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... that Maurice Catarcio, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records?
... that the
JamaicanGun Court Act of 1974 mandated a sentence of indefinite imprisonment with
hard labor for all
firearms offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?
... that the largest
kilns for Ancient Roman pottery([[:|example pictured]]) fired up to 40,000 pieces at a time?
... that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the
Atlanta Hawks was
Roger Potter, whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?
... that of the ten Brough Superior Austin Four motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?
... that according to US and
Turkish officials, the MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the
illicit drug load?
... that Salvia fruticosa or Greek sage ([[:|pictured]]) was depicted on a 1400-BCE
Minoanfresco on the island of
Crete, and is still grown and used widely today?
... that despite its acrid taste, Lactarius vietus is edible after boiling?
... that during
World War I, President
Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane?
31 January 2009
20:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the worshippers of Xipe Totec([[:|pictured]]), the
Aztec god of renewal, wore the flayed skins of their
sacrificial victims?
... that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's
CORONA satellite?
... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian
War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian
War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
... that
Sega changed a dainty, big-eyed female character into a
Vallejo-like golden
bikini-clad female barbarian, to market the video game Alisia Dragoon to the
Western market?
02:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
... that wolf lichen,
fungal species Letharia vulpina([[:|pictured]]), was used historically as a wolf poison by combining it with powdered glass and meat?
... that designer Shigeo Fukuda's poster "Victory 1945" of a projectile heading straight at the opening of a cannon barrel was described as a "bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war"?
... that in May 1776, the future
Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated
metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha?
... that Barashnûm is a
Zoroastrianpurificationritual in which a "defiled" person is confined to a corner of the house called Armêsht-gah for a period of nine nights?
09:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the Light-mantled Albatross(pictured) does not start breeding, on average, until 12 years old?
... that Al-Maquar, which contains the royal residence of
Jordan, was built on the camp-site for the armies of the
Arab Revolt, who captured
Amman in 1918?
... that because of differences in the demands for a separate nation called
Dravida Nadu,
India's
DMK party split in 1962 and a short-lived Tamil National Party was formed?
... that a Liveline phone-in debate on
gay adoption staged by Evelyn O'Rourke led to more than half of the total complaints issued against the radio show in a six-month period?
... that the
Trondheim Tramway of
Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams ([[:|pictured]]) because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and
meter gauge?
... that Bob May got the role of the Robot in the 1960s TV series Lost in Space when he met the show's creator
Irwin Allen in the studio lot who said "if you can fit in the suit, you've got the job"?
... that the biennial world
chef championship Bocuse d'Or, named for
Paul Bocuse([[:|pictured]]), is one of the world's most prestigious cooking competitions?
... that development of the Namsos Line was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the
Nordland Line used another route via
Snåsa, and in 1927, when the Norwegian
Minister of Labour stopped construction?
... that Leonard Andrews created The New York Standard, the largest alternative paper printed during the 114-day 1962 New York City newspaper strike, with a peak circulation over 400,000 in its 67 issues?
... that Mike Murphy([[:|pictured]]) trained heavyweight boxing champion
John L. Sullivan, was the first
Michigan Wolverines football coach, and has been called the "the father of American track athletics"?
... that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
... that Steve Farrell, called "the greatest professional foot-racer" in America, raced against horses for several years in the 1890s and reportedly only lost a half dozen times?
... that the Russian artist Joseph Constantinovsky, who fled the Ukraine after an anti-Jewish
pogrom, became a famous sculptor and author in Paris, writing an award-winning collection of short stories in French?
16:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the first egg laid in a
clutch by Crested penguins([[:|pictured]]) of the
genusEudyptes is as little as 60% of the size of the second egg?
... that in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at
Cumberland, Maryland, overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US0,000 in damages?
... that composer Egidio Duni was particularly influential in creating a new genre of
opera which blended
Italian opera elements with traditional
French ones?
... that despite its name, the Corsican Hare is not native to
Corsica and is rarely found on this Mediterranean island today?
17:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
... that Tricholoma ustaloides([[:|pictured]]), generally considered an inedible species of
mushroom, is consumed by inhabitants of some
Mexican communities?
... that the Pysähdy ajoissa - Stanna i tid ("Stop in time") traffic campaign was the result of the public response to a road death of a nine-year-old girl in
Finland?
... that at different times Phnom Voar (Vine Mountain) in southern
Cambodia was a
B-52 target, a rebel base, a
killing field, a kidnapping site, and finally a peaceful mountain?
... that
Rose Byrne said that filming the opening scene of Damages episode "Get Me a Lawyer" on a winter's morning in only underwear and a coat was "very traumatic"?
... that the Port of Piraeus is the largest
passenger port in
Europe and one of the largest in the world with total traffic of 21,522,917 people in 2007?
... that amateur photographer George Caddy's 70-year-old lost negatives that surfaced in 2007 are the only documents of an historic
Bondi beach acrobatic troupe?
... that, in his 2000 book The Ingenuity Gap,
Thomas Homer-Dixon argues the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to implement solutions is not keeping pace?
... that in July 1905, during the Theriso revolt, three insurgent leaders met the consuls of the European Great Powers at a
monastery surrounded by rebels, and that
martial law was declared after the talks failed?
... that
OklahomahistorianAngie Debo won numerous honors for her books on
Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department?
... that according to legend, Anandibai led to the assassination of the 13-year-old king
Narayanrao Peshwa by changing one letter dha to ma, thus changing the order "capture him" to "kill him"?
... that the NSB Class 66 was the first
Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
... that when an upgraded part of the Østfold Line([[:|pictured]]) opened in 1996, it was the first railway in Norway built for speeds of 200 km/h (120 mph)?
... that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the
New Testament are responses to the
HomericEpics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?
... that a pipeline exploded in
Nigeria on October 18, 1998, killing a total of 1,082 people and injuring hundreds more?
... that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the
National Motorcycle Museum (UK) is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
... that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single
Germanpillbox?
22 January 2009
19:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the Los Carneros AVA([[:|pictured]]), located in both
Napa and
Sonoma counties, was the first
wine region in
California to be defined by its climate characteristics instead of political boundaries?
... that Kanthirava Narasaraja I was the first ruler in the
Kingdom of Mysore to create symbols associated with Mysore royalty, such as the coins (Kanthiraya) that he named after himself?
... that there are 115,200 solutions to the ménage problem of
permuting six couples at a twelve-person table so that men and women alternate and are seated away from their partners?
... that Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his
ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a
New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for
Jimmy Carter as President?
... that following
TV3's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty, was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"?
... that the Lipari Landfill in
New Jersey, where nearly 3 million gallons and 12 thousand tons of hazardous waste were dumped, was called the worst toxic dump in the United States?
... that out of 281
T-26tanks supplied to the
Popular Front([[:|example pictured]]), the
Nationalists were able to capture 178 during the war, putting at least 50 into service against their former users?
... that Nigel Hamilton's biography of the young
John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, was turned into a television miniseries of the same name starring
Patrick Dempsey as JFK?
... that the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in
Chennai,
India, which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
... that
professional wrestlerSusan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad
checks?
... that B.Day, Bakery Music's tenth-anniversary and parting concert, was performed at
Rajamangala Stadium to an audience of 50,000 and was the largest concert ever held in
Thailand at the time?
... that Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in
Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O?
... that Evelyn Lauder, who co-created and popularized the
pink ribbon as a symbol for
breast cancer awareness, helped create
Estée Lauder's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser?
... that the filming of Dexter was forced to move from
Miami to
Los Angeles, beginning with the episode "It's Alive!", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season?
... that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor
Andrew Sachs, on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints?
... that Sir Norman Denning anticipated an
attack on Singapore by the Japanese as early as the mid-1930s, but his report was dismissed as him "over-exercising his imagination"?
06:50, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the "monstrous" five-masted steel barque Potosi([[:|pictured]]) was named after the
highest city in the world?
... that in 1966, Donald Gleason developed the
Gleason score, still used as the standard to measure the aggressiveness of
prostate cancer despite millions spent in attempts to displace it?
... that because of difficulties customers had using square milk jugs([[:|pictured]]), a
Sam's Club offered lessons in how to pour them without spilling?
... that the
East African plant Commelina lukei has been informally recognised as a separate species since 1969, but was only formally described in 2008?
... that
Michigan's first athletic director Charles Baird([[:|pictured]]) built the largest college athletic ground in the United States and negotiated the school's appearance in the first
Rose Bowl game?
... that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on
Ireland's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment?
... that immature specimens of the lantern stinkhornfungus([[:|pictured]]), with an odor of dog feces, sewage, or rotting flesh when mature, are considered an edible and medicinal delicacy in
China?
... that the 1871 election of Father Eduard Müller to the new
Reichstag was considered "an astonishing victory of a nobody" over an aristocratic landowner?
... that "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", from Claude Jeter's 1961 song "Mary Don't You Weep", was the inspiration for
Paul Simon's 1970 song "
Bridge over Troubled Water"?
... that Sin Chang-won, a
South Korean fugitive criminal famous for his close escapes, was first arrested at the age of 15 after being turned in by his father for stealing a
watermelon?
... that
Okinawan folk singer Rinshō Kadekaru was gravely wounded during
World War II, and reported dead, only to survive and enjoy a lengthy career, living until 1999?
... that, due to a government-imposed
curfew,
professional wrestlerMario Milano had to wrestle under a mask at the beginning of his career because he was underage and not allowed out after 9 o'clock?
... that the
NAACP forced the cancellation of some
wrestling events in
Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
Please add the line ===== {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} ===== and *'''''{{subst:CURRENTTIME}}''''' at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a week, anytime on a Friday. Leave any already archived Friday hooks here and archive from the final Thursday update. Thanks.
... that Maurice Catarcio, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records?
... that the
JamaicanGun Court Act of 1974 mandated a sentence of indefinite imprisonment with
hard labor for all
firearms offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?
... that the largest
kilns for Ancient Roman pottery([[:|example pictured]]) fired up to 40,000 pieces at a time?
... that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the
Atlanta Hawks was
Roger Potter, whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?
... that of the ten Brough Superior Austin Four motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?
... that according to US and
Turkish officials, the MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the
illicit drug load?
... that Salvia fruticosa or Greek sage ([[:|pictured]]) was depicted on a 1400-BCE
Minoanfresco on the island of
Crete, and is still grown and used widely today?
... that despite its acrid taste, Lactarius vietus is edible after boiling?
... that during
World War I, President
Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane?
31 January 2009
20:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the worshippers of Xipe Totec([[:|pictured]]), the
Aztec god of renewal, wore the flayed skins of their
sacrificial victims?
... that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's
CORONA satellite?
... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian
War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian
War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
... that
Sega changed a dainty, big-eyed female character into a
Vallejo-like golden
bikini-clad female barbarian, to market the video game Alisia Dragoon to the
Western market?
02:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
... that wolf lichen,
fungal species Letharia vulpina([[:|pictured]]), was used historically as a wolf poison by combining it with powdered glass and meat?
... that designer Shigeo Fukuda's poster "Victory 1945" of a projectile heading straight at the opening of a cannon barrel was described as a "bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war"?
... that in May 1776, the future
Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated
metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha?
... that Barashnûm is a
Zoroastrianpurificationritual in which a "defiled" person is confined to a corner of the house called Armêsht-gah for a period of nine nights?
09:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the Light-mantled Albatross(pictured) does not start breeding, on average, until 12 years old?
... that Al-Maquar, which contains the royal residence of
Jordan, was built on the camp-site for the armies of the
Arab Revolt, who captured
Amman in 1918?
... that because of differences in the demands for a separate nation called
Dravida Nadu,
India's
DMK party split in 1962 and a short-lived Tamil National Party was formed?
... that a Liveline phone-in debate on
gay adoption staged by Evelyn O'Rourke led to more than half of the total complaints issued against the radio show in a six-month period?
... that the
Trondheim Tramway of
Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams ([[:|pictured]]) because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and
meter gauge?
... that Bob May got the role of the Robot in the 1960s TV series Lost in Space when he met the show's creator
Irwin Allen in the studio lot who said "if you can fit in the suit, you've got the job"?
... that the biennial world
chef championship Bocuse d'Or, named for
Paul Bocuse([[:|pictured]]), is one of the world's most prestigious cooking competitions?
... that development of the Namsos Line was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the
Nordland Line used another route via
Snåsa, and in 1927, when the Norwegian
Minister of Labour stopped construction?
... that Leonard Andrews created The New York Standard, the largest alternative paper printed during the 114-day 1962 New York City newspaper strike, with a peak circulation over 400,000 in its 67 issues?
... that Mike Murphy([[:|pictured]]) trained heavyweight boxing champion
John L. Sullivan, was the first
Michigan Wolverines football coach, and has been called the "the father of American track athletics"?
... that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
... that Steve Farrell, called "the greatest professional foot-racer" in America, raced against horses for several years in the 1890s and reportedly only lost a half dozen times?
... that the Russian artist Joseph Constantinovsky, who fled the Ukraine after an anti-Jewish
pogrom, became a famous sculptor and author in Paris, writing an award-winning collection of short stories in French?
16:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the first egg laid in a
clutch by Crested penguins([[:|pictured]]) of the
genusEudyptes is as little as 60% of the size of the second egg?
... that in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at
Cumberland, Maryland, overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US0,000 in damages?
... that composer Egidio Duni was particularly influential in creating a new genre of
opera which blended
Italian opera elements with traditional
French ones?
... that despite its name, the Corsican Hare is not native to
Corsica and is rarely found on this Mediterranean island today?
17:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
... that Tricholoma ustaloides([[:|pictured]]), generally considered an inedible species of
mushroom, is consumed by inhabitants of some
Mexican communities?
... that the Pysähdy ajoissa - Stanna i tid ("Stop in time") traffic campaign was the result of the public response to a road death of a nine-year-old girl in
Finland?
... that at different times Phnom Voar (Vine Mountain) in southern
Cambodia was a
B-52 target, a rebel base, a
killing field, a kidnapping site, and finally a peaceful mountain?
... that
Rose Byrne said that filming the opening scene of Damages episode "Get Me a Lawyer" on a winter's morning in only underwear and a coat was "very traumatic"?
... that the Port of Piraeus is the largest
passenger port in
Europe and one of the largest in the world with total traffic of 21,522,917 people in 2007?
... that amateur photographer George Caddy's 70-year-old lost negatives that surfaced in 2007 are the only documents of an historic
Bondi beach acrobatic troupe?
... that, in his 2000 book The Ingenuity Gap,
Thomas Homer-Dixon argues the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to implement solutions is not keeping pace?
... that in July 1905, during the Theriso revolt, three insurgent leaders met the consuls of the European Great Powers at a
monastery surrounded by rebels, and that
martial law was declared after the talks failed?
... that
OklahomahistorianAngie Debo won numerous honors for her books on
Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department?
... that according to legend, Anandibai led to the assassination of the 13-year-old king
Narayanrao Peshwa by changing one letter dha to ma, thus changing the order "capture him" to "kill him"?
... that the NSB Class 66 was the first
Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
... that when an upgraded part of the Østfold Line([[:|pictured]]) opened in 1996, it was the first railway in Norway built for speeds of 200 km/h (120 mph)?
... that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the
New Testament are responses to the
HomericEpics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?
... that a pipeline exploded in
Nigeria on October 18, 1998, killing a total of 1,082 people and injuring hundreds more?
... that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the
National Motorcycle Museum (UK) is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
... that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single
Germanpillbox?
22 January 2009
19:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the Los Carneros AVA([[:|pictured]]), located in both
Napa and
Sonoma counties, was the first
wine region in
California to be defined by its climate characteristics instead of political boundaries?
... that Kanthirava Narasaraja I was the first ruler in the
Kingdom of Mysore to create symbols associated with Mysore royalty, such as the coins (Kanthiraya) that he named after himself?
... that there are 115,200 solutions to the ménage problem of
permuting six couples at a twelve-person table so that men and women alternate and are seated away from their partners?
... that Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his
ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a
New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for
Jimmy Carter as President?
... that following
TV3's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty, was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"?
... that the Lipari Landfill in
New Jersey, where nearly 3 million gallons and 12 thousand tons of hazardous waste were dumped, was called the worst toxic dump in the United States?
... that out of 281
T-26tanks supplied to the
Popular Front([[:|example pictured]]), the
Nationalists were able to capture 178 during the war, putting at least 50 into service against their former users?
... that Nigel Hamilton's biography of the young
John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, was turned into a television miniseries of the same name starring
Patrick Dempsey as JFK?
... that the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in
Chennai,
India, which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
... that
professional wrestlerSusan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad
checks?
... that B.Day, Bakery Music's tenth-anniversary and parting concert, was performed at
Rajamangala Stadium to an audience of 50,000 and was the largest concert ever held in
Thailand at the time?
... that Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in
Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O?
... that Evelyn Lauder, who co-created and popularized the
pink ribbon as a symbol for
breast cancer awareness, helped create
Estée Lauder's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser?
... that the filming of Dexter was forced to move from
Miami to
Los Angeles, beginning with the episode "It's Alive!", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season?
... that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor
Andrew Sachs, on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints?
... that Sir Norman Denning anticipated an
attack on Singapore by the Japanese as early as the mid-1930s, but his report was dismissed as him "over-exercising his imagination"?
06:50, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
... that the "monstrous" five-masted steel barque Potosi([[:|pictured]]) was named after the
highest city in the world?
... that in 1966, Donald Gleason developed the
Gleason score, still used as the standard to measure the aggressiveness of
prostate cancer despite millions spent in attempts to displace it?
... that because of difficulties customers had using square milk jugs([[:|pictured]]), a
Sam's Club offered lessons in how to pour them without spilling?
... that the
East African plant Commelina lukei has been informally recognised as a separate species since 1969, but was only formally described in 2008?
... that
Michigan's first athletic director Charles Baird([[:|pictured]]) built the largest college athletic ground in the United States and negotiated the school's appearance in the first
Rose Bowl game?
... that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on
Ireland's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment?
... that immature specimens of the lantern stinkhornfungus([[:|pictured]]), with an odor of dog feces, sewage, or rotting flesh when mature, are considered an edible and medicinal delicacy in
China?
... that the 1871 election of Father Eduard Müller to the new
Reichstag was considered "an astonishing victory of a nobody" over an aristocratic landowner?
... that "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", from Claude Jeter's 1961 song "Mary Don't You Weep", was the inspiration for
Paul Simon's 1970 song "
Bridge over Troubled Water"?
... that Sin Chang-won, a
South Korean fugitive criminal famous for his close escapes, was first arrested at the age of 15 after being turned in by his father for stealing a
watermelon?
... that
Okinawan folk singer Rinshō Kadekaru was gravely wounded during
World War II, and reported dead, only to survive and enjoy a lengthy career, living until 1999?
... that, due to a government-imposed
curfew,
professional wrestlerMario Milano had to wrestle under a mask at the beginning of his career because he was underage and not allowed out after 9 o'clock?
... that the
NAACP forced the cancellation of some
wrestling events in
Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?