Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2006

text: Did you knowthat Chuvash dragons of Turkic myth are said to assume human form and to visit men and women at night in order to have sexual intercourse with them?
text: Did you knowthat Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical " Little Johnny Jones " and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story " My Old Man "?
text: Did you knowthat the Hoba meteorite is the largest known meteorite ever found on earth ?
text: Did you knowthat Leif J. Sverdrup was a immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel , named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
text: Did you knowthat Mikhail Gerasimov used exhumed skulls to reconstruct faces of more than 200 people, including Friedrich Schiller , Ivan the Terrible , and Tamerlane ?
text: Did you knowthat the rise of ticket prices in the new Covent Garden Theatre led to the so-called Old Price Riots , which lasted for more than two months in 1809 ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Metcalfe served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly , in both houses of the U.S. Congress , and as Governor of Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacobus de Teramo wrote a dialogue, in which Lucifer takes Jesus Christ to court, for trespassing in the Harrowing of Hell , with Belial as his lawyer?
text: Did you knowthat amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tagish Lake meteorite originally came from a part of the asteroid belt which existed when our solar system was being formed?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Field Marshal Ivan Gudovich lost his left eye fighting the Turks in Armenia in 1807 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Coraopolis Bridge , designed by Theodore Cooper , started life as the third Pittsburgh Sixth Street Bridge and the 400 foot truss sections were floated 12 miles downstream to be reused rather than scrapped?
text: Did you knowthat a bristlecone pine tree named Prometheus , the oldest tree and oldest non-clonal organism ever known to exist,  was cut down in 1964 by Forest Service personnel for research purposes?
text: Did you knowthat Shin Sang-ok , a South Korean film director was kidnapped in 1978 under orders from future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to direct a giant-monster film, Pulgasari ?
text: Did you knowthat CHIJMES , a historic building complex in Singapore , began life as a Catholic convent in the 1850s and has been gazetted as a national monument ?
text: Did you knowthat placenta accreta can see the placenta attach itself not only to the muscle of the uterus but also to the bladder or other organs?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred Hayes , author of the poem "Joe Hill", was also a novelist and an Academy Award -nominated screenwriter whose credits ranged from Italian neorealism to the American TV series Mannix ?
text: Did you knowthat the former Automobilwerk Eisenach in Thuringia , once part of BMW , was taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945, and resumed production under the BMW logo until 1951 when BMW regained control over its trademark and logo?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Pocahontas in Virginia was constructed by African-American soldiers of the United States Colored Troops in 1864 and was used for on-location filming of the 2005 motion picture The New World ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zograf Monastery on the Holy Mountain was burnt down by a Catalan pirate raid in 1275 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Visiting Forces Agreement allows U.S. soldiers accused in Filipino crimes to stay under U.S. custody until the trial is over?
text: Did you knowthat the name of the Indo-European thunder god has been reconstructed by etymologists as [[Perkwunos|* Perk w unos ]] ?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Department of Justice attorney James A. Baker , who has defended Bush administration intelligence policy in Congressional testimony and court cases, is not related to former Secretary of State James A. Baker III ?
text: Did you knowthat Bridei III ' s victory in the Battle of Dunnichen led to the expulsion of Northumbrians from southern Pictland ?
text: Did you knowthat the original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an " idyllic refuge of inspiration " for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battles of Corbridge were important in deciding the fate of the Viking kingdom of York and the Anglo-Saxon earldom of Northumbria ?
text: Did you knowthat metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caucasian Shepherd Dog is generally a low activity dog , seemingly lethargic when not working, but extremely agile and convincing when it feels that its family is threatened?
text: Did you knowthat the Viking Great Army pillaged and conquered much of England in the late ninth century ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to tradition, the twisting Solomonic columns of baroque architecture are based on the design of columns taken from Solomon's Temple and brought to Rome by Constantine ?
text: Did you knowthat the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture?
text: Did you knowthat benshi were the people who narrated Japanese silent films until the 1930's?
text: Did you knowthat the fourteen nations designated Major non-NATO ally are the only countries outside of NATO to whom the United States government will consider selling depleted uranium anti-tank rounds?
text: Did you knowthat the Marienberg Abbey in Italy is the highest abbey in Europe at 1,340 meters (4,400 feet), and allegedly suffered from vampire attacks during the Black Death ?
text: Did you knowthat Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code , enacted into law by all fifty states , governs secured transactions in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hutsonville Bridge was a self-anchored suspension bridge that was controversially torn down in 1988, at the insistence of the Indiana Department of Transportation , despite the demolition company offering to donate 100,000 USD to preserve it instead?
text: Did you knowthat Jeff Hawke , a science fiction comic strip , almost perfectly predicted the date of the first human moon landing more than ten years before?
text: Did you knowthat El Gobernador , Central Pacific Railroad 's 4-10-0 steam locomotive , had to be shipped from the shops in Sacramento, California in five large subassemblies due to its enormous size?
text: Did you knowthat the People's Republic of China attempted to promulgate a second round of orthographical reform in 1977 , only to retract it 9 years later amidst mounting opposition and confusion?
text: Did you knowthat the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang was built in 1982 to commemorate the "victory" of Korea over Japan in the WWII ?
text: Did you knowthat the German films based on the works of Edgar Wallace are generally considered a distinct subgenre of crime film ?
text: Did you knowthat Durga Khote was famous for her character roles and was the heroine of the first Marathi talkie ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavonic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav the Wise in the mid- 11th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the 17 muscles of the hip work together in complex ways to produce a wide range of movement?
text: Did you knowthat Ibrahim Hussein Berro was recently identified as the suicide bomber in the 1994 AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires ?
text: Did you knowthat Shane Warne Cricket '99 , a Playstation cricket game is endorsed by the Australian bowler , Shane Warne ?
text: Did you knowthat the phrase " Up to eleven " , inspired by a scene from the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap , was entered into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 with the definition "up to maximum volume"?
text: Did you knowthat Nicolas des Escuteaux ' s novels are regarded as more adventurous than sentimental, and show the influence of the Renaissance Hispano - Portuguese adventure novel ?
text: Did you knowthat the phrase The King is dead. Long live the King! was first used following the accession of Charles VII in 1422?
text: Did you knowthat the Select Vestries Bill is read in the House of Lords at the start of each session of Parliament before a debate on the Queen's Speech , to demonstrate that the House chooses and sets its own business independently of the Crown ?
text: Did you knowthat Malcolm Perry was the first doctor to attend to President Kennedy and performed a tracheotomy which inadvertently destroyed ballistics evidence key to determining who assassinated the president ?
text: Did you knowthat Chuck Muncie was a star running back for The University of California during the 1970s, where he broke six school rushing records that stand to this day?
text: Did you knowthat it is alleged that during the Battle of Ramree Island , crocodiles contributed to the near wiping out of a World War II Japanese garrison?
text: Did you knowthat in 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred became the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and his descendants are still involved in Scouting ?
text: Did you knowthat psychological offender profiling was used by British police for the first time in capturing John Duffy , the so-called Railway Killer ?
text: Did you knowthat while they were part of the hit television war sitcom Dad's Army , Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender were also acting in the radio series Parsley Sidings ?
text: Did you knowthat Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński was a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army , a veteran of World War I , Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War , and was executed by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Virgo Stellar Stream is the proposed name for a stream of stars in the constellation of Virgo which are thought to be the remains of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is in the process of merging with the Milky Way ?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Bates was an Olympic bronze medalist sprinter and a Pro Bowl American football player?
text: Did you knowthat the founders of the Communist League in Denmark , had departed from the Left Socialists in 1972 even though they had been in majority in that party?
text: Did you knowthat in Baroque Rome , when the Austrian-born artist-designer Johann Paul Schor was not collaborating with Bernini , he might be called on to design sculptural architecture to be executed in sugar at a banquet?
text: Did you knowthat the Jinricksha Station is Singapore 's last reminder of the once ubiquitous rickshaw , which was phased out after World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat a puddle was blamed for the death of a mediæval merchant who drowned while crossing it, believing it to be only shallow, when it was actually deep enough to engulf him and his horse?
text: Did you knowthat the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists ?
text: Did you knowthat Akira Machida is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan , and that there have been 15 Chief Justices of Japan since 1947?
text: Did you knowthat Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club is the Venezuelan soccer club with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores ?
text: Did you knowthat Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?
text: Did you knowthat quarterback Bill Kenney is the only player named Mr. Irrelevant (an "award" traditionally given to the last selection of the NFL Draft ) to appear in the Pro Bowl ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of Judaism in Japan started in 1861 when approximately fifty Jewish families settled in Yokohama ?
text: Did you knowthat Kishan Shrikanth , age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada -language feature film , C/o Footpath , which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?
text: Did you knowthat John Crocker , a British corps commander in World War II , served as a both a private and a general in the British Army ?
text: Did you knowthat prolific designer Adrian created costumes for over 200 films during his career at MGM ?
text: Did you knowthat Walther Flemming , a German histologist , discovered mitosis (cell division), chromatin and chromosomes , and that this is considered one of the 100 most important scientific discoveries in history?
text: Did you knowthat The Chesterfield Kings , a veteran garage rock band from Rochester, New York , are currently suing their longtime record label over nonpayment of royalties, and are being represented by a lawyer who played keyboards on several of their albums?
text: Did you knowthat the history of writing began in the 4th millennium BC out of neolithic proto-writing?
text: Did you knowthat Chemmeen , a popular Malayalam novel , was made into a colour Cinemascope film , one of the first in Malayalam film industry ?
text: Did you knowthat the official title of the "Stars on 45 Medley" , which names a total of 11 different songs, makes it the longest-titled song ever to make the Billboard charts in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
text: Did you knowthat the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor is a US$1 billion biotechnology initiative that gets its funding from Michigan 's settlement with the tobacco industry ?
text: Did you knowthat many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid- January ?
text: Did you knowthat although Thomas S. Hamblin preferred ballet and opera, he staged low-brow melodrama , farce , and variety acts at the Bowery Theatre ?
text: Did you knowthat the Martyrologium Hieronymianum , though not written by Saint Jerome himself, was the most widely-used martyrology during the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you knowthat Gilles Joye , a Renaissance composer, was known for brawling and frequenting brothels —but later became a priest ?
text: Did you knowthat Dawn Steel was the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio?
text: Did you knowthat " truthiness ," a word made by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report , was selected as the 2005 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society ?
text: Did you knowthat Yaroslav of Halych's repudiation of his wife led to a popular uprising , in the course of which his favorite concubine was burnt alive ?
text: Did you knowthat alligation is a practical method for solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures?
text: Did you knowthat hypostatic abstraction is the name given to the process describing how the proposition "X is Y" is transformed to "X has Y-ness" ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Barreiras in Bahia , Brazil remained isolated for nearly a decade in the 1960s when the power plant closed?
text: Did you knowthat Zhang Mao became the ruler of Former Liang when a magician had his brother (the then-governor) assassinated ?
text: Did you knowthe United Nations Angola Verification Mission II was a peacekeeping mission that monitored the 1990 ceasefire and 1991 Bicesse Accords?
text: Did you knowthat in the iconic 1955 Richard Avedon photograph, supermodel Dovima posed wearing a Dior evening dress standing with circus elephants ?
text: Did you knowthat four EU-Russia Common Spaces were articulated during the Moscow EU - Russia summit in May 2005 ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games ?
text: Did you knowthat Kanyasulkam , written by Gurajada Apparao in 1892, is the first Telugu play dealing with social issues?
text: Did you knowthat the Seleucid era was a system of numbering years from the return of Seleucus I Nicator to Babylon in 312 BC ?
text: Did you knowthat L. V. Prasad had the unique distinction of acting in the first talkies in three different Indian languages: Hindi , Telugu and Tamil ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mount Victoria Tunnel is 623 metres long and was the first New Zealand tunnel to have air conditioning ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caribbean Club in Key Largo, Florida was built by former millionaire promoter Carl Graham Fisher as "a poor man's retreat" and became famous as a filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zagreb mid-air collision over Croatia in 1976 was one of the deadliest mid-air collisions ?
text: Did you knowthat apart from cellmate George McKnight, U.S. Navy officer George Thomas Coker was the only POW to escape from the " Hanoi Hilton "?
text: Did you knowthat only six of the 12 Eurozone member states have not yet issued €2 commemorative coins , and only four have no plans to do so by 2006 ?
text: Did you knowthat New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
text: Did you knowthat the Ramona Valley in San Diego County California is the country's 162nd American Viticultural Area , and only the third such AVA designated in Southern California by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ?
text: Did you knowthat the nature of the female orgasm is a field of research for academics studying female sexuality ?
text: Did you knowthat the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile , controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet , and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget?
text: Did you knowthat the fighter pilot Aleksandr Kazakov destroyed 32 German and Austro-Hungarian planes during WWI , while his formal tally of 17 is explained by the fact that only planes crashed in the Russian -held territory were officially counted?
text: Did you knowthat the asteroid 7796 Járacimrman , discovered in 1996 on Kleť Observatory and named after the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman , proved to be the lost asteroid that had already been observed in 1973 on Brera- Merate Observatory in northern Italy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian singer Alla Bayanova , who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003 , recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets ?
text: Did you knowthat botanist Edgar Anderson was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an active member of the Religious Society of Friends ?
text: Did you knowthat Chester Racecourse is the oldest horse racing course in the England , built on the site of a blocked harbour in 1533 ?
text: Did you knowthat after Tony Kiritsis was declared " not guilty by reason of insanity " in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Posluszny , a linebacker for Penn State 's football team, was recently named college football 's best defensive player of the year ?
text: Did you knowthat Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University ?
text: Did you knowthat Drayton Hall , built 1738–42, near Charleston, South Carolina , is considered one of the most handsome Neo-Palladian houses in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Paget , known as "the dancing Marquess", inherited his peerage at the age of 23 and spent so much on clothes , jewelry and parties that he went bankrupt with debts of £ 544,000 at the age of 28?
text: Did you knowthat the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz , Austria ?
text: Did you knowthat Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur , and was huge for its time?
text: Did you knowthat Rattlesnake James , the last man to be hanged in California , was convicted of drowning his wife after a failed first attempt to kill her with rattlesnake venom ?
text: Did you knowthat Robin Williams ' A Night at the Met won a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Butler and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia , respectively?
text: Did you knowthat although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket , only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
text: Did you knowthat the same visual hallucinations of geometric patterns , known as form constants , are seen in near-death experiences , synesthesia , and drug-enduced hallucinatory visions?
text: Did you knowthat Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?
text: Did you knowthat as part of Fukubukuro , a New Year's custom in Japan , merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
text: Did you knowthat the first Australian national sporting team to wear the now traditional green and gold team colours were the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899 ?
text: Did you knowthat Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998 ?
text: Did you knowthat Alice Nelson and Sam the Butcher were engaged to be married in the final season of the sitcom The Brady Bunch ?
text: Did you knowthat Space.com is a space and astronomy news website launched in 1999 by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs ?
text: Did you knowthat James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas , appointed by the city council in December 2003 , but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?
text: Did you knowthat the Miranzai Valley is a fertile mountain valley in the Kohat district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cowboy Trail is the longest rails to trails conversion project in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat James Sadleir was expelled from the British House of Commons in 1857 after helping his brother take £288,000 from the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, fled from justice, and ended up murdered in Geneva ?
text: Did you knowthat Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began perfoming in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
text: Did you knowthat The Squirrels , Seattle -based practitioners of the "Frankenstein method of song arrangement", recorded a " Stars on 45 "-style medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz , which was among the 142 7-inch records that British DJ John Peel set aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
text: Did you knowthat a quadrature phase booster is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks ?
text: Did you knowthat Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968 , after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas , and led the Colts into Super Bowl III ?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was renowned for his expertise at artificially inseminating mares?
text: Did you knowthat some scientists , in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges ?
text: Did you knowthat by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986 , he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins ?
text: Did you knowthat Go.com partnered with Goto.com in 2001 , even though a judge had ordered Go.com to pay Goto.com $ 21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo?
text: Did you knowthat a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?
text: Did you knowthat the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur ?
text: Did you knowthat on January 8 1956 , five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in " Operation Auca "?
text: Did you knowthat the Cormorant is a project for a submarine launched aircraft currently under development at Lockheed Martin 's Skunk works research facility?
text: Did you knowthat a count room is a room that is designed and equipped for the purpose of counting large volumes of currency ?
text: Did you knowthat the shooting of the government critic Archbishop Óscar Romero on March 24 , 1980 was one of the causes of the El Salvador Civil War , in which 75,000 people died?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Deep in the Heart of Texas " was first recorded by Perry Como in 1941 ?
text: Did you knowthat Erich Kempka was a chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials ?
text: Did you knowthat Islam in Poland traces its history to the 13th century , with the advent of Tartar settlers?
text: Did you knowthat the development of molecular biology was made possible due to the convergence between biochemistry and genetics ?
text: Did you knowthat as a result of t'aarof , it is not uncommon for Iranian employees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
text: Did you knowthat John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's , Newfoundland on August 3 , 1527 ?
text: Did you knowthat Castorocauda lutrasimilis , a recently described mammal relative that looked like an otter with a beaver 's tail, evolved a semi- aquatic lifestyle 110 million years earlier than any other mammal-like animal?
text: Did you knowthat James Foster was a Scottish -born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hood Event was an incident following the US invasion of Iraq where a group of Turkish special forces operating in northern Iraq was captured and interrogated by the US military , later becoming the basis for the 2006 film Valley of the Wolves Iraq ?
text: Did you knowthat some Australian Aboriginal languages use the aversive case to indicate that an object is feared?
text: Did you knowthat Vanessa Mendoza , Miss Colombia 2001 , was the first Black woman to win that title?
text: Did you knowthat " ultra " was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists ?
text: Did you knowthat Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979 ?
text: Did you knowthat Television House on Kingsway in London served as the headquarters of Associated-Rediffusion , Independent Television News , the TV Times magazine, Associated TeleVision and Thames Television between 1955 and the early 1970s ?
text: Did you knowthat Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was established as the public broadcaster for the British Zone of Germany after World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Salleh Abas was sacked as the Lord President of Malaysia for clashing with the government on the independence of the Malaysian judiciary ?
text: Did you knowthat the battle of Krasnobród of 1939 was one of the last battles of World War II in which cavalry units fought on both sides?
text: Did you knowthat Vladimir Sukhomlinov , who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI , was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat the heavyweight champion boxer Thomas King became a successful bookmaker and rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?
text: Did you knowthat Syed Hussein Alatas is a Malaysian academic who formed two political parties before going on to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya ?
text: Did you knowthat the terms of the 1991 Sino-Russian border agreement between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China took over 6 years to implement?
text: Did you knowthat the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the largest student organizations in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Broadcasting in East Germany was modelled after the Soviet Union 's broadcasting system and East Germany rushed to try to beat West Germany to be first on-air with television ?
text: Did you knowthat The Silent World , an Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau , was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color ?
text: Did you knowthat until the late 1980s , the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical ?
text: Did you knowthat the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996 , 1997 and 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat French spacing , the typographical practice of adding two (rather than one) spaces after a full stop , is a result of the monospaced fonts used by typewriters ?
text: Did you knowthat major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System ?
text: Did you knowthat Round the Bend was a children's television programme that was televised for three years on Children's ITV , but was supposedly cancelled as a result of Mary Whitehouse calling it politically incorrect ?
text: Did you knowthat the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority not only promotes Malaysia to foreign investors, but also handles tasks such as the extension of business visit visas ?
text: Did you knowthat the Teach First organisation which helps top graduate students teach in some of the most deprived areas in London and was inspired by Teach for America , is now expanding to Manchester and Israel ?
text: Did you knowthat the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin , and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski , is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
text: Did you knowthat Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
text: Did you knowthat between 1922 and 1926 , Soviet Russia was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal ?
text: Did you knowthat Hochtief AG , the company that moved the Abu Simbel temple complex to save it from the Aswan High Dam , also built the Führerbunker , scene of Adolf Hitler 's suicide?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred the Great 's taking of London in 886 was followed by his treaty with Guthrum , the Viking ruler of East Anglia ?
text: Did you knowthat Margaret Brundage illustrated most of the covers for the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1933 to 1939?
text: Did you knowthat in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. , the judge ruled that the video game Donkey Kong could be considered a parody of King Kong ?
text: Did you knowthat a Lombard warlord, Melus of Bari , was routed in 1018 at the site of the famous defeat of the Romans by Hannibal ?
text: Did you knowthat the Majlis Amanah Rakyat operates several educational institutes and offers several scholarships for the benefit of Bumiputra students in Malaysia ?
text: Did you knowthat Maj. Henryk Sucharski , one of the commanders of the defence of Westerplatte during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, was allowed to keep his sabre in captivity?
text: Did you knowthat the Detroit neighborhood of Poletown was controversially razed under eminent domain to allow General Motors to construct their Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant?
text: Did you knowthat the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action ?
text: Did you knowthat Tan Chee Khoon was given the moniker of "Mr. Opposition" due to his outspoken opposition to the government in the Parliament of Malaysia ?
text: Did you knowthat in Russian Orthodox bell ringing , the bells are never pealed, but only tolled?
text: Did you knowthat Ernest Rogers Millington , former "Baby" of the British House of Commons , is one of only two living former MPs to have been elected before the 1945 UK general election ?
text: Did you knowthat the failure of the First Malaysia Plan may have indirectly led to the May 13 Incident of racial rioting ?
text: Did you knowthat Pigeon Post , winner of the first ever Carnegie Medal for children's literature, is the only Swallows and Amazons book that does not feature some sort of sailing adventure?
text: Did you knowthat the word " Indonesia " was first used in print by Sam Ratulangi , a high school science teacher who briefly held the post of Governor of Sulawesi and was posthumously awarded the title of National Independence Hero?
text: Did you knowthat the longest of the Kiev bridges , the 1,543 metres long Paton Bridge over the Dnieper River , constructed in 1953 was the first fully welded steel construction of such length at that time?
text: Did you knowthat in the Vatha pagan rising of 1046 , Saint Gellert became a martyr after being pushed off a hill in  a cart?
text: Did you knowthat romanization of Belarusian , the transliteration of Belarusian-language text from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet , is distinct from writing in Łacinka , the historical native Latin alphabet of Belarus ?
text: Did you knowthat Lewis Adams , a former African American slave in Macon County, Alabama is known for helping found the normal school which later became Tuskegee University ?
text: Did you knowthat Arbit Choudhury is the first ever business school student comic strip and web comic ?
text: Did you knowthat the text on Nestor's Cup , one of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (c.740 BCE), is believed to be the result of a humorous drinking-party game?
text: Did you knowthat John Honeyman was a spy who worked for George Washington and who provided intelligence crucial to the success of Washington's foray against the Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey on December 26 , 1776 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Speaker of Dewan Rakyat has the power to amend written copies of speeches made by members of the house before they are given verbally?
text: Did you knowthat Antonio Bosio , the first systematic explorer of the Catacombs of Rome was known as the " Columbus of subterranean Rome" ?
text: Did you knowthat the German KarstadtQuelle AG is the largest department store corporation in Europe with over 100,000 employees?
text: Did you knowthat before R. L. Stevenson became a successful novelist with Treasure Island in 1883, he was a struggling author of travel narratives who published An Inland Voyage , Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and Silverado Squatters ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1st and Ten System creates the yellow line seen on American football telecasts which shows where a team will earn a first down?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Nqakula , the Minister of Safety and Security of South Africa and chairperson of the SACP underwent military training in Angola , East Germany , and the Soviet Union in order to fight in Umkhonto we Sizwe , the armed wing of the ANC ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gourd Dance is performed to "cleanse" the dance arena prior to a Native American pow-wow ?
text: Did you knowthat Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram was the first novel in Tamil ?
text: Did you knowthat Isabelle Romée was the mother of Joan of Arc and petitioned the Pope before her daughter's conviction for heresy was overturned?
text: Did you knowthat basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season?
text: Did you knowthat there are as many as two million illegal immigrants in Malaysia , half of whom may be receiving Bumiputra privileges?
text: Did you knowthat the dress Marilyn Monroe wore on the night she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President was so tight she had to be sewn into it?
text: Did you knowthat the UK National Industrial Relations Court was controversial throughout its short life from 1971 to 1974, and was abolished soon after the Labour government of Harold Wilson came to power?
text: Did you knowthat the Park Ujazdowski , founded in 1893 by Sokrates Starynkiewicz , features the second bridge in the world built of reinforced concrete ?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyataev and nine other POWs took over a German He 111 H22 bomber and escaped from the concentration camp on Usedom island?
text: Did you knowthat the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Old Ford Motor Factory , Ford 's first assembly plant in Southeast Asia and built in 1941, was the site of the historic surrender of the British to the Japanese in World War II , later described by Winston Churchill as the "largest capitulation in British history"?
text: Did you knowthat the model for the doctor in William Hogarth 's The Harlot's Progress was the often satirized French physician John Misaubin ?
text: Did you knowthat two out of three most notable monuments by Edward Wittig were destroyed during the World War II , while the third one was not erected until 2001, 60 years after Wittig's death?
text: Did you knowthat the first fluorescent blacklight paint was invented by Bob Switzer and named Day-Glo ?
text: Did you knowthat the R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which have featured in every TimeSplitters game created?
text: Did you knowthat the Dewan Rakyat is prohibited from discussing the repeal of certain articles of the Constitution of Malaysia ?
text: Did you knowthat scientific transliteration , a method used in linguistics to transliterate Slavic languages from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet , was first standardized over a century ago based on the Croatian alphabet ?
text: Did you knowthat the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways add about 500 km of new track each year to their network with planned links to Iraq , Pakistan , and Afghanistan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ampulex wasp can disable a cockroach's escape reflex , and use the roach to feed its larva ?
text: Did you knowthat the traditional Russian carnival of Maslenitsa lasts for a week and culminates in the burning of a straw effigy representing winter and all the left-over blintzes ?
text: Did you knowthat pendatang asing is a pejorative phrase used in Malaysia to imply non-Malays are not welcome?
text: Did you knowthat Lillian Too , renowned feng shui expert, was once chief executive officer of a bank , and has written over 80 books since her retirement?
text: Did you knowthat Tristán de Luna y Arellano built the first European settlement within the continental boundaries of the United States at modern-day Pensacola ?
text: Did you knowthat New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first player to announce "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl ?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional Anaheim Electronics docking ship La Vie en Rose is so named due to the fact that it opens up like a blooming rose when not docked with a spaceship?
text: Did you knowthat Teresa Pizarro de Angulo , Miss Colombia 's organizer for more than 40 years, was also Cartagena 's first female farm owner?
text: Did you knowthat the Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon , which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth?
text: Did you knowthat when the Etruscan bronze Chimera of Arezzo , carefully buried near the city walls of Arezzo some time in Antiquity , was rediscovered in 1553, it was quickly claimed for the collection of Cosimo I de' Medici ?
text: Did you knowthat among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev , there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart " due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?
text: Did you knowthat Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations ?
text: Did you knowthat the name teonanácatl , referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs , translates to "the flesh of God "?
text: Did you knowthat the Trow Ghyll skeleton , found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947 , was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war ?
text: Did you knowthat according to UFO religions , aliens exist, and would reveal themselves in the future to enable humans overcome their ecological, spiritual and social problems?
text: Did you knowthat during the era of Ryukyu Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa 's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Cambridge House on Piccadilly used to be home to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and Lord Palmerston , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the theory of the permanent arms economy is a Marxist theory to explain the long economic boom after World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Sonjo , a Bantu language of northern Tanzania , has been spoken for centuries in an isolated enclave in Maasai territory?
text: Did you knowthat les Brasseries du Cameroun controls 75 percent of the market for beer and soft drinks in Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat Indiana Jones suffers from ophidiophobia , the fear of snakes ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1876 , Edward Bouchet became the first black American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university ?
text: Did you knowthat Xianxingzhe , China 's first bipedal humanoid robot was satirized in Japan for having a joint that resembles a "crotch cannon"?
text: Did you knowthat Howard Thomas created three of the most popular wartime radio programmes for the BBC and discovered Vera Lynn , but was forced to resign from the company?
text: Did you knowthat a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal Mozambiquean language Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Brownrigg went from being a Midshipman to being Naval Aide de Camp to Queen Elizabeth II to creating Europe's first commercial television company, Associated-Rediffusion ?
text: Did you knowthat the July 2005 NKF scandal led to a  backlash from the donors to the charity, resulting in the resignation of the board of directors?
text: Did you knowthat the Philharmonia Hungarica made the first complete recording of Haydn 's symphonies , was an orchestra founded by Hungarian exiles and funded by the West German government during the Cold War ?
text: Did you knowthat the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak , Korney Chukovsky , and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses?
text: Did you knowthat " La Vie en Rose " is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf ?
text: Did you knowthat a Push-Pull Converter is a type of DC to DC converter that uses a transformer to step the voltage of a DC power supply?
text: Did you knowthat the Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez became famous with the painting "Virgen de Guadalupe", which represents Lopez's personal investigation into Virgen de Guadalupe's status in Mexican society?
text: Did you knowthat the actions of Australian soldiers at the Battle of Epehy during World War I led to German officers in the area saying that they would not fight Australian troops?
text: Did you knowthat the L'Arlésienne Suites were composed by Georges Bizet in 1872 to accompany the play of the same name by Alphonse Daudet ?
text: Did you knowthat Lady Macbeth wore a crown of saucepan lids in the 1933 production of Shakespeare 's play, staged by Theodore Komisarjevsky in Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth "?
text: Did you knowthat Sofia Petrovna , a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939 - 1940 , and published in the West in 1960s , was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988 ?
text: Did you knowthat only three Super 14 rugby union teams ever won the Super 12 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brothertown Indians were the first tribe of Native Americans in the United States to become United States citizens, which caused the tribe to relinquish their tribal sovereignty ?
text: Did you knowthat Jan Nagórski , Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic , was presumed dead for 38 years?
text: Did you knowthat, for the Dutch Old Masters , still lifes were a great opportunity to show one's aptitude in painting textures and surfaces in great detail and with realistic light effects?
text: Did you knowthat the 1939 cantata " Ballad For Americans " by John La Touche and Earl Robinson was performed that year at both the Republican National Convention and that of the American Communist Party ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lagonda Straight-6 engine that vaulted Aston Martin to fame in the 1950s was designed by Walter Owen Bentley , who also created the Bentley automobile ?
text: Did you knowthat Owasippe Scout Reservation , established in 1911, is the oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat parts of California were declared a disaster area when Hurricane Kathleen killed several people and caused millions of dollars in damage due to widespread flooding ?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Safed Sagar which was launched by the Indian Air Force to aid the Indian Army during the 2 month long Kargil War , was the first time air power was used on such a large scale in Kashmir since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 ?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Ransome used his own memories of a frozen Windermere during the Great Freeze of 1895 when he wrote Winter Holiday , his fourth Swallows and Amazons book?
text: Did you knowthat Jan Stanisław Jankowski , the World War II political leader of the Polish Secret State , was kidnapped by the NKVD and killed in a Soviet prison?
text: Did you know that commotio cordis is a sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest observed mostly in young people during participation in sports , and that is the most frequent cause of accidental deaths in Little League baseball games?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian violinist Ion Petre Stoican got his recording contract in Communist-era Romania because he caught an American spy?
text: Did you knowthat Gongche notation was once popular in transcribing the music of China before the modern jianpu and standard notation ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 more Russian soldiers died in hospitals from contagious diseases than fighting on the battlefield?
text: Did you knowthat the title of the movie I Married a Communist was so unappealing to audiences that their response led the film to be rereleased under the title The Woman on Pier 13 ?
text: Did you knowthat Mazhar Hussain has scored more runs in one-day international cricket then any other United Arab Emirates batsman ?
text: Did you knowthat the Podhale rifles are the only soldiers within the Polish Army to wear uniforms based on folk attire?
text: Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom and Australia a tuck shop is a small food retailer found in schools?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian victory at Molodi in 1572 put a stop to the northward expansion of the Ottoman Empire into present-day Russia?
text: Did you knowthat more than 100 gamelan ensembles (a musical performance group of Indonesian origin) have been formed in the U.S. since the first was established at UCLA in 1958 ?
text: Did you knowthat secret passages have helped people to hide in or flee from a building , or even to enter it without being spotted?
text: Did you knowthat researchers are studying the waters of Soap Lake in Washington with the hope of learning about life on Mars ?
text: Did you knowthat the City of London Yeomanry was a regiment of the British Territorial Army which served at various times as a cavalry , infantry , artillery , anti-aircraft , and armoured unit, and now forms a squadron of the Royal Corps of Signals ?
text: Did you knowthat George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
text: Did you knowthat Jan Andrzej Morsztyn , now recognized as one of the leading poets of Polish baroque , considered his career as a courtier much more important than that of a poet?
text: Did you knowthat, before he was President of the United States , Herbert Hoover was married at the Royal Presidio Chapel in Monterey, California ?
text: Did you knowthat Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Jean Armand de Lestocq , a French physician , wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth ?
text: Did you knowthat when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America , the largest building in Austin, Texas , and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lieven princely family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida , one of the first Livonians to convert to Christianity ?
text: Did you knowthat we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii , and from the poems of Martial , Catullus , and Horace ?
text: Did you knowthat the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne , Switzerland , an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized?
text: Did you knowthat Adwaita , the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive , the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company ?
text: Did you knowthat Lantian Man , who was discovered in China in 1963 , preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
text: Did you knowthat The Impressions ' 1967 single " We're a Winner " , written by Curtis Mayfield , was a socially conscious song which became an anthem for the American Civil Rights movement?
text: Did you knowthat ADMA , a chemical found in human blood, produces adverse effects that may lead to cardiovascular disease , diabetes and erectile dysfunction ?
text: Did you knowthat the seal emblazoned on the flag of Nashville, Tennessee displays a Native American holding a skull that is believed to be Oconostota , former leading Chief of the Cherokee Nation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Westfield Brandon is one of five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group ?
text: Did you knowthat in an engagement on Lake Huron , a small British force captured two American gunboats in the summer of 1814?
text: Did you knowthat soil conservation was first practiced by the Phoenicians , and today it embraces disciplines such as hydrology , microbiology and soil chemistry research?
text: Did you knowthat North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while Pagans believe "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
text: Did you knowthat while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet , her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s ?
text: Did you knowthat Deneb is the only character to appear in all four of Quest's video games in the Ogre Battle series?
text: Did you knowthat in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
text: Did you knowthat Sarat Chandra Bose , the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Washington Hebrew Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia that has operated continuously since its formation on April 25 , 1852 , by twenty-one members?
text: Did you knowthat the long-running German TV show Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst is the only German television format to have entered the United States , where it is produced by Fox as America's Most Wanted ?
text: Did you knowthat the Korzhenevskaya Peak in Tajikistan is one of the five " Snow Leopard Peaks " of the former Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat an estimated 892 Edsel Bermuda station wagons were produced before the model was dropped after a single year of production?
text: Did you knowthat famous Russian painter Ilya Repin contributed to the Russian connections in Australia by helping to create  the Orthodox Church of Saint Vladimir on Robertson Road in Sydney ?
text: Did you knowthat Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero 's wife Poppaea ?
text: Did you knowthat Andrey the Elder , brother of Ivan III , sponsored the construction of the first stone edifices in his capital, Uglich ?
text: Did you knowthat Historic Jamestowne is a National Historic Site on  Jamestown Island on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia operated by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service ?
text: Did you knowthat the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev , who sang with great success at La Scala and the Paris Olympia , was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
text: Did you knowthat Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP 's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
text: Did you knowthat the 1859 McLane-Ocampo Treaty would have given the United States extensive free trade and transit rights across Mexico and the right of military intervention , in exchange for a $ 4 million loan to the Benito Juarez government then fighting a civil war , but was never ratified by Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat automated CPR machines such as AutoPulse are used to treat cardiac arrest in both humans and animals ?
text: Did you knowthat in the course of the Crimean War , the British and French Navies undertook three attempts to lay a siege to the town of Taganrog ?
text: Did you knowthat the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to 1943 as part of Khruschev 's policy to minimize the scope of the Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
text: Did you knowthat diamond magnate Woolf Barnato won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, and in 1930 won a race across France in his Bentley against Le Train Bleu ?
text: Did you knowthat the TV Land Awards have been awarded annually since 2003 by the TV Land network to reward classic television ?
text: Did you knowthat New Mexico 's Carson National Forest , named after Kit Carson , contains Anasazi artifacts?
text: Did you knowthat the global stratotype for the Precambrian - Cambrian boundary is a cliff at Fortune Head , southeastern Newfoundland ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Stoppard 's play Rough Crossing is a loose adaptation of Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár 's Play at the Castle ?
text: Did you knowthat the scarf worn by members of the Young Pioneers , the national youth organization of the Communist Party of China , corresponds to a triangle that is missing from one of its flags?
text: Did you knowthat the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of the Pennsylvania State University , founded in 1908, was the first industrial engineering department in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Boy Scouts of America 50-Miler Award , given to those who hike or paddle 50 or more miles , is designed to encourage personal fitness , self-reliance , and a practical understanding of conservation ?
text: Did you knowthat Marcel Boulestin , who appeared on the BBC 's experimental television broadcasts in 1937 was the first television chef ?
text: Did you knowthat the play Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson explores the disillusionment of former American anti-war activists in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ?
text: Did you knowthat Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association , the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India ?
text: Did you knowthat Langley Park makes Perth the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district ?
text: Did you knowthat Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas ?
text: Did you knowthat Prasoon Joshi , an award-winning advertising executive is also a lyricist for Bollywood movies?
text: Did you knowthat the Vanessa Carlton song " A Thousand Miles " became popular amongst U.S. troops serving in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq , and was the most requested song on the radio station BFBS Middle East in April 2003?
text: Did you knowthat only 6% of Pacific hurricanes make landfall on the United States , and that the state of Arizona is affected by a tropical cyclone only about once every five years?
text: Did you knowthat Ludwig Fahrenkrog was a German artist who founded one of the first neopagan religious groups, the Germanic Faith-Community , in 1907?
text: Did you knowthat Gideon Brecher ( 1797 - 1873 ) was a Jewish Austrian physician and writer who wrote what is most likely the first scholarly article on circumcision , Die Beschneidung der Israeliten, etc ., in 1845 ?
text: Did you knowthat some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding 's Lord of the Flies , written 66 years later?
text: Did you knowthat Satyajit Ray , the noted Indian film director , also wrote popular fiction , especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali ?
text: Did you knowthat a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk , in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?
text: Did you knowthat Beekman Winthrop , the third American Governor of Puerto Rico , was a direct descendant of both John Winthrop , the first Governor of Massachusetts , and John Winthrop, the Younger , the first Governor of Connecticut ?
text: Did you knowthat Sillustani is a pre- Incan burial ground with burial towers known as chullpas ?
text: Did you knowthat when the British Army attacked the Agra Fort in 1803 , a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir (throne of Jahangir ), but only caused a superficial crack on one side?
text: Did you knowthat Parlophone 's "?" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company ?
text: Did you knowthat though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end , the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
text: Did you knowthat Sanford N. McDonnell , the chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation , is also a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America ?
text: Did you knowthat most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
text: Did you knowthat Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997?
text: Did you knowthat Georgia ’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122 ?
text: Did you knowthat historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of Mount Rushmore in order to attract greater tourism to South Dakota ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1978 , the nitrate- base film vaults of both the US National Archives and George Eastman House autoignited ?
text: Did you knowthat the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine , fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual ?
text: Did you knowthat the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana was the last Art Deco theater constructed in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat Alonso Manso was the first bishop to arrive in the New World and also the first Inquisitor General of the Indies?
text: Did you knowthat the history of Berne , the Swiss capital , begins not with her founding in 1191 , but with the Helvetian oppidum Brenodor that Caesar conquered in the Gallic Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy , which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
text: Did you knowthat the boojum phenomenon in superfluidity physics is named after an imaginary monster in a poem by Lewis Carroll ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1977 , K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the eminent Russian culinary writer William Pokhlebkin was in fact a notable expert in the history of diplomacy , but also the author of A History of Vodka , and that his name was thought to be a pen name ?
text: Did you knowthat Doe Lang , who performed on Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin Maher was the first non-Chinese television journalist to be a news anchor on China's state-run China Central Television ?
text: Did you knowthat the plot of the award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Inner Light " is similar to that of the Japanese folktale The Dream of Akinosuke ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Texas at Austin professor Jonathan Sessler developed molecules called " texaphyrins ," used to treat neoplastic and cardiovascular disease and named after their resemblance to the state flag of Texas ?
text: Did you knowthat a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media?
text: Did you knowthat the prosauropod dinosaur Efraasia was misidentified at least four times before being recognized as a separate genus ?
text: Did you knowthat Hakeem Olajuwon was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament while playing for a team that failed to win the title, earning the honor in the 1983 tournament ?
text: Did you knowthat the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records , and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Krasny Bor was a World War II battle in which neutral Spain assisted Germany with an all volunteer infantry division?
text: Did you knowthat Apple Computer 's PowerBook 5300 got the nickname "HindenBook" after the Lithium ion batteries used in the original design were shown to burst into flames under certain circumstances?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat cosmonauts such as Grigori Nelyubov , dismissed from the Soviet space program , were airbrushed out of official photographs, leading to early Cold War speculation of failed missions even when the actual reasons for dismissal were sometimes mundane?
text: Did you knowthat during the Gothic War in the 4th century , the Goths killed a Roman Emperor , destroyed a Roman army and laid waste large tracts of the Roman Balkans ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a 19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions?
text: Did you knowthat a house was held to be haunted by poltergeists as a matter of law in the 1991 New York case Stambovsky v. Ackley , making the Nyack, New York house the only legally haunted house in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft , proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail ?
text: Did you knowthat Norway 's first regional theatre , the Hålogaland Teater , used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø ?
text: Did you knowthat several Turkic nomads of the Kipchak clan settled in Georgia in 1118 and served in the Georgian military ranks for nearly two centuries?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the East Coast of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham 's most famous book, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey , is named after a ghost that Windham believed haunted her home?
text: Did you knowthat William Burnet , Governor of New Jersey and New York , obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter ?
text: Did you knowthat over 5,000 Rosenwald Schools in the United States were built primarily for the education of African Americans with funds donated by Julius Rosenwald , who was part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company ?
text: Did you knowthat January 26th , which in 1950 became the Republic Day of India , was also the day of the promulgation of Purna Swaraj Declaration in 1930 ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced jazz and rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
text: Did you know that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Richard Ingoldesby , Governor of New Jersey , caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
text: Did you knowthat the race movie , a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945 ?
text: Did you knowthat the aluminum smelting plant in Tursunzade is the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest written constitution of a Greek city was discovered in an inscription at Dreros in Crete ?
text: Did you knowthat the Council of Nablus , held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120 , established punishments for adultery , bigamy , homosexuality , and sexual relations with Muslims ?
text: Did you knowthat the compound 4-ethylphenol , produced by the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces , can make wine smell like band-aids ?
text: Did you knowthat jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows?
text: Did you knowthat the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ancient Greeks credited Broteas , the ugly son of Tantalus , with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the Great Mother of the Gods in modern Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
text: Did you knowthat Super typhoon Nancy is one of the eight typhoons to receive a special name from the Japan Meteorological Agency ?
text: Did you knowthat the recently discovered deep-sea decapod Kiwa hirsuta was dubbed the yeti crab by its discoverers on account of its hairy appearance?
text: Did you knowthat Matvei Muranov was one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purge ?
text: Did you knowthat Stephanie von Hohenlohe , a Jew , was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
text: Did you knowthat the docu-drama The Road to Guantanamo , depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay , is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
text: Did you knowthat the early contact lens pioneer August Müller demonstrated his technique for grinding scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia ?
text: Did you knowthat Ramy Brooks , a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska , is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event?
text: Did you knowthat at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main Kiev railway station for the winter?
text: Did you knowthat an agent of the Malaysian Special Branch so successfully infiltrated the Malayan Communist Party that he was in turn ordered by them to infiltrate the Special Branch?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills , but never played a game with them?
text: Did you knowthat Bonnybridge , forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland , is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?
text: Did you knowthat Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant ?
text: Did you knowthat while the female and male sexual organs of Congdon silktassel are on separate plants, it is the pendant male catkins that are more showy?
text: Did you knowthat an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha ?
text: Did you knowthat the German hip-hop crew Fünf Sterne Deluxe made their 1999 comeback with the single "Ja Ja..., deine Mudder", a German take on the dozens ?
text: Did you know that Stony Clove Notch , a pass in the Catskill Mountains , was once so narrow that it could only be traversed by people walking in single file ?
text: Did you knowthe Siege of Compiègne was Joan of Arc's final military action?
text: Did you knowthat botanist Tomitaro Makino , despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
text: Did you knowthat until 1988 , a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi wrote and illustrated two detailed treatises , from memory, while chained in a dungeon in Istanbul ?
text: Did you knowthat a fall of red rain in Kerala in 2001 might have contained microbes of extraterrestrial origin?
text: Did you knowthat the Mexican actress Leticia Palma ' s dispute with Jorge Negrete led to the end of a career described as "one of the most interesting presences" of the cinema of Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat Hieronymus Bosch paintings helped inspire the Surrealist movement ?
text: Did you knowthat Blanton C. Winship , a veteran of Spanish-American War and World War I survived an assassination attempt while he was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1938?
text: Did you knowthat Tran Duc Thao , a Vietnamese philosopher , attempted to reconcile Marxist philosophy 's dialectical materialism with Husserlian phenomenology ?
text: Did you knowthat gastric lymphoma is the most common lymphoma affecting the gastrointestinal tract ?
text: Did you knowthat Mustelus hacat is a species of smooth-hound shark discovered in 2003 in the Sea of Cortez , off the coast of Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas was formed in December 20 , 1895 , when the Missionary District of Northern Texas was granted diocesan status and that it now includes more than seventy parishes and schools in the diocese?
text: Did you knowthat in Islam , Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery ?
text: Did you knowthat Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University 's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14 , 1950 through October 17 , 1953 ?
text: Did you knowthat the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia ?
text: Did you knowthat The Exile , the first African American talking film , was a semi-autobiographical film about a Black rancher in South Dakota , with elements of interracial romance and some nightclub scenes set in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat Jatin Das , an Indian freedom fighter , died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929 ?
text: Did you knowthat The Observatory , a Singaporean space rock band released their first album packaged as a diary , complete with torn pages and paperclipped photos?
text: Did you knowthat NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala , a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler?
text: Did you knowthat Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879 ?
text: Did you knowthat Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall ?
text: Did you knowthat the S500 was the first production car from Honda ?
text: Did you knowthat the endangered subspecies California Clapper Rail , a chicken -sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old?
text: Did you knowthat the 1934 jazz standard " Stars Fell on Alabama " was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833 ?
text: Did you knowthat S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka — the mythical city of Krishna submerged in the Arabian Sea ?
text: Did you knowthat Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings , SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat the Reesor Siding 1963 Strike which left 3 people dead, was the deadliest confrontation in Canadian labour history?
text: Did you knowthat Jarilo was a major Proto-Slavic deity of vegetation , fertility and spring , also associated with war and harvest ?
text: Did you knowthat the fleets of Gisulf II of Salerno sometimes turned to piracy against Amalfi and Pisa ?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Dylan 's infamous performance of " Maggie's Farm " at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was seen by his band's organist Al Kooper as "sort of a disaster"?
text: Did you knowthat the Brazilian city of Corumbaíba was founded after a local rancher saw a white wolf, which, according to a legend, would give him good luck, and then built a chapel thanking his luck?
text: Did you knowthat In re Debs was a 1895 Supreme Court case that resulted in an unanimous ruling affirming the right of the United States government to issue an injunction to halt strikes affecting interstate commerce and U.S. Mail ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scintillant Hummingbird has bronze-green upperparts and a rufous and black-striped tail?
text: Did you knowthat the postminimalist artist, Gabriel Orozco , once sliced a Citroën DS into three pieces length-wise, removed the central piece and then re-attached the two sides leading to an arrow-like automobile ?
text: Did you knowthat the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia , Nikolay Mordvinov , started his career serving on English ships in America ?
text: Did you knowthat through the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Usenet newsgroup , Babylon 5 creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski is often credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with his fans on the internet , and have their comments impact the look and feel of his work?
text: Did you know that the Soviet general Valentin Varennikov , one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 , was eventually acqutted by the Russian court and took a seat in the State Duma ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Resources Commission controlled 70% of Chinese industry in Republican China ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rosenbaum House is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. state of Alabama ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ottawa rules are a set of guidelines for doctors to aid them in deciding if a patient with foot or ankle pain should be offered X-rays to diagnose a possible bone fracture ?
text: Did you knowthat each year in the U.S., several sites complete soil contamination clean-up by using microbes that eat up toxic chemicals in soil?
text: Did you knowthat on January 21 , 2006 Ilan Halimi , a French Jew , was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that recruited women, in order to alleviate manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all?
text: Did you knowthat the Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest , Romania , now a Hilton , may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II , and only slightly less so during the Cold War ?
text: Did you knowthat Russia won the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War , because of its superior technology , despite Persia upscaling its efforts at the end of the war, and declaring it a holy war ?
text: Did you knowthat the call of Mangrove Black Hawk is a distinctive piping spink-speenk-speenk-spink-spink-spink... ?
text: Did you knowthat national legislative elections will be held in Thailand on April 2 , 2006 , following the decision by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the lower house of the Thai legislature, the House of Representatives?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Ashdown is the only person to have played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Lydia Sokolova , born in Wanstead as Hilda Munnings, was the principal character dancer of the Ballets Russes and the first English ballerina in the company?
text: Did you knowthat during the Battle of Hel , one of the longest battles in the 1939 Polish September Campaign , Polish forces temporarily separated the peninsula from the mainland, forming an island?
text: Did you knowthat Greyfriars Kirkyard , famed for its association with Greyfriars Bobby , is haunted by the spirit of " Bluidy Mackenzie " and featured in the early photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson ?
text: Did you knowthat when Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn blood which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in blood?
text: Did you knowthat Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the privatization of the country's largest bank ?
text: Did you knowthat although archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many artifacts , they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Zhuolu , fought in the 26th century BC and the second recorded battle in Chinese history , is often considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the Han Chinese civilization?
text: Did you knowthat Nikolay Glazkov , a Soviet poet , is credited with having coined the term samizdat , which has come to be internationally known?
text: Did you knowthat on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid ,  the Red Army 's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the Stalingrad relief airlift?
text: Did you knowthat the Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico , engages in anting , a behavior in which birds rub ants on their feathers?
text: Did you knowthat the mummified remains of outlaw Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama ?
text: Did you knowthat The Stewardesses , the most profitable 3-D film in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its showing in theaters?
text: Did you knowthat French singer Édith Piaf dedicated her recording of the song, " Non, je ne regrette rien ", to the French Foreign Legion ?
text: Did you knowthat the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry suffered 330 casualties, including 120 dead, in eight minutes at the Second Battle of Bull Run , the largest number of fatalities received by any federal infantry unit in the entire American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum , a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century ?
text: Did you knowthat in Miller v. Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning , MR ?
text: Did you knowthat pitcher - outfielder Clint Hartung was hyped as Cooperstown -bound but played so poorly for the New York Giants that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?
text: Did you knowthat Protmušis is a quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius , Lithuania since 1997 ?
text: Did you knowthat a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy , entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway , a major throughfare connecting the island city of Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?
text: Did you knowthat the Kryvbas economic region in Ukraine is one of the largest iron ore and steel industry centers in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of Gdynia during the Polish September Campaign , the German armed forces captured Gdynia , an important port and industrial center of the Second Polish Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat the SS leader Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz , because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom?
text: Did you knowthat the Ford Mustang SSP , in addition to being advertised by Ford as "chasing Porsches for a living", was also used as a pursuit car for the Lockheed U2 spy plane?
text: Did you knowthat in the Night Attack skirmish, Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?
text: Did you knowthat Kongara Jaggayya was the first Indian film actor to be elected directly to the Parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat Camille Gravel , a Louisiana Democrat and civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
text: Did you knowthat the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion , with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in world history, involving almost 4,000,000 men on both sides and stretching on a front 1,400 kilometers wide?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Thomas Becket professed to owe a "debt of gratitude" to Margaret of Navarre , who was the regent of Sicily between 1166 and 1171 ?
text: Did you knowthat less than a teaspoon of  a pesticide of the Toxicity Class I ( EPA system) can kill an adult person?
text: Did you knowthat Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski , a colonel of the Polish Army , was one of the many prisoners murdered by Nazi Germany in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp ?
text: Did you knowthat Troy VII is an archaeological layer of Troy associated with the city's destruction during the legendary Trojan War ?
text: Did you knowthat The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964 , seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines ?
text: Did you knowthat the calls of the Red-throated Ant-Tanager , a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean , include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik , and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick ?
text: Did you knowthat Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States , replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793 , and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River ?
text: Did you knowthat, during the Battle of Königsberg , German troops were subjected to Soviet propaganda , telling them that they were trapped in a pocket and that their resistance was pointless?
text: Did you knowthat a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg , went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500 -mile race?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Domašov during the Seven Years' War was the first big military success of Ernst Gideon von Laudon , which made Prussian King Frederick the Great finish the siege of Olomouc and leave Moravia ?
text: Did you knowthat Robin Philipson , former President of the Royal Scottish Academy , was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?
text: Did you knowthat in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum , which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English , but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
text: Did you knowthat, in the history of wound care , the Ancient Greeks were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic wounds , calling them "fresh" and "non-healing", respectively?
text: Did you knowthat the sepoys lost the Central India Campaign (1858) because most of their officers were elderly men who had attained rank through seniority while seeing little action and receiving no training as leaders?
text: Did you knowthat the Birdsville Races in Queensland , Australia used to have separate races for horses that ate grass and those that ate corn ?
text: Did you know that the Bogomil bishop Nicetas went to Lombardy in order to throw doubts on the Cathars 's spiritual succession to the Apostles ?
text: Did you know that the 1065-m long Črni Kal viaduct on the A1 highway is the longest viaduct in Slovenia ?
text: Did you know that a bouchon is a type of traditional restaurant in Lyon , serving such delicacies as pig's head cheese, tripe soup and andouillette ?
text: Did you know that Peter the Great was the principal editor of the Vedomosti , the first newspaper printed in Russia ?
text: Did you know that Hugh Green received the Walter Camp Award and the Lombardi Award , and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996 ?
text: Did you know that the 111th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force successfully foiled an attack by the German Luftwaffe about an hour before World War II broke out in Westerplatte ?
text: Did you know that Yueh Hai Ching Temple is the oldest Taoist temple in Singapore , and Chinese Emperor Guang Xu presented a plaque to the temple in 1907 ?
text: Did you know that Will Jefferson is probably the tallest professional cricketer ever, at about 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m ) tall?
text: Did you know that Philip II of Macedon used the Social War (357-355 BC) as an opportunity to further the interests of his Macedonian Empire in the Aegean region?
text: Did you know that Arthropleuridea is an extinct class of myriapods which includes, at over 2 meters long, the largest terrestrial arthropods that ever lived?
text: Did you know that King James IV of Scotland once used Mingarry Castle as a stronghold for fighting off clan Donald in the late 15th century ?
text: Did you know that some call the Atchison County Historical Museum the "world's smallest presidential library "?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil , was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee 's withdrawal?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Parliament Buildings have housed several dozen stray cats since the 1970s ?
text: Did you know that the 2005-06 World Sevens Series in rugby sevens will be the first in seven seasons of the competition to be won by a team other than New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Australia has a National Public Toilet Map , allowing users to locate the 14,000 public toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude ?
text: Did you knowthat BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes , and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial , which is located in the Moti Shahi Mahal in Ahmedabad , was built by Emperor Shahjahan and was formerly the residence of the Governor of Gujarat ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1936 Siege of the Alcázar , around 1000 Spanish Nationalists in Toledo held a medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican troops?
text: Did you knowthat the Middle Awash is a site along the Awash River of Ethiopia in which some of the most famous extinct hominids have been discovered?
text: Did you knowthat a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl , Rosemarie Nitribitt , who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957 ?
text: Did you knowthat Stamp mills , first used during the Renaissance in such diverse industries as paper making , oil-seed processing, and ore refining, work to crush their material by repeatedly dropping heavy weights on them?
text: Did you knowthat Ivan Shuvalov , who was a favourite of Empress Elizabeth , 27 years his senior, used his influence at court to establish the first permanent theatre , university , and academy of arts in Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat despite inherent design flaws, the Polish Navy ordered two Wicher -class destroyers from a French shipyard in order to help secure a line of credit for the Polish government ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam , one of only 3 such steel dams built in the United States, and located in the Kaibab National Forest , is the only one still in service?
text: Did you knowthat it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Splittail , a cyprinid fish native to the Central Valley in California , is the sole living member of its genus?
text: Did you knowthat canoe racer Josefa Idem , a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany , later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
text: Did you knowthat the Bobby Goldsboro song " Honey " (1968), Goldsboro's first and only number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles Chart , frequently appears on " worst songs of all time " lists?
text: Did you knowthat the Trinity Church is a permanent building in Antarctica and the most southern church in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule ?
text: Did you knowthat mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco , an analogue of the European ghetto ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kirghiz novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years takes place over the course of one day and chronicles efforts of two cosmonauts , one American and one Soviet, to make contact with intelligent life from another planet ?
text: Did you knowthat the reforms of the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , based on the French revolution , were annulled by the military intervention of the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Red Army conducted the successful Toropets-Kholm Operation in January 1942, threatening to encircle German Army Group Centre?
text: Did you knowthat the culture of medieval Poland , the earliest stage of Polish culture , was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat Women Strike for Peace played a crucial role in bringing down the HUAC and were acknowledged by both U Thant and John F. Kennedy as a factor in the adoption of the Limited Test Ban Treaty ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union , an Indian farm labourers movement, claims a membership of over 2.5 million?
text: Did you knowthat the French light cruiser Marseillaise was sabotaged by her own crew on November 27 , 1942 , in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the ship?
text: Did you knowthat Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians , including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?
text: Did you knowthat Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka is the oldest mosque in Singapore and was established in 1820, just a year after the British set up a trading post in Singapore ?
text: Did you know that the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company carrying passengers and freight from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales , Australia , between 1850 and 1955, was known as the 'Pig and Whistle line' because it was said that the fleet ships would wait an hour for a pig but not a minute for a passenger?
text: Did you knowthat William Hamilton , a surgeon of British East India Company , cured the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar from recurrent illness, thereby hastening the process of achieving the grant that allowed the company to legally trade in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Privat Group is one of the few Ukrainian companies that own industries in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Peking Plan saved three destroyers of the Polish Navy from imminent destruction at the beginning of the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat The University of Texas School of Law has been involved in two separate court cases , one of which reached the Supreme Court , which significantly redefined university admissions criteria across the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russo-Persian War of 1796 was cancelled by Tsar Paul I within one month after his ascension to the Russian throne ?
text: Did you knowthat the Jugendweihe is a secular alternative to confirmation in Germany and became a Socialist pledge in the atheist GDR ?
text: Did you knowthat completion of the West Coast Highway viaduct — the longest in Singapore — was delayed for more than two years because of the contractor 's financial problems?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Schepens , an influential ophthalmologist and regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery ", was also a leader in the Nazi resistance movement ?
text: Did you knowthat Katie Melua agreed to re-record her song " Nine Million Bicycles " (2005) in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh , who described its lyrics as "an insult to a century of astronomical progress"?
text: Did you knowthat the wars in Lombardy , fought between Venice and Milan from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, mark the emergence of five great Italian territorial states and the European concept of " balance of power "?
text: Did you knowthat Moritz Daniel Oppenheim , a German Jewish painter , is considered "the first Jewish painter" because his work was informed by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his contemporaries chose to convert?
text: Did you knowthat many cases of nuclear espionage are thought to have occurred since the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you knowthat Henrik Hybertsson was the shipbuilder responsible for building the Regalskeppet Vasa , which sank on its maiden voyage and is now on display in Vasa Museum in Stockholm , Sweden ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Triffin predicted the reasons for the collapse of the Bretton Woods System over ten years before it happened?
text: Did you knowthat Doctor Who spoofs range from a 1964 novelty Christmas single by the Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek " to two sketches on Saturday Night Live ?
text: Did you knowthat the Warsaw Arsenal was the scene of heavy fighting during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 ?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine II 's Instruction to the Legislative Assembly was banned in pre-revolutionary 18th-century France as a "libertarian book"?
text: Did you knowthat the Finnish Communist leader Arvo Tuominen broke with the Soviet Union during the Winter War and ordered the Finnish Communists not to assist the Red Army ?
text: Did you knowthat the EMAS has been so effective in monitoring traffic conditions on Singapore 's expressways that the LTA removed most SOS telephones from the expressways as a result?
text: Did you knowthat the Vanessa Carlton song " White Houses " (2004) provided the inspiration for a charity which aimed to raise money for Habitat for Humanity International ?
text: Did you knowthat Anna Marly originally wrote Chant des Partisans , the song that became the anthem of the French Resistance following the prohibition of La Marseillaise , in Russian ?
text: Did you knowthat the village of Cellardyke in Fife , Scotland , is the site of the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in the United Kingdom , and was once home to a 200-strong fishing fleet ?
text: Did you knowthat methoxychlor is used as an insecticide instead of the chemically related DDT because it apparently does not lead to bioaccumulation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos , apart from being the seat of the Spanish Inquisition was also the meeting place between Columbus and Isabella before he made his voyage to the New World in 1492 ?
text: Did you knowthat the explorer Peter Semenov of Tian Shan presided over the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years?
text: Did you knowthat PZL-230 Skorpion attack aircraft , cancelled in 1992, was one of the most ambitious airplane projects of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton was a British explorer who crossed the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia in 1873 by camel ?
text: Did you knowthat a Katsa is a field intelligence officer of the Mossad who collects information and runs agents, similar to the case officer of the CIA ?
text: Did you knowthat more than 30 km² of the Losiny Ostrov National Park forest fall within the boundaries of Moscow ?
text: Did you knowthat retired U.S. Air Force general John Chain is the chairman of the board of Northrop Grumman , director of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , and director of ConAgra Foods, Inc. ?
text: Did you knowthat Raul Macias , a Cuban - Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity into a successful career in telenovelas ?
text: Did you knowthat Return from the Stars is regarded as the most optimistic of Stanisław Lem science fiction utopian novels ?
text: Did you knowthat Marguerite Porete , author of the mystical text The Mirror of Simple Souls , was burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310 ?
text: Did you knowthat despite its name, the Australian Mathematics Competition receives entries from 38 countries and that the students are ranked with respect to other students in their states, not all of Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chontal Maya of Tabasco , Mexico , consider themselves the direct descendants of the Olmec civilization?
text: Did you knowthat Chandra Prakash Mainali , who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971 , later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994 - 95 ?
text: Did you knowthat the flèche is an aggressive fencing attack generally used with the foil and épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the sabre under USFA rules?
text: Did you knowthat in their final mission of World War II , No. 453 Squadron RAAF escorted the aircraft that returned Queen Wilhelmina to the Netherlands after she spent three years in exile in Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat John Weston became a published poet after retiring from his post as Ambassador to the United Nations ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1963 Federal Election in Australia was the first election where all Indigenous Australians could vote?
text: Did you knowthat William G. McGowan underwent a heart transplant while serving as chairman of MCI Communications ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nigerian Baptist Convention is the third largest Baptist convention of the Baptist world ?
text: Did you knowthat Nig Cuppy , having scored five runs against the Chicago Colts on August 9 1895 , holds the record for most runs scored by a pitcher in a major league baseball game?
text: Did you knowthat Philip J. Perry , the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security , is the son-in-law of Vice President Dick Cheney ?
text: Did you knowthat the irony mark is an atypical punctuation mark that, along with others, has been featured in some French artistic and literary publications to denote typographically different meanings in sentences?
text: Did you knowthat the Karoo National Park in South Africa is a leading force in the resettling of the Black Rhinoceros and Riverine Rabbit back into the wild?
text: Did you knowthat the Millennium Monument in Novgorod , weighing more than 65 tons, incorporates bronze sculptures of 129 eminent figures in Russian history ?
text: Did you knowthat videokeratography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique for mapping the surface topology of the cornea ?
text: Did you knowthat the Northland Center opened in 1954 and was the United States ' first suburban shopping mall ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mutsun language , became an extinct Native American language in 1930 mainly because of the Spanish missionaries who made the Mutsun learn the Spanish language ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge opened in 1921 to complete U.S. Route 9W , was built in part by a female welder ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?
text: Did you knowthat the song Justified and Ancient , by The KLF (and their alias The JAMs ), featured regularly in their work from 1987 to 1991, and was a statement of rebellion inspired by characters from The Illuminatus! Trilogy novels?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites , were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Richard Wild , at the age of 54, was the youngest Chief Justice of New Zealand since 1875 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Church of the Twelve Apostles in the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated in 1656 as a domestic church of Patriarch Nikon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Autumn of Nations , which began in Poland , marked the end of the Cold War ?
text: Did you knowthat Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first Beatles' EP released in America, but did not chart?
text: Did you knowthat the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov , who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961 , was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?
text: Did you knowthat the Foxglove was chosen as the county flower for four different U.K. counties in a competition run by the plant conservation charity Plantlife in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans ?
text: Did you knowthat at the end of World War II , ten German nuclear scientists were detained and wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an atomic bomb ?
text: Did you knowthat Dining in refers to a formal military dinner, a practice thought to have begun in 16th Century England in monasteries and universities, adopted by the British Army during the 18th Century and revived in the U.S. Military during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Arcady Boytler was born in Russia but produced some of the most successful films of the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat while noise mitigation consists of numerous strategies to reduce environmental sound levels, a major breakthrough is the hybrid vehicle in moderate speed operation?
text: Did you knowthat while the monthly average rainfall for Oahu in August is 0.8 inches , 1959 's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian imperial Field Marshal Peter Lacy started his military career at the age of 13, defending Limerick during the Williamite war in Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael , a Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?
text: Did you knowthat such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes , Dinadan , and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1827 , the only open pit amber mine in the world was established in Yantarny ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland ?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Jack , a 1979 fiction film about a prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location , was banned in the country until 2006?
text: Did you knowthat the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Werowocomoco was the chief village of the Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia where Captain John Smith of Jamestown was rescued from execution by Pocahontas , daughter of Chief Powhatan ?
text: Did you knowthat the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?
text: Did you knowthat Proclamation of Połaniec from 1794, abolishing serfdom in Poland , is regarded as the most famous legal act of the Kościuszko Uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona , New Mexico and California from July 1 , 1897 till July 1 , 1902 ?
text: Did you knowthat British Rail had a design for a flying saucer ?
text: Did you knowthat consumers of casu marzu , a Sardinian cheese, are advised to wear eye protection while enjoying it, since the live maggots inhabiting the cheese can jump 15 cm?
text: Did you knowthat in Sweden , a court ruled that the name Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 was unacceptable?
text: Did you knowthat the level of copyright protection of photographs in Switzerland depends, among other things, on whether the image constitutes an " individual expression of thought "?
text: Did you knowthat there were six claimants for the title of Roman Emperor in the Year of the Six Emperors ( AD 192 – 193 )?
text: Did you knowthat the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in 1980 , leaving several incomplete junctions , one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
text: Did you knowthat J.S. Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations was named for 14-year-old virtuoso harpsichordist and composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg ?
text: Did you knowthat the highest distinction among the Caloyers , a Greek monastic order, involves spending one's entire life alone, confined in a cave on top of a mountain?
text: Did you knowthat Jesuit Filippo Salvatore Gilij proposed one of the earliest classifications of South American language families ?
text: Did you knowthat camelot is a woven fabric that might have originally incorporated camel or goat hair?
text: Did you knowthat in order to subdue the heresy of Imiaslavie , the Russian Empire sent two transport ships and a gunboat to Mount Athos in Greece , and stormed the St. Panteleymon Monastery ?
text: Did you knowthat the Capitoline Games of Ancient Rome became so popular that the Romans counted periods of time by them, rather than their previous unit of lustrum ?
text: Did you knowthat the Callippic cycle was a 76-year cycle used to align the lunar calendar with the solar year more accurately than the famous Metonic cycle ?
text: Did you knowthat Ilsa Konrads , former editor of Belle , was an Australian Olympic swimmer who set 12 world records?
text: Did you knowthat HMS Ocean never anchored in British waters during her entire period of active service in the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions are sociological concepts for understanding the hidden reasons for actions and customs ?
text: Did you knowthat Stravinsky wrote his 1948 Mass partially in response to the masses of Mozart, which he called " rococo -operatic sweets-of-sin"?
text: Did you knowthat Lucy Hobbs Taylor was the first female dentist in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Aristotle believed that a vital heat was produced in the heart , causing blood to boil and expand outward into the arteries with each pulsation?
text: Did you knowthat Martin-Paul Samba went from being a favoured German collaborator to a feared rebel leader in colonial Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat the infant Red-bellied Lemur rides on both mother and father, but after age 33 days, only the father offers transport?
text: Did you knowthat William Hawkins Polk , brother of President James Polk , was a U.S. Representative and ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples ?
text: Did you knowthat the circulation of major Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport has declined from 5,000,000 in 1988 to 122,903 in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat The Marine Mammal Center has rescued over 12,000 sea otters , sea lions , dolphins and other species, but also produces important scientific discoveries regarding marine chemistry ?
text: Did you knowthat a 17th century Polish politician Mikołaj Sienicki held the office of marshal of the Sejm nine times and was called a 'Polish Demosthenes ' for his oratory skills?
text: Did you knowthat Karl Zinsmeister , a U.S. journalist and the new top domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush , wrote a book-length Marvel comic book on the Iraq War ?
text: Did you knowthat 1970's Super Typhoon Joan , the largest storm of the season in size, is the strongest typhoon ever to hit the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat Morris Fidanque de Castro , a life-long government servant, was the first Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands who was born in the territory?
text: Did you knowthat Francisco Portusach Martínez was appointed acting- Governor of Guam after the capture of the island by the U.S. Navy in 1898 because he was the only U.S. citizen living there?
text: Did you knowthat Breakfast in the Ruins is the second novel by Michael Moorcock to feature Karl Glogauer as its protagonist , the other being Behold the Man ?
text: Did you knowthat Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) cemetery in Belgium was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and contains the grave of the playwright Alan Bennett 's uncle?
text: Did you knowthat jazz trombonist Kai Winding's song " Time Is on My Side " became a U.S. top ten hit for The Rolling Stones in 1964, and has been covered by Michael Bolton , Wilson Pickett , Paul Revere & the Raiders and Vanessa Carlton , among others as recently as 2005?
text: Did you knowthat taking photos with a perspective correction or "tilt and shift" lens can mitigate the effect of vertical perspective ?
text: Did you knowthat Corinthian brass was a priceless metal alloy allegedly created as the city's hoard of precious metals melted together during the burning of Corinth in 146 BC?
text: Did you knowthat Irish American mob informant Danny Greene drove a green car, wore green jackets, and had his union office repainted and recarpeted in green?
text: Did you knowthat Dracorex hogwartsia was a dinosaur named for its resemblance to the Hungarian Horntail , a dragon in J.K. Rowling 's Harry Potter series?
text: Did you knowthat Howard T. Markey , the first chief judge of the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and a major general in the Air Force Reserve , asked his nursing home staff to alternate calling him judge and general ?
text: Did you knowthat although the tiny Hochstetters frog of New Zealand has no tail , it has atavistic tail-wagging muscles ?
text: Did you knowthat the manor of Ropsha , near Saint Petersburg , was the scene of tortures, a regicide , and the honeymoon of a Grand Duchess of Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat more than 200,000 railroad workers participated in the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 , and the strike's collapse directly led to the formation of the American Federation of Labor ?
text: Did you knowthat Dogs Trust , a British animal welfare charity , provided AA wardens with pistols to painlessly euthanise animals injured in road accidents?
text: Did you knowthat the 1635 Treaty of Sztumska Wieś between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden was of much interest to contemporary European diplomacy ?
text: Did you knowthat Sal Castro was the teacher that inspired Mexican American students to protest unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District schools, resulting in the 1968 East L.A. walkouts ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1996 season of the Super 12 was the first season of professional rugby union in the southern hemisphere following a US$ 550,000,000 deal between SANZAR and News Corporation ?
text: Did you knowthat William H. Hastie was the first African American to be appointed judge of a Federal District court (of the Virgin Islands ); to be appointed to a U.S. Court of Appeals ( Third Circuit ); and to be Governor of the Virgin Islands ?
text: Did you knowthat the European Maritime Safety Agency was founded in 2002 to help prevent maritime accidents and marine pollution , in response to the Estonia , Erika and Prestige sea disasters?
text: Did you knowthat Robinow syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder whose facial deformities were described by Meinhard Robinow with the term fetal facies , due to the resemblance of some patients' faces to that of a fetus ?
text: Did you knowthat Jakub Uchański , a 16th-century primate of Poland , was suspected of heresy and summoned to appear before the inquisition in Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat Benjamin Franklin Tilley , the first American governor of American Samoa , was put on trial and removed from office for allegedly receiving a massage from a native?
text: Did you knowthat a regional park established to protect Nevėžis River ecosystem in Lithuania also breeds wisents ?
text: Did you knowthat the motif of " La Paloma ," written by Sebastián Iradier in Cuba around 1863, can be traced back to an episode during the Greco-Persian Wars in 492 BCE?
text: Did you knowthat A Perfect Vacuum , a 1971 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem , is an anthology of imaginary reviews of nonexistent books?
text: Did you know that the disputed Sir Creek , a tidal estuary , has prevented India and Pakistan from setting a permanent maritime boundary in the Arabian Sea ?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Pursey started his career as a boy seaman in the Royal Navy , retired with the rank of Commander , and served as a Member of Parliament for twenty-five years?
text: Did you knowthat Harvard 's prestigious annual Dudleian lectures , endowed in 1750 for denouncing the supposed errors of Catholicism , were held by the Catholic Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini in 1998?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch football manager Clemens Westerhof is credited with turning the Nigerian national team into a perennial powerhouse in African football, having guided them to victory in the 1992 African Cup of Nations as well as their first FIFA World Cup participation in 1994?
text: Did you knowthat partly because of issues highlighed by the London matchgirls strike of 1888 , the Salvation Army opened up its own match factory in Bow, London in 1891, which used harmless red phosphorus and paid better wages?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Wallace Oman , a future Governor of the United States Virgin Islands , was awarded a Navy Cross during World War I for commanding the seized German SS Vaterland (renamed the USS Leviathan ), and delivering almost 120,000 troops to the war effort in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat during the French Revolution , the lawyer defending Marie Antoinette , Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde , came under such suspicion for the able defense he made, that he was forced to defend himself before the Comité de sûreté générale ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry , a regiment of the British Indian Army , uniquely possessed an Honorary Colour granted for service under General Lake in 1803 and employed an additional jemadar to carry it?
text: Did you knowthat LT United's Eurovision Song Contest 2006 entry " We Are The Winners " was so well-received by the Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus , that the group were invited to his Presidential Office to perform the song live for him?
text: Did you knowthat the first pilgrimage made by Christopher Columbus upon discovering America was to the Royal monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe , the principal house of the monastic order of the Hieronymites ?
text: Did you knowthat Yakov Kulnev , a Russian general killed in action during Napoleon's invasion of Russia , was reputed to live in poverty, in order to emulate the soldiers of Roman antiquity that were his ideal?
text: Did you knowthat the seal of Baruch ben Neriah , a legendary 6th century BCE scribe and disciple of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah , was found imprinted on two clay bullae excavated in 1975 and 1996?
text: Did you knowthat the Basilica of Begoña in Bilbao , Spain has 24 bells, each imported from Switzerland ?
text: Did you knowthat Eastley End House , in Surrey , was used as a base for "burglar-hunting" parties?
text: Did you knowthat with some 150,000 customers per day, the Seventh-Kilometer Market outside of Odessa , Ukraine , is among the largest markets of the world and consists almost entirely of shipping containers ?
text: Did you knowthat Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989 , which Forest won 4-3?
text: Did you knowthat legislation concerning slavery in ancient Greece allowed guardians of unmarried women who lost their virginity to sell them as slaves?
text: Did you knowthat Tanaka Shosuke is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610 , on the Japanese-built ship San Buena Ventura ?
text: Did you know that in the case of Sue v Hill , the High Court of Australia decided that the United Kingdom was a "foreign power" to Australia , recognising Australia's complete independence?
text: Did you knowthat during the Iberian War , Kavadh I tried to make peace with the new emperor Justinian I by attempting to have Justinian adopt his son Khosrau I ?
text: Did you knowthat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , President of the Republic of Kalmykia and head of the World Chess Federation , built the multi-million dollar Chess City complex for hosting international chess tournaments?
text: Did you knowthat after winning Germany's only Eurovision victory in 1982 with a record margin, Nicole performed her reprise of the winning song " Ein Bisschen Frieden " in four different languages ?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Moorcock wrote the book The City in the Autumn Stars in tandem with The Laughter of Carthage , one during the day, and the other at night?
text: Did you knowthat ergs are huge (> 125 km²) fields of sand dunes and that approximately 85% of all the Earth's mobile sand is found in ergs that are larger than 32,000 km²?
text: Did you knowthat cracker butterflies acquired their name because of the unusual sound that males produce as part of their territorial displays?
text: Did you knowthat advanced practitioners of Japanese tea ceremony are awarded ceremonial tea names that may incorporate the names of animals, trees or flowers, natural phenomena, or personal characteristics, or may be based on Buddhist teachings?
text: Did you knowthat Richie Evans holds the record for the most NASCAR championships with nine NASCAR Modified championships, including his posthumous championship in 1985, the first year of the Whelen Modified Tour ?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest remaining structure showing the establishment of Buddhism in Australia are two bodhi trees planted by Sinhalese immigrants on Thursday Island in the 1890s?
text: Did you knowthat Harold Hardwick , an Australian swimming gold medallist at the 1912 Olympics , was also a national boxing champion and later an army colonel?
text: Did you knowthat throughout the Second World War , there were four formations that carried the name of Polish 8th Infantry Division and two of them existed simultaneously?
text: Did you knowthat the MacHeths were a Gaelic kindred who raised several rebellions against the Scotto-Norman kings of Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries ?
text: Did you knowthat Broadway producer Jed Harris was the inspiration for both Laurence Olivier 's interpretation of Richard III , and Walt Disney 's Big Bad Wolf?
text: Did you knowthat tent pegging is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation ?
text: Did you knowthat the University of Liberia , founded in 1862 , is the oldest institute of higher learning in West Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat an unnamed hurricane in October, 1804 brought up to three feet of snow to parts of New England ?
text: Did you knowthat Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki , a peasant , became a Polish national hero after he captured a Russian cannon during the Battle of Racławice ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the Sunken Forests of New Hampshire off the coast of Rye , New Hampshire , hasn't been above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since 1978 ?
text: Did you knowthat people with a Schatzki ring can develop sudden crushing chest pain , often termed the "steakhouse syndrome", if they do not chew their food properly?
text: Did you knowthat the Sansenke , or "three houses of Sen," the three main schools of Japanese tea ceremony , are all associated with 16th-century tea master Sen no Rikyu and his descendents?
text: Did you knowthe movie Spy Game depicts a burn bag , albeit used in an unintended manner?
text: Did you knowthat Jim Roper was credited with NASCAR 's first Strictly Stock (now NEXTEL Cup ) win after apparent winner Glenn Dunnaway was found to have illegally modified springs?
text: Did you knowthat, although Catherine II of Russia wished Sophia Cathedral in Tsarskoye Selo to remind her of the Hagia Sophia , the church was built in an austere Palladian style?
text: Did you knowthat Duke Kahanamoku won the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Olympics after the eventual silver medallist Cecil Healy lobbied against Duke's semifinal disqualification for turning up late?
text: Did you knowthat Patrick Carr's statement that British troops were not to blame in the Boston Massacre was the first use of the " dying declaration " exception to the general inadmissibility of hearsay evidence?
text: Did you knowthat the  unanimous decision Holmes v. South Carolina (reversing the conviction of a man who was barred from arguing that another man committed the crime) was the first decision written by Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court Justice ?
text: Did you knowthat James W. Patterson , a Senator from New Hampshire , was a professor of mathematics , astronomy , and meteorology ?
text: Did you knowthat Battlefield Baseball , a Japanese film, features elements of the sports , martial arts and horror genres, as well as including three musical numbers?
text: Did you knowthat Ukrainian politician Mykola Tomenko is also an Afghan war veteran and a noted historian ?
text: Did you knowthat Domenico Gabrielli , one of the first composers to write solo music for the violoncello , was himself a virtuoso cello player and earned himself the Italian dialect nickname Minghino dal viulunzeel among his contemporaries?
text: Did you knowthat Rodney J. Baxter , known for the Yang-Baxter equation in statistical mechanics , was the first doctoral graduate in theoretical physics from the Australian National University ?
text: Did you knowthat Dominican baseball player Tetelo Vargas led the Dominican Republic's winter baseball league in 1952 , hitting for an average of .350 at the age of 46?
text: Did you knowthat The Nationwide Project was a media audience research project at the University of Birmingham that influenced media and cultural studies ?
text: Did you knowthat John Konrads , an Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer who set 26 individual world records, later became the Australasian director of L'Oréal ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Kasabach-Merritt syndrome , tumours of blood vessels can cause life-threatening bleeding complications in infants?
text: Did you knowthat the Agony of Doha is a term used by fans of the Japanese national football team to refer to the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification match where Japan lost its World Cup place to South Korea ?
text: Did you knowthat, once completed, the Stateline Wind Project on the Oregon - Washington border in the United States will be the largest wind farm in the world?
text: Did you knowthat in the Polish legislative election, 1947 , the communist -controlled Polish government , advised by specialists from Soviet Ministry for State Security , ensured its victory by vote rigging ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1848 Moray Firth fishing disaster on the east coast of Scotland , 124 boats sank and 100 fishermen perished, leading to a major redesign of fishing boats in the following years?
text: Did you knowthat Laurynas Gucevičius was the first professional Lithuanian architect in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and is the most famous representative of Lithuanian classicism ?
text: Did you knowthat the critical behaviour of the spherical model in statistical mechanics has been solved for arbitrary real positive dimensions, and is the same for dimensions greater than four?
text: Did you knowthat Hell Below , a 1933 WW I film, set the pattern for many WW II submarine dramas, and featured the deliberate sinking of USS Moody , slated for destruction by the London Naval Treaty ?
text: Did you knowthat Mukh O Mukhosh ( The face and the mask ), directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, is the first full-length Bengali language feature film to be produced in the erstwhile East Pakistan , which later became Bangladesh ?
text: Did you knowthat over-illumination , the use of unnecessarily intense light, not only wastes 1.5 billion barrels of oil per year, but is also linked to increased incidence of headache , fatigue , stress , coronary artery disease and erectile dysfunction ?
text: Did you know that the Arabic poet Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz ruled as caliph of the Abbasid dynasty for only a single day before he was strangled to death?
text: Did you knowthat the San Francisco garter snake is an endangered species capable of digesting toxic newts but is not found in San Francisco ?
text: Did you knowthat Ernst Reuter , after having not been approved by the Soviets as the elected mayor of post-war Berlin , became the first mayor of the non-Soviet controlled part of the city, West Berlin ?
text: Did you knowthat Makhir of Narbonne was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar who settled in Narbonne , France at the end of the 8th century , and his descendants were leaders of the local Jewish community who bore the title of " nasi " (prince)?
text: Did you knowthat the nucleus of the 13,000 manuscripts that are just part of the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice , is made up from the personal library of Petrarch and the collection of Cardinal Bessarion ?
text: Did you knowthat John Davies , the U.S. District Court judge who presided over the trial of a group of LAPD officers in the Rodney King incident, won gold for Australia in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat Patience Dabany , former First Lady of Gabon , is also a successful recording artist ?
text: Did you knowthat the first mizuya (水屋, literally "water room") was created by 16th-century Japanese tea master Sen no Rikyu for his tea room ?
text: Did you knowthat, as a result of the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy , the medieval state of Muscovy doubled in size?
text: Did you knowthat Hulk Hogan's Pastamania was a restaurant located in the Mall of America and created by the WWE's Hulk Hogan , and that it failed spectacularly?
text: Did you knowthat the movie The Iron Ladies is based on a real-life team of transsexuals and homosexuals that won the Thai national volleyball tournament?
text: Did you knowthat the United States has a numerical system of bicycle routes (similar to the system for roads and highways), which hasn't been expanded since its creation in 1982 ?
text: Did you knowthat although the director of Bollywood comedy Malamaal Weekly has offered money to anyone who can show that it is not an original work, several reviewers have labelled it a remake of Waking Ned ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet censors initially discouraged the performance of " The Victory Day " , one of the most popular Russian songs to come out of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat there is a dispute over when the Chief Whip's powers governing the votes of the Barisan Nasional 's Members of the Malaysian Parliament are in force?
text: Did you knowthat the Carnac stones , with over 3000 neolithic menhirs , contain the largest stone rows of its kind in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the 17th century Field Cathedral of the Polish Army was one of many buildings destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the Warsaw Uprising , and was restored to its former glory between 1946 and 1960?
text: Did you knowthat DJ Gruff , pioneer of Italian hip hop , was forced to retract a song violently attacking Articolo 31 , another Italian hip hop band?
text: Did you knowthat the Yuba Goldfields , said to resemble intestines from the air, are a bizarre collection of gravel mountains, ponds, and streams that remained a major source of gold long after the California Gold Rush ?
text: Did you knowthat, although Louis IX of France won the Saintonge War against England , he chose not to annex Guyenne on account of dynastic sensibilities?
text: Did you knowthat the shortest binomial name of a species is Ia io , which belongs to the Great Evening Bat ?
text: Did you knowthat Creigh Deeds lost the 2005 race for Attorney General of Virginia by only 323 votes out of almost two million cast?
text: Did you knowthat Kevin Berry , former Pictorial Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald , won the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Reverend John Thomson , distinguished landscape painter and former minister of Duddingston Kirk , is often credited with originating the famous Scots adage " We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns "?
text: Did you knowthat the Indigenous Australian languages had no written form until colonisation , when they were transcribed into the Latin alphabet ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Thomas Carlyle , Prussia 's victory in the minor Battle of Hoyerswerda wrecked the 1759 campaign of the anti-Prussian coalition in the Seven Years' War ?
text: Did you knowthat Lord Simon of Glaisdale ended his career as a Law Lord and cross-bench life peer , but was earlier a Conservative MP who held three ministerial positions?
text: Did you knowthat Kevin O'Halloran , a swimming gold medallist at the 1956 Summer Olympics , died after accidentally tripping and shooting himself?
text: Did you knowthat the Swiss municipality Rüegsau is connected to its neighbor Hasle bei Burgdorf by what is probably the longest wooden arch bridge in Europe , at a length of 58.5 meters?
text: Did you knowthat dead cats were reportedly thrown into the grave of "Rape-master General" Colonel Francis Charteris ?
text: Did you knowthat NASA terraforming expert Christopher McKay has explored the Gobi Desert , Siberia and Antarctica to study extremophilic life forms ?
text: Did you knowthat tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium scheduled for June 22 , 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory " due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Shanghai ghetto , a part of the city occupied by Imperial Japan , about 20,000 German and Austrian Jews escaped the Holocaust ?
text: Did you knowthat graves in Singapore are exhumed 15 years after burial , and the remains are cremated or re-buried?
text: Did you knowthat the Peruvian song " El Cóndor Pasa " was popularised by a 1970 cover version by Simon and Garfunkel , although the original Quechua lyrics were entirely re-written?
text: Did you knowthat in the aftermath of the Defence of the Polish Post in Danzig , in the Polish September Campaign of 1939, all the Polish civilians who had held out for 15 hours against the SS -led assault were executed?
text: Did you knowthat until the 1990s , the Heckler & Koch MP5 and the Uzi were the only weapons designed outside of the United States that were as widespread in Hollywood productions as the U.S.-produced Colt M1911 pistols, M16 assault rifles , Tommy Guns and revolvers ?
text: Did you knowthat Marie Selipha Sesenne Descartes , better known simply as Sesenne , was a Saint Lucian singer and cultural icon who was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1972?
text: Did you knowthat the snipers of the Kremlin Regiment killed a total of more than 1,200 German soldiers and officers during the Soviet-German War ?
text: Did you knowthat bowls player Willie Wood was the first athlete to compete in 7 Commonwealth Games , despite being barred from the 1986 games in his home country of Scotland for refusing to reclassify as an amateur?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Matz , who trained the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro , saved the lives of four children on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989, and also carried the U.S. flag at the 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies?
text: Did you knowthat the statues of St. Andrew and Samson from the Fountain of Samson in Kiev were stored in a museum before the beginning of WWI , saving them from destruction by the Bolsheviks ?
text: Did you knowthat Martyn J. Fogg , a doctoral student in planetary science at the University of London and a dental surgeon , wrote the first technical book on terraforming and planetary engineering ?
text: Did you knowthat the unconventionally named Boots Mallory was a teenage dancer and model who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1930s, largely as a result of her good looks?
text: Did you knowthat the war between Russia and Sweden from 1741 to 1743 involved a change of ruling dynasties in both countries?
text: Did you knowthat throughout the development of science , many ideas have been obliterated by incorporation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Strépy-Thieu boat lift in Belgium is the tallest boat lift in the world at 73 metres high and has a structural mass of 200,000 tonnes?
text: Did you knowthat Ruparel College in Mumbai , India boasts nuclear physicist Anil Kakodkar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai among its alumni?
text: Did you knowthat Pablo Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat , a 1941 portrait of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar , recently sold for $95.2 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings in the world ?
text: Did you knowthat disqualification protests were lodged against Clare Dennis , the winner of the 200 m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics , on the grounds of her "inappropriate" costume, which exposed her shoulderblades ?
text: Did you knowthat India's Operation Meghdoot to capture the Siachen Glacier in 1984 was the first assault launched in the world's highest battlefield ?
text: Did you knowthat newly-launched First News , a British weekly newsmagazine for children with a unique focus on current events, is headed by "editorial overlord" and ex- Mirror editor Piers Morgan ?
text: Did you knowthat Huron University , the first institute of higher education to grant a degree in the then- Dakota Territory , closed in 2005 after 123 years of existence and had its assets auctioned off?
text: Did you knowthat Israfil Mamedov , the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union , killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3 , 1941 ?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island was used as a staging area by the Union Army during the American Civil War , and that more than 230 Union troops were buried there?
text: Did you knowthat controlled water landings or ditchings by commercial airliners , whilst rare, can often be survived by passengers and crew?
text: Did you knowthat the final episode of Kamen Rider Stronger , a Japanese tokusatsu television series, features appearances from the main characters of every previous series in the franchise ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1988 the Greek passenger ferry, City of Poros , was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the Abu Nidal Organisation which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured?
text: Did you knowthat following the Mississauga train derailment of 1979 , nearly 250,000 people had to be evacuated for up to five days while toxic chemicals that had spilled onto the railway tracks were cleaned up?
text: Did you knowthat Escape from Paradise , a book which documents a Singaporean woman's divorce, was removed from bookstores and libraries in the country in 2002, even after it had been reviewed in the Singapore press?
text: Did you knowthat in Persia , non-Muslims were considered to be najis (ritually unclean) by Shi'a Muslims , and were not allowed to go outside in rain or snow for fear that some impurity could be washed from them onto a Muslim?
text: Did you knowthat the Funicular dos Guindais was originally built to carry cargo - including port wine - from the Ribeira quayside to the centre of Porto , and is now a tourist attraction and one of the world's steepest counter-balanced cable railways?
text: Did you knowthat forensic electrical engineering is a branch of forensic engineering whose primary role is to investigate whether a fire was caused by the failure of an electrical appliance ?
text: Did you knowthat the Merton Thesis holds that Protestantism had significant influences on the course of the scientific revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Sara Christian was the first woman to compete in a NASCAR race, the only woman to have a Top Five finish, and the recipient of the 1949 United States Drivers's Association Woman Driver of the Year award?
text: Did you knowthat the character of Betts, played by Andrew Paul , was the only inmate seen to be released from the borstal –albeit temporarily–during the controversial British film Scum ?
text: Did you knowthat prisoners of the Iraqi Special Tribunal are transported in armored buses called Rhino Runners ?
text: Did you knowthat Dmitry Pavlov , who was appointed to the rank of General of the Army in 1941, was the highest-ranking Soviet commander to be executed for military incompetence during the World War II , only to be exonerated in 1956?
text: Did you knowthat rail transportation in Okinawa dates back to 1902, when the island's first line started operations to haul sugarcane , but the Okinawa Monorail is the only line still in operation?
text: Did you knowthat Höhlgangsanlage 8 , built in Jersey during World War II under the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces , was a partially completed underground hospital complex with over 1 km of tunnels ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the Marlovian theory of Shakespearean authorship , works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by playwright Christopher Marlowe , who faked his own death in 1593 to continue writing under a Shakespeare pseudonym ?
text: Did you knowthat Livadia Palace , a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar , was the setting of the 1945 Yalta Conference between the Big Three ?
text: Did you knowthat Olaus Johannis Gutho (d. 1516), who was a student at the newly founded University of Uppsala from 1477 until at least 1486, and later became a monk in the Abbey of Vadstena , left seven bound volumes of lecture notes that have been preserved until today?
text: Did you knowthat Corippo , despite being a contender for Switzerland 's smallest municipality with a population of only 17, has its own website , coat of arms , mayor and town council ?
text: Did you knowthat three years after Anders Uppström had published his edition of the 6th-century Codex Argenteus , a dying library janitor presented him with ten leaves that had been missing from the manuscript for over two decades?
text: Did you knowthat the Free Economic Society , founded at the instigation of Catherine II of Russia in 1765 , was briefly closed down by the imperial Russian authorities in 1900 amid accusations of fomenting revolutionary upheaval?
text: Did you knowthat Novgorod 's medieval river pirates , called ushkuiniki , wreaked havoc along the Volga River as far downstream as Kazan and Astrakhan ?
text: Did you knowthat the English composer Anthony Payne , who completed a version of Elgar's third symphony, has also composed a version of Elgar's incomplete Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6?
text: Did you knowthat the media reports that Deborah Freund , Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University , is to replace Albert Carnesale as the chancellor of UCLA ?
text: Did you knowthat Nerima Daikon Brothers is a rare musical comedy format anime series that pokes fun at Junichiro Koizumi , Michael Jackson , Bae Yong Joon , and other contemporary topics in Japan?
text: Did you knowthat the International Cricket Council awarded Australia and New Zealand the hosting rights to the 2015 Cricket World Cup because they were sufficiently impressed with their 2011 bid which lost to Asia by 7 votes?
text: Did you know that the Tennessee State Museum has one of the largest collections in the United States of weapons, flags, and uniforms from the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat, during the Russo-Swedish War, 1656-1658 , the Russians had to lift their siege of Riga after foreign officers of the Russian flotilla had defected to the other side?
text: Did you knowthat David Clyde was the first person selected in the 1973 MLB Draft and signed to a $125,000 bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the time?
text: Did you knowthat Nikolai Skoblin was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army , a leader of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union , a Bolshevik double-agent, and a Gestapo agent?
text: Did you knowthat the Chesed-El Synagogue , built in 1905, is the second synagogue for the Jewish community in Singapore , and was one of the first places to use gaslights in Singapore?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Beaurepaire , a Lord Mayor of Melbourne , member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and multi-millionaire tyre businessman was a six-time Olympic medallist in swimming who set 15 world records in his swimming career?
text: Did you knowthat The Masked Rider mascot of Texas Tech University wears a black and red outfit and rides his black horse around to enthuse fans of the Texas Tech Red Raiders ?
text: Did you knowthat Michelle Ford was the first woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?
text: Did you knowthat the Lake Tanganyika passenger ferry MV Liemba began its life as a German warship in World War I, spent eight years on the bottom of the lake, and later portrayed the Empress Luisa in the film The African Queen ?
text: Did you knowthat the houses at Roman Bulla Regia in Tunisia were built in two levels, a ground level to catch winter sun and a subterranean one round an open atrium for coolness in summer?
text: Did you knowthat Cedric Griffin , the only University of Texas football player ever to return a blocked field goal for a touchdown , was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings ?
text: Did you knowthat firing of Anna Walentynowicz , a Polish free trade union activist, was one of the events that led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and eventually the creation of Solidarity ?
text: Did you knowthat Cyclone Mala was the strongest tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal to be named , although several unnamed cyclones have been stronger?
text: Did you knowthat when Rollie Free rode his motorcycle to a land speed record in 1948 , he was wearing only a Speedo bathing suit, a shower cap, and a pair of borrowed sneakers ?
text: Did you knowthat Gustav Adolf von Götzen , a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa , was the first European to set foot in Rwanda ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kremlin stars , crowning five towers of the Moscow Kremlin since the 1930s , are made of ruby glass ?
text: Did you knowthat John Devitt was awarded a gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome despite all three timekeepers awarding a faster time to the silver medallist?
text: Did you knowthat the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party , a Maoist group, took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh but continued armed activities after the independence of the country?
text: Did you knowthat Władysław Filipkowski , a Polish resistance fighter and commander of the Lwów Uprising against Nazi Germany occupiers in 1944, was soon afterwards arrested by the Soviet NKVD and imprisoned for three years?
text: Did you knowthat Tsenacommacah was the name of the territory in eastern Virginia which was controlled by the Powhatan Confederacy at the time of the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 1607?
text: Did you knowthat the East Los Angeles community arts center Self Help Graphics & Art has been producing Chicano art for more than thirty years?
text: Did you knowthat Winsor McCay 's animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was originally created for a vaudeville act where McCay would seem to interact with the cartoon dinosaur?
text: Did you knowthat Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia ) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963 ?
text: Did you knowthat former Eight is Enough actress Susan Richardson battled an addiction to cocaine after using the drug for weight loss following her pregnancy ?
text: Did you knowthat Maharaja Gulab Singh , founder of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir , was illiterate?
text: Did you knowthat the National Labor Board established the doctrine of representational exclusivity in American labor relations, a rule still used today?
text: Did you knowthat even in perfect darkness, the retina spontaneously sends signals down the optic nerve , causing a sensation of gray called eigengrau ?
text: Did you knowthat during Jake Gaither 's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University , his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
text: Did you knowthat the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division was a Polish military unit, created from volunteers and self-defence units of the Kresy territories?
text: Did you knowthat Kazakhstan Temir Zholy is building a  transshipment railway to connect China with Europe using standard gauge ?
text: Did you knowthat Nenets painter Konstantin Pankov had never seen a painting before he began painting landscapes of the Far North?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Korzhakov contends that his political adversaries wanted to kill his main rival in the 1997 parliamentary by-election in Tula in order to deem it invalid?
text: Did you knowthat career US diplomat George Wadsworth , Chargé d'affaires in Italy at the onset of World War II , was one of the last American personnel to leave the country?
text: Did you knowthat Charlotte Wilson was murdered by Hutu rebels in Burundi during the Titanic Express massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Schildhauer's design for the Panama Canal railway and lock machinery has remained in use for almost 100 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Congressional Country Club is one of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses as ranked by Golf Digest and it will host its third United States Open in 2011 ?
text: Did you knowthat 3D Construction Kit , a utility for creating 3D worlds in Freescape , typically ran at one frame per second on the Commodore 64 ?
text: Did you knowthat His Master's Voice , one of the most acclaimed science-fiction novels of Stanisław Lem , is also one of Lem's strongest critiques of the science-fiction genre itself?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish General and Privy Councillor Magnus Julius De la Gardie arranged regular receptions at his residence, a novelty never heard of in Sweden in the early 1700s?
text: Did you knowthat choreographer Gillian Lynne took up dance as a child to recover from the violent death of her mother?
text: Did you knowthat at the Roman festival of Quinquatria in 59 , Emperor Nero invited his mother Agrippina to his villa, as part of his plan to assassinate her?
text: Did you knowthat Antoni Heda , one of the most successful partisan commanders in Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in World War II , was sentenced to death on 7 consecutive charges by the Polish communists ' government?
text: Did you knowthat David Ross Boyd , the first president of the University of Oklahoma , planted nearly 10,000 trees on campus during his first 18 months in the post?
text: Did you knowthat the Kassel glosses , one of the earliest written documents of the Old High German language, form a practical language guide for foreigners and include phrases containing the jocular xenophobic jibe "Romans are stupid, Bavarians are smart" ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman festival of hilaria , which allowed anyone to masquerade as any rank, was used in a plot to assassinate Emperor Commodus , by conspirators planning to disguise themselves as members of the Praetorian Guard ?
text: Did you knowthat by the time U.S. Civil War tokens were deemed illegal tender in 1864 , there were about 25 million in circulation, in over 7,000 varieties?
text: Did you knowthat Corné Krige and George Gregan , who respectively captained the South Africa and Australia rugby union teams in both the 2002 and 2003 Tri Nations Series , were born in the same hospital in Zambia ?
text: Did you knowthat former Governor of Guam Bill Daniel provided 400 longhorns and hundreds of horses from his ranch for the John Wayne film The Alamo , in which he also starred?
text: Did you knowthat the Chilean National Plebiscite of 1980 , which affirmed General Pinochet as president and approved a new constitution for Chile , was marked by irregularities?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest known Polish language sentence comes from the Book of Henryków , a 13th-century chronicle of a Cistercian abbey ?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour Party MP Roland Boyes continued in office after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, but his condition had deteriorated so much that, upon his retirement in 1997 , he was unaware that his party had gained control after 18 years in opposition?
text: Did you knowthat one can live, work, and play in Fermont, Quebec without going outside, because the town is bordered on two sides by a long building containing living, shopping, work and recreational facilities all under one roof?
text: Did you knowthat after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929 , it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?
text: Did you knowthat May crowning is a traditional Roman Catholic ritual in which the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary is ceremonially crowned to signify her as Queen of Heaven and Mother of God ?
text: Did you knowthat Rugby union is considered the national sport of Fiji ?
text: Did you knowthat the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland abolished the office of the President of Poland , replacing it with the State Council of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Run-Around " by jam band Blues Traveler was first played at the CBGB club in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat Taiwan 's non-profit Industrial Technology Research Institute spun off Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company , the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry?
text: Did you knowthat American tenor Charles Anthony has sung with the Metropolitan Opera for 52 consecutive seasons, which is unparalleled in company history?
text: Did you knowthat fuel burned by combustion equipment in large industrial plants is channeled to the atmosphere by large vertical pipes or vents called flue gas stacks ?
text: Did you knowthat the only recorded use of the phrase "We who are about to die salute you" in Ancient Rome was at a naumachia , a theatrical naval spectacular, not said by gladiators as is widely believed?
text: Did you knowthat the disastrous Battle of Beroia resulted in the disappearance of the nomadic Pecheneg people from eastern Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat Betsey Stockton , the first unmarried female foreign missionary , was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat tissue transglutaminase antibody testing has superseded all older blood tests in the diagnosis of coeliac disease ?
text: Did you knowthat professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria ?
text: Did you knowthat Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon ?
text: Did you knowthat Sabantuy is a Tatar summer festival which features such contests as Tatar wrestling , horse racing, race-in-sack, pillar-climbing, egg-in-spoon-in-mouth-racing, and finding a coin in a bowl of sour milk?
text: Did you knowthat a Roman man once received the surname of "Tricongius" for his ability to drink three congii of wine (9.8 litres ; 2.6 gallons ) in one sitting in a feat that he once performed before Emperor Tiberius ?
text: Did you knowthat Akira Endo received the 2006 Japan Prize for his discovery of the popular statin drugs, used to treat high cholesterol ?
text: Did you knowthat when NASCAR driver David Gilliland won his first career Busch Series race in 2006 , driving for an unsponsored part-time team, commentator Hermie Sadler called it "the biggest upset in Busch Series history"?
text: Did you knowthat in 2003, the Cuban town of San Antonio de Los Baños had no water for 2 days while a 100-year old aqueduct supplying the city was being repaired?
text: Did you knowthat Ah Meng , a Sumatran Orangutan and tourism icon of Singapore , had breakfast with celebrities including the Duke of Edinburgh and pop star Michael Jackson ?
text: Did you knowthat hydrological transport models are computer simulations analyzing the movement of water pollution in rivers, and have played a role in aiding endangered species ?
text: Did you knowthat the breakfast room at Tullgarn Palace in Sweden is furnished like a south German Bierstube , possibly reflecting the fact that King Gustav V 's queen consort came from Baden ?
text: Did you knowthat Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki , creator of the National Bank of Poland and author of many economic reforms in Congress Poland , also laid foundations for the industrialization of the city of Łódź ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish term yrast , meaning "dizziest", is used in nuclear physics to refer to nuclear states of high angular momentum ?
text: Did you knowthat J. Dringwell Rymbai had to discontinue his education due to poverty, but became the head master of a school and eventually the Chief Minister of Meghalaya ?
text: Did you knowthat Roman Emperor Trajan was heavily criticized for giving extravagant donations, called congiaria , to every citizen?
text: Did you knowthat Captain William Reynolds , a veteran of the American Civil War , formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano ?
text: Did you knowthat Ashta Pradhan , a council formed by Shivaji in 1674 to help him in administration, was one of the first instances of ministerial delegation in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana , with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma , the Latin word for Rome?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Krumgold was the first author to win the Newbery Medal twice?
text: Did you knowthat Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
text: Did you knowthat Governor James B. A. Robertson called out the Oklahoma National Guard in order to restore law and order during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 ?
text: Did you knowthat Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence , with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kutiyapi is a two-stringed, fretted boat- lute with beeswax frets ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian composer Ella Adayevskaya took her pseudonym from the notes played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka 's opera Ruslan and Ludmila ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kell antigen system is a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface that are important determinants of blood type and targets for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases that destroy red blood cells?
text: Did you knowthat Ann Hasseltine Judson was the first Protestant to translate a scripture into Siamese , and legitimized the missionary calling for Christian women ?
text: Did you knowthat the Motown recording " Do You Love Me " by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987 ?
text: Did you knowthat American sculptor Luis Jiménez , known for his large Southwestern and Hispanic polychromed fiberglass sculptures, was killed when a large piece of his work fell on him?
text: Did you knowthat the A8(M) motorway is the shortest motorway in Northern Ireland at only one mile long, and has no junctions with any other roads along its entire length?
text: Did you knowthat the Lviv tram , opened on May 5 , 1880 in Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary ), is one of the last urban transit systems in the former Soviet Union to still use grooved rail ?
text: Did you knowthat people protested outside NASCAR 's headquarters after African-American driver Bobby Norfleet was not allowed to qualify for a 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Pikes Peak International Raceway ?
text: Did you knowthat Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini , said to be Christopher Wren 's favourite decorative painter , nevertheless did not secure the commission to paint the dome of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral , finished in 1708?
text: Did you knowthat one of the shotguns used by the all-male pep squad RUF/NEKS of the University of Oklahoma during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution ?
text: Did you knowthat Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion , Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
text: Did you knowthat Aleksandra Piłsudska , a Polish revolutionary and second wife of dictator Józef Piłsudski , helped plan the Bezdany train raid ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great ?
text: Did you knowthat future High Court judge Sir John Vinelott sat by during an argument in a Karl Popper lecture as his mentor, Ludwig Wittgenstein , brandished a red hot poker before storming out?
text: Did you knowthat the French West India Company was so successful at recovering commerce from the Dutch in the West Indies , that the company became obsolete after only 9 years in operation?
text: Did you knowthat during the 976 - 9 civil war in the Byzantine Empire , military support provided by Georgian prince David III of Tao was crucial to Emperor Basil II 's continued reign?
text: Did you knowthat three trophies are given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout , one of college football 's oldest rivalry games , played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners ?
text: Did you knowthat Boyle Roche , an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms , was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1040- foot -long Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway ?
text: Did you knowthat German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864?
text: Did you knowthat the Namibian city of Otjimbingwe was the capital city before the modern capital, Windhoek , replaced it in 1892?
text: Did you knowthat the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band played a record-setting 10-hour drum roll in 1934?
text: Did you knowthat the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension , so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?
text: Did you knowthat Henryk Woliński , Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII ?
text: Did you knowthat Yoshioka-Kaitei Station , located 149.5 metres below sea level within the Seikan Tunnel , is the deepest underground station in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat tradition traces Clan Drummond , a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire , to Hungarian origins?
text: Did you knowthat because straw -processing was very important to the town, Twistringen ' s 750 th anniversary was celebrated by building the world's largest straw hat , at over 5 m (16 ft) wide?
text: Did you knowthat CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter , and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars ?
text: Did you knowthat Portuguese jurist João das Regras aided John I of Portugal by refuting the arguments of pretenders to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
text: Did you knowthat Hewlett Packard 's popular LaserJet 4 range of printers included the LaserJet 4LC, the first printer designed exclusively for the Chinese market?
text: Did you knowthat the Malay word Merdeka has been used in both Singapore and Malaysia to describe the campaigns for self-government and independence in both countries?
text: Did you knowthat the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel , flooding Calais and Boulogne ?
text: Did you knowthat science fiction and fantasy in Poland traces its origins to the Polish Enlightenment , and that many of its writers are translated into foreign languages —with the notable exception of English ?
text: Did you knowthat Szinva Terrace , the newest public square in Miskolc , Hungary , features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
text: Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues , at the age of five?
text: Did you knowthat the last male-line descendant of Alexander III of Russia , Count George Brasov , died in a road accident whilst exiled in France at the age of 20?
text: Did you knowthat Epiphanius 's most important work, the Panarion , is ironically the only surviving source of information on several early Christian sects that he sought to eliminate with his writing?
text: Did you knowthat Francesca Caccini 's La liberazione di Ruggiero , which premiered in 1625 , was the first opera written by a woman?
text: Did you knowthat with the coming of Tropical Storm Henri , parts of Red Clay Creek in Delaware experienced a 500-year flood ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Party of Revolutionary Communism was dissolved in 1920 after a decision of the 2nd Comintern congress, which ordered there could only be one communist party in each country?
text: Did you knowthat the proposed Atlantica trade bloc would economically tie New England in the U.S. to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat polyphenol antioxidants are a class of over 4,000 nutritionally -derived chemicals linked to immune system and cardiovascular health, due to their cellular role of oxidative species scavenging ?
text: Did you knowthat Chile 's current Interior Minister , Andrés Zaldívar , was also a senator and cabinet member in pre- Pinochet democratic Chile, a prominent democracy activist, and member of the successful opposition to the subsequent military regime ?
text: Did you knowthat Typhoon Patsy ( 1970 ) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865 ?
text: Did you knowthat although the Constitution of Singapore had been revised in 1958 to implement self-government for the then British colony of Singapore ,  self-government was only officially achieved with the Singapore general election of 1959 ?
text: Did you knowthat English architect Richard Roach Jewell designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia during the latter half of the 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma , and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution ?
text: Did you knowthat the Isted Lion , an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
text: Did you knowthat John Roberts was an Australian businessman who founded the construction company Multiplex , which is currently building the new Wembley Stadium in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Ewale a Mbedi may have been the first Duala leader to trade with Europeans in Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat offspring of the Blue Wildebeest can stand seven minutes after birth and run with the herd at two hours old?
text: Did you knowthat the fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Jay R. Vargas , one of four brothers who were decorated war veterans , requested that his medal be engraved with his mother's name instead of his own?
text: Did you knowthat the blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a dedication to Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you knowthat M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double ?
text: Did you knowthat Jean-Baptiste Le Blond , chief architect of Saint Petersburg from 1716 until his death, introduced the distinctions between state apartments and private apartments into French architectural practice?
text: Did you knowthat in Japan, the Simpsons are better known for appearing in C.C. Lemon commercials than for their television show?
text: Did you knowthat Perth Gaol was built in the 1850s to house convict labour, but by 1891, it was a geological museum?
text: Did you knowthat the native ornate plainchant of Benevento , Beneventan chant , co-existed with Gregorian chant for over a century before it was abolished by papal decree?
text: Did you knowthat the music video for the song " Vindaloo " was a direct parody of that of " Bitter Sweet Symphony " by The Verve , which was in turn a mocking recreation of the music video for " Unfinished Sympathy " by Massive Attack ?
text: Did you knowthat Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans ?
text: Did you knowthat the Christian sect of Collegiants was formed in 1619 to defy the Synod of Dort , which had forced Holland to dismiss liberal ministers ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the U.S. NIH , elective c-section and natural birth have "similar degrees of risk" for most women?
text: Did you knowthat the Neo-Baroque equestrian Monument to Nicholas I (1859) is the only statue of a 19th-century tsar in Saint Petersburg that was not demolished or relocated during the Soviet era ?
text: Did you knowthat American country musician Cowboy Copas's private plane crashed in Tennessee in 1963, killing him and everyone onboard, including fellow country music star Patsy Cline ?
text: Did you knowthat the Diademed Sifaka is an athletic lemur whose small groups defend a rainforest territory of up to 125 acres by scent marking ?
text: Did you knowthat Britain 's regulations on bread sales, as originated from the Assize of Bread and Ale ( 1266 ), were enforced for six centuries?
text: Did you knowthat a type of reflex hammer was popularized as a medical instrument after two neurologists brawled in Vienna ?
text: Did you knowthat web notes were an experimental attempt by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing to find a cheaper alternative to intaglio printing , but ultimately failed due to quality issues?
text: Did you knowthat the prosecution of writer and poet Perihan Magden for urging defiance of mandatory military service has complicated Turkey 's negotiations for membership in the European Union ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was married to Vikram Sarabhai , considered the Father of the Indian space program ?
text: Did you knowthat the Railsback curve shows that on a normally- tuned piano , low- octave notes will be lower and high-octave notes higher than expected, due to inharmonicity ?
text: Did you knowthat Saugumas , a Nazi -controlled Lithuanian secret police of the 1940s, was modelled after the infamous Gestapo ?
text: Did you knowthat ANTARES , a neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea , will find neutrinos from outer space by looking downward, into the Earth ?
text: Did you knowthat Coldplay 's A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour featured frontman Chris Martin performing songs after inhaling a helium balloon?
text: Did you knowthat Szeged 's public transport company is one of only four city transport companies that operate tram service in Hungary ?
text: Did you knowthat Maraba Coffee , the first Rwandan coffee to gain Fairtrade status , is used to make the only coffee beer sold in the British Isles ?
text: Did you knowthat the legendary Tamil stage and film artiste K. B. Sundarambal was also a political activist, and the first film personality to enter an Indian state legislature?
text: Did you knowthat economist Barbara Ward , an early advocate of sustainable development , was the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops ?
text: Did you knowthat climacteric years , occuring septennially , were considered critical and dangerous moments in an Ancient Greek 's life?
text: Did you knowthat New York Times theater critic Howard Taubman said, "it is the destiny of the theatre nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing"?
text: Did you knowthat due to protests and financial problems, the Saint Petersburg Dam was one of the Soviet Union 's most notorious long-term construction projects?
text: Did you knowthat shortly after Capt. William Swift was given command of the maiden voyage of USS Connecticut , it was recalled to port because of a bout of typhoid , and then run aground near Culebra, Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you knowthat Super Typhoon Kate of the 1970 Pacific typhoon season , which struck the Philippines less than a week after Super Typhoon Joan , was at the time the deadliest typhoon ever to strike the Philippines?
text: Did you knowthat 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India ?
text: Did you knowthat, at the time of its construction in 1838 , the Moscow Triumphal Gate in Saint Petersburg was the largest cast-iron structure in the world?
text: Did you knowthat British pianist Antony Peebles has performed in concerts in 128 different countries around the world?
text: Did you knowthat the DSSAM Model is a computer simulation used to study water quality of the Truckee River , and assisted in conservation of two endangered species ?
text: Did you knowthat Abner Kneeland became the last person in the U.S. jailed for blasphemy , in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kneeland ?
text: Did you knowthat cledonism was an ancient form of divination by listening to the chance words of passers-by, an example of which appears in the Odyssey ?
text: Did you knowthat in almost 100 years of existence, Ireland King of Arms granted only three coats of arms ?
text: Did you knowthat a client was an Ancient Roman who traded his vote for protection, in a similar way to the activities of modern organized crime ?
text: Did you knowthat if U.S. -based PacifiCorp decommissions the Condit Hydroelectric Project in 2008, Condit Dam will be the largest dam ever removed for environmental reasons?
text: Did you knowthat former movie actress Vera Ralston personally insulted Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Winter Olympics , and won a silver medal?
text: Did you knowthat a circumferentor was an important tool to surveyors for mapping the North American frontier ?
text: Did you knowthat the works of Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski were banned for several years in the People's Republic of Poland , following his criticism of the government ?
text: Did you knowthat only one percent of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge is above sea level ?
text: Did you knowthat Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men who travelled the world's oceans with the English explorer Thomas Cavendish between 1587 and 1592 ?
text: Did you knowthat Popeye Village , where the 1980 film Popeye was filmed, is now one of Malta 's most popular tourist attractions?
text: Did you knowthat a commission as an Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska gives authority over "all officers , seamen , tadpoles and goldfish " under one's command?
text: Did you know that the Chartered Society of Designers is the world's largest and oldest chartered body of professional designers , and is unique in having designers of all disciplines?
text: Did you knowthat the Temple Sanitarium hired the first female anesthesiologist to work in the U.S. , Dr. Claudia Potter, in 1906 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ahmedabad Stock Exchange is the second oldest stock exchange in India , and first functioned under a banyan tree ?
text: Did you knowthat the chrysargyron tax forced some Byzantine families to sell their children into slavery and prostitution ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer Gary Chapman died in a fishing accident, after retiring from swimming to pursue this very hobby?
text: Did you knowthat spoons , eyeglasses , and toothbrushes have been removed from stomachs using endoscopic foreign body retrieval techniques with specialized cameras?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1930 Polish election , due to government censorship , opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche , because he resembled dictator Józef Piłsudski ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th-century German Wilhelm Hasenclever did not live to see the political party he co-founded get its present name, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat the Byzantine Komnenian army was deployed in places as far-ranging as Italy , Hungary , and Egypt , and was instrumental in the Komnenian restoration of the empire?
text: Did you knowthat NASCAR driver Stephen Leicht , who started racing at age 7, was unable to participate in go-karting for 6 months after rupturing his spleen in an accident at age 11?
text: Did you knowthat Heraldo Muñoz , former National Supervisor of the People's Stores under Allende , is now Chile's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations ?
text: Did you knowthat the film Autism Every Day , though praised by many parents of autistics, has been heavily criticized by people with autism ?
text: Did you knowthat Pando , an aspen colony , is the oldest known living being at 80,000 years, and the heaviest at six million kilograms (6,000 tonnes)?
text: Did you knowthat the deployment of Panjandrum , an experimental British weapon devised during World War II , invariably resulted in the random firing of dozens of cordite rockets into the air?
text: Did you knowthat John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle inspired one of the pioneering works of British satire , and half a century later, fell down the stairs at the coronation of Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you knowthat if one of the dams of Ukraine 's Dnieper River reservoirs is destroyed, it may cause radioactive contamination of the whole Black Sea area?
text: Did you knowthat of the 27 U.S. Marines in World War II who threw themselves onto exploding grenades to save others, Richard K. Sorenson was one of only 3 to survive?
text: Did you knowthat a zayat is a combination rest-house and religious school funded and run by Burmese Theravada Buddhists , as an act of daná (meritorious charity)?
text: Did you knowthat the remains of Henri Huet and three other noted war photographers , shot down in their helicopter over the Ho Chi Minh trail in 1971, have never been found?
text: Did you knowthat the EU legal doctrine of state liability was first introduced following the Italian government's failure to properly compensate laid off workers?
text: Did you knowthat the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople ?
text: Did you knowthat the scandalous tales of Aristides of Miletus are still being discussed after over two millennia, although not one word of them has survived?
text: Did you knowthat the endangered cui-ui sucker fish was a staple of the Native American Paiute tribe for over a millennium?
text: Did you know that William Lee was U.S. President George Washington 's personal servant, and the only one of his slaves freed by Washington in his will?
text: Did you knowthat Stanisław Warszycki , a wealthy 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnate , gave rise to many legends about his cruelty, and several places in Poland claim sightings of his ghost?
text: Did you knowthat in the Penguins' Rebellion , over 800,000 Chilean high school students demanded education reforms from the government of Michelle Bachelet ?
text: Did you knowthat the victory of Alexios I Komnenos over the Pechenegs at Levounion marked a resurgence of Byzantine military power after half a century of turmoil?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Larry caused five deaths and US$53.6 million in damage when it struck the Tabasco state of Mexico , the first landfall in the state since 1973 ?
text: Did you knowthat a catholicon was a purported universal remedy taken orally or rectally ?
text: Did you knowthat a cento is a poetic work composed entirely of verses taken from other authors?
text: Did you knowthat British architect Ron Herron proposed building massive robotic walking cities in 1964?
text: Did you knowthat the poem The Absent-Minded Beggar was written to raise money for servicemen's families during the South African War ?
text: Did you knowthat Yucca Mountain Johnny is a cartoon character created to explain nuclear waste disposal to children, and has attracted controversy, being compared to Joe Camel ?
text: Did you knowthat Pallister-Killian syndrome is a rare congenital genetic disorder that cannot be detected through prenatal blood tests because it occurs only in the chromosomes of skin cells ?
text: Did you knowthat the Magdeburg Centuries is a 1300-year history of the Catholic Church , written particularly as a criticism of the papacy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Anichkov Bridge in Saint Petersburg features one of the city's notable landmarks, The Horse Tamer , a group of four neoclassical bronze sculptures by Baron Peter Klodt ?
text: Did you knowthat the Antikythera wreck , discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1900 , contained one of the first forms of a mechanised clock ?
text: Did you knowthat bay mud is a significant estuarine ecological resource, but went unstudied until humans began building high-rise structures near bays ?
text: Did you knowthat an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer Mikhail Bulgakov was found in Isaak Dunayevsky ' s archive after his death in 1955 ?
text: Did you knowthat missionary Roger Youderian almost returned to the United States one month before he was killed in Operation Auca ?
text: Did you knowthat the music video for the Fiona Apple song " Not about Love " (2006) features comedian Zach Galifianakis , and was filmed in and around his neighborhood?
text: Did you knowthat racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500 , but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand 's North Island ?
text: Did you knowthat KATRIN is an experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino by measuring the energies of electrons given off from the beta decay of tritium ?
text: Did you knowthat the film BloodSpell , licensed under Creative Commons , is the first feature-length production made using the computer game Neverwinter Nights ?
text: Did you knowthat Gestrinone , a medication for endometriosis that is banned by the IOC for its anabolic effects, has also been studied as a postcoital contraceptive ?
text: Did you knowthat the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies , in which one or more main characters usually died?
text: Did you knowthat the popular German snack Strammer Max takes its name from a slang expression for an erection ?
text: Did you knowthat Ukrainian Patriarch Mstyslav was enthroned at the age of 92?
text: Did you knowthat Johannes Rietstap was the founder of modern heraldic theory in The Netherlands ?
text: Did you knowthat although he was king of the Isubus of Cameroon , Young King William lacked the authority to stop the execution of a man accused of witchcraft ?
text: Did you knowthat General Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski was one of the architects of the Miracle at Vistula , the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War in 1920?
text: Did you knowthat casting is the regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks , to clean and empty their crops ?
text: Did you knowthat Chechen military commander Said-Magomed Kakiev has been declared a Hero of the Russian Federation four times, making him one of the most decorated Russian citizens?
text: Did you knowthat Jane Colden was the first female botanist to describe flora in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the fog which filled the stadium during the 2006 Super 14 Final forced some spectators to leave the match and watch it elsewhere, just to see the players?
text: Did you knowthat the rostral columns in front of the St. Petersburg Bourse were intended to serve as beacons and are still lit on ceremonial occasions?
text: Did you knowthat the GayFest of 2005 was the first LGBT pride parade in Romania?
text: Did you knowthat in the Bezdany train robbery of 1908, led by the future Polish dictator , Józef Piłsudski , the revolutionaries stole over 200,000 rubles ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caroline Books were a harsh argument against the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 , commissioned by Charlemagne and sent to Pope Adrian I ?
text: Did you know that Russian opera in the 18th century was dominated by Italian composers and singers ?
text: Did you know that HMS Prince Albert was the first Royal Navy warship to have her main armament mounted in turrets ?
text: Did you know that a carmen was a spell or incantation among the Ancient Romans , of which the oldest surviving examples are the Carmen Arvale and the Carmen Saliare ?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Fauré declared that his Requiem was "composed for nothing...for fun, if I may be permitted to say so"?
text: Did you knowthat Super Robot Wars: Original Generation , a strategy game featuring characters from major mecha animes, was originally never planned to be released in the United States due to licensing complications?
text: Did you knowthat children sometimes stopped the Parenzana train by greasing rails with figs ?
text: Did you knowthat principles governing the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) date back to the diet of Ancient Greece ?
text: Did you knowthat the second subtitle of title III of the USA PATRIOT Act largely modifies the Bank Secrecy Act in an effort to make it harder for money launderers to operate, and to make it easier for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to police money laundering operations?
text: Did you knowthat a carcass was a kind of artillery shell fired from a mortar or cannon to burn down enemy defences ?
text: Did you knowthat Major General Dan Harel was the Israeli commander in charge of the Gaza pull-out during the summer of 2005?
text: Did you knowthat starting in 1893, Krupp armour quickly replaced Harvey armor as the primary form of protection used on capital ships ?
text: Did you knowthat the true identity and current whereabouts of Philip Staufen , also known as "Mr. Nobody", who wandered into a Toronto hospital in 1999 and was diagnosed with amnesia , are still unknown despite an international search?
text: Did you knowthat the Crusade cycle is an Old French cycle of chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian government rescued six U.S. diplomats during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in a covert operation named the Canadian caper ?
text: Did you knowthat a bridge-playing robot managed to defeat two reigning European bridge champions?
text: Did you knowthat Indian revolutionary Manmath Nath Gupta was tried for participating in the Kakori train robbery but was not hanged because he was a teenager?
text: Did you knowthat the National Library of Mexico has a 1498 edition of Dante 's Divine Comedy ?
text: Did you knowthat Mount Burbidge in Namadgi National Park was named for Australian botanist Nancy Tyson Burbidge , who was instrumental in lobbying for the foundation of the park?
text: Did you knowthat Charles St. Clair was both a Scottish Peer and a York Herald of Arms , and was consequently able to attend the State Opening of Parliament in either capacity?
text: Did you knowthat informal cricket games often replace the original cricket ball with a tape covered tennis ball known as the tape ball ?
text: Did you knowthat Obaysch became the first living hippopotamus in England since prehistoric times when he joined the London Zoo in 1850 ?
text: Did you knowthat 9 of Indiana 's 12 native bat species have been observed in the National Natural Landmark Wyandotte Caves ?
text: Did you knowthat the collectible miniatures game Gamoja involves twin character pieces that are either good or evil?
text: Did you knowthat Baba Kanshi Ram wore only black clothes from 1931 to 1943 in support of Indian independence , which earned him the sobriquet of Siahposh General or General in Black ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Wuhan was the largest ground battle of the Far East theatre of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the family Caponiidae is unique among spiders because its members usually have two eyes ?
text: Did you knowthat Calyute was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who led a raid on Shenton’s Mill in Western Australia in 1834 for a half-tonne of flour ?
text: Did you knowthat Chindonya are elaborately-costumed Japanese street musicians who advertise for shops and other establishments?
text: Did you knowthat akuaba are dolls, traditionally carried on the backs of Ghanian women who want to conceive ?
text: Did you knowthat YouthBank UK is a national grant scheme in the United Kingdom , operated completely by young people to provide financial support for community projects?
text: Did you knowthat Zarafa was a giraffe presented to Charles X of France from Mehmet Ali Pasha , the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt in 1826 , to encourage the King of France to end his support for the Greeks in their fight for independence ?
text: Did you knowthat virtual reality has been used to create three-dimensional simulated environments for rehabilitation ?
text: Did you knowthat Gordon K. Bush Airport was built to serve Ohio University and serves as the base for its department of aviation ?
text: Did you knowthat New Australia was a utopian settlement founded in Paraguay in 1893 by former members of the Australian labour movement ?
text: Did you knowthat American Jackson Haines is considered the father of modern figure skating ?
text: Did you knowthat Kolachal , India was the location of a battle in 1741 where an Indian kingdom defeated a European naval force for possibly the first time in Indian history ?
text: Did you know that the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve in northern Ontario , Canada is the largest game preserve in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India was a scientific text published in Goa in 1563 that included the first published verses by Luís de Camões , Portugal 's national poet?
text: Did you knowthat the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria occupies the Neo-Baroque 19th-century edifice of the former royal palace?
text: Did you knowthat the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team made college football history by being the first team to ever win the Rose Bowl Game as time ran off the clock?
text: Did you knowthat the British Army was the last major military to exclusively adopt a semi-automatic handgun (the Browning Hi-Power ) as their service pistol , retaining the Webley Mk IV , Enfield No 2 Mk I , and Smith & Wesson "Victory" Model revolvers in official service until 1963?
text: Did you know that hearing loss is a common occurrence in cases involving craniofacial syndromes ?
text: Did you knowthat Eastern National , a non-profit organization that started with only $147 of donations, created the national park passport stamp program, which has sold over 1.3 million copies since 1986?
text: Did you knowthat former Australian Olympic swimming coach Forbes Carlile is the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you knowthat drug-eluting stents are often coated with chemotherapy compounds, to prevent blockage by tissue when placed into arteries?
text: Did you knowthat the 1960 Summer Olympics champion heavyweight weightlifter Yury Vlasov was a candidate in the Russian presidential election, 1996 but received only 0.02% of the vote?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Bilis caused 625 deaths and $2.5 billion (2006 USD ) in damage to the Philippines , mainland China , and Taiwan , making it the most damaging storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season so far?
text: Did you knowthat the narrow, steep-sided Vall de Boí in Spain contains nine extant First Romanesque churches, making it the densest concentration of Romanesque architecture in Europe?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War , Pennsylvania provided over 360,000 soldiers who served in the Union Army , more than any other Northern state except New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pactum Warmundi established autonomous Venetian communes within the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat Dorothy was the longest-running musical stage production ever until the 20th century , with an initial run of 931 performances?
text: Did you knowthat the wart-biter bush-cricket ( Decticus verrucivorus ) obtained both its English and scientific names from a Swedish practice of using the cricket to bite warts from the skin?
text: Did you knowthat during the Siege of Florence , Michelangelo was placed in command of the city's fortification ?
text: Did you know that Christopher Maude Chavasse was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire , a Bishop of Rochester , and an Olympic athlete ?
text: Did you knowthat there has been criticism of Pokémon due to the similarity between the original Jynx character design and blackface images?
text: Did you knowthat Clara the rhinoceros , the fifth living rhinoceros to be seen in Europe in modern times, became famous during a seventeen year tour of Europe from 1741 to 1758 ?
text: Did you knowthat the dispute regarding the distribution of the Zira and Firozpur administrative districts to India was settled as part of an agreement between the governments of India and Pakistan in 1960 , thirteen years after partition ?
text: Did you knowthat the first simulated patient was trained to act as if he had paraplegia and multiple sclerosis , in order to teach medical trainees ?
text: Did you knowthat life chances is a probabilistic concept introduced by sociologist Max Weber to determine the likely outcomes of an individual's life, on the basis of certain underlying factors?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine the Great named the Pella Palace after the birthplace of Alexander the Great , hoping that it would become the favorite lodging of her own grandson Alexander ?
text: Did you know that España Boulevard , the main street of Sampaloc , Manila , is notorious for its waist-deep floods during the Philippine typhoon season ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian trade unionist Dutta Samant led an estimated 200,000 workers on a year-long strike in 1982 , causing the exodus of the textile mill industry from Mumbai ?
text: Did you knowthat Subroto Mukerjee , the first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force , died of choking in a Tokyo restaurant?
text: Did you knowthat pretelescopic astronomy was practiced nearly two millennia prior to the introduction of the telescope ?
text: Did you knowthat Harriot Stanton Blatch helped revive the American women's suffrage movement in the early 20th century, by involving working class women?
text: Did you knowthat University Park at MIT includes the building in which Fig Newtons were originally made?
text: Did you knowthat at least 36 tropical cyclones have affected South America since 1588 ?
text: Did you knowthat former Major League Baseball catcher Mackey Sasser was known for his difficulty throwing the ball back to the pitcher when he was behind the home plate ?
text: Did you knowthat Ram Shastri , a celebrated 18th-century judge in the Maratha Empire , created judicial history in India by sentencing the incumbent Peshwa ( de facto ruler) to death on a charge of murder?
text: Did you knowthat although the last game in the Battle Isle series was released in 2001, there is an open source project, Advanced Strategic Command , to recreate the series?
text: Did you knowthat the Greeks introduced wine to Romania around 3,000 years ago?
text: Did you knowthat The War Illustrated was a WWI magazine first published eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish lake Morskie Oko was once called "Fish Lake" due to its natural stock of fish , which are uncommon in lakes and ponds of the Tatra Mountains ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Gascoigne developed the carronade while manager of the Carron Company in Scotland , but emigrated to avoid his creditors and spent the last 20 years of his life organising the production of iron and cannon for the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat, at the pinnacle of its power, the Avar Khanate exacted tribute from the rulers of Azerbaijan and Georgia ?
text: Did you knowthat Dove Cottage was a home of the English poet William Wordsworth for 8½ years of "plain living, but high thinking"?
text: Did you knowthat Jogendra Nath Mandal was a Hindu politician who served as the first Minister for Law and Labour of the Muslim state of Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Dana International was the first transsexual to win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with the song " Diva "?
text: Did you knowthat due to legal restrictions, the first scheduled electric tram service in Saint Petersburg ran not on city streets, but rather on ice covering the Neva River during winter season?
text: Did you knowthat John Fortescue attempted to restrict King James I 's power by limiting the appointment of Scottish people, and as a result was dismissed from his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer ?
text: Did you knowthat the Communist Consolidation group was formed by Indian revolutionary prisoners at the Andaman Cellular Jail in 1935?
text: Did you knowthat from the 6th to 12th centuries, a large part of Dagestan was dominated by the Christian kingdom of Sarir ?
text: Did you knowthat the first professional football team, The Zulus , was established in Sheffield , England in 1879?
text: Did you knowthat although the Polish-Romanian Alliance , an important alliance of the 1920s, was still in force when the Second World War began, it had little impact on the German invasion of Poland in 1939 ?
text: Did you knowthat the fossilised remains of lions have been found at Crook Peak in Somerset , England ?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Humbert Roque Versace was the first Army P.O.W. in Southeast Asia to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in captivity?
text: Did you knowthat Paris has held six BIE -sanctioned world's expositions , but the most recent was in 1937?
text: Did you knowthat the makers of Winston cigarettes responded to qualms about the incorrect grammar present in the ad campaign " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should " with a completely new campaign, noting the error?
text: Did you knowthat the 1990 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships was the only World Championship to permit bodychecking in women's ice hockey ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dictionary of Western Australians and the related Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians are two biographical dictionaries which contain biographical details of over 20,000 individuals?
text: Did you know that the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong , Sichuan Province, China , established in 1987, was the first specialized dinosaur museum to open to the public in Asia ?
text: Did you know that the James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota , built in 1891 by railroad magnate James J. Hill , has 36,000 square feet of living area and is the largest residence in Minnesota?
text: Did you knowthat The Colgate Comedy Hour was a musical variety television show that ran on the NBC television network from November 1950 to December 1956, and was the first NTSC color television broadcast?
text: Did you knowthat Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton , a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Bristol , contains the largest population of True Service-trees in England ?
text: Did you knowthat Silvestre S. Herrera is the only living person authorized to wear both the U.S. Medal of Honor and Mexico 's equivalent "Premier Merito Militar"?
text: Did you knowthat underwater panthers were creatures appearing in the mythology of a number of Native American traditions, which combined the features of mountain lions or lynx with those of snakes , and were believed to inhabit the deepest parts of lakes and rivers?
text: Did you knowthat the dinosaur Lufengosaurus , whose remains were found in China , was the first dinosaur to appear on a commemorative postage stamp , in 1958?
text: Did you knowthat, as a result of track switchbacks on either side of a mountain pass, all trains of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad crossed over the U.S. continental divide running backwards?
text: Did you knowthat Wayne Boden , a Canadian serial killer and rapist , was the first man to be convicted with the help of forensic odontological evidence in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Red Man , one of the leading U.S. brands of chewing tobacco , has been especially successful in marketing itself with rural sporting events?
text: Did you knowthat Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian meteorologist who was a pioneer of remote sensing technologies in India ?
text: Did you knowthat Eric Schopler's research into autism led to the foundation of the TEACCH program?
text: Did you knowthat The Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaire , published in 1545, was the first book on paediatrics written in the English language ?
text: Did you knowthat Philippe de Montebello , Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , is famous for his heavy French accent and even gives readings of French poetry at the museum?
text: Did you knowthat Pachirisu is a fictitious Electric Squirrel Pokémon that can shock opponents?
text: Did you knowthat Egushawa , principal chief of the Ottawas , was one of the most influential Native Americans of the Great Lakes region in the late eighteenth century?
text: Did you knowthat the COMILOG Cableway , built to transport manganese ore mined in Gabon , was the world's longest cable car at over 75 km ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Army General James Harbord , who commanded the United States Marine Corps ' 4th Marine Brigade at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I ,  was President of RCA in the 1920s when it formed NBC and RKO Pictures ?
text: Did you knowthat " Everybody Knows ", a song by Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson was described as a "bleak prophecy about the end of the world as we know it"?
text: Did you knowthat Raymond Monvoisin was a French painter and Legion of Honor recipient invited by the Chilean government to establish an Academy of Painting in Santiago , and who also dabbled in mining and ranching?
text: Did you knowthat Onesimos Nesib , who translated the Bible into Oromo , was accused of blasphemy for delivering sermons in his native language and not Amharic , the language of the local Orthodox priests?
text: Did you knowthat, according to Guinness World Records , carbon subnitride burns with the hottest flame of any chemical, at 5260 K (4987 °C, 9008 °F)?
text: Did you knowthat Roy Smeck ' s virtuoso ukulele performance in the 1926 sound film "His Pastimes" sealed his reputation as "Wizard of the Strings"?
text: Did you knowthat the Christii fly primarily lives under the bark of smaller branches and twigs of dead aspen trees?
text: Did you knowthat Russian poet and dissident Vadim Delaunay was a descendant of the last governor of the Bastille , marquis Bernard-René de Launay ?
text: Did you knowthat the Banksia series Spicigerae is a taxonomic series of Banksia characterized by cylindrical inflorescences ?
text: Did you knowthat South African trade union legislation uses the term " conscientious objector " to refer to workers who do not want to join unions on the basis of personal beliefs?
text: Did you knowthat Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass is one of the most popular German children's songs?
text: Did you knowthat in 1935, English cricketer Betty Snowball scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth ever women's Test match , setting a world record that was not beaten for over 50 years?
text: Did you knowthat during the Beslan school hostage crisis 74-year-old school teacher Yanis Kanidis refused to leave his students and ultimately died to save their lives?
text: Did you knowthat the Christmas carol " Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella " was originally written as dance music for French nobility ?
text: Did you know that Lost and Found in Translation , an episode of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder , marks the first use of footage of Japanese Super Sentai actors in a Power Rangers series?
text: Did you knowthat on arrival at Buckingham Palace , all 3,000 guests to the Children's Party at the Palace received a hamper with snacks put together by Jamie Oliver ?
text: Did you knowthat Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat Margherita Gonzaga d'Este ran her own balletto delle donne in the late 16th century, comprised entirely of women who frequently cross-dressed ?
text: Did you knowthat Hispanics have participated in every conflict in which the United States has been involved, and over forty Hispanics have been awarded the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you knowthat Other Songs , an award winning novel by Jacek Dukaj , a Polish science fiction writer, describes a unique world in which the ideas of Aristotle and Hegel replace the laws of physics ?
text: Did you knowthat Olympic pair skating champions Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet refused to defend their title at the 1936 Winter Olympics because Nazi Germany was hosting the Games?
text: Did you knowthat SS Rajputana , a P&O liner traveling between Plymouth , England and Lahore , British India , was converted into a cruiser and eventually sunk by a German U-boat west of Iceland ?
text: Did you knowthat at the end of his 13-match first class cricket career, John Howarth had a batting average of 0.00,  setting a new world record and leading to him being dubbed one of cricket's worst batsmen ?
text: Did you knowthat although the presence of Armenians in Bulgaria dates to the Early Middle Ages , their large-scale emigration to the country only began in the 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat P57 , a steroidal glycoside isolated from the African cactiform Hoodia gordonii , is believed to be the active chemical constituent responsible for the appetite suppressant activity of Hoodia extracts?
text: Did you knowthat some historians claim that Russian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky built the world's first electric tramway ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of Węgierska Górka , four unfinished and undermanned Polish bunkers held out against an assault of an entire German division for two days and two nights?
text: Did you knowthat British paediatrician June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury is commemorated in the coat of arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health , as a supporter holding a staff of Aesculapius entwined with a double helix rather than the traditional snake ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangladesh Nazrul Sena , founded upon the philosophy of Kazi Nazrul Islam , pioneered the introduction of computer science and multimedia education for children at the kindergarten level in Bangladesh ?
text: Did you knowthat the pellets regurgitated by some predatory bird species have been found to contain bird bands once attached to their prey?
text: Did you know that the WWE Video Library has an archive of over 75,000 hours of footage dating back more than fifty years, representing a very significant portion of the visual history of modern professional wrestling ?
text: Did you know that Luís Alves de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military hero praised for his victories in the War of the Triple Alliance , and that his birthday is celebrated annually as Dia do Soldado ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1883, Southern Pacific Railroad tried to block the California Southern Railroad from installing a level junction across their tracks in Colton, California , by moving a locomotive slowly back and forth at the intersection point?
text: Did you knowthat after Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?
text: Did you knowthat the fish Echiodon rendahli has a portion of its intestine protruding from its belly, so that while living inside sponges it can defecate outside its shelter without being exposed to outside dangers?
text: Did you knowthat Ogyu Sorai is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian philosophers in Japan during the Tokugawa period ?
text: Did you knowthat there is a pattern to the names of the class of medications called " monoclonal antibodies "?
text: Did you knowthat there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven- metre -deep Resurgance Pool?
text: Did you knowthat in musique mesurée Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes ?
text: Did you knowthat by using measurements of the flux of solar neutrinos within the framework of the Standard Solar Model physicists have estimated the temperature of the core of the sun to within 1%?
text: Did you knowthat Texas produces the most helium in the United States , all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo ?
text: Did you knowthat the 144 km long Salso River , named for its saline content, is the longest river in Sicily ?
text: Did you knowthat the CornerShot is a gun that can shoot around corners?
text: Did you knowthat the American Meat Institute and the Federal Meat Inspection Act celebrate their hundredth anniversary this year?
text: Did you knowthat The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault was a live television special in which Al Capone 's secret vault was opened and shown to only contain a bottle of moonshine ?
text: Did you knowthat Piotr Włostowic , a 12th century voivode of the Kingdom of Poland , managed to break the alliance between Władysław II the Exile and Rus' princes while blinded, muted and exiled?
text: Did you knowthat the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange , New Jersey , is the only zoo in the world that has a pair of Malaysian "black dragon" monitor lizards on display?
text: Did you knowthat the Worek Plan , a submarine operation by the Polish Navy in the early days of the Polish September Campaign , was a failure as the submarines did not manage to sink a single German vessel ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kiev tram was the first electric tramway in the Russian Empire , and the second one in Europe , after the Berlin Straßenbahn ?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Gilbert of Dornoch was the last Scot to appear in the Calendar of Saints ?
text: Did you knowthat the number of Jewish partisans during World War II exceeded 20,000?
text: Did you knowthat Russian composer Boris Sobinov was abducted from the Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat Wogan Philipps was the only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain to sit in the House of Lords ?
text: Did you knowthat prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee ?
text: Did you knowthat Ash Lawn-Highland , the former home of U.S. President James Monroe , has been transformed into a 535- acre working farm , museum , and site for the performing arts ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chamber of Nationalities is a now-defunct chamber of the bicameral parliament of Myanmar ?
text: Did you knowthat Yuktibhasa , written by Indian astronomer Jyeshtadeva , is considered to be the first mathematical treatise on calculus ?
text: Did you knowthat the satirical German radio programme The Gerd Show reached no. 1 in Germany's 2002 Christmas single charts with a parody of " The Ketchup Song " which attacked Gerhard Schröder 's tax policies?
text: Did you knowthat the River Banksia ( Banksia seminuda ) was originally considered a subspecies of the Swamp Banksia ( Banksia littoralis ), as they share many similar characteristics?
text: Did you knowthat homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Park average 20,000-30,000 ft² , and that the homeowners association requires all dwellings to be larger than 5,000 ft²?
text: Did you knowthat the Grodno Sejm of 1793, the last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , passed the Second Partition of Poland with deputies bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire 's army?
text: Did you know that That Summer Day is the first television drama for children about the bombings of the London public transport system on July 7 , 2005 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Florida mangroves are vital to an estimated 75 percent of the game fish and 90 percent of the commercial fish species in South Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick ' s book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970 , at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
text: Did you knowthat there is a long history of animals in sport , ranging from common horse racing and fox hunting events to the more unusual rabbit show jumping and camel wrestling competitions?
text: Did you knowthat the T-18 tank , first produced in 1928, was the first tank designed and built in the Soviet Union , and that its design was based on the French Renault FT-17 of the First World War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Palmeral of Elche is the largest plantation of palm trees in Europe, with date palms covering over 3.5 square kilometres in and around the Spanish city of Elche ?
text: Did you knowthat loans made by Seattle brothel -owner Lou Graham saved some of the city's most prestigious families from bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893 ?
text: Did you knowthat composer Veniamin Fleishman was killed early in WWII before he could complete his opera Rothschild's Violin , but that his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad , and completed the opera?
text: Did you knowthat the Directive Principles in India , which are guidelines for the government while framing laws and policies , were inspired by the Irish nationalist movement ?
text: Did you know that William T. Perkins, Jr. , a United States Marine who covered an exploding hand grenade with his body, is the only combat photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you knowthat the starting point for the History of Australia is usually taken to be the first undisputed sighting of Australia by the Dutch in 1606, although many researchers alleged that other sightings took place a hundred years earlier?
text: Did you knowthat administrative law in mainland China has been used unsuccessfully by Chinese dissidents to sue the Communist Party of China ?
text: Did you knowthat Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman , elected the first Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in 2006, was the first woman to give birth while serving as a British Member of Parliament in the 1970s, and is reported to have been the first woman to breast feed at the Palace of Westminster ?
text: Did you knowthat the Esopus Wars led to the creation of the boundaries of Native American lands in 17th century New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the best Canadian album , regardless of genre, sales, or record label?
text: Did you knowthat Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge supports the largest surviving population of the endangered Fender's blue Butterfly which feeds upon the threatened Kincaid's lupine ?
text: Did you knowthat Thai boxer Pongsaklek Wonjongkam holds the flyweight division records for fastest knockout (34 seconds) and consecutive title defenses (15)?
text: Did you knowthat rainwater tanks may be made from polyethylene , concrete , or galvanised steel , but not from clear plastic, because it would allow in sunlight, leading to algal blooms?
text: Did you knowthat the Abbey of Fontenay , near Dijon in France , was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 and is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian judicial decision Re Burley (1865), was made in colonial times, and is still cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in extradition cases over a century later?
text: Did you knowthat the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh , India at least once every year?
text: Did you knowthat, in 2007, Joyland Amusement Park plans to install The Greezed Lightnin' , a Schwarzkopf Shuttle Looper purchased from Astroworld in Houston, Texas ?
text: Did you know that French poet and novelist Louis Pergaud was a pacifist who was killed in action during World War I in 1915 ?
text: Did you knowthat the alloy hepatizon was highly valuable in classical antiquity , and was named due to its similarity to the colour of liver ?
text: Did you knowthat the first performance of Glinka 's opera A Life for the Tsar ( 1836 ) was conducted by Catterino Cavos , who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
text: Did you knowthat " Hippias Major ", one of Plato 's dialogues dating back to the 4th century BCE , employed the plot device we now refer to as a " cliffhanger "?
text: Did you knowthat The Entrance Bridge was the site of a 1955 accident when the Number 11 Red Bus 's brakes failed, whereupon it crashed through a wooden retaining wall and landed in The Entrance Channel ?
text: Did you knowthat Austrian figure skater Herma Szabo practiced on the first artificial ice rink ever made, and went on to win five world championships ?
text: Did you knowthat the Oklahoma Aquarium has the world's largest collection of antique fishing tackle, with over 20,000 pieces?
text: Did you knowthat the Treaty of Viterbo transferred power over the Latin Empire from the last reigning monarch to the Angevin rulers of Sicily ?
text: Did you knowthat Perfect Imperfection , a 2004 science fiction novel by Polish writer Jacek Dukaj , raises the issues of technological singularity , transhumanism and the anthropic principle , and presents a unique model of human evolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Torre HSBC , home of the headquarters of HSBC Mexico , is expected to become the first building in Latin America to receive a LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council ?
text: Did you knowthat Saco Bay on the Maine coast was named in 1525 by the Spanish cartographer Esteban Gómez for the resemblance of its southern pool to the outline of a sack ?
text: Did you knowthat Information International, Inc. (Triple-I) used the Super Foonly , the world's fastest PDP-10 , to render 3D animation for the 1982 film Tron ?
text: Did you knowthat in the early 1900s, the Spruce Flats Bog in Forbes State Forest , Pennsylvania underwent a forced reversal from forest to bog, and is now slowly returning to a forest?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess —his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat parasocial interaction is a one-sided social relationship between the audience and the performers ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese designer Kenzo Takada developed his love for fashion by reading his sisters' magazines as a child?
text: Did you knowthat during the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I , over 1% of the Luxembourgian population died fighting for France , even though Luxembourg remained officially neutral ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1908 Nikolai Panin became Russia 's first Olympic champion by winning the figure skating special figures event, the only year in which it was an Olympic event?
text: Did you knowthat student development theories are tools used by scholars and teachers in understanding how students gain knowledge ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pernambucan Revolt of 1817 was a conflict to establish independence for the current Brazilian state of Pernambuco from Portugal ?
text: Did you knowthat West Liberty Foods provides Subway restaurant franchises with over one million pounds of meat per week?
text: Did you knowthat Henryk Iwański , member of Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in WWII , commanded several incursions into the Warsaw Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters ?
text: Did you knowthat Lord Neaves , a judge on the supreme court of Scotland , was quoted by Darwin on evolution , but attributed the concept of evolution to Lord Monboddo , not Darwin ?
text: Did you knowthat Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens created the album Flamenco A Go-Go after seeing flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía play live, and that the album spans many genres including dance , flamenco , blues and rock ?
text: Did you knowthat several months after Vasili III of Russia divorced his wife, Solomonia Saburova , on account of her barrenness, she is believed to have given birth to a son, who became the Cossack robber Kudeyar ?
text: Did you knowthat, in the 1970s, Peter Rawlinson was expected to become the first Roman Catholic Lord Chancellor since Thomas More in 1532?
text: Did you knowthat hollowed-out books have been used in bombings , for smuggling , and for covertly photographing people?
text: Did you knowthat Celia Rosser , Australian botanical illustrator has the Banksia species Banksia rosserae and the cultivar Banksia canei 'Celia Rosser'  named in her honour?
text: Did you knowthat both Denmark and Spain have plans to change their succession laws from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture, leaving Luxembourg and the United Kingdom as the only monarchies in the European Union not to have equal primogeniture?
text: Did you knowthat a Navy shower is a method of showering that conserves both water and energy?
text: Did you knowthat the highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE , which uses a bingo , and can theoretically score 1778 in one go?
text: Did you knowthat the rulers of Yogyakarta brought female bedhaya dancers with them into battle?
text: Did you knowthat Michał Boym was one of the first Westerners to explore China and an author of many scholarly publications about the Far East ?
text: Did you knowthat the Confederation of the Equator was a short-lived state established in northeastern Brazil during her struggle for independence from Portugal ?
text: Did you knowthat there have been several proposals for space advertising projects, including a giant, 1km² billboard visible from Earth ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, 51 U.S. soldiers held out against some 700 Arapaho Indians and their allies for 9 days, surviving on nothing but muddy water and meat from their own fallen horses?
text: Did you knowthat the New Shepard is a commercial space tourism vehicle designed and assembled by Blue Origin which will start subscale flight testing in 2006?
text: Did you know that NASCAR driver-turned-broadcaster Phil Parsons is the (16 years) younger brother of 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons ?
text: Did you knowthat the Palace of Tau in Reims , France , is named after its shape, which resembles the letter T ( tau , in the Greek alphabet )?
text: Did you knowthat Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team?
text: Did you knowthat an increasing number of countries are looking to regulate fast food advertising to try to reduce childhood obesity ?
text: Did you knowthat the symphony said to have been written in 1809 by Ukrainian landowner Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was later proven to be a hoax ?
text: Did you knowthat a total of 19 tropical cyclones worldwide have been named Alice , making this one of the three most frequently used tropical cyclone names ?
text: Did you knowthat Anthony Marreco was Junior Counsel in the British Delegation at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg , and was later a founding director of Amnesty International ?
text: Did you knowthat Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, Virginia contains a steam locomotive and ten flat cars trapped in a collapse in October 1925 which were never recovered?
text: Did you knowthat habitual con artist Amy Bock impersonated a man in early- 20th century New Zealand in order to marry and defraud her landlady's daughter?
text: Did you knowthat the isolated population of Citrine Forktails on the Azores is the only population of dragonflies anywhere in the world known to reproduce by parthenogenesis ?
text: Did you knowthat the Israeli entry for the 1987 Eurovision Shir Habatlanim , meaning The Bums' song led to a resignation threat by the Israeli culture minister?
text: Did you knowthat the Talbot Samba supermini car was the last Talbot passenger car ever made?
text: Did you knowthat the Gay Football Supporters Network recently voted Steven Gerrard top of their annual "Lust List" for the second year running?
text: Did you knowthat Biodiversity Action Plans are a primary tool of 189 nations to conserve threatened species , but the one nation who has signed, but not ratified, the underlying treaty has produced the most elaborate set of plans?
text: Did you knowthat Mixmath is a Canadian board game similar to Scrabble , in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?
text: Did you knowthat according to Externism , a pseudophilosophy proposed by the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman , in the end of every learning process we know nothing, but we know it precisely?
text: Did you knowthat In Dreams , the debut album by British child star Joseph McManners , was recorded in Prague and features music by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra?
text: Did you knowthat most of the Muslims in Fiji are descended from those brought to the islands from India as indentured labourers between 1879 and 1916?
text: Did you knowthat on August 26 , 2006 the Philippines won the inaugural World Cup of Pool held at Newport , Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat the British music journalist Everett True introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love ?
text: Did you knowthat the veteran Polish actress Irena Kwiatkowska is most remembered for her television series role in which she performed various unusual or absurd jobs?
text: Did you knowthat aviator Ruth Nichols , known at one time as the "Flying Debutante", flew every type of aircraft developed, from dirigible to supersonic jet ?
text: Did you knowthat one fan's elaboration of Quake 's plot became the nearly four-hour film The Seal of Nehahra , the longest work of machinima at the time?
text: Did you knowthat Harbhajan Singh was rewarded with an offer to become the Deputy Superintendent of Punjab police after becoming the first Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cerro Grande Fire , a major forest fire in New Mexico , USA , menaced the Los Alamos National Laboratory and produced a smoke plume that extended to Oklahoma ?
text: Did you knowthat underwater explosions produce ocean surface waves that are similar to tsunamis ?
text: Did you knowthat history of philosophy in Poland begins with the contributions of the 13th century philosopher, Witelo ?
text: Did you knowthat the Desert Tree Frog is one of Australia 's most widely distributed frogs ?
text: Did you knowthat Baron Karl von Reichenbach , the prolific German chemist who discovered paraffin , creosote and phenol , proposed the existence of a quack physical energy, the Odic force , that could be detected only by specially sensitive people?
text: Did you knowthat having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton , Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration?
text: Did you knowthat the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?
text: Did you knowthat structure relocation has saved several buildings from destruction by moving them without the need for disassembly?
text: Did you knowthat the small Fiat Cinquecento is among the few cars fitted with both transverse and longitudinal engines at the same time?
text: Did you knowthat the Spanish used Puerto Rican masks called caretas to frighten lapsed Christians into returning to the church?
text: Did you knowthat it was feared the broadcast of the Italian 1974 Eurovision song Si , meaning yes would influence a referendum on divorce ?
text: Did you knowthat Bubba the Grouper , the first known fish to receive chemotherapy , died recently in Chicago, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat Brian Kennedy 's " Every Song Is A Cry For Love " was the 1000th song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you knowthat mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?
text: Did you knowthat Central Sikh Temple was Singapore 's first gurdwara when it was initially set up in a police barracks in the 1880s ?
text: Did you knowthat Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reanalysing Atlantic hurricane data to correct errors in the hurricane database dating back to the Apollo Program ?
text: Did you knowthat the Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata , Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
text: Did you knowthat " Ceol An Ghrá " was the first and only time that Ireland entered the Eurovision Song Contest with a song in Irish ?
text: Did you knowthat a lifeboat from the wrecked passenger steamship SS Valencia was found floating in good condition, 27 years after the ship's demise?
text: Did you knowthat architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?
text: Did you knowthat Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
text: Did you knowthat Haraldskaer Woman , who lived around 540 BC , is one of the best preserved bog people ever discovered, and that forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet ?
text: Did you knowthat the Conference of Rulers of Malaysia plays an important role in the Malaysian elective monarchy ?
text: Did you knowthat a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of Kullu , Himachal Pradesh , due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?
text: Did you knowthat Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Clay Mathematics Institute fellow Akshay Venkatesh is the only Australian to win medals at both the International Physics and Mathematics Olympiads ?
text: Did you know that the largely unexplored Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka ?
text: Did you knowthat the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?
text: Did you knowthat the St. James Theatre in Wellington , New Zealand , was nearly demolished in the 1980s and is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts ?
text: Did you knowthat murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in Shanghai before she became famous for her wallpaper designs?
text: Did you knowthat Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire , articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat according to anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn , Neanderthal in China and Java were killed off by the more intelligent hominid Sinanthropus pithencanthropus , contributing to the Neanderthal extinction ?
text: Did you knowthat Ludwika Maria Gonzaga was the queen consort of two Kings of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Maclodio earned the Republic of Venice its largest permanent land area in its 1000-year history?
text: Did you knowthat complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic theologians such as Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum ?
text: Did you knowthat Hitler's Cross was a Hitler -themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian scientist Shiv Chopra was terminated from Health Canada for informing the Senate of the health effects of Bovine Growth Hormone ?
text: Did you knowthat a school bus crossing arm is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus ?
text: Did you knowthat Sesame Street 's street scenes were centred around the fictional African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets took on an increased role?
text: Did you knowthat the 1917 Silvertown explosion may have been the largest explosion to ever occur in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacek Dukaj 's Black Oceans , a Polish science-fiction novel , received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
text: Did you knowthat the Kullaberg Nature Reserve contains the brightest lighthouse in Sweden and is home to many rare species of plants and animals including the Red Kite ?
text: Did you knowthat Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at  the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangabhaban has served as the official residence for the Viceroy of India , Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh ?
text: Did you knowthat City is a massive work of earth art by Michael Heizer that has been under construction for over thirty years in the Nevada desert?
text: Did you knowthat surgeon William Brydon was the only European of 16,500 British troops to survive the retreat to Jalalabad from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War ?
text: Did you knowthat, had it been completed, the Trinity Shoal Light would have been among the most exposed lighthouses in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening disease of pregnancy that is treated with urgent delivery?
text: Did you knowthat Hendren v. Campbell was a forerunner to the 1987 Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard to forbid the teaching of creationism in American public schools ?
text: Did you knowthat freestyle wrestler William Kerslake , who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games , was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?
text: Did you know that capillary action of molten brass or silver is used to greatly increase the strength of lugged steel bicycle frames ?
text: Did you knowthat the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi is the only extensive historical document accounting the wars, events and life in Bengal during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir ?
text: Did you knowthat the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East , which began operating in 1854 ?
text: Did you knowthat Gibbon's Tennis Court , a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England ?
text: Did you knowthat Beinn a' Ghlo is a large mountain in Scotland that has three Munro summits, and is an SSSI ?
text: Did you knowthat the French sports car Matra Murena had an unusual seat configuration of three abreast?
text: Did you knowthat one factor in the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef under Jewish law?
text: Did you knowthat Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth —her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?
text: Did you knowthat a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering ?
text: Did you knowthat the gravestone of executed murderer , Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?
text: Did you knowthat the Matra Bagheera sports car was named after the Jungle Book character ?
text: Did you know that the government in exile at Mujibnagar proclaimed Bangladesh 's independence and coordinated the Mukti Bahini during the liberation war ?
text: Did you knowthat an attack on the flanks of an enemy is known as a flanking maneuver and that this type of attack has been used in both land and naval battles?
text: Did you knowthat the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat Rafael Buenaventura , once-governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and one of the world’s top central bankers , was largely responsible for removing the Philippines from an FATF black list ?
text: Did you knowthat the right-hand drive Simca 1300/1500 came with floor-mounted gear shifters having an inverted gear shift pattern?
text: Did you know that Singapore 's Police Coast Guard is a coast guard and water police service that is also responsible for maintenance of order on most of Singapore's off-shore islands ?
text: Did you know that the Kadam Rasul shrines are believed to display stone imprints of the footprints of Muhammad ?
text: Did you knowthat the Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite ?
text: Did you knowthat the Council House in Bristol, England features a blue and gold wall clock , encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator?
text: Did you knowthat in 1943 , avant-garde French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle , Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the first churches in Vilnius , the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos , was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre ?
text: Did you knowthat in the papal Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the fish market , in Sant'Angelo ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Congratulations " was almost banned from being performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 by Silvia Night due to an expletive in the lyrics?
text: Did you knowthat Featherston prisoner of war camp was the site of a riot that lead to the death of 47 Japanese prisoners of war during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000 Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?
text: Did you knowthat the Zymne Monastery in Volynia is believed to have been named after a winter palace of Vladimir the Great that formerly stood on the spot?
text: Did you knowthat Józef Zeydlitz served in the Polish Army for 65 years and took part in six wars, yet did not receive a single military award?
text: Did you knowthat the cuisine of Somaliland has been influenced by Ethiopian , Arab , and Italian food traditions?
text: Did you knowthat when it opened in 1999, Casino Sault Ste. Marie was Northern Ontario 's first full-time charity casino ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Fremantle prison riot in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape?
text: Did you knowthat Banderia Prutenorum is a 15th-century manuscript by Jan Długosz , describing banners collected by Polish forces after their defeat of the Teutonic Order forces in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 AD?
text: Did you knowthat Valéry Inkijinoff , a French actor of Russian - Buryat origin, was one of the favorite villains of French cinema from the thirties to the late sixties?
text: Did you knowthat Beverston Castle is in ruin , not mainly from its role in warfare , but by a 1646 act of the English parliament to destroy its battlements , lest they be used by Royalists ?
text: Did you knowthat Maria Kazimiera , the 17th-century Queen of Poland, became famous for the love letters she and her husband, King Jan III Sobieski , wrote to each other?
text: Did you knowthat the new Monument to Alexander II in Moscow was built on a slope to symbolize that the emperor was an ordinary man, when the monument is viewed from behind ?
text: Did you knowthat " Too Hot ", Alanis Morissette 's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991 , was a dance pop song?
text: Did you knowthat Yogendra Singh Yadav of the Indian army was awarded India 's highest military honour posthumously in error, until it was realized that he was still alive recovering from injuries from the Kargil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Colombian writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio wrote La Casa Grande , a novel based on the events of the Santa Marta Massacre , an event which also featured prominently in his friend Gabriel García Márquez 's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude ?
text: Did you knowthat the MOPy fish holds the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded cyberpet ?
text: Did you knowthat the Heartland Championship and the Air New Zealand Cup have replaced the National Provincial Championship in New Zealand rugby union ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian Test cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was previously a national break dancing champion of India ?
text: Did you knowthat voice artists who made Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip to conceal their identity?
text: Did you knowthat the 1622 wreck of the British East India Company ship, the Tryall is the oldest shipwreck in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat a small cottage in the Chester , England suburb of Handbridge inspired the song " Nowhere Man " by The Beatles ?
text: Did you knowthat Walt Neubrand is one of three men responsible for the safety of the National Hockey League 's Stanley Cup during its travels around the world?
text: Did you knowthat although related to modern filter feeding baleen whales , the recently discovered prehistoric whale Janjucetus had large serrated teeth implying that it fed on large fish or even sharks ?
text: Did you knowthat ski treks were popular with Lev Landau , while Andrei Kolmogorov preferred swimming in the local ponds while they lived in the scientists' rest-home in Uzkoye ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swiss peasant war of 1653 was immediately caused by a currency devaluation in the canton of Berne ?
text: Did you know that Ken Richmond , the last gongman of the Rank Organisation , was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin 's Night and the City ?
text: Did you knowthat the Achilles tang was named in honor of Achilles , the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War and Homer 's Iliad ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1710 Bendery Constitution by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk was one of the first state constitutions in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the death of lighthouse keeper George Worthylake was memorialized in a broadside poem by the young Benjamin Franklin ?
text: Did you knowthat prisoners in a Soviet Gulag seized control of their camp for 40 days , establishing their own government, militia, and propaganda department?
text: Did you knowthat Iceland's entry in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest , " Minn Hinsti Dans ", was performed by a former drag queen ?
text: Did you knowthat Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24-year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown?
text: Did you knowthat the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti- BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity ?
text: Did you knowthat in the late 18th century , Russian ambassadors to Poland had power that rivalled and even exceeded that of the Polish king or parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat Melbourne Hall , Derbyshire ,  was once the seat of Victorian Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , and thus is the ultimate origin for the naming of Melbourne, Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is the son of former cricketer-turned- Punjabi actor Yograj Singh ?
text: Did you knowthat the gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline ?
text: Did you know that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields , London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?
text: Did you knowthat cursed soldiers is the name for Polish resistance members who fought against the Soviet Union and Polish communists for almost two decades in the aftermath of the World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nepalese communist leader Ruplal Bishvakarma , who introduced the current Maoist leader Prachandra to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994?
text: Did you knowthat the six Imperial Towers were the first Canadian lighthouses to be fitted with Fresnel lenses ?
text: Did you knowthat a gymslip is a sleeveless tunic commonly associated with British schoolgirls and sportswomen of the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then- Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995 ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian pianist Glenn Gould produced three radio documentaries , collectively named the Solitude Trilogy , in which up to three people speak simultaneously in monologue ?
text: Did you knowthat director Fei Mu 's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005 ?
text: Did you knowthat France 's Ford Vedette was the first car to feature MacPherson struts ?
text: Did you knowthat the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park , South Africa in 1978 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Claude Glass was a tinted mirror used by amateur artists in the 18th century in which they turned their back on the subject?
text: Did you knowthat Chinese premier Zhou Enlai barely evaded an assassination attempt on him in 1955 , which killed 16 people?
text: Did you knowthat the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio ?
text: Did you knowthat Simca 1000 , a small French-made car, was manufactured for 17 years and that almost 2 million were produced?
text: Did you knowthat in Jordan , two journalists who republished three of the twelve Danish Mohammad cartoons were sentenced to two months in jail ?
text: Did you knowthat the direct-to-video release Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination featured singers like Billy Joel , LL Cool J , and Harry Connick, Jr. performing classic Disney songs?
text: Did you knowthat the Huanghuagang Uprising was the prelude to the Wuchang Uprising , the uprising that resulted in the transfer of China from a feudalistic country into a republic ?
text: Did you knowthat Sakis Rouvas , who performed a sexually-suggestive song " Shake It " at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , engaged in an equally sexually-suggestive conversation with Paul de Leeuw while hosting the Contest two years later?
text: Did you knowthat Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?
text: Did you knowthat the self-made dress that Barbara Dex wore while performing " Iemand Als Jij " at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest led to the creation of an award for the worst-dressed performer in the contest ?
text: Did you knowthat in June 2001 , Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ?
text: Did you knowthat the native mammal fauna of Puerto Rico consists exclusively of bats ?
text: Did you knowthat the macapat forms of Javanese poetry are classified on the basis of the patterns of syllables and the final vowels of each line?
text: Did you knowthat Scotland Yard , one of the world's most iconic police institutions, was built overtop  the site of an unsolved murder ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nissan President , Nissan's top-of-the-range luxury limousine made for over forty years, remains largely unknown outside of Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat Elena Paparizou , a member of the duo Antique which performed the song " (I Would) Die For You " at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest , went on to win the contest in 2005 ?"
text: Did you knowthat just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the atmosphere of Venus has very similar pressure and temperature as does Earth , making it the most Earth-like area in the solar system ?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?
text: Did you knowthat 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini , Jimmy Fallon , Lucy Liu , and Felicity Huffman ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rose-Fruited Banksia is so named because its fruiting bodies resemble roses made of wood?
text: Did you knowthat Jerzy Ziętek , a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the Poconos ?
text: Did you knowthat George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler ?
text: Did you knowthat the most powerful radio station in Imperial Russia operated from New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg ?
text: Did you knowthat the manga Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical by American comic book artist Jerry Robinson ?
text: Did you knowthat the popular hymn " Dear Lord and Father of Mankind " is taken from a poem about hallucinogenic drugs by John Greenleaf Whittier ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991 , the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
text: Did you knowthat the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
text: Did you knowthat the bignose unicornfish can change colours when frightened or asleep to help camouflage itself from predators ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Wadde Hadde Dudde Da? " consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect and never answers the question in its title?
text: Did you knowthat Picasso 's painting The Three Dancers depicts a real love triangle that caused one of Picasso's best friends to commit suicide?
text: Did you knowthat the Pechenga Monastery , founded in 1533 , was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem was appointed directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1745 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour , who might have been his natural daughter?
text: Did you knowthat the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris ?
text: Did you knowthat the film crew of actress Revathi 's directorial debut Mitr, My Friend was entirely composed of women?
text: Did you knowthat Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem " My Country ", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country , while she was homesick when travelling in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat Daylight Saving Time was first legislated in North America in June 1917 by the former country of Newfoundland ?
text: Did you knowthat the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized ?
text: Did you knowthat the Judicial and Bar Council of the Philippines recommends appointees to the country's courts, without the " advice and consent " of the Commission on Appointments ?
text: Did you know that Byron K. Lichtenberg and John Glenn were respectively the first and the last Americans to fly as Payload Specialists on board the Space Shuttle ?
text: Did you knowthat a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos , or representation of an athlete , was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999 ?
text: Did you know that during the Indian Wars , troops stationed at Fort Harker , Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post- American Civil War era?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Reise Nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e Seyahat " was the first occasion on which the German Eurovision entry was performed partly in Turkish ?
text: Did you knowthat the controversy over the portrayals of Mormons in popular media includes Arthur Conan Doyle 's very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet ?
text: Did you knowthat in Kuwait , the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
text: Did you knowthat in June 1995, the Fiji Meteorological Service became responsible for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cockpit Theatre was the first theatre in London 's Drury Lane ?
text: Did you knowthat Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar ?
text: Did you knowthat a Wikipedia article was a source for a U.S. House of Representatives bill that was signed into law as the Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities ?
text: Did you knowthat the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States , and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cheraman Juma Masjid , the oldest mosque in India , was originally constructed in traditional Hindu architectural style ?
text: Did you knowthat Brian Killick 's novel The Heralds follows the exploits of fictional members of the College of Arms as they vie to be the next Garter Principal King of Arms ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian Armed Forces mobilized more than 2,200 soldiers within days to help fight over 800 separate forest fires during Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat the song Autostop is the only Eurovision Song Contest entry to have been based on the subject of hitchhiking ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi 's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions ?
text: Did you knowthat of the three breeding roosts in England for the rare Barbastelle bat , the only indoor roost is found in Norfolk 's historic Paston Great Barn ?
text: Did you knowthat Mitsubishi Motors manufactures a keicar simply named "i" ?
text: Did you knowthat a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer , but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
text: Did you knowthat actress Shabana Azmi portrayed the wife of a deaf-mute alcoholic potter in her debut film Ankur ?
text: Did you knowthat, in his novel War and Peace , Leo Tolstoy described the Battle of Tarutino as little more than a chain of accidents and coincidences?
text: Did you knowthat the Autobianchi Primula was Fiat's first automobile with the front-wheel drive , transverse engine setup and rack and pinion steering?
text: Did you knowthat much of what is known about the life of blues legend Blind Willie McTell comes from interviews with his wife, Kate McTell , after his death?
text: Did you knowthat stadiums such as Sydney 's Telstra Stadium and Paris ' Stade de France use movable seating to change the layout of the playing area to allow for a wider variety of sports?
text: Did you knowthat Max McGee is a former American Football wide receiver who assisted the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championship wins and scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
text: Did you knowthat, during the Yalta Conference , Winston Churchill was so impressed with the brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company that he asked Joseph Stalin to send him several cases annually?
text: Did you knowthat the band Crow originally recorded " Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me) ", which was famously covered by Black Sabbath ?
text: Did you know that in August 2006, Brigadier General Angela Salinas became the first Hispanic female general officer in United States Marine Corps history?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Guildo Hat Euch Lieb! " was performed by a band whose name literally translates as " Guildo Horn and the Orthopedic Stockings"?
text: Did you knowthat between 1977 and 1998, Madame Leprieur from Agon-Coutainville in France sent 80,000 questions to the daily RTL radio show Les Grosses Têtes , making herself famous nationwide?
text: Did you knowthat Alberta Vaughn was an American film actress who starred in 112 motion pictures before her death in 1992 ?
text: Did you knowthat Angelica Agurbash , who sang the Belarussian entry at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest , went through two major strip acts during her three-minute performance?
text: Did you knowthat when the Château de Choisy was built for the Grande Mademoiselle , Louis XIV 's first cousin, the garden designer André Le Nôtre 's first advice was to "lay low all the woods that are there"?
text: Did you knowthat Albert Bigelow Paine was the literary executor for Mark Twain , a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee , and a recipient of the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur for his books about Joan of Arc ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships , the first world skiing championships of the International Ski Federation held outside Europe, took place in Lake Placid in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Régence style, precursor of the Rococo , had its origins in the interiors designed by Jean Bérain the Elder for Louis, Grand Dauphin at the Château de Meudon ?
text: Did you knowthat Bénilde Romançon 's superiors at the Christian Brothers ' novitiate were reluctant to take him in because he was short of stature?
text: Did you knowthat Shangwen Fang received a fine for cruelty to animals after he was tracked down as the source of graphic images that had been posted on the Internet which showed cats being abused?
text: Did you knowthat there are many examples of unfinished work in the arts, some of which remain incomplete but others have been finished by other people?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Wir Geben 'Ne Party " is the first Eurovision entry to mention hip-hop music , despite not being in that style?
text: Did you knowthat during the time of Scandinavism , Hans Christian Andersen wrote a poem called Jeg er en Skandinav which together with the later added melody could have become the National Anthem of a unified Scandinavian nation?
text: Did you knowthat the Autobianchi Stellina was the first Italian car with a fiberglass body?
text: Did you knowthat the Château de Bellevue , a small château built near Paris in 1750 as an intimate meeting place for Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour , was named for its spectacular views over the Seine ?
text: Did you knowthat Maulana Mehmud Hasan organised an armed rebellion against the British Raj with Turkish support but was arrested just before his return to India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romans completely forgot what the ancient Lapis Niger shrine was dedicated to, and had at least three different stories telling why it was built?
text: Did you knowthat the sting of the rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?
text: Did you knowthat The Daily Talk , the most widely read news medium in the Liberian capital of Monrovia , is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?
text: Did you knowthat Brazilian-born Alberto Cavalcanti directed the 1942 British propaganda war film Went the Day Well?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel William Nolde was the last official American casualty of the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat the expressions "take care of the pence , and the pounds will take care of themselves" and " ways and means " are both attributed to William Lowndes ?
text: Did you knowthat most buildings of the True Cross Monastery on Kiy Island in the White Sea were designed by Patriarch Nikon ?
text: Did you knowthat the planned M4 Toll motorway will be the second toll section of the United Kingdom's M4 motorway , despite being under 10 miles from the first?
text: Did you knowthat Applecrest Farm Orchards is the oldest continuously operating apple orchard in the United States of America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mahé River in India was nicknamed the " English Channel " because it separated British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé ?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel M. Rubin popularized the practice of selling popcorn in movie theaters , earning him the nickname "Sam the Popcorn Man"?
text: Did you knowthat the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme included the world's then-longest fresh-water pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903 ?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Lorz was greeted as the winner of the 1904 Summer Olympics marathon but later admitted to having travelled by car for ten miles of the race?
text: Did you knowthat Muslim scholar Maulvi Abdul Haq is decorated as the Father of Urdu in Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Canadian Arctic islands did not become part of Canada until 1880 ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Angibaud was the royal apothecary to Louis XIV of France , but left France in 1681 to avoid persecution as a Protestant Huguenot and moved to London , where he was later Master of the Society of Apothecaries ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Dschinghis Khan " is a disco -inspired tribute to the Mongol leader Genghis Khan ?
text: Did you knowthat civilians took refuge in St. La Salle Hall in Manila during World War II , believing that its walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit?
text: Did you knowthat Claudia Alexander was the last project manager of NASA 's Galileo mission to Jupiter ?
text: Did you knowthat murdered British schoolgirl Amanda "Milly" Dowler has a charity, an award-winning garden and a sweetpea named after her?
text: Did you knowthat the English footballer David Layne scored 58 goals in 81 games for Sheffield Wednesday F.C. before he was jailed for his involvement in the British betting scandal of 1964 ?
text: Did you knowthat, before becoming famous, both Martha Stewart and Lyle Waggoner appeared in ads for Tareyton cigarettes, telling the audience that " Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! "?
text: Did you knowthat a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple 's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fair Play Men , a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania , made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4 , 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek ?
text: Did you knowthat the native fauna of New Guinea does not include any large mammal predators ?
text: Did you knowthat Central Asian Gypsies , often seen around Russian markets and railway stations in the 1990s were previously mistaken as Tajikistani refugees ?
text: Did you knowthat Flying University was the secret educational conspiratorial enterprise that existed in Warsaw , Poland , in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?
text: Did you knowthat Monica Coghlan , at the center of the scandal surrounding Lord Jeffrey Archer , was killed in an unrelated car crash a month before the start of the trial that would convict him of perjury and vindicate her?
text: Did you knowthat the Canaanites are a movement in Hebrew culture that seeks to recover its rootedness in ancient Canaanite civilization?
text: Did you knowthat early photographer Alexander Gardner was the last person to photograph American President Abraham Lincoln before his assassination —and also photographed the conspirators and their public execution?
text: Did you knowthat during the filming of the 2002 film The Importance of Being Earnest , the scenes in which Rupert Everett slaps Colin Firth on his rear end and then kisses his cheek were ad libbed , and director Oliver Parker thought Firth's stunned reaction was so humorous that he kept them in the film?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Zwei Kleine Italiener " references the homesickness experienced by guest workers in Germany during the Wirtschaftswunder ?
text: Did you knowthat Archibald Hall was the oldest prisoner on the original list of British murderers who were issued with whole life tariffs by the Government?
text: Did you knowthat Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was one of the first painters to work in an abstract style for his entire career?
text: Did you knowthat, according to the Lanercost Chronicle , Richard de Inverkeithing , bishop of Dunkeld , was poisoned by King Alexander III of Scotland so that the king could take the bishop's movable possessions?
text: Did you knowthat The Varsitarian of the University of Santo Tomas was one of the first student newspapers in the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat animals have delivered mail throughout history, with different postal services using pigeons , reindeer and even cats ?
text: Did you knowthat within a tomb in the town of Bergamo , Italy there is a statue dedicated to the life of Enrico Rastelli , the world's greatest juggler ?
text: Did you knowthat 96 tropical cyclones have affected the state of Delaware since 1749?
text: Did you knowthat Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a mixed language based on Malay , Japanese , English and Australian Aboriginal languages ?
text: Did you knowthat Enrique Angelelli was an Argentine Catholic bishop killed during that country's military junta ?
text: Did you knowthat the Famous Artists School has perhaps been best known for its Draw me! advertisements on the covers of matchbooks ?
text: Did you knowthat the parastatal Kenya Railways Corporation will be managed by a private consortium come November 1 , 2006 ?
text: Did you knowthat Wojciech Bobowski was one of the most important musicians of the Ottoman Empire , and the author of the Bible translation into the Ottoman Turkish language ?
text: Did you knowthat the treatment of Crohn's disease can include a mouse - human chimeric antibody called infliximab ?
text: Did you knowthat Suleiman the elephant , named after the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent , became the first elephant to visit Vienna in March 1552?
text: Did you knowthat Binaca Geetmala was a Radio Ceylon countdown program of hit Indian film songs that was the most listened to radio program in India for portions of its 42-year run?
text: Did you knowthat the Liaoshen Campaign was a decisive 52-day engagement in the creation of Communist China ?
text: Did you knowthat the borders of the states and territories of the United States have changed over 90 times since the United States Constitution was adopted by the Philadelphia Convention on 13 July 1787 ?
text: Did you knowthat West Side Story won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 34th Academy Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat Harvey Littleton , a former professor at the University of Wisconsin , pioneered the American studio glass movement in the 1960s and is responsible for training many prominent glass artists ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Diwanit Bugale " was a French Eurovision entry performed in Breton and the only French entry not performed at least partly in French ?
text: Did you knowthat British Air Marshal Joubert de la Ferté served as commander-in-chief of RAF Coastal Command on two separate occasions, before and during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat the French clothing brand Cacharel is named after a small bird that inhabits the Camargue ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Nanven Garba was part of the coup that displaced Yakubu Gowon as the leader of Nigeria , and yet went on to be President of the United Nations General Assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2006 Kapa O Pango controversy is due to a throat-slitting gesture at the end of the All Blacks traditional haka performance?
text: Did you knowthat conger cuddling was once described as the "most fun a person could have with a dead fish"?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Mama Corsica " is the only song in the Corsican language to have been performed at the Eurovision Song Contest , placing 4th in the 1993 edition ?
text: Did you knowthat overacting can be intentional for some roles, particularly when exaggerating the evil characteristics of a villain , but is often the subject of parody and satire ?
text: Did you knowthat two-time International Motor Sports Association champion Steve Millen was only able to compete in three of four IROC races in 1995 before he suffered a career ending injury at Road Atlanta ?
text: Did you knowthat the masseira is a form of agriculture in sand dunes practiced solely in Northern Portugal ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Army surgeon Ben L. Salomon was recommended for the Medal of Honor four times before it was posthumously awarded by George W. Bush in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat British graphic designer Alan Fletcher designed the logo of 84 dots used by Reuters from 1965 to 1992, the "V&A" logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989, and the "IoD" logo of the Institute of Directors ?
text: Did you knowthat the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation ?
text: Did you knowthat, as a schoolboy, former Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King attended what is now Suddaby Public School ?
text: Did you knowthat " Comme È Ddoce 'O Mare " was performed in the Neapolitan language , the only time the host country of the Eurovision Song Contest performed in a minority language ?
text: Did you knowthat Astro Flight, Incorporated of Marina del Rey, California created the world's first practical electric-powered radio controlled model airplane and the world's first full-scale solar-powered airplane?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Brinkley Bass was awarded two U.S. Navy Crosses within a period of two months for combat actions in World War II and was killed in action two years later?
text: Did you knowthat the Silver Fish , the highest award in the Girl Guides and scouting movement, can be traced back to November 1909 ?
text: Did you knowthat Mikołaj Trąba , first primate of Poland , took part in the Battle of Grunwald and might have been a papal candidate during the Council of Constance ?
text: Did you knowthat the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?
text: Did you knowthat the famous ending to the M*A*S*H episode " Abyssinia, Henry " was kept a secret from the entire cast, with the exception of Alan Alda , until the moment of filming?
text: Did you knowthat the assassins of former Bangladeshi prime minister Mansur Ali were protected by the Indemnity Act and not arrested or tried for more than 20 years?
text: Did you knowthat Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
text: Did you knowthat Chickies Rock contains the largest exposed anticline on the East Coast of North America?
text: Did you knowthat PWS-10 designed in late 1920s was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Opinion was founded by Mahatma Gandhi and served as the main vehicle for the Indian civil rights struggle in early- 20th century South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat some astrologers claim Earth has a second moon they call Lilith ?
text: Did you knowthat the small Toyota Publica was available in a range of 2-door body styles , including a pickup truck ?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Brooke ' s narrative poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet was the chief source for William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet ?
text: Did you knowthat only two prototypes of PWS-33 Wyżeł , a Polish trainer aircraft , were built before the production was interrupted by German invasion of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat after France expelled the Vaudois Protestant group living in Piedmont in 1686, the latter fought their way back home during the War of the Grand Alliance ?
text: Did you knowthat the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat " Miss Lucy Long " was possibly the most popular American song of the antebellum period?
text: Did you knowthat the village of Naluvedapathy in Tamil Nadu , India remained unscathed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because of a record 80,244 casuarina saplings planted on the coast two years earlier?
text: Did you knowthat Suriname 's worst air disaster was Surinam Airways Flight 764 , which crashed after the pilots ignored repeated warnings that they were flying too low?
text: Did you knowthat the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921 , the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry of Masovia , 14th century bishop of Płock , might have been poisoned by his wife, sister of Grand Duke of Lithuania , Vytautas the Great ?
text: Did you knowthat the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti , Guyana , and the Bahamas ?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians, cut off from the mainland, resisted for 170 days in the Adzhimushkay quarries in Crimea ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Prime Minister of Italy , Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour was also one of the first landowners in Italy to use chemical fertilizers ?
text: Did you knowthat between 1938 and 1943, C$ 13 million worth of gold bricks were shipped out of the small Vancouver Island community Zeballos ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland was the longest single span cast iron bridge in the world when it opened in 1796?
text: Did you knowthat Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories , the world's largest manufacturer of Unani medicines, reinvests all its profits into charitable activities?
text: Did you knowthat the “Deluxe” version of Outrage! is the most expensive board game in the world?
text: Did you knowthat a series of scandals in the 1970s involving the Royal Canadian Mounted Police resulted in the permanent loss of their right to oversee Canadian intelligence operations?
text: Did you knowthat Dream Theater held a song contest to see who could write a song as similar as possible to " Stream of Consciousness " , based solely on its arrangement charts posted from the studio prior to its release?
text: Did you knowthat the Periyar National Park , Thekkady is located around the Periyar reservoir formed by the backwaters of the Mullaperiyar dam ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese of Calcutta have established the only Chinatown in India?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Dadant emigrated from France to Hamilton, Illinois , where he became a founding father of modern beekeeping ?
text: Did you knowthat Justice G.T. Nanavati headed a one-man commission to investigate the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish schlager singer Towa Carson competed in Melodifestivalen 2004 at the age of 68?
text: Did you knowthat William Makepeace Thackeray may have based the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon on exploits of the notorious soldier and duelist Tiger Roche ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bruce Tunnel is the only tunnel on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the second longest navigable tunnel on Britain 's canals ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine ?
text: Did you knowthat the comic series Bahadur focused on rehabilitation of dacoits at a time when dacoity was prevalent in many parts of rural India ?
text: Did you knowthat excavations of the Roman castrum at Charax, Crimea revealed drains made of clay pipes and a reservoir with a mosaic portrayal of an octopus ?
text: Did you knowthat " Giovanni Henrico Albicastro " , the Baroque composer of music in a Corellian manner, was actually Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a cavalry officer born in Bavaria ?
text: Did you knowthat Difficult Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat the Athenian coup of 411 BC temporarily replaced the democratic government of Athens with a narrow oligarchy ?
text: Did you knowthat New York, Texas is near Athens while Texas, New York is near Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat at various times and in various cultures the first dance was the minuet , quadrille , waltz , or polonaise ?
text: Did you knowthat Florence Mary Taylor was the first female architect in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat although the Pandora's Box album Original Sin was a commercial failure, some of the tracks have gone platinum with other artists?
text: Did you know that Kashmiriyat defines the way of life and identity of the Kashmiri people since medieval times, helping them preserve harmony amidst invasions of Kashmir ?
text: Did you knowthat jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Nilus reportedly foretold to princess Aloara of Capua , for her part in the murder of her husband's nephew, that none of her offspring should reign in Capua—a prophecy that came true in 999 ?
text: Did you knowthat between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non- ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship , 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
text: Did you know that George J. Adler , one of the greatest linguists of the 19th century, went insane from the effort of publishing his Dictionary of German and English Languages ?
text: Did you knowthat the Queen Elizabeth Walk in Singapore was built on reclaimed land in 1922 and that it was renamed in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat young celebrity chef Sam Stern joined fellow chefs including Jamie Oliver and Anthony Worrall Thompson at the "BBC Good Food Show" in London when he was just 15?
text: Did you knowthat Louis Kaufman , an accomplished American classical violinist, played more than 400 solo performances in movie soundtracks , making him one of the world's most frequently heard violinists?
text: Did you knowthat on 2 January 1990, 26-year old Nivedita Bhasin of Indian Airlines became the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat even though Michigan State football coach Muddy Waters got fired for his losing 10-23 record, his fans still carried him off the field after his final 24-18 loss to Iowa ?
text: Did you knowthat prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir ?
text: Did you knowthat the Konevsky Monastery at Lake Ladoga takes its name from a huge boulder which was revered by pagan Finns ?
text: Did you knowthat the Maya archaeological site of La Corona is the enigmatic and long-sought "Site Q"?
text: Did you know that the Portuguese film Ala-Arriba! features real-life fishermen from Póvoa de Varzim in starring roles?
text: Did you knowthat an attack on the USS Firebolt (PC-10) killed the first member of the United States Coast Guard to die in action since the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat Interstate 10 in Texas is the longest continuous untolled freeway under a single authority in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Giles Pellerin , known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years?
text: Did you knowthat the first album of Taiwanese band 2moro includes a song which consists of excerpts from 23 songs by other singers?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Shelton Sanford , the founder of Sanford, Florida , was hired as an envoy to the United States by King Leopold II of Belgium ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Kelbajar was the first time Armenian military forces crossed and captured a region of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Boston Transportation Planning Review was declared by the U.S. Department of Transportation as the prototype urban transportation evaluation?
text: Did you knowthat the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 made broad and sweeping changes to women's rights in the United Kingdom , allowing women to enter the professions or serve on juries ?
text: Did you knowthat stereotypes of animals are common in television and film and usually emphasise particular traits of the species?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting , had a peerage conferred upon him at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree ?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish National Party politician Douglas Henderson was instrumental in passing the censure motion that led to the downfall of James Callaghan 's Labour government in 1979, but narrowly lost his own seat in the ensuing general election ?
text: Did you knowthat as a consequence of poverty in Pakistan 51% of tenants are bonded to their landlords in a feudal fashion?
text: Did you knowthat over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam ?
text: Did you knowthat Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid , a 9th-century "king of all Ireland ", came to power after killing his brother?
text: Did you knowthat Justice Rana Bhagwandas was the first Hindu to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Campbell was a popular radio personality on KYA San Francisco who used to loan his personal phonograph, record collection and even his personal automobile to his listeners?
text: Did you know that cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974 by a 13-year-old boy who had visited his pen pal in England and brought back a single bat and a copy of the Laws ?
text: Did you knowthat racehorse Lil E. Tee , who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby ?
text: Did you knowthat Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland , Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle ?
text: Did you knowthat the Koichi Nakamura -designed computer puzzle game Door Door was the first game to be published by Enix ?
text: Did you knowthat the Haryana Tourism Corporation names its tourist complexes after local birds in the Indian state of Haryana ?
text: Did you knowthat the development of the Chrysler Sunbeam was funded by a British government grant?
text: Did you knowthat NicVax causes an immune response that prevents nicotine from reaching the brain ?
text: Did you knowthat in their 1956 book Union Democracy , social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied Michels ' iron law of oligarchy ?
text: Did you knowthat the cast for the Academy Award -nominated movie Little Terrorist had never acted in a movie before and that the crew worked for the movie free of charge, and even travelled to India at their own expense?
text: Did you knowthat Garston Lock is the last remaining turf sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and one of only two remaining in Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian painter Nikolay Karazin produced many works inspired by the Moscow Metro project that was rejected by the government in 1902?
text: Did you knowthat every proposal made by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 was defeated when placed before the voters?
text: Did you knowthat Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker , a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt ?
text: Did you knowthat Italy's 1957 Eurovision entry, " Corde Della Mia Chitarra ", was so long that it resulted in the introduction of length restrictions for competing songs?
text: Did you knowthat a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is a tool largely developed in the USA for analysis of real estate toxic liability , but its use has spread to much of the developed world ?
text: Did you knowthat Wavefront Technologies developed some of the very first off-the-shelf computer animation software, for which it received Academy Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat hemosuccus pancreaticus , a rare cause of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract , can cause silver -coloured stools if the bleeding source obstructs the common bile duct ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian émigré writer Gaito Gazdanov earned a living by working as a tax collector and hosting a show at the Radio Liberty ?
text: Did you knowthat Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 1972 was the first aircraft hijacking to take place in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch polymath Theodoor Jansson compiled a list of authors who plagiarized expressions from other writers?
text: Did you knowthat Nathaniel Currier , of Currier and Ives , first achieved prominence creating newspaper illustrations of current events and political cartoons ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Maca played on the United States men's national soccer team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup even though he wasn't a U.S. citizen?
text: Did you knowthat Mehrauli , a neighbourhood of Delhi housing the famous Qutb complex , was the capital of the Slave dynasty from 1206 to 1290 ?
text: Did you knowthat Matir Moina , a Bangladeshi film by Tareque Masud , was temporarily banned by censors in Bangladesh before becoming the country's first film to compete for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category?
text: Did you knowthat Peter and Jane are the main characters in a series of 36 children's early readers for the English language published by Ladybird Books that have been in print for over 40 years, and have sold over 80 million copies?
text: Did you knowthat Portugal's leading satirical poet of the 18th century, Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida , made the first literary reference to the "Brazilian modinha "?
text: Did you knowthat the Sidrapong Hydel Power Station is the oldest hydroelectric power station in India ?
text: Did you knowthat roll call is the only legal means to establish a quorum in the United States Senate and until the next roll call the quorum is assumed to be present, so that less important business may be performed even without physical presence of the whole quorum of 51 Senators?
text: Did you knowthat " Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo " is a grammatically valid sentence ?
text: Did you knowthat the first two books by Argentine author Ricardo Güiraldes were such a commercial and critical failure that he gathered up the unsold copies and threw them in a well?
text: Did you knowthat Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston , Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office from 1981 to 1987, co-ordinated the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer and of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson , and the funeral of the Duchess of Windsor ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat , home to the endangered Asian Wild Ass , is the largest wildlife sanctuary of India ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Gallic War Julius Caesar built the first bridge over the Rhine river in only 10 days and cut it down 18 days later?
text: Did you knowthat the nearly completed Sivand Dam project in Fars Province , Iran will flood 130 archaeological sites and hasten the destruction of the ancient Persian city of Pasargadae ?
text: Did you knowthat Mordvin sculptor Stepan Erzya developed a project of transforming entire mountains in the Andes into monuments to the heroes of the war for independence?
text: Did you knowthat Proverb , a piece by Steve Reich , was influenced both by minimalist techniques and medieval polyphony ?
text: Did you knowthat Joint Forest Management between villagers and the government of India was started to prevent theft of forest resources at Arabari , but now accounts for the management of at least 14 million hectares in 27 states?
text: Did you knowthat Walerian Łukasiński , a 19th century Polish Army officer , was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire , and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1961, retired bus driver Kempton Bunton stole Francisco Goya 's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a protest, and demanded £140,000 to be donated to charity to allow the poor to pay for television licenses ?
text: Did you knowthat the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is a rebel organization that gained de facto recognition from the Government of Pakistan on September 5 , 2006 as a result of negotiations between Islamabad and local tribesmen to end the Waziristan War ?
text: Did you knowthat in addition to 8,000 Scouts , the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
text: Did you knowthat the Blood In The Water match was one of the most famous matches in water polo history, and was won by Hungary after the match was stopped in the final minutes following crowd trouble?
text: Did you knowthat Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov referred to his opera Kashchey the Immortal as a "short autumnal fairy tale", as opposed to Snegurochka , a "spring fairy tale"?
text: Did you know that the Explorer 32 satellite was able to determine the density of the upper atmosphere through ground-based observations of the effect of drag on the satellite?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Shusha in May 1992 was the first significant Armenian military victory during the Nagorno-Karabakh War , and marked a turning point during the conflict?
text: Did you knowthat many plants avoid seed predation through a process called mass seeding , whereby so many seeds are produced at once that it is impossible for predators to eat all of them?
text: Did you knowthat in 1935, David Townsend was the last England Test cricketer not to have played for one of the English first-class cricket counties?
text: Did you knowthat the Venus de' Medici ' s elegant arms are by Ercole Ferrata ?
text: Did you knowthat due to the rarity of the recently-discovered Old World babbler Bugun Liocichla , no type specimen was collected; instead, feathers from the mist net and notes were used as the holotype ?
text: Did you know that the Bara Katra palace in Dhaka , now dilapidated and half-destroyed, was built originally to be the residence of Mughal prince Shah Shuja ?
text: Did you knowthat Coop NKL opened Norway 's first self serve food store on October 1 1947 ?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend, any immigrant to the city of Agroha , established by Emperor Agrasen in ancient India , would receive a hundred thousand bricks to build a home, and a hundred thousand rupees to start a business of his own?
text: Did you knowthat although the name of Pennsylvania 's western Conewago Creek means at the rapids in the Lenape language , there are no rapids in the creek itself?
text: Did you knowthat the popular Lithuanian fairy tale hero Eglė the Queen of Serpents transformed herself and her children into trees as a punishment?
text: Did you knowthat while The Goons may have joked about exploding trousers , farmers in New Zealand in the 1930s actually experienced the phenomenon when herbicide that they were using caught fire?
text: Did you knowthat the Obscure Berrypecker of New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings?
text: Did you knowthat nutcracker esophagus , a cause of difficult swallowing , takes its name from high amplitude contractions of the esophagus being likened to a mechanical nutcracker ?
text: Did you knowthat Charlie Williams , one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian , responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you"?
text: Did you knowthat Royal Castle in Poznań was once the largest castle in the Polish Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2003 aggressive skating video game Rolling featured a roster of professional skaters including Fabiola da Silva and Brian Shima ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Robert H. McCard , a United States Navy destroyer , was named after U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Robert H. McCard , a recipient of the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you knowthat fried spiders are a popular food in the Cambodian village of Skuon ?
text: Did you knowthat Anne Gregg , best known as former presenter of the BBC 's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s , was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
text: Did you knowthat in order to get him to agree to write and perform the " Theme from Shaft " , Isaac Hayes was promised an audition for the film 's title role?
text: Did you knowthat the Saqqara Bird , an Egyptian artifact dating to at least 200 B.C.E., has led some scholars to speculate whether the Ptolemaic Egyptians possessed rudimentary airplane technology?
text: Did you knowthat at 7'3" (2.21 m), Swede Halbrook became the tallest person to ever play college basketball when he joined the Oregon State Beavers in 1954?
text: Did you knowthat the fort at Arki, India was captured by Gurkhas in 1806 and used as their stronghold till 1815 , when they ceded it during the Gurkha War ?
text: Did you knowthat French Communist Party politician Jeannette Vermeersch was elected to to every sitting of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958?
text: Did you knowthat " Stormtrooper in Drag ", the debut single by Paul Gardiner , was co-composed by friend and former Tubeway Army bandmate Gary Numan , and marked the first time in four years of working together that they had collaborated on the writing of a published song?
text: Did you knowthat Karan Bilimoria invented Cobra Beer and was the first Parsi in the House of Lords ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1967 Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashed after a fire was sparked by a non-return valve being installed backwards?
text: Did you knowthat the Blood Parrot , a cross-bred fish , has neither a binomial nomenclature nor a distinctly known parentage?
text: Did you knowthat Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation can be used instead of chlorine in wastewater treatment , eliminating toxic by-products of chlorine?
text: Did you knowthat three years after being arrested for dealing in cocaine , former quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners Charles Thompson managed to win a national championship with Central State University ?
text: Did you knowthat Major-General F.F. Worthington , father of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps , was buried with his wife in his own memorial park at Canadian Forces Base Borden , which also serves as home to the tank collection of the Base Borden Military Museum ?
text: Did you knowthe Shuka Saptati , written originally in Sanskrit , is a collection of seventy erotic tales narrated by a parrot to prevent its mistress from committing adultery while her husband is away from home?
text: Did you knowthat a Chicago urban legend states that 90,000 people died in Chicago of typhoid fever and cholera in 1885?
text: Did you knowthat Polmos Łańcut , one of the oldest vodka distilleries in Poland, was established by Duchess Lubomirska and existed already in 1784 ?
text: Did you knowthat Wyndham Robertson , a Virginia politician who was a member of the Committee of Nine that helped Virginia be re-admitted to the Union after the American Civil War , was a descendant of Pocahontas ?
text: Did you knowthat Brian Cappelletto won the World Scrabble Championship in 2001 but has not played in the event since?
text: Did you knowthat the librettoes for Tchaikovsky 's operas Vakula the Smith and Cherevichki were adapted from Gogol 's stories by the poet Yakov Polonsky ?
text: Did you knowthat the Castilian Civil War resulted in the removal of many Jewish people from high offices of state?
text: Did you knowthat Indian entrepreneur Jamsetji Tata conceptualized Tata Steel , Tata Power and the Indian Institute of Science , but that they were only established after his death in 1904 ?
text: Did you knowthat twirling is a key component of many artforms , hobbies , and sports where an object, such as a pen , baton or stick is spun or rotated to achieve the desired effect?
text: Did you knowthat since the genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published in 1996 , the complete genome sequences of over 50 other eukaryotes have been completed?
text: Did you knowthat the Civilian War Memorial in Singapore was built in 1967 in memory of the civilians massacred during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945?
text: Did you knowthat Dmitry Chernov ' s discovery of the polymorphous transformations in steel has been thought to mark the transition of metallurgy from an art to a science?
text: Did you knowthat Chillingham Cattle have lived as an isolated herd for 700 years, and are believed to be closely related to the aurochs , an extinct species domesticated in the Stone Age ?
text: Did you knowthat the English explorer and geologist Sir Vivian Fuchs led the first successful overland expedition across Antarctica in 1958—a journey of 2,158 miles (3,453 km )?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional goat Koziołek Matołek has been a popular Polish children's literature character since first appearing in 1933?
text: Did you knowthat virtuoso double bassist and composer Frantisek Kotzwara asked a prostitute to cut off his testicles and died from erotic asphyxiation ?
text: Did you knowthat Rocco Petrone was the first non-German administrator of NASA 's Marshall Space Flight Center ?
text: Did you knowthat in addition to their use on early sailing ships, early trains had " crow's nests " as well?
text: Did you knowthat Ichikawa Danjūrō V , one of the most famous and successful Kabuki actors, was briefly forced out of the theater after being accused of misappropriating funds?
text: Did you know that Islam Khan was the founder of the modern city of Dhaka and the first Mughal general to subjugate Bengal ?
text: Did you knowthat studies in phage ecology indicate that viruses may be the most abundant organisms on Earth ?
text: Did you knowthat the first British fighter pilot to die in World War II was killed in a friendly fire incident known as the Battle of Barking Creek ?
text: Did you knowthat American engineer Elmer William Engstrom was involved in the development of television by RCA in the 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat line source is a mathematical construct used to analyze roadway air and noise pollution , but was not developed as a meaningful tool until 1970 when major U.S. laws spurred extensive environmental modelling ?
text: Did you knowthat 6Q0B44E , a recently discovered satellite of Earth , is thought to be a large piece of space debris ?
text: Did you knowthat Iranshah Âtash Bahrâm in Udvada , a town in Gujarat , India , is the holiest fire temple for the Parsi community?
text: Did you knowthat the stump speech of the blackface minstrel show was a precursor to modern stand-up comedy ?
text: Did you knowthat a feature story is an article in a newspaper , a magazine , or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news , but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional Document 12-571-3570 was a hoax that purported to describe sex experiments done in space ?
text: Did you knowthat Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy is the longest single-volume novel ever published in English?
text: Did you knowthat, as a consequence of the Russo-Polish War from 1654 to 1667, the cities of Kiev , Chernigov , and Smolensk were ceded to Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat anti- gay protests following the selection of the song Samo Ljubezen by drag-group Sestre in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest led to criticism of Slovenia in the European Parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat Merv Wood , a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics , later became the Police Commissioner of New South Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat the Svinsky Monastery later changed its name to Svensky, in order to avoid connotation to the word " swine "?
text: Did you know that the Israeli band Ping pong were disendorsed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority as the representative in the 2000 Eurovision after waving the Flag of Syria in their song " Sameyakh "?
text: Did you know that Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor will become the first Malaysian in space when he launches on board Soyuz TMA-11 towards the International Space Station in September 2007?
text: Did you knowthat Chiques Creek in Pennsylvania , named for the Lenape word Chiquesalunga (meaning place of crayfish ), has 13 variant names according to the USGS ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1672 treatise Loimologia is a rare first-hand account of the Great Plague of London , written by one of the few physicians to remain in the city during the plague?
text: Did you knowthat Willi Ninja ' s distinctive dance style was an inspiration for Madonna 's 1990 song " Vogue "?
text: Did you knowthat aluminium alloys developed by Russian metallurgist Igor Gorynin are claimed to have the highest specific strength of all known weldable metallic materials?
text: Did you knowthat Mauryan Emperor Ashoka had to stop the execution of his future spiritual adviser Moggaliputta-Tissa for touching his  right hand?
text: Did you knowthat Virginia Congressman, John Floyd argued for settlement of the Oregon Territory twenty-eight years before it became an official United States territory?
text: Did you knowthat Estonian Margus Hunt won two gold medals at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics , setting a world junior record in discus throw and a national junior record in shot put ?
text: Did you know that Dhaka , the capital of Bangladesh was also known as Jahangir Nagar ?
text: Did you knowthat the Allied Bombing of Bucharest in World War II damaged the University of Bucharest and uprooted trees at the Botanical Garden of Bucharest ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly 20,000 people visited a shrine in Bangalore in 2002 to see the Miracle Chapati , a flat unleaved piece of bread with the likeness of Jesus on it?
text: Did you knowthat Bobby Pearce won the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics despite stopping mid-race for a passing flock of ducks?
text: Did you knowthat the Peace of Rueil , signed 11 March 1649 between the court party and the party of the Parlement of Paris , brought to an end the first phase of France's first revolution, the Fronde ?
text: Did you knowthat Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was riding in a Gräf & Stift automobile at the time of his assasination ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Semaphore, South Australia , the home of Australia's largest carousel , is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith ?
text: Did you knowthat, when translating Shakespeare into Russian , Mikhail Lozinsky attempted to convey the antiquated English language used by Shakespeare?
text: Did you knowthat " A-Ba-Ni-Bi ", Israel 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 , was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin ?
text: Did you knowthat the De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men with knowledge of science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines , which had been devastated during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Easter Posey was the first American woman to be killed in the line of duty in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome is a rare complication of bariatric surgery for obesity ?
text: Did you knowthat the Northeast Flag Replacement in 1928 ended the Chinese Warlord Era , in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the Nationalist Government 's flag, thus nominally reuniting China?
text: Did you knowthat Brian Boitano narrowly won the Battle of the Brians , a 1988 Winter Olympics figure skating rivalry between two elite skaters named Brian?
text: Did you knowthat former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was an Australian test cricketer ?
text: Did you knowthat Pope Pius XII's cousin, Ernesto Pacelli , was a financial adviser to Pope Leo XIII , Pope Pius X , and Pope Benedict XV ?
text: Did you knowthat the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
text: Did you knowthat the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield is the premier croquet teams event in the world and the 2006 series will be held in Australia in November?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Macpherson Robertson was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's which invented the Freddo Frog chocolate bar?
text: Did you knowthat developmental biologist PZ Myers , who writes about evolution , cephalopods , politics , and atheism , is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature ?
text: Did you knowthat the Council of Lithuania declared the independence of Lithuania by signing an Act of Independence on February 16, 1918?
text: Did you knowthat cyclist Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
text: Did you knowthat in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation 's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
text: Did you knowthat the first television set made entirely in Poland , the Belweder , cost 7000 złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?
text: Did you knowthat Ey Sham was the first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest from a country outside of geographical Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat Muhammad had engaged as a diplomat for a time during his call to Islam ?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Rawalsar in Himachal Pradesh , India is sacred to three major religions -- Hinduism , Sikhism and Buddhism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Old Fashioned , possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail , was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?
text: Did you knowthat Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993 ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of communication was dependent on the acquisition of the FOXP2 gene in humans , which facilitated the development of speech 200,000 years ago?
text: Did you knowthat on Mother's Day , May 14 , 2006 , the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players ?
text: Did you knowthat Hector Monro , Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, was described by a Labour Party opponent as "the last of the decent Tories "?
text: Did you knowthat the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
text: Did you knowthat the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter is the latest of a four decade long series of massacres that has eliminated 97 percent of the Chadian elephant population of 300,000?
text: Did you knowthat many people enjoy singing in the shower because the bathroom acts as an echo chamber to enrich the sound of the singer's voice ?
text: Did you knowthat public displeasure with " The Voice " , Ireland 's fourth Eurovision victory in five years, led to the introduction of televoting ?
text: Did you knowthat the 13th century romance Perlesvaus features a strikingly different portrayal of the Arthurian legend than most texts, including a scene in which Sir Kay murders King Arthur and Guinevere 's son?
text: Did you knowthat the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat five months before his death, William Edington was offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury , but turned it down?
text: Did you knowthat Mahinda , a 3rd century monk who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka , was the son of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka ?
text: Did you knowthat bin bugs are being attached to wheelie bins in England to monitor the amount of domestic waste produced by each household?
text: Did you knowthat the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer is used by the European Space Agency to determine the chemical composition of a planet 's atmosphere?
text: Did you knowthat the building housing the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla , Himachal Pradesh was originally built as a home for Lord Dufferin , Viceroy of India ?
text: Did you knowthat former major league baseball pitcher Terry Forster recorded a novelty song called "Fat Is In" after he was referred to as a "fat tub of goo" on Late Night With David Letterman ?
text: Did you know that the largest Lithuanian encyclopedia was published in the United States by the immigrant community when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat Homer Mensch , the double bassist who played the theme for Jaws , originally wanted to be a tennis player?
text: Did you knowthat the Arch of the Centuries of the University of Santo Tomas at Manila was disassembled from the University's original campus at Intramuros , carried piece-by-piece, and was re-erected at the current campus at Sampaloc ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands in India had a forked structure and derived its name from the fact that it comprised only of isolated cells?
text: Did you knowthat " Ricky's Hand ", the second single by British New Wave musician Fad Gadget , featured a Black & Decker electric drill as one of its 'instruments'?
text: Did you knowthat the little-known Dominickers of Holmes County, Florida , were said to be descendants of a pre- Civil War plantation owner's widow and one of her black slaves?
text: Did you knowthat the National Protection War led to the death of Yuan Shikai , which led to the beginning of the Warlord Era in China?
text: Did you knowthat Punjabi film-star Yograj Singh was a former Test cricketer and father of current Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh ?
text: Did you knowthat biological therapy for inflammatory bowel disease has changed the manner in which doctors treat Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis ?
text: Did you knowthat the P'urhépecha language isolate of Mexico is one of only two Mesoamerican languages not to have a phonemic glottal stop and that it has more than 160 affixes , 13 tenses and 6 modes ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic was postponed by an electrical storm during which lightning struck ESPN broadcaster Lee Corso 's rental car?
text: Did you knowthat during Operation Cedar Falls in the Vietnam War , American and South Vietnamese troops captured 3,700 tons of rice , enough to feed 13,000 troops for a full year?
text: Did you knowthat Indian-American teenager Gaurav Raja memorized 10,980 digits of pi in 2006 to break the North American pi memorization record?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian Federal Division of Macarthur is considered to be a bellwether as it has been held by the ruling political party in every election since 1949 ?
text: Did you knowthat at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico , the Tarascan state was the second only to the Aztec empire in size and population ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish politician and Sejm member, Joanna Senyszyn , gained media attention due to her distinctive, high-pitched voice ?
text: Did you knowthat Ian Craig , the youngest ever Australian test cricketer and captain, later became the managing director of Boots pharmaceutical company?
text: Did you knowthat the original tunnel built to connect the Kalka-Shimla Railway at Barog , Himachal Pradesh was abandoned as the two constructed ends did not meet?
text: Did you knowthat in 1995 , André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada , Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive ?
text: Did you knowthat at the height of the Cold War , U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat despite not being backed by the FDA , full-body scans are performed in the United States to screen for disease in healthy people?
text: Did you knowthat the manufacturer of the Trojan car claimed that driving it was cheaper than walking?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cricket captain Brian Booth also represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics in hockey ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dhammapada describes an ascetic named Jambuka who had the practice of standing on one leg and eating his own excrement?
text: Did you knowthat portions of Chicago 's Devon Avenue have been renamed in honor of Golda Meir , Mahatma Gandhi , Muhammad Ali Jinnah , and Sheik Mujib ?
text: Did you knowthat Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
text: Did you knowthat the Rhodes blood libel — the accusation that the Jews of Rhodes ritually  murdered a Christian boy in 1840 — enjoyed active support from the consuls of several European countries?
text: Did you knowthat in 1994 , a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
text: Did you knowthat temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London ?
text: Did you knowthat Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , nearly thirty years after filming the original ?
text: Did you knowthat Metop-A is the first polar orbiting meteorological satellite launched by Europe , and is the second largest Earth observation satellite built in Europe, after ENVISAT ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Mexican-American War , a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore ?
text: Did you knowthat the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois , a Registered Historic Place , is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
text: Did you knowthat the early musical influences of Austrian jazz - fusion guitarist Alex Machacek , who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin , included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS ?
text: Did you knowthat the Valley Forge Pilgrimage , held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat, despite the name, Mrs. Chippy , the ship's cat on Shackleton 's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was actually male?
text: Did you know that Matthew Robinson , older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson , was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin ?
text: Did you knowthat the outside of the Great Western Hospital in Swindon is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd ) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes ?
text: Did you knowthat Hood Mountain in California has high canopy mixed oak forests , pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop , and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it?
text: Did you knowthat Peotone Mill , a windmill built in 1871 , was donated to the village of Peotone , Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century , and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish socialist John McGovern was the treasurer of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation , but later became an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires published by British historian Arnold Hugh Martin Jones in 1964 is still considered the definitive narrative of that period?
text: Did you knowthat the Black Book , a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell , who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement ?
text: Did you knowthat Milt Gross , writer of comics that used Yiddish -inflected English , also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too ?
text: Did you knowthat RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess ?
text: Did you knowthat the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
text: Did you knowthat the Count d'Orsay 's poodle inspired Edwin Landseer to paint Laying Down The Law ?
text: Did you knowthat Domenico Pino , an Italian General of Division in Napoleon 's Grande Armée , married a ballerina and sold the villa in Como that she inherited from her rich first husband to Caroline of Brunswick ?
text: Did you knowthat Duxton Hill in Singapore used to be a notorious slum area with brothels , opium and gambling dens, but now belongs to a conservation area known as Tanjong Pagar ?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Bertha , the second tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season , was one of only 3 tropical cyclones to make landfall on both Louisiana and Texas , with the others being Allison (2001) and Fern (1971) ?
text: Did you knowthat jury nullification became a recognised part of Scots law after Carnegie of Finhaven was found not guilty in his 1728 trial of murdering Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union , something which was prohibited?
text: Did you knowthat the Tent City of Persepolis of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy was inspired by the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England ?
text: Did you knowthat The Cenotaph was Singapore 's first major war memorial built in memory of the people who gave their lives in World War I , and was unveiled by the young Prince Edward of Wales , later King Edward VIII ?
text: Did you knowthat purple drank is a mix of codeine -containing cough syrup and soda that was popularized by Southern rap songs, and was implicated in the overdose of a popular rap producer ?
text: Did you knowthat Roald Dahl Plass , a plaza in Cardiff Bay , has been used as the setting for both Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood ?
text: Did you know that the Longfin Bannerfish can clean parasites off other fish?
text: Did you knowthat Ming Hsieh , whose parents were persecuted under the Cultural Revolution , began learning electrical engineering from his father and went on to develop biometric technology that made him one of the richest people in the world?
text: Did you knowthat National Park Seminary , in Forest Glen, Maryland , opened in 1894 as a finishing school, and that its architecturally whimsical campus was annexed by Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1942?
text: Did you knowthat ocular ischemic syndrome , due to arterial hypoperfusion , could be an early warning sign of impending stroke ?
text: Did you knowthat the Råbjerg Mile , a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland , Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year?
text: Did you knowthat The Pizza Tapes contain the only known version of Jerry Garcia performing Amazing Grace which was only played after Tony Rice 's wife requested it?
text: Did you know that a reservation , in international law , lets a State avoid or modify an obligation in a signed treaty ?
text: Did you know that the USMC Sergeant Major Gilbert "Hashmark" Johnson received his nickname because of wearing on the sleeve of his uniform three diagonal stripes (hashmarks), indicating successful previous enlistments?
text: Did you know that Orsten , fossil -bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
text: Did you know that Mars ' south polar ice cap may be melting due to regional climate change ?
text: Did you know that Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to have been the first female monarch in Asia ?
text: Did you know that the Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio , and is the oldest building on Public Square ?
text: Did you know that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying ?
text: Did you know that a body part involved in a seizure can be paralyzed for minutes to days in an event known as Todd's paresis ?
text: Did you know that a crow-stepped gable is a roof slope design arising in the Middle Ages which was decorative, but also facilitated access to chimneys for maintenance?
text: Did you know that the Alba Bible , one of the earliest translations of the Old Testament into a Romance language , was commissioned with the express intent of promoting tolerance between Christians and Jews ?
text: Did you knowthat Communist Romania 's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca , arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu , was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison?
text: Did you knowthat Shō Shōken wrote the first history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1650 ?
text: Did you knowthat Albert Tillman was the co-founder of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and developed the first university-level recreation and leisure studies program in the United States ?
text: Did you know that pop singer Jasmine Trias is a descendant of Mariano Trias , the Vice President of the Tejeros Convention ?
text: Did you know that in 1971, a Damascus school founded by Ozar Hatorah , a Jewish religious education organisation, was named by Syria as having the highest grades in the country?
text: Did you know that wealthy ship-owner Henry Hayman Toulmin gave away his 1860s U.K. shipping empire because none of his three sons were interested in following in their father's footsteps?
text: Did you knowthat John Wilson Danenhower , survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command?
text: Did you knowthat Lee McClung , a College Football Hall of Famer , also served as Treasurer of the United States ,  advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?
text: Did you know that, at the conclusion of the Siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs in 968 , the leaders of the two armies shook hands and exchanged their armour ?
text: Did you know that the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion ?
text: Did you knowthat the Waterberg is a UNESCO designated Biosphere , where cattle overgrazing is being reversed to allow giraffe , rhino and Blue Wildebeest to repopulate?
text: Did you knowthat during the French Revolution , an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical Rev. Joshua Toulmin ?
text: Did you knowthat Consumer Reports had their food testing done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1950's thanks to a negotiated deal with the food technology department chair Carl R. Fellers ?
text: Did you know that, in hyperbolic geometry , hypercycles are curves with constant distance from a straight line but are not themselves straight?
text: Did you know that British free market economist Ralph Harris , considered to be an architect of Thatcherism , became a life peer shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister , but sat on the cross-benches in the House of Lords to show his political independence?
text: Did you know that the location for Janesville Mall was chosen so that shoppers could leave by taking a right-hand turn, as the developers' research showed that women preferred right-handed turns?
text: Did you knowthat the Urdu movement , which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India , emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement ?
text: Did you know that knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific terms used to describe the two different sensations produced by tickling ?
text: Did you know that cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke showed that human beings are born with many innate skills?
text: Did you know that the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada ?
text: Did you knowthat after receiving global media attention for pulling her kittens out of a burning garage, Scarlett the cat and her kittens received 7000 adoption requests?
text: Did you knowthat the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada 's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Medici giraffe was the last live giraffe seen in Europe for almost 400 years?
text: Did you know that Göran Malmqvist is a Swedish sinologist who in 1974 published a popular book called Chinese is not difficult ?
text: Did you know that during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus , the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus ?
text: Did you knowthat the monkey Ramu from the Indian state of Orissa was kept behind bars for five years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony?
text: Did you knowthat the Challenge Yves du Manoir , a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003 , was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise ?
text: Did you knowthat before Umberto Meoli became an economic historian , he fought in the Italian resistance movement and was once imprisoned by Benito Mussolini 's Fascist government ?
text: Did you know that Keong Saik Road in Chinatown, Singapore was formerly a red-light district in the 1960s but is now the site of many boutique hotels ?
text: Did you know that pioneering research on time - temperature canning conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Samuel Cate Prescott was never patented ?
text: Did you know that in 1919 , the discharge of the chief of police of Berlin led to a general strike and accompanying fighting known as the Spartacist uprising , in which over 500,000 workers took part?
text: Did you know that Daumantas of Pskov , a Lithuanian dynast involved in the assassination of the first Lithuanian king, was later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and became a patron saint of Pskov ?
text: Did you know that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis , the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal , is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933 ?
text: Did you know that Eilhart von Oberge ' s German poem Tristrant , dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the Tristan and Iseult legend in any language?
text: Did you know that both Herbert Witherspoon and Göran Gentele died before the opening nights of their first seasons as general directors of the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the Ch'onma-ho is a little known, indigenously produced North Korean tank ; information on which has proven to be elusive even to the U.S. government?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour Party Member of Parliament Martin Flannery was a Communist until the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union , but remained on the far left ?
text: Did you knowthat Bamse was a St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Wollaston Lake is the largest lake in the world that drains naturally in two directions?
text: Did you know that Katsu! is a shout used in Zen Buddhism to induce enlightenment , as well as in the martial arts to focus one's energy ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Howell Melon Festival became famous when it sent the Howell Melon Queen to visit President Eisenhower ?
text: Did you knowthat British lawyer Sir Robert Megarry was tried at the Old Bailey in 1954 for submitting false income tax returns, but later went on to become a High Court judge , Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division and then Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat Antwone Fisher was born in a woman's prison in which his mother was incarcerated?
text: Did you knowthat last week's first-ever football meeting between the University of Miami and Florida International University was marred by a massive brawl that led to the suspension of 31 players?
text: Did you knowthat between 1944 and 1962, up to 186,000 inmates passed through approximately 100 forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to an oriental ritual , the deceased citizens of ancient Prinias , Crete were beheaded and then cremated , while their heads were buried separately?
text: Did you knowthat the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat the rococo manor house at Damsgård , near Bergen , Norway , is one of the best preserved wooden 18th century structures in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the 1920 Treaty of Moscow , in exchange for the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil to troops of powers hostile to the Soviet republic?
text: Did you knowthat innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak 's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
text: Did you knowthat Mury , a protest song by Jacek Kaczmarski about events in Catalonia , became the unofficial anthem of Solidarity ?
text: Did you knowthat Iliaş of Moldavia , Jagiello 's brother-in-law, lost his throne and was blinded following Poland 's withdrawal from Moldavian affairs?
text: Did you knowthat Phil Fondacaro , an actor with dwarfism , portrayed the only Ewok to die on-screen in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Palmer , an early- 19th century utopian socialist , advocated the complete abolition of money ?
text: Did you knowthat groundbreaking on Christ's Resurrection Church in Kaunas , Lithuania , in 1934 was marked by the placement of a symbolic stone brought from Jerusalem 's Mount of Olives ?
text: Did you knowthat sanitation deficiencies are thought to be responsible for about 14,000 deaths per day at present, and were a major cause of 25 million deaths from the plague in Europe in 1348 ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to Ahmed ibn Fadlan , the supreme ruler of the Rus' Khaganate "had no duties other than to make love to his slave girls, drink, and give himself up to pleasure" ?
text: Did you knowthat the Martyrs' Cemetery holds the remains of both Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed during the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004?
text: Did you knowthat the Tamworth Pig is a rare breed of swine which has such a high bristle density that, unlike most pigs, it almost never suffers sunburn ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1998 Vishnu Bhagwat became the first service chief in independent India to be fired?
text: Did you knowthat Susan L. Hefle ' s research led to the development of commercialized ELISA testing for food allergens ?
text: Did you knowthat Juditha triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi , narrating the story of the Jewish widow Judith , who beheaded the invading Assyrian general Holofernes after he fell in love with her; and that all characters were interpreted by orphan female singers?
text: Did you knowthat modified starch is added to processed frozen foods to prevent them from dripping when defrosted?
text: Did you knowthat rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero wrote the 1959 hit, "Hippy Hippy Shake" which was covered by The Beatles ?
text: Did you knowthat vulvar cancer accounts for about 4% of all gynecological cancers ?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish goalkeeper Karl Svensson was given his nickname Rio-Kalle after two heroic matches in the 1950 FIFA World Cup that were actually played in São Paulo and not in Rio de Janeiro ?
text: Did you knowthat the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet that was used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it fell out of use in the 5th century BCE?
text: Did you knowthat Ravensburg State Park in Pennsylvania , built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, is named for the ravens that still roost there?
text: Did you knowthat noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia 's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore ?
text: Did you knowthat if you ever responded to a shaky telemarketing or sweepstakes solicitation , chances are that you have been placed into a sucker list and in the future you will be approached with a reloading scam ?
text: Did you knowthat British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" ( Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses ?
text: Did you knowthat Leonarda Cianciulli , the "Soap-Maker of Correggio ", murdered three women and turned their bodies into soap and tea cakes ?
text: Did you knowthat Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Laura Spence Affair was a major UK political row started over comments made by British Chancellor Gordon Brown accusing Oxford University of elitism?
text: Did you knowthat Jules Porgès was a financier central to the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s?
text: Did you knowthat Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster , London , is named after the Royal Menagerie and Aviary which was located beside it in the reign of Kings James I and expanded by Charles II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Partition of Midnapore to divide Midnapore , India's most populous district, was achieved 81 years after the first attempt in 1921?
text: Did you knowthat the " Shakespeare Lady ", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven , Connecticut , has her own trading card?
text: Did you knowthat the needle-exchange programme John Turvey helped create in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside eventually became North America's first safe injection site ?
text: Did you knowthat an employee resignation letter from the son of Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. , patent attorney to the Wright Brothers , led to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 million donation to Georgetown University Medical Center?
text: Did you knowthat alternative rocker and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song " Crackity Jones " about a stay with a crazed roommate in Puerto Rico as an exchange student?
text: Did you knowthat Islay Herald Don Pottinger became interested in heraldry when commissioned to paint a portrait of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir John Gonson , a British Justice of the Peace for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, was depicted twice in William Hogarth 's A Harlot's Progress ?
text: Did you knowthat the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal ?
text: Did you knowthat the Slutsk defence action was the short-lived attempt to defend Belarusian independence from Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Polish-Soviet War ?
text: Did you knowthat the famous Russian orientalist of Azeri origin, Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey , was converted to Christianity by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in 1821 ?
text: Did you knowthat at the Battle of Stone Houses in 1837 , a band of American Indians defeated a group of Texas Rangers by smoking them out of their shelter?
text: Did you knowthat the athletic competition Sunflower Showdown , between Kansas State and the University of Kansas , traces back to a fight over the location of the state university in the 1860s ?
text: Did you knowthat listening to Mangalkavya epics was said to bring spiritual and material benefits?
text: Did you knowthat Nancy Dickerson was the first female news correspondent on the CBS television network?
text: Did you knowthat a specimen of Australia 's largest mushroom Phlebopus marginatus from Western Victoria weighed in at 29 kg, and caps can sometimes reach 1 metre across?
text: Did you knowthat Yakov Bulgakov , Catherine II 's emissary in Istanbul , managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 ?
text: Did you knowthat Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat iridodialysis is a localized separation or tearing away of the iris from its attachment to the ciliary body ?
text: Did you knowthat the Liverpool Irish was the popular name for a battalion of the British King's Regiment raised by Liverpool 's large Irish community in 1860?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin B. Hart studied physiological chemistry under Nobel Laureate Albrecht Kossel before leading research that would lead to controlling anemia and goiter ?
text: Did you knowthat funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?
text: Did you knowthat Shahzia Sikander , 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant", is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting?
text: Did you knowthat athlete Gretel Bergmann left Germany for America because she was discriminated against for being Jewish , and that she refused to return to attend festivities when the Berlin-Wilmersdorf sports complex was named in her honour?
text: Did you knowthat the "O. P. Q. Letters" were written anonymously in a failed attempt to incite an insurrection in Texas in 1834 ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand Test cricketer Martin Donnelly also played rugby union for England ?
text: Did you knowthat the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof ?
text: Did you knowthat Hamel , a town located in the South West of Western Australia , owes its name to solicitor and politician Lancel Victor de Hamel, the former owner of the land where the townsite is situated?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Stauffer McIlhenny , president of McIlhenny Company (1949-1985), maker of Tabasco sauce , was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal ?
text: Did you know that the phrase to grab the brass ring comes from the brass ring dispenser, which presents rings to carousel riders to grab and possibly win prizes?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour politician Reg Freeson spent 23 years as an MP , including 14 years on the front bench , but was deselected in 1985 due to his "sensible left" views and replaced by Ken Livingstone ?
text: Did you knowthat the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
text: Did you knowthat Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai ?
text: Did you knowthat the Miami blue butterfly may be the rarest insect in the United States , and that its continued survival may depend on a captive breeding program at the University of Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation , in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic ?
text: Did you know that the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ythan Estuary in Scotland contains the most extensive dunes formation in Europe and is also the site of a Stone Age settlement ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall was used to stage court masques for the Stuart Kings of England , but was originally built by Henry VIII as a venue for cockfighting ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das , who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 ?
text: Did you knowthat " Ernold Same " , a song from Blur 's 1995 album The Great Escape , was narrated by the current Mayor of London Ken Livingstone ?
text: Did you knowthat the name of the endangered language isolate Huave , spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec , probably comes from a Zapotec word meaning "people of the sea", but that the Huave people who call themselves Ikoots refer to their language as ombeayiiüts , "our language"?
text: Did you knowthat the Kennedia nigricans , or the Black Coral Pea, is a robust Western Australian species of climbing plant that spreads to over 18 m 2 (200 ft 2 )?
text: Did you knowthat 51 nations participated in the FIBA World Championship as of the 2006 tournament ?
text: Did you knowthat the founders of the Indian spice manufacturing company MDH were popularly known as Deggi Mirch Wale , the "Pot Chilli People"?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Poomalai was a humanitarian supply airdrop over Jaffna , Sri Lanka by the Indian Air Force in June 1987, and was the first active intervention by India in the Sri Lankan Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Sajal Barui , who escaped after being convicted of murdering his family, was recaptured by the West Bengal police for theft without his true identity being discovered?
text: Did you knowthat Elm Farm Ollie in 1930 became the first cow to be milked while flying in an airplane ?
text: Did you knowthat the painting The Face on the Barroom Floor , in Central City, Colorado , was inspired by a poem , and that it in turn inspired a chamber opera?
text: Did you know that deaths caused by falling billboards in Metro Manila during Typhoon Xangsane (Milenyo) prompted a renewed push by Philippine legislators for a ban on billboard advertising?
text: Did you knowthat the only working, full sized, Caisson lock ever built, was on the Somerset Coal Canal at Combe Hay , Somerset in England between 1795 and 1805?
text: Did you knowthat Sten Rudholm is a member of the Swedish Academy and today the only living Swedish non-royal knight of the Order of the Seraphim ?
text: Did you knowthat the French poet Georges de Brébeuf is most well-known for his verse translation of Lucan 's Pharsalia which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille , but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau ?
text: Did you knowthat rational egoism is the idea that it is always in accordance with reason to pursue one's own interest, used by Ayn Rand as the rationale behind objectivism ?
text: Did you knowthat the T-43 tank was devised as a replacement to the Soviet T-34 medium tank , but was scrapped in favour of simply improving the armament of the T-34?
text: Did you knowthat Agatha , mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland , could have been either a daughter of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev or a daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar ?
text: Did you knowthat Scouts' Day is a special day observed by members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement throughout the year when all Scouts re-affirm the Scout Promise ?
text: Did you knowthat the Vitra Design Museum was American architect Frank Gehry 's first European commission?
text: Did you knowthat the Stora Alvaret , a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland , Sweden , has rich biodiversity , even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?
text: Did you knowthat according to Mongolian folklore, the escort that buried Genghis Khan committed suicide to make his grave impossible to find?
text: Did you knowthat although Saint-Porchaire ware began the French tradition of high ceramic art, only some seventy examples survive?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman was awarded the Stalin Prize at the period when he was not allowed to live in Moscow owing to his " criminal record "?
text: Did you knowthat " Kylie Said To Jason " was a deliberate attempt by then-cash-strapped British band The KLF to have a hit single, however it failed to enter the UK Top 100 ?
text: Did you knowthat Virginia politician Charles F. Mercer switched between five different political parties during his 22-year service in the United States Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat the Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed curse placed on the Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot , Col. Harland Sanders ?
text: Did you knowthat St Laurence Church, Ludlow , England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings , but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman 's gravesite?
text: Did you knowthat the influential French writers Jacques Rivière and Alain-Fournier both failed the entrance examination for Paris's École Normale Supérieure ?
text: Did you knowthat Mykola Skrypnyk , who had promoted an independent Bolshevik Ukraine , and later led the Ukrainization program of the Ukrainian SSR , chose to shoot himself rather than recant his policies?
text: Did you knowthat Pagoda Street in Chinatown, Singapore was named after the pagoda -like gopuram of Sri Mariamman Temple ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sarikoli language is often referred to as "Tajik", despite being only distantly related to Tajikistan's national language ?
text: Did you knowthat Jyoti Prasad Agarwala is regarded as the father of Assamese cinema ?
text: Did you knowthat the movement to secure the rights of Sami as an indigenous people in Norway was in large part made visible by civil disobedience ?
text: Did you knowthat an early trial of the effectiveness of the Lagonda flamethrower as a deterrent to Luftwaffe dive bombing attacks on Merchant Navy vessels was utterly unsuccessful?
text: Did you knowthat when Krishna Mohan Banerjee , a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata , in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare ’s school?
text: Did you knowthat the photograph Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath of a severely deformed, naked child was deliberately posed with the agreement of her mother to illustrate the terrible effects of Minamata disease , a form of mercury poisoning ?
text: Did you knowthat, during the summer of four captains in 1988, Chris Cowdrey became only the second son to follow his father as captain of the English cricket team ?
text: Did you knowthat Turkic-speaking Greeks of Georgia and Ukraine refer to themselves as Urums , a term which derives from the Arabic word for Roman ?
text: Did you knowthat " Lopšinė Mylimai " is the least auspicious debut entry in Eurovision Song Contest history, finishing the 1994 Contest in last place without scoring a point?
text: Did you knowthat a tornado that hit Dantan in India on March 24 , 1998 killed over 250 people?
text: Did you knowthat Layman Pang , a wealthy merchant and Zen Buddhist in Tang Dynasty China , once put all of his possessions in a boat and sank them in a river?
text: Did you knowthat the 1985 trademark infringement case of Canfield v. Honickman , involving the makers of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda, continues to be used as an example during the study of trademark product law in the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat David Eldridge is the earliest known person of European descent to die in the Western Reserve , and the first person to be buried in the newly-created city of Cleveland ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th century London song-writer Helen, Lady Dufferin was admired by Disraeli , compared with Helen of Troy in a poem by Browning , and had a village named after her?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Sir Ian Lloyd left his native South Africa in 1955 due to his opposition to apartheid , but was later called " Botha 's mouthpiece" for his advocacy of closer links with South Africa to stimulate reform?
text: Did you knowthat the name of the museum Na Bolom in San Cristobal de las Casas , Mexico is a pun playing on the Lacandón Maya word for house of the jaguar and the name of Danish mayanist Frans Blom , whose home it was?
text: Did you knowthat in one of the first tests of Hajile , an experimental British World War II retrorocket system, a gigantic block of concrete was dropped through the roof of the workshop from 2000 ft ?
text: Did you knowthat sanitary sewer overflow is a common condition, mostly associated with heavy rainfall , leading to discharge of billions of gallons of raw sewage to the environment each year?
text: Did you knowthat Asif Hossain Khan , a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?
text: Did you knowthat " Dziesma Par Laimi " is the only Latvian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest to be performed in Latvian ?
text: Did you knowthat feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Mauisaurus was the largest plesiosaur to roam New Zealand waters and that it gets its name from the Māori god Maui ?
text: Did you knowthat Fredesvinda Garcia was a Cuban singer who recorded just one album, a year before her death?
text: Did you knowthat the dome of St. Francis de Sales church in Philadelphia is a prime example of the Guastavino tile arch system ?
text: Did you knowthat credit and royalties for the 1968 Arthur Brown song " Fire " had to be shared due to similarities to another song, "Baby, You're a Long Way Behind"?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese historian and economist Taguchi Ukichi has often been referred to as the Adam Smith of Japan?
text: Did you knowthat Slimey the Worm is the smallest character on Sesame Street ?
text: Did you knowthat the Leather cannon was an early 17th century attempt of making a mobile cannon that would bridge the gap between muskets and heavy stationary artillery ?
text: Did you knowthat California 's Rubicon Point Light , at 6300 ft above sea level , is the highest lighthouse in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat National Political Institutes of Education , elite secondary schools in Nazi Germany , only accepted students considered to be "racially flawless" and therefore did not admit pupils who needed glasses or had bad hearing ?
text: Did you knowthat the failed Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 aimed to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan by overthrowing prime minister Benazir Bhutto ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Alberto of 2000 completed the largest loop ever observed over the Atlantic Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat the Himalayan Brown Bear is considered the source of the legend of the Yeti ?
text: Did you knowthat the Largo , a Socialist Classicism complex in central Sofia , Bulgaria , accommodates a number of state institutions?
text: Did you knowthat William Garwood , an American silent film actor, starred in 149 films in under 10 years—between 1909 and 1919 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first American ship sunk in World War II hit a German mine off Cape Otway in the Southern Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat Hugh Talbot was roundly panned for his performance as Frederic in the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance ?
text: Did you knowthat the Xiao'erjing is a system of writing Sinitic languages such as Mandarin in the Arabic script ?
text: Did you knowthat a co-founder of the Slavophile movement, Ivan Kireevsky , turned for wisdom to the elders of the Optina Monastery , rather than to Western philosophers?
text: Did you knowthat wearing the Gandhi cap became a steadfast tradition during the Indian independence movement that is continued by Indian politicians to this day?
text: Did you knowthat John von Sonnentag de Havilland was one of only two officers at the College of Arms to have been born in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat experiments with winged tanks , meant to glide into a drop zone and provide support for airborne forces , were tried but abandoned by several military forces?
text: Did you knowthat the Sevso Treasure is a hoard of silver objects from the late Roman Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Tadeusz Hołówko became one of the first victims of the assassination campaign carried out by the members of the radical Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists despite his relatively moderate stance in the Polish - Ukrainian conflict?
text: Did you knowthat British Admiral of the Fleet Michael Pollock , was gunnery officer on the HMS Norfolk when she fought the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst during the Battle of North Cape ?
text: Did you knowthat a statue stands where Matangini Hazra was shot in 1942 during the Quit India Movement ?
text: Did you knowthat BŻ-1 GIL was the first Polish experimental helicopter ?
text: Did you knowthat the English nursery rhyme Bobby Shafto was an electioneering song by the 18th Century British MP , Robert Shafto?
text: Did you knowthat when Abraham Lincoln 's brother-in-law, Confederate Brig Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga , Lincoln's White House went into mourning?
text: Did you know that 17th-century Mughal subahdar Shaista Khan conquered Chittagong and ousted the British East India Company from Bengal over a trade dispute?
text: Did you knowthat a subtlety was an elaborate medieval dish that was supposed to entertain and surprise diners with extravagant decorations or by imitating other types of food ?
text: Did you knowthat the Paramarines was a short-lived parachute -trained unit of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II , but its members were never dropped by parachute into combat?
text: Did you know that the website Machinima.com got its name when the founder misspelled his original portmanteau of machine and cinema and liked the new version better?
text: Did you knowthat the immortal DNA strand hypothesis was proposed in 1975 by John Cairns as a mechanism for adult stem cells to minimize mutations in their genomes ?
text: Did you knowthat Bolko II of Świdnica was the last independent duke of the Piast dynasty in Silesia ?
text: Did you knowthat Bearcat Stadium of Northwest Missouri State University , originally opened in 1917 , is the oldest stadium of any NCAA Division II school?
text: Did you knowthat Bellot Strait is a 2 km passage of water separating Somerset Island from the northernmost point on mainland North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Kanken Toyama, who developed the Shudokan school of karate , was originally an elementary school teacher ?
text: Did you knowthat " My Star " was the first song that Latvia entered into the Eurovision Song Contest , making them the last of the Baltic states to debut at Eurovision ?
text: Did you knowthat psychedelic rock group Circus Maximus was the launching point for the career of country musician Jerry Jeff Walker ?
text: Did you knowthat French Olympic shooter Léon Moreaux won his first of seven Olympic medals at the age of 38?
text: Did you knowthat, in opposition to the orthodox architectural canon, a giant undulating apse occupies the entire east façade of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Svishtov ?
text: Did you knowthat Marcelo Piñeyro ' s second film, Wild Horses , was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995 , and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the King/Drew Medical Centre , a major public hospital in South Central Los Angeles , was founded in response to the 1965 Watts Riots ?
text: Did you knowthat " La Coco-Dance " was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006 ?
text: Did you knowthat Kaundinya , the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha , was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha 's Buddhahood ?
text: Did you knowthat Heinie Reitz was the first Major League baseballer to die in a car accident ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Thasos held out against an Athenian siege for over two years in the Thasian rebellion ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell ?
text: Did you knowthat Frances Slocum State Park in Pennsylvania is named for a woman captured by the Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?
text: Did you knowthat the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans were abandoned by Japan after World War II and kept stateless by the Soviet Union for 30 years?
text: Did you knowthat due to a "defect of birth", Thomas Livingston was forced to receive a papal dispensation to continue working in the church?
text: Did you knowthat David Brody is credited with co-founding the field of "new labor history"?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian actor Ion Caramitru figures prominently in theories that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was not truly a popular uprising but a cover-up for a coup d'état ?
text: Did you knowthat Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy gained the nickname "King of the wildcatters " after striking oil thirty-eight times in ten years?
text: Did you knowthat the Mount Kirkpatrick Formation is the only major dinosaur -bearing rock formation in Antarctica ?
text: Did you knowthat the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
text: Did you knowthat Canyon live oak acorns were a Native American staple food ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ristorante Cooperativo in Zürich may be the only restaurant to have been patronised by Benito Mussolini , Vladimir Lenin and Gerhard Schröder ?
text: Did you knowthat the British politician Alfred Lane Beit was made an honorary Irish citizen after he donated 17 masterpieces to the National Gallery of Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Political Instability Task Force might have predicted over 85% of major state crises occurring in 1990–1997?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 led to wind gusts in excess of 100 mph across New York , New Jersey , and New England ?
text: Did you knowthat social anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth ' s research career spanned 76 years after it began in Polynesia ?
text: Did you knowthat Pepe Marchena was a popular singer who created a new palo or flamenco musical form , called colombiana ?
text: Did you knowthat after World War II , the Czech urban legend of Pérák changed from a shadowy surprise attacker to a heroic figure of resistance against the Nazi occupation of Prague ?
text: Did you knowthat Maratha Emperor Shivaji 's mentor Dadoji Konddeo also built the " Lal Mahal " in Pune , the royal palace before the capital moved to Raigad ?
text: Did you knowthat Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin , key members of the Kovalev Commission charged with investigating the Russian apartment bombings both died in apparent assassinations?
text: Did you knowthat parts of Karnataka gained independence after its Unification , a year later than most of India ?
text: Did you know that Bill Orban developed the 5BX plan to help Canadian Air Force pilots keep fit?
text: Did you knowthat Malaysia 's Sedition Act disregards criminal intent in passing judgement?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese Sōshi-kaimei policy forced Koreans previously banned from using Japanese surnames to do so?
text: Did you knowthat the village of Sharpham in Somerset , is the birthplace of Elizabethan poet Sir Edward Dyer , writer Henry Fielding and cleric William Gould ?
text: Did you knowthat during construction of the Fort Canning Tunnel , special care was taken to minimize environmental impact on the surrounding Fort Canning Park ?
text: Did you knowthat the trees alongside the Falls of Bruar were planted in response to an entreaty from Robert Burns , the Scottish poet?
text: Did you knowthat construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996 , 130 years after it began?
text: Did you knowthat American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill ?
text: Did you knowthat the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome , along with the adjacent tower , is all that remains today of a Dominican convent dedicated to Catherine of Siena ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Cricket Academy leg spin coach Terry Jenner was previously jailed for embezzlement ?
text: Did you knowthat the Samara flag , presented as a gift from Russia to the Bulgarian volunteers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 , is the only flag awarded a Bulgarian Medal for Bravery?
text: Did you knowthat the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
text: Did you knowthat American Thoroughbred Kingston won eighty-nine races , the most by any horse?
text: Did you know that Norse sagas record some Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid- 8th century ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1819 , Hussein Shah , the seventeenth Sultan of Johor , allowed a British settlement in Singapore in order to wrest the throne from his brother with the help of the British, leading to the Malay Peninsula 's colonisation?
text: Did you knowthat in 2005 , Ghatam player Ghatam Udupa became the first Indian to perform at the Krakow International Percussion Festival?
text: Did you knowthat studies on whether nice guys finish last have been hindered by the social desirability bias ?
text: Did you knowthat Rajendrasinhji Jadeja was the first Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army ?
text: Did you know that economist Walter Adams served as expert witness before 36 United States Congressional committees ?
text: Did you knowthat Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?
text: Did you knowthat the appearance of a dog named Cheeka in a Hutch ad campaign doubled sales of pugs in India in 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat the prolific spawning of the Pacific herring can lead to egg densities of six million eggs/m 2 on submerged vegetation ?
text: Did you knowthat American novelist Tracy Quan once served as spokeswoman to the sex worker advocacy group Prostitutes of New York?
text: Did you knowthat Satveer Chaudhary was the first Asian American to hold elected office in Minnesota ?
text: Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom alone, over £ 60 million is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks ?
text: Did you know that in 1057 , Saint Anthony of Pechersk singled-handedly dug out the Near Caves in Kiev , Ukraine which is part of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra ?
text: Did you knowthat Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?
text: Did you knowthat together with the Treaty of Mendota , the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ceded nearly 24 million acres of Sioux land to the United States in exchange for cash and annuities ?
text: Did you knowthat Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage , a convent , an RAAF training facility , a boarding school and a day school ?
text: Did you knowthat Taras Fedorovych , a 17th century Cossack leader, led a Cossack and peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register ?
text: Did you know that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur , now home to Kolkata ’s latest railway passenger terminal?
text: Did you knowthat numerous specimens of dinosaurs have been excavated from the Dashanpu Formation , first discovered by a natural gas company that found the formation's first dinosaur, Gasosaurus ?
text: Did you knowthat Standard Oil of Kentucky (or Kyso ) was formed from the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 and was awarded oil rights over the Southeastern U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat the Late November 2006 Nor'easter caused winds up to 80 mph in the Outer Banks , the only occurrence of thundersnow on record in Charleston , and the earliest recorded snowfall in Charleston and Savannah ?
text: Did you knowthat under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement , the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago politician Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary ?
text: Did you know that the New Guinean Quoll is a carnivorous marsupial that is reported to eat prey bigger than itself?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Duala Manga Bell was organising a colony-wide revolt against the German Empire in Cameroon when he was executed for high treason in 1914?
text: Did you knowthat in 1992, a single marbled eel was sold in mainland China for $ 1,000?
text: Did you know that Isaac Newton Van Nuys of New York founded Van Nuys, California , United States in 1911 ?
text: Did you knowthat Theo Osterkamp was the first German reconnaissance pilot to fly a land-based aircraft to England during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Shelley 's poem On the Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery is based on the painting which was not in fact authored by Leonardo ?
text: Did you knowthat for organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves, Hetman Ivan Sulyma received a medal from Pope Paul V ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Ferguson joined a gang of highwaymen after recognising the man robbing his stagecoach near London as a former acquaintance?
text: Did you knowthat Crab Creek is one of the few perennial streams of the Columbia Basin ?
text: Did you knowthat Maria Fyodorovna was the tallest Russian tsarina ever,  and experienced difficulties while dancing with her husband, Emperor Paul , as a result?
text: Did you knowthat Cirsium fontinale is a species of California thistle that actually represents three taxa , two of which are endangered species with narrow endemic ranges?
text: Did you knowthat the breeding rights for the Thoroughbred racehorse Graustark sold for a record $ 2,400,000?
text: Did you knowthat with over 3,000 participants, the 1884 Chichibu Incident was one of the largest peasant revolts of Japan 's Meiji period ?
text: Did you knowthat Agustin Ramos Calero was the second-most- decorated soldier in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the San Mateo woolly sunflower is an endangered species that makes its home on serpentine outcrops that are chemically inhospitable for most plant species ?
text: Did you knowthat in addition to practising as a lawyer in Cairo , Albanian nationalist Andon Zako Çajupi wrote a comedy attacking the tradition of arranged marriages ?
text: Did you knowthat Jimmy Fratianno was the highest-ranking member of the Mafia to become an informant for the U.S. government until Sammy Gravano in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat the Sandugo or Blood Compact , where two people drink a small amount of each other's blood, was a traditional way to formalize treaties of friendship in the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scouting song Ging Gang Goolie was deliberately written in gibberish so that Scouts from different countries could easily learn it without struggling with a language barrier ?
text: Did you knowthat the first identifiable European print portrait was one of the artist Israhel van Meckenem and his wife Ida?
text: Did you knowthat American soldier Lucian Adams was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying several enemy machine gun emplacements in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Wee Siew Kim , a Singaporean MP , had to apologise after scandal broke out involving an elitist blog entry made by his daughter?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian victory in the Battle of Rakovor in 1268 put an end to the attacks of the Teutonic Knights on Russia for thirty years?
text: Did you knowthat during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary no fewer than 75 Turkish baths were built in the Hungarian eyalets ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish painter Jan Matejko smuggled arms to Polish insurgents during the January Uprising in 1863?
text: Did you knowthat in 2003, German authorities foiled a plot by a neo-Nazi group to set off a bomb at the Ohel Jakob synagogue cornerstone ceremony?
text: Did you knowthat after resigning from the Australian Liberal Party , politician Steven Pringle used his parliamentary privilege to launch a scathing attack on the far right faction of the party for their alleged branch stacking tactics?
text: Did you knowthat even though John Clough Holmes helped found Michigan State University in 1855, it was not until 1965 that a building was named in his honor?
text: Did you knowthat Ching-Thang Khomba was the first king of a unified Manipur ?
text: Did you knowthat Giulio Campagnola was the first engraver to use stippling in his works?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Schöngrabern features in Leo Tolstoy 's novel War and Peace ?
text: Did you knowthat Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park was formerly home to one of the few colonies of the endangered Mediterranean Monk Seal in the Western Mediterranean?
text: Did you knowthat Scamozzi 's Villa Molin near Padua served as military command headquarters during the Great War ?
text: Did you knowthat after a successful theatrical career spanning three decades, U.S. actress Tittell Brune joined the Order of St Francis , remaining a sister until her death, aged 99?
text: Did you knowthat the sound of the revving motorcycle in the Meat Loaf rock anthem " Bat out of Hell " is actually a recording of an electric guitar solo by producer Todd Rundgren ?
text: Did you knowthat former Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
text: Did you knowthat Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?
text: Did you knowthat Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time?
text: Did you knowthat Nicolas Grollier de Serviere invented a type of bookwheel that allowed many heavy books to be read at the same time?
text: Did you knowthat Acanthomintha duttonii is an endangered wildflower that is found only in a six mile long strip on the San Francisco Peninsula ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory , UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer ?
text: Did you knowthat Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer , who was affected with cerebral palsy and was unable to talk or use her limbs, became an author and prominent disability rights advocate?
text: Did you knowthat the pinax , an ancient Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for " art museum ", as exemplified by Munich 's Alte Pinakothek ?
text: Did you knowthat modern Romania 's most notorious serial killer, Ion Râmaru , was himself the son of a serial killer?
text: Did you knowthat the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat William King Gregory , a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition , was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man , a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
text: Did you know that despite projections of producing four times as much power as it used in heating, the Riggatron fusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?
text: Did you know that Charles J. Bates was instrumental in developing high-fructose corn syrup for use by Coca-Cola in their soft drinks while he was with American Maize Products in the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat while the engineering treatises of Italian Renaissance artist Taccola were widely copied and studied during his lifetime, printed copies were not made until the 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat even though American lawman Harry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta , many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
text: Did you know that the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological , chemical and nuclear incidents?
text: Did you knowthat the striking of a French consul with a fly-whisk by Ottoman ruler Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers ?
text: Did you knowthat instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction ?
text: Did you knowthat Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams ?
text: Did you knowthat the  free trade union SLOMR , established in opposition to the communist Romanian government , was suppressed one year before the creation of Solidarity , its more successful Polish counterpart ?
text: Did you knowthat former executive director of the Institute of Food Technologists Howard W. Mattson became active in promoting organ donation after receiving a heart transplant ?
text: Did you knowthat the blood of the skink Prasinohaema virens is bright green , due to an accumulation of the bile pigment biliverdin ?
text: Did you knowthat the City of Amsterdam spent € 160,000 on an unsuccessful soil sanitation program to save the Anne Frank Tree , one of the oldest chestnut trees in the area?
text: Did you knowthat the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?
text: Did you knowthat Hashim Suboh controversially called for the use of force in enforcing the Malaysian social contract ?
text: Did you knowthat, as part of the Hornsleth Village Project , Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth paid 340 Ugandan villagers in livestock to legally change their names to include "Hornsleth"?
text: Did you knowthat the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars of the 16th century saw significant territorial gains for the Grand Duchy of Moscow , and forced the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to ally itself closer with the Kingdom of Poland , forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
text: Did you knowthat journalist Simon Regan established the magazine Scallywag , which did much to propagate baseless rumours that British Prime Minister John Major was having an affair with a Downing Street cook?
text: Did you knowthat the soldier in the Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph Burst of Joy reunited with his family after six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp ?
text: Did you knowthat Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Ems Ukaz , a decree banning official use of the "non-existent" Ukrainian language , whilst enjoying a spa at Bad Ems , Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl -on-the- Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thoroughbred racehorse Sarazen won the United States Horse of the Year Award for two consecutive years in the 1920s?
text: Did you knowthat the publisher of Mirror Buzz , a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine , was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover ?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Groce indirectly started the Brixton riot of 1985 ?
text: Did you knowthat Wyoming Seminary , a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania , participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892 ?
text: Did you knowthat the pigment responsible for the colour of the bright green Parrot Toadstool is not chlorophyll as it is a fungus ?
text: Did you knowthat the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near Smolensk include an early folding razor , the first pivoted scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the Old Russian language ?
text: Did you knowthat the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during World War II , including the successful Suomi M-31 ?
text: Did you knowthat " On Again...Off Again " features influences from both dance music and opera , the only time that such a combination has appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you knowthat Sarskoye Gorodishche near Rostov , Russia has been interpreted as either a Varangian outpost on the Volga trade route or the capital of the Finnic Merya ?
text: Did you knowthat the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi , Kenya is the  unsanitary flying toilet ?
text: Did you knowthat while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush alluded to John F. Kennedy 's statement " Ich bin ein Berliner " by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!"?
text: Did you knowthat the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg , Russia , was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chubb detector lock was developed in 1818 in a competition sponsored by the British Government to create an unpickable lock and remained unpicked until 1851?
text: Did you knowthat at least 3,000 Vendel Age burial mounds in Grobiņa , Latvia indicate the existence of a prosperous Viking colony there?
text: Did you knowthat the Malay Agenda is one half of the Malaysian social contract , pertaining to the special status of Malays in Malaysia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry " Desire " was the first Maltese entry in 28 years to have Maltese lyrics?
text: Did you knowthat the 1592 book Nine Worthies of London charted the rise of nine tradesmen and apprentices to the nobility?
text: Did you know that the Tatarbunary Uprising in Budjak , Bessarabia was led by a pro- Soviet revolutionary committee which called for unification with the Ukrainian SSR and an end to " Romanian occupation"?
text: Did you know that the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts ?
text: Did you know that Laura Callahan , a former senior director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security , was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6 ?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Armenian sect of Tondrakians denied the immortality of the soul,  the afterlife, the church and its feudal rights?
text: Did you knowthat, according to the United Kingdom 's Teaching and Higher Education Act of 1998 , full time workers aged 16 or 17 have the right to paid leave from work in order to pursue training towards a qualification ?
text: Did you knowthat in the early 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party assassinated hundreds of Russian officials , policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Athenian sacred ships included a galley which was believed to be the ship that carried Theseus to Crete to face the Minotaur ?
text: Did you knowthat Luton Town Hall was burnt to the ground following a riot at the Peace Day celebrations marking the formal end of World War I on 19 July 1919 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis , a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin , was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the fiscus Iudaicus was a tax imposed on all Jewish subjects of the Roman Empire after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem , the proceeds of which were used to fund a temple of Jupiter in Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pungoteague River Light was the shortest-lived screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay , and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon 's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 ?
text: Did you knowthat 17 days after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union joined the invasion , ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia , in 1952?
text: Did you knowthat Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers , which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature ?
text: Did you knowthat Mountain Mint was used by the Koasati as a treatment for laziness?
text: Did you knowthat the pen is mightier than the sword , an adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu , had numerous historical predecessors?
text: Did you knowthat rally driver Lucien Bianchi , who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles to go?
text: Did you knowthat the body of the victim of the Red Barn Murder , in Suffolk , England , was discovered in 1828 after her stepmother reported dreaming about it?
text: Did you knowthat the South Korean long track speed skater Lee Kyu-Hyuk has held the 1500 m world record, despite never winning a World Cup event or an Olympic medal at the distance?
text: Did you knowthat the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and starred in almost one hundred films?
text: Did you knowthat Ivan Argunov , one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a serf ?
text: Did you knowthat United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations?
text: Did you knowthat the album City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture was the second-best-selling soundtrack of 1998 in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912 , when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat , the founder of Great Bulgaria ?
text: Did you knowthat Saner Wonggoun was the number one fugitive of the U.S. Air Force from 1994 until he was caught by the Royal Thai Police in October 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th century Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine , the largest open pit iron mine in the world, is so large that the nearby town of Hibbing, Minnesota was relocated in 1919 to allow more iron ore to be mined?
text: Did you knowthat rice brokers in Osaka in the Edo period were the forerunner of banking in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat in addition to being a painter , Wolf Huber was active as an architect , but that no buildings designed by him have survived?
text: Did you knowthat a type of car modification named Bippu is alleged to have originated from ties to the Yakuza ?
text: Did you knowthat Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur in 1717 C.E. ?
text: Did you knowthat Stanford professor Kate Lorig developed a peer-led chronic disease self management course which is the basis of the Expert Patient Programme of the British National Health Service ?
text: Did you knowthat the New York Sports Express , a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Ninanajna " has two very different sets of lyrics - one in English and one in Macedonian ?
text: Did you knowthat walking fish can actually skip, crawl, slither, and even climb trees?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Hunchback was a steam powered ferryboat converted into a gunboat for the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat film composer Richard Harvey has a collection of more than 600 different musical instruments?
text: Did you knowthat the Tagore family , with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?
text: Did you knowthat the Northern Red-legged Frog is a near-threatened species , whose male defends breeding pond territory with nocturnal displays?
text: Did you knowthat Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles in the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939?
text: Did you knowthat Motilal Sheel , a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel Denning State Park , which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel ?
text: Did you knowthat Penley , a small village near Wrexham in north east Wales , was home to a hospital founded on the orders of Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish ex-servicemen?
text: Did you knowthat social dancers exchange partners several times during a mixer dance , to increase their chance of dancing with new people?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as " John " in return for pitch and weather reports?
text: Did you knowthat Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the U.S. military ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Statistics Canada , 60 percent of Canada's population are classified as White ?
text: Did you knowthat the witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?
text: Did you knowthat K-Klass are a house music group from North Wales that purchased an underground bunker for use as a recording studio ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal , India ?
text: Did you knowthat Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the Polar Medal , and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
text: Did you knowthat via Giulia , projected for Pope Julius II , was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat the thriller The Beat That My Heart Skipped ( De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté ) won eight awards at the 2006 César Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Shiraz blood libel , the first to start the pogrom of the Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
text: Did you knowthat at nearly seventy percent, the rate of homicides in the United States involving gun violence is significantly higher than that of other developed countries ?
text: Did you knowthat the Temporary Constitution of the Republic of China was the first ever constitution in China ?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest continuously operational tavern in Philadelphia is McGillin's Olde Ale House , which opened in 1860?
text: Did you knowthat the 1928 Thames flood was the last time central London was flooded?
text: Did you knowthat John Pasche , an art designer most famous for designing the "Tongue and Lip Design" logo for the popular band The Rolling Stones , has also done work for musicians like Jimi Hendrix , David Bowie , Judas Priest and The Who ?
text: Did you knowthat Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November , 2006 ?
text: Did you know that English lower-league football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team 3-2?
text: Did you knowthat Sukhbir is often referred to as the Prince of Bhangra ?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Beryl was the second tropical storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season , and spread flooding and tornadoes up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Theobald Stapleton ' s 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in antiqua , and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
text: Did you knowthat the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence ?
text: Did you knowthat Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is divergent and appears to equal 0 , yet in some sense "sums" to 1 ⁄ 2 , producing a paradox once linked to the creation ex nihilo of the universe?
text: Did you knowthat Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead 's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
text: Did you knowthat the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which château and environment form a whole"?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the German Bundestag , winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
text: Did you knowthat Princess Louise-Marie of France , the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska , amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Slavic Milceni tribe, ancestors of the Sorbs of Germany , are mentioned in The Song of Roland ?
text: Did you knowthat a record 7238 salmon made the trip up the 310 metre Pitlochry fish ladder in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat, in the "Tower of the League" at the Château de Tanlay in Burgundy , the agonists of the Wars of Religion are represented in the guise of Olympic deities ?
text: Did you knowthat the Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a small battle during the American Civil War for which seven Union sailors were awarded Medals of Honor ?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Dean was one of four Atlantic hurricanes in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season to lose their circulation and subsequently re-develop?
text: Did you know that the suppression of a protest in Nagpur and Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across India to the rebellion?
text: Did you knowthat Nagarjunakonda , a historic Buddhist town in Andhra Pradesh believed to hold some relics of Gautama Buddha was submerged by the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam , the tallest masonry dam in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated  1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?
text: Did you knowthat the Ukrainian Catholic University is the first Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the monument to Mother Featherlegs near Lusk, Wyoming has been called the only monument to a prostitute in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Greek colony of Phanagoria in present-day Russia was the seat of the last Bosporan kings , the capital of Great Bulgaria , and the residence of the exiled Emperor Justinian II ?
text: Did you knowthat John Makepeace Bennett was a pioneer of Australian computer science who was involved in the construction of early computers in England?
text: Did you knowthat Piperia yadonii is a rare and endangered species of wild orchid whose survival may be influenced by the demand for increased golfing on the Monterey Peninsula ?
text: Did you knowthat before Newton's law of universal gravitation , the universe was thought to have an absolute centre called the Central Fire towards which all objects must fall?
text: Did you knowthat Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ?
text: Did you knowthat the Temple of Harmony , built in the grounds of Halsworth House in Goathurst , Somerset , England in 1767, is a replica of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Liberal Party-Brătianu , created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania , became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?
text: Did you knowthat a Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made from folded newspaper ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reverse effect?
text: Did you knowthat General A.D. McRae , the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister , R.B Bennett , made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 2004 film Shallow Ground , actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character who is naked for the duration of the film?
text: Did you knowthat Nestor Lakoba , a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia , was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria , who then had his wife and son killed?
text: Did you knowthat the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Palace of Poitiers at the behest of Alienor of Aquitaine , Queen consort of France and England ?
text: Did you knowthat Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh 's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
text: Did you knowthat " Amour Amour " , Luxembourg 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with " Ça plane pour moi "?
text: Did you knowthat Philippe Égalité 's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
text: Did you knowthat the expression " simon-pure ", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre 's 18th-century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife ?
text: Did you knowthat a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
text: Did you knowthat The Drifters ' hit " Under the Boardwalk " was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?
text: Did you knowthat the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter , an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama , yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
text: Did you knowthat the Hebrides Overture , also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn , was inspired by the famous cave off the coast of Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy ?
text: Did you knowthat Macquarie University made its site's architect , Walter Abraham , a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza , who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Peter Lely , the most popular portrait artist in England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a heraldic lily on the gable of the house of his father's birth?
text: Did you knowthat a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples ?
text: Did you knowthat the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
text: Did you knowthat Ateas , the best attested king of the Scythians , was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?
text: Did you knowthat an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
text: Did you knowthat shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
text: Did you knowthat the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan , because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
text: Did you knowthat Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña , the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña , was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California ?
text: Did you knowthat the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English ?
text: Did you knowthat electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
text: Did you knowthat when first introduced to England there was confusion over whether the Rouen duck was named after the Rhône region, Cardinal de Rohan , the colour roan , or the town Rouen ?
text: Did you knowthat Blair Cherry was the first high-school football coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
text: Did you knowthat despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata , British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion?
text: Did you knowthat Mandø , a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
text: Did you knowthat the most important source for early Irish history , The Chronicle of Ireland , had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
text: Did you knowthat the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921 ?
text: Did you knowthat the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning , but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries?
text: Did you knowthat the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States , behind only Mount Rushmore ?
text: Did you know that Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of Seattle (1856) , the native attackers' only common language was Chinook jargon , so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
text: Did you knowthat when the Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
text: Did you knowthat at 49, Douglas A. Warner III was the youngest ever CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. ?
text: Did you knowthat Channa , a charioteer of Prince Siddhartha , became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood ?
text: Did you knowthat George II of Moscow was responsible for the destruction of the Tatar trade emporium at Zhukotin on the Kama River ?
text: Did you knowthat the cry For your freedom and ours , one of the unofficial mottos of Poland , has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland , who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
text: Did you knowthat Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
text: Did you knowthat Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village ?
text: Did you knowthat Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951?
text: Did you knowthat the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway , once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City , instead became part of the New York Central 's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre "?
text: Did you knowthat a hurricane-sized cyclonic storm over 1500 kilometres in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BC by indigenous Native Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat " Splice the mainbrace " is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum ?
text: Did you knowthat the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton ?
text: Did you knowthat the exploitation film Mom and Dad , grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
text: Did you knowthat Stan McCabe , who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
text: Did you knowthat Tingmissartoq , Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh 's Lockheed Sirius , was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland , and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
text: Did you knowthat through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE?
text: Did you knowthat the Kintner-Withers House ' s Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana ?
text: Did you knowthat August Zaleski , president of the Polish government in Exile , refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three ?
text: Did you knowthat William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973?
text: Did you knowthat Forward Pass , an American Thoroughbred racehorse , was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war from his own experience as a prisoner in those camps?
text: Did you knowthat guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?
text: Did you knowthat Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society Sports Award?
text: Did you knowthat English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the " macaroni parson " as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer ?
text: Did you knowthat the Golden Barrel is a popularly cultivated cactus from Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat the libretto for Howard Hanson 's opera Merry Mount was written without a composer in mind?
text: Did you knowthat Nestorianism was one of the first forms of Christianity to be introduced in Mongolia ?
text: Did you know that harpoon reactions are chemical reactions that take place faster than predicted by collision theory because an electron is "thrown" from one molecule towards the other?
text: Did you knowthat the Qiandao Lake Incident in 1994 caused 32 Taiwanese tourist deaths, and the government of People's Republic of China were ineffective on solving the case, which directly leads to the massive increase of Taiwanese supporters on Taiwan independence ?
text: Did you knowthat the PDSA Gold Medal is awarded to animals for gallantry and devotion to duty?
text: Did you knowthat Dallas Smythe , an early researcher of the political economy of communications , earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Air Hogs Stormlauncher is a radio controlled model capable of operation on land, water...and even air?
text: Did you knowthat while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms , tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud ?
text: Did you knowthat William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend , Saint Juthwara was beheaded by her stepbrother, Bana, because he believed her to be pregnant ?
text: Did you knowthat the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in London in 1946 as a national British academic institution to promote and advance legal research, and is now part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2001, Shelby Howard became the youngest driver to compete in an Auto Racing Club of America race at the age of 15?
text: Did you knowthat John Frush Knox was the only law clerk of the United States Supreme Court ever to write a memoir documenting their time spent in this position?
text: Did you knowthat Kaka Joginder Singh (alias Dharti Pakad ) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political career?
text: Did you knowthat Michał Dymitr Krajewski ' s first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in Poland , and had seven editions in one year?
text: Did you knowthat Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna , to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
text: Did you knowt Rita Dove selected the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature , co-edited by Nellie Y. McKay with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , for a time capsule kept by the U.S. National Archives that will be opened in the 22nd century?
text: Did you knowthat the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
text: Did you knowthat, subject to the resolution of litigation, Slovenian basketball player Miha Zupan will become the first deaf player to compete in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague ?
text: Did you knowthat Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
text: Did you knowthat the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
text: Did you knowthat the Rumsfeld Commission is considered by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for the term " axis of evil ", used by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Address ?
text: Did you knowthat original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona , a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears , command prices of over $ 20,000 when they come up for sale?
text: Did you knowthat the Thomas Organ Company not only helped invent the market for electronic organs for the home, but also at one time held the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Bob was the first of a record-tying six hurricanes to hit the United States in 1985 ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the " Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
text: Did you knowthat Slant magazine said the Hilary Duff 2004 song " I Am " was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy "?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel died in 1943, shortly after he came to prominence in his native country?
text: Did you knowthat Picardo Farm , one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War , liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces ?
text: Did you knowthat artists of the Mission School , a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution , despite battles between Ukrainian , Bolshevik , Russian , Polish , German , and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands?
text: Did you knowthat the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
text: Did you knowthat Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal , the result of a single badly adjusted compass?
text: Did you knowthat General Douglas MacArthur 's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese -run firms in the Philippines , and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
text: Did you knowthat the 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision ?
text: Did you knowthat Rasik Krishna Mallick , a student at Hindu College , Kolkata , a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club ?
text: Did you knowthat Joost van Dyk , a 17th century Dutch privateer and occasional pirate and slaver , established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands ?
text: Did you knowthat the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius , who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
text: Did you knowthat the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
text: Did you knowthat Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
text: Did you knowthat in 1943, Prigat , a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel ?
text: Did you knowthat the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation , but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
text: Did you knowthat modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?
text: Did you know that Gregoria de Jesus was the founder and vice-president of the woman chapter of the Katipunan partisan society during the Philippine Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area?
text: Did you knowthat Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
text: Did you knowthat retired Spanish road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González ?
text: Did you knowthat the site of SSAWS , once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan 's first IKEA superstore?
text: Did you knowthat after the death of New Jersey Representative George N. Seger , a Liberty ship used in World War II was commissioned in his honor?
text: Did you knowthat John Nyathi Pokela , having served 13 years in prison on Robben Island on charges of sabotage, assumed chairmanship of the Pan Africanist Congress after the previous chairman resigned to make way for him?
text: Did you knowthat surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores , which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?
text: Did you knowthat Virgin Unite , the independent charitable arm of Richard Branson 's Virgin Group founded in 2004, ran an ad campaign that juxtaposed the seven deadly sins with seven good deeds?
text: Did you knowthat the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?
text: Did you knowthat although Pueblo Revival Style architecture draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions of New Mexico , it first appeared in California ?
text: Did you knowthat Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav , one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you knowthat 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh , regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India , played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Bristow , the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi , also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?
text: Did you knowthat in Star Wars: Storm in the Glass, the Russian parody of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , a bottle of vodka resides on almost every table shown in the movie?
text: Did you knowthat Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4 , 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court ?
text: Did you knowthat Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly ?
text: Did you knowthat Inuka , a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo , is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics ?
text: Did you knowthat " James Brown is Dead "  is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music ?
text: Did you knowthat Gordon Canfield is remembered as the "Father of the United States Coast Guard Reserve " because he first introduced and spearheaded the legislation for the reserve component 's creation in 1941 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways ?
text: Did you knowthat, after having spent much of her 8 years in Communist prisons in complete solitude, and willing herself to memorize events in daily succession, the Romanian artist Lena Constante published her recollections in a diary?
text: Did you knowthat Grevillea 'Superb' is a cultivated garden plant which flowers during all twelve months of the year?
text: Did you knowthat German sailor Max Reichpietsch , who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große , was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1967, Mac Hack became the first computer chess program to defeat a person in tournament play?
text: Did you knowthat during the reign of the English Commonwealth , worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I 's death warrant ?
text: Did you knowthat the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles , one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat the compound pterostilbene , which is found in blueberries and grapes , is thought to help prevent cancer , cognitive decline, and diabetes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Parliament of Malaysia made a retroactive amendment to the Constitution to prevent the case of Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia from being subject to Article 5(4) of the Constitution?
text: Did you knowthat the popular Soviet TV show Goluboy Ogonyok had as guests various prominent Soviet people, including Super workers , Heroes of Socialist Labor and cosmonauts ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1929 Chicago Cubs outfield composed of Riggs Stephenson , Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in Major League Baseball history to each drive in over 100 runs in the same season?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of Zhovti Vody the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack - Tatar alliance?
text: Did you knowthat Sakati syndrome is classified under a group of rare genetic disorders known as Acrocephalopolysyndactyly ?
text: Did you knowthat Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War , a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?
text: Did you knowthat Erin Bode performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons before starting her recording career as a singer ?
text: Did you knowthat Maltese Jews were forced to pay for the financial damages caused by their absence in the country, after they were expelled from Malta by the 1492 Alhambra decree ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India "?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Chaubunagungamaug is often cited as the longest place name in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand historian John Dunmore published a cookbook composed from 18th-century ship's logs , including recipes for stewed rat and albatross ?
text: Did you knowthat the canoe livery business is an important segment of the recreational goods rental industry?
text: Did you knowthat when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?
text: Did you knowthat C. C. Too , a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia , crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency ?
text: Did you knowthat Tantiusques , a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644 , became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
text: Did you knowthat Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth 's last two career home runs on May 25 , 1935 , just five days before Ruth retired?
text: Did you knowthat the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War ?
text: Did you knowthat Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium ?
text: Did you knowthat Money No Enough , which earned over S$ 5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date?
text: Did you knowthat Madhavan Nair & Anor. v. Public Prosecutor held that the Constitution of Malaysia allows the Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint when granting licences to speak in public?
text: Did you knowthat the Elizalde was claimed to have the first Spanish automobile model with four-wheel brakes ?
text: Did you knowthat only one horse in the International Special horse races was born outside the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej accused Miron Constantinescu of being a Stalinist only a few years after sidelining him for supporting de-Stalinization ?
text: Did you knowthat Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated as a horse?
text: Did you knowthat 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18 , 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
text: Did you knowthat the Filipino special court Sandiganbayan holds equivalent rank to the Philippine Court of Appeals ?
text: Did you knowthat there are only two extant populations of the Tiburon Jewelflower , both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area ?
text: Did you knowthat Macassan trepangers traded sea cucumbers with Indigenous Australians generations before the arrival of European people ?
text: Did you knowthat Prussian military bandmaster Franz von Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea ?
text: Did you knowthat the See of Sardis , an episcopal see once held by Melito , continued to be held by titular archbishops for centuries after the Ottoman Turks conquered Sardis ?
text: Did you knowthat the people of Assam comprise three major ethnic groups: Tibeto-Burman , Mon-Khmer , and Indo-Aryan ?
text: Did you knowthat Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919 ?
text: Did you knowthat Hortus Malabaricus , the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia , contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing?
text: Did you knowthat Stegosaurus , one of the most distinctive dinosaurs , has been widely depicted in popular culture ?
text: Did you knowthat Madeline La Framboise , a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan 's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island ?
text: Did you knowthat Andrew Truxal was president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College as well as an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church ?
text: Did you knowthat an unknown quantity of Columbian Exposition half dollars were used as collateral against loans made to the Columbian exposition and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?
text: Did you knowthat it is a Georgia Tech tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower ?
text: Did you knowthat the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv , Ukraine , was used as the foundation for a kurgan , constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält , awarded for valor in the field , was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Carron , a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon , a line of bathtubs , two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere ?
text: Did you knowthat the two fundamental reference points in the rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water , and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
text: Did you knowthat Lavastorm , a web design company during the dot-com bubble , split into two companies focusing on revenue assurance and mobile games ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses , located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna , holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
text: Did you knowthat Gesta Tancredi , one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade , was not translated into English until 2005?
text: Did you knowthat conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Moscow Water Dog , developed as a water rescue dog , preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?
text: Did you knowthat honolulu is a pocket billiards game which forbids straight-in shots, requiring all balls to be made indirectly, through banks , combinations , caroms or kick shots ?
text: Did you knowthat Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi , a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah , was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?
text: Did you knowthat the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids ?
text: Did you knowthat Donnie Young , the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honor recipient?
text: Did you knowthat the Thornapple River has 5 dams , including one in Ada bought from Consumers Power for a dollar by a river property owners association?
text: Did you knowthat Irfan Pathan , the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin , and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15?
text: Did you knowthat the 1931 murders of five Japanese people in Hong Kong during anti-Japanese riots were cited as a casus belli for the Shanghai War of 1932 ?
text: Did you knowthat the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata , Hodie , by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?
text: Did you knowthat the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton , well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family ?
text: Did you knowthat the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
text: Did you know that Bayajidda , the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa , is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
text: Did you knowthat New York Mets pitcher Chuck Estrada picked up the win in Tom Seaver 's major league debut ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish 4th Rifle Division was the only Polish military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War and returned to Poland undefeated?
text: Did you knowthat the original title of the Christmas carol " While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks " is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
text: Did you knowthat Salomón Ibarra Mayorga , the lyricist of the Nicaraguan national anthem , was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua after his death?
text: Did you knowthat Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right then vice versa?
text: Did you knowthat American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music ?
text: Did you knowthat John G. Downey , Governor of California during the American Civil War , was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger ?
text: Did you knowthat, unlike normal lithium ion batteries , the lithium iron phosphate battery does not explode under extreme conditions?
text: Did you knowthat Ron Powers , co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize ?
text: Did you knowthat the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
text: Did you knowthat a payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia , particularly in the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat the cope given to the Rt. Revd. David Urquhart upon his inauguration as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in November 2006 featured the emblems of Aston Villa and Birmingham City , the two most prominent football teams of the city?
text: Did you knowthat Oliver Smith is the youngest-ever local party president in British political history ?
text: Did you knowthat The Breakfast (formerly The Psychedelic Breakfast ) had four songs from their self-titled DIY studio album featured on the MTV series Undressed in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat the writer August Silberstein was sentenced to five years' jail in 1854 for writing satire about the Austro-Hungarian Empire , but was pardoned after one year?
text: Did you knowthat the Henschel Hs 123 was a sesquiplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early part of World War II?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy successfully amputated Perce Blackborrow 's gangrenous toes while stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos , even though the term himbo would have been more technically correct?
text: Did you knowthat geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec , Canada , at the age of 100 , after teaching for 69 years?
text: Did you knowthat Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie 's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one"?
text: Did you knowthat noted labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin , better known as Miss Manners ?
text: Did you knowthat the First Engineer Bridge in St. Petersburg , Russia , named after the nearby Engineer Castle , is one of the most decorative of the city's more than 500 bridges ?
text: Did you knowthat on November 22 , 2006 , at least ten people were killed in a burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits ?
text: Did you knowthat King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University , following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952 ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1932 Paramahansa Yogananda urged young people to pool resources, buy land, and create World Brotherhood Colonies , nearly 40 years before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect , and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry ?
text: Did you knowthat Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring , who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War ?
text: Did you know that the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California , has several endemic endangered species and is the second-largest freshwater wetland in Northern California ?
text: Did you knowthat the Singer's Bridge , designed by architect Vasily Stasov , was called the Yellow Bridge and is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg , Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat the 180- degree turnout , or rotation of the leg, featured in ballet allows for greater extension of the leg, especially when raising it to the side and rear?
text: Did you knowthat the treasure of Tillia tepe , Afghanistan , was re-discovered after it was thought to have been destroyed by the Taleban , and is now on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris ?
text: Did you knowthat the effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina were the worst from a hurricane in the state since that of 1999's Hurricane Floyd , and included US$ 450 million in damage and three deaths?
text: Did you know that American composer Alla Pavlova lived close to ground zero and dedicated her first symphonic work to the memory of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
text: Did you know that the 1983 text adventure game Snowball , the first of the Silicon Dreams trilogy , contained over 7,000 locations?
text: Did you knowthat the Spenser Somers Foundation is named after a student from Edina , Minnesota who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma ?
text: Did you knowthat megaherbs on the uninhabited New Zealand sub-antarctic islands almost became extinct by overbrowsing by livestock introduced to support shipwrecked sailors ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of Rhium , Phormio used his climatic knowledge of the Corinthian Gulf to help defeat a Spartan fleet that outnumbered his Athenians more than 2 to 1?
text: Did you knowthat Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to row alone all the way down the Colorado River from Green River, Wyoming to the Boulder Dam ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nanai language , despite having only a few thousand speakers left, continues to contribute loanwords to languages with even fewer speakers, such as Udege ?
text: Did you knowthat the Printing Presses and Publications Act gives the Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia "absolute discretion" in granting and revoking publication and printing permits?
text: Did you knowthat Corporal Mark Wright will be posthumously awarded the George Cross for entering an unmarked minefield in Helmand Province , Afghanistan , attempting to save other injured soldiers?
text: Did you knowthat Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula ?
text: Did you knowthat Kaissa , the first world computer chess champion in 1974 was a Soviet creation?
text: Did you knowthat the steviol glycosides found in stevia plants are natural sweeteners up to 300 times sweeter than sugar ?
text: Did you knowthat Pasillo is the "national music" of Ecuador but originated from the Viennese Waltz ?
text: Did you knowthat shortly before Christmas 1942 , an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche , a small Irish village?
text: Did you knowthat Eugène de Beauharnais returned the territories of the Napoleonic Italy to provisional Austrian rule in 1814 by the Convention of Mantua ?
text: Did you knowthat cowboy pool is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards with more standard pocket billiards characteristics, and requires a player to intentionally scratch in order to win?
text: Did you knowthat Ralph Bigland worked as a cheesemaker across Europe before becoming an officer of arms and eventually Garter Principal King of Arms ?
text: Did you knowthat the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Tregaskis , American war correspondent and author best known for his first-hand account Guadalcanal Diary ,  was almost killed in Italy in 1943 when shrapnel cut though his helmet and penetrated his skull?
text: Did you knowthat Guido Verbeck , a Dutch -born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898  arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas ?
text: Did you knowthat Göteborgs BK , founded in 1875 , is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, and only played Swedish football , a local variant?
text: Did you knowthat Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Dickens , Wilkie Collins , Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter each wrote a chapter of the  short story " A House to Let "?
text: Did you knowthat Spanish government minister and European Commissioner Loyola de Palacio deflected speculation that she was an Opus Dei member, noting that she was named after Ignatius Loyola , founder of the Society of Jesus ?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Chinese sect known as the Way of the Celestial Master established a theocratic state in Sichuan province during the 2nd century CE ?
text: Did you know that the freeware amateur adventure game 5 Days a Stranger and its sequel won 5 and 2 Adventure Game Studio awards respectively?
text: Did you knowthat " Fast as You Can " is Fiona Apple 's only top forty single in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat Shreve, Crump & Low , North America 's oldest jeweler , built prestigious trophies such as the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award ?
text: Did you knowthat American composer Stephen Paulus gained fame with a 1982 opera based on The Postman Always Rings Twice , one of his nine operas?
text: Did you know that the world's longest lasting lightbulb is 105 years old and has burnt continuously since 1976 ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1920 a Secret Court , headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals , resulting in nine expulsions?
text: Did you knowthat the creators of the Alcazaba fortification in Málaga , Spain , reused materials from nearby Roman ruins?
text: Did you knowthat Corporal Bryan Budd is being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province , Afghanistan , only the 13th such award since the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Yerazi —an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War —have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional radio listeners Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio ?
text: Did you knowthat Theodore Roosevelt Lake , a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River , is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona ?
text: Did you knowthat the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee , popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica , prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Columbian Issue , the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps , included the first female portrait on American postage — Spain 's Queen Isabella ?
text: Did you knowthat Romania 's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc ?
text: Did you knowthat the American singer Mary Fahl's first full-length solo album contains a song first written over 800 years ago in the extinct language of Mozarabic ?
text: Did you knowthat Jaime Navarro was the opposing and winning pitcher for the inaugural Texas Rangers game at The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994 ?
text: Did you knowthat Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo broke the code of omertà in 1992, becoming the first senior Sicilian clergyman of the Catholic Church to openly condemn the Mafia ?
text: Did you knowthat Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski ?
text: Did you knowthat the video game Daze Before Christmas allows the player to transform into "Anti-Claus", a blue-suited, devilish looking version of Santa Claus ?
text: Did you knowthat neoclassical Staszic Palace in Warsaw was temporarily given a Russo-Byzantine redesign upon Poland 's partition ?
text: Did you knowthat Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries were never used against Japanese invaders?
text: Did you knowthat the Silesian -born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin , one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi ?
text: Did you knowthat Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
text: Did you knowthat those who fear bees should know that bee smokers are useless when fending off bee swarms ?
text: Did you knowthat the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate -standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana ?
text: Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Brook Watson featured his leg which he had lost in a shark attack?
text: Did you knowthat Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1870 poem " The Heathen Chinee ," written by Bret Harte as a satire of racial prejudice , was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants , and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. more than any other work at the time?
text: Did you knowthat Kenneth Cummins was one of the last five confirmed British surviving veterans of World War I , having served in the Royal and Merchant Navies in the First and Second World War respectively?
text: Did you knowthat between the 10th and 14th centuries, the Indian state of Karnataka was ruled by the Hoysala Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Farrer Park is where Singapore 's first racecourse was built and the island's aviation history began?
text: Did you knowthat one ship had to deal with Hurricane Tanya twice in two different areas of the North Atlantic Ocean five days apart in 1995?
text: Did you knowthat although 99.8% of the population is Muslim , there is no official religion in Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat platypus venom is delivered by small spurs on the male's hind limbs?
text: Did you knowthat Starkad was a legendary Norse hero blessed by Odin but cursed by Thor ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia , the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?
text: Did you knowthat the high-pitched quack of the Call Duck was used to lure wild ducks into funnel traps ?
text: Did you knowthat Roland Winters , who played the role of Charlie Chan in six films, was just over 6 months younger than Keye Luke , who played his son?
text: Did you knowthat SPLA-Nasir was a breakaway faction of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army that aligned with the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat an impact wrench can deliver very high torque to a fastener, while only requiring minimal effort from the user, and is one of the most commonly used air tools ?
text: Did you knowthat Jason Bedrick , a New Hampshire state representative , is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
text: Did you knowthat as a teenager , Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people ?
text: Did you knowthat the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras ?
text: Did you knowthat the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon 's oldest government agencies ?
text: Did you knowthat on October 5 1914 , a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Broadway actress Evelyn Hoey was found shot dead in the bedroom of oil heir Henry H. Rogers 's grandson in 1935?
text: Did you knowthat Julien Wiener is the only Jewish Australian Test cricketer ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Oregon ghost town of Boyd only the wheat fields are still operational?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Show Me How was a major Interpol narcotics bust concerning the transporting of heroin within the covers of the children's book Show-Me-How-I-Can-Paint ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Gadsden , the 652nd Lord Mayor of London , was born in Canada and became a Companion of the Order of Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat towns given specific meteorological warnings during storms are known as breakpoints ?
text: Did you knowthat snowmelt from the Carhuasanta travels farther than water from any other source to reach the mouth of the Amazon River ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Percy was killed in a battle against Henry IV of England , whom he had helped to gain the Crown in a coup d'état ?
text: Did you knowthat former NASCAR chairman Bill France, Jr. once used a mule while helping with the construction of Daytona International Speedway ?
text: Did you knowthat astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight ?
text: Did you knowthat Article 10 of the Constitution of Malaysia guarantees citizens certain rights on condition that these rights are not restricted by the government?
text: Did you knowthat Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people?
text: Did you knowthat Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964 ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings ?
text: Did you knowthat venturi scrubbers use the named effect explained by Bernoulli's principle to remove unwanted particles from an exhaust stream ?
text: Did you knowthat Mafioso Totò Riina eulogised Giuseppe Calderone as a great peacemaker, despite having been allegedly responsible for ordering his death?
text: Did you knowthat six Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres are charged with globally tracking tropical cyclones ?
text: Did you knowthat the support that Australian author Mary Grant Bruce gave to racial stereotypes and social Darwinism in her books was redacted from later editions?
text: Did you knowthat Zimbabwe is the only cricket team to not lose its first Test match since Australia won the very first Test in 1877?
text: Did you knowthat the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 is a law passed by the United States Congress in December 2006 for the purpose of protecting the reputation and honor of US military heroism medals due to the larger number of fake military heroes in the USA?
text: Did you knowthat the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War ?
text: Did you knowthat Texas politician Maury Maverick, Jr. killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment ?
text: Did you knowthat, in addition to the seven-day week , the Javanese calendar incorporates a five-day week, which runs concurrently to produce a repeating cycle of 35 days?
text: Did you knowthat printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market ?
text: Did you knowthat Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II , and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters ?
text: Did you knowthat controversy arose over the naughty nurse uniforms worn by staff at Arizona 's Heart Attack Grill ?
text: Did you knowthat the Karr-Koussevitzky bass was given to Gary Karr after Koussevitzky's widow reported seeing his ghost embrace Karr on stage?
text: Did you knowthat the Austrian -born writer Gregor von Rezzori acted in several movies alongside stars such as Brigitte Bardot , Jeanne Moreau , Marcello Mastroianni or Charles Aznavour ?
text: Did you knowthat Buster , the dog of British Labour politician Roy Hattersley , earned his owner a criminal record after killing a goose in St. James's Park , London ?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton ?
text: Did you knowthat Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi 's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
text: Did you knowthat Communist Romania 's Foreign Minister , Grigore Preoteasa , was killed in an aircraft accident after refusing to wear a seat belt during landing?
text: Did you knowthat Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the first member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike ?
text: Did you knowthat the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of the 1979 Academy Award -winning film Norma Rae ?
text: Did you knowthat as they don't require fans , ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
text: Did you knowthat Pulau Senang was a penal settlement in Singapore but shut down after only three years when a riot broke out in 1963 ?
text: Did you knowthat of the 64 women in the 39th Canadian Parliament , only one, former New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough , represents a riding in Atlantic Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat a commemorative album was released for the tenth death anniversary of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur ?
text: Did you knowthat a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian -speaking immigrants from the Iron Age ?
text: Did you knowthat Tryal Rocks is a reef off Western Australia named after the Tryall , the first shipwreck in Australian history ?
text: Did you knowthat the dust storms raised by the Shamal wind bring most travel in Iraq to a halt for several days?
text: Did you knowthat Bravlin , an apocryphal overlord of the Rus , was supposedly paralyzed when he entered the church of St. Stephen in Sougdeia ?
text: Did you knowthat calcific tendonitis causes significant pain when resting on or moving the shoulder ?
text: Did you knowthat Ottaviano Petrucci 's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type ?
text: Did you knowthat the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester , England , was the world's largest single-span arch for 30 years?
text: Did you knowthat the obedience to orders and dogged resistance of the Russian infantry at the Battle of Golymin in 1806 greatly impressed Napoleon and his army?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish town of Dzierżoniów was the venue of a meeting between Poland , Prussia , Holland and Austria during the Great Turkish War ?
text: Did you knowthat girdle books were popular fashion items between the 13th and 16th centuries?
text: Did you knowthat Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania has been designated as an Important Bird Area , as it is home to several raptor species during their spring migration ?
text: Did you knowthat one of only five extant Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi , Vietnam to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui ?
text: Did you knowthat spray towers remove pollutants from exhaust gases by channeling them through a series of chemical sprays?
text: Did you knowthat Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War ?
text: Did you knowthat Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf , as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?
text: Did you knowthat Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky 's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus ?
text: Did you knowthat Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan was head of the Northern Alliance whilst serving as a Buddhist priest?
text: Did you knowthat Copeland Creek was significantly degraded by cattle overgrazing in the 19th century, but restoration efforts have reversed that trend?
text: Did you knowthat Russian Indologist Gerasim Lebedev was the founder of the first European-style drama theatre in India and also the first printing house in Europe equipped with Indic scripts of Bengali and Devanagari ?
text: Did you know that Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is the nephew of former player Greg Campbell ?
text: Did you knowthat eleven Pacific hurricanes have had their names retired , due to the damage they caused and other reasons?
text: Did you knowthat Herbert Gutman co-founded the "new labor history" school of thought , which focuses on the effects that ordinary people have had on the history of labor ?
text: Did you knowthat Major General John Paton commanded the rear party during the evacuation of Anzac Cove in World War I and was one of the last Australian soldiers to leave the beach?
text: Did you knowthat Bhai Gurdas was the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib , the holy book of Sikhism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian politician Constantin Argetoianu , who organized repression of the Communist Party and announced the group's effective termination in 1922, spent his final years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime ?
text: Did you knowthat History Line: 1914-1918 , a turn-based strategy computer game from 1993, adapted the software engine of the science-fiction Battle Isle series to portray the First World War ?
text: Did you knowthat the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers , an allegory for illegal immigration , was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge ?
text: Did you knowthat the nature reserve Rejvíz in the Czech Republic is covered with a peat bog including two moss lakes of glacial origin?
text: Did you knowthat Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park was the first pet cemetery to also allow people to be buried alongside their pets?
text: Did you knowthat the performance of " I See A Star " at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 involved one singer playing a barrel organ with a collection of puppets on it?
text: Did you knowthat Natural Bridge State Park holds the largest natural arch in Wisconsin ?
text: Did you knowthat after World War I , Istanbul was occupied by the Triple Entente in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat B&H Photo Video in New York City employs so many Satmar Hasidim , there is daily bus service to the store from Kiryas Joel , a Satmar enclave in Orange County, New York ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. soldier Louis R. Rocco single-handedly carried three comrades out of a burning helicopter under enemy fire, despite having burned hands, a broken wrist and a fractured hip?
text: Did you knowthat the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary , a national monument in Singapore , was given by Sultan Ibrahim of Johor in Malaysia ?
text: Did you knowthat actress Frances Gifford played the lead role of Nyoka in the 1941 movie serial Jungle Girl ?
text: Did you knowthat more hurricanes have struck the Baja California peninsula than anywhere else in Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook to be published in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War ?
text: Did you knowthat coral within tropical oceans is being used as a tropical cyclone observation to date past hurricanes, by looking for concentrations of the oxygen isotope O-18 ?
text: Did you knowthat Yakut linguist Semyon Novgorodov adopted the International Phonetic Alphabet for the modern written Yakut language ?
text: Did you knowthat the Coleman Bridge in Singapore was the second bridge built across the Singapore River , and the first built in masonry ?
text: Did you knowthat Xavier William Proenza has been announced as the next director of the National Hurricane Center ?
text: Did you knowthat, in the ninth century , the fort at Novye Duboviki on the Volkhov River shielded Novgorod from potential attacks by Viking raiders?
text: Did you knowthat Marin Dwarf Flax ( Hesperolinon congestum ) is a wildflower whose few small colonies are threatened by transmission line maintenance and new trail systems?
text: Did you knowthat Prince Arisugawa Taruhito ' s engagement to Princess Kazu-no-Miya Chikako of Japan was cancelled by the Tokugawa bakufu so that the princess could marry Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi , for political reasons?
text: Did you knowthat the Society of Friends of Science , first Polish scientific organization , founded in 1800, originated from the Thursday's dinners custom held by the last king of Poland , Stanisław August Poniatowski ?
text: Did you knowthat while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
text: Did you knowthat the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £ 3m?
text: Did you knowthat the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
text: Did you knowthat controversy has arisen over whether Norway 's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
text: Did you knowthat the Met's new opera The First Emperor by Tan Dun has been in development for ten years?
text: Did you knowthat in 2005 the Constitutional Court of Spain ruled that Spanish courts may hear cases regarding genocide in which there were no Spanish victims, thereby reversing a decision of the country's Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat a fossilized delta in Eberswalde crater provides strong evidence for flowing water on Mars ?
text: Did you knowthat the Montgomery Worsted Mills , a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery , New York , now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River , rather than the manufacture of textiles ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caterham CSR is one of the lightest production cars, but lacks modern safety features , making it unsafe in collisions ?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore Dreaming bagged Singapore its first IFFPA-recognised award at an international feature film festival ?
text: Did you knowthat Itzik Manger , a Yiddish poet , is best known for his radical revisions of Biblical material?
text: Did you knowthat Chris Phatswe committed suicide by crashing his Air Botswana plane into two other planes belonging to the airline, effectively crippling operations?
text: Did you knowthat the phrase "Goody Two-Shoes" comes from a 1765 children's story ?
text: Did you knowthat George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia 's gold rush ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacques Lacan 's theory of a mirror stage , where an infant first recognizes its self in a mirror, was inspired by the work of psychologist Henri Wallon ?
text: Did you knowthat Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion ?
text: Did you knowthat the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
text: Did you knowthat Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War ?
text: Did you knowthat a swinging column at Haghartsin Monastery in Armenia was used to hide riches?
text: Did you knowthat archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon , uncovering artefacts from separate Roman , Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
text: Did you knowthat until 2006, it was not known that the 1980 Pulitzer Prize -winning image Firing Squad in Iran was taken by Jahangir Razmi ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football ?
text: Did you knowthat Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ?
text: Did you knowthat in Arthurian legend , Brangaine inadvertently sets the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
text: Did you knowthat Philipp Jenninger resigned as President of the Bundestag after his speech commemorating Kristallnacht caused a political scandal?
text: Did you knowthat five USAAF airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor following Operation Tidal Wave , a low-level bombing of Romanian oil refineries on 1 August 1943 ?
text: Did you knowthat during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait ?
text: Did you knowthat nobody buried in a safety coffin is known to have taken advantage of its features?
text: Did you know that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice , one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?
text: Did you knowthat the costume for the fairy Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette of a rat?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000 Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda to return to work?
text: Did you knowthat the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek , Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there?
text: Did you knowthat forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805 , three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz ?
text: Did you knowthat Ostap Veresai , a 19th-century blind Ukrainian kobzar , performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg , Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat a Congreve clock uses a rolling ball rather than a pendulum to regulate the time?
text: Did you know that the first printed and illustrated travel-book published in the West included a 5-ft (1.6 m) long fold-out view of Venice in woodcut by Erhard Reuwich ?
text: Did you knowthat the right to petition in the United States required the 1844 rescinding of a gag rule prohibiting discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of rapid transit began when the London Underground started operations in 1863 ?
text: Did you knowthat the crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan has been used for centuries in therapeutic baths?
text: Did you knowthat the theme of the Kyffhäuser Monument suggests a connection between the Holy Roman and German Empires ?
text: Did you knowthat Abbott Lawrence Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory , which maintains the longest-running meteorological record of any observation site in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Sabeena Saleem is the first mother to compete alongside her daughter at the Asian Games in Indian bowling history?
text: Did you know that the Starshade is a coronagraph designed to aid a space telescope by blocking bright light from stars by a factor of as much as 10 billion?
text: Did you knowthat the HurriQuake nail is around twice as wind resistant as traditional nails and can increase a home's earthquake resistance by up to 50%?
text: Did you knowthat the Khooni Darwaza (literally Gateway of Blood) is a 16th century monument in Delhi , India that was named for the various incidents of bloodshed associated with it?
text: Did you knowthat the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment , launched in 1975 , was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?
text: Did you knowthat Hasnoor Hussein was investigated over allegations of sedition concerning his statements on the Malaysian social contract ?
text: Did you know that Maurice , the abbot of Inchaffray who blessed the Scottish army at the Battle of Bannockburn , later became Bishop of Dunblane ?
text: Did you knowthat the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart ?
text: Did you knowthat Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ?
text: Did you knowthat John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible , and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 was shot down by German Junkers Ju 88s , killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill ?
text: Did you knowthat American World War II veteran Alejandro R. Ruiz was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly assaulting and demolishing an enemy machine-gun pillbox ?
text: Did you knowthat Abe Tadaaki was one of the highest-ranking Japanese officials to remain in office after his colleagues followed Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu into death in 1651 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts houses a Hinoki Cypress Tree that is over 250 years old?
text: Did you knowthat the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?
text: Did you knowthat Ka Lae on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the pioneer American airman Lowell Smith participated in the first mid- air refueling , the first aerial circumnavigation and held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance?
text: Did you knowthat the Playhouse Square Center , in downtown Cleveland, Ohio , is the second largest theater complex in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat Hermann Klaatsch was one of the first scientists to advocate a clear division between religion and physical anthropology ?
text: Did you knowthat the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day , 1926 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi ?
text: Did you knowthat Ernst Kitzinger , a historian of Byzantine art , was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
text: Did you knowthat the capture and forced march of Daniel M. Frost's militia through St. Louis, Missouri during the US Civil War ignited a citywide riot ?
text: Did you knowthat Bangsa Malaysia , a policy seeking to create a unified national identity for all citizens of Malaysia , has been criticised as being 'nebulous' and overstepping the Constitution ?
text: Did you knowthat West Ham Stadium in London holds the record for the lowest ever attendance of a football match in The Football League , despite its capacity of 120,000?
text: Did you knowthat fear of being buried alive was so widespread in 19th century that safety coffins were invented to give the prematurely buried a chance for escape?
text: Did you knowthat a methanol reformer can replace a hydrogen -gas tank in a fuel cell vehicle by catalytically producing fuel from the poisonous liquid?
text: Did you knowthat after being stripped of his aristocratic title after World War II , Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses on his estate?
text: Did you knowthat the Eskaya tribe are the object of international archeological studies considering their distinct culture, language and alphabet not found elsewhere in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Poniatowski Bridge in Warsaw was destroyed in both World Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service was created in 1971 due to controversy surrounding the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1970?
text: Did you knowthat American actor David Holt was reduced to starring in the drugs-scare melodrama "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" at age twenty-two, after being touted at the age 7 as the male Shirley Temple ?
text: Did you knowthat the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1994, Horace Dove-Edwin became the first medalist in athletics for Sierra Leone , but lost it due to a positive doping test ?
text: Did you knowthat, in the 1950s, Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan was in charge of expelling opponents of the Communist regime from the University of Bucharest ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895 with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?
text: Did you knowthat Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses "?
text: Did you knowthat, although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043) , hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX 's daughter?
text: Did you knowthat in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean ?
text: Did you know that the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan houses the only SR-71B Blackbird in existence?
text: Did you knowthat Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you knowthat Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare , Zimbabwe , before turning to sculpture full-time?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania ?
text: Did you knowthat many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources ?
text: Did you know that Harrison Thyng was one of only six US Air Force pilots to be recognized as an ace in two wars?
text: Did you knowthat the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat controversy has arisen over the interpretation of Robert Baden-Powell 's opinions on religion in Scouting ?
text: Did you know that Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible , unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society ?
text: Did you knowthat the Thing of all Swedes and the Disting market were held to coincide with Dísablót , a pre-Christian Swedish sacrificial holiday ?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Scone was the coronation site of Kings of Scotland for several centuries?
text: Did you knowthat in Homer 's Iliad , the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars "?
text: Did you knowthat in the Sso rite of the Beti of Cameroon , one initiate was designated the ritual butt of the other candidates' jokes?
text: Did you know that at Masa , an elite New York City restaurant, no menus are available, because the chef , Masa Takayama, cooks whatever he wants?
text: Did you know that the earthquake-proof designs of the Nagoya TV , Tsutenkaku , the Sapporo TV , the Beppu , and the Tokyo Towers were all engineered by Tachu Naito ?
text: Did you knowthat former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko ?
text: Did you knowthat South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match , at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?
text: Did you knowthat after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party , Austrian politician Jörg Haider accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography ?
text: Did you knowthat Ming Dynasty general Gang Bing castrated himself and placed his severed organs under Emperor Yongle 's saddle to avoid being accused of sexual improprieties?
text: Did you knowthat Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia ?
text: Did you knowthat despite the destruction of his fleet by Greek fire , Igor I of Kiev managed to end the Rus'-Byzantine War (941) by signing a favourable trade treaty ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cessna 165 aircraft was instrumental in the recovery of the Cessna Aircraft Company in the years following the Great Depression ?
text: Did you knowthat " De Vogels Van Holland " was the first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you knowthat despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev , Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin , Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
text: Did you know that Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District off the southern coast of Texas contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm?
text: Did you knowthat Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby ?
text: Did you knowthat English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century , but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
text: Did you knowthat Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata , India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
text: Did you knowthat after being captured by the Germans during World War II , Soviet soldier Baymirza Hayit joined the pro- Nazi Turkestan Legion and became a leading Turkestani nationalist?
text: Did you knowthat the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species ?
text: Did you knowthat due to a lack of bilingual inscriptions , most knowledge of the Etruscan language has been derived using the combinatorial method ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Kazhdan , the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium , started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula ?
text: Did you knowthat, in the early 1890s, the Berlin wine tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel was the meeting place for a circle of mostly Scandinavian writers and artists that included August Strindberg and Edvard Munch ?
text: Did you knowthat the first military decoration to use a medal bar was the British Sutlej Medal ?
text: Did you knowthat Bulgarian physicist Stefan Marinov claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine using only two ballraces and a car battery ?
text: Did you knowthat the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?
text: Did you knowthat Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry in 1890, and produced its last motorcar in 1969?
text: Did you knowthat in his only armed clash with the police , bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks ?
text: Did you knowthat the endangered wildflower Lasthenia conjugens has successfully colonized new vernal pools with human assistance?
text: Did you knowthat Randall Thompson 's The Testament of Freedom was performed at a 1945 Carnegie Hall concert given in memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ?
text: Did you knowthat Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat the crash of Crossair Flight LX498 was initially attributed to cell phone use, and led to bans of cell phones in airplanes in several countries?
text: Did you knowthat Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato found by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia ?
text: Did you knowthat American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial ?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore 's Museum Planning Area contains ten national monuments ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village , the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California ?
text: Did you knowthat the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal ?
text: Did you knowthat the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville , Alabama ?
text: Did you knowthat " Bitaqat Khub " is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic , and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country?
text: Did you knowthat Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria ?
text: Did you knowthat Josquin des Prez 's Miserere , a motet of Psalm 51 , was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego ?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet sniper Roza Shanina 's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
text: Did you knowthat Empress Zhang Yao'er refused to hand over control of China 's Chen Dynasty until threatened with violence, as she hoped her captive son would be freed to take the throne?
text: Did you knowthat "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" was partially inspired by the arrest of actress Lila Leeds , who later starred in the film?
text: Did you knowthat many subatomic particles are constantly decaying into more stable lower- mass particles?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Burrell was the first person to successfully keep the Platypus in captivity, in a habitat of his own design that he called a platypusary?
text: Did you knowthat Marmoutier Abbey in France was destroyed four times between its construction in the 4th Century and the raising of a private school on its latest ruins?