Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2005

text: Did you knowthat political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon ?
text: Did you knowthat the common mullein plant was burnt in France during celebrations on the second Sunday of Lent to protect against evil spirits and demons ?
text: Did you knowthat British teacher and MP Leah Manning organised the evacuation of almost 4,000 Basque children to Britain during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Buddhism in Austria is a legally recognized religion and has 10,402 followers according to the 2001 census ?
text: Did you knowthat although it was a hoax gone awry, scientists originally believed Drake's Plate of Brass to be genuine, based on initial metallurgical studies?
text: Did you knowthat the NTSB recommended installing event recorders on grade crossing signals after the 1999 Bourbonnais train accident ?
text: Did you knowthat Austrian entrepreneur Richard Lugner has been nicknamed Mörtel (" Mortar ", as in masonry ) by the media?
text: Did you know that the graves of 13 Britons and a Jamaican trained at Royal Canadian Air Force Station Mount Hope during World War II , are still maintained in a local churchyard in Glanbrook , Ontario ?
text: Did you knowthat Taum Sauk Mountain and its neighbors in the St. Francois range are believed to be one of the few spots in the central US that may never have been submerged under ancient seas?
text: Did you knowthat the hunchbacked marionette Karagiozis uses mischievous and crude ways to find money and feed his family in the traditional Greek theatre of shadows?
text: Did you knowthat Father José María Arizmendiarrieta escaped a death sentence after the Spanish Civil War and went on to found the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation , the world's largest co-operative ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian author Duncan Ball worked as an industrial chemist and as an editor before he became a full-time author?
text: Did you knowthat Aer Arann is the only scheduled airline that uses Waterford Airport , which lies close to Tramore Bay in the Republic of Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat Takashi Sakai , a General of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II , was sentenced to death on August 27 , 1946 for atrocities committed against civilians and surrendered soldiers in Hong Kong ?
text: Did you knowthat the Des Moines Register , "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach -colored paper in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology , Ness' son Conchobar mac Nessa was brought up as the son of the druid Cathbad , although the true father may have been her lover, Fachtna Fáthach , the High King of Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat hose clamps are sometimes used as a more permanent version of duct tape , and can be found mounting signs and holding together emergency home repairs ?
text: Did you knowthat the Blue Eagles are one of only two professional helicopter aerobatics teams in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Labour 's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945 ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?
text: Did you knowthat Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan , famous for the quality of its grape harvest , and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana ?
text: Did you knowthat folk singer / guitarist Nic Jones suffered multiple broken bones and brain damage after a serious car accident in February 1982 ?
text: Did you knowthat Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs?
text: Did you knowthat L'Origine du monde , Gustave Courbet 's most provocative painting , remained in the privacy of its successive owners for almost 130 years before entering the musée d'Orsay ?
text: Did you knowthat Mexican pilot Alberto Braniff was the first pilot to fly a plane over Mexico City ?
text: Did you knowthat the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks , and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sydney Riot of 1879 was one of international cricket 's earliest riots ?
text: Did you knowthe fire from the Weyauwega derailment on March 4 1996 displayed fireballs up to 300 feet (90 m ) high?
text: Did you knowthat Repenomamus may have been the largest mammal in the Cretaceous period and is the only mammal known to have eaten non-avian dinosaurs ?
text: Did you knowthat BBC television series Watchdog helped uncover the Hoover Company "free flights" scam?
text: Did you knowthat the Chicken's Neck is a narrow strip of land 24 km in width connecting India to its north-eastern states ?
text: Did you knowthat the men's adventure genre of pulp magazine often featured damsels in distress menaced by Nazis ?
text: Did you knowthat melasma is a skin hyperpigmentation commonly affecting pregnant women that is caused by the overproduction of melanin ?
text: Did you knowthat the racy George Michael song I Want Your Sex touted monogamy instead of promiscuity ?
text: Did you knowthat Lockheed Martin Aeronautics , a major division of Lockheed Martin , is manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced military aircraft ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeopardy! 's impact on culture has earned it references or parodies in no less than 64 feature films , and appearances on more than 10 television show episodes?
text: Did you knowthat Zentatsu Richard Baker was an influential American Zen priest who played a leading role in founding Tassajara , the first Buddhist training monastery outside of Asia ?
text: Did you know that the Pushkar Fair is the world's largest camel / cattle fair?
text: Did you knowthat Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice in India ?
text: Did you knowthat before building his first railroad steam locomotive , in 1832 , Matthias W. Baldwin was apprenticed as a jeweler and devised and patented a method for applying gold plating?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. federal government sold the disputed Erie Triangle region to Pennsylvania in 1792 so that state would have a freshwater port?
text: Did you knowthat Bewitched actress Elizabeth Montgomery made her acting debut as a regular on her father's popular series Robert Montgomery Presents in 1952 ?
text: Did you knowthat Quebec -born singer Alys Robi was subjected to a lobotomy in 1952 , following a mental breakdown ?
text: Did you knowthat a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming 's Powder River Basin would be the largest new railroad construction in the United States since the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Black Hawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles , hawks and Old World vultures ?
text: Did you knowthat businessman John King was Chairman of British Airways from 1981 and was successfully sued by Richard Branson for libel as a result of BA's dirty tricks against Virgin Atlantic ?
text: Did you knowthat Wai-Wai is a popular noodle -like snack in Nepal , Sikkim and in northern parts of West Bengal ?
text: Did you knowthat The Vampyre was a short novel first published on April 1 , 1819 in parts in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron "?
text: Did you knowthat in October 1950 , the U.S. National Guard bombed the small town of Jayuya , Puerto Rico , where Blanca Canales led a revolt?
text: Did you knowthat Semmering is a mountain pass in the Northern Limestone Alps connecting Lower Austria and Styria ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zippe-type centrifuge , named after Gernot Zippe , is a device designed to collect uranium-235 ?
text: Did you knowthat a major milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India came in 1193 when the great university at Nalanda was destroyed by Turkish Muslim raiders?
text: Did you knowthat Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon ?
text: Did you knowthat Warton in Lancashire is a historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry?
text: Did you knowthat an amateur baseball tournament held on August 16 , 1933 in the Christie Pits , ended with Nazi -sympathisers unveiling a flag depicting a swastika ?
text: Did you knowthat during the "dawn-to-dusk" publicity run for the CB&Q's Pioneer Zephyr on May 26 1934 , the train reached a top speed of 112.5 mph (181 kph )?
text: Did you knowthat Ulysses S. Grant awarded Bolama to Portugal , who made it the first capital of Portuguese Guinea ?
text: Did you knowthat when he was promoted to president of the Great Northern Railway in 1919 , Ralph Budd was the youngest American railroad president up to that date?
text: Did you knowthat Boxcar is an Australian electronic band that sometimes performed wearing gas masks ?
text: Did you knowthat in the history of neurology , Ancient Egyptians described the effect of high transection of the spinal cord in humans ?
text: Did you knowthat empty nest syndrome is a form of depression that affects parents when a child leaves home?
text: Did you knowthat Sue Rubin, the subject of the documentary film Autism Is a World , was considered mentally challenged until she learned to communicate with a keyboard ?
text: Did you know that Representative Edith Nourse Rogers sponsored the G.I. Bill and the legislation that created the Women's Army Corps before becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress ?
text: Did you know that The Patty Duke Show challenged the scope of special effects on television in the 1960s , with Patty Duke playing two roles?
text: Did you know that John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset was one of the most noted cricketers of the mid-to-late 18th century?
text: Did you knowthat Ferdinandea was a volcanic island near Sicily which was claimed by four countries when it appeared in 1831 , but was destroyed by erosion less than a year later?
text: Did you knowthat Andy the Clown performed at Chicago White Sox games for 30 years, outlasting an attempt to replace him with two new mascots ?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket —grandfather of British TV celebrity Lord Brocket —was a known Nazi sympathiser?
text: Did you knowthat Devils & Dust , the upcoming folk album from Bruce Springsteen , will be his nineteenth released album?
text: Did you knowthat a Pd/H 2 electrode is a reference electrode similar to a standard hydrogen electrode (with platinum ), but with the added ability to absorb molecular hydrogen ?
text: Did you knowthat Hamilton Palace in Scotland was lent for use as a naval hospital during World War I , by Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton ?
text: Did you knowthat Obolon CJSC , the  largest Ukrainian brewer based in Kiev , was the first private company of the independent Ukraine?
text: Did you knowthat Leonid Kadeniuk , the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine , made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997 , and had been training for such a mission since 1976 ?
text: Did you knowthat Godfrey Ho , a Hong-Kong based filmmaker , has been credited under more than 20 different pseudonyms ?
text: Did you knowthat the clapping game Mary Mack may refer to the Battle of Hampton Roads ?
text: Did you knowthat scotopic sensitivity syndrome is a form of dyslexia which makes it very difficult for a person to read black text on white paper?
text: Did you knowthat Playland , often called Rye Playland,  is America's only government owned and operated amusement park ?
text: Did you knowthat faculty members at the Stanford Institute for International Studies include Condoleezza Rice and William Perry ?
text: Did you knowthat a fire-control system is a computer which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target(s)?
text: Did you knowthat girls in Poland wear red lingerie underneath their dresses during a studniówka ( high school ball )?
text: Did you knowthat the poorly studied Evermannellidae family, or Sabertooth fish , have oversized, inward curving teeth suggestive of the sabertooth cats ' teeth?
text: Did you knowthat the Asiatic Society of Bombay possesses one of the only two surviving original copies of Dante 's The Divine Comedy ?
text: Did you knowthat rugby player Wayne Shelford suffered a ripped scrotum during an All Blacks match against France ?
text: Did you knowthat the film David and Lisa , shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing ?
text: Did you knowthat Reginald Hill's novel "A Clubbable Woman" was his first story about Dalziel and Pascoe ?
text: Did you knowthat tumor markers are chemical substances found in blood that arise from the presence of cancerous tissues ?
text: Did you knowthat the Squirrel Nut Zippers were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz ?
text: Did you knowthat Aquarius is the world's only underwater research facility?
text: Did you knowthat Elecia Battle , who claimed to have a 162 million dollar lottery winning ticket, is a professional female boxer ?
text: Did you knowthat the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework ?
text: Did you knowthat ignorantia juris non excusat is Latin for the legal doctrine , "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
text: Did you knowthat medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees ?
text: Did you knowthat in the animated Laff-a-Lympics , non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers ?
text: Did you know that professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon grew a long beard and billed himself as a terrifying giant from Manchuria as a heel gimmick ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe , from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth ?
text: Did you knowthat Nancy Olson was nominated for an Oscar for playing the "good" girl in Sunset Boulevard shortly after being considered for the role of the temptress Delilah in the film Samson and Delilah ?
text: Did you know that the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match , because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
text: Did you know that in the ionization chamber of a smoke detector , ions strike smoke particles and are neutralized, and this drop in current triggers the alarm ?
text: Did you know that the Saladin tithe was levied in England in 1188 to help finance the Third Crusade ?
text: Did you know that Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16 ?
text: Did you know that the Fox television series Herman's Head used characters to represent different aspect of the main character's psyche , similar to Eric Berne 's concept of transactional analysis ?
text: Did you knowthat tusk shells are a class of marine mollusks that resemble elephants ' tusks , and were used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest as wampum ?
text: Did you knowthat the tangent piano is a rare keyboard instrument that fuses the sound of the harpsichord and piano ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1944 , Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list , with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway , Ireland , which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
text: Did you knowthat the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist ?
text: Did you know that the Beatles ' song " Polythene Pam " was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fairy Queen is the longest-operating steam locomotive in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Fastnet Rock , a small clay - slate island with quartz veins, is the southernmost point of Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat in the court case Trop v. Dulles , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for the government to cancel the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment ?
text: Did you know that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the " bebop baroness " for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker ?
text: Did you knowthat King George V of the United Kingdom was a member of the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" ?
text: Did you knowthat C is for Cookie is a song by Joe Raposo , first performed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster on March 28 , 1972 ?
text: Did you knowthat Loys Bourgeois , a French Renaissance composer, was sent to jail for changing a few notes in a hymn tune?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish government canceled a short film about AIDS that they commissioned from film director Roy Andersson because he had made it "too dark in its message"?
text: Did you knowthat the world's first geothermal power station was built in Larderello , Italy in 1911 ?
text: Did you knowthat the eighth century bishop and saint Rupert of Salzburg set up his base in the old Roman town of Juvavum and renamed it Salzburg ?
text: Did you knowthat Alvin Adams founded Adams and Company, forerunner to Adams Express Company, to haul express freight shipments by rail in 1840 ?
text: Did you knowthat an automatic number plate recognition system uses optical character recognition to read the license plates on vehicles?
text: Did you knowthat, in the 1996 film The Pompatus of Love , the main characters sit around discussing the meaning of the word " pompatus "?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Alexander Hood of the Royal Navy was killed in battle between his ship Mars and the French Hercule in 1798 ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin ( Joseph Stalin ), but was renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization ?
text: Did you know that the Interactive Urine Communicator is a marketing device used in urinals ?
text: Did you know that the crews of even the most heavily-armoured tanks try to take advantage of protective terrain in combat , by moving their vehicles into hull-down positions whenever possible?
text: Did you knowthat the famous Hit Factory recording studio in New York City recently closed down after 12 years of operation?
text: Did you knowthat Double Gloucester cheese is made from a mixture of milk taken in the morning and evening?
text: Did you knowthat Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989 ?
text: Did you knowthat fans in the Dawg Pound at Cleveland Browns Stadium used to throw dog food at opposing players?
text: Did you knowthat the Florida Lottery's Lotto game was the first single-state lottery in the United States to have a jackpot over US$ 100 million, on the September 14 , 1990 drawing?
text: Did you knowthat Alonzo C. Mather was awarded a medal in 1883 by the American Humane Society for the humane treatment of the livestock transported in railroad stock cars he designed?
text: Did you knowthat cardiac surgeon William Mustard developed the Mustard cardiovascular procedure to correct blue baby syndrome ?
text: Did you knowthat the Common Travel Area which allows Irish and British people to travel without passports between their countries is the result of the lack of any law requiring a passport?
text: Did you know that Mather Tower, the headquarters building for Mather Stock Car Company built in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois , has the smallest floor size of any of Chicago's skyscrapers ?
text: Did you knowthat in Operation Saturn , the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942 – 1943 ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian -born Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at farming, both in the Catskills and in Argentina ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Angel Ramos is one of the few deaf Hispanics in the United States to hold a doctorate ?
text: Did you know that Skeleton Lake in India is named after the remains of approximately 600 people who died there in a sudden hailstorm ?
text: Did you know that the England football squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico contained two players called Gary Stevens ?
text: Did you know that up to 2 million people may be living in Russian closed cities , which are off-limits to foreigners because they have sensitive military and nuclear industry ?
text: Did you knowthat actress Peggy McCay , now known for her role on Days of our Lives , first became popular as the heroine on Love of Life in 1951 ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian , and eccentric in the 17th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Roman embassies to China are reported in Chinese historical accounts from as early as 166 ?
text: Did you knowthat United Kingdom corporation tax is charged with reference to accounting periods ?
text: Did you knowthat Angel Ramos , the founder of the second-largest Spanish speaking television network in the United States , Telemundo , was orphaned at the age of 3?
text: Did you knowthat Disney characters will regularly appear in 3D on television for the first time in the children's television series Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ?
text: Did you knowthat the Panjdeh Incident in 1886 almost led to full-scale war between the British Empire and Imperial Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat a bass run is an instrumental break in which the main vocal or melody line rests and the bass instruments and line are given the forefront?
text: Did you knowthat although Admiral Robert Calder arguably saved Britain from invasion in the battle of Cape Finisterre he was court-martialled for his failure to win a more decisive victory?
text: Did you knowthat Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands appointed the task of guarding the royal palaces to the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Royal Constabulary) in 1908 ?
text: Did you knowthat Antonín Dvořák 's Cello Concerto in b minor was considered so great that Johannes Brahms , the composer 's mentor who had never written one himself, commented: "Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one long ago!"?
text: Did you knowthat the BBC coat of arms was adopted in 1927 and uses heraldic symbols to depict the various qualities of broadcasting ?
text: Did you knowthat blues-harp , rather than a type of harp , is a style of playing an ordinary diatonic harmonica that originated in the blues in which the in-drawn notes are made primary and the blown notes secondary?
text: Did you knowthat England football captain Eddie Hapgood was forced by diplomats to give a Nazi salute before a match with Germany in 1938 ?
text: Did you knowthat tree frogs have been used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking?
text: Did you knowthat Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley , becoming the first player ever to do so?
text: Did you knowthat the passamezzo antico was a favorite chord progression in sixteenth-century Europe, whose variants later include the passamezzo moderno or Gregory Walker, the American Gregory Walker, and the twelve bar blues ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Mardian , the political co-ordinator for the Committee to Re-elect the President , was convicted for his part in the Watergate scandal but later had the conviction overturned because his lawyer had fallen ill?
text: Did you knowthat with the Secret Treaty of Dover signed between England and France , King Charles II attempted to convert England to Catholicism ?
text: Did you knowthat a double tonic is a basic chord progression or melodic motion extremely common in African , Asian , and European music consisting of a "regular back-and-forth motion" most commonly between notes a whole tone apart?
text: Did you knowthat the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race which is currently running across the U.S. state of Alaska ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bovo-Bukh , a very popular chivalric romances written in Yiddish , was based on the Anglo-Norman romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton , by way of the Italian language romance of Buovo d'Antona ?
text: Did you knowthat the flightless adzebill was a large predatory bird that lived in New Zealand , and was initially thought to be a kind of moa ?
text: Did you knowthat Nat Lofthouse was the England football team's highest goalscorer of all-time for eight years?
text: Did you knowthat parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite- classical and popular , and folk -like music from 1790 until 1900 ?
text: Did you knowthat Kyiv Arsenal is one of the oldest and most famous industrial companies of the Ukrainian capital Kiev ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists , which had been limited by the Supreme Court 's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
text: Did you knowthat despite a sight-impairment disability, Carl G. Fisher became a notable American entrepreneur, who helped develop sealed beam headlights, the Lincoln Highway (the first U.S. transcontinental paved roadway), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , and the resort city of Miami Beach, Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat Lysa Hora hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev is both a historical fortress and a mystical "bold mountain" where witches are believed to gather for their sabbaths ?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Hallaren was the first woman to join the United States Army ?
text: Did you knowthat in Lebanon , the spice mixture Za'atar is thought to bring physical strength and keep the mind alert?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch magician Fred Kaps was the only magician to win the magic world championship three times?
text: Did you knowthat while mine owner Franklin B. Gowen was the president of the Reading Railroad , he was also the special prosecutor in the trial to break up the clandestine Molly Maguires society?
text: Did you knowthat Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points ?
text: Did you knowthat Nils Liedholm is the last surviving member of the famous footballing Gre-No-Li trio?
text: Did you knowthat NASA inventor and scientist, Dr. Pedro Rodriguez is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer, the late Pellin Rodriguez ?
text: Did you knowthat Italian mathematician Guido Castelnuovo secretly taught geometry to Jewish students during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the UN estimates that 150,000 people died during the Liberian Civil War , with 850,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring countries?
text: Did you knowthat a Punnett square is a tool in genetics developed by British geneticist Reginald Punnett , and which biologists use to this day to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring?
text: Did you knowthat the Ochil Hills are a Devonian lava extrusion whose southern fault line is particularly prominent today as an escarpment ?
text: Did you knowthat balancing the ticket has been an important part of American presidential politics since 1830
text: Did you knowthat Robert Koldewey led an archeological dig in modern day Iraq which he believed to be the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for 18 years ?
text: Did you knowthat Melissa McIntyre , best known for her role in Degrassi: The Next Generation made her television debut in the 1997 series, Timesweep , in which she played an extraterrestial being ?
text: Did you knowthat Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev worked on mechanical linkage design for over thirty years which led to his work on Chebyshev polynomials ?
text: Did you knowthat weatherman Alex Deakin has a masters degree in astrophysics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian avant-garde art collective UNOVIS signed most of their works with a single black square, partly as a homage to a similar work by their leader, Kazimir Malevich ?
text: Did you knowthat American actress Susan Oliver , after surviving a plane crash that almost ended her life, became the first woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo from New York City across the Atlantic Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat the Windows Template Library is perhaps the only open source library by Microsoft ?
text: Did you knowthat the two airplanes on the Bar Harbor Airlines fleet that had accidents were numbered N200WP and N300WP respectively?
text: Did you know that thousands of toads in Hamburg , Germany recently became mysterious exploding toads ?
text: Did you knowthat a kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States ? This early form of school bus powered by both horses and mules , was usually loaded at the rear to avoid frightening the animals.
text: Did you knowthat a remand prisoner may be entitled to wear their own clothing, rather than a prison uniform?
text: Did you knowthat the growing of heirloom plants may help increase the genetic variety of crops?
text: Did you knowthat the Laotian Rock Rat is a new species of rodent that is unique enough to lead researchers to create a new family of mammals ?
text: Did you knowthat the International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29 since 1982 ? It commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre , the creator of modern ballet .
text: Did you knowthe USS Kidd (DD-661) , currently a museum ship , was a Fletcher -class destroyer , and the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd ?
text: Did you knowthat musical montage ( montage meaning "putting together") is a technique where musical compositions or sound objects are created from collage ?
text: Did you knowthat the child actor Tommy Rettig , who starred as Jeff Miller in the first four seasons of the Lassie television series , became a noted database software author as an adult?
text: Did you knowthat Skyfox was one of the first games to popularize the cockpit view for flight action games ?
text: Did you knowthat Chrissy Snow from the American sitcom Three's Company was actually named " Christmas Snow "?
text: Did you knowthat Benedict Arnold was an early American politician , who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1829 despite the fact the person he was named after was revealed to be a traitor two weeks before he was born?
text: Did you knowthat a police officer in the United States may only briefly detain and frisk a person if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Delta Dawn " was first sung by Tanya Tucker and turned down by Barbra Streisand before gaining widespread pop success by Helen Reddy ?
text: Did you knowthat Pal , owned by animal trainers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax , was the name of the first dog to portray Lassie ?
text: Did you knowthat The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a whodunit written in English by German -born sexologist Ernest Borneman when he was not yet 20 years of age?
text: Did you knowthat the biodiversity of New Zealand is dominated by bird families that flew in from Australia and insects , frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana ?
text: Did you knowthat a Sub Inspector or S.I. is the rank of an Indian police officer who is in command of a police station ?
text: Did you know The Jeff Corwin Experience is an American television show about animals hosted by actor and conservationist Jeff Corwin on Animal Planet ?
text: Did you knowthat the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nine Saints were a group of Christians from the Byzantine Empire who took part in converting areas of what is now Eritrea and Ethiopia in the late fifth century AD ?
text: Did you knowthat Debswana , a joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana , is the largest producer of diamonds by value in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school ?
text: Did you knowthat the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name the recently discovered type of New World monkey : the GoldenPalace.com Monkey ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Philip Ahn was the first child of Korean ancestry to be born in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Boneless Fish is a Japanese frozen food made from fish , which is deboned by hand and then glued to its original shape using a food -grade enzyme ?
text: Did you knowthe callsign of KFRC in San Francisco, California in the U.S. stood for " K nown F or R adio C learness"? In fact, when the AM radio station signed on with 50 watts in 1924 , it was heard as far away as New Zealand , far exceeding anyone's expectations.
text: Did you knowthat every British monarch since Queen Victoria has worshipped at Crathie Kirk , a small parish church near Balmoral Castle ?
text: Did you knowthat Giovanni Bugatti was the longest-serving executioner in the Papal States ?
text: Did you know Humber College's TVO series Distinguished Artists is the first network television show produced by a college or university ?
text: Did you knowthat Terri Irwin , co-owner of the Australia Zoo and co-star of The Crocodile Hunter series on television, began caring for injured wildlife as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met Steve Irwin ?
text: Did you knowthat the MCC beat Warwickshire in the first game of the 2005 English cricket season ?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s ?
text: Did you knowthat Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat James A. Bland ( 1854 - 1911 ) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including " Carry Me Back to Old Virginny " in 1878 , which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?
text: Did you knowthat Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lebanon Correctional Institution and the Warren Correctional Institution are on land once owned by the Shakers ?
text: Did you know that a physical paradox is thought to be either an artifact of error or incompleteness because reality is assumed to be completely consistent ?
text: Did you knowthat Mountain Lake , one of only two natural lakes in Virginia , was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing ?
text: Did you knowthat although England centre forward Geoff Hurst had scored a hat-trick and was therefore entitled to keep the match ball, it was German striker Helmut Haller who took it home after the 1966 World Cup final?
text: Did you knowthat Caesars Creek State Park has 7,900 acres centered around a 2,800 acre lake created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ?
text: Did you knowthat Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?
text: Did you knowthat " Gigantour ," a six-week heavy metal music festival devised by Megadeth front-man Dave Mustaine , will travel North America in late- July ?
text: Did you knowthat Ohio 's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University ?
text: Did you knowthat some stationery companies produce scented paper and envelopes specifically for love letters ?
text: Did you knowthat a smokie is a West African delicacy made by blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece ?
text: Did you knowthat Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?
text: Did you knowthat during the Elizabethan era in England , theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, open to the elements and with a large portion of the audience standing directly below the stage ?
text: Did you knowthat " I Want You Back " , the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5 , was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross , and has been sampled by Blackstreet , Jay-Z , and Lil' Romeo ?
text: Did you knowthat DJ Grand Mixer DXT is credited with inventing turntablism , the rhythmic scratching of a record on a turntable using different velocities to alter the pitch of the note or sound on the recording, making the turntable a fully performable and improvisational instrument?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University , and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
text: Did you knowthat The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy ?
text: Did you knowthat Flying Dog Brewery employs the unusual artwork of Ralph Steadman on its labels, best known for his work as the illustrator of the works of Hunter S. Thompson ?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Owens , codenamed SNOW , was a vital double agent who supplied information to German intelligence under the direction of British MI5 during the early years of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Ray Wilson , who was the eldest member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup team, became an undertaker after he retired from football ?
text: Did you knowthat pilot Victor Chapman died after being attacked by German enemies while on flight to carry oranges to a wounded friend?
text: Did you knowthat Eli H. Janney whittled the prototypes for his railroad coupler design out of wood in 1873 ?
text: Did you knowthat Adult attention-deficit disorder (AADD) affects an estimated 30% of people who suffered from Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their childhood ?
text: Did you knowthat from 1926 to 1940 , the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
text: Did you knowthat on March 4 1839 , William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail ?
text: Did you knowthat Arcadia University changed its name from Beaver College because the latter "too often elicited ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks"?
text: Did you knowthat the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas ' recently rediscovered last novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine has a pivotal encounter with the British admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar ?
text: Did you knowa coping skill is a behavioral tool used to overcome adversity , disadvantage , or disability without correcting or eliminating the underlying condition?
text: Did you knowthat Jesus spelled backwards sounds a bit like sausage ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke is a humorous look at the tense Franco-British relations during the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
text: Did you knowthat the BMT Sea Beach Line has at times hosted the fastest express train service between Manhattan and Coney Island , but now carries only local trains of the New York City Subway , and doesn't even reach Coney Island due to reconstruction?
text: Did you knowthat the Runyang Bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest suspension bridges in China and the fourth and sixth largest suspension bridges in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Brancaleon , a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia , is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant , Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus ?
text: Did you knowthat Fala , Franklin D. Roosevelt 's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets , has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial ?
text: Did you knowthat Leo Abse (born 1917 ) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat Nippon Steel Corporation , the Japanese steelmaking giant, once ventured into mushroom cultivation in an earnest bid to avoid layoffs ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian -born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988 ?
text: Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married?
text: Did you knowthat the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
text: Did you knowthat backlash from the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania , an important event in the U.S. history of labor relations , resulted in the addition of some 15,000 new members of United Mine Workers of America union ?
text: Did you knowthat footballer Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball?
text: Did you knowthat extension conflicts helped give Macintosh computers a reputation for instability before the release of Mac OS X ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde , known as The Woodies , are the most successful men's doubles pair in history, winning a record six Wimbledon titles?
text: Did you knowthat the Iowa Interstate Railroad is being considered for high speed passenger train service between Wyanet, Illinois , and Iowa City ?
text: Did you knowthat Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematode , some species of which are notable for the manipulation of the behaviour and growth of their hosts?
text: Did you knowthat William Bergsma wrote an opera about a dog who turned into a man in 1920s Moscow as the result of a crazy experiment?
text: Did you know that the feminist Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) was the first female psychiatrist in France and that she dressed as a man to protest the oppression of women?
text: Did you know that the Delaware Basin in Texas contains fossilised coral reefs from the Permian era?
text: Did you know that Harvey Hubbell (1857–1927) invented the electrical power plug ?
text: Did you know that Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
text: Did you knowthat the Vietnam War protest song " War ," originally recorded by the Temptations , was Motown artist Edwin Starr 's only number-one hit ?
text: Did you knowthat Temple Beth-El , built in 1876 , is the oldest synagogue in the U.S. state of Florida ?
text: Did you know that Hampshire County Cricket Club has produced three English national cricket captains in its 141-year history?
text: Did you know that Paula Ackerman was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the United States ?
text: Did you know that British actress Stephanie Beacham played a nun on American sitcom Sister Kate after playing the glamorous Sable Colby on the drama Dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Kuttanad in Kerala , India , is the country's only region below sea level ?
text: Did you know that the FTSE 100 -listed company Hays plc dates back to the 1600s , when they owned warehouses and wharves on the River Thames ?
text: Did you know that the predecessor to the Imperial Russian Navy first sailed during the Second Azov campaign of 1696 under Peter the Great ?
text: Did you know that Willi Münzenberg ( 1889 – 1940 ) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he ran a whole network of publishing and business companies, all dedicated to his Workers International Relief organisation and to promoting socialism.
text: Did you know that silent E is a convention in English spelling added to the ends of words, that makes short vowels long ?
text: Did you know that until it was looted in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade , the Church of the Holy Apostles was the busiest place of worship in Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that in the 1977 film That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel , the leading role of Conchita is played by two actresses and voiced by a third?
text: Did you know that the 1868 encounter between Kasuga and Kaiyō was the first naval battle between two modern fleets in Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Chilean football club Cobreloa reached the finals of South America's principal club competition, the Copa Libertadores , in 1981 , only four years after the club's founding?
text: Did you know that Palwankar Baloo was a Dalit (also called Untouchable ) who helped break down the Indian caste system with his prowess at cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat in the National Lacrosse League of North America , the Coach of the Year Award is named after the late Les Bartley ?
text: Did you knowthat Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich ?
text: Did you knowthat Quantum praedecessores was a papal bull issued on 1 December 1145 by Pope Eugenius III , calling for a Second Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters ?
text: Did you knowthat infectious salmon anemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada , Norway , and Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Spinifex people are the last Aboriginal nomadic people in Australia , taking their name from the Spinifex grass that survives in the desert ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865 , the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?
text: Did you knowthat Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing in 1922 ?
text: Did you knowthat Infectious Salmon Anaemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada , Norway , and Scotland ?
text: Did you know that the Spinifex People are the last Aboriginal nomadic people in Australia , taking their name from the Spinifex grass that survives in the desert ?
text: Did you know that the History of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865 , the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?
text: Did you knowthat only five people have been decorated Hero of Belarus , the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus ?
text: Did you knowthat Jean Kambanda , prime minister of Rwanda during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide , is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide ?
text: Did you knowthat Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) was one of six waka poets named in the preface to the great Heian period poetry collection Kokin-wakashu ?
text: Did you knowthat because Adelaide del Vasto was divorced by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1117 , her son Roger II of Sicily refused to give assistance to the Crusader states during the Second Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat the decoration of the 1877 Papal Tiara includes 540 pearls , 68 rubies , 37 emeralds , and many other precious stones ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 was Mongol emperor Kublai Khan 's first attempt to invade Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat the European White Elm is distinguished from other European elms by its long flower stems?
text: Did you knowthat the Free French corvette Aconit was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for her service in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the incorrect climatological theory that " rain follows the plow " was promoted in the 1870s to justify the settlement of the arid Great Plains of the American West?
text: Did you know that the Humboldt Squid is a large, aggressive predatory squid which can grow to 2 m long and weigh 40 kg?
text: Did you know that Götz von Berlichingen , a knight of the Holy Roman Empire , wore a prosthetic hand made of iron after losing his hand in the siege of Landshut in 1508 ?
text: Did you know that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League ?
text: Did you knowthat a freak decompression accident on board the oil rig Byford Dolphin in 1983 literally caused a man to explode ?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish cyclist Robert Millar finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France , the best ever finish by a British cyclist?
text: Did you knowthat Marcus Loew , whose family's poverty forced him to give up on schooling and go to work at age nine, became the owner of the largest chain of movie theaters in the United States and the founder of MGM Studios ?
text: Did you knowthat when Theodora Comnena married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1158 , her dowry was 100,000 hyperpyra ?
text: Did you knowthat the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually, and that its spores were prepared as an anti-plant biological weapon during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Buzzie Bavasi was the general manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers for eighteen years, helping the team win their first four World Series championships?
text: Did you knowthat the first witches persecuted by the Inquisition believed in Madonna Oriente , the Moon goddess ?
text: Did you knowthat Elsie Tanner was a core character on the British soap opera Coronation Street for over twenty years?
text: Did you knowthat in 1945 , entrepreneur Leonard Shoen founded U-Haul , first American cargo trailer-rental company?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch maritime painter Simon de Vlieger was influential in the move away from the monochrome grisaille to a more colourful style of sea painting?
text: Did you knowthat Malin Space Science Systems is a San Diego , California company that operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor ?
text: Did you knowthat Video-Enhanced Grave Markers turn headstones into talking video displays for the deceased?
text: Did you knowthat Brooklyn Brewery hired Milton Glaser , best known as the creator of the logo for the I Love New York campaign, to create their company logo?
text: Did you knowthat Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail , and the first mayor of San Jose, California ?
text: Did you knowthat Project Exile was a program of prosecuting illegal gun offenses in federal court, helping reduce gun violence in Richmond, Virginia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Plague of Athens devastated ancient Athens in 430 BC , perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War ?
text: Did you knowthat Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where members of a circus troupe were interred following the Hammond circus train wreck in 1918 ?
text: Did you knowthat Sarah Brady became an advocate of gun control and led actions to reduce gun violence after her husband White House Press Secretary James Brady sustained a disabling head wound during the Reagan assassination attempt in 1981 ?
text: Did you know that Project Aqua was a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand that would have diverted up to 77% of the river's flow into a separate canal ?
text: Did you know that different stages of the fish parasite Myxobolus cerebralis were originally thought to be three different organisms in two different classes ?
text: Did you know that Jack Clement discovered and recorded future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Jerry Lee Lewis for Sun Records while Sam Phillips was away on a trip?
text: Did you knowthat the Slovenian folk instrument bird-scaring rattle is used to drive birds from vineyards ?
text: Did you knowthat the astronomer Tycho Brahe calculated products quickly using Prosthaphaeresis , a 17th century algorithm exploiting trigonometric identities?
text: Did you knowthat John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other ?
text: Did you knowthat by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land ?
text: Did you knowthat Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller ?
text: Did you knowthat the English politician Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun fought a duel with James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton in Hyde Park on November 15 1712 which resulted in the deaths of both men?
text: Did you knowthat French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat admiral Michiel de Ruyter saved the United Provinces from invasion in the two Battles of Schooneveld in June 1673 ?
text: Did you knowthat 11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara , was lost in a typhoon in 1892 ?
text: Did you knowthat Reverend Mother Superior Dolores Hart is the only nun to be an Academy Award -voting member of  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ?
text: Did you knowthat Hollywood producer William Goetz 's racehorse "Your Host" won the 1950 Santa Anita Derby ?
text: Did you knowthat time discipline is the set of social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations about time and its measurement?
text: Did you knowthat Zara Yaqob was the first Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1434 – 1468 ) to send a diplomatic mission to Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat in Hindu mythology , Meenakshi was born with three breasts , fish-eyes and a smell of fish ?
text: Did you knowthat the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century , which spans 26 parts?
text: Did you knowthat English explorer James Knight died on an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1719 ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke , an Irish Count born in Estonia , became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
text: Did you knowthat American golfer Tony Lema died when the plane he was travelling in crashed into a golf course ?
text: Did you knowthat the Truro murders are among the earliest reported serial killings in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Sabine Ehrenfeld , the Overstock.com spokesmodel , is fluent in German , French , English , and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian ?
text: Did you know that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1990 , Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War , a political battle over whether " Czechoslovakia " should be spelled with a hyphen ?
text: Did you knowThat the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center located in Ponce, Puerto Rico , is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Caribbean?
text: Did you knowthat the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine?
text: Did you knowthat the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn , 15 feet (4.6 metres ) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons ), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch 's Buckingham Palace Gardens ?
text: Did you knowthat, in addition to hearing the landmark Napster and Bernstein cases, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel vacated the World War II -era conviction of Japanese American Fred Korematsu ?
text: Did you knowthat French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8 , 1945 , the same day as V-E day in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1984 Murray Head hit " One Night In Bangkok ," from the musical Chess , gained newfound popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755-2005 encorporates a stamp of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia , from 1930 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Turin Papyrus , prepared about 1160 BC for Ramesses IV 's quarrying expedition to Wadi Hammamat near the Red Sea , is the earliest known geologic map ?
text: Did you knowthat actor and amateur racing-car driver Skipp Sudduth performed almost all the high-speed driving done by his character in the movie Ronin ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1911 , Charles Rosher , working for David Horsley 's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman ?
text: Did you knowthat Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state made up of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee in the period leading up to the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that in the United States , a federal court can be classified as either an Article I or Article III tribunal ?
text: Did you knowthat jockey Kent Desormeaux and his horse Real Quiet missed thoroughbred horse racing immortality by a few inches?
text: Did you knowthat Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway 's victory over England in 1981 ?
text: Did you knowthat Love Israel , a cult in northern Washington , filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp?
text: Did you knowthat " I Love to Singa , " an Al Jolson song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg , is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon ?
text: Did you knowthat, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?
text: Did you knowthat distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski , György Ligeti , Pierre Boulez and John Adams ?
text: Did you knowthat Jesuit priest John Nobili founded Santa Clara University in 1851 ?
text: Did you knowthat both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday?
text: Did you knowthat Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association ?
text: Did you knowthat Packet Storm is a non-profit organization comprised of computer security professionals whose goal is to provide the information necessary to secure computer networks ?
text: Did you knowthat prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector , a preparator of dissections ?
text: Did you knowthat Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?
text: Did you knowthat American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia , the city surrounding the University of Georgia , after Athens , Greece , the city of Plato 's Academy ?
text: Did you knowthat the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa 's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII 's Battle of Leyte Gulf ?
text: Did you knowthat Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet , a Tour de France winner and the first non- Italian to win the Giro d'Italia , died at age 39 under mysterious circumstances?
text: Did you knowthat for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge , she was inspired by Jane Fonda 's Academy Award -winning performance in the 1971 film Klute ?
text: Did you knowthat the Blondie song " Call Me " was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European languages?
text: Did you knowthat whole grains are often more expensive than refined grains because their higher oil content is susceptible to oxidation , complicating processing, storage, and transport?
text: Did you knowthat unlike many of the Bee Gees ' singles , which were recorded in Miami, Florida , " Stayin' Alive " was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris ?
text: Did you knowthat in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
text: Did you knowthat the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats ?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Henry Trollope ( 1756 – 1839 ) of the Royal Navy , commanding the frigate Glatton , defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?
text: Did you knowthat no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?
text: Did you knowthat the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century ?
text: Did you knowthat chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter ?
text: Did you knowthat Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia ?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
text: Did you knowthat Philip of Poitou , Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208 , quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
text: Did you knowthat singer Maureen McGovern was a secretary before she was signed to perform the Academy Award -winning song " The Morning After "?
text: Did you knowthat the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour of England by white Australians ?
text: Did you know that Xihoumen Bridge , a suspension bridge planned for the Zhoushan Archipelago in China will be the third largest suspension bridge in the world when completed?
text: Did you knowthat after Peter the Great 's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created garrison schools ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. children's television series Romper Room aired for over 40 years?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896 , and later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1985 film Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom?
text: Did you know that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992 ?
text: Did you knowthat MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer , now that it is owned by CHUM Limited ?
text: Did you knowthat the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime , which is punishable by real laws in some countries?
text: Did you knowthat James Glynn , captain of the USS Preble , was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan , in 1848 ?
text: Did you knowthat Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world?
text: Did you knowthat there are 17 candidates running in the June 14 Ohio second congressional district election to replace representative Rob Portman ?
text: Did you knowthat Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
text: Did you knowthat 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own , but had to drop out because she became pregnant ?
text: Did you knowthat American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain ?
text: Did you knowthat Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler , wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that  remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years?
text: Did you knowthat Saki 's short story " Sredni Vashtar " plays an important role in Raymond Postgate 's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve ?
text: Did you knowthat Kermit Roosevelt III , author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law , is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ?
text: Did you knowthat there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses are not useful because they are too close to the magnetic north pole ?
text: Did you knowthat Bono Manso , the capital of Bono state , was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana , which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?
text: Did you knowthat the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein 's theory of general relativity ?
text: Did you knowthat Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century , and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam ?
text: Did you knowthat Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?
text: Did you knowthat Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II , that he gave up programming for four years?
text: Did you knowthat Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release?
text: Did you knowthat Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?
text: Did you knowthat in the music video for the Crazy Frog song " Axel F ", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting?
text: Did you knowthat former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer ?
text: Did you knowthat Chinese BASIC is the name given to several Chinese versions of the BASIC programming language ?
text: Did you knowthat the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades?
text: Did you knowthat facial symmetry is correlated with health , physical attractiveness , and beauty , and is a factor in interpersonal attraction ?
text: Did you knowthat a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member?
text: Did you knowthat MOMO syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder characterised by m acrosomia , o besity , m acrocephaly and o cular abnormalities ?
text: Did you knowthat the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass ?
text: Did you knowthat David Penhaligon ( 1944 – 1986 ) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?
text: Did you knowthat the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo , their close neighbours?
text: Did you knowthat Augustiner Bräu is Munich 's only German -owned brewery ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe ?
text: Did you knowthat Suudu is a culture-specific syndrome of painful urination and pelvic "heat" familiar in south India , especially in the Tamil culture?
text: Did you knowthat despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling 's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown" , was taken seriously when published in 1892 ?
text: Did you knowthat there are at least 60 different human and alien technologies in the fictional Stargate universe ?
text: Did you knowthat Marn Grook is the name of ball game played by Australian Aborginals which is thought to be the basis for the modern game of Australian Rules Football ?
text: Did you knowthat superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse and can lead to twins with different fathers?
text: Did you knowthat Toktogul Satilganov was the most famous of the Kyrgyz Akyn storytellers?
text: Did you knowthat the Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa 's anti- colonial struggle?
text: Did you know that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews ?
text: Did you knowthat there have only been two tied Tests in the 128 years of Test cricket , both involving the Australian cricket team ?
text: Did you knowthat misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play ?
text: Did you knowthat California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is a rabbinical seminary established by Mordecai Kaplan , the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement?
text: Did you knowthat the BBC1 sitcom Grace & Favour was the sequel series to the long-running programme Are You Being Served ?
text: Did you knowthat 1980 's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games ?
text: Did you knowthat Department S was an ITC Entertainment production which not only led to a successful spin-off , Jason King , but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers ?
text: Did you knowthat patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
text: Did you knowthat Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns ?
text: Did you knowthat Country -comedian and Hee Haw star Archie Campbell's childhood home has been preserved as a "tourism complex and museum" in Bulls Gap, Tennessee ?
text: Did you knowthat children's book The Gruffalo was made into a play and was performed at the National Theater and on Broadway ?
text: Did you knowthat the powerful ancient Egyptian courtier Yuya is thought by some scholars to have been the historical Joseph of Genesis ?
text: Did you knowthat Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?
text: Did you knowthat the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s ?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910 - 1912 ?
text: Did you knowthat Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football " Player of the Century "  and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
text: Did you knowthat the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire ?
text: Did you know that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN ?
text: Did you knowthat adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system ?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to board the Underground shortly before the 7 July 2005 London bombings , but he stopped at his hotel to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
text: Did you knowthat Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping , a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
text: Did you know that NASA , Google , Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the " virtual globe "?
text: Did you knowthat the Super Buddies , a team of DC Comics superheroes , were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award -winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League ?
text: Did you know that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first U.S. based organizations to certify organic farmers ?
text: Did you know that the St'at'imcets language , an endangered language of British Columbia , is similar to Semitic languages in that it also has pharyngeal consonants ?
text: Did you know that the Perioikoi were free inhabitants but not citizens under Spartan rule?
text: Did you know that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek , because it is impounded just before the confluence ?
text: Did you know that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time due to a legal fiction in English law ?
text: Did you know that The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976 ?
text: Did you know that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
text: Did you knowthat khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
text: Did you knowthat the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish Bikini Team , an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women ?
text: Did you knowthat the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial ?
text: Did you knowthat legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
text: Did you knowthat King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924 , only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud ?
text: Did you knowthat " Jive Talkin' " is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees , after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
text: Did you knowthat the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes ?
text: Did you knowthat the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture , a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs , at the University of Breslau 's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss , Georgetown University economics professor , coined the term " petrodollars " to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973 ?
text: Did you knowthat Chingay Parade in Singapore , a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
text: Did you knowthat tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing , along with alcohol , and is banned in many countries?
text: Did you knowthat like many desert rodents , kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food ?
text: Did you knowthat Ronald Bass , the Academy Award -winning screenwriter of Rain Man , taught himself to read by the age of three?
text: Did you knowthat Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
text: Did you knowthat Malian fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini , a traditional Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
text: Did you knowthat Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet 's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent ?
text: Did you knowthat London Pride is a garden flower symbolic of ordinary Londoners ' resilience under attack?
text: Did you knowthat Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox ?
text: Did you knowthat Ferrellgas , the largest propane retail distributor in the United States , started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas ?
text: Did you knowthat Watson's Hotel is India 's oldest cast iron building and is among the " 100 Most Endangered Sites "?
text: Did you knowthat the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26 , 1922 ?
text: Did you knowthat measuring the levels of certain enzymes called transaminases can help to diagnose some liver diseases?
text: Did you knowthat the Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Meteorological Department was set up as a result of a tropical cyclone that hit Calcutta in 1864 , and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons ?
text: Did you knowthat Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1240 , securing the future of the Mali Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater?
text: Did you knowthat the Plan of Saint Gall is the only surviving architectual drawing from the 700-year period between the fall of Rome and the 13th century , and is a national treasure of Switzerland ?
text: Did you knowthat Cyrus K. Holliday was a founder of the city of Topeka, Kansas , as well as the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ?
text: Did you knowthat soap opera actor Cameron Mathison suffered from Perthes disease as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s ?
text: Did you knowthat five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1850s , El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea , Senegal , and Mali ?
text: Did you knowthat Constable Stephen Tibble had been in the Metropolitan Police Force of Greater London for six months before he was killed by an IRA gunman?
text: Did you knowthat panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West , from about the 13th to the 16th century , before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
text: Did you knowthat George Gershwin selected tap dance innovator John W. Bubbles to play a major role in his opera Porgy and Bess , even though he did not read music ?
text: Did you knowthat after actor Philip Loeb committed suicide , an article in the New York Times noting his passing commented that "He died of a sickness commonly called ' the blacklist '."?
text: Did you knowthat Massachusetts Avenue , home of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row , is both the longest and widest avenue in the city?
text: Did you knowthat the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages , covering over 100,000 topics?
text: Did you knowthat J. Willard Marriott grew a small root beer stand to a huge hotel and resort chain, Marriott International ?
text: Did you knowthat Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?
text: Did you knowthat the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young , a polygamist , and his wives?
text: Did you knowthat Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
text: Did you knowthat the California Pacific Conference has school members that range from members of the California State University system to religious and liberal arts colleges ?
text: Did you knowthat the jihad of Modibo Adama led to the spread of Islam and the Fulani ethnic group across northern Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador was the first ship to circumnavigate North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby was James Winkfield in 1902 ?
text: Did you knowthat on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky , thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat bulk vending machine operators often spray Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales with cooking spray to keep them from sticking together?
text: Did you knowthat Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?
text: Did you knowthat Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events?
text: Did you knowthat a Starets is a spiritual leader unique to the Russian Orthodox Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films , as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical , Where's Charley?
text: Did you knowthat the Mongols , led by Genghis Khan 's grandson Hulegu Khan , executed Al-Musta'sim , the Abbasid caliph of the Islamic state, following the 1258 Battle of Baghdad ?
text: Did you knowthat Bryce State Mental Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama , USA , has served as a model of both progressive and inhumane mental health treatment during its 144-year career?
text: Did you knowthat the Delphic Hymns , written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece , are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world?
text: Did you knowthat in Angola , almost two out of every ten newborns die within one year, making it the country with the highest infant mortality rate in the world ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Brooks, Jr. , was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Rodger Penzabene , co-author of the 1968 Temptations hit " I Wish It Would Rain ," used a real-life breakup as inspiration for the song and committed suicide when the song was released?
text: Did you knowthat the Presidio of Santa Barbara , built by the Spanish in 1782 , is the second-oldest European building in the U.S. state of California ?
text: Did you knowthat Closer Economic Relations is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat in Elizabethan England anyone opening a message in a bottle without the approval of the Queen could face the death penalty ?
text: Did you knowthat Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce , Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television ?
text: Did you knowthat Phil Spector considered the song " River Deep - Mountain High " , his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner , his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos , Brazil , that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century , only two of his works have been listed for preservation?
text: Did you knowthat men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control ?
text: Did you know that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi , Japan , repeating her performance of 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat the defeat of Vijayanagara Empire at the Battle of Talikota in 1565 ended one of the last great Hindu kingdoms in South India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center , founded in 1968 , is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Atangana was the first Ewondo to be baptised Catholic in German Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old?
text: Did you knowthat the Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg is the oldest Olympic speed skating champion, winning gold at the 1928 St Moritz games at the age of 35?
text: Did you knowthat umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women?
text: Did you knowthat detonating nuclear weapons is specifically forbidden in Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1888/9 South African cricket season marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India 's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games ?
text: Did you knowthat Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo , Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Asal Uttar fought between India and Pakistan was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent ?
text: Did you know that Lake Enriquillo is the only saltwater lake in the world inhabited by crocodiles ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 generated enough hydroelectric power to supply three-quarters of that country's generation capacity?
text: Did you knowthat Stalking Cat is a San Diego man who has spent more than 150,000 US dollars on tattoos and cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger ?
text: Did you know that the Narita Shinkansen from Tokyo to Narita Airport , which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train line ever officially cancelled?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian media cannot legally reprint their own stories mentioning the name of convicted school shooter Todd Cameron Smith ?
text: Did you knowthat day beacons and other navigational aids vary in standard designation worldwide much like driving on the right or left ?
text: Did you knowthat three of the stars named after people , often thought to have traditional Arabic names, were in fact named for members of the Apollo 1 crew?
text: Did you know that Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa has rare ice age snails that survive living on rock formations cooled from underground ice?
text: Did you knowthat the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?
text: Did you knowthat Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century ) in a Test innings ?
text: Did you knowthat Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest independent video game developer in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic , Protestant , and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures?
text: Did you knowthat the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi , putting an end to West Africa 's Songhai Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson 's poem "At Lord's"?
text: Did you knowthat Henri Blowitz , the Paris correspondent of the Times , averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875 ?
text: Did you knowthat the African Grove theater was founded by free blacks in New York City in 1821 —when New York was still a slave state —and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge ?
text: Did you knowthat sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus ?
text: Did you knowthat the Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ever Victorious Army , consisting of Chinese imperial forces led by a European officer corps , was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion ?
text: Did you knowthat adjustable pedals as well as an adjustable driver's seat were luxury features of the Renault Spider ?
text: Did you knowthat the most popular deity worshipped by the Duala peoples of Cameroon is a mermaid called a jengu ?
text: Did you knowthat though only 14% of all U.S. nuclear testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds , they comprised nearly 80% of the total explosive yields of all U.S. tests?
text: Did you knowthat the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?
text: Did you knowthat Liberia is the only nation in the history of West Africa never to have been colonised ?
text: Did you knowthat the Spined Loach is able to breathe through its intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes ?
text: Did you knowthat DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics in 1941 over Fawcett's Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, and the resulting National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications lawsuit took thirteen years to settle ?
text: Did you knowthat Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861 , following the death of Santiago Derqui ?
text: Did you knowthat Plumpy'nut is a peanut -based food supplement that is being used to combat malnutrition in Niger ?
text: Did you knowthat the Baltusrol Golf Club , the golf course that is the site of this week's PGA Championship , is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment ?
text: Did you knowthat Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?
text: Did you knowthat the Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops , unlike most other seabirds , which nest in seashore colonies?
text: Did you knowthat Peter de Noronha was the first Indian to become an envoy of the Legion of Mary and was later knighted by Pope Paul VI ?
text: Did you know that 1999 's Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom was the first commercial Scooby-Doo computer game for the Windows platform ?
text: Did you knowthat Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is estimated to have lost tens of millions of U.S. dollars gambling in casinos ?
text: Did you knowthat the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse 's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock ?
text: Did you knowthat Iowa 's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk , despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty was signed?
text: Did you knowthat oakmoss is a type of lichen used extensively in modern perfumery ?
text: Did you knowthat the recent massive flooding in Mumbai could have been avoided if the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System ?
text: Did you knowthat an industrial process for making instant mashed potatoes was patented in 1912 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Liga Indonesia is the top football league in Indonesia ?
text: Did you knowthat Vote-OK , a pro-fox hunting group, claimed to have helped defeat 29 Members of Parliament at the 2005 British general election ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thunderdome , the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara , is famous for a tortilla -throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN ?
text: Did you knowthat the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia 's independence to the world?
text: Did you knowthat Mantle Hood was an ethnomusicologist known for the idea that students should learn to play the music from the cultures they study?
text: Did you knowthat chuño is a freeze-dried potato product made since before the time of the Inca empire by a five-day process of alternately freezing, sun-drying, and trampling under foot?
text: Did you knowthat in response to the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin , writers in the Southern United States produced a body of anti-Tom literature which attempted to show that slavery was not evil?
text: Did you knowthat at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine ?
text: Did you knowthat Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette packaging?
text: Did you know that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts ?
text: Did you knowthat Republican California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wrote a book that was banned in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you knowthat comic-book writer Stan Lee , novelist/historian Winston Groom , and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting ?
text: Did you knowthat the " Victory Tests " were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?
text: Did you knowthat Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?
text: Did you knowthat American Wimbledon champion Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally- syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey ?
text: Did you knowthat Hertfordshire puddingstone is a conglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding ?
text: Did you knowthat Wayne McLaren , an American model who portrayed the Marlboro Man in the famous cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer ?
text: Did you knowthat Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema , including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan ?
text: Did you knowthat the American's Creed was written in 1917 as an entry into a patriotic contest, and was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives the next year?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl ?
text: Did you knowthat alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness ?
text: Did you knowthat during a flood in 1937 , Brown Hotel in Louisville , Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby ?
text: Did you knowthat Kabloona ( 1941 ) is a classic account of a Frenchman 's life among Canadian Inuit ?
text: Did you knowthat the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis , a disease caused by burrowing fleas ?
text: Did you knowthat the German prisoners of war built part of the Stade de Gerland stadium in Lyon , France , after the First World War ?
text: Did you knowthat a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue?
text: Did you knowthat the Nivelle Offensive during World War I involved around 1.2 million French troops and over 7,000 guns?
text: Did you knowthat American comics writer and artist Don Rico started his creative career in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least  47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat Herman Ashworth was the fourth person to drop his appeals since the U.S. state of Ohio resumed the death penalty in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965 ?
text: Did you knowthat A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer ?
text: Did you knowthat W. G. Collingwood , John Ruskin 's secretary and assistant was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1976 Pacific hurricane season three consecutive storms made landfall?
text: Did you knowthat Vicente Leñero , a prominent Mexican novelist, journalist and playwright, was a screenwriter for El Crimen del Padre Amaro , one of Mexico's all-time highest grossing films?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy has been training Bottlenose Dolphins to subdue terrorists as part of the Cetacean Intelligence Mission ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Conrad Hunte was a West Indian cricketer who in 1965 set the record (550 runs) for the highest Test series aggregate score without scoring a century ?
text: Did you knowthat when the eight-mile Texas and Northern Railway began operations in 1948 , it was designated a Class I railroad , in the same class as giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad ?
text: Did you knowthat Carmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican novelist, poet, and playwright whose award-winning play Teatro herético satirically addresses the issue of gender roles ?
text: Did you knowthat Valrhona , a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France , is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate ?
text: Did you knowthat the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service , which was passed by the Nazi regime on April 7 , 1933 , prohibited Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from working as civil servants?
text: Did you knowit is estimated that more than 85 percent of all business information exists as unstructured data , commonly appearing in e-mails , memos , reports , letters , presentations and Web pages ?
text: Did you knowthat Adolf Hitler was a self-proclaimed vegetarian and had a large greenhouse built to keep him supplied with fresh fruits and vegetables throughout World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat John W. Peoples, Jr. tried to have his execution carried out by electric chair instead of lethal injection ?
text: Did you knowthat Science Service used to broadcast information from its Science News magazine on the radio ?
text: Did you know that Igor Spassky , the head of the Russian Rubin Design Bureau , was the chief designer of 187 submarines (91 diesel-electric and 96 nuclear ) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch complex?
text: Did you knowthat Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York ?
text: Did you knowthat Nağaybäk Tatars of Russia constructed their own Paris, with Eiffel Tower ?
text: Did you knowthat the current German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Renate Schmidt was forced to quit school at the age of seventeen because of a pregnancy ?
text: Did you knowthat virtual plagues can infect and kill the characters in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and are usually caused by unexpected problems with the programming code ?
text: Did you knowthat the Shell Lake murders were committed by Victor E. Hoffman three weeks after his release from a mental hospital and that he claimed to have had fought the Devil just before committing the murders?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Garibpur fought between India and Pakistan preceded the official start of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , and was the first battle where dog fighting occurred over East Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Maurice Tillet was disfigured by acromegaly from a young age, but cashed in on his appearance by becoming an early wrestler?
text: Did you knowthat despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991 ?
text: Did you knowthat passengers aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 292 were able to watch their own malfunctioning aircraft circle Los Angeles International Airport on the satellite television screens at each seat until the flight crew disabled the system in preparation for the aircraft's successful emergency landing ?
text: Did you knowthat more than one thousand people are caned in Singapore each year using a bamboo cane that has been soaked in water overnight to prevent splitting?
text: Did you knowthat Egyptian actor Farid Shawki starred in 361 films?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Thomas Thompson , a former yeoman of the United States Navy , was the first American to be convicted of espionage since World War I ?
text: Did you knowthe original Norfolk Southern Railway was a small regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 ?
text: Did you knowthat, as a tribute to Arthur Stace , the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word " Eternity " as the new millennium began?
text: Did you knowthat the first ever golden goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane , Sheffield in 1868 , giving Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Butler McVay III , commander of the USS Indianapolis , was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000 ?
text: Did you knowthat the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB 313 is native to a distant region of our solar system known as the scattered disc ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2004 , the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures ?
text: Did you knowthat Ithaa iin Maldives is the world's first and only underwater restaurant ?
text: Did you knowthat Subramanian Swamy worked towards normalizing Sino-Indian relations and persuaded Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to open the Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet to Hindu pilgrims from India ?
text: Did you knowthat Baqa'a is the largest refugee camp for Palestinians in Jordan ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?
text: Did you knowthat in 1855 the Howard Association of Norfolk, Virginia received contributions during the yellow fever epidemic from the U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina relief?
text: Did you knowthat the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres ?
text: Did you knowthat American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture ?
text: Did you knowthat Serbia and Montenegro and Italy were co-hosts of the 2005 European Volleyball Championship ?
text: Did you knowthat the modern Arms of the Principality of Wales are based on those borne by the 13th century Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great ?
text: Did you knowthat Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India ?
text: Did you knowthat conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles ?
text: Did you knowthat the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?
text: Did you knowthat Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918 ?
text: Did you knowthat the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public University in Bangladesh ?
text: Did you knowthat at 23.8 hours, The Hazards of Helen is believed to be the longest motion picture serial ever made?
text: Did you knowthat Nicolas-Charles Bochsa , who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822 , was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud ?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Story at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia was the site of the first landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607 , and the Cape Henry Lighthouse , first in the U.S., in 1792 ?
text: Did you knowthat there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games , the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork , her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?
text: Did you knowthat change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant ?
text: Did you knowthat the remains of Mungo Man are the oldest anatomically modern human remains found in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the anti- smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775 , provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop-of-war Providence , in what became the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat " Blue Tail Fly " or " Jimmy Crack Corn " is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave 's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?
text: Did you knowthat in 1910 the Kalem Company became the first American film studio to ever make a motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat there were three more cancelled Apollo missions planned to land on the Moon after Apollo 17 ?
text: Did you knowthat Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India 's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Judean date palm , which was thought to have died out around 1 CE , was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel ?
text: Did you knowthat the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
text: Did you knowthat in 1982 , 68 kg of gold bars were stolen in a robbery that became known as the Perth Mint Swindle , and that seven years later 55 kg of the gold was found dumped outside a Perth television station?
text: Did you knowthat the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986 , and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
text: Did you knowthat Caesar Augustus , his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus ?
text: Did you knowthat Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain 's largest newspaper, El País ?
text: Did you knowthat Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia , although it is only the sixth-largest power station ?
text: Did you knowthat the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu ?
text: Did you knowthat  silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ?
text: Did you knowthat the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania ?
text: Did you knowthat the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus ?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River ?
text: Did you knowthat Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history ?
text: Did you knowthat Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman 's historic speech on March 7 , 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh 's Liberation War ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans , Louisiana ?
text: Did you knowthat Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries?
text: Did you knowthat in a landmark case, Dutch -born Jetta Goudal , one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract ?
text: Did you knowthat Ruth Riley , an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association , also wrote a children's book ?
text: Did you knowthat Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu , India was called the " Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
text: Did you knowthat David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer, who believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in the Soviet Union and that he moved there from Berlin when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany , but was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin 's anti-semitic campaign against " rootless cosmopolitans "?
text: Did you knowthat in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing ?
text: Did you knowthat " Flood ," the sixth episode of The Young Ones , was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer ?
text: Did you knowthat land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
text: Did you knowthat, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003 , England 's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep , who had held the record for more than 123 years?
text: Did you knowthat Massimo Morsello was the most prominent far right Italian songwriter ?
text: Did you knowthat Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
text: Did you knowthat the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson , Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
text: Did you knowthat teams in the International Basketball League scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
text: Did you knowthat a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922 , after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India 's highest sporting honour?
text: Did you knowthat former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere ' s career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alamosaurus , named after Fort Alamo, Texas , is considered to be the last of the sauropods ?
text: Did you knowthat Seatack, Virginia , named for an "attack by sea" during the War of 1812 , has an Internet "Tower Cam" in the Old Coast Guard Station Museum on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach ?
text: Did you knowthat the 999-year-old Gonbad-e Qabus in Golestan , Iran is the world's tallest brick tower at 70 meters (230 feet)?
text: Did you knowthat André Meyer quit school at age 16 to work as a messenger boy, and was later described as "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world" by David Rockefeller ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be the third London Olympics , and that no other city has hosted the games three times?
text: Did you knowthat Scotland 's Craigellachie Bridge , a revolutionary cast iron structure built by Thomas Telford in 1814 , inspired a popular Strathspey reel tune?
text: Did you knowthat Herb Thomas was the first NASCAR race-car driver to win two championships in the modern NEXTEL Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat the Shubert Theatre in New Haven was the location of the pre- Broadway premieres of five of the most famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including Oklahoma! , The King and I and The Sound of Music ?
text: Did you knowthat Lieutenant-Colonel John Nairne originally hoped to make his seigneurity , La Malbaie , a Protestant community?
text: Did you knowthat the Yuanwang -class of ships is used by the People's Republic of China for tracking and supporting their Shenzhou spacecraft ?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Israel Pellew , brother of the more famous Sir Edward Pellew , sent his Captain of Marines to receive Admiral Villeneuve's surrender at the Battle of Trafalgar but in the heat of battle, Villeneuve's sword never reached him and it was later given to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?
text: Did you knowthat the Ao language is one of the few Kuki-Chin-Naga ( Tibeto-Burman ) languages that has been subject to acoustic analysis?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity ?
text: Did you knowthat Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991 ?
text: Did you knowthat a traffic accident in New York City 's Times Square eventually led to the downfall of the Joe K spy ring , headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig ?
text: Did you knowthat the dummy of ventriloquist and magician Jay Marshall was actually his left hand dressed up as a rabbit ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 17th century Jean Gery , a French deserter, later served as a guide and translator for the Spanish in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat in a British by-election in 1981 , John Desmond Lewis ran for office under the name Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel , drawing inspiration from a Monty Python skit about silly elections?
text: Did you knowthat Hong Lim Green was Singapore 's first public garden ?
text: Did you knowthat Saga Castle is one of the few medieval castles in Japan to be surrounded by a wall , instead of being built on one?
text: Did you knowthat the Jawami ul-Hikayat is an 800-year-old handwritten book of Persian political anecdotes , which—at 2500 pages long—has never been printed in full, but only in abridged editions?
text: Did you knowthat Norwegian director Nils Gaup was nominated for an Academy Award for the Sami language film The Pathfinder ?
text: Did you knowthat Cécile Guillaume was the first female engraver of postage stamps in France ?
text: Did you knowthat Vladimir Nabokov described D.S. Mirsky's book A History of Russian Literature : From Its Beginnings to 1900 as "the best history of Russian literature in any language, including Russian"?
text: Did you knowthat the national sport of Nauru is Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know Shakespeare's sexuality is sometimes debated?
text: Did you knowthat British singer Maxine Nightingale first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a massive marketing push by her label, United Artists ?
text: Did you knowthat Current Biography is a standard reference work in American libraries?
text: Did you knowthat Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Falkingham ordered the construction of prisons in Ferryland , Bonavista and Carbonear in 1732 while he was Governor of Newfoundland ?
text: Did you knowthat Redline was the last game published by Accolade before being acquired by Infogrames in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat Basheba Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States of America , for the murder of a Minuteman who had raped her?
text: Did you knowthat the first James Bond gun barrel sequence , in the film Dr. No , was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun ?
text: Did you knowthat Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot ?
text: Did you knowthat the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1878 , Sam Lucas became the first African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin , only to do the same for film 37 years later ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Ranford , who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle , as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig ?
text: Did you knowthat Euclid Beach Park , an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio that was modelled after Coney Island , was home to a race riot in 1946 ?
text: Did you knowthat E. Sreedharan , the managing director of Delhi Metro , earned the sobriquet of Metro Man for ensuring that the first phase of the metro project was executed without any cost or time overruns?
text: Did you knowthat the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tucson Citizen is the oldest newspaper in Arizona ?
text: Did you knowthat Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas ?
text: Did you knowthat the Busette , in 1973 , was the first successful small school bus to be built on a cutaway van chassis with a low center of gravity and dual rear wheels ?
text: Did you knowthat Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is India 's richest woman ?
text: Did you knowthat James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?
text: Did you knowthat Torchwood will be the first spin-off from Doctor Who since an unsuccessful pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981 ?
text: Did you knowthat with a dynamometer car in tow, the Northern Pacific Railroad was able to drive Timken 1111 on a demonstration run as fast as a sustained 142 km/h while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train ?
text: Did you knowthat Roger Lemerre has won the Football World Cup , European Football Championship , Confederations Cup and the African Nations Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat a voluntary caregiver is an unpaid spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child who assists with activities of daily living?
text: Did you know Miles Copeland, Jr. , the father of Stewart and Miles III , was a CIA spy involved in several Mideast coups , but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller ?
text: Did you knowthat Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead ?
text: Did you know that New Orleans street vendor Old Corn Meal is one of the earliest known African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music in general?
text: Did you knowthat the Adolph Beck case was the most notorious case of mistaken identity in British legal history , resulting in a conviction of an innocent man not once but twice?
text: Did you knowthat the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1959 court case K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas , and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canon Episcopi , which was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century , demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft ?
text: Did you knowthat tradition credits King Gebra Maskal Lalibela with carving the monolithic churches of Lalibela from stone with his own hands, helped only by angels ?
text: Did you knowthat a strap-on dildo may be used by heterosexual couples for the sexual practice of pegging ?
text: Did you knowthat the Liverpool Blitz was a sustained bombing campaign on the city of Liverpool , United Kingdom , by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mandara kingdom of West Africa was conquered by Modibo Adama of the Fulani Empire , Muhammad Ahmad of Sudan , and Germany within a single hundred year span?
text: Did you knowthat in Scots law the civil action known as lawburrows —in use since 1429 and intended to prevent violence —is a simple, bond -based alternative to interdicts or court orders ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Meeropol , son of Communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , was adopted by " Strange Fruit " lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage ?
text: Did you knowthat the Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever discovered in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches , an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland , was one of the foundational texts of Wicca , but has been suspected of being a fraud ?
text: Did you knowthat more than 700 of the caricatures on display at Sardi's restaurant in New York City were drawn by a Russian refugee in exchange for meals at the restaurant?
text: Did you knowthat British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia 's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir , India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ?
text: Did you knowthat Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter who not only produced over 1,000 paintings but also was briefly the director of the Prado Museum ?
text: Did you knowthat Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi , but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tremont Street Subway in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America ?
text: Did you know that religious identity in Israel for Jews differs strikingly from that recognized in the Jewish diaspora ?
text: Did you know that Dolores Erickson , the woman on the album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass , was actually covered in shaving cream ?
text: Did you knowthat Abelisaurus had a lighter skull than other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?
text: Did you knowthat Papillon is a famous memoir written by Henri Charrière about his numerous escape attempts from a French penal colony in French Guiana ?
text: Did you knowthat Varina Farms , the plantation of John Rolfe and Pocahontas , was site of the first successful cultivation of export tobacco in the Virginia Colony in 1612 ?
text: Did you knowthat Iannis Xenakis wrote Metastaseis to represent the sounds of warfare and Einsteinian views of time ?
text: Did you knowthat parts of the first law passed by the U.S. Congress are still on the books?
text: Did you knowthat Nagesh Kukunoor made Hyderabad Blues, the most successful independent film from India in just 17 days?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States , with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?
text: Did you knowthat the Valley Pike was a toll road managed by Harry F. Byrd which followed a Native American migratory trail in the Shenandoah Valley ?
text: Did you knowthat to prepare for future examinations , Singapore students use the ten year series to practice on past years' examination papers, some of which date back to before they were born ?
text: Did you knowthat " Toro Mata " ("The Bull Kills" in Spanish ) is one of the most famous folk songs in Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat a single verb in the Nez Percé language , which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people, can contain as much information as a complete sentence in English ?
text: Did you knowthat there are only 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra ?
text: Did you knowthat Norge , an unincorporated town in James City County, Virginia was established by Norwegian-Americans in the late 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr ?
text: Did you knowthat amorphous ice is a solid form of water that, like glass , has no crystal structure?
text: Did you knowthat American novelist Harold MacGrath had 18 of his 40 novels and 3 of his fictional short stories made into motion pictures ?
text: Did you knowthat the single " F.E.A.R. " is based on Coolio's " Gangsta's Paradise ", which was in turn adapted from Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise"?
text: Did you knowthat when the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse was automated with solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 , it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism ?
text: Did you knowthat Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan is India 's only extraterritorial military base?
text: Did you knowthat Bertrand Russell is the longest-lived of any Nobel Prize in Literature winner?
text: Did you knowthat in 1969, a world record number of 15 million people attended the funeral of C.N.Annadurai , the first non Congress Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , India ?
text: Did you knowthat the contradictory term foot cavalry was first used to describe the rapid movement of infantry troops of General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Elbert Frank Cox was the first black person in the world to get a Ph.D in mathematics ?
text: Did you knowthat Manga Sewa of Falaba surrendered his city to Mandinka conqueror Samori Ture by detonating himself and his family in the city's powder magazine?
text: Did you knowthat former Moroccan prime minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi involved himself in socialist causes as early as the age of 20, by attempting to organize the Casablanca working class ?
text: Did you knowthat the New York-New Jersey Line War lasted more than half a century until it was finally settled by action of the King of Great Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat French officer Charles Mangin was despised by his troops during World War I due to his aggressive tactics, which earned him the nickname "The Butcher"?
text: Did you knowthat the Tu’i Tonga Empire was the most influential local empire in the history of Oceania ?
text: Did you knowthat Yunfa , a 19th-century ruler of the Africa kingdom of Gobir , made a personal attempt on the life of Fulani reformer Usman dan Fodio , triggering the Fulani War ?
text: Did you knowthat Ed Roberts became one of the founders of the disability rights movement when he lobbied for basic accommodations at the University of California, Berkeley ?
text: Did you knowthat Wash Woods is a lost town on Virginia 's False Cape , which was built by survivors of a shipwreck using cypress wood that washed ashore?
text: Did you knowthat not all Polish names end in -ski ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1930 , the footballer Gerard Keizer played for both Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands to play in matches?
text: Did you knowthat a sailor from the SS Thames owed his life to a cask of porter after the ship wrecked on the Isles of Scilly in 1841 ?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Moronvilliers was totally destroyed in WWI and was also a site for French dry-nuclear testing ?
text: Did you knowthat 1980s video game publisher BudgeCo was formed to distribute just two games ?
text: Did you knowthat the Reverend Dr. James Blair of Scotland was a clergyman and missionary to the Virginia Colony , and is best known as the founder in 1693 of the College of William and Mary , where he served as President for 50 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Bombay Quadrangular cricket tournament originated in an 1877 game to foster interracial harmony, but was abandoned in 1946 over fears that its racial basis threatened Indian independence ?
text: Did you knowthat booth capturing is a kind of electoral fraud that is seen mainly in India , where armed gangs belonging to political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?
text: Did you knowthat at the Second Battle of the Aisne in World War I , the French suffered over 187,000 casualties ?
text: Did you knowthat Lott Cary was an African American slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822 ?
text: Did you knowthat Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike ,  but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
text: Did you knowthat Rabbi Judah ben Ilai was a  second century Talmudic scholar who said "Who teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"?
text: Did you knowthat Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
text: Did you knowthat Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history , including the January Uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat Socks was one of Bill Clinton 's two pets while President of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat geographical renaming can take place to change the name of a city or country for many reasons, including as part of a sponsorship deal?
text: Did you knowthat a Hi-point 995 Carbine Rifle was used in the Columbine High School massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
text: Did you knowthat the decidua is the maternal contribution to the placenta ?
text: Did you knowthat Jaja , one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria , began his life as a slave in Bonny ?
text: Did you knowthat Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League ?
text: Did you knowthat invasion literature , such as The War of the Worlds , was a literary genre influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Come Out by composer Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a young man injured in a race riot who was wrongly arrested for murder ?
text: Did you knowthat the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won their first — and thus last — domestic trophy in West Indian cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat the North Pacific Gyre was responsible for depositing hundreds of lost Nike sneakers on the western shores of North America in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Françoise Gilot married the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and later in life was also wed to the famous doctor, Jonas Salk ?
text: Did you knowthat the characters in the name of Mamoru Takuma , who stabbed eight first and second-grade students to death in the Osaka school massacre , mean "protect the home"?
text: Did you knowthat Chetan Sharma , a former Indian cricketer , was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Suramadu Bridge , connecting the islands of Java and Madura , will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008 ?
text: Did you knowthat over 50 parents contacted Gonzaga University 's athletic department on the first day that a Sports Illustrated issue featuring a story on Gonzaga basketball player Adam Morrison and his life with Type 1 diabetes was available at retail outlets?
text: Did you knowthat Lamb Chop is a fictional sheep that was created by comedienne and ventriloquist Shari Lewis and first appeared on the children's morning television show Captain Kangaroo in 1957?
text: Did you knowthat the Alfa Romeo Montreal was so named because it was first unveiled in prototype form at Montreal 's Expo 67 world's fair ?
text: Did you knowthat F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19 , 1992 ?
text: Did you knowthat silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of silica , the second most common mineral on earth's crust?
text: Did you knowthat a sheriff officer is an officer of the Scottish Sheriff Court , responsible for serving documents and enforcing court orders within the area of their commission?
text: Did you knowthat Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist best known for discovering the titan arum , the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology ?
text: Did you knowthat the genera Bergerocactus and Bergeranthus are named after Alwin Berger , a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants , particularly agaves and cacti ?
text: Did you knowthat a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly , directly elected by citizens of member countries, has been proposed by legislators in an effort to counter the influence of the World Trade Organization and other unelected international bodies?
text: Did you knowthat as of 2005 James Neil Tucker was the last person executed in the United States using the electric chair ?
text: Did you knowthat Amos Urban Shirk was a prodigious reader of encyclopedias?
text: Did you knowthat during the Indian Independence Movement , Tanguturi Prakasam bared his chest when the police threatened to shoot and that after the incident, he was respected with the epithet of Andhra Kesari ( Lion of Andhra )?
text: Did you knowthat A Different Corner by George Michael became the first #1 in the UK singles chart to be written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person?
text: Did you knowthat the Sanhedrin , which is part of the Mishnah ,  a major Jewish religious text,  focuses on criminal law , and that  commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis , as recorded in the Talmud ,  are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles?
text: Did you knowthat Jean Laplanche , French psychoanalyst and co-author of the definitive Language of Psycho-Analysis , is also an accomplished vintner ?
text: Did you knowthat Beau Sia , a perennial Nuyorican Poets Cafe favorite, first discovered slam poetry through MTV as a teenager?
text: Did you knowthat Jacob Bruce , a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow , a Colville Indian , charged with the  murder of a child molester , brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat Badruddin Amiruldin is a Member of the Parliament of Malaysia who has told those who oppose Malaysia's status as an Islamic theocracy to leave the country?
text: Did you knowthat a condenser is used to condense steam from a steam turbine to obtain maximum efficiency?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was an English-born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capital to build an oil refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and the formation of the Standard Oil companies?
text: Did you knowthat Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Breton folklore , not completing the 600 km long Tro Breizh in one's lifetime would condemn their soul to repeating a tour of equivalent length every seven years from within their coffin ?
text: Did you knowthat Newman and Baddiel in Pieces was the final show on which the comic partnership of Robert Newman and David Baddiel worked together before going their separate ways?
text: Did you knowthat the parents of Rachel Whitear allowed a photograph of her dead body to be used in a campaign against heroin ?
text: Did you knowthat at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid ?
text: Did you knowthat the campaign for a " Malaysian Malaysia " has had its proponents denounced as traitors or irrational firebrands?
text: Did you knowthat the arrest of fascist sympathizer and spy Anna Wolkoff was witnessed by a young boy named Len Deighton ?
text: Did you knowthat the video for the Tori Amos single " Silent All These Years " is #98 on Rolling Stone 's top 100 videos of all time?
text: Did you knowthat fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% Don't Want Pershing "?
text: Did you knowthat the wedding of the parents of Anne of Cleves took place  at Schloss Burg , now the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia ?
text: Did you knowthat in the name of science , American nurse Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever -carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
text: Did you knowthat under the New Hampshire state constitution citizens of that state have the right to revolution?
text: Did you knowthat A Commitment To Our Roots is the first charity devoted to helping comic book industry veterans in need?
text: Did you knowthat Rabbi Judith Hauptman has written extensively on the treatment of women in her scholarly articles on the Jewish Talmud ?
text: Did you knowthat Yusuf Adil Shah was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled Bijapur for two centuries in South India ?
text: Did you knowthat the " social contract " in Malaysia refers to the agreement made by its founding fathers in the Constitution at independence?
text: Did you knowthat Capt. Robert Bartlett skippered the schooner Effie M. Morrissey to the Arctic 20 times in the name of science and research?
text: Did you knowthat the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust ?
text: Did you knowthat there have been four attempts to make The Adventures of Ellery Queen into a TV series , starting in 1950 on the DuMont Network ?
text: Did you knowthat Christopher Strauli was the actor recruited to fill the gap left by the early death of Richard Beckinsale when casting the movie version of Rising Damp ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a Muslim citizen of the United States who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and who is specifically mentioned in Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT Act ?
text: Did you knowthat Cleese's Woolly Lemur is a newly discovered species of lemur that was named after John Cleese , due to his fondness for the creatures?
text: Did you knowthat Ketuanan Melayu is the belief that the Malays are the "lords" of the Malay peninsula or Malaysia in general?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Hicks played a key role in the formation of Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels , the first successful blackface minstrel troupe composed of all African American performers?
text: Did you knowthat Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy who first appeared at a Navy football game in 1893 ?
text: Did you knowthat in the past 5 years, Colin Campbell , a former ice hockey defenceman and coach , handed some of the longest suspensions in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi ?
text: Did you knowthat Rudyard Kipling 's 1890 poem " Danny Deever " caused the academic David Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as " Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song"?
text: Did you knowthat the Witty worm self-replicating computer worm was the first worm to attack the pieces of software designed to defend against computer worms?
text: Did you knowthat both Charles Dibdin and Ira Aldridge were famed for their portayals of the black servant Mungo in the comic opera The Padlock ?
text: Did you knowthat Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia provides quotas and other affirmative action policies for the Malays and other indigenous people of Malaysia , but was intended as a temporary provision?
text: Did you knowthat New Orleans Creole  chef Leah Chase owns a restaurant named Dooky Chase which has served as a gallery for an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s ,  was a gathering place for Civil Rights leaders?
text: Did you knowthat the 1959 Mexico Hurricane is the only known East Pacific hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5 ?
text: Did you knowthat New York Sun columnist and critic Ward Morehouse stayed in so many hotels that he said his epitaph should read "room service, please?"
text: Did you knowthat a few years after Richard Whitney had been heralded as Wall Street's "White Knight" for his efforts during the Stock Market crash of 1929 and made president of the New York Stock Exchange , he was sentenced to 5-10 years in Sing Sing for embezzlement ?
text: Did you knowthat American educator Septima Poinsette Clark , known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement ," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s ?
text: Did you knowthat the (???), Thirteen Factories referred to the limited area in Canton City, China where the Qing court first allowed Westerners to trade?
text: Did you knowthat Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete (English: Law of Muhammad the pseudo-prophet) was the first Qur'an translation into a Western language and often regarded as one of the sloppiest?
text: Did you knowthat Dan Syvret , a rookie ice hockey defenceman with the Edmonton Oilers , captained the record-breaking 2004-05 London Knights ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the traditions of the United States Senate , bean soup must appear on the Senate dining room menu every day?
text: Did you knowthat American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963 , and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow 's infamous Lubyanka prison ?
text: Did you knowthat Walchand Hirachand established India ’s first shipyard , first aircraft factory and its first car factory?
text: Did you knowthat the Law Library of Congress  created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online  searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil , Costa Rica , Kuwait , Peru , and Romania ?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Spencer , first president of the Southern Railway was killed in a train wreck in Virginia in 1906 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan stood in five elections to the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian Parliament , winning two of them?
text: Did you knowthat Alistair Beaton predicted the flooding of New Orleans in his 2004 satirical novel A Planet for the President ?
text: Did you knowthat Salaga in northern Ghana was once one of the biggest slave markets in West Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Milan Obrenović II , who was the ruler of Serbia for less than two weeks in 1839 , may have been too ill to ever have been aware of the fact?
text: Did you knowthat the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments have been standard regulation for medical laboratories in the United States since 1988 ?
text: Did you knowthat after Brad Vice's award-winning short stories were destroyed by his publisher because of a disputed plagiarism charge, remaining copies sold for hundreds of dollars?
text: Did you knowthat advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Maritime Museum of San Diego has in its collection one of the world's oldest seaworthy ships, the Star of India , built in 1863?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929 , but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place only five times since 1825 ?
text: Did you knowthat Renaissance composer , instrumentalist and copyist Pierre Alamire was also a spy for Henry VIII , until he was revealed as a double agent ?
text: Did you knowthat targeted therapy is a type of chemotherapy which blocks the growth of cancer cells by interfering with specific targeted molecules needed for carcinogenesis and tumor growth?
text: Did you knowthat American modern dancer and choreographer Bill Cratty quit his tap dance lessons as a child because his two brothers teased him, and he didn't dance again until high school?
text: Did you knowthat the Taurid meteor shower , which peaks every 3000 years, may have been responsible for the Star of Bethlehem ?
text: Did you knowthat American Civil War -era novelist John William DeForest coined the phrase the Great American Novel in an 1869 essay ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky , known as the Mexican Cossack , spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela , fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution , and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat ancient packrat middens (essentially, packrat nests) can provide important clues about long-term changes in climate or vegetation in an area?
text: Did you knowthat from 1836 to 1855 , Chinese painter Lam Qua painted pre-operative portraits of physician Peter Parker 's patients, particularly those with large tumors or other major deformities?
text: Did you knowthat Mikhail Shtalenkov enjoyed a stellar career, including the win of a silver medal in hockey in the 1998 Winter Olympics , but never became a starting goaltender in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Parker , the first Protestant medical missionary to China , introduced Western anesthesia in the form of sulphuric ether in 1835 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals in the world, as voted by readers of Prospect Magazine ?
text: Did you knowthat a soda gun is a device used by bars to serve various types of drinks ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Arrington , the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has a doctorate in zoology ?
text: Did you knowthat former National Hockey League player Jason Bonsignore is considered one of the worst draft choices in the history of the Edmonton Oilers ?
text: Did you knowthat a few years after Albert H. Wiggin , President of Chase National Bank , was lauded as a hero for committing bank funds to try to stop the Wall Street Crash of 1929 , a Congressional investigation revealed he had secretly helped drive the stock market down in order to reap a multi-million dollar profit for himself by short selling Chase Bank shares?
text: Did you knowthat Gary King became the first DJ to work for the UK's three national pop and rock networks when he joined Virgin Radio , having already presented for Atlantic 252 and BBC Radio 1 ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Hebrew Bible Moses ' sister Miriam was turned snow-white by God for criticizing Moses' marriage to a Cushite wife?
text: Did you knowthat on December 26 and 27 , 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53 ?
text: Did you knowthat Ammosaurus remains were originally mistaken by Othniel Charles Marsh as those of another dinosaur , Anchisaurus ?
text: Did you knowthat the producers of the sitcom The Facts of Life masked Kim Fields ' short stature by putting her character, Tootie Ramsey , in rollerskates ?
text: Did you knowthat Hastings Wise is the sixth person to waive appeals of the death sentence in South Carolina since the state resumed executions after Gregg v. Georgia ?
text: Did you knowthat the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the all-time best-selling album of traditional Irish music in Ireland is Sharon Shannon ' s self-titled debut?
text: Did you knowthat activist Jerry White is a  cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network and that he has testified before the United States Senate ?
text: Did you knowthat Bernhard Cossmann was a renowned German cellist who taught at the Moscow Conservatory and that many of his cello etudes are still used today?
text: Did you knowthat the bootleg turn was invented by stock car racing legend Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson ?
text: Did you knowthat Oliver W. Hill , a civil rights attorney , worked against racial discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period of massive resistance to integration in Virginia's public schools ?
text: Did you knowthat Sesame Beginnings was spun-off the long-running Sesame Street , and is designed to increase family interactivity?
text: Did you knowthat The Berghoff restaurant in Chicago will close on 28 February 2006 after 107 years of operation by three generations of the Berghoff family?
text: Did you knowthat the Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia attempted unsuccessfully to build a railroad from Djibouti to Addis Ababa in the 1890s?
text: Did you knowthat, in 1974 , intruder Marshall Fields drove a vehicle through the gates of the White House , prompting a review in security measures by the U.S. Secret Service ?
text: Did you knowthat Jöran Persson , King Eric XIV of Sweden 's most trusted counselor, was executed by King John III of Sweden for his role in suppressing the nobility ?
text: Did you knowthe Stadion Graz-Liebenau in Austria was renamed after controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger 's decisions in recent death penalty cases in California ?
text: Did you knowthat Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
text: Did you knowthat PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia , Spain in 1997 , as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant?
text: Did you knowthat Kellie Castle in Scotland dates back to 1150 and it is rumoured that the 5th Earl of Kellie hid there in a burnt-out tree stump for the entire summer following the Battle of Culloden in 1746 ?
text: Did you knowthat ministeriales formed the core of the knightly class in the 15th-century Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat Garo Yepremian was voted as Kicker of the Decade by the Pro Football Hall of Fame between 1970 and 1980 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 13th-century Tale of the Greenlanders is one of the main sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Ticheli is an American composer whose works have become particularly notable as standards in concert band repertoire?
text: Did you knowthat Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law ?
text: Did you knowthat Mifune Chizuko , a Japanese clairvoyant , was reported to have read messages written inside hidden envelopes ?
text: Did you knowthat Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Franklin 's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language ?
text: Did you knowthat several cases of interactions between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian authors?
text: Did you knowthat veduta was the most popular genre of landscape painting in the 18th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Murray Raney , who developed the Raney nickel catalyst , did not attend high school ?
text: Did you knowthat the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos on the rock after she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire ?
text: Did you knowthat the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non- Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple ?
text: Did you knowthat Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed?
text: Did you knowthat Rickard D. Gwydir , an early settler of Washington state, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation ?
text: Did you knowthat the former English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals?
text: Did you know that Lake Karachay in Russia is the most polluted spot on earth ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Superman character in Superman's publication history , created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster , was not a hero , but a villain ?
text: Did you knowthat Rue de l'Abbaye in Paris takes its name from an abbey where the Merovingian kings of France used to be interred ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1966 New York City transit strike at the start of the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay was led by the defiant Irish -born TWU founder Mike Quill , who was briefly jailed for leading the illegal strike, and died before the month was out?
text: Did you knowthat John Kemble , hanged in 1679 for his part in the Titus Oates plot, was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat a nineteenth century utopian socialist community known as Kaweah Colony identified the world's largest tree now called the General Sherman tree , and named it after Karl Marx ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Wildwood Flower " evolved from a 19th century parlor song called "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" and that the song was most famously performed by the Carter Family ?
text: Did you knowthat Dan Brown 's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate?
text: Did you knowthat a new free trade agreement called  the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei , Chile , New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006 ?
text: Did you knowthat electrogas welding is an arc welding process commonly used in the shipbuilding industry?
text: Did you knowthat a historic Water Village built on stilts above a river is home to ten percent of the population of the country of Brunei ?
text: Did you knowthat while the Berber scholar Arsène Roux of France collected and studied an enormous amount of Sous Berber texts and manuscripts, almost nothing from his scholarly work actually saw publication during his lifetime?
text: Did you knowthat the defeat of the Welsh army in the Battle of Orewin Bridge effectively ended the independence of medieval Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered as part of war reparations to cover the damages inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1994 , Greg Landry was a key reason why Illinois had the second-best passing offense in the Big Ten , which eventually carried the team to a 30-0 win in the Liberty Bowl over East Carolina , the school’s first bowl appearance in 16 seasons?
text: Did you knowthat dead yellow patches in suburban Australian lawns are often the work of Christmas beetle larvae?
text: Did you knowthat the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer, and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion 's jaws?
text: Did you knowthat the Housing Act 1980 was an Act of Parliament that gave residents of council houses in Great Britain the right to buy their residence?
text: Did you knowthat the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Karamanli dynasty of 18th century Tripoli depended almost entirely on piracy for its income?
text: Did you knowthat the In Soviet Georgia advertisements for Dannon yogurt helped to reverse negative growth in the company's United States division?
text: Did you knowthat David Tweed is an Australian share market trader who has attempted to purchase shares from small investors for less than the market price?
text: Did you knowthat Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kanembu , an ethnic group of Chad , are generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire ?
text: Did you knowthe chess Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann is one of the world's leading experts on the French Defence ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Museum of Mali is housed in a traditional mud brick structure?
text: Did you knowthat Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn designed the De La Warr Pavilion in 1934 , and that the Pavilion is a significant work in the British modernist movement of architecture?
text: Did you knowthat California's Leonard Law applies the United States Constitution's First Amendment protections to students at private colleges and universities ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu —literally, father , and Mahatma Gandhi 's sobriquet —for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths ( langotis ) instead of modern underwear ?
text: Did you knowthat a violent incident at Pont-de-Montvert in the Cévennes , July 24 , 1702 , sparked the rebellion of the French Protestant Camisards ?
text: Did you knowthat the Adrar des Ifoghas , a sandstone massif in Mali 's Kidal Region , is half the size of France ?
text: Did you knowthat French naturalist and explorer Théodore Monod had the same great-grandfather as biologist Jacques Monod and director Jean-Luc Godard ?
text: Did you knowthat string instruments are bowed, plucked, or have their strings struck, with three exceptions : the Aeolian harp uses air movement, the Hurdy gurdy a rotating wheel and for Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument it will take rosined hands?
text: Did you knowthat it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge , which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow ?
text: Did you knowthat John Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter , who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles ?
text: Did you knowthat Steadicam camera magazines are specially designed with a pair of moving spindles that gradually change position as the film rolls through the camera in order to maintain a steady center of gravity ?
text: Did you knowthat Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli , pasha of Tripoli , declared war on the United States in 1801 by ordering the flagpole of Tripoli's United States consulate cut down?
text: Did you knowthat broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
text: Did you knowthat Seattle -based company Sur La Table is the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States , after Williams-Sonoma ?
text: Did you knowthat John Surma is the president and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and design represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium?
text: Did you knowthat the Inca Dove is a small New World dove that ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain ?
text: Did you knowthat Negro League catcher Biz Mackey was regarded in his prime as superior to Josh Gibson , won two batting titles, and mentored the young Roy Campanella ?
text: Did you knowthat there are more than 100 nature reserves in Russia , which cover an area of about 33 million hectares ?
text: Did you knowthat Rabbi David Wolpe proposed that the name of Conservative Judaism be changed to Covenantal Judaism to better encompass the view that rabbinic law is both binding and evolving?
text: Did you knowthat Jorge Isaacs ' only novel, María , became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
text: Did you knowthat the exhumation of Yagan's head in 1997 first required a sophisticated geophysical survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22 stillborn babies would not be disturbed?
text: Did you knowthat the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital , from taxes?
text: Did you knowthat the Afro-Brazilian trader Octaviano Olympio dominated the politics of Lomé , Togo , for the first 50 years after its inception?
text: Did you knowthat the race horse Flockton Grey did not even run in the race for which it is best remembered?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Byzantine historian Alexander Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to defect in 1925 ?
text: Did you knowthat Interrabang was an Italian television adventure series about a secret treasure hidden inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Blijde Inkomst (the "Joyous Entry") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant , compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta ?
text: Did you knowthat as a child, B.A. Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer ?
text: Did you knowthat the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the  impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction ?
text: Did you knowthat the John Lennon song " Beautiful Boy " features the lines "Every day in every way/It's getting better and better", which were inspired by the mantra of French psychologist Émile Coué ?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest known patrilineal ancestors of the Romanov Dynasty of Russian tsars were a certain boyar Andrei , nicknamed " The Mare ," and his son Fyodor , nicknamed " The Cat "?
text: Did you knowthat the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was launched to secure oil for Britain and provide a route for Lend-Lease supplies desperately needed by the Soviet Union during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat soul singer Bettye Lavette 's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972 , but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000 , sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
text: Did you knowthat the English garden designer Batty Langley attempted to "improve" Gothic architectural forms by giving them classical proportions , described in his book Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions ?
text: Did you knowthat Frisian literature refers to written works produced in West Frisian , a language spoken primarily in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you knowthat the Florentine Mannerist sculptor Niccolo Tribolo is often called "the father of the Italian garden" for his axial designs for Cosimo I de Medici at the Boboli Gardens and at Cosimo's villas?
text: Did you knowthat in an effort to generate listenership for his Top-40 radio station WHB , owner Todd Storz coordinated a treasure hunt that caused traffic tie-ups across the Kansas City metropolitan area ?
text: Did you knowthat Cuban boxer Kid Charol fought former world middleweight champion Dave Chade and held him to a twelve-round draw despite being in critical condition due to tuberculosis ?
text: Did you knowthat the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR , a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson , who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind ?
text: Did you knowthat Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the Labor movement there?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Monger is one of the few remaining wetland areas in suburban Perth, Western Australia as up to 80% of the naturally occurring lakes and swamps north of the city have been reclaimed since European settlement in 1829 ?
text: Did you knowthat Moctesuma Esparza is a Chicano filmmaker who produced the movie Selena ?
text: Did you knowthat the trance producer Tatana Sterba is the only trance artist to have three consecutive album chart number ones in Switzerland ?
text: Did you knowthat in the mid- fourth millennium BC , at the "Eye Temple" at Nagar in northeastern Syria , hundreds of "eye idol" figurines with large watchful eyes were added to the very mortar used to build the temple?
text: Did you knowthat in 1914 , Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942 ?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Air Force does not own the copyright to its official service song, "The U.S. Air Force" ?
text: Did you knowthat Jonas of Bobbio based his Life of St. Columbanus on the recollections of Benedictine monks who had known the Irish saint personally?
text: Did you knowthat after the first demonstration by members of Catolicos Por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, California , the archbishop resigned?
text: Did you knowthat the Christmas carol Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian New Year's carol called Shchedryk ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Vorster , an alleged white supremacist terrorist in South Africa , was accused of plotting to throw poisoned oranges into the streets of Soweto ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron , Labrador , Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention?
text: Did you knowthat despite being a major hurricane at landfall, 1999's Hurricane Bret only did minor damage because it hit a sparsely-inhabited area?
text: Did you knowthat one of the surviving records of the life of Andrea da Firenze , a 14th-century composer, is a receipt for wine he consumed in the three days it took to tune a newly-built organ ?
text: Did you knowthat the Girays of Crimea were regarded as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman ?
text: Did you knowthat of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1977 , the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns?
text: Did you knowthat the submarine Nautile was used to probe the wrecks of the Titanic and Prestige ?
text: Did you knowthat Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season ?
text: Did you knowthat the Liverpool Scottish , a unit of the British Territorial Army , was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool , England ?
text: Did you knowthat Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China ?
text: Did you knowthat the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen , a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party , resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat ?
text: Did you knowthat Man of the World was a 1960s UK television series starring Craig Stevens as a world-renowned photographer that spun off the series The Sentimental Agent ?
text: Did you knowthat leaders of Workers Resistance , a Trotskyist group in Ukraine , set up a swathe of invented parties in order to defraud other left-wing organisations?
text: Did you knowthat The Clash 's song " English Civil War ," warning against the rise of far right groups in Britain , was adapted from a popular American Civil War song?
text: Did you knowthat the little-known Xiaosaurus may be an evolutionary missing link between Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon ?
text: Did you knowthat flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer ?
text: Did you knowthat on Christmas Eve 1969 , when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School , he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
text: Did you knowthat Baltimore, Maryland has a permanent Rumor Control Center ?
text: Did you knowthat selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps , defined by UNECE Regulations , and that it was designed to improve vision and reduce glare by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light?
text: Did you knowthat Senegalese marabout Mahmadu Lamine was executed by French soldiers for leading an 1886 rebellion against the French colonial government ?
text: Did you knowthat 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess -like game, Los Alamos chess ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. was an African Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years before being rededicated last year?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales of the Mexican-American War occurred after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was already signed?
text: Did you knowthat the New Testament 's "camel passing through the eye of a needle " is an example of adynaton , an extreme form of hyperbole used to imply impossibility?
text: Did you knowthat the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles -based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987 ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " The Show Must Go On " by the British rock band Queen was written by guitarist Brian May , and is about lead singer Freddie Mercury 's desire to continue making music even as his health was deteriorating?
text: Did you knowthat basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000 , he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis , who replaced him as IU coach?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest Continental U.S. hurricane strike since 1825?
text: Did you knowthat the Gleason score is a measure of how different prostate cancer cells are from normal cells ?
text: Did you knowthat César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team ?
text: Did you knowthat Felipe Pinglo Alva is known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla , and is best known for his often covered song "El Plebeyo"?
text: Did you knowthat Pastoral Care was a book written by Pope Gregory I around A.D. 590 to address the responsibilities of the clergy ?
text: Did you knowthat Steve Steen was given a role in the movie version of Porridge , but his character did not say anything during the film?
text: Did you knowthat Tomás Rivera , a Chicano author , poet , and educator , was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , the United States developed Who me? , a top secret stench weapon designed to humiliate German officers ?
text: Did you knowthat The Clash 's single " Complete Control " was actually produced by famed dub and reggae musician Lee "Scratch" Perry ?
text: Did you knowthat sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers ?
text: Did you knowthat footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
text: Did you knowthat the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Fico caused significant damage in Hawaii without making landfall?
text: Did you knowthat prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of prostate cancer ?
text: Did you knowthat Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record ?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Jouett , known as the " Paul Revere of the South", saved Thomas Jefferson and other Revolutionary leaders in Virginia by warning them of a British cavalry raid meant to capture them?