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Did you know that Charles de Saulles coached an undefeated football team of workers from a Kansas zinc smelting works that defeated the Carlisle Indians and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?
Did you know that three species of sea turtle , including critically endangered Hawksbill turtle , visit the Hikkaduwa coral reef ?
Did you know that the four rowhouses at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York , are the only ones left along that street in the city's Fifth Ward?
Did you know that Zhou Youguang is credited as the "father of pinyin ", the official romanization in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that the 1954 syndicated TV series Stories of the Century , starring Jim Davis as a railroad detective , was the first western to win an Emmy ?
Did you know that the 1977 Pacific hurricane season is the least active Pacific hurricane season since 1949?
Did you know that All-American fullback John Baird was forced to withdraw from Princeton in 1898 after playing a football game on a wet field while recovering from tonsilitis ?
Did you know that despite being an All-American running back with the University of Evansville , Sean Bennett played fullback at Northwestern ?
Did you know that the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council won the last round of the Christian elections in Iraq ?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Tatsuo Kamon began studying with rakugo master Tsuruko Shōfukutei at age 16?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon -based RadiSys was founded by former employees of Intel and 20 years later purchased a division of Intel?
Did you know that the horror film Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep received its name through a 2006 contest held by the Sci Fi Channel ?
Did you know that after his company struck oil, William Walkley stopped traffic in the middle of Sydney , Australia , wearing a red ten gallon hat ?
Did you know that Bemus Pierce , a guard for the Carlisle Indians football team, ran back three kickoffs for touchdowns in an 1896 game against the University of Illinois ?
Did you know that the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India 's only surviving opera house ?
Did you know that Zigzag district office was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is one of nineteen historic buildings at the Zigzag Ranger Station in Oregon 's Mount Hood National Forest ?
Did you know that Polish philosopher Władysław Heinrich wrote the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Polish Academy of Learning in 1898?
Did you know that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa , overseen by executive chef Simon Radley , was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
Did you know that radio and TV announcer Ken Roberts voiced the skit Love of Chair on the PBS show Electric Company , spoofing his decades-long run as announcer of the soap opera Love of Life ?
Did you know that in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin , an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West ?
Did you know that the Soviet Peace Committee , a peace movement created and sponsored by the Soviet Union , criticized Western policies but defended Soviet ones?
Did you know that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano , a classic work describing prepared piano technique?
Did you know that under modern principles of vicarious liability in English law , employers are answerable for the intentional wrongdoings of their employees?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode " Three Men and Adena " was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest television moments?
Did you know that although Florida -based slave holder and trader Zephaniah Kingsley wrote pamphlets defending slavery, he freed dozens of his own and married four of them?
Did you know that Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional ?
Did you know that those villages defeated by the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa signalled their surrender by sending small betel nut trees to their conquerors ?
Did you know that composer David Braham began playing the violin because he could not fit his harp on a stagecoach ?
Did you know that the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall , grammar school , museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
Did you know that Toys in the Attic , a semi- autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman , won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960?
Did you know that Charles Boit ' s enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it?
Did you know that Anthony Haswell , Postmaster General of the Vermont Republic , was later convicted of seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts ?
Did you know that threats of war between England and France and English antagonism to French dancers led to riots in 1755 with the first London production of Noverre 's Les Fêtes Chinoises completely destroyed?
Did you know that roll-off is an electronic filter parameter of significance for removing muscle activity noise in electrocardiograph machines?
Did you know that Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe , who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan , is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Dottie in 1976 was compared to a mere thunderstorm by local officials?
Did you know that Annie M. G. Schmidt , the "queen of Dutch children's literature ," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday?
Did you know that the 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname ?
Did you know that shed is a weaving term for the temporary separation in warp threads so the shuttle with the weft can go through?
Did you know that the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture ?
Did you know that on July 1, 2009, Nils Ušakovs became the first Russian mayor of Riga since Latvia 's restoration of sovereignty in 1991?
Did you know that the Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker 's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize?
Did you know that genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu , inspiration for M. Butterfly , had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son"?
Did you know that Sri Lankan Minister Maithripala Sirisena escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber in 2008?
Did you know that the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications was cited as "a major driving force" behind the introduction of unmetered Internet access in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that an 11-time NFL Pro-Bowler 's mother was the first African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court ?
Did you know that despite being excommunicated by Pope Eugene IV , Prospero Colonna was the leading candidate to be Eugene's successor as Pope?
Did you know that President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona was ridiculed by Soviet propaganda for fleeing the country across the shallow Liepona rivulet in the aftermath of a Soviet ultimatum ?
Did you know that J. Curtis Counts , Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director in the Nixon Administration , first met the future president when their respective girlfriends were roommates?
Did you know that the Ducati 98 , called the racy motorcycle brand 's "first true sporting model," was a hit in the Italian la passeggiata (street cruising scene) of the 1950s?
Did you know that Fernand , Alain and Hakeem Kashama have all played for the Calgary Stampeders ?
Did you know that obesity in Australia was made a "national health priority" by the government in 2008, officially elevating awareness to the same level as other health risks like cancer , heart disease and diabetes ?
Did you know that the British boyband One True Voice split up in 2003 despite reaching the top ten with their first two releases?
Did you know that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is responsible for the Abel Prize and the Kavli Prize ?
Did you know that Grambling State running back Walter Dean was nicknamed " American Express " in reference to the credit card company?
Did you know that Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was the only person from Germany decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II ?
Did you know that Marxist sociology , despite Marxist influences on the Russian Revolution , has been suppressed in the Soviet Bloc , while flourishing in the West ?
Did you know that the South Dakota -class battleships are considered to be the best " treaty battleship " ever built?
Did you know that Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s?
Did you know that Jimi Hendrix originally wanted to cover Bob Dylan 's " I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine " from the John Wesley Harding album, but covered " All Along the Watchtower " from the same album instead?
Did you know that when he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent?
Did you know that the earthquake of 1348 in the Alpine region of Friuli hit at the same time as the plague in Italy and it caused odours to come up through the earth?
Did you know that the Japanese ammunition ship Kashino was specifically designed to transport the Yamato class battleships' main battery to the shipyards where they were being built?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " Joey " is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo ?
Did you know that after affixing blame for the death of Empress Xiao Xian on Johann Adam Schall von Bell , Yang Guangxian took his place as head of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy?
Did you know that in 2004, there were 1.8 million traditional fishing boats , such as dugouts and coracles ?
Did you know that nobody knows what happened to the bishopric of Hexham after Tidfrith ?
Did you know that in designing a new analogue filter , Sidney Darlington found tables of the exact elliptic functions required in an 1829 Latin paper by Carl Jacobi in the New York City Library ?
Did you know that Franz von Rintelen , a German spy living in New York during World War I , used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
Did you know that Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison ?
Did you know that the wild zebrafish is the first vertebrate to have its entire genome sequenced in India , a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology ?
Did you know that in 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath , West Sussex , demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site?
Did you know that Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?
Did you know that in 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection , only two years after his country became a British protectorate ?
Did you know that Albert Sharpe participated in football , basketball , baseball , gymnastics , rowing , and track and field , and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915?
Did you know that during the early 20th century, the depopulated Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East ?
Did you know that the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York , is now home to a brewpub , planetarium and the city's visitor center ?
Did you know that a priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers ?
Did you know that the glamorous American actress Mary Castle was once dubbed more like Rita Hayworth than Hayworth herself?
Did you know that after the destructive Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 , the treasury of the Byzantine Empire contained "nothing but the atoms of Epicurus "?
Did you know that Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902) ?
Did you know that although Balao halfbeaks are mainly used as baitfish for sailfishes and marlins , they are also utilized as a food source in the West Indies ?
Did you know that Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka ?
Did you know that Davidson Ditch was inspected by engineers working on problems faced by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline ?
Did you know that Australian jazz singer Grace Knight , ex- Eurogliders , organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
Did you know that according to Big Bang cosmology , neutrinos , a type of elementary particle , ceased to interact significantly with the other constituents of the Universe about one second after the Big Bang?
Did you know  that in the 1970s, female professional wrestler Betty Niccoli helped lift the New York State Athletic Commission 's ban on women's wrestling ?
Did you know that the Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate , built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta , was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect?
Did you know that Princeton All-American Dudley Riggs was the son of a wealthy banking family that lent $16 million to the United States to fund the Mexican-American War ?
Did you know that the eruption of Amak Volcano in about 2550 BCE was confirmed by tephrochronology ?
Did you know that, while filming Skins episode " Katie and Emily ", actress Kathryn Prescott genuinely punched her co-star by accident during a fight scene?
Did you know that SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Imperial Navy ?
Did you know that Mary Lou Forbes , whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize , had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled?
Did you know that at least eleven of the twenty electors of the papal conclave, 1362 were from the Limousin province of France ?
Did you know that De Schoolmeester , a smock mill at Westzaan , Noord Holland , is the only wind powered paper mill in the world?
Did you know that in 2008, the United States produced 5,778 million bearing balls ?
Did you know that 27 years after Barbara George 's hit " I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) " was released, a cover by Marisela peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart ?
Did you know that the fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus , used in Traditional Chinese medicine ?
Did you know that in 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years?
Did you know that the 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin was made as a tribute to guru Sri Chinmoy ?
Did you know that convergence of the iterative proportional fitting procedure for estimating cell values of a contingency table was rigorously proved using differential geometry ?
Did you know that much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus ?
Did you know that the Elizabeth Cross will be given to the next of kin of members of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack?
Did you know that Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World , a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle ?
Did you know that the Wabash College Little Giants were the only football team to defeat Notre Dame at home during a period of 29 years and 125 games?
Did you know that Sugarland 's 2009 single " Joey " was co-written by Bill Anderson ?
Did you know that a 1977 memo by Robert Derzon , overseer of U.S. Medicaid / Medicare programs, supported federal abortion funding for poor women, citing $1,000 in annual welfare savings on each unwanted child?
Did you know  that although its fossils were first discovered in 1946 , the pliosaurid genus Gallardosaurus was not declared a valid taxon until 2009 ?
Did you know that KATR-FM was honored by the Colorado Broadcasters Association for giving away an "ugly" pickup truck ?
Did you know that Roy McCardell was the first hired film screenwriter , and the first to start a Sunday paper comics supplement in color?
Did you know that the Wołów bank robbery was the biggest bank robbery in the history of the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you know that Mickey Stanley is the only Gold Glove-winning outfielder to have posted more than one errorless season, amassing a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 1968 and 1970 ?
Did you know that Irish playwright Hamilton Deane introduced the tuxedo and high-collar to the costume of Count Dracula to facilitate him vanishing off-stage through the floor in the 1920s stage production of the novel ?
Did you know that the rust fungus Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis is the first plant pathogen approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a biological control agent ?
Did you know that Alfred Henningsen , three-term member of the Storting , has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin"?
Did you know that London 's old Artillery Church was used by five different kinds of Protestants before becoming the Sandys Row Synagogue ?
Did you know that Robert Brown was only 22 when he was commander of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1864?
Did you know that in 1926, Odd Gleditsch, Sr. founded the company Jotun Kemiske Fabrik, since 1972 named Jotun ?
Did you know that Maggie Cogan was the first female horse and buggy driver in New York City 's Central Park ?
Did you know that of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel , 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston , Toronto , Ontario ?
Did you know that The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz ?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa ?
Did you know that Julius Caesar speculated his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant , reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language ?
Did you know that the flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC 's role in promoting teenage decadence?
Did you know that the 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions?
Did you know that the Środa treasure , one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe , was originally lost during the Black Plague ?
Did you know that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club 's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove ?
Did you know that England -born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists ?
Did you know that Tommy Thevenow hit his only two home runs in a six-day span in 1926, but none in his next 12 seasons, setting a Major League record of 3,347 consecutive regular season at bats without a home run?
Did you know that the Merthyr Synagogue may be the only synagogue in the world with a dragon on its gable?
Did you know that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble , Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner , and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring , but pleaded not guilty in court?
Did you know that Sir Albert Napier was described as the "midwife to civil legal aid "?
Did you know that a lake scene in the Skins episode " Naomi " had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia ?
Did you know that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate ?
Did you know that the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum ?
Did you know that when Auguste Forel named the zona incerta area of the brain in 1877, he did so because it was a "region of which nothing certain can be said"?
Did you know that the MCW Heavyweight Championship was won by Jerry "The King" Lawler , who has held over 200 professional wrestling championships throughout his career?
Did you know that Julius Babao was awarded best male newscaster in the 2008 PMPC Star Awards for TV?
Did you know that The Naked Ladies of Twickenham were covered with grey sludge during World War II to hide them from the Luftwaffe ?
Did you know that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history?
Did you know that Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway ?
Did you know that, originally established as the Federation of Crippled and Disabled in 1935, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services switched to its current name in 1992?
Did you know that the Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz ?
Did you know that the ecosystem contained in Myanmar 's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming ?
Did you know that Thomas Patch , who painted men on their Grand Tours , had to leave Rome after a homosexual act?
Did you know that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band?
Did you know that the French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret?
Did you know that McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount?
Did you know that Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series ?
Did you know that the 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years?
Did you know that Parke H. Davis , who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research ?
Did you know that in 2005 Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya ?
Did you know that country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer ?
Did you know that Per Jacobsen , a Norwegian resistance member who died in Natzweiler , was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period ?
Did you know that the interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003 ?
Did you know that after withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth , Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback?
Did you know that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova ?
Did you know that U.S. President John Quincy Adams said U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet ' s "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war"?
Did you know that in 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government ?