans?
Did you know that at the 1865 Hampton Roads Conference , Union and Confederate leaders discussed a possible alliance against France?
Did you know that Ostrvica was the main castle in the region of Rudnik in Serbia at the end of the Middle Ages ?
Did you know that pop artist Roy Lichtenstein 's 1956 lithograph Ten Dollar Bill has been called "a Picasso-esque vision of what currency could look like"?
Did you know that King Charles I created Alice Dudley a duchess for life partly in reparation for the Star Chamber having found her husband to be a bastard ?
Did you know that with his victory in the 2013 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach , Takuma Sato became the first Japanese driver to win an IndyCar Series race?
Did you know that the Germanic bodyguard were the Roman emperor 's personal guards recruited from distant parts of the Empire , so they had no political or personal connections with Rome or the provinces?
Did you know that in What's Your Raashee? , Priyanka Chopra became the first actress in the world to portray twelve distinct characters in one film?
Did you know that the 2006 Vadodara riots were caused by the demolition of the shrine of a medieval Sufi saint?
Did you know that Slavery by Another Name argues that slavery in the United States continued after the Civil War ?
Did you know that one of the stories included in Star Trek: The Manga was originally pitched alongside " The Trouble With Tribbles " for Star Trek: The Original Series ?
Did you know that Gary Chalandon won the Formula Le Mans class of the Le Mans Series in 2010 ?
Did you know that Betty Woz Gone is based on a true story of a mother who sold her body to help fund her addictions to alcohol and drugs?
Did you know that the Byzantine official known as epi tou eidikou was responsible for providing all kinds of matériel for the Byzantine military, including Arab clothing for spies?
Did you know that the participants in the 2013 Great North 10K run shared the finish line at Gateshead International Stadium with Mo Farah ?
Did you know that K. Hariharan in his initial days started making films for the Children's Film Society, India ?
Did you know that the concrete bunker housing RAAF North-Eastern Area Command ' s operational headquarters during World War II was topped with a suburban house to mislead enemy aircraft?
Did you know that Pavhari Baba , an Indian ascetic and a practitioner of Hatha yoga , reportedly used to meditate for days in his underground hermitage at Ghazipur ?
Did you know that Argentine actress Griselda Siciliani broke her arm during the filming of Farsantes ?
Did you know that the CEO of a Singaporean healthcare firm is also a musician, with one studio album under his name?
Did you know that according to John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis, the shorts included on Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 are "among the finest cartoons ever made"?
Did you know that Nio Joe Lan was trained to maintain aircraft, but instead became a journalist and history teacher?
Did you know that The Chicago Lincoln statue was once located in a three-way intersection considered to be one of the most dangerous in Chicago ?
Did you know that when house dress designer Nell Donnelly was kidnapped in 1931, she was reportedly rescued by gangsters and taken to a candy shop?
Did you know that in The Song of the Sannyasin , Swami Vivekananda defined the ideals of Sannyasa or monastic life?
Did you know that American speed skater and Olympic hopeful Brittany Bowe previously played elite-level basketball, and at the age of two gave dribbling exhibitions at halftime of college games?
Did you know that the Georgia blind salamander and the Dougherty Plain cave crayfish both live underground and one may prey on the other?
Did you know that Amrut Distilleries , which makes India's first single-malt whisky , has found that whisky matures in the barrel much faster in India than in Scotland?
Did you know that a mystery surrounds the finding of genetically modified wheat being produced on a US wheat farm in Spring 2013?
Did you know that Tahir Aydoğdu and his father Gültekin are both players of the qanun , an instrument of Turkish classical music ?
Did you know that the Zytek Z11SN won the LMP2 class of the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
Did you know that Emilia Appelqvist was the captain of the Swedish team at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup ?
Did you know that the song " Ice Cream Truck " by Cazwell was originally written for the 2010 film Spork , before it was suggested by his manager that a music video be done for the song?
Did you know that Claude Houghton 's novel I Am Jonathan Scrivener may have influenced the film Citizen Kane ?
Did you know that the promise of " forty acres and a mule " originated in part from military policies for managing refugee camps?
Did you know that Roberto Pannunzi , the "biggest cocaine trafficker in the world", was caught on July 6?
Did you know that Southam House , once owned by Baron Ellenborough , who had been Governor General of India , was converted into a private girls' school and later became a hotel?
Did you know that Buddy Parrott served as crew chief for Richard Petty 's 200th win in the 1984 Firecracker 400 ?
Did you know that the most expensive work purchased by an Australian art gallery was taken in a 1986 theft from the National Gallery of Victoria —and the crime is still unsolved?
Did you know that longtime Indian communist leader Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri remained on hunger strike for nine weeks while in jail?
Did you know that Goldie Blox is a toy designed by a Stanford -educated engineer to introduce girls to engineering?
Did you know that the Soviet submarine K-51 Verkhoturye was used for testing the R-29RM submarine-launched ballistic missile ?
Did you know that the Barony of Arcadia was the last remnant of the Principality of Achaea to fall to the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea ?
Did you know that Cat Creek Oil Field in Montana reached its peak of production in 1922, with 11 wells drilling 3 million barrels of oil?
Did you know that NI21 intends to be the first official opposition in the Northern Ireland Assembly ?
Did you know that from 2000 to 2002, over 100,000 Brazilians participated in Organization Workshops , creating over 3,000 startup companies ?
Did you know that although Beyoncé Knowles ' song " Poison " wasn't released as a single, it peaked at number one on the South Korea Gaon International Chart ?
Did you know that the folk-rock band Bangla 's debut album, which featured several little-known folk songs, sold over a hundred thousand copies in the first two weeks of its release?
Did you know that British Major-General Edward Charles Ingouville-Williams was killed in action while commanding the 34th Division at the Battle of the Somme ?