Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2004

text: Did you knowthat the friction coefficient is very important in determining the friction between two objects?
text: Did you knowthat the Cochin Jews have had a settlement in India since the 16th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Clare Boothe Luce 's play The Women has been made into a movie twice, and revived on Broadway several times?
text: Did you knowthat in electrical engineering , a Smith chart is a common way of graphing the amount of a signal reflected by a telephone line ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thue-Morse sequence has applications in number theory , combinatorics , differential geometry and chess ?
text: Did you know Belgian artist Henry Van de Velde was one of the leading representatives of the Art Nouveau movement?
text: Did you knowthat there appears to be no localized consciousness in the human brain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Plymouth Council for New England was the joint stock company which organized the Plymouth Colony ?
text: Did you knowthat Kao Neaw , a Thai sticky rice dish, is often served with ripe mangos and coconut milk as Kao Neaw Mamuan?
text: Did you knowthat Len Wein created the Swamp Thing character for DC Comics ?
text: Did you knowabout Swedish neutrality during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the endangered golden lion tamarin has a long, but not prehensile , tail?
text: Did you knowthat in 1916 , Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I -era anti-German sentiment?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Postal Service 's POSTNET uses a checksum to verify zip codes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Balkan comic opera Ero the Joker was first performed on November 2 , 1935 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tokyo Monorail , which travels at speeds of up to 80 kph , was constructed to coincide with the 1964 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat jumping plant lice and aphids are considered to be the "primitive" group within the Hemiptera order of true bugs?
text: Did you knowthat in 1971, Pakistani writer Eqbal Ahmad was indicted on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger ?
text: Did you knowthat Power Girl is a cousin of Superman from the DC Comics universe?
text: Did you knowthat linguicism is a prejudice based on someone's use of language ?
text: Did you knowthat meiosis , a form of cell division , confers a selective advantage ?
text: Did you knowthat a Klondike bar is a dessert generally consisting of a vanilla square coated with a thin layer of chocolate ?
text: Did you know the Report on the Affairs of British North America stated in 1839 that Canada consisted of "two nations warring in the bosom of a single state ?"
text: Did you knowthat Greeneyes are hermaphroditic ?
text: Did you knowthat Clint Malarchuk sustained one of the most horrific in-game injuries in NHL history?
text: Did you knowthat a Chicken sexer is specially trained to visually determine the sex of chicken hatchlings?
text: Did you knowthat Monique Serf was only ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1930s , Australia was home to a paramilitary Fascist organization called the New Guard ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California ?
text: Did you knowthat until the 1930s , methanol was the most widely used antifreeze ?
text: Did you knowthat the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois was intended to rival New York City 's Metropolitan Opera House ?
text: Did you knowthat Dido class cruisers fought in the Battle of Cape Matapan , Battle of Okinawa , Operation Overlord , and Operation Torch ?
text: Did you knowthat Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC -TV Movie, "The People", starring William Shatner ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kharosthi script was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BC until around the 3rd century AD ?
text: Did you knowthat the governor of Texas during the American Civil War was Francis Lubbock ?
text: Did you knowthat Measure 51 would have repealed Oregon 's Death with Dignity Act ?
text: Did you knowthat Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High ?
text: Did you knowthat Signing Exact English is easy for parents and teachers of deaf children to master quickly?
text: Did you knowthat the Persian king Cyrus the Younger invented the scythed chariot ?
text: Did you knowthat there is no widely accepted explanation for geographic features called Carolina bays , but that meteors may be the cause?
text: Did you knowthat there is a collection of neurons in the basal forebrain of reptiles called a nucleus accumbens that is implicated in reward responses?
text: Did you knowthat New York City has been working on the Second Avenue Subway project since 1919?
text: Did you knowthat the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion ?
text: Did you knowthat the UK 's Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragette group?
text: Did you knowthat Captain & Tennille now reside in Nevada , United States ?
text: Did you knowthat siblings raised separately may experience genetic sexual attraction if they meet as adults?
text: Did you knowthe brains of spider monkeys are weigh twice as much as the brains of howler monkeys of equal size?
text: Did you knowthat Church House is the headquarters building for the Church of England ?
text: Did you knowthat Irving proposed to Cathy on Valentine's Day 2004?
text: Did you knowthat red mercury is a substance used in making nuclear weapons ?
text: Did you knowthat the USSR named twelve cities and one city-fortress Hero Cities for valor during the Great Patriotic War ?
text: Did you knowthat in Vajrayana Buddhism , a Wisdom King is the third tier of deity after Buddhas and bodhisattvas ?
text: Did you knowthat a demisemiquaver is a musical note that is played for 1/32 the duration of a whole note ?
text: Did you knowthat "Persian violet" is another name for cyclamen ?
text: Did you knowthat Ancient Egyptian architect Senemut was allegedly the lover of the Pharoah Hatshepsut ?
text: Did you knowthat the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz , scat and be-bop ?
text: Did you knowthat Venetian , spoken in and around Venice, Italy , is not a dialect of Italian ?
text: Did you knowthat collard greens is both a plant and a recipe ?
text: Did you knowthat Hong Kong is made up of a peninsula and 236 islands ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ancient Greek mathematician Polybius invented the Polybius square , a cryptographic technique?
text: Did you knowthat William X of Aquitaine , father of Eleanor of Aquitaine , was a noted patron of troubadors ?
text: Did you knowthat famous epic poems like Beowulf and Judith were written in Late West Saxon ?
text: Did you knowthe ember days were formerly set aside for fasting and prayer in the Christian liturgical calendar?
text: Did you knowthat a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries because they have previously undertaken frivolous litigation claims or procedures ?
text: Did you knowthat American frontiersman Hugh Glass traveled 200 miles through the wilderness, alone and gravely injured, after surviving a grizzly bear attack?
text: Did you knowthat the framework of the cautionary tale became a cliché in 1980s slasher films ?
text: Did you knowthat trisecting the angle is one of the three impossible tasks using classical ruler-and-compass construction ?
text: Did you knowthat the Waldorf Astoria in New York City sits on the site of the former home of William Waldorf Astor ?
text: Did you knowthat the Super Friends had two sets of sidekicks: Wendy & Marvin, and then the Wonder Twins ?
text: Did you knowthat the False Vampire Bat will fall out of a tree to pounce upon unsuspecting prey?
text: Did you knowthat " Layla ", a song of Eric Clapton , was inspired by a Persian love story?
text: Did you knowthat settlers are people who travelled, of their own choice, from their land of birth to live in "new" lands or colonies?
text: Did you knowthat the Children of the Corn horror-flick movie series is based on a Stephen King short story ?
text: Did you knowthat the viscosity of a ferrofluid can be controlled with electromagnets ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is famous for his anti - Stalinist work?
text: Did you knowthat Cornell University in the United States has four statutory colleges ?
text: Did you knowthat mushroom bodies have nothing to do with fungi , but are part of the brain anatomy of arthropods ?
text: Did you knowthat Fritz the Cat was the first X-rated animated feature?
text: Did you knowthat the biggest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere will be the Southern African Large Telescope , opening later this year?
text: Did you knowthat the first standard for donated organs was that they be from so-called " non-heart beating donors "?
text: Did you knowthat Le Corbusier 's most famous building is probably Unité d'Habitation in Marseille ?
text: Did you knowthat the dharma wheel of Buddhism represents the collective teachings known as the dharma ?
text: Did you knowthat scientists are testing Einstein 's theory of general relativity with Gravity Probe B , an artificial satellite ?
text: Did you knowthat cell adhesion is a product of protein bonding?
text: Did you knowthat Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is a World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you knowthat male Western fence lizards have blue bellies?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Isandlwana was a major British defeat in the Zulu war ?
text: Did you knowthat France was the first country to adopt the 35-hour workweek ?
text: Did you knowthat Napoleon once commissioned Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes to write an éloge on George Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat Daniel S. Goldin spearheaded the "faster, better, cheaper" approach at NASA ?
text: Did you knowthat the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is rusting ?
text: Did you knowthat Severnaya Zemlya was the last archipelago on Earth to be discovered?
text: Did you knowthat Harrington Lake in Quebec is the official country retreat of the Canadian Prime Minister ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tibetan Plateau is known as the "roof of the world"?
text: Did you knowthat chocolate contains large quantities of oxalic acid ?
text: Did you knowthat the only remaining dock on the south side of London 's River Thames is Greenland Dock , the city's oldest riverside dock?
text: Did you knowthat Caedwalla of Wessex conquered southeast England during his brief 7th century reign?
text: Did you knowthat the Transverse Ranges of California run east-west because of a bend in the San Andreas fault ?
text: Did you knowthat Monument Valley was once mined for uranium ore?
text: Did you knowthat during World War I thimbles were used as currency ?
text: Did you knowthat the Magellanic subpolar forests of South America are the world's southernmost forests ?
text: Did you knowthat Jimmy Piersall ran the bases backwards after hitting his hundredth home run ?
text: Did you knowthat the first British merchant navy ship lost to enemy fire since World War II was the Atlantic Conveyor , sunk by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War ?
text: Did you knowthat there are at least 18 different distinct video game genres ?
text: Did you knowthat the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees is Aneto ?
text: Did you knowthat Tetricus I was the last of the Gallic Emperors ?
text: Did you knowthat Wite-Out correction fluid was invented in 1966 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Assembly of First Nations is an advocacy group for aboriginal people in Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat Oriental metal is a kind of death metal music that originated in Israel which has traditional Jewish and " Oriental " influences?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the notoriously miserable Cabrini-Green housing project in 1981 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Valdivian ecoregion contains the only temperate rainforest in South America ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Wade never lost a case until Roe v. Wade ?
text: Did you knowthat Striptease won the 1997 Golden Raspberries award for Worst Picture?
text: Did you knowthat the author Pai Hsien-yung ' s father was Kuomintang general Pai Chung-hsi ?
text: Did you knowthat left-handed specialists in baseball frequently enjoy long careers since their pitching arm suffers lesser stress?
text: Did you knowthat the 555th Parachute Infantry Company was the first African-American airborne unit in the United States Army ?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore 's first elected President was Ong Teng Cheong ?
text: Did you knowthat NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has logged 497 hours in space ?
text: Did you knowthat the original "dreamer of dreams" was British poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy ?
text: Did you know Vlad II Dracul , ruler of Wallachia , was the father of the infamous Vlad the Impaler ?
text: Did you knowthat Enrico Fermi was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1942?
text: Did you knowthat the improper use of a flag of truce or of the national flag is a forbidden ruse of war ?
text: Did you knowthat Thutmose I was the first Pharaoh to be buried in the Valley of the Kings ?
text: Did you knowthat the Reduced Shakespeare Company performs all 37 of Shakespeare 's plays in 97 minutes?
text: Did you knowthat aniridia is the congenital condition of being born without irises ?
text: Did you knowthat because of an effort to curb the spread of STDs , prostitution in Germany has been legal since the 1920s ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese tallow tree is used to make soap , candles , and medicine ?
text: Did you knowthat the film The Titfield Thunderbolt was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat pole stars change over time because stars exhibit a slow but distinct drift with respect to the Earth's axis?
text: Did you knowthat high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics ?
text: Did you knowthat there are at least 10 Malay-based creoles ?
text: Did you knowthat Herb Robert , a species of cranesbill , is believed by traditional herbologists to be a toothache palliative?
text: Did you knowthat Mickey Marcus is the only person buried at the United States Military Academy who died fighting under a foreign flag?
text: Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom a County palatine was one which had special autonomy and was ruled by an Earl or Count ?
text: Did you knowthat many Mexicans pray to a figure known as Saint Death ?
text: Did you knowthat the Von Willebrand factor is a blood protein used by the coagulation function of the circulatory system ?
text: Did you knowthat Cousin problems have nothing to do with difficult relatives?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat most garden flowers and herbs are forbs ?
text: Did you knowthat The Most Dangerous Game has been repeatedly used as source material by television shows like Gilligan's Island ?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Caroline , near present-day Jacksonville, Florida , was the first permanent French colony in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Henrician Articles , passed in 1573 , laid out the principles of government in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you knowthat June and Jennifer Gibbons communicated via a twin language?
text: Did you knowthat the Schneider CA1 was the first French tank ?
text: Did you knowthat Pale Flax may be an evolutionary predecessor to Common Flax , from which the fiber is derived?
text: Did you knowthat the lowest ranks in the Norwegian military are the menig (Army), flysoldat (Air Force) and Utskrevet menig (Navy)?
text: Did you knowthat China's peaceful rise is the current non-threatening foreign policy doctrine of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you knowthat gravitational collapse is a leading cause of star death?
text: Did you knowthat the history of the periodic table records at least two pre- Mendeleevian attempts to organize the elements ?
text: Did you knowthat weather lore is essentially folk meteorology and varies widely in its veracity?
text: Did you knowthat the British judicial practice of Quarter Sessions existed until 1972?
text: Did you knowthat Beijing opera did not originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei ?
text: Did you knowthat the California Manroot has 5cm round fruits covered in 1cm spines, and a bitter taste?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana ?
text: Did you knowthat American Miranda rights are named for Ernesto Miranda ?
text: Did you knowthat the Byzantine Senate survived from the end of the Roman Empire up until the time of the Fourth Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's opera seria Idomeneo is set on the island of Crete following the Trojan War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scarlet King Snake can be distinguished from the Coral Snake by the mnemonic "red and yellow, kill a fellow" and "red and black venom lack"?
text: Did you knowthat the white eagle on the Coat of Arms of Poland references the story of Lech , the legendary founder of Poland, who saw a white eagle's nest and was inspired to establish the city of Gniezno (literally nest )?
text: Did you knowthat the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia , the latter being more like the public lands of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Turin King List is an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll , written in hieratic , which lists all the pharaohs and gods believed to have ruled over the Nile kingdom?
text: Did you knowthat a woman named Priscilla , wife of Aquila , was one of the first Christian evangelists ?
text: Did you knowthat Bambaiya Hindi , a pidgin used in Mumbai , is a combination of English , Marathi , Gujarati and several other languages?
text: Did you knowthat in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938 ) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
text: Did you knowthat the Monty Python joke-warfare sketch is an example of a motif of harmful sensation ?
text: Did you knowthat Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier ?
text: Did you knowthat Labatt Park in London, Ontario , Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Frank Knox was named in honor of Frank Knox , who was United States Secretary of the Navy during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking ?
text: Did you knowthat Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400- metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Deluge involving Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game ?
text: Did you knowthat in addition to human spaceflight , there have been many animals in space , including monkeys , apes , mice , dogs , guinea pigs , frogs , rats , cats , tortoises , fish , newts , insects , snails , spiders and nematodes ?
text: Did you knowthat the corticospinal tract contains both sensory and motor axons ?
text: Did you knowthat the Moro Rebellion was the second phase of the Philippine-American War ?
text: Did you knowthat the soda ash , used in the production of glass , textiles , and paper , was historically made using the Leblanc process ?
text: Did you knowthat 1988 's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hungarian monarch wears the Crown of St. Stephen ?
text: Did you knowthat William James Sidis , an eccentric—and once world-famous— genius , entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
text: Did you knowthat Napoléon Bonaparte 's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
text: Did you knowthat the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
text: Did you knowthat few color blind humans have true monochromacy , but rather are dichromats or anomalous trichromats ?
text: Did you knowthat osteomyelitis , i.e. bone infection , is particularly common in the tibia , femur , humerus and vertebral bodies?
text: Did you knowthat religion in Canada is dominated by the Roman Catholic Church , the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church ?
text: Did you knowthat Orcas Island , named for the area's killer whales , is the largest of Washington state 's San Juan Islands ?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died in 1897 while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by hot-air balloon ?
text: Did you knowthat Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan severely injured his back while filming the blockbuster hit Kal Ho Naa Ho ?
text: Did you knowthat iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency ?
text: Did you knowthat the " Pardoner's Prologue and Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death ?
text: Did you knowthat Assyriologist Archibald Sayce discovered that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly syllabic ?
text: Did you knowthat writer Panait Istrati is known for his line, "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?"
text: Did you knowthat the descent of Elizabeth II leads back directly 1500 years and fifty generations to Cerdic of Wessex ?
text: Did you knowthat one way to calculate distances in terms of latitude and longitude is the Haversine formula ?
text: Did you knowthat the longest NHL overtime game in the history of hockey was a 1936 match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons ?
text: Did you knowthat Lumpsuckers are fish that have modified pelvic fins which have evolved into adhesive discs that allow them to adhere to their substrate ?
text: Did you knowthat the New Zealand McGillicuddy Serious Party wanted to return to a medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobite line?
text: Did you knowthat Eric Coates was an English composer who wrote some songs for lyrics by Arthur Conan Doyle ?
text: Did you knowthat a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
text: Did you knowthat Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya ?
text: Did you knowthat the unmanned Apollo VI space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai , Hawaii ?
text: Did you knowthat the founders of College of Charleston included three signers of the Declaration of Independence and three fathers of the United States Constitution ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis ?
text: Did you knowthat Knecht Ruprecht , a figure in Germanic folklore , is often depicted as traveling with Santa Claus ?
text: Did you knowthat the Genghis Khan defeated Jelal ad-Din Mingburnu , sultan of the Khwarezmid Empire , at the Battle of Indus in 1221 ?
text: Did you knowthat Oklahoma's Price Tower is one of the only two Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers ever built?
text: Did you knowthat image intensifiers , which are similar to night-vision , were invented by Vladimir Zworykin , a World War II -era RCA employee?
text: Did you knowthat the journalistic practice of muckraking began at McClure's magazine?
text: Did you knowthat Pieter de Hooch , a genre painter from the Dutch Golden Age , died in an insane asylum ?
text: Did you knowthat Los Angeles, California 's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm?
text: Did you knowthat, according to cat coat genetics , two different X chromosome alleles must be expressed to create a calico ?
text: Did you knowthat Connie Mack managed for 53 baseball seasons, winning nine pennants and five World Series ?
text: Did you knowthat the first diet soda was produced in 1958 ?
text: Did you knowthat Nazi admiral Karl Dönitz advocated tonnage wars —military attacks on commercial vessels?
text: Did you knowthat one of the three Hoenn starter Pokémon is Torchic ?
text: Did you knowthat a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune?
text: Did you knowthat a theme in Robert Heinlein 's science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land is group marriage ?
text: Did you knowthat circles and Reuleaux triangles are examples of curves of constant width ?
text: Did you knowthat the Antarctic ecosystem cannot support vascular plants ?
text: Did you knowthat a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography ?
text: Did you knowthat the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?
text: Did you knowthat Benguela current of the Southern Ocean has a small El Niño effect?
text: Did you knowthat the fundamental complexity of chemical synthesis impedes many efforts at drug design ?
text: Did you knowthat autonomic ganglions are cell bodies within the autonomic nervous system ?
text: Did you knowthat the Korean poetic form of sijo resembles the Japanese poetic form of haiku ?
text: Did you knowthat poet Robert Hass , a two-term American Poet Laureate , is a neighbor of Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz ?
text: Did you knowthat Maia Chiburdanidze was the youngest woman ever to win the women's world chess championship?
text: Did you knowthat the private income of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is known as the Privy Purse ?
text: Did you knowthat Villeurbanne and Lyon form the second-largest conurbation in France ?
text: Did you knowthat newspaper columnist and game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen claimed to have information about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and she died under suspicious circumstances?
text: Did you knowthat " God Save Ireland " was the unofficial national anthem of the Irish Free State ?
text: Did you knowthat, together with Mike Nichols , Elaine May founded the trail-blazing comic troupe The Compass Players, which later became Second City ?
text: Did you knowthat most of the 8,000 speakers of the Niuean language live outside the borders of Niue ?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele discovered the first refractory metal in 1781 ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. movement toward small claims courts began in the early 1960s , as Justice of the Peace courts became increasingly archaic?
text: Did you knowthat the Kei apple is a shrub often used for hedges, not an edible apple ?
text: Did you knowthat Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock 's film The Birds ?
text: Did you knowthat rattlesnake venom contains hemotoxins ?
text: Did you knowthat Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin 's antibiotic powers 32 years before Alexander Fleming ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indrikis chronicles are the oldest written history of Latvia and Estonia ?
text: Did you knowthat the term Fertile Crescent was coined by James Henry Breasted ?
text: Did you knowthat an important tool in surface mining is the drag line excavator ?
text: Did you knowthat New York Point lost out to Braille in the "War of the Dots"?
text: Did you knowthat The Mississippi Rag has been reporting on traditional jazz and ragtime music since 1973 ?
text: Did you knowthat a cousin of curling , ice stock sport , is played primarily in Germany and Austria ?
text: Did you knowthat a crystal set is the simplest kind of radio receiver ?
text: Did you knowthat Fanny Crosby wrote more than 8,000 hymns despite being totally blind ?
text: Did you knowthat Austrian journalist Günther Nenning is nicknamed Auhirsch , meaning "meadow deer"?
text: Did you knowthat the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine powers the Harrier jet ?
text: Did you knowthat Herschel Island in Canada is named for scientist John Herschel ?
text: Did you knowthat Heaven Can Wait , a play by Harry Segall , has been filmed at least four times?
text: Did you knowthat exploding head syndrome isn't fatal?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Potter and Ron Weasley found Tom Riddle's diary in Moaning Myrtle 's bathroom ?
text: Did you knowthat Sean MacDermott , a leader of the Easter Rising of 1916, was executed by firing squad ?
text: Did you knowthat there is a form of mental calculation called Vedic mathematics which is based on the ancient Indian Vedas ?
text: Did you knowthat California 's Russian River is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the Diners Club card was the first independent credit card ?
text: Did you knowthat Chick Gandil was the ringleader of the 1919 Black Sox scandal in American baseball ?
text: Did you knowthat Galileo 's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist ?
text: Did you knowthat Canada Dry ginger ale became a popular mixer during Prohibition , when its flavor helped mask the taste of homemade liquor ?
text: Did you knowthat four planes were simultaneously hijacked in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings ?
text: Did you knowthat the caterpillars of the Anise Swallowtail butterfly like to eat fennel ?
text: Did you knowthat Sale of the Century was Australia 's longest-running game show ?
text: Did you knowthat freak waves are common near Cape Algulhas off the southern tip of Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat bag people were common in the USSR following the Russian Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat women are twice as likely as men to have pulmonary hypertension ?
text: Did you knowthat some people believe that the Angels of Mons helped protect British forces during World War I 's Battle of Mons ?
text: Did you knowthat Canada's tax policy does not include an inheritance tax ?
text: Did you knowthat an oast house is a traditional Kentish structure for drying hops before brewing ?
text: Did you knowthat George Rogers Clark , older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , captured two British forts during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat Emilio Carranza was known as "the Lindbergh of Mexico "?
text: Did you knowthat corals , graptolites , brachiopods and trilobites are frequently used as index fossils ?
text: Did you knowthat the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria led to World War I ? (Okay, you probably did know that one.)
text: Did you knowthat many old buildings near Government Center in Boston once hid fugitive slaves riding the Underground Railroad ?
text: Did you knowthat the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests as a voting qualification in the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat surgery patients who experience anesthesia awareness may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder ?
text: Did you knowthat rapid single flux quantum is an electronics technology that relies on quantum effects in superconducting materials rather than the present-day transistor standard?
text: Did you knowthat the cucumber sandwich is an integral part of polite tea ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1934 Leonid Nikolaev was executed for the murder of Sergei Kirov , the popular chief of the Leningrad Communist Party ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Red Baron , French ace René Fonck had the most confirmed World War I aerial victories?
text: Did you knowthat authentic shrunken heads have nose hair ?
text: Did you knowthat an apartment building known as Pavlov's House became a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II 's Battle of Stalingrad ?
text: Did you knowthat public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was located in Philly's city hall ?
text: Did you knowthat residents of California buy more earthquake insurance than residents of any other U.S. state ?
text: Did you knowthat in architecture , there are at least five kinds of buttress : clasping, angle, flying, set-back and diagonal?
text: Did you knowthat during the Cold War , Soviet leaders used " And you are lynching Negroes ..." as an ad hominem attack against the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat the Temple Bar marks the western edge of the City of London ?
text: Did you knowthat the evolution of sex is a major puzzle of evolutionary biology , due to the so-called two-fold cost of sex ?
text: Did you knowthat the hyper engine was a hypothetical aircraft engine design meant to deliver 1 horsepower from 1 cubic inch of displacement ?
text: Did you knowthat Gatianus of Tours was one of seven bishops sent by Pope Fabian from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel ?
text: Did you knowthat quantum optics is a field of research in physics , dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena of light?
text: Did you knowthat former U.S. decathlete Rafer Johnson ignited the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat it was the British geologist Joseph Prestwich who confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes ?
text: Did you knowthat England brokered the 1617 Treaty of Stolbova between Sweden and Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat Groundskeeper Willie , a character on The Simpsons , coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mid-Canada Line was a line of radar sites across Canada designed to be an nuclear attack early-warning system?
text: Did you knowthat what was probably the last living Spix's Macaw died in 2000 ?
text: Did you knowthat the caterpillar of the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has large yellow eyespots?
text: Did you knowthat on Dagen H , or H Day , (Sunday September 3 , 1967 ) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
text: Did you knowthat Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989 , and the two leagues merged in 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly half the eligible male population of New Zealand served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pascha greeting is an Easter custom amongst Orthodox Christians ?
text: Did you knowthat the Duchy of the Archipelago was an alliance of islands in the Aegean Sea organized after the Fourth Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia , cartographer , and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you knowthat the so-called Loughall Martyrs were a group of eight men from the Provisional IRA 's East Tyrone Brigade who were ambushed and killed on May 8 1987 by the British special forces, the SAS ?
text: Did you knowthat most people on a raw food diet won't eat anything heated to more than 46 °C (115 °F )?
text: Did you knowthat the root of the Purple Salsify tastes of oysters ?
text: Did you knowthat the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Diadochi were generals of Alexander the Great who sought power after his death?
text: Did you knowthat when released, the film Waterworld was the biggest failure, in terms of returns?
text: Did you knowthat the Maltese alphabet contains 29 letters but does not contain the Latin letter Y ?
text: Did you knowthat Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting , camping and fishing gear?
text: Did you knowthat in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna 's nobility ?
text: Did you knowthat the longest extra inning game in professional baseball history was an International League game that lasted 33 innings ?
text: Did you knowthat the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is part of the only government -sanctioned Protestant church in the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you knowthat an American thoroughbred racehorse named Cigar was the first winner of the Dubai World Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1169 Denny Abbey was handed over to the Knights Templar ?
text: Did you knowthat Dave Righetti was the first player in Major League Baseball history to pitch a no-hitter and lead the league in saves in a career?
text: Did you knowthat the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was Nicholas Butler ?
text: Did you knowthat Taiwan celebrates a national Teacher's Day holiday each September 28 ?
text: Did you knowthat both serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and novel antidepressants like bupropion work on multiple neurotransmitters ?
text: Did you knowthat the HMS Finisterre replaced her sister-ship the Hogue in Far Eastern service after the latter was destroyed by a collision with an Indian cruiser?
text: Did you knowthat Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II , and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
text: Did you knowthat a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you knowthat California 's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water ?
text: Did you knowthat there are many uses for trigonometry ?
text: Did you knowthat Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht ?
text: Did you knowthat the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney ?
text: Did you knowthat the Snellen chart is used to measure visual acuity ?
text: Did you knowthat a wrecking amendment is added to legislation in bad faith?
text: Did you knowthat a kammback is an aerodynamic drag-reducing car body style?
text: Did you knowthat both Cliff and Nina and Greg and Jenny are considered supercouples ?
text: Did you knowthat while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives , he was not re-elected by his constituents?
text: Did you knowthat the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations , with a red star added to represent communism ?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873 ?
text: Did you knowthat the edge of space is about 100 kilometers above mean sea level ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brown Dog affair , a Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots ?
text: Did you knowthat the ideal cellular network has evenly distributed hexagonal cells?
text: Did you knowthat the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui ?
text: Did you knowthat the Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems ?
text: Did you knowthat automatic differentiation is a method for evaluating the derivative of a function at a given point?
text: Did you knowthat in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories ?
text: Did you knowthat Occidental Petroleum head Armand Hammer bought into Church and Dwight in order to hold a stake in their Arm and Hammer baking soda trademark , apparently finding humor in the coincidence of their names?
text: Did you knowthat in linguistics , the La Spezia-Rimini Line separates eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages using isoglosses ?
text: Did you knowthat the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie ) originated in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Basin tribes of North America originated the Ghost Dance movement?
text: Did you knowthat manscaping is the practice of men shaving their body hair?
text: Did you know that Manscaping is the practice of a man shaving his body hair?
text: Did you knowthat since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian red-back spider , a cousin of the black widow ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch ?
text: Did you knowthat the longest-running show in Broadway theater history was Cats with 7,485 performances?
text: Did you knowthat Stonehenge is surrounded by 56 pits known as Aubrey holes ?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago 's Lincoln Park was originally a cemetery ?
text: Did you knowthat the ventral stream makes up one half of the visual cortex ?
text: Did you knowthat postoperative nausea and vomiting is an unpleasant complication affecting about two million people in the United Kingdom annually?
text: Did you knowthat devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary ?
text: Did you knowthat the Outlawries Bill has been read in the British House of Commons nearly every year since 1727 ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese Imari porcelain was made specifically for export to Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat in Upper and Lower Canada , the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed?
text: Did you knowthat the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250 ?
text: Did you knowthat a member of the Gelechiidae family of moths is used to control spotted knapweed ?
text: Did you knowthat the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal established the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sacramento River Delta is an inverted river delta and that it once had an extensive system of cable ferries ?
text: Did you knowthat there are 14 gases which are lighter than air ?
text: Did you knowthat the Barnburners supported Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential election of 1848 ?
text: Did you knowthat in physics , a Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite?
text: Did you knowthat the Humboldt River in Nevada is the longest river in the Great Basin and furnished the route of the Central Pacific segment of the transcontinental railroad ?
text: Did you knowthat the Trumpeter Swan is the largest swan native to North American ?
text: Did you knowthat Scandanavia 's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries?
text: Did you knowthat 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
text: Did you knowthat the music genre known as bouncy techno originated in Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts , which mandated the use of French in official documents, contributed to the rise of French nationalism ?
text: Did you knowthat the indigenous peoples of Brazil domesticated cassava ?
text: Did you know that a " rain of fish " (a tornado that travels over the ocean , sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the culture of Honduras ?
text: Did you knowthat Charley Fox , a Canadian flight lieutenant , was credited with injuring Erwin Rommel ?
text: Did you knowthat body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
text: Did you knowthat Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
text: Did you knowthat the casque of the Tarictic hornbill is hollow and made of keratin ?
text: Did you knowthat in Pac-Mania Pac-Man has the ability to jump?
text: Did you knowthat the larvae of the Cameraria ohridella moth destroy
text: Did you knowthat Danielle Reyes finished second place on the American version of Big Brother in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat in the United States, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its Republican counterpart promote the election of members of their respective parties to Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat the IBM 350 was the first important milestone in early IBM disk storage ?
text: Did you knowthat in the presence of risk , subjective expected utility is a valuable method used in economic decision theory ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Trade Representative tried to stop Singapore from hosting the first World Trade Organization ministeral meeting because of the caning of Michael P. Fay ?
text: Did you knowthat the extreme points of the United Kingdom include Out Stack as the northernmost, Rockall as the westernmost, The Lizard as the southernmost and Lowestoft Ness as the easternmost?
text: Did you knowthat the Malmédy Massacre Trial is often used in extreme right-wing German propaganda ?
text: Did you knowthat Youppi of the Montreal Expos was the first mascot to be thrown out of a major league baseball game?
text: Did you knowthat the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups once worked as a dairyman for famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey ?
text: Did you knowthat enharmonic scales are the third genus of musical scales ?
text: Did you knowthat no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces ?
text: Did you knowthat many of Ford Motor Company 's car makes are based on the same automobile platform ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fifth and Sixth Crusades were turned back by Al-Kamil , a nephew of Saladin ?
text: Did you knowthat actuarial notation uses a halo system with superscript or subscript symbols placed before or after the main letter?
text: Did you knowthat script breakdowns are the intermediate step between script and production in theater , film , television and comic books ?
text: Did you knowthat sidewinding is unique to caenophidian snakes like vipers ?
text: Did you knowthat Kolkota , India is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European -style buildings?
text: Did you knowthat seven countries have more than one capital city ?
text: Did you knowthat in basketball technical fouls are rule violations that occur outside the play of the game?
text: Did you knowthat bond convexity is a measure of the sensitivity of bond prices to interest rate changes?
text: Did you knowthat Chetham's Library in Manchester , England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
text: Did you knowthat Dunash ben Labrat , a medieval Jewish writer, introduced Arabic language poetic meter into Hebrew poetry ?
text: Did you knowthat blue boxes used for phreaking were also called Spiros , which was a reference to disgraced U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to legend, one of the Holy Nails used in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was incorporated into the Iron Crown of Lombardy ?
text: Did you knowthat Norman architecture is a form of the Romanesque ?
text: Did you knowthat 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie ?
text: Did you knowthat there are several different kinds of baseball gloves , including catcher 's mitts, pitcher 's gloves, first basemen 's gloves and infield and outfield gloves?
text: Did you knowthat the Elton John - Bernie Taupin song " Candle in the Wind " is the bestselling single of all time?
text: Did you knowthat some Trotskyists described the Soviet system under Josef Stalin as one of bureaucratic collectivism ?
text: Did you knowthat scientist Arvid Carlsson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work leading to the treatment of Parkinson's Disease ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1984 Summit tunnel fire in England may have been the biggest underground fire in transportation history?
text: Did you knowthat within Superman 's Fortress of Solitude there is an apartment set aside for Supergirl ?
text: Did you knowthat there are at least four methods of plastic welding ?
text: Did you knowthat sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you knowthat the Venetian polychoral style arose because of the unique architectural and acoustical characteristics of San Marco di Venezia , aka St. Mark's Cathedral, in Venice , Italy ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Macaulay referred to Charles Dickens ' novel Hard Times as "sullen Socialism "?
text: Did you knowthat holidays celebrated in Greece include Το Όχι , literally day of the "no" , which honors Greece's refusal to surrender to the Axis Powers in 1940 ?
text: Did you knowthat a Greek hero cult usually focused on a great man of history (e.g. Oedipus ) or the founder of a city (e.g. Battus of Cyrene )?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago Freight Subway was abandoned in 1959 and the tunnels flooded catastrophically in 1992 ?
text: Did you knowthat the people of Thailand use the Thai six-hour clock in addition to the usual 24-hour clock?
text: Did you knowthat actress Hunter Tylo sued producer Aaron Spelling and won after she was fired from Melrose Place ?
text: Did you knowthat the village name Ynysybwl , in South Wales , UK , is pronounced "Un-is-u-bull"?
text: Did you knowthat the supercontinent Pannotia only lasted about sixty million years before disintegrating into four continents ?
text: Did you knowthat Lion Beer was Asia 's first brand of beer ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Guillemot , winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics , was a pack-a-day smoker ?
text: Did you knowthat the Welsh language has three kinds of initial consonant mutation ?
text: Did you knowthat the case Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company established the precedents for UK contract law?
text: Did you knowthat Cockaigne was a legendary peasant utopia of medieval Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the execution of Flor Contemplacion strained relations between Singapore and the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat a madrigale spirituale is a madrigal with a spiritual rather than secular topic?
text: Did you knowthat a Baja Bug is a Volkswagen Beetle that has been modified to operate on sand dunes ?
text: Did you knowthat there are fewer than 2000 Indian Rhinoceroses left in the wild?
text: Did you knowthat Mike Woodin was the Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for 6 years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
text: Did you knowthat the bulb of the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish , to cure rheumatism and to make brushes?
text: Did you knowthat the Mexican War of Independence ( 1820 – 1821 ) resulted in an unlikely alliance between liberales and conservadores ?
text: Did you knowthat bone age is usually determined by examining x-rays of the long bones ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Tarawa was the first time in World War II that the US faced serious opposition to an amphibious landing?
text: Did you knowthat the Siege of Malta cost 1,493 civilian lives?
text: Did you know Edmund Beckett , the designer of Big Ben , said, "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled."
text: Did you knowthat the Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market ?
text: Did you knowthat Asclepiodotus was King of the Britons , until he died in a battle fighting Coel ?
text: Did you knowthat the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?
text: Did you knowthat the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113 meter long sculptural frieze ?
text: Did you knowthat dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag ?
text: Did you knowthat Ruffini's rule allows the rapid division of any polynomial by a binomial of the form x - r ?
text: Did you knowthat pineconefish have no apparent sexual dimorphism ?
text: Did you knowthat Commodore Horatio Bridge was the first officer to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply within the United States Navy ?
text: Did you knowthere are large stands of primeval forest on the border between Poland and Belarus ?
text: Did you knowthat the Monty Python song " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is a parody of the type of song featured in Disney films?
text: Did you knowthat the AVE Mizar was a flying car created by attaching part of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto ?
text: Did you knowthat the main sounds made by Lichtenstein's Hartebeest are a bellow and a sneeze-snort?
text: Did you knowthat some Native Americans called the Douglas Squirrel the "Pillillooeet"?
text: Did you knowthat The Brighter Day is the only explicitly religious soap opera ever to air on American network television ?
text: Did you knowthat You Bet Your Life was a radio and television quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx ?
text: Did you knowthat the 16-year part of Donna Beck on the American soap opera All My Children , played by Candice Earley , was originally meant to be just a short-term role?
text: Did you knowthat one cause of the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil was the support of president João Goulart for a mariner rebellion, led by a disguised CIA agent , Cabo Anselmo?
text: Did you knowthat bicycle helmets are not designed to be re-used after a major accident?
text: Did you knowthat the Calayan Rail flightless bird is a significant recent species discovery, announced on 16 August 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat the average lifespan of a feral cat who survives kittenhood is two years, compared to 16 years for house cats ?
text: Did you knowthat the Osmond family , known for their musicality, have two siblings who were born deaf ?
text: Did you knowthat infant teeth emerge in pairs?
text: Did you knowthat wheelbase dimensions are crucial to automobile steering and balance ?
text: Did you knowthat aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland , Canada , the United States , Russia and several Caribbean island communities?
text: Did you knowthat a pit stop in Formula One autosport involves about 20 mechanics?
text: Did you knowthat the Alpine Ibex of Gran Paradiso were first protected in 1816 ?
text: Did you knowthat an amateur airplane pilot's spatial disorientation during flight can lead to an irreversible graveyard spiral?
text: Did you knowthat the ear's hair cells encode the information from the fluid waves of the cochlea for use by the auditory nerve ?
text: Did you knowthat blackwater fever causes red blood cells to burst, leaking hemoglobin into the plasma ?
text: Did you knowthat the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum ?
text: Did you knowthat Pickles is George W. Bush's nickname for his wife?
text: Did you knowthat the golden age of arcade games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978 ?
text: Did you knowthat seeds of the Hawaiian baby woodrose contain chemicals with effects similar to LSD ?
text: Did you knowthat Brownie Wise invented the Tupperware party?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Faraday did the first modern research into the nature of colloidal gold ?
text: Did you knowthat the 364-metre pier in Withernsea , England was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 metres long?
text: Did you knowthat most of the Strigolniki were drowned in the Volkhov river in 1376 as a result of pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons ?
text: Did you knowthat a self number is an integer that cannot be generated by any other integer added up to its digits ?
text: Did you knowthat the primary Polish Scouting organization is Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego ?
text: Did you knowthat the famed message "England expects that every man will do his duty" is misquoted on Nelson's Column in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Santa Maria sopra Minerva is the only Gothic church in Rome and holds the body of Saint Catherine of Siena , but not her head?
text: Did you knowthat Englog is English mixed with Tagalog words, while Taglish is Tagalog mixed with English words?
text: Did you knowthat Pennsylvania Hospital , cofounded by Benjamin Franklin , was the first hospital in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the source of the Naga fireballs of the Mekong river is a topic of much debate in Thailand ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1702 Spanish treasure fleet was destroyed in the Battle of Vigo Bay ?
text: Did you knowthat non-standard poker hands in five-card draw are determined by house rules and may have colorful names like Little Bobtail and Round the Corner Straight ?
text: Did you knowthat the sterile insect technique has been successfully used to fight malaria ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever attracts waterfowl by making a fool of itself?
text: Did you knowthat Indiana 's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
text: Did you knowthat in 1960 the American Ballet Theatre became the first American ballet company to dance in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat Germans consume up to 300 metric tons of döner kebab each day?
text: Did you knowthat the Milky Way 's galactic halo contains many globular clusters ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thor , Baldur and Vidar are the best-known sons of Odin but that Snorri Sturluson names at least five others?
text: Did you knowthat more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s ?
text: Did you knowthat holy cards are an important devotional practice for many Roman Catholics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Death's Head moth is named for the mark on its back, which resembles a human skull ?
text: Did you knowthat St. George, Bermuda was founded by sailors headed for Plymouth Colony in Virginia ?
text: Did you knowthat chalcocite , a profitable and desirable kind of copper ore , was particularly plentiful in the now-depleted copper mines of Cornwall , England and Bristol, Connecticut ?
text: Did you knowthat the casque of the Tarictic Hornbill is hollow and made of keratin ?
text: Did you knowthat Colin Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted using DNA fingerprinting ?
text: Did you knowthat members of the Coeur d'Alene nation refer to themselves in their own language as Schitsu'umsh ?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred J. Kwak , a duck from a Dutch television cartoon , lives in a clog ?
text: Did you knowthat physiological sound localization relies primarily on binaural cues for determining source azimuth , and head-related transfer functions for determining source elevation ?
text: Did you knowthat Karel Kuttelwascher was the most famous World War II flying ace of Czech nationality ?
text: Did you knowthat the aftermath of the Revolt of 1173-1174 is depicted in the Peter O'Toole - Katharine Hepburn movie The Lion in Winter ?
text: Did you knowthat weight transfer causes the traction of tires on a car to vary?
text: Did you knowthat before Helen Gallagher became well-known for her role as matriarch on Ryan's Hope , she won a Tony Award for her work in the revival of No, No, Nanette ?
text: Did you knowthat at the height of the Cold War , Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR ?
text: Did you knowthat André Maginot , for whom the Maginot Line was named, was awarded the Medaille Militaire for valor during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1953 movie Robot Monster was so poorly received, its director attempted suicide ?
text: Did you knowthat when complete, B of the Bang will be Britain's tallest sculpture ?
text: Did you knowthat the symbol of Fatima's hands , while widespread in Middle Eastern Islamic societies, is not officially condoned by Islam ?
text: Did you knowthat the first post office in the Bahamas was probably on Crooked Island ?
text: Did you knowThat the feminist group Women on waves built a gynaecology unit on board of a ship and makes abortions on international waters ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location?
text: Did you knowthat the second-highest ranking official in the Kingdom of Hungary was the Palatine ?
text: Did you knowthat the only excavated stand-alone timber circles in the British Isles are those at Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Sinatra, Jr. 's kidnapping in 1963 led his father to habitually carry a roll of dimes ?
text: Did you knowthat eugenicist Paul Popenoe introduced marriage counseling to the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Urdu literature is dominated by poetry , often of the ghazal form?
text: Did you knowthat the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. military's Tybee hydrogen bomb , missing off the coast of the state of Georgia since 1958, may recently have been discovered?
text: Did you knowthat Barbara Billingsley was so typecast as June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver that she could not get acting jobs for nearly twenty years?
text: Did you knowthat Hoot was novelist Carl Hiaasen 's first book geared toward young adults ?
text: Did you knowthat the British film It Happened Here is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the film 's eight years production schedule as the longest ever?
text: Did you knowthat the crustaceans known as giant isopods , which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean , can grow up to 45 centimetres long?
text: Did you knowthat the 33 Edicts of Ashoka in north India and Pakistan are the first tangible historical evidence of Buddhism ?
text: Did you knowthat Ethelbert of York 's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat a potassium deficiency known as hypokalemia can be a side effect of certain medications?
text: Did you knowthat most contemporary robotic telescopes are in the hands of amateur astronomers ?
text: Did you knowthat the zigzag method of using a knife and fork is particular to the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bonfires of Saint John festival in Spain uses discarded furniture as tinder for the fires ?
text: Did you knowthat communication with submarines is difficult because salt water is a conductor which blocks electromagnetic radiation ?
text: Did you knowthat Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes was the daughter of designer Norman Bel Geddes ?
text: Did you knowthat the United Kingdom was the first country to offer its citizens a postal savings system ?
text: Did you knowthat the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell ?
text: Did you knowthat the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards , the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?
text: Did you knowthat Antarctica 's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855 , burned down in 1955 , and rebuilt in 1963 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Venetian Arsenal is mentioned in Dante 's Inferno ?
text: Did you knowthat British lying-in-state ceremonies take place at Westminster Hall ?
text: Did you knowthat there are three major kinds of arcade cabinet : upright, sit-down and cocktail?
text: Did you knowthat the Malayan Tapir is the only species of tapir native to Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat the word "high" in high treason differentiates that well-known crime from the more obscure petty treason ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria ?
text: Did you knowthat the Malayan tapir species of tapir and the only one native to Asia?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian riots of 1989 led to the only bloody overthrow of a Communist regime in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage , Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866?
text: Did you knowthat the English mediæval shrine statue Our Lady of Ipswich , ordered to be destroyed during the Reformation , might have survived in an Italian village?
text: Did you knowthat many of the Dartmoor longhouses built during the Middle Ages still stand today?
text: Did you knowthat Buchwald v. Paramount may (or may not) have set a precedent for questioning spurious Hollywood accounting practices?
text: Did you knowthat the history of the incipit runs from ancient Sumeria through to modern word processors ?
text: Did you knowthat the dominant art form of the English Renaissance was the play ?
text: Did you knowthat the mysterious objects known as Black triangles may actually be hybrid airships ?
text: Did you knowthat Wikipedia has lots articles about Persian Kings ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Swakopmund , Namibia has some of the world's best examples of German Art Deco architecture?
text: Did you knowthat Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the now-closed Opryland was the official theme park of NASCAR ?
text: Did you knowthat the French village of Giverny , best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet , is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum ?
text: Did you knowthat Governor-General outranks the Prime Minister in the New Zealand order of precedence ?
text: Did you knowthat Luis Francisco Ojeda is a Puerto Rican television host ?
text: Did you knowthat Bobby Sherman became a very popular teen idol after his first single rose to number 3 on the Billboard charts?
text: Did you knowthat modern bicycle frame construction is usually founded on a diamond-frame design?
text: Did you knowthat a muscle contraction occurs when a muscle fiber shortens?
text: Did you knowthat the first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio ?
text: Did you knowthat the most common causes for an ingrown toenail are improperly fitted shoes and nails that are improperly trimmed?
text: Did you knowthat the Georgian Uprising of Texel is sometimes described as the last European battlefield of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat both species of Corroboree frog are critically endangered ?
text: Did you knowthat enfleurage was once the only method for extracting essential oils from fragile flowers like jasmine and tuberose ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Cape St. George , November 26 , 1943 ,  was the last time the Tokyo Express ran to the Solomon Islands ?
text: Did you know that text figures —a style of typesetting numerals with descenders —are the original style of Arabic numerals in the occident and still often used?
text: Did you knowthat Dickey Chapelle was the first war correspondent killed during the Vietnam war ?
text: Did you knowthat British Airways unveiled a new corporate identity in 1997 which involved repainting its fleet with around 20 daring tailfin designs by world artists?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Lawrence was a Canadian politician and trade unionist ?
text: Did you knowthat the Z machine , operated by Sandia National Laboratories , is the most powerful x-ray generator in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska , 1942–1943, was the last battle fought on the soil of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Müller-Thurgau hybrid grape is a 19th century cross between the Riesling and Chasselas ?
text: Did you knowthat golf ball design is a real world application of Platonic solids ?
text: Did you knowthat the American Winterberry is also called the fever berry for its medicinal use among Native Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat Pictish stones are the largest visual relics of Picts of Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat Larnach Castle is one of only two castles in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat ostracoderms are the earliest known vertebrate animals?
text: Did you knowthat the iconic Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point ?
text: Did you knowthat the helix-turn-helix structural motif is found in many proteins that regulate gene expression ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. has hosted an Inaugural ball under every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge ?
text: Did you knowthat Dunston Pillar , a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England , was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Schenck was the first chairman of 20th Century Fox ?
text: Did you knowthat WWI vet and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer ?
text: Did you knowthat Bibliothèque nationale du Québec , the national library of Québec , and the public library of the city of Montréal , will share a facility beginning in 2005 ?
text: Did you knowthat the charity organization Child's Play raised over $250,000 in 2003 in the form of cash and toy donations from the readers of popular web comic Penny Arcade ?
text: Did you knowthat a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe - Goethe Faust of fictional fame?
text: Did you knowthat the Burgundy Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France ?
text: Did you knowthat with a peasant revolution Chinese emperor Huizong was overthrown, ending the Yuan Dynasty ?
text: Did you knowthat many bog bodies from the time of the Roman Iron Age have been found in southern Scandinavia ?
text: Did you knowthat Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis was the first major socialist of the Netherlands ?
text: Did you knowthat market power is usually a predicate to anti-competitive behavior ?
text: Did you knowthat there's no Dr Pepper in a Flaming Dr. Pepper ?
text: Did you knowthat Toronto, Ontario was once known as Methodist Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat alternative theories of speciation besides natural selection include Lamarckism and orthogenesis ?
text: Did you knowthat all Native American pottery made before the arrival of Europeans was done without the use of a potter's wheel ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sausage Valley of WWI -era France was so named because the Germans frequently flew a sausage -shaped observation balloon above it?
text: Did you knowthat the Polynesian Rat is used to track human migrations across the Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Predator , a U.S. government initiative, seeks to end child sex tourism , which may victimize as many as two million children annually?
text: Did you knowthat France Antarctique , a short-lived French colony, was not in Antarctica but in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ?
text: Did you knowthat the Viceroyalty of La Plata —covering Argentina , Bolivia , Paraguay and Uruguay —was the last viceroyalty created by Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand is sometimes called The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise ?
text: Did you knowthat Liederkranz cheese is extinct?
text: Did you knowthat the process for the evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II was reversed in 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ten Years' War , which began in 1868 , was the first attempt by Cuba to secure its independence from Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman era of the early history of Switzerland began when the armies of Julius Caesar drove the Helvetii back from Gaul ?
text: Did you knowthat the year and a day rule regarding homicide was abolished because of advances in medicine and forensic science ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands is the only U.S. District Court without an associated U.S. Attorney's Office ?
text: Did you knowthat among those who do not believe John the Apostle was the author of the Johannine works of the Bible , John the Evangelist is the most commonly mentioned possible alternative author?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Train Robbery of 1963 is the best-known example of the type of mail fraud known as "theft from the mails"?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese toilets are the most technologically advanced toilets in the world today?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. late-night talk-show host Johnny Carson was once a writer for The Red Skelton Show ?
text: Did you knowthat in mathematics , an Apollonian gasket is a fractal generated from three circles , any two of which are tangent to one another?
text: Did you knowthat when the John Bull ran under its own power in 1981 it became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world?
text: Did you knowthat narrow gauge railways are cheaper than standard-size tracks and are often built in developing countries ?
text: Did you knowthat developing countries hoping to participate in globalization are experimenting with a U.S. -originated economic policy called Rubinomics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Berlaymont building in Brussels , Belgium houses European Commission headquarters ?
text: Did you knowthat the evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes ends with the Guyot Stage , and that most, if not all, the volcanoes west of Kure Atoll are guyots ?
text: Did you knowthat zoomusicology studies sounds, vocalizations and the organization of the noisy communications of animals ?
text: Did you knowthat pre-dreadnought battleships saw their most notable service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 1905 ?
text: Did you knowthat the PHOSITA or " person having ordinary skill in the art " is a legal fiction used by the patent law to check if an invention is just too obvious?
text: Did you knowthat at age 19 after Barry Watson lost his job as a soap opera child star, he used to park cars at the House of Blues night club in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you knowthat Dragon's teeth were square-pyramidal concrete fortifications used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks?
text: Did you knowthat the movie I Am Cuba was filmed in 1964 as Cold War Soviet propaganda but only became widely viewed internationally when it was shown to audiences in the United States in 1994 ?
text: Did you knowthat, unlike corporate creations Betty Crocker and Ronald McDonald , food-brand icon Chef Boyardee was real?
text: Did you knowthat the books and manuscripts in the Renaissance era Cotton library were categorized by their location in relation to busts of Caesars shelved alongside them?
text: Did you knowthat earthquake lights , although described in 373 BC , were not convincingly documented until the 1960s ?
text: Did you knowthat Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July , 1991 , following an extortion attempt on his family?
text: Did you knowthat the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw holds the remains of a Polish soldier killed at the Battle of Lvov in 1919 ?
text: Did you knowthat only fragments of the famous altar triptych by Geertgen tot Sint Jans could be saved after the siege of Haarlem of 1572 - 1573 ?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred J. Kwak , a duck from a Dutch television cartoon , lives in a clog ?
text: Did you knowthat Nicci French is the pseudonym for a couple of London journalists , Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together?
text: Did you knowthat Maximón , a saint venerated in the highlands of Guatemala , drinks whiskey , smokes cigarettes and grants prayers for revenge ?
text: Did you knowthat the Weaubleau-Osceola structure is the largest exposed untectonized impact crater in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1975 a freak Typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat the Curse of Billy Penn is an alleged curse that may explain the failures of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania professional sports teams?
text: Did you knowthat scaly leg is a bird disease caused by mites , and can be treated with petroleum jelly ?
text: Did you knowthat the Konopiště château ( castle ), the last residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , houses a large collection of antlers ?
text: Did you knowthat Ambloplites species are native to a region extending from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to the lower Mississippi River basin in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Esteban Huertas , a general who led Panama to independence, appears in a Scrooge McDuck comic?
text: Did you knowthat the London Warehouse Theatre was threatened with closure after an Arts Council grant was withdrawn in 1984 , but that closure was averted when Croydon Council and the GLC agreed to replace the grant?
text: Did you knowthat for over a thousand years Trajan's bridge was the longest bridge ever built?
text: Did you knowthat Lyndon Johnson announced his hiring of Gerri Whittington , the first African-American White House secretary, by arranging for her to appear on the TV game show What's My Line?
text: Did you knowthat the Cryolophosaurus is informally  known as the Elvisaurus because the bizarre crest running across its head resembles Elvis Presley's 1950s pompadour haircut?
text: Did you knowthat the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal was a scandal involving allegations of bribery to get the 2002 Winter Olympic Games to Salt Lake City, Utah ?
text: Did you knowthat the large positive void coefficient of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl was a major factor in causing the Chernobyl accident ?
text: Did you knowthat Luigi Fagioli had one of auto racing 's most famous rivalries with Louis Chiron in the 1930s ?
text: Did you knowthat Sutton Foster was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady during the pre- Broadway tryout of Thoroughly Modern Millie ?
text: Did you knowthat Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat a security token can also store cryptographic keys and biometric data?
text: Did you knowthat a gravity hill is a location where an out-of-gear car can appear to roll up a hill?
text: Did you knowthat many of the glassware produced by Wheaton Industries are on display at the Museum of American Glassware at Wheaton Village?
text: Did you knowthat some people in the BDSM community are sexually aroused by being gagged ?
text: Did you knowthat Hit Parade was Spirit of the West 's final release for Warner Music Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat the real name of drummer Mel Lewis was Melvin Sokoloff ?
text: Did you knowthat France was the first to issue official postage due stamps in 1859 ?
text: Did you knowthat Kaa's Hunting is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli ?
text: Did you knowthat Cloudland Canyon State Park in the U.S. state of Georgia straddles a gorge cut into the mountain by Sitton Gulch Creek, where the elevation differs from 1,980 to 800 feet (604 to 244 m)?
text: Did you know that 24-hour comics have become so popular that there's now a holiday for them on April 24 ?
text: Did you knowthat motorcyclist Jo Siffert was killed in an end-of-season non-championship F1 race on October 24 , 1971 at Brands Hatch ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mi'kmaq people used a pictorial writing scheme ?
text: Did you knowthat Egg plc is now the world's largest "pure" internet bank , meaning it's only accessible from the internet ?
text: Did you knowthat reed valves are made of thin flexible metal or fiberglass strips?
text: Did you knowthat Australian painter Jeffrey Smart initially wanted to become an architect instead of an artist?
text: Did you knowthat the Aerocar Coot was a two-seat amphibious aircraft designed for home-building by Moulton Taylor ?
text: Did you knowthat Luis Sotelo was a Spanish friar who died as a martyr in Japan in 1624 ?
text: Did you knowthat Carpenter is a lunar impact crater located in the northern part of the Moon , causing it to appear oval in shape when in fact it's nearly circular?
text: Did you knowthat Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat Faye Glenn Abdellah's pioneering work in nursing research has been recognized with 77 professional and academic honors ?
text: Did you knowthat Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own?
text: Did you knowthat there have been six submarines and ships named Nautilus in the U.S. Navy , some as early as 1803 , 67 years before Captain Nemo's Nautilus appeared in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea ?
text: Did you knowthat development on Star Wars Quake lasted for six years, and is probably the most famous Quake mod to never be completed?
text: Did you knowthat Pepsi offered a Harrier fighter jet in their Pepsi Billion Dollar Sweepstakes game and the Pepsi Stuff game?
text: Did you knowthat on December 17 , 1973 Pan Am Flight 110 was attacked by six gunmen of the Abu Nidal Organization at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat with a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope (TIRFM) specimen regions of less than 200 nm can be observed?
text: Did you knowthat the world's first four-engined bomber aircraft was the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets and that it flew as early as 1913 ?
text: Did you knowthat World No Tobacco day is on May 31 ?
text: Did you knowthat The Doll Family played munchkins in The Wizard of Oz and were popular circus performers?
text: Did you knowthat John Randolph Tucker served as an officer in the navies of the United States , the Confederate States , and Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat titanium is the most common material for body piercing jewelries ?
text: Did you knowthat the well-known Tourist guy is a Hungarian ?
text: Did you knowthat the Black Caiman is both the world's largest alligator and the Amazon Basin 's largest predator?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1939 Battle of Wizna in Poland , German planes dropped leaflets asking the Poles to surrender?
text: Did you knowthat French tennis player Henri Leconte won 9 ATP titles in an 11 year period?
text: Did you knowthat Barbary Sheep can jump over 2 metres from a stand-still?
text: Did you knowthat the peak of Mount Hikurangi (1620 metres ) is the highest non-volcanic peak on the North Island of New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat Where Did Our Love Go? became The Supremes ' first number one hit after being rejected by The Marvelettes ?
text: Did you knowthat Keflavík International Airport is the largest airport in Iceland ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly all prominent American party switchers in the modern era have switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Cobbler (SS-344) was a Balao -class submarine ,  in the United States Navy named after a cobbler , the killifish of New South Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat Kashima Antlers is the name of a professional football club in the Japanese J. League ?
text: Did you knowthat comedian Nipsey Russell got his start as a car hop at the Atlanta drive-in restaurant The Varsity ?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Qinzong of Song China was the last emperor of the Northern Song ?
text: Did you knowthat the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide , Australia in 1966 ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Marine Corps General Ray Davis rescued hundreds of American troops during the Battle of Inchon in 1950 ?
text: Did you knowthat Hakuin Ekaku 's systematization of koan practice brought about a major revolution in Zen teaching?
text: Did you knowthat the Scheutzian calculation engine was invented in 1837 and finalized in 1843 by Per Georg Scheutz ?
text: Did you knowthat Polar dinosaurs could have walked to Australia , because during the early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica ?
text: Did you knowthat the first televised nine dart finish was achieved at the World Matchplay championship in 1984 by John Lowe ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Cuckoo is a brood parasite ? it lays its single egg mostly in Drongo nests.
text: Did you knowthat the Egyptian numeral for 100,000 was the hieroglyph of a tadpole or a frog ?
text: Did you know that Medicine wheels are stone structures built by the natives of America and Canada for various spiritual and ritual purposes?
text: Did you know that New Place is the name given to Shakespeare's final place of residence in Stratford ?
text: Did you knowthat Joy Page is the only actress from the fourteen credited performers in Casablanca to still be alive?
text: Did you knowthat Europe's most powerful supercomputer , MareNostrum , will be used in human genome research, protein research, weather forecasting and the design of new drugs?
text: Did you knowthat a waterbuck is a diurnal antelope from Western and Central Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Jan Kulczyk is currently the richest Pole ? His fortune is estimated at PLN 12.5 bn (around USD 4 bn).
text: Did you know that 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared from MV Joyita in 1955 ?
text: Did you know that Alexander "Sawney" Bean was rumored to be the head of an incestous family that murdered and cannibalized over 1000 people before they were all caught and executed?
text: Did you know that the cathedral of the Armenian town of Zvartnots was depicted on the first emission of 100 AMD banknotes ?
text: Did you knowthat in aerial firefighting , fire retardants are colored red to mark where they've been dropped?
text: Did you knowthat Long-billed Pipits breed on dry open slopes with rocks and low vegetation ?
text: Did you knowthat Graftgold is an independent computer games developer formed in 1983 when Steve Turner decided to quit his day job as a commercial programmer ?
text: Did you knowthat the Adelaide O-Bahn is a guided busway in Australia that runs from Adelaide CBD to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Tea Tree Gully ?
text: Did you knowthat a large titanosaur nesting ground was recently discovered in Auca Mahuevot, in Patagonia in Argentina , and another colony has reportedly been discovered in Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat the British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England in October 1911 ?
text: Did you knowthat the film of the book Nochnoy Dozor by Sergey Lukianenko was such a success that ticket sales in Russia were only exceeded by The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that Cameron Bright and Nicole Kidman wore flesh-colored swimsuits during the filming of the controversial bathtub scene in " Birth " ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Middleton's 1624 play A Game at Chess was considered so scandalous that the Globe Theatre was closed and the actors and author were put on trial?
text: Did you knowthat the airfields captured in the battle of Tinian were used for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?
text: Did you knowthat the Norse mythological figure Helgi Hundingsbane earned his nickname by killing a king called Hunding ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian singer Jade MacRae started learning the piano at age 8?
text: Did you knowthat collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s , that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
text: Did you knowthat the Pokémon character Sableye eats rocks and lives in a cavern ?
text: Did you knowthat British First World War officer James Edward Edmonds wrote nearly half of the 29-volume History of the Great War ?
text: Did you know that Kaiyō Maru , a Japanese steam warship, was the flagship of Admiral Enomoto Takeaki of the rebel Republic of Ezo in the Boshin War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Arctic Winter Games are held biennially for athletes from the "circumpolar North"?
text: Did you knowthat Navajo codetalkers directed naval gunfire onto Japanese positions in the battle of Saipan ?
text: Did you knowthat the villain Scar of Disney 's The Lion King , was based on a Barbary lion ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1961 vintage of Château Latour is consistently listed among the greatest red wines of all time?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of the Rice Boats in the American Revolutionary War , the militia of the Province of Georgia drove a squadron of the Royal Navy out of the Savannah River ?
text: Did you knowthat Kotetsu , a Japanese ironclad battleship , was originally intended to be Stonewall of the Confederate States Navy but was not delivered until after the end of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Lear's Macaw is a Brazilian parrot that nests in sandstone cliffs ?
text: Did you knowthat British broadcaster Simon Bates received critical acclaim for his feature item Our Tune , in which he read out tragic true stories?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional character Axel Brass is able to go without sleep or sustenance for years?
text: Did you knowthat the Dutch naval Lieutenant Jan van Speijk detonated his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ritz Hotel in London was the first hotel to offer a private bathroom for every guest room?
text: Did you knowthat the Munich Soviet declared war on Switzerland , for their refusal to lend sixty locomotives ?
text: Did you knowthat the California Republican Assembly supported Tom McClintock in the 2003 California recall election?
text: Did you knowthat the British plan for the battle of Bazentin Ridge in 1916 , was dismissed beforehand by one French commander as "an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs"?
text: Did you knowthat the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion by Burger King ?
text: Did you knowthat construction of Kelso Abbey took 15 years and was completed in 1243 ?
text: Did you knowthat fourteen people died in the Cave Creek disaster when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand in 1995 ?
text: Did you knowthat the most common causes for an ingrown toenail are improperly fitted shoes and nails that are improperly trimmed?
text: Did you knowthat Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat the actress Viviane Romance rejected the offer of a Hollywood contract in the 1930s preferring to work in French cinema ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2001 UBK protest campaign in Kiev 's Independence Square anticipated the current Orange Revolution in Ukraine ?
text: Did you knowthat Albert Calmette developed "Calmette's Serum", the first antivenom developed for snake venom ?
text: Did you knowthat the book Hollywood Babylon was condemned for including photographs of the dead bodies of actresses Carole Landis and Thelma Todd ?
text: Did you knowthat Agathokleia was an Indo-Greek queen who ruled parts of Northern India from 135 to 125 BC ?
text: Did you knowthat Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19 , 1996 , leading to her first ever defeat?
text: Did you knowthat endochondral ossification is one of two types of bone formation and is the process responsible for much of the bone growth in vertebrate skeletons ?
text: Did you knowthat there are so many species of Murinae ( Old World rats and mice ) that it is said they are in the process of taking over the world, and humans just came along in the middle of it?
text: Did you knowthat Rumaisa Rahman , born prematurely in Chicago on September 19 , 2004 , was 8 inches (20 cm ) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g ) at birth ?
text: Did you knowthat Les Horribles Cernettes , a humorous rock band based in the CERN , supplied the first image on the web , posted in 1992 by Silvano de Gennaro and Tim Berners-Lee ?
text: Did you knowthat the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus ; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird , the Archaeopteryx ?
text: Did you knowthat J002E3 was at first thought to be a new moon of the Earth when discovered in 2002 but later found to be the third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V ?
text: Did you knowthat Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Boaks , a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander, won only 5 votes (a record low in a British Parliamentary election) in a 1982 by-election ?
text: Did you knowthat Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway , and for both film and television ?
text: Did you knowthat Major Mykola Mel'nychenko , who started the Cassette Scandal by accusing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma of ordering a journalist's assassination , continues to release disputed audio excerpts from political asylum in the USA ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Leslie Banks used facial injuries he received in World War I to good effect during his acting career when playing villains ?
text: Did you knowthat Cold Sunday was a specific meteorological event which took place on January 17 , 1982 , when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada , sending temperatures in the United States far below existing all-time record lows?
text: Did you knowthat Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand is known colloquially as "The Cake-tin"?
text: Did you knowthat in gold mining , cyanide may be used to extract gold in areas where gold-bearing rocks are found at the surface?
text: Did you knowthat the Kri-kri is a type of wild goat once common around the Mediterranean but now restricted to a few parts of the island of Crete in Greece ?
text: Did you knowthat television presenter Lynda Lopez is a sister of Jennifer Lopez ?
text: Did you knowthat the largest African crocodile , the Nile crocodile , is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified , and worshipped as gods ?
text: Did you knowthat playboating is a discipline of kayaking or canoeing where the paddler performs various technical moves in one place, as opposed to whitewater kayaking or canoeing where the objective is to travel the length of a section of river ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Barker's alien -infested Schwa artwork became such a hit in the 1990s that he eventually teamed with AOL to make an online game based on it?
text: Did you knowthat in Greek and Roman mythology , the Palladium was an ancient statue of Pallas Athene which kept the city of Troy safe, until it was stolen by Odysseus ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1643 Westminster Assembly was appointed by Parliament to restructure the Church of England and produced the Westminster Confession , which is the foundation of the Presbyterian Church ?
text: Did you knowthat The Happy Mutant Handbook might be the only book to chronicle a large number of underground subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s ?
text: Did you knowthat Monty Norman is the film composer who wrote the "James Bond theme", even though John Barry usually gets credited for it?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Usk's 1387 The Testament of Love , once attributed to Chaucer , was written while in prison to drum up sympathy?
text: Did you knowthat the fairy in nVidia's Dawn technology demo was designed by Steven Giesler, who also created many characters for the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Final Flight of the Osiris films by Square ?
text: Did you knowthat Daskalogiannis was an 18th-century Cretan rebel skinned alive by Ottoman rulers?
text: Did you knowthat cadigans are a class of placeholder names of unnamed or unknown objects such as gadgets , thingamajigs , or widgets ?
text: Did you knowthat Cornwall 's South West Coast Path came into being as a working path used by Revenue Officers to patrol the coast near Polperro in search of smugglers ?
text: Did you knowthat " Teewurst " is a German sausage made from two parts of raw pork (and sometimes beef ) and one part bacon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Christian flag was the idea of a superintendent of a U.S. Sunday school who gave a speech asking students what a flag representing Christianity would look like?
text: Did you knowthat up to 70 percent of the small intestine can be surgically removed as a treatment for Crohn's disease before short bowel syndrome becomes a factor?
text: Did you knowthat a rod sagging under the weight of clothes on coat hangers is an example of a beam experiencing bending ?
text: Did you knowthat Zentropa is the name of both Lars von Trier's production company and his third theatrical feature film , released in 1991 ?
text: Did you knowthat The Book of Sports was a 1617 declaration of James I of England listing archery and dancing as permissible on Sundays and that Puritans in Parliament had it publicly burned in 1643 ?
text: Did you knowthat soccer player Paul Reaney was briefly a car mechanic before signing with Leeds United ?
text: Did you knowthat Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouthi is a distant cousin of Marwan Barghouti , another presidential candidate?
text: Did you knowthat damask , a fabric with a rich pattern formed by weaving , got its name from ornamental silk fabrics from Damascus , Syria ?
text: Did you knowthat after the defeat of Nazi Germany , the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg existed for some time in an area that Allied forces neglected to occupy?
text: Did you knowthat Tunde Baiyewu , the singer from Lighthouse Family , is the step-son of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo ?
text: Did you knowthat Lin Wang was an elephant that served with distinction with the Chinese army during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Eastern Mountain Sports employees are required to take a training course covering not only store policies , product information, and sales techniques, but also the science behind all the products they sell?
text: Did you knowthat J. Harlan Bretz's theories on the origins of the Channeled Scablands started a forty year debate between neocatastrophist and uniformitarianist geologists ?
text: Did you knowthat the television movie Born Innocent is credited with airing the first all-female rape scene on American television ?
text: Did you knowthat Luis Rafael Sanchez is considered to be the greatest playwright to hail from Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you knowthat Johnny Temple became a sportscaster after he retired from Major League baseball ?
text: Did you knowthat although he was a German national, Ken Adam fought in the Royal Air Force during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the store that would eventually become Waldenbooks was started during the height of the Great Depression ?
text: Did you knowthat the first all- steel passenger car in the world was built by American Car and Foundry in 1904 for Interborough Rapid Transit in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat Steve Kipner originally wrote Olivia Newton-John 's biggest hit "Physical" for a "Mr Universe" pageant?
text: Did you knowthat at over 310,000 words, the Alabama Constitution is the longest constitution in the world?
text: Did you knowthat comedian Bill Saluga is the man behind the character Ray Jay Johnson, who is known for the catch phrase "You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay"?
text: Did you knowthat actress Michele Lee appeared in four episodes of Knots Landing without pay when the show suffered a budgeting problem?
text: Did you knowthat the United States ' National Governors Association serves as a key interface betweeen state governments and the federal government?
text: Did you knowthat songwriter Billy Steinberg spent more than a year trying to find someone to record his song Like a Virgin before it was accepted by Madonna ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1975 a freak typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska ?