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Did you know that, in 1925, Doug Turnbull became the first college lacrosse player to earn first-team All-America honors four times, and to date only three other players have matched that feat?
Did you know that the music recording project Gigi involves indie rock musicians singing new 1950s- and 60s-style pop songs?
Did you know that former South African national rugby union team player Popeye Strydom also played baseball for Orange Free State ?
Did you know that one of the peaks in Antarctica is called The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship ?
Did you know that Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau has the record for most wins as Cleveland Indians manager with 728?
Did you know that the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII ?
Did you know that the stone "lions" seen at the gates of Shinto shrines are actually Korean dogs ?
Did you know that the Capello Index is a rating system for footballers that evaluates 500 actions that a player might make during a game?
Did you know that five-fingered jack and the tender brake are actually species of fern ?
Did you know that journalist David Twersky broke the news stories that prevented both Johnnetta B. Cole and Lani Guinier from serving in Bill Clinton's presidential administration ?
Did you know that silver phosphate , which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water ?
Did you know that former Attorney General of Ireland Rory Brady successfully solved a dispute over land between broadcaster Pat Kenny and his neighbour?
Did you know that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences eliminated the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album in 2009 to remain "relevant and responsive" to the music community?
Did you know that tired of taking measurements by hand, Seymour London created the first automatic sphygmomanometer using an old blood pressure cuff, a column of mercury , a pump from a fish tank and a microphone ?
Did you know that Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction?
Did you know that Norwegian orienteer Finn Varde Jespersen was shot down as a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron during the invasion of Normandy in 1944?
Did you know that Max Desfor's image Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea was taken during the longest retreat in the military history of the United States ?
Did you know that the chamber choir RIAS Kammerchor performed Monteverdi 's Vespro della Beata Vergine , 400 years after its premiere, at the Rheingau Musik Festival ?
Did you know that during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero ?
Did you know that after posting an 11–3 record, the 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team lost to Appalachian State in the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 14, 2007?
Did you know that the Japanese actress Kirin Kiki auctioned off her first stage name on a television show because she claimed she had "nothing else to sell"?
Did you know that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit ?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Hardmead , Buckinghamshire , contains a memorial to Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 after an unsuccessful expedition to find Sir John Franklin ?
Did you know that the Byzantine megas doux John Doukas was taken hostage as a child, took captive a Serbian king , led a fleet against Chaka Bey and recovered much of western Anatolia from the Seljuks ?
Did you know that the Suludnon are an indigenous people who reside in the Capiz - Lambunao mountainous area of the island of Panay in the Visayas ?
Did you know that Radmilla Cody sang " The Star-Spangled Banner " in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center in 2002?
Did you know that Sauganash Hotel , located at Wolf Point , was Chicago's first hotel , first theater and the site where the newly formed town elected its first town trustees?
Did you know that Eastern Michigan football coach Fred Trosko suffered a 29-game winless streak after the school refused to follow a conference policy allowing athletic scholarships?
Did you know that St Leonard's Church, Spernall , Warwickshire , now redundant , is the only church to have been owned by the Ancient Monuments Society ?
Did you know that Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman was a top contender for the lead role in Thor , based on the Thor of Norse mythology , because the filmmakers "wanted someone with a Scandinavian touch"?
Did you know that the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region was a pioneer of organic coffee production and one of the first fair trade suppliers?
Did you know that György Ligeti dedicated his Hamburg Concerto to German hornplayer Marie Luise Neunecker , who premiered it in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble ?
Did you know that the Copper Bull sculpture found in Iraq in 1923 was over 4,500 years old?
Did you know that Pittsburgh steel magnate John Walker 's personal library, including all of the original furnishings, was donated to Washington & Jefferson College and installed in the Thompson Library exactly as he had left it?
Did you know that Neri Colmenares , today a member of the Congress of the Philippines , was one of the youngest political prisoners during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos ?
Did you know that Mill Creek chert was one of the major exported raw materials of the Mississippian culture ?
Did you know that Brock Pemberton both played for and managed the minor league baseball Macon Peaches in 1980?
Did you know that shartegosuchid crocodyliforms made up an endemic Central Asian Mesozoic fauna that existed after the breakup of Pangaea ?
Did you know that Ángel Daniel Vassallo is Virginia Tech's all-time leader in successful three-point field goals ?
Did you know that Ujazdów Avenue in Warsaw was renamed after Stalin in 1953, but the traditional name was restored three years later?
Did you know that the Australian kerrawang , which is a shrub, should not be confused with the kurrajong , a tree, or the currawong , a sombre-plumaged bird resembling a crow ?
Did you know that S.R. Nathan was the first President of Singapore to exercise the constitutional power to use the nation's past reserves to fund government schemes during the financial downturn ?
Did you know that The Periodic Table of Videos , hosted by Martyn Poliakoff , is one of the most popular sets of chemistry videos on YouTube ?
Did you know that President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game ?
Did you know that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, members of Friendly Societies in the west of England would hold annual parades carrying poles topped by elaborate brass emblems ?
Did you know that playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
Did you know that the first known arch dam was the Glanum Dam , built by the Romans in modern-day France during the 1st century BC?
Did you know that the National Hockey League rejected a bid for an expansion team in Norfolk , Virginia , even after more than 5,000 season tickets were sold?
Did you know that indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly ?
Did you know that seeds of the extinct Paleocene pine Pinus peregrinus are most similar to those of the modern red pine and tropical pine ?
Did you know that University of Maryland athletic director Dick Dull , who resigned after the death of Len Bias , hired a "no name" head football coach: Bobby Ross ?
Did you know that the 1985 Doug E. Fresh single " The Show " inspired a diss track from the duo who later became Salt-n-Pepa ?
Did you know that Dr. Hallowell Davis , credited with coining the term " audiology ", donated his inner ear to the Central Institute for the Deaf ?
Did you know that Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were the first high school basketball players to directly enter the National Basketball Association after they were drafted in 1975 ?
Did you know that the Thornbury Hoard was discovered in a back garden in South Gloucestershire , England , by a man digging a pond , and that it took two people to carry it to the local museum ?
Did you know that Elgin Gould , who recommended entrepreneurs build working-class communities serviced by streetcars on the outskirts of major cities, was killed in a horseback riding accident?
Did you know that Montfichet's Tower was a fortress in central London first mentioned around 1136?
Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Ernest Wooton has challenged Governor Bobby Jindal 's claim of confidentiality to many executive department documents?
Did you know that the music video for the Kinks ' " Don't Forget to Dance " reprised the band playing themselves on a ballroom stage from their previous video, " Come Dancing "?
Did you know that Danish geologist Hinrich Johannes Rink was the founder of Atuagagdliutit , the first Kalaallisut language newspaper?
Did you know that, in Mesopotamian mythology , Labbu was a lion-serpent from the sea, slain by Tishpak , protector-god of Eshnunna ?
Did you know that Hercules Renda was described as a "midget from the hills of West Virginia " who "ran, squirmed and tackled" his way into the hearts of Michigan football fans in the 1930s?
Did you know that the term " echolocation " was coined in 1944 by Donald Griffin , whose work with Robert Galambos was the first to conclusively demonstrate its existence in bats as a tool for navigation?
Did you know that the River Raisin National Battlefield Park will preserve the site of the United States' deadliest defeat in the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that though widowed and in poor health, Princess Marie of Reuss was second-in-line to the Dutch throne from 1900 to 1909, pending the death of her then-childless cousin Queen Wilhelmina ?
Did you know that the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion ?
Did you know that Cully Cobb , who grew up as a poor Tennessee farm boy, became a major agricultural publisher and co-founder of the Cobb Institute of Archeology at Mississippi State University ?
Did you know that in 1938 Nazi authorities Germanized over 1,500 place names in East Prussia ?
Did you know that William Munro, 12th Baron of Foulis , led a force of 900 men in a battle that historians are not sure ever took place?
Did you know that emergency surgery was required to save Trent McCleary 's life after he was hit in the throat by a slapshot during a National Hockey League game?
Did you know that more than a hundred people were killed by the military junta of Natusch Busch during its 16-day reign in Bolivia in 1979?
Did you know that Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims?
Did you know that the Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is composed of more than 1,500 traffic signs that point the way to popular destinations in the City of Pittsburgh ?
Did you know that after Bolesław Krzywousty defeated Pomeranian dukes at the Battle of Nakło he gave Swietopelk Nakielski Nakło , and other grods (Slavic settlements) on the river Noteć as a fief?
Did you know that the Chicago Cubs have had the first selection in Major League Baseball 's entry draft only once in the draft's 45-year history?
Did you know that the world's first looping roller coasters were tested with eggs , flowers , glasses of water , and even a monkey before human riders were allowed?
Did you know that Indian nobleman Anup Rai was known as "Singh Dalan" (Lion Crusher) because he stopped a lion from attacking Mughal emperor Jahangir during a royal hunt?
Did you know that Codex Cyprius is one of the very few uncial manuscripts with the complete text of the four Gospels ?
Did you know that the former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig was one of two US battalion commanders in the Battle of Ap Gu during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that one suggested toponomy of Baughurst in Hampshire is that the village is named after the "wood of the badgers"?
Did you know that long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears - Lions - Eagles - Steelers Talent Organization?
Did you know that Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan ?
Did you know that Michigan linebacker Tony Momsen blocked a Vic Janowicz punt and recovered it in the endzone for the only touchdown in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl game?
Did you know that Stu Wilkins , an offensive guard on Michigan 's 1947 "Mad Magicians" team , was a leader in establishing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his hometown of Canton, Ohio ?
Did you know that the 115th Squadron of the Israeli Air Force is a training squadron tasked with emulating enemy forces and tactics?
Did you know that Blessed Stephen Nehmé was known for repeating a mantra of "God can see me"?
Did you know that during Operation Junction City , the Viet Cong launched separate battles on the same night at Ap Bau Bang and Suoi Tre , but lost more than 25 times as many men as their opponents?
Did you know that in 1985, Member of the Walloon Parliament Bernard Anselme authored a decree establishing the city of Namur as the capital of Wallonia ?
Did you know that the Chimakum tribe of Native Americans were wiped out in 1847 by a Suquamish war party led by Chief Seattle , for whom the city of Seattle was later named?
Did you know that the Queen's executioner lives in Windsor Great Park and feeds on weevils and nectar ?
Did you know that Len Dunderdale finished the 1938–39 season as Watford Football Club 's top scorer, despite joining Leeds United during the season?
Did you know that in 1944 British agents kidnapped a German general on the German occupied island of Crete ?
Did you know that in his only full Major League Baseball season, Sandy Ullrich was the second youngest regular on the Washington Senators roster?
Did you know that the rise in the manufacturing of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s was partially due to the United States' embargo on China?
Did you know that as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the newly described Caquetá Titi may have a total adult population of less than 250 monkeys?
Did you know that Black Tusk , a band that describes its music as "swamp metal," was formed when its members were all living on the same street?
Did you know that Friedrich Münter was the first Protestant to receive a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Fulda ?
Did you know that the Gunai indigenous people of Gippsland practiced controlled burning to induce the edible kangaroo apple to grow and bear fruit ?
Did you know that a bus advertisement by the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers made the Governor of Iowa feel "personally disturbed"?
Did you know that Gary Sheffield is one of ten baseball players to join the 500 home run club since 1999?
Did you know that " Everyone ", the official theme song of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore, was sung by five different artistes each representing his or her continent?
Did you know that Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn , national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon , was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon 's 1972 re-election bid?
Did you know that Paul Coe attempted to bring an aboriginal title class action claiming the entirety of Australia ?
Did you know that British actress Christine McKenna starred in the 1979 series Flambards but is now a television producer in the United States ?
Did you know that only Air Greenland and Air Iceland operate at Nuuk Airport ?
Did you know that Australian Test cricket umpire Colin Egar received death threats after no-balling Ian Meckiff for an illegal bowling action ?
Did you know that pannage was a valuable right in the former royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire , England?
Did you know that Mark Gosling served for almost two years as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales , despite having only a primary education?
Did you know that the extinct Chamaecyparis eureka is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Chamaecyparis ?
Did you know that after failing to engage two French warships, Captain Savage Mostyn demanded that he be tried by court-martial ?
Did you know that Thomas J. Deverin proposed a bill requiring New Jersey public schools to begin with a daily period of silent meditation, which both opponents and supporters saw as reintroducing school prayer ?
Did you know that Emperor Alexander III of Russia provided funding for the construction of a Russian Orthodox church on Bredgade in Copenhagen at the behest of his Danish-born empress ?
Did you know that actress Jamie Sorrentini was directed by Harold Prince in the U.S. national tour of the musical Parade ?
Did you know that the football club Stålkameratene were expelled from their league in 1997 , only to score 153 league goals the next year?
Did you know that, although police later found the getaway car used in the murder of Morris Kessler , the crime remained unsolved?
Did you know that Ola's Kool Kitchen was conceived by DJ Ola as a reaction against mainstream radio's focus on playlists prescribed by major record labels?
Did you know that a drawing resembling a penis by Andy Warhol may be on the moon ?
Did you know that 1,200 journalists , human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo 's counter- insurgency program " Oplan Bantay Laya "?
Did you know that the land upon which the office building Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building sits was originally set aside for Blout College in the 1790s?
Did you know that John T. Gregorio resigned from the New Jersey Senate 's 20th Legislative District after a conspiracy conviction for concealing his ownership of two go go bars operated by his son?
Did you know that SteelPath is the first investment firm to offer master limited partnership mutual funds ?
Did you know that the 5830 metre high mountain of Altun Shan was formed at a bend in the Altyn Tagh fault ?
Did you know that Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Stu Foord scored a touchdown on his first Canadian Football League rushing attempt?
Did you know that Bob Dylan wrote " Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You " in two days at a Ramada Inn in February 1969?
Did you know that the first public library in Cardiff , which opened in 1861, is the first public library in Wales ?
Did you know that Irish-American banker Sam McBirney coached a football team from a college with 400 students to a 16–0 win that broke the Oklahoma Sooners ' 18-game winning streak?
Did you know that Victorian cricketer Merv Harvey captained his brothers Ray and Neil twice in the same match, and another brother, Mick , also played for the state?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, forcing the Warspite to withdraw from the battle?
Did you know that Amar Ramasar , a principal danseur of the New York City Ballet, took his first dance lessons at the Henry Street Settlement House?
Did you know that, despite its lack of dedicated tourism infrastructure, 12 cruise ships docked at Da Nang Port in January and February 2010 alone, carrying 6,477 passengers?
Did you know that, though critically injured in a 1944 blast that was "perhaps then the largest release in history of radioactive materials", Arnold Kramish credited his survival to his mother's chicken soup ?
Did you know that at 15 years and 314 days, Glyn Pardoe was the youngest footballer ever to play for Manchester City when he made his debut in 1962?
Did you know that George Washington 's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County , Virginia ?
Did you know that Joe Plumeri , CEO of Willis Group Holdings , got his start in 1968 by accidentally interviewing with future Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill at what he mistakenly thought was a law firm?
Did you know that over 1,200 hoards in Britain from the Roman period have been found, but the very few hoards in Ireland containing Roman coins and silverware were probably loot taken from Britain by Irish raiders?
Did you know that retired baseball coach Jacke Davis had five players he coached at Panola College go on to play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana , is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans ?
Did you know that sleepy sponge crabs carry sponges on their back as camouflage , and have even used the sole of a shoe for that purpose?
Did you know that Alsatian architect François Spoerry was an advocate of vernacular architecture ?
Did you know that Bach may have reused earlier music for his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 for the eighth Sunday after Trinity of 1723?
Did you know that Governor Brendan Byrne recognized Alexander J. Menza for his service in the New Jersey Legislature on the Mental Health Planning Committee, calling him the "voice of the voiceless"?
Did you know that the Norwegian teen film Amors Baller will include scenes shot at the 2010 Norway Cup , one of the world's largest football tournaments?
Did you know that the extinct ant-like stone beetle Kachinus , found in Cretaceous amber , is similar in appearance to the modern genus Paraneseuthia ?
Did you know that Albanian film director Dhimitër Anagnosti , winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs?
Did you know that the security procedures at the Federal Detention Center in Miami prevented an attorney from meeting a client because her underwire bra set off a metal detector ?
Did you know that Scottish actor Richard Madden began his career at age 11 when he was cast in the film Complicity , followed by his 1999 role in the BBC television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang ?
Did you know that Uchchaihshravas is declared the king of horses in Hindu mythology ?
Did you know that professional baseball player Pat Osburn 's brother-in-law was Milt May , and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
Did you know that the anti-Nazi resistance group " Olimp ", organized in 1941 by members of the Polish minority in Wrocław , was named after Mount Olympus because of their main meeting place?
Did you know that the Butterfield Cobblestone House , considered the finest Greek Revival building in Orleans County, New York , is the only cobblestone building in Clarendon ?
Did you know that the Colorado River 's first dam and reclamation project suffered through major floods in 1912 and 1916 along with an earthquake in 1940?
Did you know that philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal was known by her family for having a "perfect figure" and for "bringing home massive amounts of clothing from Paris"?
Did you know that Operation Truong Cong Dinh took place in the same vicinity where its namesake conducted riverine guerrilla attacks a century earlier?
Did you know that world champion triathlete Emma Carney was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition ventricular tachycardia and is fitted with a defibrillator ?
Did you know that DirectHit is the only accurate pharmacodiagnostic test to determine possible treatment outcomes of anticancer chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer ?
Did you know that the only action seen by the French ironclad Montcalm during the Franco-Prussian War was the capture of a German barque ?
Did you know that the anonymous Latin poem Ecbasis captivi is the oldest surviving example of a European beast epic , and contains the first medieval European example of anthropomorphic animals?