This day in history: Did you know...

Sunday, 30 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Max Carey (pictured) dropped out of seminary to play baseball?
... that illiterate Operation Hardnose spies used modified survival radiosto count and report traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
... that 16th-century Spanish friar Domingo de Vico was sacrificed after scolding an Acala Ch'ol ruler over how many wives he had?
... that the Varagavank monastery was the site of Armenian resistance to Turkish government forces during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
... that the Loon Church, built between 1855 and 1864, was reduced to rubble when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol in 2013?
... that the Chinese land slug Rathouisia leonina is carnivorous?

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