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Did you know that Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair , telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school , to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?
Did you know that footballer Tommy Magee is the only West Bromwich Albion player to have won both a League Championship medal and an FA Cup winners' medal with the club?
Did you know that traditionalist American art critic Royal Cortissoz denigrated the work of modern masters such as Vincent van Gogh as being the product of " egotists "?
Did you know that singer Robb Johnson based the album Gentle Men on the experiences of his two grandfathers during the First World War ?
Did you know that in a kiss scene with Kirk Cameron in Fireproof , Erin Bethea was replaced by Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble , and the scene was shot in shadows?
Did you know that the nematode Elaeophora poeli is a parasite that is found in the heart or aorta of various species of cattle ?
Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation 's first coffin match took place at Survivor Series 1992 between The Undertaker and Kamala ?
Did you know that the German merchant ship SS Uhenfels was captured at sea during the Second World War , and subsequently became a British merchant?
Did you know that when ABC 's Birmingham, Alabama , affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode " The Puppy Episode ", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite?
Did you know that even though they were five points ahead of 1. FC Saarbrücken , SV Alsenborn were not promoted to the higher level 2nd Bundesliga Süd , due to their financial position?
Did you know that American abolitionist Parke Godwin criticized then-president Franklin Pierce in an essay entitled "American Despotisms"?
Did you know that the initial ransom demand by Somali pirates to release the MT Stolt Valor , hijacked September 15, 2008, was US$ 6 million?
Did you know that The Atlantic Monthly ran an article titled "Mother Doesn't Do Much" by Catherine Galbraith about her role as an ambassador's wife in India after her son wrote a school essay using those words?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium ?
Did you know that Henry Greathead invented the lifeboat in 1790, but never sought to patent it?
Did you know that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California " in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?
Did you know that Ohaveth Sholum Congregation , Seattle 's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington ?
Did you know that in 1905, Fred Odwell led the National League in home runs with nine, but hit only one home run in the other three seasons he played in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that local legend in Lajjun , a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids , held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?
Did you know  that when American sculptor Chester Beach was selected to the National Academy of Design , he was its youngest member?
Did you know that Uskmouth Power Station has been described as one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that by the time he graduated from medical school, Patrick David Wall had already published three papers in prominent scientific journals ?
Did you know that the Navy Midshipmen discontinued the football series with the Maryland Terrapins for forty years after a Terrapins' linebacker twice " flipped the bird " to the Brigade of Midshipmen during the 1964 game?
Did you know that after serving in U.S. embassies in Egypt and Lebanon , Edward Sheehan wrote his debut novel Kingdom of Illusion about the playboy king of a fictional Middle Eastern country?
Did you know that the Community Services Appeals Tribunal was the first tribunal in Australia to use alternative dispute resolution ?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem 's presidential visit to the United States in 1957 was only the second time that Dwight D. Eisenhower had greeted a guest in person at the airport?
Did you know that the Sclerodermataceae , a family of fungi , contains species with common names such as "hard-skinned puffballs ", " earthstars " and " prettymouths "?
Did you know that Constantine Richard Moorsom was listed as having been in the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 13, even though he was actually in school at the time?
Did you know that Worthy Streator never set foot in the city of Streator, Illinois , the town named for him, even though it was founded 36 years before his death?
Did you know that Council House in Perth , Western Australia , was built to coincide with that city's hosting of the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games ?
Did you know that Agnieszka Pilchowa , a noted clairvoyant in the Second Polish Republic , was also a herbalist who treated Prime Minister Józef Piłsudski and President Ignacy Mościcki ?
Did you know that Brown Mountain forest in East Gippsland , Victoria , is home to mainland Australia 's largest marsupial carnivore, the Spotted Quoll ?
Did you know that the presence of indoleic acid in one's urine may indicate a pathological accumulation of the amino acid tryptophan in the blood ?
Did you know that Franklin M. Fisher served as the chief economic witness for IBM in the antitrust case U.S. v. IBM , and for the United States Department of Justice in United States v. Microsoft ?
Did you know that K-B-D , a triliteral root meaning "heavy" that is common to all Semitic languages, appears in the Old Testament 376 times?
Did you know that the food shortages during the winter of 1946–1947 saw British farmers using pneumatic drills to harvest parsnips ?
Did you know that after a plane crash killed the Governor of Oregon and the next two people in line for that office, the new governor's first act was to appoint Earl T. Newbry as Secretary of State?
Did you know that the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean , preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years?
Did you know that Phil Johnson and Cotton Fitzsimmons are the only Sacramento Kings head coaches to have won NBA Coach of the Year ?
Did you know that the human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found virus in samples collected from the respiratory system ?
Did you know that Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck ?
Did you know that the mysterious rebel known as The Hidden claimed to be a secret prince given a divine revelation to save Spain in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods ?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian actor Brandon Walters had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman when he signed on to co-star with them in Australia ?
Did you know that the park Ravnedalen in Kristiansand , Norway , was constructed by Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland and his soldiers?
Did you know that painter T. E. Breitenbach 's work Proverbidioms appeared on the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210 ?
Did you know that the Minatogawa Man is among the oldest complete skeletons of modern humans recovered in East Asia ?
Did you know that Les West 's cycle racing career spanned 47 years from 1960 to 2006, and included two victories in the Tour of Britain ?
Did you know that the book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives explores U.S. military expenditures on items including Southern catfish restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts ?
Did you know that Father Goose: His Book , an 1899 collection of poetry for children and considered at the time a liberal portrayal of multi-cultural America , is now seen as stereotyped, racist and offensive?
Did you know that when completed in 1967, MS Finlandia was the largest ferry in the world?
Did you know that in its second year after scholarship probation , the 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team has four blue chip letter of intent signees?
Did you know that, according to the answers Friedrich Engels gave in a Victorian Confession album , his idea of happiness was the wine Château Margaux 1848?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi participated in the recovery and treatment of the wounded in the Second Boer War at the Battle of Colenso and Battle of Spion Kop ?
Did you know that the captain of the SS Empire Abbey died after going thirteen days without sleep in a storm off Newfoundland in February 1945?
Did you know that Amazon.co.uk stopped selling The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology after receiving a legal letter from Scientology ?
Did you know that the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, California , is the last water-powered foundry in the United States?
Did you know that INS Tabar , a Talwar class frigate , has escorted about 35 ships through the pirate-infested waters near the Horn of Africa ?
Did you know that the first registered clinical use of an NK 1 receptor blocker was the treatment of nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy ?
Did you know that after serving as a volunteer during the Mexican-American War , James W. McMillan returned to private life but still became a General during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Natsume Sōseki 's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language ?
Did you know that research by physician I. Bernard Weinstein investigated the cancer-causing potential of such foods as barbecued and cured meat ?
Did you know that four Portland Trail Blazers head coaches have spent their entire National Basketball Association coaching careers with the Trail Blazers?
Did you know that the recorded history of the Briolette of India dates back to the 12th century, making it possibly the world's oldest diamond on record?
Did you know that opera superstar Giuseppe Cremonini 's career was tragically cut short upon his sudden death at the age of 36?
Did you know that even though the Flettner rotor bomblet was never mass-produced, William C. Patrick III called it "one of the better devices for disseminating microorganisms "?
Did you know that Chief Justice of Queensland John Murtagh Macrossan also had two uncles who were chief justices as well?
Did you know that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT -interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball manager John McGraw had 2,583 wins as the New York Giants' manager ?
Did you know that Dr. Jay Katz , who escaped from Nazi Germany to the U.S. in the 1930s, opposed use of data from Nazi human experimentation , because "we cannot separate the data from the way they were obtained"?
Did you know that Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission ?
Did you know that the antihypertensive drug Losartan becomes a more potent blocker of angiotensin receptors after it is metabolised in the body?
Did you know that artist Adam Neate left 1,000 prints , valued at £1 million, on London streets for anyone to pick up and keep?
Did you know that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals , the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree?
Did you know that research done by C. Harmon Brown showed that female athletes were more loose-jointed and more prone to dislocated shoulders than male athletes?
Did you know that Mount Wycheproof , standing just 43 metres (141 ft) high, is the smallest registered mountain in the world?
Did you know that the single "Don't Tear It Down" from Spy vs Spy 's album A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. was inspired by a government agency's attempts to demolish a building the band were squatting in?
Did you know that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr , ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"?
Did you know that Harald N. S. Wergeland , Lieutenant General and Norwegian Minister of the Army , was raised by his uncle Nicolai Wergeland and enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy at the age of twelve?
Did you know that Washington State Route 504 was damaged when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 and had to be rebuilt on higher ground?
Did you know that Cyclone Rosie was the first ever tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Jakarta ?
Did you know that the 23 home runs hit by Johnny Rizzo in 1938 set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record at the time, and his nine RBI in a 1939 game set a single game team record that still stands today?
Did you know that The Blood of Jesus was the first race film added to the U.S. National Film Registry ?
Did you know that the abuse suffered by Nia Glassie included being left in a tumble drier for 30 minutes?
Did you know that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the Second World War , when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in Norway ?
Did you know that some anti-obesity drugs , such as Rimonabant , are chemical compounds designed to specifically block cannabinoid receptors ?
Did you know that Pamela Munizzi succeeded John P. Daley , the son of former Chicago Mayor Richard J. , brother of current Mayor Richard M. , in office in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate ?
Did you know that the Catskill Escarpment is the only clearly defined boundary of the Catskill Mountains ?
Did you know that Meredith Burgmann claims to be the only Australian sent to prison after running onto a sports field during a major sporting event?
Did you know that the proposed Levenmouth rail link in Fife , Scotland , could be used by Scotch whisky distillery freight trains as well as by passengers?
Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team recruit Anthony LaLota is rated among both the top ten high school offensive tackles and strong side defensive ends in the U.S.?
Did you know that the leader of the 2004 Palm Island, Queensland riot, Lex Wotton , ran for mayor while out on bail?
Did you know that the 1978 Orson Welles -directed documentary Filming Othello has never been theatrically released or presented on home video?
Did you know that assassinated Israeli mobster Yaakov Alperon was tied to a protection racket in which restaurant owners paid by allowing the gangsters to collect empty returnable bottles from their businesses?
Did you know that Papyrus 110 , a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament , may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
Did you know that in addition to being a general in the Union Army , James Sanks Brisbin was also a prolific writer, and authored several works on a variety of subjects?
Did you know that as a result of the 2006 Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada , 14-year-old shooter James Newman was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service ?
Did you know that the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej , a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp , provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies ?
Did you know that former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing , a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro , and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song " Last Mango in Paris "?
Did you know that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano , her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles?
Did you know that SM U-4 , commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Becky produced heavy rainfall in Tallahassee, Florida in 1970, causing flood-related losses to 104 families?
Did you know that John H. Kelly was the youngest Confederate Brigadier General at the time of his appointment at 23, and one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War at 24?
Did you know that there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley , England , including The Beehive , a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal ?
Did you know that Static Major featured in Lil Wayne 's 2008 hit single " Lollipop " but died before the song was released in Tha Carter III ?
Did you know that John B. Curtis made the first commercially available chewing gum ?
Did you know that during the German occupation of Norway , Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU ?
Did you know that the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative runs three jazz concerts a week and is the most active jazz presenter organisation in Australia?
Did you know that Weraroa , a genus of pouch fungi , may represent an intermediate evolutionary stage between underground and above-ground fungi?
Did you know that at the same time Francis "Mother" Dunn was coaching Dickinson College 's football team, he was also playing professional football for the Canton Bulldogs under Jim Thorpe ?
Did you know that for his 2004 film Drum , director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO , the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs ( US$ 20,000)?
Did you know that Julian Konstantinov , the brother of Bulgarian volleyball team captain Plamen Konstantinov , is an opera singer?
Did you know that HMS Mahratta delivered a bathtub to Murmansk during World War II ?
Did you know that French racing cyclist Lucien Michard won four successive world championships and lost a fifth even though he crossed the line first?
Did you know that the deaths of two pirates during the November 11, 2008 incident off Somalia , are believed to be the first time since the 1982 Falklands War that the Royal Navy has killed anyone on the high seas?
Did you know that Arne Sunde , Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War ?
Did you know that the Interstate Income Act of 1959 prevents a U.S. state from collecting income tax on solicited sales within its borders, as long as the orders are filled or shipped outside of the state?
Did you know that Don Bradman , universally regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket history , made a duck in his final Test innings?
Did you know that the Kamchia biosphere reserve in Bulgaria is a major migratory bottleneck site where at least 60,000 White Storks pass overhead each autumn?
Did you know that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Irving Brown was dubbed "The Most Dangerous Man" by Time in 1952?
Did you know that Australian politician John Robertson worked as a construction worker for the New South Wales Parliament to which he was later elected?
Did you know that Anita Bryant 's participation in Save Our Children , a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitchers Jim Palmer and Mike Mussina each made six Opening Day starts for the Baltimore Orioles ?
Did you know that the rare skin disorder ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens may be caused by a spontaneous mutation in the keratin 2e gene on chromosome 12 ?
Did you know that actor Jesse Plemons had to get 11 stitches in his chin after offering to do his own stunts on Friday Night Lights ?
Did you know that Begonia boliviensis , one of the species used the production of the first hybrid tuberous begonia raised in England , was introduced from Bolivia by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce ?
Did you know that the M115 anti-crop bomb was known as the "feather bomb" because it dropped feathers laced with fungal spores in order to spread wheat stem rust ?
Did you know that Leo the Mathematician , called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium , invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
Did you know that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members , navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?
Did you know that current Colorado Rockies minor league catching instructor Marv Foley is the only baseball manager to win championships in the International League , Pacific Coast League , and American Association ?
Did you know that Anna Vissi , who represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 , has participated in the contest three times over a 26 year period?
Did you know that Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge in Torrance, California is used as a symbol on the patch of the local police department ?
Did you know that when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated ?
Did you know that in 2007, Vicki Berger played a major role in amending the Oregon Bottle Bill , which her own father had created 36 years earlier?
Did you know that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas , making them effective anti-diabetic drugs ?
Did you know that the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York , is the largest herd of white deer in the world?
Did you know that Augustin Trébuchon , the last French soldier to die in the First World War , was shot 15 minutes before the war ended?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Mi declined chancellor appointments by Emperor Suzong and Emperor Daizong , eventually only accepting it under Emperor Dezong ?
Did you know that the Montecito Tea Fire , which destroyed more than 200 homes in California , was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?
Did you know that though communism was created by an atheist , communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship?
Did you know that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles , surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire ?
Did you know that by Christmas Eve 1942, the German 17th Panzer Division had only eight tanks and one anti-tank gun left after its failed attempt to break through to Stalingrad ?
Did you know that Carl D. Keith and John J. Mooney co-invented the three-way catalytic converter , which has cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars by 98 percent since the 1970s?
Did you know that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary formerly used Police Motu , a lingua franca pidgin of Motu , as its working language?
Did you know that the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution ?
Did you know that Whitcomb L. Judson is recognized as the inventor of the zipper ?
Did you know that the author of Autism's False Prophets , a critique of claims that autism is linked to vaccines , reportedly received death threats?
Did you know that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah , oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents ?
Did you know that Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO 's Institute of Traditional Culture?
Did you know that the music video for Sia Furler 's latest single " Soon We'll Be Found " features American Sign Language ?
Did you know that the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania ?
Did you know that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island 's first printing press ?