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Did you know that SS Catalina , after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Keith Miller , while attending high school during his teenage years , had Test captain Bill Woodfull as his mathematics teacher, who gave him a zero on a geometry exam?
Did you know that the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation , written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ , allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days?
Did you know that Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock "?
Did you know that fossil collectors often call Polyptychoceras vancouverensis the "paperclip ammonite " or the "candy cane", due to its shape?
Did you know that U.S. statesman Frederick Douglass said that George William Alexander had spent "more than an American fortune" in promoting the anti-slavery cause ?
Did you know that over the course of five decades, Toshio Masuda directed 16 films which made the top ten list at the Japanese box office , a record surpassed by only one other director?
Did you know that the 17th-century Theatrum Chemicum is a comprehensive compendium on alchemy in the western world ?
Did you know that Bartholomew Gilbert is responsible for the failure to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas ?
Did you know that Ficus obliqua , which may reach 100 ft (35 m) high in Australian rainforests , is well suited for use in bonsai ?
Did you know that Francis Fox Tuckett was one of the main figures of the golden age of alpinism , making the ascent of 269 peaks and the crossing of 687 passes?
Did you know that instead of making a triumphant entry to Harar , Ethiopia after the Battle of the Ogaden , Italian general Rodolfo Graziani tripped and injured himself at a local church?
Did you know that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals ?
Did you know that the only known surviving work of Catalan poet Pere de Queralt is a maldit-comiat in which he accuses his lady of having three lovers in a single day?
Did you know that A Driver for Vera , Ukraine 's submission for the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , was rejected because too much of the production was based in Russia ?
Did you know that Fitzroy Football Club was so impressed by Allan Ruthven ’s potential he was given guernsey number 7, made famous by Brownlow medalist Haydn Bunton ?
Did you know that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land , which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?
Did you know that the largest sports research library in North America is located on the grounds of LA 's Britt House , a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
Did you know that the Type 77 semi-automatic pistol is a common side arm used in the Chinese People's Liberation Army ?
Did you know that according to X-ray analysis, William Hogarth 's painting Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse originally had a dog relieving himself on a pile of old master paintings?
Did you know that after capturing Amba Aradam during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War , the Italians bombed the fleeing Ethiopian soldiers with mustard gas ?
Did you know that the red-purple coloured inedible mushroom Russula sardonia has a hot peppery taste?
Did you know that the 1974 film La prima Angélica reportedly created the greatest scandal surrounding any Spanish film during the Franco years?
Did you know that the Electrosport was a US $11,900 electric car in 1971, when gasoline was 36 cents per gallon , and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between Detroit and Chicago ?
Did you know that the public reaction after the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany 's former royal houses from service in the military ?
Did you know that Santo Alcala ’s age of 23 in 1976 made him the second youngest player on an aging Cincinnati Reds baseball team?
Did you know that the American Palestine Line claimed that its ship the SS President Arthur was the first ocean liner to fly the Zionist flag when it began service in 1925?
Did you know that Joseph Nathan Kane had personal possession of America 's first fountain pen and the 1849 patent model for America's first safety pin ?
Did you know that when Teddy Morgan led Wales in their national anthem before the 1905 rugby union match, it was the first time a national anthem had been sung before a sporting event?
Did you know that the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$ 980?
Did you know that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway , from Moss to Halden ?
Did you know that Union Army officer Frank A. Haskell ’s account of the Battle of Gettysburg was hailed by historian Bruce Catton as "one of the genuine classics of Civil War literature"?
Did you know that much of modern theatre in Burkina Faso has developed from the need to educate rural people?
Did you know that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
Did you know that the Vorwerk is the only breed of chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance ?
Did you know that Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is the sole surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal ?
Did you know that brightly colored leheria turbans were male business attire in Rajasthan , India during the 19th and early 20th centuries?
Did you know that Charles Thomas Bolton was the first astronomer to prove the existence of a black hole ?
Did you know that the Treaty of Dubysa was never ratified as the Teutonic Knights failed to reach the agreed-upon destination due to shallow water in the Neman River ?
Did you know that the Boston Red Sox once traded Major League Baseball pitcher Anastacio Martínez to the Pittsburgh Pirates only to take him back in a different trade a week later?
Did you know that the Dogger , a type of fishing boat , takes its name from the Dogger Bank , which was itself named after an earlier type of fishing vessel?
Did you know that African slave Abu al-Misk Kafur ’s rise to power in 946 as the ruler of Egypt and southern Syria is one of the first examples in Islamic history of a sovereign with the lowliest of origins?
Did you know that Australian Test cricketer Keith Miller once broke from his air force flying formation to fly over Beethoven 's birthplace of Bonn ?
Did you know that the title of The West Wing episode " On the Day Before " refers to the Jewish holiday Erev Yom Kippur ?
Did you know that robot-assisted surgery was recently performed to treat ovarian vein syndrome , a rare condition in which a dilated ovarian vein compresses the ureter , causing pain?
Did you know that among other changes, the Hungarian Round Table Talks in 1989 led to a complete overhaul of the country's constitution ?
Did you know that Johnny Oates , the only Texas Rangers manager to make it to the postseason, won the Manager of the Year Award in 1996 ?
Did you know that Captain Ralph Kerr , briefly commander of the Royal Navy 's largest warship HMS Hood , had previously only commanded destroyers ?
Did you know that Walt Whitman and Theodore Roosevelt frequently visited Chichester's Inn in West Hills, New York ?
Did you know that Humphrey Littleton informed on a priest wanted in connection with the Gunpowder Plot after seeing him give mass at Hindlip Hall ?
Did you know that the Australian banana fig is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp ?
Did you know that Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
Did you know that in 1846, George Pope Morris was one of two founders of the periodical that would become Town & Country , which is still published today?
Did you know that as a Boston College freshman, current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Chris Lambert was named Big East Conference "Pitcher of the Year" and "Rookie of the Year" in 2002?
Did you know that Adbot , one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
Did you know that when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so?
Did you know that actor Michael Sharrett played the grandson of Clovis, played by Jimmy Stewart , in the 1978 musical film The Magic of Lassie ?
Did you know that Lou Piniella , the only Mariners manager to lead a team into the playoffs, recorded a season with 116 wins, tying the major league record of wins in a season?
Did you know that Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951?
Did you know that Floyd Womack of the NFL 's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash ?
Did you know that Penelope Wensley , who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York ?
Did you know that the Streeterville neighborhood sits almost entirely on land that did not exist when the city of Chicago first incorporated?
Did you know that chemist and science policy -maker Rudolf Mentzel , head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute , was also an SS Brigadier ?
Did you know that four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the Zebu element in Jamaica Hope cattle comes from one Sahiwal bull?
Did you know that Brad Paisley 's 2008 single " Waitin' on a Woman " is a re-recording of a song that he originally recorded on his 2005 album Time Well Wasted ?
Did you know that Abdur Rashid Kardar , a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore , was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films?
Did you know that South Park Lofts in Los Angeles , originally an eight-story parking garage , was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
Did you know that the fungus gnat is often found around houseplants because it lays eggs in moist potting soil ?
Did you know that English footballer Tom Holford played professionally until he was 46, making him the sixth oldest player to have appeared in a Football League match?
Did you know that many traumatic brain injuries have aspects of both focal and diffuse brain injury ?
Did you know that Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate ?
Did you know that the Podgórski sisters —six-year-old Helena and her teenage sister Stefania—harbored thirteen Jews for over two years in the attic of their house during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that gaming fads such as Bank Night contributed more than any other tactic to the resiliency of the U.S. film industry during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal , Keshar Jung Rayamajhi , turned royalist and became chairman of Nepal 's  Royal Privy Council?
Did you know that the name of popular Ivorian music genre Coupé-Décalé is a local slang term for cheating somebody and running away?
Did you know that the concept of hurricanes as "a moving vortex" was first developed by John Farrar after the Great September Gale of 1815 ?
Did you know that mizuna is a cold-resistant mustard green grown extensively during winter in Japan ?
Did you know that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 ?
Did you know that in 1870, the Indian Reform Association aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the Brahmo leader Keshub Chunder Sen was exposed to during his visit to Britain ?
Did you know that the cult of Saint Chiaffredo arose after the discovery of a sarcophagus containing a mysterious skeleton near the Italian town of Crissolo ?
Did you know that the Dr. Nelson Wilson House is unusual for having Eastlake stickwork done in brick instead of wood?
Did you know that the success of the World War II bombing campaign Operation Strangle was unrelated to its original objective?
Did you know that Julio Vizcarrondo played a key role in the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico in the 19th century?
Did you know that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of robust control ?
Did you know that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry ?
Did you know that Daniel Page , the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri , helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad ?
Did you know that magnetic resonance neurography creates detailed medical images of nerves ?
Did you know that Ghulam Ahmed Chishti wrote, composed and recorded six to seven songs for the film Pheray in a single day?
Did you know that American President Lines was declared an industry leader in 1989 for its innovations in container transport?
Did you know that Hugh McCulloch became president of the Bank of Indiana without any prior experience in banking at all?
Did you know that Mecklenburg underwent a series of partitions, so that by the 18th century, rulers in both of its parts had identical titles?
Did you know that the Citadel of Saigon , a stone fortress in Vietnam , was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
Did you know that in his 1570 book on religious images , theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
Did you know that San Francisco 's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants ?
Did you know that Vaidila , depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler ?
Did you know that Keelung City , Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?
Did you know that Fort Concho , a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West ?
Did you know that the city of Strasbourg , France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions ?
Did you know that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia ?
Did you know that Olvir Hnufa , a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda , was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson ?
Did you know that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel ?
Did you know that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous , Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?
Did you know that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report ?
Did you know that one of the eyes of Edward Oldcorne , who was tortured into revealing his participation in the Gunpowder Plot , is kept as a holy relic ?
Did you know that William Cullen Bryant owned Cedarmere-Clayton Estates in Roslyn Harbor, New York where the Nassau County Museum of Art now stands?
Did you know that Nguyễn Trung Trực , who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam , was a local fisherman ?
Did you know that Aberdeen 's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership , bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
Did you know that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?
Did you know that the first edition of Henry Fielding 's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
Did you know that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship ?
Did you know that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites ?
Did you know that German bryologist Franz Stephani was the author of "one of the most notorious publications in bryology"?
Did you know that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918 ?
Did you know that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team ?
Did you know that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua ?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes ?
Did you know that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits ?
Did you know that Anita West , one of the presenters of Blue Peter , was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
Did you know that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross ?
Did you know that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard ?
Did you know that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?
Did you know that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra , to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart 's 1937 flight plan?
Did you know that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo , an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry ?
Did you know that David William Thomas , mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called " Renaissance man "?
Did you know that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial " for the International Federation of Competitive Eating ?
Did you know that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya ?
Did you know that Long Island 's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
Did you know that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako , Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?
Did you know that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328 ?
Did you know that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention?
Did you know that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers ?
Did you know that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama , making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds ?
Did you know that when Henry D. Edelman became the first president and CEO of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation in June 1989, no staff had been hired to work with him?
Did you know that the West Indian laurel fig tree is an introduced species in Florida where it has escaped from cultivation?
Did you know that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V ?
Did you know that forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass is developing a decomposition odor analysis or DOA database to enable Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs to help detect human remains?
Did you know that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr ?
Did you know that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal , crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
Did you know that Mike Scioscia , the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club , was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002 ?
Did you know that the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?
Did you know that the children's music duo Greg & Steve started out singing to children as special education assistants?
Did you know that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag , Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
Did you know that the construction of the Cairo Apartments , one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C. , prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol ?
Did you know that Eric Borel , a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers , Var , was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
Did you know that the 2007 documentary film Quantum Hoops tells the story of the Caltech mens' basketball team, who had a 259-game losing streak after not winning a conference game since 1985?
Did you know that The Towers , a residence in Didsbury , Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian , is now a cotton research facility?
Did you know that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington ?
Did you know that Syed Wajid Ali Shah was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years?
Did you know that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005?
Did you know that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto 's last duel on July 12 , 1817 , and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
Did you know that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation , it was retitled as Water Summer ?
Did you know that Canadian actor Kevin Durand , who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost , is a former rapper and stand-up comic ?
Did you know that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
Did you know that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte , and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans ?
Did you know that when Daniel Elfrith became admiral of the colonies at Black Rock Fort in 1632, he warned ships of where escaped slaves might attack?
Did you know that a scene from " Rosemary's Baby ", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan , was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
Did you know that Greek – Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
Did you know that Dair Mar Elia , dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq ?
Did you know that Garry Roggenburk , after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox ?
Did you know that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses?
Did you know that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77 ?